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Bringing Logic Programming to Perlby Ovid (Cardinal)
|on Jan 21, 2005 at 17:36 UTC ( #424075=perlmeditation: print w/replies, xml )
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I feel rather chastened. Both Purdy and zatoichi have asked about the rationale behind AI::Prolog and I realize that many (most) programmers have never encountered logic programming and, as a result, have no idea what it implies. First, many are aware of the following famous Tom Christiansen quote:
A programmer who hasn't been exposed to all four of the imperative, functional, objective, and logical programming styles has one or more conceptual blindspots. It's like knowing how to boil but not fry. Programming is not a skill one develops in five easy lessons.
Well, that sounds nice, but what does it mean? Most Perl programmers write imperative code. Many write OO code, but frequently this is merely an OO wrapper around imperative code as many Perl programmers do not come from an OO background. However, Perl does support writing code in an OO style.
Perl also supports programming in a functional style. Dominus has an entire book about this coming out soon and I'm eager to get it. In fact, much of the benefit of logic programming is often obtained from functional languages.
Getting back to logic programming, Perl really has no native facilities for this. (adrianh presented us with a nifty working example, but it's very difficult for many to follow -- including me.) Perl does have regular expressions which are similar to logic programming, but they're not quite as powerful. In fact, I even tried to use regexes for this, but there are some limitations with Perl's regex engine. However, searching the CPAN is rather interesting.
So, from the list above, we can see that many smart people want to bring logic programming to Perl, but for a variety of reasons, none have had complete success. Since I want logic programming in Perl, I've decided to port WProlog to Perl (with the author's permission) and I have the bulk of the work done. But why am I porting instead of writing one myself? Because like those above, I found it very hard. In fact, on my first attempt, with no prior experience in this, I found myself debugging the following line of code:$array_ref->[$j]{$args->[$j]}[$i]{$args->[$i]} = $args->[$i];
Now if you think that's bad, trust me, it gets worse, that AoHoAoH was actually stuffed inside of a hash of hashes, thus leaving me with a HoHoAoHoAoH. That's when I remembered I had Minefield installed on my computer.
That code begs an interesting question, though. How would you debug it? Test::More has an interesting function called is_deeply that allows you to do a comparison of complex data structures to determine if they match. Read through the Test::More code for is_deeply. It's complex and rather hairy. It works well, but let's think about my data structure again. I had an HoHoAoHoAoH. Now look at that last "A". What if I didn't care how many elements were in that array? What if I didn't care if it contained hashes or scalars? That's really, really tough to do on the fly in Perl. What I would love to see is a like_deeply function in Test::More that would allow us to describe the form of a complex data structure without an exact match (and pull out bits that we're interested in). This would, however, really involve writing a regular expression engine for data structures instead of strings.
Now it seems like we're taking a curious detour, but we really are getting close to the goal of understanding, vaguely, what logic programming is. To further our understanding, let's take a closer look at regular expressions.
Consider the string "XXYYZZ". That string is not very interesting. Now let's make it a regular expression:qr/XXYYZZ/
Well, that's still not very interesting, but it's more interesting than it was. Let's make it more interesting still.my @matches = $string =~ /XX(YY?)ZZ/g
Now that's interesting. When we're done, @matches will quite possibly contain a bunch of "YY" and "Y"s. We're used to this and it seems like old hat, but notice what we've not done: we've not told Perl how to do this. We've provided a string and a pattern and let Perl figure it out for itself. In fact, if we really want to strain ourselves, we can do curious tricks with regexes. Consider the following snippet:
If you run that, it prints this:
Now what is that? Well, it's all the variations of two strings, X and Y, that can be concatenated to form "abcd." It also has an annoying leftover at the end that I can't figure out how to easily get rid of, but it does show why regexen are not good for stuff like this. That's where we get to logic programming.
Instead of strings, let's think about lists. If we decided to append two lists together in Perl, it might look like this:my @Z = (@X, @Y);
We could wrap that in a function, but it would be silly. Instead, we just tell the program to do it. However, that's what imperative programming does. We tell the computer what to do. We have not defined what "append" means. As a human, we could actually gather more information from that snippet. Given @Z and @X, we could deduce @Y. In fact, given @Z, we could deduce all possible combinations of @X and @Y would be needed to form @Z (kind of like our regex snippet above.)
Imperative languages generally don't do this. Logic languages do. First, you would have to define what the append function looks like. Here it is in Prolog:
(There's actually often something called a "cut" after the first definition, but we'll keep this simple.)
What the above code says is "appending an empty list to a non-empty list yields the non-empty list." This is a boundary condition. Logic programs frequently require a careful analysis of boundary conditions to avoid infinite loops (similar to how recursive functions in Perl generally should have a terminating condition defined in them.)
The second line is where the bulk of the work gets done. In Prolog, to identify the head (first element) of a list and its tail (all elements except the first), we use the syntax [head|tail]. Since ":-" is read as "if" in Prolog, what this says if we want to concatenate (a,b,c) and (d,e,f):
But how do we know if X appended to Y forms Z? Well, it's recursive. You see, the head of X is 'b' and it's tail is 'c'. Let's follow the transformations:
As you can see, the last line matches our boundary condition, so the program can determine what the concatenation is.
Now that may seem confusing at first, but so was the Schwartzian transform when many of us encountered it. After a while, it becomes natural. Sit down and work it out and you'll see how it works out.
So what does this give us? Well, we can now append lists X and Y to form Z:append([a], [b,c,d], Z).
Given Y and Z, we can infer X.append(X, [b,c,d], [a,b,c,d]).
And finally, given Z, we can infer all X and Y that combine to form Z (again, like the regular expression, only easier).append(X,Y,[a,b,c,d]).
Note that you get all of that from one definition of how to append two lists. You also don't have to tell the program how to do it. It just figures it out for you.
If you download my (very alpha!) code (but it's pure Perl), you can run the following program:
And the output:
Note that my alpha code has no documentation and virtually no tests. It's merely a proof of concept and it's avaialable via my Web site because I was asked. You've been warned :)
If you're interested in learning more about Prolog, check out Guide to Prolog Programming by Roman Barták. He actually has a link to the Java applet implementation of W-Prolog so you can practice online. W-Prolog is the Java program on which my code was based and it (currently) has the same limitations. Wikipedia has an article on Prolog that discusses some of the things Prolog is used for. In addition to what's mentioned there, I should point out that Prolog is excellent for rules-based systems and expert systems.
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Zipped file is ~37 MB, unzipped volgarrbig.cdi is ~771.9 MB.
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NORTON, Mass. — Sergio Garcia had a good start and a great finish Saturday in the Deutsche Bank Championship.
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Matt Kuchar had a 66 and was three shots behind.
Phil Mickelson, who opened with a 63, was among the late players on a cloudy afternoon and playing for the second straight day with Tiger Woods, who was 10 shots out of the lead when he teed off.
Garcia is not a regular at the second FedEx Cup playoff event. He prefers to take this week off to rest, but he couldn't guarantee that he would be among the top 70 in the standings after the Deutsche Bank Championship who advance to the third event
So far, it looks like a good move.
"Unfortunately, I didn't play well enough and it was touch-and-go if I was going to make the BMW without playing here," said Garcia, who is at No. 55. "Sixteen guys could easily pass me if they played well. So we decided to come here and make a little bit of an extra effort of playing five weeks in a row, which I don't usually enjoy very much."
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POSTED BY: Jim Ittenbach | January 25, 2010
It is well known that having a conversation (for example on a cell phone) impairs one's driving. A new study indicates the reverse is also true: Driving reduces one's ability to comprehend and use language.
The findings, from researchers at the University of Illinois, appear in the journal Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.
This is the first study to find that driving impairs language skills, said Gary Dell, a psycholinguist in the department of psychology at Illinois and corresponding author on the study. Two previous studies had reported that driving did not impair the accuracy and comprehension of speech.
"The previous findings made no sense to those of us who have studied language," Dell said. "You might think that talking is an easy thing to do and that comprehending language is easy. But it's not.
Speech production and speech comprehension are attention-demanding activities, and so they ought to compete with other tasks that require your attention – like driving."
The new study was conducted in a driving simulator at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at Illinois. The participants worked in pairs – one as a driver and the other as a conversation partner who was either in the simulator with the driver or talking with the driver via a hands-free cell phone from a remote location. Half of the 96 participants were adults over the age of 65 and half were in their late teens and early 20s.
Participants either sat in an unmoving vehicle or navigated through busy urban traffic while listening to, and then retelling, a brief story that they had never heard before. Using a headphone and a microphone, each participant heard and retold four stories. After leaving the simulator, all participants were asked to recall everything that they remembered about the stories.
As the researchers expected, a participant's ability to remember and retell a story declined significantly if he or she was also driving during the exercise. The older subjects performed more poorly on these tasks to begin with, and their ability to retain and retell the stories worsened as much as that of their younger peers.
In contrast to their performance while sitting still, Dell said, "the drivers remembered 20 percent less of what was told to them when they were driving." Declines in the accuracy of retelling the stories were most pronounced while drivers navigated through intersections or encountered more demanding traffic conditions.
"This study shows that various aspects of language go to hell when you're driving," said psychology professor Art Kramer, who collaborated on the study.
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I think I've come to the point in my life where I just have too much polish.
I mean... How many different shades of blue do I need? What am I supposed do with it all? I can only wear one, maybe two colors at a time...
So, I've decided to auction off my polish collection.
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Too much polish...
I think I've come to the point in my life where I just have too much polish.
81 comments:
- AnonymousApril 1, 2009 at 7:02 AM
Ha. I knew right when I saw this that it could not be true. (istillclicked)ReplyDelete
- Tammi PApril 1, 2009 at 7:19 AM
Too funny! Great April Fool's jokeReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 1, 2009 at 7:20 AM
lol i fell for itReplyDelete
- apocalindaApril 1, 2009 at 7:32 AM
I HATE Rick Astley :PReplyDelete
I've been fooled thrice today! First when I read your text I felt like "oh no, please don't stop, Scrangie!". Then you said that you were auctioning out some polishes I got kinda interested.. Then Rickrolled.. haha. :DReplyDelete
Happy April Fools! I clicked anyway to see what kind of sick sense of humour you have....funny!!!ReplyDelete
Enjoy the rest of the foolery!
Hahahahahahaahaha- one of the better April's fools jokes Ive seen today ;-)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 1, 2009 at 7:52 AM
Great joke :)))But I clicked anyway in hope to see your collection :PReplyDelete
"HOPE is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all(...)"
Have a nice day Scrangie!
LOL that's awesome!!!!ReplyDelete
- LachelleApril 1, 2009 at 8:09 AM
I knew this could not be true, I still clicked anyway because I wanted to see what the joke was...ReplyDelete
Omg, I totally freaked out for a split second until I remembered what day it was! :)ReplyDelete
HAHA!!!! FUNNY!!!!!ReplyDelete
No way in hell man. Either you've been possessed or it's an April Fool's joke!ReplyDelete
LOL! I fell for it too!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 1, 2009 at 10:48 AM
LOL!! You rock Scrangie!ReplyDelete
Aw, I thought it was real and the drool started dripping already. :( Oh the beautiful collection.ReplyDelete
- AtomicaApril 1, 2009 at 11:35 AM
Ahahaha! That was a good one. I was thinking, "NOOOOOOOOO!" Thank God it wasn't true.ReplyDelete
Dude I was sooo excited! I totally fell for it~!!!!! When I first read it I was like no Scrangie you can't feel that way!!! hahahah good oneReplyDelete
HA HA HA - Great!ReplyDelete
lol- good one :)ReplyDelete
I clicked in the vain hope that your wooden polish rack was included in the auction... LOL!ReplyDelete
You got me!!!ReplyDelete
Argh! I can't believe I got rickrolled today, I was being so careful!ReplyDelete
*shakes fist* :D
I was hoping it was true and sad at the same time. More polish for me, but the end of one of my fav blogs. Hahahaha!ReplyDelete
Score!I was expecting the joke, but not the Rick Roll... You got me ;-)ReplyDelete
OMG hahahahReplyDelete
- chloefpuffApril 1, 2009 at 12:17 PM
First I was stunned, then excited, then, well you know.......ReplyDelete
I can't believe I fell for it!ReplyDelete
I forgot about it being April fool's day,Lol! I fell for it!!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 1, 2009 at 12:44 PM
I was hoping to snag 230. I should have known. :DReplyDelete
oh, you got me good. :)ReplyDelete
Thank you! I needed that. Noone had pulled an aprils fools on me today.. I felt left out. :D Thank you!ReplyDelete
Okay, I admit I fell for it!ReplyDelete
I guess I really need a vacation...
Happy AF day Scrangie!!
Haha first one i believed all day!! Damn it :PReplyDelete
LOL! Omg, I told my boyfriend that the girl with the big collection is going to sell some of her polishes, then I clicked the link..hahaha!ReplyDelete
And now he's sad that I didn't fall for his "the kitchen is burning"-joke, but for yours xD
I fell for it and that was mean and sneaky. Great April fool's joke!ReplyDelete
oh lor XD also fell for it.ReplyDelete
I fell for it too, this is so funny :)ReplyDelete
You kind of made my day lol
I guess my lust for nail polish has gotten the better of me yet again. I swear I didn't see that coming. Kudos!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 1, 2009 at 2:53 PM
Never even thought of april fools. Just panicking to think this was the end of your blog and no more OPI swatches!!!! Don't think I could live without them! By the way, when are they releasing color copia to the UK. I can only find it on beautyofasite and shipping is tres cher.ReplyDelete
LMAO!!!! You ain't right, Scrange. You ain't right. But I was crackin' up somethin' serious..ReplyDelete
Ok, so I fell for it. But I was gonna be really sad if it was true that you were sick of nail polish! Haha.ReplyDelete
- CaritaApril 1, 2009 at 3:14 PM
Oh thank goodness!ReplyDelete
For a second I totally froze and thought,"NOOO!!" You'd think I'd catch on to this sorta thing by this late in the day, haha.
LOL LOL LOL!!!! one of today's best!!!ReplyDelete
oh man you totally had me i was just in SHOCK!!ReplyDelete
Wow, I was about to say...lol.ReplyDelete
I think I might be getting to that point soon...I NEED TO BE CURED!!!
Before I ever click on the "auction" link, I thought three things might have happened:ReplyDelete
1. Someone hacked your blog.
2. You owed money to loan sharks who were threatening to break your legs with a sledge hammer.
3. You had gone completely batshit insane.
Great joke!
- AnonymousApril 1, 2009 at 4:42 PM
Aw, April 1st was yesterday for me, so it didn't even click with me until about 5 minutes after I saw the site. So confused.ReplyDelete
Anyway, I've never posted here before, but love the blog! I love seeing the "New RSS" symbol in the morning!
- AnonymousApril 1, 2009 at 4:55 PM
o/. Guilty--fell for it. Lol.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 1, 2009 at 5:00 PM
Couldn't fool me nosir, I'm not taking ANYTHING seriously today! lol
You got me...ReplyDelete
- SprinklesApril 1, 2009 at 5:39 PM
Oh wow!! Haha I fell for it. That was clever, considering that all of your blog readers are either polish collectors or wannabes (like me). :DReplyDelete
Didn't click, but knew it was an April fools joke. I must say, I LOVE you for rick-rolling people though. Good show.ReplyDelete
(My brother and I randomly ring each other and play "Never Gonna Give You Up" and then hang up the phone. Hilarious!
- AnonymousApril 1, 2009 at 6:07 PM
Bwahaha, that totally made me smile! :)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 1, 2009 at 6:09 PM
You totally got me, too! You clever, clever girl!ReplyDelete
well played maam. And topped off with a rickroll!ReplyDelete
B!tch. J/K!! Loves it, Scrangie! Great joke. I sent the link to 5 other people with my own personal spin on it. Very nicely done.ReplyDelete
LOL good one! I fell for it :(ReplyDelete
Bah, I fell for it. :PReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 1, 2009 at 8:04 PM
it really took me a minute to get it. haha wow. nice oneReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 1, 2009 at 8:20 PM
Aww that was so wrong!! lol!!! I was looking forward to some of those polishes though!!ReplyDelete
You are too funny!ReplyDelete
Lol, gotta be an april 1st thing.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 1, 2009 at 9:56 PM
You got me. Damn I'm dumb.ReplyDelete
- itzzzkimmmApril 1, 2009 at 11:00 PM
omg I totally fell for it! I looked at the page and was like WTF? hahah!ReplyDelete
- Kathy R.April 1, 2009 at 11:09 PM
I clicked it but couldn't believe it!!! That was cute!!!ReplyDelete
That turned my bad mood right around. Thanks Scrangie!ReplyDelete
Nice work :)ReplyDelete
I would love to see a pic of ALL of your polishes - exactly how many do you have?
Scrangie ! I totally fell for it :-)LOLLLLLLLL :-)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 2, 2009 at 2:34 AM
too bad you can't ship such thing via airlmail now... or else!!!ReplyDelete
hey so you are moving on from nail posts?
wonder what will you do next?
can't wait!
I fell for it too... but once i saw the tinyurl link loading, i closed the browser, so didn't really 'see the joke' ... aw gosh... happy april fool's day!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 2, 2009 at 7:16 AM
ROFL!! Good one...'cept I forgot it's still April Fools in the USA, but not in AUS. good work :)ReplyDelete
Bad Scrangie!!ReplyDelete
loved it!!!!ReplyDelete
Crap! I missed it! I still got Rickrolled. That song is one you want to hate. You sure got a lot of people. I wonder how many you got that didn't comment? Bet there was lots of excited people counting up their cash.ReplyDelete
Ahhh, been a while since I got rickrolled. Too bad my speakers were off :(ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 4, 2009 at 8:25 AM
I was genuinely excited to get my hands on some of your fabulous polish collection! *grin* Guess I fell for it. Glad you're not truly giving up the polish. I love your blog!ReplyDelete
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LOS ANGELES – Catholics are up in arms over a new PETA ad that features a naked model covered by a cross!
PETA is well known for its risque ads, often featuring barely clad celebrities stating they'd rather go nude than wear fur.
In its new print ad, model and Dancing with the Stars contestant Joanna Krupa participated to promote adopting animals from shelters. However, the setting has outraged Catholics for its use of Christian symbols.
Krupa is floating on wings in a church, completely naked except for a strategically placed cross!
Catholic League President Bill Donohue issued a statement:
"The fact is that cats and dogs are a lot safer in pet stores than they are in the hands of PETA employees. Moreover, pet stores don't rip off Christian iconography and engage in cheap irreligious claims. PETA is a fraud. It also has a long and disgraceful record of exploiting Christian and Jewish themes to hawk its ugly services. Those who support this organization sorely need a reality check. They also need a course in Ethics 101."
In return, Krupa said, As a practicing Catholic, "I am shocked that the Catholic League is speaking out against my PETA ads. I'm doing what the Catholic Church should be doing, working to stop senseless suffering of animals, the most defenseless of God's creation."
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Bobby Byrd-- singer, songwriter, and celebrated foil for the Hardest Working Man in Show Business-- died yesterday of complications from cancer in his Loganville, Georgia home, RollingStone.com reports. He was 73.
Byrd worked with James Brown from 1953-1973, first in the Famous Flames and then the JBs. He is perhaps best known as a co-vocalist on some of Brown's most famous songs: You'll recognize him immediately as the source of all the "get on up!"s on "Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine".
A solo artist in his own right as well, Byrd recorded several albums and numerous singles, most famously the oft-sampled "I Know You Got Soul".
Brown and Byrd reunited in the years before their deaths, and Byrd performed at Brown's memorial service in Augusta, Georgia in December 2006.


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With the offseason officially under way, Around the League will examine what's next for all 32 teams. The series continues with the Tennessee Titans.
What's changing
Relatively little. Head coach Mike Munchak was retained coming off a 6-10 season where his team was outscored by 141 points, in large part because 90-year-old owner Bud Adams doesn't want to endure another rebuilding campaign. Promising young assistant Dowell Loggains has been promoted to offensive coordinator after taking over on an interim basis in December. Quarterback Jake Locker should be 100 percent by training camp after undergoing surgery on his non-throwing arm to repair an injury that affected him throughout the 2012 season.
Biggest free agents
»*TE Jared Cook:* A bit of a tease, Cook has freakish athleticism on par with the league's premier tight ends. He wants to be paid wide receiver-type money, but the Titansreportedly will make him their franchise player as a tight end, which he will challenge. He's been underutilized due to his subpar blocking skills.
»*C Fernando Velasco:* A converted guard and first-time starter, Velasco keyed running back Chris Johnson's mid-season resurgence while emerging as one of the league's finer run-blocking pivots. The Titans should make re-signing Velasco a priority.
»*DT Sen'Derrick Marks:* After a disappointing first three seasons, Marks finally emerged as a decent starter with a career-high 63 tackles last year. He provides a pass-rushing presence on the interior while making only modest improvements against the run. There's a good chance another team will overpay for him.
»*K Rob Bironas:* Coming off his worst season since 2006, Bironas struggled (50 percent) on kicks longer than 40 yards. It's not a good sign that his contract wasn't extended last year, but he could still be brought back for a ninth season in Nashville.
»*Other key free agents:* KR Darius Reynaud, DE Dave Ball, LB Will Witherspoon, RG Leroy Harris, RB Javon Ringer
What they need
The biggest needs concern players already on the roster. Locker must develop into a reliable, consistent passer. His ability to run the trendy pistol/read-option offense is intriguing. Johnson must run with decisiveness, though an upgrade at right guard would help immensely. Kenny Britt must stay out of the hoosegow and return to pre-injury form as a legit go-to receiver. While improved health from middle linebacker Colin McCarthy and improved play from free safety Michael Griffin would go a long way toward fixing the defense, an infusion of talent is clearly needed on the defensive line and in the secondary.
Offseason crystal ball
The Titans fully intend to pay Johnson's $10 million salary. The artist formerly known as CJ2K is on notice, however, that it could be his last season in Nashville. The same can be said for Munchak and Britt. Don't be surprised if Cook is retained via the relatively affordable $6 million franchise tag. The right guard vacuum could be solved via free agency (Andy Levitre or Brandon Moore?) or the draft (Alabama's Chance Warmack?). General manager Ruston Webster is also under pressure to find two or three impact players to shore up the league's highest-scoring defense.


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Ravenshaw University, College Square - 753003, Cuttack
Ravenshaw University came into existence on the 15th day of November, 2006. It was an up-gradation of Ravenshaw College established in 1868, one of the oldest and largest colleges in India which subsequently became an autonomous college with CPE status by UGC and 'A' grade by NAAC. The College with all its glorious academic achievement and ceaseless scholastic pursuits had already created a distinct niche for itself in India and beyond. The history of this great institution is, in a manner of speaking, the history of modern Orissa. It was the cradle of ideas fostering national unity and nationalism, promoting social mobilization and gearing up the freedom struggle.The grand hall of this institution was a theatre of history: on the 1st of April'1936 it was the venue for the declaration of Orissa as a separate province; thereafter it housed the state's first legislative assembly up to and even after Independence till it was shifted to Bhubaneswar, the new capital of the state. During Quit India Movement of 1942 the students of this institution brought down the Union Jack as a mark of nationalistic fervour.
The College originally was affiliated to Calcutta University and thereafter to Patna University in 1917 and was finally affiliated to Utkal University in 1943. The Utkal University began functioning from this campus till it was shifted to its present site at Vani Vihar, Bhubaneswar. This institution is the alma mater of the most distinguished personalities of the state. Not only the Utkal University but also the Orissa State Museum and Madhusudan Law College are the offshoots of this Institution obtaining their independent status at a later stage.
Post-graduate teaching started in 1922 with the opening of M.A. English class. Considering its great heritage, the Institution has been awarded National Honour by the Government of India through the issue of a commemorative stamp in 1978. The library which was named after the Raja Sahib of Kanika is the largest in Orissa. Not only is this Institution an epitome of learning but also a piece of unique Victorian architecture in the country.
The University has 27 departments of which 20 are post-graduate departments. M.Phil. programme is available in 14 departments and all the departments have provision for Ph.D. & D.Litt. programmes. Presently the University runs 23 Post-Graduate courses with research facilities and 27 Undergraduate honours courses.


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I hope everyone had a fantastic Easter weekend. Mine was great, and in case you missed it on Friday, I have the next three weeks off!
For the next couple of weeks I'll be sharing details from some of the projects I've done to finish up my living room revamp and by the end of this week or the beginning of next week I'll have pictures of the whole thing.
This first project (finished product pictured above) was so easy and cheap, and it turned out great. I love home-made things that don't look home-made.
I had been looking for a lamp like these since I put my living room mood board together.
The first one is from Pottery Barn and it's $100 and the second on is from West Elm and it's $150. Maybe I wasn't looking in the right places, but in over a month of searching I never came across a (much) less expensive knock-off.
From there all you have to do is follow the directions on the lamp kit packaging. I only had to make one adjustment The stoppers that are included in the kit were all too small for the opening of my jug, so I used a little hot glue to create a seal so the stopper would fit. The hot glue worked great and you can't even tell it's there.
Here's the finished product again:
New money spent:
- drill bit: $8
- lamp kit: $10
Here's what it would cost if all the parts had to be bought new:
- bit and kit: $18
- jug: $10-$15 (The shelves of HomeGoods, T.J. Maxx and Marshall's are littered with glass jug thingies. Mine was $15, but I've seen ones the same size for $10.)
- drum shade: $15 from Wal-Mart's Canopy line
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Corporate earnings continue Thursday, but it's Boeing at center-stage as governments around the world ground its 787 Dreamliner fleet.
Regulators in Europe, India and Japan joined the Federal Aviation Administration after it grounded all Dreamliner planes. They cited worries about onboard lithium-ion batteries that have twice caught fire recently. Boeing (BA) shares fell 3% in premarket trading.
U.S. stock futures were higher as major financial institutions reported earnings.
Bank of America (BAC) posted fourth-quarter earnings that fell from a year earlier but topped forecasts. The bank's results included charges related to its portion of last year's $26 billion foreclosure settlement alongside four other banks. Revenue fell short, though, and shares fell more than 1% in premarket trading.
Related: Bank of America profit dinged by mortgage charges
Citigroup (C) reported profits that missed expectations, partly due to high legal costs amounting to $1.3 billion. Chief Executive Michael Corbat cited "an environment that remains challenging." Shares fell 2% in premarket trading.
BlackRock (BLK), the world's largest asset manager, reported better-than-expected earnings of $3.96 per share. Shares rose more than 3%.
American Express (AXP), Capital One (COF) and Intel (INTC) will report results up after the closing bell on Thursday.
Related: Citigroup posts a big earnings miss
Overall, S&P 500 companies are expected to report earnings growth of 3.2% for the last three months of 2012, according to S&P's Capital IQ.
Shares of Herbalife (HLF) dropped more than 2% in premarket trading, after the vitamin supplement company said it would likely incur temporary expenses relate to "recent events." Activist investor Bill Ackman, who runs the $11 billion hedge fund Pershing Square, has called Herbalife a pyramid scheme and publicly said that he's betting $1 billion that its stock will fall to zero.
CBS (CBS) shares rose nearly 10% in premarket trading, after the company announced it would take its American outdoor division, which runs billboards, and convert it into a real estate investment trust. It's planning to outright sell those operations in Europe and Asia.
As for economic data, the government reported a 5-year low for weekly jobless claims, falling 37,000 to 335,000 in the latest week.
Meanwhile, the pace of home building surged in December, as the market bounced back from the impact of Superstorm Sandy. The Census Bureau's report showed housing starts increased 12.1% over the previous month.
U.S. stocks ended mixed Wednesday.
Related: The market's extremely greedy now
European markets were mixed in early trade. The FTSE 100 slipped as mining company Rio Tinto (RIO) replaced its CEO after taking a $14 billion writedown on its aluminum and coal businesses. In Asia, Japan's Nikkei closed narrowly higher, but the Hang Seng slipped and the Shanghai Composite fell more than 1%.


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Annunciation of the Theotokos Great Vespers
His Eminence Metropolitan Nicholas celebrated the Feast of the Annunciation of the Theotokos Great Vespers at the Annunciation Cathedral in Detroit, MI. Clergy co-celebrating with His Eminence were: Rev. Fathers Dean Hountalas (Vicar General), Tom George (Proistamenos), Charles Sarelis, George Shalhoub, Philemon Karamanos, Roman Star, Nicholas Kyritses, Stratton Dorozenski, Laurence Lazar, Nicholas Pathenos, Michael Varlamos, George Hatz, John Moutafis, Teodor Petrutiu and Nicolaos Kotsis.Read More


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Writers will use any trick in the book to build suspense, but the device of rendering characters trapped and powerless is one they go to again and again. Is it because the writers themselves are trapped and alone in their writing rooms, powerless to change things except in the world of fiction? Well, maybe. But trapping characters also works because readers are powerless, too—powerless to do anything but turn the pages to see what happens next.
Buried Secrets. By Joseph Finder. 2011. St. Martin's, paper, $9.99 (9781250000361).
The title pretty much gives this one away, so take that as your spoiler alert. A teenage girl meets a handsome stranger in a bar, accepts his offer of a ride home, and finds herself buried alive in a coffin 10 feet underground. Did we mention that the girl is claustrophobic? Well, if she wasn't, she is now. The scenes from her perspective make for excruciating reading.
Dead Silence. By Randy Wayne White. 2009. Berkley, paper, $9.99 (9780425233306).
Marine biologist and black-ops agent Doc Ford saves a U.S. senator from an attempted kidnapping, but a 14-year-old Native American boy riding in her limo isn't so lucky. A mere pawn in a plot by rogue Cubans to recover a cache of Castro's private papers, the boy is buried alive with an air vent providing a rapidly diminishing air supply. Another buried, silenced teen? We're thinking this has as much to say about the dark fantasies of parents as it does about authorial craft.
Deep Shadow. By Randy Wayne White. 2010. Berkley, paper, $9.99 (9780425240090).
White liked the buried-alive scheme so much that he used it again the following year—although this time, the victims are buried underwater, not underground. Doc Ford and three companions are on a treasure-hunting trip in an isolated lake when an underwater avalanche leaves all but Ford trapped under tons of limestone. A cave keeps the victims alive with, naturally, a dwindling air supply. Meanwhile, psycho killers wait on shore and, if that's not enough, a sea monster is circling.
Faithless. By Karin Slaughter. 2005. Dell, paper, $7.99 (9780440242918).
In the fifth entry of Slaughter's dark, forensic-driven Grant County series, the buried-alive motif is used to build intrigue, not suspense. Police chief Jeffrey Tolliver stumbles over a metal pipe in the woods and makes a grisly discovery: a young woman was buried alive in a wooden crate for several days and appears to have died of asphyxiation. An autopsy by coroner Sara Linton, Tolliver's ex-wife, reveals that the death may have been accidental—and the burial may have been a form of punishment. This one's past tense, but empathetic readers will still get the chills.
The Keeper of Lost Causes. By Jussi Adler-Olsen. Tr. by Lisa Hartford. 2011. Plume, paper, $16 (9780452297906).
Grumpy Copenhagen detective Carl Mørck has been exiled to Department Q, a cold-case Siberia. But the presumed corpse in one of his cases, that of a beautiful politician presumed lost at sea five years ago, is still alive and kicking, imprisoned in an airtight chamber where her captor has been literally increasing the pressure. When the door opens, she'll die a horrific death. Give Adler-Olsen, one of Denmark's top crime writer, credit for the most fiendishly creative method of entrapment on this list.
The Silence of the Lambs. By Thomas Harris. 1988. Griffin, paper, $14.99 (9780312195267).
Hannibal "the Cannibal" Lecter is the better-remembered of Harris' two terrifying serial killers in this book, but, for our money, Buffalo Bill is a whole lot scarier. He doesn't play mind games or wax philosophical about the nature of evil—no, he throws you in a pit, starves you for a few days, then slays and flays you. (Ted Levine is no Anthony Hopkins, but his delivery of "It puts the lotion in the basket"—words not in the novel—is something you won't be able to wash out of your ears.) As FBI trainee Clarice Starling joins the hunt, Bill is starting to work more quickly, which is bad news for poor Catherine Martin, the young woman in the pit.
Silencer. By James W. Hall. 2010. Minotaur, paper, $14.99 (9780312543792).
Hall's hero Thorn, the quintessential off-the-grid loner, usually wants to get as far away from other people as he can. Here, he gets his wish, sort of, when he's kidnapped and left in a dry well, where he waits for most of the novel. How do you keep readers hooked when the hero himself is out of the action? Two words: character development. Hall creates rich, multidimensional portraits that keep us absorbed until Thorn can once again access his lizard brain and unleash the beast.
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If you have struggled with the inability to get a good night's sleep for a while, you are probably ready to try anything. There is simply no way you can go without sleeping for long. While there might not be a product labeled as insomnia vitamins, there are some supplements that can help you get to sleep.
They are typically better than sleeping pills because they are not addictive and are actually made of the essential minerals that everyone needs to stay healthy. While caffeine, stress, and nicotine might be preventing you from sleeping, you could also have some type of deficiency, so find out how to easily solve the issue.
If you do not like taking pills, you can try to increase your intake of certain vitamins through food. Vegetables are usually a good bet, such as spinach, beets, carrots, and green peas, to name a few. Fruits are always good, too, such as mangos, oranges, bananas, and pineapples. Whether or not you suffer from insomnia, vitamins and the foods that are full of them are good for you in general.
Some minerals, however, are particularly good for those who cannot sleep. Vitamin B6, B12, and B5 can all help you sleep better. You can ingest these in the form of supplements everyday, or you can eat foods rich in them, like seeds, egg yolk, walnuts, tuna, milk, fish, and liver.
While getting these minerals through food is often recommended by doctors, it is usually easier to keep track of how much of the vitamin you are getting if your take daily supplements, so the choice is yours.
There are additional insomnia vitamins that are vital to those who need help falling asleep. Though most people do not know much about them, amino acids are crucial. L-Tryptophan can help you feel calmer, while L-Theanine can amplify the feeling so that these two amino acids essentially work together to help you fall asleep.
GABA is yet another amino acid that also helps you sleep, and since these are all safe and not addictive, taking these as supplements to ensure you have enough can be a good idea.
You do not have to get addicted to sleeping pills to be able to pass out at night. However, you also do not have to suffer from lack of slumber. In general, you can simply change your diet for the better, and add natural substances that your body just does not have enough of right now, in the form of insomnia vitamins.
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Saturday, October 16, 2010
Eight Tech Signs the World really might be coming to an End
8. Starcraft 2 releases (and runs on Linux!). This is one many gamers have been waiting on for some time. After Starcraft Ghost turned into vaporware I think some of us where wondering if Blizzard was ever going to release anything other than WoW expansions ever again. Starcraft 2 is finally here and it was worth the wait, easily one of the best RTSes I have ever played.
7. Microsoft releases a decent desktop operating system. After their Vista fiasco that left many consumers running back to Windows XP, Microsoft took their time getting Windows 7 from beta to a release stage. The result is truly their best desktop operating system. Sure it is not as resource friendly as some alternative operating systems, but if you are coming from XP or Vista - Windows 7 truly does simplify your PC.
6. Broadcom releases open source drivers. The bane of Linux users for many years now has been Broadcom wireless chipsets. Sure, distros such as Ubuntu have made it easier in recent years to install the closed source driver - but a fully open source driver is by far a best case scenario. Once these drivers make it into the mainstream kernel releases, modern Linux distributions will support most all internal wifi chips OOTB.
5. Steam client comes to OSX. Easily the most popular digital distribution system for games on Windows, Steam has been released for OSX. In addition to this Valve company, the one behind Steam, is also re-releasing all of their source engine games (CSS, TF2, L4D, ect.) re-written to use OpenGL for Apple's platform. Something such as this could allow OSX to one day challenge Microsoft's dominance in the PC game market.
4. Microsoft extends Windows XP downgrade rights till 2020. This one might not signal the end of the world exactly, but I think it makes those of us who work on Windows wish the end would come a little sooner. Even though Windows 7 has done so many things correctly the business world is always afraid of change, meaning we will be dealing with this now decade old operating system for another ten years (at least).
3. Microsoft contributes 20,000 lines of code to the Linux kernel. In a move that shocked many Microsoft submitted code that allows Linux virtual machines to perform better when running on a Windows Server 2008 host system. Keep in mind that while 20,000 lines sounds like a lot, it is simply a drop in the bucket of the millions of lines of code that comprise the Linux kernel.
2. Enlightenment E17 libraries reach beta. After ten years and several rewrites later of being defined as "alpha" software, E17 has finally reached a beta stage. It is yet to be seen if we will see a 1.0 release any time soon, but for the time being a beta release is a step in the right direction. If you would like to easily check out the E17 beta, take a peek at Bodhi Linux.
Finally, drum roll please...
1. Duke Nukem Forever gets a release date (again). First announced on April 28, 1997 Duke Nukem Forever seemed to be eternally delayed. This makes for it's 5th (6th, 7th?) release date. This one appears to be a solid one though (so much in fact that there are "early access keys" being advertised on Steam). Hopefully this one will not disappoint when it finally releases after almost 14 years.
Where there any other advances in technology or releases in recent years you thought would never happen?
~Jeff Hoogland
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Thanks for this article. The last is so funny!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 16, 2010 at 2:40 PM
Though not quite as famous as Duke Nukem Forever, Megaman Legends 3 has also been announced, a decade since MML2 released. It's never had a release date promised like DNF, but over the last ten years there's been countless requests for a sequel from fans, and the series creator himself has often stated that he wanted to continue the series, but the company was reluctant to green light it due to poor sales of the previous games.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 16, 2010 at 2:50 PM
It was cool to see the e17 mention. Hopefully they will continue making progress.ReplyDelete
And I thought I might come too an end because of the Israel/Iran tension or peak oil. GREAT READ! ThanksReplyDelete
whenever the world ends, I am certain XP will still be aroundReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 18, 2010 at 1:14 AM
Single-Window mode Gimp is almost complete :-)ReplyDelete
And whenever the world ends, I am certain that SCO will still be around.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 23, 2010 at 10:52 PM
Lindsay Lohan actually went to jail! What the...?ReplyDelete


text: 20 OCTOBER 2017 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: A noodle seller tosses fried noodles on the first day of the Vegetarian Festival, what Thais call the Taoist Nine Emperor Gods Festival, in the Chinatown neighborhood of Bangkok, Thailand. It is a nine-day Taoist celebration beginning on the eve of 9th lunar month of the Chinese calendar. For nine days people participating in the festival wear only white and don't eat meat, poultry, seafood, and dairy products. The vegetarian festival is celebrated throughout Thailand, but especially in Phuket and Bangkok, cities with large ethnic Chinese communities. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZAdd to Lightbox Download


text: Bug hunters have gathered again to test their skills against some of the most popular and mature software programs during the Pwn2Own hacking contest. During the first day, they successfully demonstrated exploits against Microsoft Edge, Apple's Safari, Adobe Reader, and Ubuntu Desktop.The Pwn2Own contest runs every year during the CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver, Canada. It's organized and sponsored by the Zero Day Initiative (ZDI), an exploit acquisition program operated by Trend Micro after its acquisition of TippingPoint.This year the contest has a prize pool of US$1 million for exploits in five categories: virtual machines (VMware Workstation and Microsoft Hyper-V); web browser and plugins (Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, and Flash Player running in Edge); local escalation of privilege (Windows, macOS, and Ubuntu Desktop); enterprise applications (Adobe Reader, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) and server side (Apache Web Server on Ubuntu Server).On the contest's first day, two teams managed to take down Adobe Reader and combined other Windows kernel flaws into their attacks to achieve system-level privilege escalation.\u00a0The team from Chinese security company 360 Security won $50,000 for their exploit chain, and the team from China-based internet company Tencent won $25,000.Apple's Safari was also exploited two times, first by a team made up of researchers Samuel Gro\u00df and Niklas Baumstark and later in the day by a team from the security research lab of China-based Chaitin Technology.Both attacks combined different vulnerabilities resulting in arbitrary code execution as root on Apple's macOS. The Gro\u00df and Baumstark attack chain was considered only a partial success and was rewarded with $28,000, compared to $35,000 for Chaitin's exploit.The Tencent security team also hacked Microsoft Edge and used a second bug to escape the browser's sandbox. Edge, along with Chrome, are considered the hardest browsers to hack due to their sandbox mechanisms.Tencent won $80,000 for its Edge exploit and later tried to hack Chrome too, but failed to complete its exploit chain in the allotted time.The Chaitin Security Research Lab team also successfully demonstrated a kernel privilege escalation on Ubuntu Desktop that earned them $15,000.There were also a few other failures and withdrawals. A researcher named Richard Zhu targeted Safari on macOS\u00a0but failed to complete his attack in time. Researcher Ralf-Philipp Weinmann withdrew from his attempt to hack Microsoft Edge, and the Tencent team withdrew from their plan to demonstrate a privilege escalation on Windows.No one attacked the hypervisors or the Apache web server yet, but the contest runs for one more day. A successful virtual machine escape is worth $100,000 and a compromise of Ubuntu Server through an Apache exploit will be rewarded with $200,000.The researchers are required to share their exploits with the organizers who then share them with the affected software vendors so they can be patched. Trend Micro also uses the information to create detection signatures for its TippingPoint intrusion prevention systems.Send your comments to our Facebook page.


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Social constructionism
We Build our World
Specifically, the theory of social constructionism supposes that the social world is constructed by the participants, rather than having it imposed on them. The central object of this theory is the social construct, which simply put is a social fact or structure that has been constructed by the participants, and is not inherent in nature. From the perspective of sociology, education, religion, marriage, and gender (not to be confused with sex) are all examples of social constructs.
A good example of a social construct is gender. While sex is based on genetic traits and refers to male or female, gender is a reference to the traits of masculinity and femininity. The traits associated with masculinity and femininity are subject to change from time to time, such as with the role of women in the home.
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In recent years, patients are living longer thanks to the discovery and approval of newer treatments. Historically, treatment options for myeloma patients were limited to traditional chemotherapy, radiation, and/or high-dose chemotherapy, also known as an autologous stem cell transplant. Over the past 15 years, treatment options have increased significantly with the addition of novel, targeted agents.
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Step into a gallery space on West 18th Street in New York City and you'll find a room filled with ghoulish, misshapen humans, ink splatter marks, and distorted Polaroid pictures of historical figures and celebrities. These are the works of Ralph Steadman, legendary artist and provocateur.
Of course, the exhibition—coinciding with the premiere of For No Good Reason, a new documentary about Steadman's life and career—is just a brief snapshot of what the British-born artist has accomplished in the last 40 years. In that time, he's created art for classic books like Alice in Wonderland and Animal Farm, released illustrated biographies for such luminaries as Leonardo da Vinci and Sigmund Freud, and, most famously, collaborated with the late great Hunter S. Thompson on numerous articles and books, including Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
Attempting to boil down any artist's life into a coherent narrative can be frustratingly impossible. For Charlie Paul, the director of For No Good Reason, it took 15 years to compile Steadman's work into something that properly captured his career. The result is a film that depicts Steadman's evolution, from small-time political cartoonist to raw, unfiltered artist.
While Paul's documentary is an overall portrait of Steadman's life, it leans heavily towards his work with Thompson—and fittingly so, having played a foil of sorts to the godfather of Gonzo journalism, going on adventures with him to the Kentucky Derby, America's Cup, and the Rumble in the Jungle. But of course there's plenty more of Steadman's creations to dig through and discover. I sat down with Steadman—along with Charlie Paul, an expert in all things Ralph—to ask about the stories behind a few of his most famous illustrations, Thompson-related and otherwise.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson Portrait (1970)
Ralph Steadman: "[This] is another version of the Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas work, only the idea of the passenger could be me. You see, the one holding on with his teeth, gripping the driving wheel. So he's doing that with Hunter."
Charlie Paul: "I would so not get in a car with Hunter. It must have been a scary experience."
RS: "No I didn't mind. He was completely in control. I tell you what he would do. He would turn the wheel like this [Ralph mimics turning the wheel using his arms and elbows] and he would have a beer, and he would have a bit of whiskey, and that's how he drove. I just thought he was a master at work."
The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved, Scanlan's Monthly (1972)
RS: "That's the first [project Hunter and I did together]. The reason it says 'Sketched with eyebrow pencil and lipstick by Ralph Steadman' was that I used those very things. The then-editor of the newly formed Scanlan's Magazine said 'Come have dinner with us before you go get your flight to Kentucky.' And I left my bag with my inks in the cab. So I didn't have anything [before I traveled to the Derby]. His wife was a Revlon representative, and she had a whole load of these eye shadows and pencils and things that I could use. So that's what I used to do these pictures. We just didn't mention Revlon. [laughs]
"Some of it is very risqué, showing the horse's genitals and the owner's genitals. We tried to match up genitals. An owner of a horse, they become very close with the horse. It's sort of their appendage.
"When [Hunter and I] met he said, 'I've been looking for you for three days.' And I said, 'Well I've been looking for you.' And he said 'Well he said to look for somebody with a weird growth on their chin'—I had a little goatee beard—'They said you were weird but not that weird' [laughs].
Alice in Wonderland (1973)
RS: "This is the courtroom scene. That was our prime minister, Harold Wilson. All the characters were pulled from politicians at that time. That is Fanny Cradock. Fanny Cradock was a cook."
CP: "It's amazing for me, after 15 years of hanging out with Ralph, I still learn every day. So I have never actually gone through it and actually talked about the characters that are in here. Who's that?" [points to character in the bottom right corner]
RS: "Nobody. That's just a fogey. And the use of the [lines at the bottom], I had been a technical craftsmen. That's what I was going to be, I was going to build airplanes, but I didn't want [that] life. I was drawing little scribbles on the side of the technical drawings. I was doing two jobs at once."
The Lizard Lounge from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1972)
RS: "That's supposed to be blood, you see. 'The blood-soaked carpet,' that was what [Hunter] says. But you see, he's only got to say that. But saying it is one thing, how to draw it, that's interesting. So that could be a deep red color.
"I think [Hunter] finished the book and he sent me it. And I think I spent about nine days working on that. And I sent him about nine pictures, which I think was the whole set of pictures in the book. And the tube went to Rolling Stone in San Francisco—you know one of those tubes with those [stoppers] at the end—and it got there and apparently everyone in the office stood around to open it, and they pulled out the thing and opened it up, saw these pictures and they said 'Holy shit!' They said it was just amazing, it's given the book its life—although I didn't go with [Hunter to Las Vegas]. If I had gone they might have been nice pictures of us pretty people. He took a Samoan lawyer with him, Oscar Zeta Acosta, and he took him because he thought he would be responsible. He was a lawyer. I was considered, but he felt I was too crazy. But I am not crazy! I am a nice gentle person."
Rumble in the Jungle, Rolling Stone (1974)
*Ralph and Hunter travel to Zaire to cover the George Foreman—Muhammad Ali fight
RS: "This is when we went to in Kinshasa in '74. I had just arrived and [Hunter] said, 'By the way, I gotta tell you, I sold our tickets.' [laughs] 'What?!' Well I said 'OK Forget it.' I remember sitting in the room rolling a cigarette.
CP: There is a whole set of beautiful Polaroids of Hunter in the room. They're great. It's just you two hanging out waiting for this thing to happen. Of course there was mayhem there; the whole fight was delayed.
RS: "Hunter wanted to hire this airplane. He said 'Oh Ralph, if we could do that it would be a real joke to play, this whole thing. These two [fighters] beating the shit out of each other and then we have an airplane flying over saying 'Black is Weird.'
CP: "I am so glad you didn't do that [laughs]"
Sleaze Friendly, The New Statesmen (1997)
RS: "Now this is how I feel about politicians. A pig wouldn't be seen dead in that, as that pig in [this cartoon] says. It was filthy. And as far as I was concerned, politicians were scum, and they were eating scum and wallowing in scum, and that's how I thought of drawing them in a trough, bums in the air. And it became sleaze frenzy there. That's what politics is, a sleaze frenzy. People didn't really like it because they weren't being portrayed. Well they were, but they couldn't identify asses." [laughs]
Bill Clinton (1998)
RS: "You know [the book] Gray's Anatomy? Well I used pictures from there and made photocopies and used pieces of them. I used anatomical [parts], the correct ones, rather than redraw them exactly; it stultifies the process I go through. It's best to just go to Gray's Anatomy and photocopy it. As I was doing at the time, and still do, I utilize what I can of technology. I try to use a bit of both. I use the technical bit, and then I will enhance it with all sorts of movement. You know an office copier? You put it on there, as it's going through, you go like that [Ralph twists his arm] and it distorts it. So then you use the technology. See the tongue? That's where I stretched it out. It's organic.
"[The bottom of the image] is a piece of machinery from an engineering book. That could be the mechanics of politics. It's the base from where the rest of it emerges, like a production line. That's the machine mounted at the bottom, standing on the American flag."
The Suicide Bomber of Baghdad (2002)
RS: "I think [George W. Bush is] one of the lowest forms of life that I have ever seen in politics, and the idea [for this piece] is that he really strapped the world to his own stupid body and set fire to it. Down there—that's New York in the background—[he's] crossing the Nile. What was that Biblical story? There was the parting of the waters. Then there's another one about crossing the Nile, and it's Pharaoh I think, in Egypt. And [Bush] had gone to the Middle East. So there he was, with a missile. And there, [in his hand is] another piece of an anatomical joint. As you can see, it's just rather clumsily attached to it. He's a made-up man. He's a complete fabrication of politics in a way that 'My father has been [President] why can't I?' So he's strapped the world to him. He was going to take it all down."
Early Cartoon, The Evening Standard (1956)
RS: "Oh wow I don't even remember that. I will tell you something about this. Here's an example of how I used to do my signature. It was 'Stead.' And my mother said to me 'But your name is Steadman! Are you ashamed of it?' I said 'Alright Mom.' So half-heartedly I put the '-man' on there."


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.. je me demande bien à quoi pense ce superbe félin..ReplyDelete
..bo dimanche à toi Rosa;)
My girls LOVE these cat portraits. Me too! But I wish you could hear my girls talking about them. "Wow! It's like the cat is in the computer looking out!"ReplyDelete
I just had to share that.
- Anonymous2:41 PM, April 26, 2009
Fridolin reminds me, that we have sunday today :-)ReplyDelete
Beautiful eyes and beautiful markings!ReplyDelete
So beautiful pics! I love those eyes!ReplyDelete
thanks for stopping by this weekend *hugs*
What a pretty kitty! Thanks for all of your comments. Sorry I haven't been around much. I hope this is a better week!ReplyDelete
Mysterious too!ReplyDelete
Happy Sunday Rosa, and big hug to you...
En pleine méditation.....Bisous!!Bonne semaine..ReplyDelete
What dramatic colouring! Beautiful kitty.ReplyDelete
Oh, what gorgeous pictures! She looks lovely in that light!ReplyDelete
Very nice portraits of Fridolin!ReplyDelete
Love those cat eyes.ReplyDelete
She's gorgeous Rosa...ReplyDelete
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Two part ride yesterday on account of having to go to a baseball game. I say "having to" because it was my boss's boss's boss's (you can see how low I am on the totem pole), aka the Dean's, retirement party and it was taking place at the baseball game. Whereas my colleagues decided to take their chances with the Metro, I biked down Massachusetts through Dupont Cicle and then to 15th. It might not have been the most direct way to get there, but I really struggled with how to get there. I could have maybe gone down through Georgetown then the Rock Creek Trail at the end of K to Ohio Drive to somehow connect to the not-quite-Anacostia Riverwalk Trail, but I remembered that it was Friday and that's when the Rock Creek Trail would be full of zombie joggers, mindlessly trudging their way through life while taking up more space that necessary. So, I stuck to streets. Massachusetts is a highway. I wouldn't recommend it to newer bicyclists or bicyclists who need newer brakes. Dupont was only a little bit of a cluster. I really wish that there was a bike lane between Dupont and 15th Street, but instead I rode in a combination of parking lane and right travel lane. Not much room to squeeze through in some spots.
Oh, the Kleinway. I've ridden it more more recently than I ever had before and I have to say that I really enjoy it. It just feels so civilized.
From there it was to Pennsylvania Avenue. I rode past the turn because the bollars extend to the pedestrian crosswalk rather than just stop at the bike signal. Whoops. Got passed on Pennsylvania by hipster-girl on fixie and superbiker on superbike. I wasn't dawdling or anything- that's just rush hour, I guess.
I turned off of Penn to 4th, took 4th through Urban Renewal-stan/Great Society-ville. I'm strangely enchanted by the area south of the Mall and north of the freeway. From there, I rode down to P and rode in the oncoming car lane up P to avoid the traffic waiting to turn onto South Capitol. Then it was to the bike valet at the stadium, which I will write more about in a separate post later. Sorry if you've read this far lured by the idea that I'd write about it here.
Leaving the stadium after the revelry, hot dogs and gouge-ily priced beer, I initially planned to maybe take fake-ART to 14th Street and then get on a trail, but I declined. I'm not confident that my front light has enough juice to fully illuminate the trails in Virginia. I don't know what the light situation is like over there, since I've never really had occasion to ride them at night. And by them I mean the Mount Vernon Trail and the W &OD to George Mason Drive. I rode the Mount Vernon Trail once at night from the TR Bridge past TR Island and that was the darkest, most dangerous ride I've ever done. A blinky is not sufficient, even when it's 5 LEDs.
Scone beeper went off, but I'm gonna push through.
So, I went back almost the way I came. Over and up 4th which was a ghost town, past the Mall (very bumpy in front of the National Gallery) and then onto Pennsylvania again. I stopped in front of the White House and took a picture.
If you like taking bad pictures of tourist attractions, it's way better to due when riding a bike than when on the Metro. What they get to see of tourist DC is this:
Bike cop in Georgetown. I don't know where he was going. He didn't look like he was doing anything official.
Back in Arlington, nothing new. Wilson is a pretty good street for night riding. Clarendon was semi-jumping, in the way that Clarendon always is. They still haven't paved near our street, but the bike really just seems to love that and just eats up the rough patches. Thanks, bike.


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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A three-day investigation of an explosion that killed a widely loved and well-respected Tennessee couple in their 70s ended Thursday with authorities charging a son-in-law who lived directly behind them and had been previously convicted of arson.
Richard Parker was charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of Jon and Marion Setzer, as well as unlawful possession of a prohibited weapon, said State Fire Marshal's Office spokeswoman Katelyn Abernathy.
Abernathy said she did not have any information about a possible motive for the bombing. Authorities did not release any information about the Setzers' daughter, Parker's wife, other than to say that he was the only person charged.
Jon Setzer, 74, was an attorney who handled wills and trusts, but he had been in very ill health in recent years. Friends said he was on dialysis and had heart problems and high blood pressure, among other health issues.
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John Lloyd, a retired dentist, said he also has known the family for years, first when Marion Setzer worked for him as a hygienist in Nashville and later when they attended church together in Lebanon.
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Lloyd said Marion Setzer stopped working for him when she became pregnant with the couple's son, Jon Leo Setzer Jr. The child died at age 3 when he was mauled by a neighbor's German shepherd in 1977.
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Bob Taylor, who lived about a block from the Setzers for many years, said they were "nice folks" and good neighbors. Jon Setzer volunteered do the legal work to set up their local homeowners association. Taylor said he and his young children all helped search for the Setzers' little boy when he went missing. Taylor and his wife had not heard from the Setzers for a few years before they learned about the explosion on television.
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