text: Artist: Mystikal Album: Unpredictable Song: 13 Years 19 nigga 7, bitch what's happenin? Chorus: Thirteen muthafuckin years! I know what to do to knock your stupid ass so bad you ain't no challenge. Thirteen muthafuckin years! This ain't no fluke, this pure deep talent. Thirteen muthafuckin years! I know what to do to knock your stupid ass so bad you ain't no challenge. Thirteen muthafuckin years! [Verse 1] Bow, when I hold the microphone and hold it Keepin me rappin until I hoarse and swollen Thirteen years and rollin I rate colder than coldest Gettin part of this, niggas don't want no more of this Never leave you alone in your life, nigga I'm selectin and sellin rhymes Slap a nigga that style sound some like mine Mad enough you screamin "It AIN'T!" (This line whispered, can't hear) You be pissin me off some the time, take you down one at a time I'ma be known for fuckin over your whole album Who want my rhyme? Keep decling, I'ma keep climbing Keep duckin, I'ma keep buckin Keepin heat seekin rhymes comin to get you bitches off me Disrespectors cow sled, (..?..) Hard to break, if it comes that way It took me thirteen muthafuckin years just to make a tape But that don't mean that my rhymes one of the strongest All I know I been tryin to make it for the fuckin longest Fuck the side of all this, long as you done it When I done it, gettin blunted bout to run this bitch Takin them riders down with me, clown with me Leave thirteen in your muthafuckin chest and you can count em Chorus [Verse 2] Nigga go pass the vibe, dividin mad this year Creative catastrophy, leave MCs in closed caskets Hit ya like full metal jackets, cut like hatchets Tight as ratchets, and burn like matches Thick than amino acids, flip like gymnastics, nasty as a pissy mattress Droppin like the temperature in December Clippin em, tippin em, been writin raps far back as I can remember Fulla them rocks, everybody move key It was ghetto Djs and sucka MCs Handle your buisness in this industry of competition Or be at F.W. Bulls washin dishes Bitch I was born to write million dollar rhymes Battle in the hallways of Cohen back in 85 86, 87, 88, hooked up with Big Boy records and made my first demo tape We dropped some real shit in the basement I had big ol' nigga tracks, raps like pavement To come from New Orleans made it hard to surface That's when I got discouraged and joined the service Pissed of and I (?) before long I went to war and served federal time before I made it back home No more rips in my jeans and gettin my cream Ain't shit unlucky about my number thirteen Chorus [Verse 3] I hit the bitch like BOSH! Owwwwww! Never gon bounce could rap and doin time before I bow How in the fuck you like me right now Told your ass she had said I'd be on top of the pile Cause my rap style is my hustle I shot niggas up like Muslims With the flex like muscle Use a, pretty delievery cause it's most important I form a style sharp enough to cut straight through the bones I came from my welts, gave up my belt I got off from Big Boy records to put my single on the shelf, now Do I do it? Fuckin right I did it Shoulda seen the little chir'en in the street singin I'm Not That Nigga Size ain't nothin nigga, I'm short Shockin nigga, raah! They gave me five hundred dollars, shit I quit both of my jobs Fuck em, got some other shit to do from nine to five My birthday came, and my sister died But next year, Mystikal signed a half a million dollar deal with Jive This shit thats tragic can't be no more Because of my rings I work at A&P no more I drive my landcruiser off the show floor Got the time to time to feel pain, sittin on Volvos Comin with scheme, up in my dream Who'd a ever thought I'd be a No Limit soldier by the end of that thirteen Thirteen manic muthfuckin years!


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Tylerton, MD from sunrise to sunset
Tylerton, MD, population 55, is a secluded little hamlet located on Smith Island in the Chesapeake Bay. The town, which is reachable by a 40-minute ferry ride from Crisfield, MD, is steeped in crabbing tradition. The island provides beautiful vistas contrasted with eroding shorelines peppered with dilapidated crab shanties and boat moorings. Tylerton is a place where it's spectacular sunrise is equaled by the sunset.

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Saving Pennies by the Pound: My Weight Watchers-Inspired Money Diet
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This guest post is by Amanda Steinberg of DailyWorth.com. DailyWorth offers daily personal finance tips for women by email.
I'm a Weight Watchers master. In 2003, I was 5'8″ and 160 pounds "" not exactly ideal for a 25-year-old single girl living in Manhattan. I spent three (!) years on Weight Watchers, and for two years, failed repeatedly. I obsessed over every drop of salad dressing and kernel of popcorn only to learn at my weekly meeting weigh-in that I'd gained half a pound. I quit multiple times, but would return months later with new resolve. Finally, in my third year, something clicked. I dropped thirty pounds in just six months.
To this day – and two babies later – I can still lose weight when I want to by altering certain habits. Here's what I do, and how I'm now using the same rules to shave pounds off of my spending:
|What I learned from Weight Watchers:
|How I've applied it to my money habits:
|On Weight Watchers, you're allotted a daily number of "points" (like calories). When you run out of points for a day, you have to resort to zero-point foods like carrots, or risk not losing weight.
|Determine after fixed expenses (rent, phone, etc) how much spare cash you have per day. Plan for days when you know you'll exceed your daily budget (night out at the movies) and spend less on other days.
|Plan your meals every morning. Before you even make your breakfast, visualize each meal so that you don't break for a cheese steak out of convenience.
|Plan your spending every morning. Today, I need to: meet Cristina for coffee, pick up dry-cleaning, buy a gift for baby-shower. Ask, can I make it work inside of my daily allotment? Adjust accordingly.
|If you trip going down the stairs, get up and keep walking. Don't throw yourself down the rest of the stairs. (This metaphor got me through many tough days on Weight Watchers)
|If you spend more than you budgeted, don't burn your budget and go on spending. Acknowledge that you fell off the wagon, get back on, and proceed.
|When eating out, order two appetizers, not an appetizer and an entree'. Two appetizers are generally more than enough food to qualify as a healthy meal.
|When eating out, order two appetizers. Save 30% on your meal!
|Don't totally deprive yourself, or you'll binge.
|Don't deny yourself small, frivolous gifts, as long as you buy them consciously.
I've learned that, for me, diets of any form work better when I can track progress in my head. That's why I like simple rules I can repeat daily. If a system is too complicated to track, it's not a good system.


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What happens in London when a group of American blogger types heads over to geek out? They get drunk, put on wigs and get friendly with the locals, apparently. Former Guardian columnist Paul Carr (@paulcarr) sends us links to a disturbing group of photographs, likely taken about five minutes apart. What was Scoble, the poster boy for RackSpace's new Building 43 project, thinking?
We're not sure who the other guy is, other than a rumor that he works at Amazon UK. Any information on what else happened that evening would be appreciated. Photos borrowed from Jamie Klingler.
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Regular travellers will love this luxury bicolor passport holder designed with 2 flat pockets for 6 (2 x 3) loyalty or credit cards. You can keep all your travel essentials handy in this elegant leather passport holder: passport for customs and police check, loyalty cards for registration and lounges, and your boarding pass. You can choose the colour that suits you best thanks to the large palette of colours made available by Lucrin.
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Today, RIM announced an update to its BlackBerry Locate Service that will allow developers to use GPS-free cellular triangulation to acquire location information in their apps. As RIM states:
Users can be indoors with no GPS coverage, but your app will still be able to guide them to restaurants or points of interest (POI) around them. Although the accuracy of the fixes obtained from the Geolocation service may not always be as high as with GPS, it has use cases for apps that require highly accurate GPS fixes as well as apps that do not. Apps that require high accuracy can use this service to quickly show the user an approximate location while it waits for a more accurate location fix using GPS. This can offer a huge user experience improvement. For applications that do not require high accuracy, this service can be leveraged as a simple yet effective mechanism to provide location information.
Obviously this technology is not new, as it has been in use by many platforms for quite some time, but it is nice to see RIM continuing to add functionality to the BlackBerry platform, and we know from first-hand experience, that this is a very, very useful service for BlackBerry developers.


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BRINGING THE NATIVITY SCENE BACK TO THE PUBLIC SQUARE. Brother Nathanael met with two influential community leaders in Frisco CO to set up a Nativity this coming December.
Brother Nathanael wishes to set up a precedent in this community in order to set up Nativity scenes regionally throughout Colorado and then move nationally.


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Luis Cagetano, of Woodburn-based framing and siding contractor Truss T Built, works on the Mt. Angel Community Center in Mt. Angel on Tuesday. General contractors Rich Duncan Construction are building the nearly 20,000-square-foot structure to be used during the city's annual Oktoberfest celebration and for hosting community events throughout the year.
Luis Cagetano, center, of Truss T Built, works on framing the Mt. Angel Community Center on Tuesday. Ground was broken on the project in early March, with expected completion by the start of the Oktoberfest in September.
Daniel Ivanov, an operations manager with Woodburn-based framing and siding contractor Truss T Built, works on the Mt. Angel Community Center on Tuesday.
Beaverton Community Development Director Don Mazziotti, left, and Mayor Denny Doyle stand on Tuesday at the site of a three-parcel lot that is being earmarked for redevelopment into workforce housing.
Sandra Walden, president and owner of renewable energy development firm Real Energy Solutions, stands on a patio at the Ecotrust building, a project she helped develop which benefitted from Oregon's Business Energy Tax Credit, in Portland on Tuesday.
The Dynagraphics building in Portland's Pearl District, a 57,200-square-foot structure built in 1945, recently sold to a group of business owners for $3.3 million.
Jacque Jurkins is the library director of the Multnomah County Law Library, where she has worked since 1964. Jurkins has been selected as a 2011 member of the American Association of Law Libraries Hall of Fame.
Linda Mack, of Fox Architectural Signs, installs a room number one of the 130 apartments at the Bud Clark Commons in Northwest Portland on Wednesday. The public opening of the $46.9 million project is today, and residents will begin moving in next week.
The Bud Clark Commons in Northwest Portland features 130 studio apartment units managed by the Housing Authority of Portland. The facility also includes a day resource center and a 90-bed men's shelter.
From left, Doug Marti, Dan Hatch, and Brent Bedortha, masons with KPMC, build a wall at the Lake Grove project in Lake Oswego on Thursday. Beam Development is pursuing Earth Advantage Commercial certification on the project as a less expensive alternative to LEED certification.
Developers of the Lake Grove renovation project in Lake Oswego are pursuing Earth Advantage Commercial certification as an alternative to the more expensive LEED.
Temma Maltz has tried six times since losing her job in 2009 to modify her home loan and avoid foreclosure on her Southeast Portland home.
Felipe Rocha, left, and Hilario Hibarra of Columbia Drywall Systems fasten drywall on the ceiling of the Gap store at Pioneer Place on May 26. General contractor Swinerton Builders is in the second of a two-phase remodel of the store, with expected completion later this month.
General contractor Swinerton Builders is performing a remodel of the Gap store at Pioneer Place in Southwest Portland. Among the updates in the two-phase renovation are a new store portal, hardwood floors, lighting, and stock room racking systems.
P&C Construction employees and members of Carpenters Local 156 Dave Van Vleck, left, a journeyman carpenter, and Mike Fry, an apprentice carpenter, install seismic strapping to the roof of Union Station in Portland on Friday.
A building at 3802 N.E. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd which houses nonprofit Oregon Outreach is for sale for $954,900.
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Rick Owen, a sheet metal installer with Pioneer Sheet Metal, works at the Killingsworth Station development in Northeast Portland on Monday.
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M&M Construction employee Juan Gomez shovels asphalt while digging for storm and sewer lines at the site of a new dormitory construction at Lewis & Clark College on Monday.
Tim Lawrence, founder of Beaverton-based Digital Works Productions, is part of a group looking to convert Veterans Memorial Coliseum to a soundstage for film and television productions.
Paralegals Olga Clouser, left, and Beverly Thomas will be soon be retiring from Farleigh Wada Witt.
Laurie Zwingli, center, and her sons, from top left, Liam, 6, Tyler, 13, and Brady, 11, stand on a lot in Southeast Portland where the Dougy Center's main building stood before being destroyed by fire in 2009. Officials with the Dougy Center, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping children and families cope with deaths of loved ones, are raising funds to rebuild on the site.
Dougy Center Program Director Joan Schweizer Hoff, left, and executive director Donna Schuurman stand in front of a door that was used in the center's former main building in Southeast Portland. The door was signed by Dougy Center clients at a goodbye ceremony for the building, which was destroyed by fire in 2009.
A building formerly used by the Dougy Center for staff support now houses the center's entire operation after its main structure was destroyed by arson in 2009. Center officials are looking to build again on the lot where the main building once stood.
Chad Biasi, co-founder of EV4Oregon, speaks during the opening ceremony for an electric vehicle charging station in Northeast Portland on Wednesday. The station is located on a public parking lot owned by the Portland Development Commission and features a solar canopy that is tied into the grid.
Multnomah County Chair Jeff Cogen, left, and Bonneville Power Administration Energy Efficiency Vice President Mike Weedall, right, watch as Portland Development Commission Executive Director Patrick Quinton unplugs a charger from an electric vehicle during an opening ceremony for a public EV charging station in Northeast Portland on Wednesday.
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Sarah Heinicke will begin working as the first director of the Lloyd eco-district next month.
A former community center in Happy Valley is being remodeled and expanded to serve the Sunnyside Village Public Library. Seabold Construction is performing the work for Clackamas County from a design by Scott | Edwards Architecture. Work on the nine-month project began in late February, and includes a 4,500 square-foot expansion of the building, a full remodel, structural reinforcements, and an additional parking lot.
Kirk Linville, of PACE Heating & Air, prepares ducts for installation at the site of the Sunnyside Village Public Library in Happy Valley on Thursday.
Stacy and Witbeck employees Arnold Espinoza, left, a laborer and member of Laborers Local 320, and Steve Morrison, a heavy equipment operator and foreman and member of IOUE Local 701, load small pieces of concrete into an excavator at the site of a Tri-Met streetcar service facility in Northwest Portland on Friday.
Marc-Daniel Domond, a project manager with Colas Construction, installs a lock on a door at the site of a Tri-Met streetcar service facility in Northwest Portland on Friday.
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Welcome, brothers and sisters, to the great mass of humanity. Fucking up the planet faster than George Bush can talk bollocks.
I hope those nosy bastards at NASA don't catch any Martians. They all moved to the other end of the planet when they saw the launch of the latest mission. They all have a morbid fear of that arsehole Frost asking "who lives on a planet like this?".


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Author: Scott Horton
The explosive secret Red Cross report on the Bush administration's torture policy has Washington in an uproar comparable to the revelations from Abu Ghraib. Journalist Mark Danner, who secured the document, talks to The Daily Beast about what he discovered, and how President Obama should go after the perpetrators.
For the past two years, journalists covering the "torture beat" have pressed hard to secure one particular document: a highly confidential report prepared by the International Committee of the Red Cross dealing with the Bush administration's infamous black sites—an archipelago of super-secret prisons run by the CIA for the nation's most notorious terrorist prisoners. Mark Danner, a longtime writer on war and human rights who teaches at the University of California, Berkeley and at Bard College, got the scoop. In a 14,000-word feature in the April 9th issue of the New York Review of Books, Danner navigates the ICRC's report, offering blood-curdling detail and a wealth of evidence of the torture practices the Bush administration introduced and then lied to cover up.
"Whereas in earlier reports the Red Cross used formulations that nuanced the question somewhat (saying, for instance, that Guantánamo practices were "˜tantamount to torture')," Danner said, "in this report they spoke bluntly and forcefully, saying that the conduct was torture."
I put four questions to Danner about his scoop and its significance:
Reporting on your article Monday, the Washington Post says the ICRC report "implies" that the Bush administration violated international law. You've read the report. How does it come out on the question of illegality?
There was no ambiguity in the report on this point. The ICRC professionals who prepared it concluded, and wrote explicitly, that the behavior they catalogued included torture, as well as cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment. They were judging the procedures used in the black sites against the Geneva Conventions (in the enforcement of which they play a formal role), the Convention Against Torture, and a number of other international agreements. Whereas in earlier reports the Red Cross used formulations that nuanced the question somewhat (saying, for instance, that Guantánamo practices were "tantamount to torture"), in this report they spoke bluntly and forcefully, saying that the conduct was torture. That of course is a violation of international law. But it is also a violation of domestic law. It is a crime, in fact.
By the way, on your use of the word "scoop": one should emphasize that though this is the first time, to my knowledge, that lengthy verbatim quotations from the ICRC report have been published, many reporters have worked on this story and some have published very significant information on the ICRC's findings. This group includes some leading writers at The Washington Post and The New York Times, who have been chasing this story with great determination for years, but, above all, Jane Mayer, who included lengthy references to the document in her reporting in The New Yorker and in her definitive book drawn from it, The Dark Side. Jane's work on this issue, and on the torture story in general, has been brave and exemplary and my lengthy piece, written for various reasons under the stress of very great time pressure, should have called attention to her work more explicitly. It's worth pointing out that one of the strange things about the torture story, is that revelation, which we tend to believe leads directly to exposure of wrongdoing and its punishment, has instead often led only to more and deeper revelation. I've written about this elsewhere as the phenomenon of "Frozen Scandal." So though there is a "scoop" element to this story, it is not, at the end of the day, one person's scoop.
This report focused on President Bush's "program" as it was applied by the CIA. You have studied and written extensively about the introduction of harsh techniques at military facilities such as Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo. How do the two programs compare?
Bush's "program" was undertaken initially by both the CIA and Department of Defense, so it's only natural that there would be similarities. The Schlesinger Report, prepared in the wake of the Abu Ghraib disclosures in 2004, spoke of the "migration" of techniques that had been approved for and were used by the CIA to military installations. It documents a series of cases in which military personnel observed the CIA techniques, occasions in which they participated, and then individual instances in which persons who had been involved in the program in Afghanistan were transferred to Guantanamo and then to Iraq and brought the program along with them. The techniques that the DOD and CIA shared include sleep deprivation, the use of noise and light, enforced nudity and various techniques designed to induce stress. The military relied much more heavily on humiliation techniques— forcing the detainees to wear women's panties, for instance, or using female interrogators to humiliate them or threatening and simulating various forms of sexual violence. These techniques do not appear in the CIA camps. On the other hand, both the CIA and Defense Department programs seeem to share a number of techniques that were, according to various reports by Jane Mayer and others, developed out of the SERE (Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape) program designed to help American pilots cope with harsh treatment in captivity.
The ICRC report documents a number of practices which the Bush Administration flatly denied and its disclosure is bound to add more fuel to calls for an accounting for torture practices. There's a debate now over the best way forward between those who argue for Congressional investigations, prosecutions and a special blue-ribbon commission. What do you think is the best way forward?
I favor the "let a thousand flowers bloom" approach. There will certainly be a number of investigations proceeding at the same time. For instance, Chairman Dianne Feinstein's Senate Intelligence Committee will be looking into intelligence community practices and conducting hearings behind closed doors, looking at classified information. And it will be forming some judgments on important issues—for instance, what was the value of the intelligence gained from the use of torture techniques? Though many argue strongly that "torture doesn't work," the fact is that many people think it does, and that group happens to include many of the people who controlled the United States government for the last eight years. I think we need real and credible answers, based on all the information, however classified, to the question of what torture actually brought the United States, besides the obvious political, legal and moral damage. The Senate Armed Services Committee has of course already concluded a probe. The Senate Judiciary Committee under Patrick Leahy has said it will be conducting some hearings of its own, but it is also looking at the idea of a truth commission which would bring a consolidated approach to bear on the problem, putting forward the controversial idea of trading immunity for "truthful testimony." The obvious problem with this approach is that such a trade can only be appealing to former officials if by taking it they will be avoiding a real risk of prosecution. Finally President Obama has tasked a number of working groups inside the executive branch to study detention and interrogation policies. In the end, I think we'll need the consolidated approach offered by a commission but it may take us a while to get there.
The ICRC reports are confidential, shared with the government which is the subject of the report, but not with Congress or the public. Do you think the reports should be shared with Congress or the public?
The Red Cross has a difficult mission, and they pursue it by assuring the government whose treatment of detainees they are studying a degree of confidentiality. Their job is to communicate directly, and confidentially, with governments, including the CIA, to whom this report was directed. Even when a journalist gets the report, there is a duty to weigh carefully the competing interests—the public's interest in knowing what the government is doing against the Red Cross's interest in maintaining a relationship with the government that can lead to the correction of problems. That's how the system is supposed to work and I can certainly understand why the Red Cross wants to keep these reports confidential—they have to worry about their relationship with governments, all governments, in the future, or they will not be able to do their work. So there is certain damage done in publishing this, no question about it. But in this case I honestly believed there was a pressing interest in establishing the facts, facts that have been repeatedly and explicitly denied by the last US government, from President Bush on down. I believe the only way to confront some of these issues, and the way they still haunt the current US administration, is to begin with the truth, to sweep away the lies and the lingering ambiguity built on those lies. The importance of the ICRC report is that it does that. There can be no more ambiguity. The US tortured: the ICRC said it and here are the detainees descriptions, in all their disturbing detail and particularity, to demonstrate it. Only by recognizing what happened, it seems to me, can the country begin to confront it, and eventually to move beyond it. We are still at the beginning of that long path, but we have made a start.
Scott Horton is a law professor and writer on legal and national security affairs for Harper's Magazine and The American Lawyer, among other publications.


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Paul McJones, editor - email@example.com - http://www.mcjones.org/dustydecks/
Software Preservation Group
Computer History Museum
The goal of this project is to preserve and present primary and secondary source materials (including specifications, source code, manuals, and papers discussing design and implementation) from PAL, the Pedagogic Algorithmic Language. The editor greatly appreciates comments, suggestions, and donations of additional materials.
"The PAL language is a direct descendent of Peter Landin's ISWlM, although there are important differences, particularly in the imperatives. The first implementation of PAL was by Landin and James H. Morris, Jr., in LISP. The language they implemented was much closer to ISWIM than to PAL as it now exists.
The present version of PAL was designed by Martin Richards along with Thomas J. Barkalow, Evans, Robert M. Graham, Morris and John M. Wozencraft. The implementation is the work of Richards and Barkalow.
The intellectual effort of which PAL is one outgrowth owes much to Christopher Strachey." [Evans 1968]
Thanks to: Arthur Evans Jr. and Frances J. Wozencraft, Martin Richards, Edward A. Feustel, Robert Mabee, Jim Stephens, and C. D. Tavares.
Source code
PAL system
The PAL/360 system consists of a compiler that translates from PAL to POCODE, an interpreter for POCODE, and a shell interfacing PAL to the underlying operating system.
"POCODE is stored in disk files to support separate compilation, so that the instructors could supply test frameworks that student programs would run against. PAL deliberately models the most interesting aspects of contemporary languages (to fulfil the purpose of course 6.231) but misses all the separate-compilation issues like local vs global names, libraries, include files, linking, etc." [Robert Mabee, personal communication, September 4, 2010]
- Martin Richards et al. PAL/360 source code (BCPL). Last modified by Robert Mabee, June 12, 1970.
- Compiler.
- Interpreter.
- OCR'd source. tar.gz xpalhd.bcpl xpal0.bcpl xpal1.bcpl xpal2.bcpl xpal3.bcpl
- Martin Richards. PAL implementation in BCPL. Approximate date? Version includes addition of a polynomial datatype as a student project. Machine-readable version provided by Ed Feuestel. ASCII
PAL programs
- Arthur Evans, Jr. A PAL Program of the Blackboard Evaluator. May 16, 1968, 2+21 pages. PDF
"Attached is a listing of a PAL program that simulates the left-hand blackboard evaluator of 6.231."
- Arthur Evans, Jr. PAL program for right-hand and jumping evaluators. April-May 1969, 29 pages. PDF
- Arthur Evans, Jr. and Martin Richards. Short example programs, 1967-1969, 18 pages. PDF
- Arthur Evans, Jr. PAL Syntax as a Parse Algorithm. Appendix 2.2. November 24, 1967. 1+6 pages. PDF
Computer-printed appendix preceded by handwritten note from Art Evans to 6.231 staff: "Here is still another attempt at PAL syntax. It is Martin's parse algorithm."
- M. Richards. PAL manual draft. December 29, 1967, 13 pages. PDF
"This is part of an experimental PAL manual which was written to demonstrate the usefulness of L and Rvalues when describing PAL."
- A. Evans.
PAL -- A Reference Manual and a Primer.
Department of Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, February 1968, 185 pages.
Robert Mabee notes: "I have an identical edition of the reference manual except for:
page 2.6/F - 1 third line typo: = should be .
page 2.7/E - 2 near bottom thinko in arithmetic: 13 should be 12, 43 sb 42
Ap 1.5 is misplaced near the end of Martin's file, followed by a duplicate of the start of sect 2.1
I have one additional appendix, Ap 2.1, 'The Complete Syntax for PAL' [see below].
The reference manual doesn't include later extensions to PAL such as a test/ifso/ifnot sugaring (used in Pal-evans-19apr69)." [private communication to Paul McJones, June 20, 2010]
- Anonymous. POCODE. Undated, 10 pages. PDF
Papers and reports
- Arthur Evans, Jr. PAL -- a language designed for teaching programming linguistics. In Proceedings of the 1968 23rd ACM National Conference (August 27 - 29, 1968). ACM '68. ACM, New York, NY, pages 395-403. ACM Digital Library
- Stephen N. Zilles. An Expansion of the Data Structuring Capabilities of PAL. Report MIT-LCS-TM-015, Laboratory for Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, October 1, 1970.
"PAL is a language designed for use as a tool to help teach programming linguistics[8]. As such, it incorporates generalizations of many of the features that are found in most common programming languages. PAL also has a relatively compact formal semantic definition. However, careful reading of this definition clearly shows that it would be much more readable if the control items and abstract syntax could be represented with a more sophisticated data definition facility. One goal of this thesis is to present such a facility."
- J. M. Wozencraft and A. Evans. Notes on Programming Linguistics. M.I.T. Department of Electrical Engineering, February 1971. PDF
- Arthur Evans, Jr. The lambda calculus and its relation to programming languages. In Proceedings of the ACM Annual Conference - Volume 2 (Boston, Massachusetts, United States, August 01 - 01, 1972). R. Shields, Ed. ACM '72. ACM, New York, NY, pages 714-716. ACM Digital Library
Other PAL resources
- Martin Richards. Miscellaneous PAL Files, June 14, 2010. Online at cl.cam.ac.uk/~mr10
- Includes the scanned documents under "Source code" and "Documentation" above. Also contains the start of a reimplementation of PAL
- Diarmuid Pigott. PAL: Pedagogic Algorithmic Language. HOPL: an interactive Roster of Programming Languages. Online at hopl.info


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Lahore: Pakistan will count transgender people in its national census for the first time when it surveys its population in March this year following a top court ruling on Monday.
The Lahore high court issued the order to the government, National Database and Registration Authority and the interior ministry with a government official assuring the court that the transgender community will be part of the 2017 census.
This stemmed from a petition filed by transgender Waqar Ali last November that argued Pakistan's transgender community had been marginalised and their fundamental rights should be recognised by including them in the sixth national census.
Lahore high court Chief Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah passed the order, issuing directives to enforce the transgender community's basic rights.
The move was welcomed by Pakistan's transgender community.
"We are glad that we will be counted as will be other people," transgender rights worker Almas Bobby told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
"Hope we get equal citizenship and equal status."
There are no official figures on the number of transgender people living in Pakistan but advocacy group Trans Action estimates there are at least 500,000 in the country with a population of 190 million.
In 2012, Pakistan's Supreme Court declared equal rights for transgender citizens, including the right to inherit property and assets, preceded a year earlier by the right to vote.
But shunned by mainstream society, transgender individuals in Pakistan are still often forced into begging, prostitution or dancing to earn a living.
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Nepal's 2011 census was hailed as the first national census globally to allow people to register as a gender other than male or female while India also counted transgender people in its national census for the first time in 2011.
In 2013 Germany became the first European country to allow parents of babies born with no clearly-defined gender characteristics to leave the 'male/female' field on birth certificates blank, creating a 'third sex' category.
Citizens of Australia, New Zealand and Bangladesh can choose from three genders for their passports.
Pakistan, estimated to be the sixth largest country by population, will conduct its national census in March following a gap of nearly 19 years.
The last census was carried out in 1998 when the population was calculated at 132 million people.


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Throughout the centuries people have killed each other in vast numbers for the very best of reasons — religion.
Oh they've done it for other reasons too — money, politics, geography, skin color, revolution — but never with more enthusiasm than when the cause was holy.
From the early Christian martyrs to the Crusades to the bloody wars of the Protestant Reformation to the genocides of the two World Wars and the Hindu-Muslim conflicts, right up to the present time, when Muslims slaughter Muslims because they differ on the legitimate successor to the Prophet Muhammad, religion and war have commingled.
It never ends. The 9/11 bombers claimed to be committing a religious act when they murdered thousands of strangers, and hardly a day goes by without a report of yet another suicide bombing that adds to the carnage.
In Egypt, the military government has recently gunned down more than 800 protesters for the sin of supporting the ousted Muslim Brotherhood government.
Meanwhile, the killings go on unabated in Iraq, Syria, Yemen, and Libya.
In blaming religion for all of this I'm being simplistic, of course. Religionists are as much victim as perpetrator in these slaughters. The issues involved are complex and varied.
But peel away enough layers from each of those conflicts and you find a religious component. When was the last time we had a war in which both sides didn't claim that God was on their side and, worse, believed it?
Even Communists, who profess not to believe in God, construct a deified leader (Stalin, Mao, Ho Chi Minh) to believe in.
Through it all I, a non-believer, have taken solace in the fact that there was Buddhism. You can argue that it's not a real religion, but it certainly is a coherent system of belief and it doesn't condone war. That's what I thought.
Now I find out that Buddhists are accused of killing Muslims in Burma.
I don't know why. I'm sure they have a good reason; people who kill people of a competing religion always have a good reason. But it's disillusioning.
To me, the warlike nature of religion is the greatest argument to be made for the separation of church and state. We've got people all over Washington clamoring for more religion in our government.
"Let's put God back in the schools," they say.
Let's not. The more religion you have in government, the more wars you have and the more popular they are. It's the nature of the beast.
A democratic government in a pluralistic society must be inclusive and tolerant of the views of others.
The religious instinct is exclusive and suppressive of the views of others.
I don't care what religion you pick — Catholic, Protestant, Jew, Muslim, Hindu — as you move along the spectrum of their beliefs, the more fundamentalist you get, the more intolerance you find, and the less desire to accommodate those who disagree with them. Fundamentalists know they're right and you're wrong, and they have a book to prove it so don't argue.
As soon as the Muslim Brotherhood took control in Egypt, I knew the revolution there was doomed. The Brothers immediately went about setting up a repressive Muslim state, which in turn ignited a counter-revolution.
We tend to think of democracy as an unadulterated good. As Egypt proves, democracy without respect for the rights of minorities can be just as ugly as a dictatorship.
A wise man once said: "An evil man can do evil things for evil reasons — that's his nature — but when a good man does evil things it's almost always for religious reasons."
Amen to that, brother.


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It's been a rough several months for Rafael Nadal. There was that knee injury. And then a stomach virus that kept him from the Australian Open where, SPOILER ALERT, Maria Sharapova dominated Venus Williams today and when I first read the headline I thought it said Serena and I almost tripped.
Anyway, here's Rafa in Barcelona training again and preparing for his comeback -- February 11 at the Brazil Open. This is for my cousin Cat. We had a sleepover last night. And while Lance Armstrong bitterly disappointed us both, we know that Rafa never will -- NO JINX.