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Anam Cara
Loch Creran, near BenderlochGuest Rating
Anam Cara, meaning 'Friend of the Soul', is a traditional cottage set in a superb location overlooking beautiful Loch Creran, just 2.5 miles from the village of Benderloch in Argyll.
Quick Info
|Sleeps: 2
|Bedrooms: 1
|Changeover Day: Sat
|Pets Allowed: No
|No smoking
|Bathrooms: 1
Set in extensive grounds up its own private drive, it has wonderful views out over the loch to Glen Coe and the Cruachan mountain ranges beyond. Inside it has been lovingly modernised and refurbished to a very high standard throughout to create an idyllic sanctuary set up perfectly just for two. It is the ideal location for a romantic getaway or honeymoon or for those simply looking for a peaceful break in beautiful surroundings.
The open plan living area is cosy yet and spacious with plenty of comfortable seating around the wood-burning stove that is ideal for warming your toes as you watch the sun go down. There are large windows that showcase the views out across Loch Creran and a French door that leads out to the full length deck (with furniture). It is a great spot to enjoy evening drinks or al fresco breakfasts whilst further admiring the loch. There is plenty of in-house entertainment provided in the form of a large flat screen satellite TV with Blu-ray DVD player and a wireless audio system. A neat dining area leads round to the sleek, contemporary kitchen that is well-equipped with smart built-in appliances.
The luxurious double bedroom has sumptuous bedding and a floor to ceiling window that offers stunning views. The shower room is modern and fresh with a spacious, walk-in shower with large rainfall showerhead. It even has a Bluetooth mirror that you can play music through from your phone. There is also a charming sun room or 'sitooterie' (colloquial term meaning 'place to sit out in') that has additional comfy seating and plenty of storage for coats and muddy boots, etc.
Outside there is ample parking for several cars and gardens to the front and rear that extend to about an acre in total, with a large garage that provides secure storage for bikes and kayaks. There are a couple of different seating areas within the grounds and woodland paths that lead up the hillside and back down to the cottage. There is a pond at the bottom of the garden and a burn to one side, so care should be taken.
Please note: Anam Cara is not suitable for children.
There is direct boat, canoe or kayak access down on the shore of Loch Creran and Anam Cara is also just off the Oban to Fort William cycle path if you prefer exploring on dry land.
The nearest settlement is the village of Benderloch (2.5 miles) that has a couple of shops and restaurants and a petrol station. It is also home to Tralee beach, a lovely long sandy beach that overlooks picturesque Ardmucknish Bay.
If you head up around Loch Creran you will find the Scottish Sea Life Santuary (3 miles) that has a range of interesting sealife and is also a rescue centre for seals. Carrying up around the loch, no visit to the area would be complete without a trip to see the famous Castle Stalker (10 miles), one of Scotland's most photographed landmarks. There is also a riding centre nearby that offers horse riding and pony trekking, some of which is on local beaches. A bit further on is the village of Port Appin (12 miles) from which you can cross by ferry over to the Isle of Lismore.
Heading south you cross over Loch Etive via the Connel bridge to Connel (5.5 miles), which has a shop/PO and a few different restaurants. You can then carry on to Dunstaffnage Marina (7 miles) to see the boats or a bit further to Dunstaffnage Castle (8 miles). The castle is partially ruined but you are still able to wander around it and explore the surrounding woodland and chapel.
Oban (10 miles) has a wide range of interesting shops, as well as supermarkets, pubs, restaurants and a train station. Ferries also run from the town out to Mull and Iona, as well as further afield to Coll, Tiree and North and South Uist.
Wildlife boat trips also run from Oban with the chance to spot a variety of seabirds (including golden eagles), otters, seals, dolphins and even whales and basking sharks. For a bit of an adrenalin rush there is also a fast boat ride that gets right up close to the churning Corryvreckan whirlpool.
Local Events and Attractions
Please note: while we make every effort to be as accurate as possible, the actual position of the cottage indicated on the map above and the proximity of the amenities in the Local Info section cannot be guaranteed to be precise and should be used as a guide only.
Single Storey
Open plan sitting/dining room/kitchen with wood-burning stove, TV/Blu-ray DVD, wireless audio system, electric oven and hob, microwave, dishwasher, washer/tumble dryer, fridge freezer, etc
Double bedroom (king size) with TV
Shower room with WC and wash basin.
What's included
- Linen (Double Bed)
- Free
- Sets of towels
- Free
- WiFi
- Free
Bed linen and towels are INCLUDED. The first £25 of electricity is INCLUDED with any additional usage payable by meter reading at the end of your stay. Heating is by electric digital wall heaters and wood-burning stove (starter pack of logs INCLUDED). WiFi is INCLUDED (subject to provider and a fair usage policy). Sorry, pets are not accepted. No smoking.
Weekly Prices
The weekly guide prices for this property are shown below. Use the availability & book sidebar on the right to select your holiday or calculate short break rates (where available).
Changeover Day: Sat
|Rental - Date Range
|Sleeps 2
|08 Feb 2020 - 03 Apr 2020
|04 Apr 2020 - 24 Apr 2020
|25 Apr 2020 - 08 May 2020
|09 May 2020 - 22 May 2020
|23 May 2020 - 29 May 2020
|30 May 2020 - 26 Jun 2020
|27 Jun 2020 - 28 Aug 2020
|29 Aug 2020 - 18 Sep 2020
|19 Sep 2020 - 09 Oct 2020
|10 Oct 2020 - 30 Oct 2020
|31 Oct 2020 - 18 Dec 2020
|19 Dec 2020 - 27 Dec 2020
|28 Dec 2020 - 05 Jan 2021
|06 Jan 2021 - 05 Jan 2022
|06 Jan 2022 - 05 Jan 2023
Please note: Prices are calculated based on your party size at the time of booking. If your party size changes for any reason after booking please let us know so we can ensure the accommodation provided meets your exact requirements.
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One evening last week, within less than an hour of us all coming home from work and after-school activities, I managed to make both kids cry.
Without boring you with the mindless details, in each case, I snapped. In the first scenario, I expressed my disappointment with a situation which caused my five-year old to break into tears, lamenting her sorrow that I had hurt her feelings. In the second, I yelled loudly right into the face of my eight-year old who was tuning me out in favor of messing around like a clown when he should have been getting ready for his bath and I had already asked him more than three times. The shock on his face was blatant, followed by a fierce onslaught of hot tears and accusations.
I hate myself when I lose it with the kids.
I'm supposed to be the one that lifts them up, the one who makes everything silly, who keeps everything marching forward smoothly. Not the one that bears down on them with outbursts of negativity.
The good news is that this really does not happen that often because I try to work hard to fortify my Mommy Shield. It's the Mommy Shield that stops you from driving off the road when the kids are squabbling at high-frequency in the back seat of the car. It's the Mommy Shield that makes you take a deep breath and calmly reach for the paper towels when your kids spills his or her milk for the gazillionth time. It's the Mommy Shield that helps you sit quietly on the couch while the kids run around and around and around with increasing velocity and volume and you know that, any moment now, someone could get hurt but they are having so much fun. It's the Mommy Shield that lets you know—most of the time—which battle to pick.
But there are days when my Mommy Shield is frail and easily penetrable Days when I pick the wrong battles. Days when I can't take a deep breath. Days when yelling at them actually feels really, really good (at first.)
After the tears are dried, hugs squeezed, apologies offered and everyone is happy again, I try to figure out what I could have done differently. Often, it's not about the heat of the moment but the events leading up to it. When I feel that, at any moment now, the Mommy Shield is going to blow, I try to deploy one few of these tactics to change the energy and hopefully reduce the odds of my snapping:
- Playing loud music to drown out their shrieks or whining or squabbling.
- Taking a bath. They can duke it out to their heart's content without me in the room.
- Wine. Takes the edge off.
- Sending them outside.
- Sending myself outside.
- Using Facebook/Twitter to vent/distract.
- Breaking into a silly dance.
- Look at photos of them when they were babies.
How do you fortify your Mommy Shield?

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rolent necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 121 diseños de 38 diseñadores freelance.
Logo required for use online and on business stationery. Not too complicated, but must be clear, clean and classy!
Weddings, Corporate Entertainment & Private Functions
Desired Color Scheme:
See main text for info (good contrast, prefer 'websafe' colors)
Desired Style:
Clean, classic & effective!
Accepted File Formats:
Vector Formats (.eps, .pdf or .ai); Prefer EPS (300 dpi)
The logo will be used on letterhead, business cards and on every page of the Rolent Entertainment website http://www.rolent.co.uk
We require a main image that reads "ROLENT" and under that we need text: "Weddings, Corporate Events & Private Functions"
This needs to fit on a horizontal strip, as you'll see from the current website template. The most important thing visually is the appearance of the word Rolent. It is possible that we may wish to change the wording of the lower line, so would like this not to be touching the upper text so it can be re-formatted if necessary. The top line can be capitals, lower case or mixed text and can either be 'rolent' or 'rolent.co.uk'
We don't want the logo to have microphones, headphones or any have any specific entertainment related images associated with it, but would be interested in any way of making the word 'Rolent' stand out as being a brand, whether this be a horizontal line through the 'o', a slanted line through the 'o', or whatever!
Preferred colour: ideally a strong colour, with good contrast such as dark blue or red with white. Can be white text on a red / blue background, or any other variation. Would prefer colours that match websafe colours.
So: strong branding, clear & easy to read. Not tied into any specific thing, but classy & clean!
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Back when everyone and their best friend were playing Geometry Wars, I found the 'Pacifism' mode of Retro Evolved 2 to be my absolute favorite. All of the over-the-top twitch-based shooting was shelved to make way for skillful piloting as you balanced along the fine line of risk vs. reward. Fireball SE by Luke Schneider takes a crack at the same formula, albeit with some fresh twists that will have you risking more than you can handle.
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RS:One racers from around the world, gathered all week in Istanbul on the bay of Beylikduzu, have enjoyed a very windy regatta to date; but today they experienced the bay's full fury! The wind average was 28 knots with gusts up to 34 knots. In these nuclear windy conditions, the Pulsar course was chosen one more time. With marks 1 and 3 as close as possible to the shore an outstanding slalom spectacle was guaranteed. 2 further races, bringing the series total to 14, were executed in these memorable conditions. The Hong Kong Team controlled the fleet after a week of domination in both Male and Female divisions, but the drama of the day was reserved for the battle for the men's 3rd place. Giuseppe Zerillo from Italy missed the podium by 1 point from Turkish racer Ugur Iyigun, who managed 2 clear victories today. Hong Kong, with many talented competitors, took both world and vice world titles in the Male and Female championships. They will inspire the young Turkish RS:One generation which for sure will remember this championship for many years to come. Istanbul and the bay of Beylikduzu have proven their potential to welcome international sailing and windsurfing events, and possibly Olympic competitions in 2020 if Turkey will be selected by the IOC. The 2013 journey for RS:One will now continue with the NeilPryde Racing Series events in Cardiff, Nice and Brazil; and will end in December at the 2013 SEA Games in Myanmar. Final Ranking after 14 races: 2013 RS:One Female World Championship:1st Lo Sin Lam - HKG2nd Ma Kwan Ching - HKG 3rd Blank Shai - ISR 2013 RS:One Male World Championship:1st Kwok Fai Cheng - HKG 2nd Lee Chun Ting - HKG3rd Ugur Iyigun - TUR 2013 RS:One Espoir Men Championship:1st Lee Chun Ting - HKG 2nd Guiseppe Zerillo - ITA3rd Kaibigan Yancy - PHI 2013 RS:One Senior Men Championship:1st Kwok Fai Cheng - HKG 2nd Ugur Iyigun - TUR3rd Cem Duman - TUR
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ALGIERS, Algeria — It's a vision that has long enticed energy planners: solar panels stretching out over vast swaths of the Sahara desert, soaking up sun to generate clean, green power.
Now Algeria, aware that its oil and gas riches will one day run dry, is gearing up to tap its sunshine on an industrial scale for itself and even Europe.
Work on its first plant began late last month at Hassi R'mel, 260 miles south of Algiers, the capital. The plant will be a hybrid, using both sun and natural gas to generate 150 megawatts. Of that, 25 megawatts will come from giant parabolic mirrors stretching over nearly 2 million square feet — roughly 45 football fields.
Experts say it's the first project of its kind to combine gas and steam turbines with solar thermal input in a hybrid plant.
The plant should be ready in 2010, and the longer-term goal is to export 6,000 megawatts of solar-generated power to Europe by 2020, about a tenth of current electricity consumption in Germany.
"Our potential in thermal solar power is four times the world's energy consumption so you can have all the ambitions you want with that," said Tewfik Hasni, managing director of New Energy Algeria, or NEAL, a company created by the Algerian government in 2002 to develop renewable energy.
Undersea power cables planned
The project is still at an early stage and faces daunting financial and technological obstacles. Solar power's supporters say it will take 10 years for it to become economically competitive, and while undersea cables to Sicily and Spain are planned for construction in 2010-2012, it isn't known who will finance them.
But as the world grows increasingly anxious about climate change and dwindling fossil fuels, ideas that once sounded like science fiction are becoming ever more plausible.
The European Union this year set a mandatory target of producing 20 percent of its energy consumption from renewable sources by 2020, and there are also big political imperatives in play.
In Algeria's case, exporting solar power through undersea cables would add flesh and bone to the idea floated by Nicolas Sarkozy, France's new president, of a "Mediterranean Union" that would bind Europe and North Africa closer together.
The Algerian program is part of a broader reassessment of green technologies by countries that owe their wealth to oil and gas. Algeria, population 33 million, remains heavily dependent on oil and gas exports, which earned it about $54 billion last year.
"Until now all the oil-producing countries under the lead of Saudi Arabia did everything to torpedo renewable energies," said Wolfgang Palz, chairman of the independent World Council for Renewable Energy, speaking on the sidelines of an international conference on renewable energy in Algiers in June.
"This is really a big change now because with all this talking about the limitations of conventional resources," oil-producing countries "feel obliged to do something," he said.
Algeria seems an obvious source of solar power.
Africa's second largest country is more than four-fifths desert, with enough sunshine to meet Western Europe's needs 60 times over, according to estimates cited by Algeria's energy ministry.
"The solar potential of Algeria is huge, enormous, because solar radiation is high and there is plenty of land for solar plants," said Eduardo Zarza Moya, who works on solar power for Spain's public energy research center, CIEMAT. "The price of the land is low, it's cheap, and there is also manpower."
Algeria already uses photovoltaic solar panels to electrify 18 scattered, off-grid villages in the Sahara, and 16 more are due to come on line by 2009. Two such projects are run by British-based company BP.
The Hassi R'Mel site represents large-scale power generation. It is the first of four planned hybrid plants which will use Algeria's abundant natural gas to supplement sunshine and ensure power at night or in cloudy weather. The Hassi R'Mel plant, which will produce power for domestic consumption, will also house a research center to study how to reduce solar power costs.
The hybrid plants will use a thermal technology called concentrating solar power, or CSP, in which sunlight heats fluids to drive an electricity-generating turbine.
The system is widely regarded as being cheaper and having better storage potential for large-scale energy production than photovoltaic technology, which converts sunlight directly into electricity. CSP plants have operated in California since the 1980s, but when gas prices fell, new construction stopped.
Spanish engineering firm Abener has a 66 percent share in the $425 million Hassi R'Mel project, having won an international tender to build the plant with Algeria's NEAL.
Algeria hopes to build three other hybrids generating 400 megawatts each by 2015, by which time Algeria aims to be producing 6 percent of its electricity from renewable sources.
Experts warn that financing the cables may wipe out the profits from selling the power in Europe. They also say the domestic market will find it hard to compete with cheap Algerian oil and gas.
But they're positive about the long-term outlook. The gas component in the hybrid plants will produce some greenhouse emissions. "But gas is much cleaner than oil and in time you will increase the share of solar," said Richard Perez, a research professor specializing in solar power at the State University of New York.
Cheap by 2020?
Franz Trieb, an analyst at the German Space Agency in Stuttgart who helped produce a recent study on CSP in Mediterranean and Middle East countries, said that by 2020 the cost of collecting solar power would be equivalent to paying $15 for a barrel of oil.
"In 2020 we will have considerable capacity of CSP installed worldwide and this will lead to cost reductions," he said. Delivery systems "would add a little bit to the cost but not too much. It could be competitive with electricity prices in Europe."
According to International Energy Agency figures, renewable energies excluding hydroelectricity still account for just 2 percent of world power, and 0.5 percent of world energy production. Fossil fuels are expected to remain dominant until at least 2030.
But investment in renewable energy rose from $80 billion in 2005 to $100 billion in 2006, and solar companies raised more than any other renewable energy sector on public markets last year, at $5.6 billion — more than triple what they raised in 2005, according to a report released in June by the United Nations Environment Program. The biggest investments were in the United States, Europe, China and India.
Major energy companies say they are not yet ready to invest abroad on a large scale. ExxonMobil spokesman Dave Gardner said the technology breakthroughs would have to be significant to attract ExxonMobil investment.
But he said his company is seeking to foster such breakthroughs by funding a $225 million project at Stanford University on renewables and energy efficiency.
Algerian energy officials acknowledge that the country's success with solar power will depend on demand and technology.
Right now solar-derived electricity costs 25 percent more than using gas and will need to be subsidized for 10 years until the cost of solar power comes down, said Hasni, the Algerian company director.
"The current race is to see who will control renewable energy technologies, and we are in the race," Algerian Energy Minister Chakib Khelil told reporters. "We have the human and financial resources, and we have the will."
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Four of the UK's major cultural institutions — the British Museum, the National Portrait Gallery, the Royal Opera House, and Tate Britain — today announced the renewal and extension of their long-standing partnerships with BP.
In total, BP will invest almost £10 million in the four partnerships over the next five years. The increased level of funding from BP will allow us to further develop our programmes and extend access to wider audiences.
The renewal and expansion of the partnerships was announced today in the BP Lecture Theatre in the British Museum in London, at an event attended by Ed Vaizey MP, Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries, as well as the Chief Executives of the four cultural organisations.
Since the beginning of the institutions' partnerships with BP, the Royal Opera House's BP Summer Big Screens programme has expanded from one initial location in London in 2000 to 21 locations across the UK in 2011, providing thousands of people access to free world-class ballet and opera.
Tony Hall, Chief Executive of the Royal Opera House said:
"I am extremely thrilled that BP has committed to a further five years with the Royal Opera House. The way in which the partnership has grown and developed over the past 23 years is extraordinary - we reached more than 40,000 people this year through our free BP Summer Big Screens, and have worked with many, many more people over the years through various education activities."
Ed Vaizey MP, Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries echoed this sentiment:
"This is a significant investment, with £10 million going directly towards the staging of world-class exhibitions and performances. For more than 20 years, BP has led the way in business support for the arts, and I am delighted that this will continue over the next five years."
BP is also a major sponsor of next year's Olympics, contributing a significant amount towards to the London 2012 Festival. The Royal Opera House is an official IOC venue for the games and is the location of The Olympic Journey, an exhibition telling the Olympic story through the endeavours of ancient and modern Olympians.


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Distributed Erlang programs can run transparently on cross-platform multi-vendor systems. The language has primitives for detecting run-time errors and for dynamic code replacement (i.e. changes to code can be made in a running real-time system, without stopping system).
Erlang has real-time GC, modules and a foreign language interface.
Erlang was developed at the Ellemtel Telecommunication Systems Laboratories and is used within Ericsson for product development and prototyping.
Part I. Programming. Chapter 1 An Erlang Tutorial 1.1 Sequential Programming 1.2 Data Types 1.3 Pattern Matching 1.4 Built-In Functions 1.5 Concurrency Chapter 2 Sequential Programming 2.1 Terms 2.2 Pattern Matching 2.3 Expression Evaluation 2.4 The Module System 2.5 Function Definition 2.6 Primitives 2.7 Arithmetic Expressions 2.8 Scope of Variables Chapter 3 Programming with Lists 3.1 List Processing BIFs 3.2 Some Common List Processing Functions 3.3 Examples 3.4 Common Patterns of Recursion on Lists 3.5 Functional Arguments Chapter 4 Programming with Tuples 4.1 Tuple Processing BIFs 4.2 Multiple Return Values 4.3 Encrypting PIN Codes 4.4 Dictionaries 4.5 Unbalanced Binary Trees 4.6 Balanced Binary Trees Chapter 5 Concurrent Programming 5.1 Process Creation 5.2 Inter-Process Communication 5.3 Timeouts 5.4 Registered Processes 5.5 Client--Server Model 5.6 Process Scheduling, Real Time and Priorities 5.7 Process GroupsBasic concurrent programming techniques. Creating and monitoring processes. Sending messages between process. Monitoring processes. The client-server model is introduced. Primitives for real-time programming.
Chapter 6 Distributed Programming 6.1 Motivation 6.2 Distributed mechanisms 6.3 Registered Processes 6.4 Connections 6.5 A Banking ExampleThe language primitives have the same properties in a distributed system as in a single node system.
Chapter 7 Error Handling 7.1 Catch and Throw 7.2 Process Termination 7.3 Linked Processes 7.4 Run-Time Failure 7.5 Changing the Default Signal Reception Action 7.6 Undefined Functions and Unregistered Names 7.7 Catch versus Trapping ExitsBasic error handling mechanisms. Catch and throw. Detecting process termination.
Chapter 8 Programming Robust Applications 8.1 Guarding against Bad Data 8.2 Robust Server Processes 8.3 Isolating Computations 8.4 Keeping Processes Alive 8.5 DiscussionBasic programming techniques for programming fault-tolerant applications.
Chapter 9 Miscellaneous Items 9.1 Last Call Optimisation 9.2 References 9.3 Code Replacement 9.4 Ports 9.5 Binaries 9.6 Process Dictionary 9.7 The Net Kernel 9.8 Hashing 9.8 EfficiencyChanging code in a running system without stopping the system. Interfacing to foreign languages.
Part II. Applications
The applications part of the book is a set of case studies. Here we build on the programming techniques of Part I to construct complete programs. Many of the studies are based on real-world applications.
Chapter 9 Databases 9.1 The Access Functions 9.2 Simple Database 9.3 A Multi-Level Database 9.4 Transaction Management 9.5 External DatabasesSimple database programs, with transactions, roll-back, fault-tolerance, etc..
Chapter 10 Distributed Programming Techniques 10.1 Remote Procedure Calls (RPC) 10.2 Multicalls 10.3 Broadcasting 10.4 Global Registration 10.5 Promises 10.6 Mulitcasting to Process Groups 10.7 Negotiation Techniques 10.8 Adaptive Load Distribution 10.9 Relay Techniques 10.10 Parallel Evaluation for Speed 10.11 DiscussionRPC, the ability to evaluate a function transparently an a remote node.
Erlang provides simpler primitives for RPC, global name servers, error detection etc. than many operating systems.
Chapter 11 Distributed Data 11.1 Shared Data 11.2 Partial Replication 11.3 TransactionsMany applications may wish to have some common data structures available for access and modification by several processes on several nodes. This chapter describes various techniques for sharing data between physically separated nodes.
Chapter 12 Operating Systems 12.1 Overview of the Standard Erlang OS 12.2 System Startup 12.3 Code Management 12.4 The Input/Output System 12.5 The Standard ShellAn overview of the standard Erlang operating system.
Chapter 13 Real-Time Control 13.1 A Lift Control System 13.2 A Satellite Control SystemTwo real-time (process control) applications.
Chapter 14 Telephony 14.1 Typical Aspects of Switching System Software 14.2 POTS 14.3 Robustness 14.4 SDLA telephony application. This is sub-set of a much larger program which used to control an Ericsson PABX in a real-world application.
Chapter 15 An ASN.1 Compiler 15.1 Background 15.2 About ASN.1 15.3 BER -- Basic Encoding Rules 15.4 Implementation 15.5 ASN.1 ApplicationsA cross compiler from ASN.1 (The CCITT specified data transport definition language) to Erlang. This again is from a real-world application.
Chapter 16 Graphics 16.1 The User Interface 16.2 Basic Graphics Primitives 16.3 A Pocket Calculator 16.4 A Prompter 16.5 A TV SimulationBuilding a graphic user interface in Erlang. This shows how Erlang can be interfaced to the X-windows system to build an advanced GUI.
Chapter 17 Object-Oriented Programming 17.1 Basic Concepts 17.2 Mapping to Erlang 17.3 An Object-Oriented Interface 17.4 Object-Oriented Programming 17.5 Object-Oriented DesignDiscusses the relation between Erlang and Object-Orientated programming.


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SET 1: Dog Log, Peaches en Regalia, Divided Sky, Funky Bitch, Harry Hood, Clod, The Curtain With, Light Up Or Leave Me Alone, Shaggy Dog, Wilson, Camel Walk
SET 2: Mike's Song -> Hold Your Head Up[1], Harpua[2] > Bundle of Joy > Harpua -> Golgi Apparatus > Sparks[3], Flat Fee, Fee, Skin It Back -> Low Rider Jam -> Back Porch Boogie Blues -> The Sloth
SET 3: Big Black Furry Creature from Mars[4], McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters -> Stir It Up Jam, Makisupa Policeman Jam[5] -> David Bowie[6] > Sanity, Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
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Warfield Theatre
Set 1: Llama, Guelah Papyrus, Rift, Stash, Reba, My Friend, My Friend[1], Uncle Pen, Sample in a Jar, I Didn't Know[2], David Bowie[3]
Set 2: Buried Alive > Halley's Comet > It's Ice > Bouncing Around the Room, Chalk Dust Torture, The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday > Avenu Malkenu > The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday > Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove, Hold Your Head Up > Cracklin' Rosie > Hold Your Head Up, Poor Heart > Golgi Apparatus
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[1] Beginning featured Trey on acoustic guitar.
[2] Fish on trombone.
[3] All Fall Down signal in intro.
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CSP Services GmbH, Concentrating Solar Power Services, is a spin-off company of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Cologne, Germany, with know-how licensed from DLR. CSPS offers engineering and consulting services for developers, operators and owners of solar thermal power plants applying innovative and specific measurement techniques to assure high performance solar fields.
Our range of products and services includes the geometric quality assurance systems QFoto (3D point measurements of large structures in series production) and QDec (high-resolution shape measurements of reflective surfaces in series production) for application in solar power plants. For solar irradiation resource assessment we supply the weather stations MDI (for DNI measurement at remote sites) and MHP (for high-precision DNI measurement and solar power plant monitoring). With our mobile solar field measurement services we assess the quality of all kinds of solar concentrators and optimize solar field performance. Our consulting services cover specific topics such as feasibility studies, owner's engineering, permitting engineering, conceptual design and basic engineering, technical reviews and operation monitoring. We also produce and offer robust and economic photogrammetry accessory equipment. Selected standard components are listed in our online catalog.
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Tony BeamDr. Tony Beam's Weblog
- 2008 Oct 20
One Web site that claims to be Christian declares Barack Obama to be the most pro-life candidate in the race. Another declares Obama is the only real Christian in the race. Yet another proclaims that life under an Obama presidency will mean the restoration of true justice in America. Yet another claims Obama would never fully support the Lesbian, Bisexual Gay, Transgender (LBGT) agenda. How can well-meaning, good intentioned people who claim to be speaking as representatives of Jesus Christ be so deceived? There is one indisputable fact in this election and that is Barack Obama is the most pro-choice, pro-homosexual rights candidate to ever receive a major political party's endorsement for president. From his stand against the Illinois Born Alive Infants Protection Act, which would have simply protected the life of a baby who managed to survive a botched abortion, to his 100 percent pro-choice Senate rating, Barack Obama has never met an abortion he didn't like.
Last year in a speech before the radically pro-abortion group Planned Parenthood, Obama promised that his first act as President would be to overturn the nation-wide bans on partial-birth abortion and to require taxpayer funds be used to pay for abortions. Obama has been endorsed by NARAL Pro-choice, an organization which spends millions of dollars each year lobbying for increased abortion rights, both in the United States and overseas. NARAL Pro-choice provides the funds for lawsuits against pro-life legislation and organizations and sponsors public sex education that excludes any mention of abstinence. The very idea that Barack Obama is pro-life would be laughable if not for the multitudes of believers who are buying into this nonsense.
Christians who believe Barack Obama would defend marriage just because he stated during the debates with John McCain that he believes in traditional marriage should check out Obama's interviews with pro-gay publications like Advocate.com. In October of 2007, Obama left no doubt where he stands concerning the advancement of LBGT special rights. He told an interviewer for Advocate.com "one thing that I do want to make sure is included in this article is that on issues from don't ask, don't tell to DOMA to the gay marriage amendment to the human rights ordinance in Illinois that is the equivalent of what we've been attempting to do at the federal level and that I was chief cosponsor of and then passed…there has not been a stronger and more consistent advocate on LGBT issues than I have been."
How can conservative, traditional, Bible believing, born-again Christians seriously consider an Obama candidacy? I believe Harry R. Jackson Jr. and Tony Perkins discovered the answer in the Old Testament book of Ezekiel. On page 44 of their new book Personal Faith, Public Policy Jackson and Perkins say, "The Lord figuratively referred to the cultural problems of Ezekiel's day as breaches in the wall." Ezekiel 13:4-5 says, "Your prophets, Israel, are like jackals among ruins. You did not go up to the gaps or restore the wall around the house of Israel so that it might stand in battle on the day of the Lord." In 586 B.C., the day of the Lord arrived for Judah when Jerusalem fell and the Babylonians took the Jews into captivity. The prophets of God had become like jackals wandering among the ruins of a once great culture while the spiritual gaps in the walls continued to widen. When the destruction of the Jewish culture came, the Watchmen on the wall of Ezekiel 33 had long since abandoned their post and the spiritual gaps opened up by the lack of a true prophetic voice allowed the enemy to completely ransack the city. The people of God became a people in bondage to their own refusal to see beyond the deception of the coming calamity.
I fear we live in a day when the Watchmen (with the exception of a remnant) are strangely silent and the prophetic voices of our age are refusing to shore up the gaps of spiritual deception with the truth of God's Word. That is the only explanation that can begin to account for the reason so many people believe Barack Obama really is pro-life and pro-family in the biblical sense. Just as Nehemiah was faced with a people who, because of the confusion and oppression of the day, had lost their strength and confidence, we seem to be a people with the same problem. Nehemiah's answer was to exhort the people to not be afraid but to, "Remember the great and awe-inspiring Lord, and fight for your countrymen, your sons and daughters, your wives and your homes" (Nehemiah 4:14 HCSB).
In less than two weeks, we will exercise one of our most precious rights in this Constitutional Republic. We will go to the polls and select the man who will lead not only America, but also all of the free world for the next four years. Our future is fraught with much peril and uncertainty. I ask you to join me in praying for the strength, wisdom, courage, and discernment to hear and follow the remnant voice of truth in a day that is filled with much spiritual confusion.
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WASHINGTON, June 12 (UPI) -- With the news that a terrorist group has seized control of major parts of western Iraq, the conversation in Washington has turned to whether U.S. military forces left too soon, and what should be done now.
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, a terrorist group so extreme it was even disavowed by al-Qaida, took over parts of Tikrit and Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city this week, sending thousands fleeing.
House Speaker John Boehner placed the blame squarely on President Obama for ignoring the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant's incursions into Iraq from over the Syrian border, accusing him of bungling U.S. foreign policy across the Middle East.
"It's not like we haven't seen this problem coming for over a year," Boehner said, noting that he urged Obama to intercede back in January.
"It's not like we haven't seen, over the last five or six months these terrorists moving in and taking control of western Iraq," he continued.
"Now they've taken control of Mosul, they're 100 miles from Bagdhad," he said. "And what's the president doing? Taking a nap."
The president has said that the U.S. would be providing military equipment and while he said he would "not rule anything out" in terms of assistance, the White House later added there would be "no boots on the ground."


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The game Call of Duty: BlackOps is now officially released and since it is a stereo 3D ready game, meaning that it should not only be a 3D Vision Ready for the PC, but also has stereo 3D support in the versions made for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 consoles. So what I did was to do a quick test of the game on all currently available stereo 3D solutions for the PC, because I do not have any of the two consoles to try it on, but if you do you are welcome to share your experience with the native stereo 3D support on those consoles…
Starting with 3D Vision, Call of Duty: Black Ops works great in stereo 3D mode, just make sure that you have the latest drivers installed that do come with a 3D Vision profile for the game. That however is to be expected, considering the game was announced to be 3D Vision ready, although in the profile it is rated as Excellent (there are some minor issues still to be cleared). However running the game in stereo 3D mode with 3DTV Play on a 3D HDTV has revealed a strange issue that you can see on the screenshot above, when taking aim through the iron sight or the scope of the gun the lower half of the screen becomes blurred. That issue has been reported and Nvidia will hopefully soon fix the problem, but before that happens you better stick to playing the game with 3D Vision on a 3D LCD monitor.
Call of Duty: Black Ops, like the other 3D Vision-ready games also has the convergence level preset by the developer, apparently to the best level they've decided to stick with, but some people do want to be able to adjust the convergence to their own liking and not just the depth level. However the user Arioch over at the Nvidia forums has found out a way to overcome this potential problem and again be able to tweak the convergence level. In order to do that you will need to open the "config.cfg" file inside the player folder in the game directory under Steam ("\Steam\steamapps\common\call of duty black ops\players\"). Look for the setting "seta r_use_driver_convergence" and change the default value from "0" to "1".
I've also decided to test Call of Duty: Black Ops on the HP Envy 17 3D laptop that uses AMD's stereoscopic 3D solution along with a pair of shutter glasses to see how well the game runs there. Of course I tried with both the iZ3D Driver and the TriDef 3D software to see the level of compatibility offered by both solutions with the same hardware. The iZ3D driver ran the game without problems, although I've noticed that there are some issues with the stereoscopic 3D rendering of the game – the shadows were rendered incorrectly, the normal crosshair and text markers were rendered in 2D making them appear on screen depth, which makes the game uncomfortable to be played in its full glory in S3D mode. The result with iZ3D was worse, as running the game with a default profile I was able to get only to the menu, which was rendered well in stereo 3D, however when starting the game all I got was a blank screen. Also trying with both solutions to play the game on a 3D HDTV resulted in getting only blank screens. So apparently some work needs to be done here to fix and improve S3D support too.


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I am here with Joe Aman of Human Rights Watch. I just sat in on a press conference about the two HIV physicians who have been detained in Iran.
Can you please tell us a little bit about what is going on with this case? You mentioned that they were detained at the end of June.
That's right. Kamiar Alaei and Arash Alaei are two Iranian physicians who were involved in the response to HIV/AIDS. Specifically, they worked on expanding harm reduction in Iran, doing very important pioneering work as part of the Iranian government's response to the most important part of the epidemic in Iran, which is among injecting drug users.
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They worked for over 15 years, attended a number of international AIDS conferences and had contacts with international organizations. Kamiar had also come to the U.S. to study for a master's degree in public health.
On the 20th of June and 21st of June, both of the brothers were detained and not heard from for a month; their family members didn't know where they were. The international community found out about this and started asking questions to find out why they were detained, and what the charges were. We're only finding out now: Just two days ago, the deputy prosecutor from Tehran stated that the brothers were detained because of national security threats and that they had used their international traveling contacts as part of an effort to overthrow the government.
But the community believes that is not true. They're not involved in politics. They've been involved in HIV for 15 years. We have no reason to believe that they were planning on overthrowing the government.
That's right. There's no evidence that they've been involved in politics in any way. The charges that have been stated are completely unspecific. There's no credible evidence that's been presented at this time and the brothers have been unable to access legal services, so they don't have contact with their lawyers. They haven't been able to review any specifics of the charges against them or respond to them.
What is the sentiment in Iran about drug use? Could this be connected somehow with their work in harm reduction?
There isn't any evidence of that. Iran has gotten a lot of international acclaim for very progressively responding to the AIDS epidemic and putting in place harm reduction. There doesn't seem to be a wider crackdown against harm reduction. There just seems to be a very specific persecution of these two individuals.
What can people do if they're interested in voicing their concern about this situation?
We've started an online petition, which is at www.iranfreethedocs.org, to put forward their case; to ask the Iranian government to release them; and to allow them to have basic human rights standards and protections while they're being detained.
Do we have any information about how they're being treated while they're detained?
We really have none. They've been held incommunicado. We don't know what's going on. We've been in touch with people in Iran to try and find out, but it's part of a strategy to keep them out of any contact so that, on their side, they're not even likely sure that anyone knows they've been detained.
I've spoken with past Iranian activists who have been detained who said that just the idea of being in prison and not being sure if anyone is aware of their detention is an incredibly emotionally difficult experience.
One of the Iranians who I've worked with in the past told me that a guard had let him know that the international community was raising his case. It led to an incredible sense of spirit and hope for him that this information was being received out in the wider world.
How many people have signed on to the petition?
We recently started the petition and within just a handful of days we already have over 2,000 people from all over the world signing on to this -- at the highest levels of international HIV physicians and also at the very grassroots levels of people who've heard about the case and want to express their support.
Do we have anyone who's in a high-profile position who has come out and made some type of statement about this?
The International AIDS Society, the organizers of this conference, have put out a statement saying that the brothers should be released immediately. During the conference, more and more plenary speakers are going to be discussing their case and asking the Iranian government for their release.
Thank you for talking with us.
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In the recent underrated comedy, "Hot Tube Time Machine," some disillusioned forty-something pals get sucked into a vortex that takes them back to relive the last of their glory days in 1986.
They could have stayed home and logged onto YouTube.
A new site, YouTube Time Machine, is tackling the Herculean task of arranging videos by year, allowing users to see offerings in various categories, including movies, TV, music, commercials, sports and current events.
So 1986, for example, yields some 78 videos, ranging from a trailer for "Maximum Overdrive" (Stephen King's hair-raising directing debut) to Bon Jovi's "Livin' on a Prayer" video (when the group was livin' with big hair) to a Sy Sperling Hair Club for Men commercial ("I'm not only the hair club president – I'm a client").
Go back to 1860, the earliest year on the site, and you'll find an 11-second snippet that's believed to be the first recorded sound. Fast-forward 150 years, and you can watch Steve Jobs introduce the latest iPhone.
We stumbled onto YouTube Time Machine via Social Times, which notes the new site was the brainchild of Justin Johnson, who reports the idea was hatched over pizza and beer at a Brooklyn bar.
We'll blame Johnson for sucking away too much of our not-so-valuable time with the addictive site.
We'll also credit him with recognizing YouTube as a pop cultural time capsule and giving us a clever new navigation tool. As Google, which owns YouTube, proved, the power of the Internet rests not only in the scope of content, but in filtering and organizing. Johnson's site also taps into the YouTube do-it-yourself ethos by asking users to add links to the time machine, whose repository hopefully will grow.
It's worth noting that the time machine's debut comes as YouTube this week launched a two-day experiment in live streaming, using content from four Web video companies.
Meanwhile, Google reportedly is working with Sony on a Web-friendly TV and with Hollywood on using YouTube as a pay-per-view movie service. Netflix is ramping up its streaming operation, Hulu is rolling out a "Hulu Plus" pay model and Jobs recently announced a new version of Apple TV that will offer shows for 99 cents an episode.
How and where we watch video content is changing and it's unclear which viewing forms will be around for the long term. It's all very exciting, but daunting enough sometimes to make you want to seek refuge in a hot tub – or perhaps in the nostalgia of YouTube clips from what at least seemed like simpler times.
Check out some YouTube Time Machine offerings below, and go here to trip through the years of pop culture.
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PRINCE RUPERT, B.C. - An oil tanker spill in the ocean off British Columbia's Haida Gwaii islands would have adverse effects on marine plants and mammals, Northern Gateway experts told a federal panel Thursday under questioning from lawyers for the Haida Nation.
While opponents of the project predict disaster, Al Maki, who was the chief scientist for Exxon at the time of the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill off Alaska, said those effects would not be permanent or catastrophic.
The Exxon Valdez spill occurred in an environment similar to the B.C. coast and is one of the most studied spills in history, Maki said.
"We did see recovery of most of those shorelines within two years following the spill," Maki told a hearing in Prince Rupert.
"Some of them had been very heavily oiled and had been subject to extensive cleaning. But within two years, we did have recovery of those ecosystems."
Oil was detected in the ocean floor, but forensic testing by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency found the oil was due to natural seeps and degraded coal deposits, Maki said.
"The fact was the oil had ... biodegraded to simple compounds before they were deposited in the benthic sediments, and so the results of the tests ... showed that the sediments were not at all toxic," Maki said.
The federal panel is currently hearing testimony about the company's marine oil spill response plans.
Terri-Lynne Williams-Davidson, lawyer for the Council of the Haida Nation, questioned Enbridge experts about the impacts a marine spill would have on things like the razor clams that the Haida harvest commercially and the seaweed they dry and eat as a snack.
"It is a very important area to the Haida people," Williams-Davidson said, referring to the Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve on the southern tip of the islands.
Miles away from Prince Rupert, across Hecate Strait and the proposed northern route of Northern Gateway tankers, she said residents of Haida Gwaii were listening to the hearings being broadcast live over the Internet.
On the remote islands, signs proclaiming opposition to the project are pervasive, nailed to hydro poles and fences and even spelled out on the roadside sign of a autobody shop.
Trevor Russ, vice-president of the Haida Nation, said the islands off the B.C. coast will bear the brunt of an oil spill.
"We have a mandate from our people going back a few years that we do whatever it takes to stop this pipeline project from going through," Russ said in an interview.
"The stand is very strong, in the Haida community and the non-Haida that reside on Haida Gwaii, are for the most part all opposed to the pipeline."
The company has said the odds of a tanker spill are one in 15,000.
"These are few and far between events," said Owen McHugh, a member of the Northern Gateway panel. "In 2012, there was no large oil spill anywhere in the globe. Tanker safety has improved to a level that is unprecedented."
But Environment Minister Terry Lake issued a statement Thursday evening, saying the government is still looking for solid evidence of the company's ability to prevent and respond to a maritime spill in a world-class fashion.
"Unfortunately, we're just not satisfied with the level of detail that Northern Gateway representatives are providing, and that makes it difficult to judge whether they are meeting B.C.'s conditions for supporting the project," said Lake.
Company officials made it clear under cross-examination that the actual spill-response plans will not be developed until the project has been approved, Lake's ministry added.
The panel has until the end of the year to produce a report and recommendations for the federal government, and the stakes are high.
A report released Thursday said the Canadian economy is losing $30-70 million a day because of the inability to get western Canadian crude to more diverse markets. The Alberta government recently warned of a $6 billion revenue shortfall this year.
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As a public school child in the 70's, my Valentine's Day often ended in tears. I remember digging into my optimistically large brown paper bag in first grade to find only three envelopes, even though my mother had insisted I fill out mass-produced cards for every child in my class. "No one likes me!" I […]
Speaking of re-runs, is it almost time for a new season of Mad Men? Please?
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When my daughters were babies, I really knew how to sleep them. I put them to bed early (and I do mean early) and on a consistent schedule. They slept for 12 (or more!) uninterrupted hours, and napped regularly. I established and followed through on bedtime routines. I successfully encouraged the girls to put themselves to sleep and to stay put in their own beds. Consequently we made it through the early years quite well-rested. Our friends hated us.
Things have changed. Our 4 and almost-6 year old daughters still share the bedroom that Zoe moved into at 6 months, when she left our bedside. But slowly – almost imperceptibly – the art of bedtime has slipped away from me. And now, the peaceful oasis, with its gentle pink nightlight, the whomp-whomp of humpback whales playing softly in the background, and the two children drifting into slumber at an hour when families sit down to dinner, is long gone. Now at 8 pm, after stories and "lights out", the room transforms a cross between a circus (the beds are in perfect jumping distance of one another) and an orphanage (not a real one, but the one in the movie version of Annie – the stinky Disney version.) There are calls for water, hollers for cuddles, demands for more and more piles of books, and so many trips to the bathroom that the ensuing bedwetting is a true marvel of nature. (Tonight on the Discovery Channel – Bladders that Cannot Empty until after Midnight!)
Where have I strayed? My former bible, Healthy Sleep Habits, Healthy Child, is of little help these days. I'm still doing everything "right"; unfortunately Ella and Zoe seem to have their own bible Defying Bedtime Habits, Crazy Mommy. On most nights, I resort to yelling. This works wonders for lulling children to sleep.
So when I recently received a copy of Goodnight Sh'ma from my friends at Kar-Ben Pubishing, I thought, maybe – just maybe – in this simple board book lies the secret to restoring peace to our evenings. Maybe the problem is just that we don't consistently say the shma. Why would that matter? I had a couple of theories. Maybe God is punishing for my lapse by giving my daughters a severe case of jack-in-the-box-itis. (It's better than smiting me.) Or maybe the shma has a magical, soporiphic effect that cannot be attained by bedtime stories alone. (Perhaps I shouldn't be surprised that The Amazing Bone hasn't exactly settled them down for the night.)
So after the books, the pottying, the brushing of the teeth, the turning out the lights, the tucking in were over, I came into my daughters' room with Goodnight, Shma. I read them the simple poem that culminates with the first line of the shma, which we sang together. They were quiet. I showed them the sweet illustrations. They were still quiet. And then I tiptoed out of the room. The quiet continued. For about three seconds. And then I heard a clunk. I went back in the room. My daughters were playing catch with Goodnight, Shma.
Just because saying the Shma isn't magical, doesn't mean I'm giving up on the bedtime shma. It's still something I believe in (or that I'd really, really like to believe in) and having a book like Goodnight Shma is a helpful reminder. But tonight I'll take the book with me when I leave the room.


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Nexen Deal Offered Green Light to Chesapeake's Sinopec Sale
Chesapeake Energy may have to give a tip of the hat to Canada for helping it make a $1 billion joint venture with Sinopec.
Chesapeake CEO Aubrey McClendon had said the company marketed its Mississippi Lime acres for nearly a year to Asian buyers, but a potential deal suffered from worries about regulators being squeamish about selling more US energy assets to companies run by the Chinese government.
The stamp of approval that the Canadian government put on Cnooc's $15 billion takeover of Nexen might've calmed those fears.
"The Nexen deal was obviously critical in communicating a signal — it gave a green light for upstream investment" from the Middle Kingdom, China energy analyst Robert Gee tells Dow Jones.
Chesapeake, meanwhile, continues to slide as analysts question the price it got for the assets. Shares are down 5.5% to $19.37.