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Posted: Sun May 25, 2008 7:59 pm
Post subject: Is it possible to self teach to a good chef standard
I work 40 hrs a week in engineering and a lot of the rest of the time is spent in my home kitchen. So i got to wondering if it was possible to use this time, not just to cook basic dishes but to self teach as i go to a decent chef standard. Obviously i wouldn't have the time (or the money for that matter) to attend any kind of cookery school so i would be looking for materials such as books and web based stuff.
Now, the question is has anyone got any guidance on how to go about this and what materials are available?
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Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 12:11 am
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Try these text books:
and a subscription to Cook's Illustrated for fresh monthly articles and tests.
I've always considered cooking and especially baking to be "organic chemistry lab" in the kitchen. Cooking is a matter of blending things together that taste good and heating them up and that leaves some room for artistic experimentation. Baking on the other hand really is organic chemistry in the kitchen because things have to be carefully measured and combined in specific fashions for the magic to occur inside the oven.
When trying something new of your own creation, take notes so you'll know what you did and will be able to reproduce those things you like and avoid those you don't.
Practice, practice, practice.
I'm still practicing.
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Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 1:50 am
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Yes, it is possible to become an excellent chef without all of the expense and time. You will learn more in your own kitchen than in classroom... this comes from one who taught cooking in an accredited institution. My suggestion is to get the
Professional Chef
series by The Culinary Institute of America if you are sincerely serious. You can waste your time watching the Food Network Channel, but the only one on there that actually teaches you anything is Alton Brown, in my opinion.
The best way to learn is to try and fail... failing will bring you quicker results than anything else. I love making mistakes because the mistakes teach me a great deal more PLUS... I have discovered many new recipes by mistake. One of the mistakes has made me quite a bit of money plus a great reputation in my area, causing me a "signature dessert".
Start with one area; master that... then go to another area; master that, etc. Most excellent chefs are masters in one or two main areas... if grilling is your thing, then master it.
Keep copious notes on everything you do. It will enable you to go back to see what worked and what did not.
Do not buy every gadget out there, but what you do buy... make sure it is the highest quality (i.e., knives, pans, mixer, food processor).
With an "engineer brain", you probably will want everything to be concise...baking is that science which will give you great pleasure with proven results. On the other hand, cooking requires more creativity and less categorizing of procedures. It all depends how much of a creative bent you have as an engineer. Cooking is more "social", but baking is more concise, "singular" work.
When I am baking, I do not want any interference. It requires concentration without any distraction. Everything must be precise without any room for error.
When I am cooking, I can carry on fourteen conversations at once and still come out with a fantastic product.
You determine when and how you wish to proceed, but guarantee that you can learn by yourself. If you want to get some "hands -on" training on a week-end, then take a week-end course from someone, but you will find that you will know as much as they do (after a while, of course).
Go for it! If it does not work, then get a serious partner with whom to cook or bake on a regular basis. You can learn from each other... after all, the only way some of these "top chefs" learned were from their families and/or working in a low-paying job in a restaurant.
Let us know how you are doing.
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Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 5:40 am
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Thank you for your great replies. I must concede that i have been cooking for a few years and made many mistakes, however my wife and friends (for whom she organises dinner parties with me being head cook) all think my cooking is very good.
This said i feel that i'm only replicating recipes and with my "engineering brain" want to learn much more about the basics of why and how things go together. What makes great combimations work? What do we look for in taste sensations, textures etc etc?
I will look up the series you suggested and more info would be greatly appreciated.
By the way, i totally agree with the baking sentiment. I could get nothing to work in the oven till i bought a simple book called "Basic Basics Baking Handbook" by Margueritte Patten. Its brillaint. I can also cook Indian food to restaurant quality using "The Curry Secret" by Chris Dillon. You wouldnt believe how easy it is lol
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Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 7:59 pm
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Some of the books mentioned have quite a few editions. I realise that it would probably be best to get the most up to date but do any of you know if there is that much of a difference considering the price differences when going back an edition or two?
Also, The Culinary Institute have a few differently enltitled books. Would there be an order of preference if i were to buy one at a time?
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Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 10:13 pm
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I'll offer you a perhaps heretical and controversial approach.
watch (selected) TV shows - it's "free video lessons" - concentrate on technique, effect and "understanding why"
not all shows qualify. some TV cooking shows could convey 100% of their actual content with a 30 minute static page listing the ingredients.
ignore / forget about all the exotic ingredients and favor nuisances of "the recipe"
if your chicken stir fry turns out like chicken fricassee, whether you use two or three saffron threads is NOT going to rescue the dish.
somebody said practice practice practice
if you haven't got 'the feel' to cook to schedule a 5 pound roast as well as a 10 pound roast, you're wasting your time on making a fifty six ingredient, sixteen hour reduction glaze.
once one know how to make a dish turn out the way it 'should' then one can begin to explore flavor combinations.
this is where the engineer and the artist part methodologies.
the engineer finds 150 sources that in concurrence list 27 'spices and herbs' as 'suitable for fish'
the engineer then draws up a table of all combinations and permutations, cooks and evaluates them one by one.
the artist says: I think this and this will go well with this fish.
the artist wins.
quite frankly, I think one either has a talent or does not have a talent.
look at all the chefs in the world, how many are "famous"?
they got the talent.
the rest follow recipes.
which includes me. sigh. I need a lot of help in the creative department . . . .
reading books is great. but if your poached egg bounces when dropped, one probably doesn't need to worry much about grill marks on the Canadian bacon or whether the Hollandaise is too salty.
so first learn _how_ to cook, when you're skilled at "ad hoc" cooking that's when exploring sauces, flavors, additives, etc., really becomes interesting.
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Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 4:44 am
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Dilbert wrote:
. . . . somebody said practice practice practice
amen. . . . quite frankly, I think one either has a talent or does not have a talent.
look at all the chefs in the world, how many are "famous"? they got the talent.
the rest follow recipes, which includes me. sigh. I need a lot of help in the creative department . . . .
Well, I do think a person with average capabilities can learn to cook very well if they put their mind to it. It just takes practice and perseverance, not talent. Those famous chefs have one very important thing regular chefs don't: a good PR man, or they can do their own PR.
You don't have to sigh about using a recipe because you want to insure a good result. The "creative" chefs do that all the time, they just have them memorized. They know how to make a lot of dishes, but they don't make a particular dish substantially differently each time. They know what works and may make modifications, but the dish isn't re-created from the ground up each time.
I also need help in the creative department. I can make minor modifications and end up with good results, but I can't be given a stocked refrigerator and a pantry full of staple goods and create a gourmet meal without a recipe. I was good in chemistry lab and at following directions, so
I can make anything from a recipe turn out well because I have practiced cooking techniques
. My point is almost anyone can learn to cook very well. It isn't like being able to paint like Rembrandt or play the flute like Galway, where you clearly have it or you don't.
There's a caveat on recipes: some are good and some aren't, some have good clear directions and others do not..
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Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 5:38 am
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I am a believer in the fact that talent is often inherent, but i also believe even more that you can be very good at something if taught the fundementals . Most highly successful, talented and innovative people in many fields have this in common, they know the fundementals and hence don't have to rely on convention to produce high quality,exciting product.
With this philosophy in mind my assumption would be that in most of the books mentioned would teach the same fundementals whether its 1st edition or 4th, Would this be true?
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Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 11:58 am
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^^^^^ Probably true. Maybe the differences between editions are related to the use of new technologies and equipment or recipes and trends in cooking.
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Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 12:45 pm
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I would agree a person who takes an interest can be taught / learn / teach themselves how to be a good chef / cook / preparer of food.
otoh, how many people do you know that have been cooking for years and . . . . ah,,,, continue to struggle. . . .
as 1st or 4th editions, I'd agree the "classics" are little changed from the 0th edition, so they would be an economical starting point.
....you clearly have it or you don't.
perhaps the 'pros' have more time to experiment and develop dishes?
take for example: Top Chef
would you even go to a restaurant where the dish had never been previously served?
does that show point out 'talent'?
it appears much more a matter of out and out luck - if somebody did a tour <somewhere> and spent a year working with the "secret ingredient" they've got a big leg up in creating a winner.
I think to become a top notch chef does require talent - just like a flute player - that is appropriate to the task. look at all the guitar players in the world - a few have something 'different' that makes their music standout.
and PR has to follow, not lead. I've seen any number of restaurants open to great PR fanfare and fold six month later.
the PR may draw a crowd, but if the food doesn't live up to the billing, it is unlikely to succeed.
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Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 1:44 am
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Dilbert wrote:
I would agree a person who takes an interest can be taught / learn / teach themselves how to be a good chef / cook / preparer of food.
otoh, how many people do you know that have been cooking for years and . . . . ah,,,, continue to struggle. . . . .you clearly have it or you don't.
I said a person with average capabilities can learn to cook well. That leaves 50% below average who can't! And yes, I do know people who have tried, but can't cook at all.
Dilbert wrote:
I think to become a top notch chef does require talent - just like a flute player - that is appropriate to the task. . . .
I completely agree. To become the top of your class, you must have talent. However, when asked if it is possible to "cook like a chef" I do believe many people can do that without a special talent. It just takes average capability, practice and perseverance, and I think that goes for just about any occupation that doesn't require 10 years of training (like neurosurgery). At the risk of speaking for him, I don't believe Beamer was asking if he could teach himself to be an Iron Chef, but with recipes in hand and a knowledge of cooking techniques, he can certainly teach himself to cook like a chef, maybe not 20 different meals at a time like in a restaurant, but certainly well enough to get rave reviews at a party he is hosting.
I hope I'm not milking this point dry.
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Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 5:27 am
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Gary, you are 100% right. I did use the words "good chef" and most certainly didn't mean i was opening a restaurant looking for michelin stars lol. All i'm really looking for is to be able to put together restaurant grade food in a home kitchen without heavily relying on reading recipes. In my opinion this should be achievable as i already can perform all the tasks i've had to in using copycat recipes. It's just a case of looking to learn the fundemental skills/requirements in a logical fashion.
As an aside i think that almost anybody can learn. Here in the UK there was a TV program called "Can't Cook, Won't Cook" and some of these people were pretty hopeless. However, with a little guidance from the participating chef they turned out pretty decent dishes.
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Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 12:37 pm
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....powdered milk
nah, I got carried away with the definition of "good" <g>
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A Google-based search engine specialized for Common Lisp resources.
Common Lisp Sockets APIs - An analysis and proposal
Paper by Dave Roberts, 27 December 2005. It proposes a creation of standardised Common Lisp networking API.
Common Lisp Wikibook
This is a collaborative textbook based on MediaWiki engine for learning Common Lisp programming
Common Lisp the Language, 2nd Edition
Book by Guy L. Steele Jr. Digital Press, 1990, ISBN 1555580416. Full text available online. Generally refered to as CLTL2
Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation
Book by David S. Touretzky. The Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Company, 1989, ISBN 0805304924.
Hosting services and resources for open-source Common Lisp development projects. It's a sort of SourceForge for Lisp.
CommonSQL tutorial
A nice tutorial for LispWorks' CommonSQL. It also applies to CLSQL.
Corman Lisp Discussion Groups
A web forum to discuss Corman Lisp.
DNS Message Decoding - A Case Study Comparing Java and Common Lisp
A study that compares two implementations of a DNS resolver library, one written in Common Lisp and the other in Java. 30 May 2004.
DROP: a push/pushnew complement
The DROP macro removes an element from a list in a place.
Daniel Bobrow CLOS video from 87
Daniel Bobrow clos video, spotted by jao: http://jaortega.wordpress.com/2008/07/21/vintage-clos/
Default values for get &c
A short article on the default values for property list accessors.
Dynamic Learning Center
A web site that provides students and teachers with documented source code examples, exercises, tools and other resources for learning Common Lisp. It is maintained by Franz, Inc.
Early CL History
A text collection about early commercial Common Lisp implementations on XEROX, DEC, and other machines.
Enabling "foreign" callbacks into the LispWorks IDE
Explains how to "rebuild" LispWorks for Windows in such a way that threads which weren't created by Lisp can call back into Lisp.
Episode 1: HTTP Client and Server
Screencast by Sven Van Caekenberghe about using an HTTP client and server in Common Lisp to create a simple Reddit clone.
Episode 2: (Re)writing Reddit in Lisp is 20 minutes and 100 lines
Screencast by Sven Van Caekenberghe on building Web applications with the KPAX framework to create a simple Reddit clone. It is based on the interaction with LispWorks under MacOS X. QuickTime format.
Extremely Successful Software
An article telling the story of a successful software project by the Sydney starup Memetrics, which used Common Lisp. "The core software was developed on time, under budget, with a small, 6 person, de...
Fast Floating-Point Processing in Common Lisp
Paper by R.J. Fateman, K.A. Broughan, D.K. Willcock and D. Rettig published in ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software (TOMS), Volume 21, Issue 1 (March 1995), pages 26-62. The paper explores the b...
Functional Jobs
Functional Jobs is a job board for functional programming languages. It has a number of up-to-date open positions involving Lisp.
GAMEYLISP, "A development diary for writing a Minesweeper game in Common Lisp using the Allegro games library", is Damyan Pepper's blog.
Graphic-Forms Frequently Asked Questions
A FAQ on the Graphic-Forms user interface library, which also addresses GUI development in Lisp.
Gray Streams
Text of the failed ANSI X3J13 issue STREAM-DEFINITION-BY-USER. It has become an informal, de-fact standard for user-defined I/O streams in Common Lisp.
Gsharp - The Extensible, Interactive Score Editor
Paper by Robert Strandh, September 2003. It explains how to install and run the Gsharp musical score editor and perform basic operations. It also includes a reference manual, and discusses the program...
Guide to good Lisp style
Hacking CL into a Lisp-1 (an intro to code-walking)
This code snippet shows how to turn Common Lisp into a Lisp-1 by using a technique called code walking.
Henry Baker's Archive of Research Papers
Collection of papers on programming languages research, including some on Common Lisp implementation issues and CLOS.
How to read and process a file
How to submit content to the Common Lisp Directory
Read this if you want to submit content to the Lisp Directory
Hunchentoot Web Server Installation with SBCL on WindowsXP/Vista
Quick guide to install Hunchentoot on windows with SBCL implementation.
Infornography - Gene Michael Stover's web site
Large collection of computing articles by Gene Michael Stover, many of which about learning and using Common Lisp.
Installing TBNL on Linux and Windows and creating a web application
A tutorial on installing the TBNL toolkit for dynamic Lisp web sites and creating a simple application.
Interview with Samantha Kleinberg on CL-GODB, Common Lisp & Bioinformatics
An article in which Emre Sevinc interviews Samantha Kleinberg, one of the 2005 Google Summer of Code developers. Her project, CL-GODB, is a bioinformatics system written in Common Lisp.
Introduction à la programmation en Common Lisp (French)
"Introduction à la programmation en Common Lisp" (PDF in French) and Lisp Programming Examples: - Computing influence spheres for atoms in a protein. - Functions to compute frequencies of characters, ...
Kent Pitman's Publications
A collection of research papers, journal articles, essays and other Lisp writings by Kent Pitman. Covered topics include Common Lisp design and standardization, Artificial Intelligence, software engi...
Knee-jerk Anti-LOOPism and other E-mail Phenomena
"Knee-jerk Anti-LOOPism and other E-mail Phenomena: Oral, Written, and Electronic Patterns in Computer-Mediated Communication" is a paper by JoAnne Yates and Wanda J. Orlikowski. MIT Sloan School Work...
KnowOS: A Knowledge Operating System
An operating system in which knowledge, rather than files or tables, is the primary representational basis. Used to implement BioBike.
LISP Deserves a Fresh Look
Article by Peter Coffee published on the February 7, 2006 issue of eWeek. It discusses the potential of Lisp, particularly Common Lisp, for developing web applications "using fewer lines of code, and ...
Language Constructs for Context-oriented Programming
ContextL is an extension to the Common Lisp Object System that allows for Context-oriented Programming. It provides means to associate partial class and method definitions with layers and to activate ...
Lisp Exercises at Northwestern
Simple practice exercises for Common Lisp
Lisp Idioms
An article by Gene Michael Stover with various Common Lisp idioms for working with lists, sequences, matrixes, and other data.
Lisp Programming Style
Some general suggestions/notes about improving Lisp programming style, readability, correctness and efficiency. These are written by Mark Kantrowitz and Barry Margolin and come from the Lisp FAQ.
Lisp Propulsion Laboratory log
Blog of Paolo Amoroso. Covers Lisp and CLIM, with occasional entries on astronomy and space exploration. Posting frequency is a couple of entries per week on average. It is aggregated by Planet lisp.
Lisp Starter Pack
A personal Common Lisp "newbie" guide (for Windows)
Lisp Style and Efficiency
Introduction to efficient coding style in Common Lisp.
Lisp and Web Development
A web site with a collection of essays on why or why not use Lisp for web development, and what Lisp needs to "come from behind in the web application development language race".
Lisp as an Alternative to Java
A Lisp version of the test program from "Comparing Java vs. C/C++ Efficiency Issues to Interpersonal Issues" (1999)
An episodic series of screencasts of Common Lisp software development. Their aim is to educate and serve as a locus of discussion. Mainly for the beginner, these videos may also be of interest to th...
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LispWire News
A repository for interesting Common Lisp software, with the goals of sharing the tools developed over decades of research in advanced fields such as Artificial Intelligence, and demostrating the power...
A development environment for new Lispers.
A web site that gives an overview of Lisp jobs. Created by Will Fitzgerald in October 2005.
Lispjobs blog
The Lispjobs weblog is a free service for publicizing jobs that make extensive use of Common Lisp, Scheme, or other close variants.
Literate Programming in Lisp
How to embed text in a Lisp file.
Loving Lisp, or the Savvy Programmer's Secret Weapon
Introductory book by Mark Watson, 2002. Full text available online.
M.I.T. "cadr" LispMachine font
A recreation of the "cadr" font used by the M.I.T. LispMachines
MIT's SICP Open Courseware
MIT Open Courseware for EE 6.001 - Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs.
Maintaining Portable Lisp Programs - It's a bug, not a feature
Paper by Christophe Rhodes, 5 February 2004. It examines "the use of read-time feature conditionals, with particular emphasis on writing portable Common Lisp code which aspires to both forwards- and b...
McCLIM CLiki
Wiki site for the McCLIM CLIM implementation. It runs the CLiki software.
Meme is a web application written by Kevin Rosenberg which displays Internet Relay Chat (IRC) logs. Currently, Meme is logging select channels from the freenode ircnet, including the #lisp channel.
NCITS/J13 Document Repository
The document repository of the NCITS/J13 technical committee for Lisp, which maintains the ANSI standard for Common Lisp.
Nikodemus' Common Lisp FAQ
"A highly uncanonical Common Lisp FAQ with a strong editorial bias, by Nikodemus Siivola".
On Lisp - Advanced Techniques for Common Lisp
Book by Paul Graham. Prentice Hall, 1993, ISBN 0130305529. Full text available online.
On Lisp html document
browsable version of Paul Graham's On Lisp
On using Common Lisp for Scientific Computing
Paper by Nicholas Neuss. Proceedings of the CISC Conference 2002, LNCSE, Springer-Verlag, 2003. It supports the use of Lisp for scientific applications by comparing the performance of C and Lisp imple...
PCL Allegroserve Examples with mod_lisp
Short tutorial on running the Allegroserve examples from Practical Common Lisp with mod_lisp and Apache (for newbies)
PCLOS Reference Manual
Hewlett-Packard HPL-91-182 technical report by Andreas Paepcke, 5 December 1991. The document combines the manuals of versions 2.0, 2.1 and 3.0 of the CLOS-based PCLOS persistent object store. The fir...
PDF forms with CL-PDF
Acrobat PDF interactive forms generated with CL-PDF
Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming
Starts with an introduction to the language, including an excellent discussion of programming style. Most of the book is a collection of projects covering classic topics in Artificial Intelligence. Th...
Patterns of Software: Tales from the Software Community
Book by Richard P. Gabriel. Oxford University Press, 1996, ISBN 0195121236. Full text available online. It is a collection of essays on software engineering, writing, business, and the author's life s...
A web site with information and links to papers and resources on Lisp performance issues and profiling, particularly Common Lisp.
Planet CLiki
RSS feed aggregator site for Lisp-related data and information feeds, such as CLiki change logs. A.k.a. "Planet Lisp - CLiki Edition". It is part of Planet Lisp.
Planet Lisp
Aggregator site for Lisp-related blogs.
Planet SBCL
Blog aggregator site for blogs of developers of the SBCL Common Lisp implementation.
Portable Utilities for Common Lisp - User Guide and Implementation Notes
School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University technical report CMU-CS-91-143 by Mark Kantrowitz, May 1991. The autor describes the design, implementation and usage of a set of portable Common...
Practical Common Lisp
A Common Lisp book by Peter Seibel for folks who already know how to program but who don't know Lisp. Focuses on practical applications of Common Lisp. Apress, 2005, ISBN 1590592395. Full text availab...
Practical Common Lisp (video)
The video of a Google TechTalks talk given by Peter Seibel on May 10, 2006 at Google's New York office. He discussed "how our choices of programming language influences and shapes our pattern language...
Practical Common Lisp - IT Conversations
The audio recording of an IT Conversations interview of Peter Seibel by Phil Windley. They discuss about Peter's background, Lisp's most advanced features, using Lisp in a production environment, and ...
Pragmatic Parsing in Common Lisp
We review META, a classic technique for building recursive descent parsers, that is both simple and efficient. While META does not handle all possible regular or context-free grammars, it handles a su...
Printing unreadably
A short article on how user-defined code should conform to the printed representation of objects (*PRINT-READABLY*) required by the Common Lisp reader.
Rebel With A Cause
"Rebel With A Cause - Building Web Applications with Common Lisp - Deploying on an Apple Xserve running Mac OS X Server". Article by Sven Van Caekenberghe, October 2003, First Revision. The document "...
Remote SLIME sessions over SSH
Andy Sloane describes his emacs and sbcl customizations to allow editing of lisp code, interaction with a REPL and debugging remote applications over an ssh connection.
Revisiting the Visitor: the "Just Do It" Pattern.
A software design pattern is a three-part rule which expresses a relation between a certain context, a problem, and a solution. The well-known "GoF Book" describes 23 software design patterns. Its inf...
SBCL on boinkor.net
A site that provides services and resources for SBCL developers and users: automatically updated benchmark data on various versions of SBCL, documentation, and an Arch repository for the source tree.
SICP at ArsDigita University
"The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" at the ArsDigita University (ADU).
SLIME video
Screencast by Marco Baringer. It shows how to use the Emacs-based SLIME IDE, from installation and setup to some advanced features. The screencast is based on the interaction with LispWorks under MacO...
SWCLOS: A Semantic Web Processor on Common Lisp Object System
SWCLOS is a Semantic Web processor that is built on top of Common Lisp Object System (CLOS). Every resources in RDF and RDFS, e.g. rdfs:Class, rdfs:Resource, rdf:Property, and resource instances and p...
Setting up ASDF for CLISP+Win32
A short tutorial on setting up and using ASDF with CLISP under Win32.
Shared State Concurrency for Common Lisp
SSC is a specification and test suite for a low-level, standardized Common Lisp interface for running multiple threads of control in a single Lisp image,
Slurping a file in Common Lisp
An article that presents different ways of copying a file by reading it into memory and writing it back, and compares their performance.
Snarfing files into strings
A short article on how to read a file into a string in a way that takes the external encoding into account.
Software Bits
a lot of random bits of lisp code. (Parsers, plotters, SMTP, and more...)
Some Useful Lisp Algorithms: Part 1
Collection of 3 technical papers written during 1991 by Richard "Dick" Waters and submitted to the ACM Lisp Pointers journal. The first paper, titled "Supporting the Regression Testing of Lisp Program...
Some Useful Lisp Algorithms: Part 2
Collection of 3 technical papers written during 1992 and 1993 by Richard "Dick" Waters and submitted to the ACM Lisp Pointers journal. The first paper, titled "Using the New Common Lisp Pretty Printer...
Streams in Allegro CL
Specification of the SIMPLE-STREAM extension for used-defined I/O streams in Common Lisp by vendor Franz, Inc.
Successful Lisp: How to Understand and Use Common Lisp
Book by David Lamkins. BOOKFIX.COM, 2004, ISBN 3-937526-00-5. Full text available online.
Sven Van Caekenberghe's s-http-server Tutorial
How to get started with Sven's minimal Common Lisp s-http-server.
The Blog
A tutorial which describes how to develop a blogging framework in Common Lisp based on TBNL and Hunchentoot.
The Common Lisp Cookbook
A collection of "recipes."
The Common Lisp Directory Help
What is and how to use the Common Lisp Directory
The Common Lisp Document Repository
The Common Lisp Document Repository is a repository of documents that are of interest to the Common Lisp community. The most important property of a CDR document is that it will never change: if you r...
The Common Lisp Object System MetaObject Protocol
Text of chapters 5 and 6 of the book ``The Art of the Metaobject Protocol'' (by G. Kiczales, J. des Rivieres, and D.G. Bobrow, MIT Press, 1991, ISBN 0262610744). This part of the book has become an in...
The Common Lisp Object System: An Overview
Paper by Richard P. Gabriel and Linda DeMichiel published at ECOOP 1987. It introduces the major ideas of CLOS: generic functions, classes and inheritance, method combination and the meta-object proto...
The Evolution of Lisp
A paper by Guy Steele jr. and Richard P. Gabriel describing the different lisp dialects between and including McCarthy's Lisp 1.5 from 1960 and Common Lisp of today. It shows in 109 pages how the desi...
The Game - Yet Another Lisp Newbie Example
A tutorial which describes how to write a little grid game in Lisp (using the LispWorks CAPI toolkit for the GUI part)
The Idiot's Guide to Common Lisp Packages
A tutorial by Ron Garret on Common Lisp packages. It covers symbols, values and the REPL loop, interning, home packages, exporting symbols and using packages, shadowing, and DEFPACKAGE.
The Idiot's Guide to Special Variables and Lexical Closures
A tutorial by Ron Garret on Common Lisp special variables. It covers variables and bindings, lexical and dynamic scope, DEFVAR, and lexical closures.
The Lisp Dictionary
Lispdoc is a search engine for Lisp documentation. Currently indexed are: The HyperSpec, PCL, Successful Lisp, and SBCL's documentation strings. Example code is taken from PAIP and PCL. Basic sear...
The Long, Painful History of Time
A paper by Erik Naggum published in the Proceedings of the Lisp User Group Meeting, October 1999. "This paper discusses some of the problems inherent in processing time suitable to humans and describe...
The Nature of Lisp
An article that is an "attempt to explain Lisp in familiar, intuitive concepts". The author tells how he found and approached Lisp, and introduces the main concepts and features of Common Lisp.
The Rise and Fall of Lisp at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
This is the story of the rise and fall of Lisp at the Jet Propulsion Lab as told from Erann Gat's personal (and highly biased) point of view. He discusses Lisp's contributions to NASA's mission, why i...
The common Lisp object system metaobject kernel: a status report
Paper published in the "Proceedings of the 1988 ACM conference on LISP and functional programming". A status report on the design of the CLOS Metaobject Protocol (MOP). The paper "is organized around ...
Tutorial for Gigamonkeys Markup
Explains how to use Gigamonkeys Markup, a typesetting language from Peter Seibel that was successfully used to document large amounts of Lisp code in his book "Practical Common Lisp."
UCW intro
A tutorial on the UnCommon Web application framework. It covers installation, configuration, the environment, basic techniques, templates, and more.
UnCommon Web video
Screencast by Marco Baringer. It demonstrates using the UnCommon Web application framework and the Emacs-based SLIME IDE to create a simple, "hello world" web application. It is based on the interacti...
Understanding Mel-Base Folders
A blog entry explaining the concept of folders of the Mel-Base email library. Mel-Base folders are an abstraction of sinks and sources of messages, on which a number operations, such as copying or mov...
User-Level Language Crafting: Introducing the CLOS Metaobject Protocol
Paper by Andreas Paepcke published in the book "Object-Oriented Programming: the CLOS perspective", MIT Press, 1993. It discusses how CLOS carries the idea of open and modular systems to the realm of ...
Using ASDF with Corman Common Lisp
These are instructions on how to make ASDF work with Corman Common Lisp (or rather vice versa).
Using Common Lisp to Build Web Applications
"Using Common Lisp to Build Web Applications - Can a 40 year old Computer Language do Web Applications?". Paper by Nicky Peeters, 20 June 2003. After a short introduction to Lisp, the document discuss...
Using a waiting protocol to separate concerns in the mutual exclusion problem
Paper by Frode V. Fjeld, Department of Computer Science, University of Tromso (Norway) Technical Report 2003-46, 21 November 2003. It proposes a separation of concerns in concurrent systems between mu...
How to embed ECL into Visual Basic.
Validating a PGP key without personal contact
An article explaining how to validate the PGP signatures of software packages, and establish a weak but reasonably secure web of trust when establishing an uninterrupted one is not practical. This is ...
What is wrong with Lisp?
An essay that attempts "to analyze some commonly recurring criticism of Lisp in an attempt to shed some light on the question and why it is often asked". It focuses on Common Lisp.
What read-delimited-list will and won't do, and changing the reader syntax in CL
A short article on the Common Lisp reader that explains what READ-DELIMITED-LIST actually does, which is not what is usually expected, and how to change the reader syntax.
Why the CL Directory also lists old and non-working software
A blog entry explaining why the Common Lisp Directory also includes entries for old, unmaintained or non-working software. It was written by one of the directory administrators, Paolo Amoroso.
Wiki list of websites powered by Lisp
List of websites and other web applications built using Lisp. Entries are strongly encouraged to be listed with the other software components used to build the site such as the web framework used or o...
cmucl and multiprocessing
An introduction to the CMUCL multiprocessing facilities. It documents the external symbols of the MP package and provides links to additional resources.
Usenet newsgroup about Common Lisp
A Norwegian wiki about Common Lisp.
A mailing list for discussing the use of languages in the Lisp family, including Common Lisp, for web development. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, interfacing Lisp runtimes with we...
picoLisp and mini picoLisp (German site)
picoLisp and mini picoLisp are two nice, long living, real-life and non Common Lisp dialects and application servers. While the mini dialect is devised for classic Lisp jobs, the full picoLisp is exte...
A mailing list for posting source code of small programs, utilities, libraries and code snippets written in Common Lisp. It is maintained by Ingvar Mattson. Related discussions take place in the small...
A mailing list for discussions related to the small-cl-src list. It is maintained by Ingvar Mattson.


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Movies >> DVD >> Documentary
EXTREME is a journey into the soul of adventure featuring a cast of world champion athletes. It takes you to the action of outdoor adventure sports like never before; skiing and snowboarding perilous untouched mountain peaks; climbing vertical frozen waterfalls and magnificent red-rock spires; surfing some of the largest waves ever surfed and windsurfing gale force winds. The film combines incredible adventure sport action and narration from the athletes with an eclectic, contemporary soundtrack. Extreme shares an understanding of those who have made their passion a lifestyle and provides a unique glimpse into the relationship between nature and humanity.
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In 2004, Rocky Mountain Institute's Chief Scientist, Chairman and Co-founder Amory Lovins and a team of RMI collaborators accomplished a highly complex and innovative task—the drafting of a roadmap for the United States to get completely off oil by 2050, led by business for profit.
The result became a thoroughly researched, highly analytical yet practical book called "Winning the Oil Endgame" (WTOE).
Following its release, RMI began working with key industry stakeholders to accelerate key components of the WTOE strategy. To aid in its implementation, RMI raised $3.6 million from private donors and foundations.
This has led to many critical projects, including:
Learn how RMI multiplied the original funding into at least $375 million in measurable benefits.
Although "Winning the Oil Endgame" is centered on the United States, RMI is expanding its reach, especially given that most of the growth in oil consumption comes from developing markets. To that end, we recently completed the translation of WTOE in Chinese (Simplified Characters) with Tsinghua University.
While many of these projects involved for-profit clients, philanthropic funding enables RMI to "turn up the innovation dial." RMI's hybrid grant/consulting model enables our organization to propose and push for breakthrough changes that ultimately bring the biggest mission — and margin — value.
While WTOE has helped accomplish tremendous efficiency achievements, we still have a long and arduous path ahead. The United States is still about 60 percent dependent on imported oil. World oil consumption is still increasing, especially with growth in developing nations like India and China.
We are therefore increasing our efforts and launching Phase II of WTOE implementation. Retaining the best practices from Phase I, our efforts to implement WTOE in Phase II will have four characteristics:
The areas of focus will continue to include the military, the automotive and trucking sectors and next-generation biofuels, and become more involved with aviation and freight.
President Jimmy Carter
"This exciting synthesis of how to eliminate America's oil dependence could be the most important step in many years toward secure and affordable energy. Its novel but persuasive ideas, which hold promise of revitalizing American industry and agriculture, should appeal to conservatives and liberals alike."
Richard N. Cooper
Maurits C. Boas Professor of International Economics at Harvard University
"...[T]his fact-filled study...[p]art technology handbook, part cool-headed advocacy...argues that a dramatic reduction in oil dependency is both possible and desirable during the next two decades, at economic savings compared with business as usual."
Printed in Foreign Affairs, February 2005
Bill Glover
Director, Environmental Performance Strategy, Boeing Commercial Airplanes
"Winning the Oil Endgame is a masterpiece in terms of stimulating ideas and discussion around how we move forward to realistically address our energy future. Rocky Mountain Institute has developed and analyzed the data in a compelling way—worthy of much consideration."
William Martin
Chairman, Council on Foreign Relations Energy Security Group
"Amory Lovins has had more impact on our energy use than any single person in the world. Now his team has produced one of the most important energy studies in decades. It merits careful examination as a profitable strategy for achieving energy security, economic prosperity, and environmental quality through smart business strategies accelerated by efficient government policy."
Robert C. McFarlane
National Security Advisor to President Reagan
"Recent expert analysis suggests...that...within a generation we can be truly independent-free of all reliance on foreign oil....Perhaps the most rigorous and surely the most dramatic analysis...was tasked by the Pentagon and carried out by...Rocky Mountain Institute, a respected center of hard-headed, market-based research....[T]he book's powerful summary...argues persuasively that by 2035 we can be entirely independent of imported oil and that 'it will cost less to displace all of the oil that the United States now uses than it will cost to buy that oil.'...[T]he means of achieving near-term energy security and ultimate independence from foreign oil are at hand. Courage and leadership are all that it takes to get us there."
George P. Shultz
Distinguished Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University
former Secretary of State, the Treasury, and Labor
"We can, as Amory Lovins and his colleagues show vividly, win the oil endgame...[A]n intriguing case that is important enough to merit careful attention by all of us, private citizens and business and political leaders alike."
Peter Schwartz
Chairman, Global Business Network
former Head of Scenario Planning, Royal Dutch/Shell Group
"[T]horoughly comprehensive and imaginative."
Sir Mark Moody-Stuart
Anglo American plc
former Chairman, Royal Dutch/Shell Group
"[T]his compelling synthesis...demonstrates that innovative technologies can achieve spectacular [oil] savings...with no loss of utility, convenience and function. It makes the business case for how a profitable transition for the automotive, truck, aviation, and oil sectors can be achieved....The refreshingly creative government policies suggested...merit serious attention,...and I suspect they could win support across the political spectrum....This report will help to launch, inspire, and inform a new and necessary conversation about energy and security, economy and environment. Its outcome is vital for us all."
TIME Magazine
"One of the best analyses of energy policy yet produced."
R. James Woolsey
Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton
former Director of Central Intelligence
"...Rocky Mountain Institute has recently published a report, Winning the Oil Endgame, which emphasizes the promise of using in automobile construction less expensive versions of the very strong carbon composites now used in aircraft construction—a step that could further contribute to our having vehicles that are lighter and substantially more fuel efficient but also stronger and safer than existing vehicles."


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Rule #1 - Be Patient - Rule #2 - Don't ask when, if you don't contribute - Rule #3 - You have coding skills - LinuxMCE's small brother is available: http://www.agocontrol.com
You have a couple of choices:(1) re-paste the entire Insteon PLM code back into that code group, replacing the pronto codes that bled into that section.(2) install 0810, and re-paste that code into that code group, to make sure everything is clean.The alphas have been very stable for us, and solve a lot of problems. We are NOT doing ANY more development on 0710 at all, and no more updates will be given for it. The sqlCVS database for it has also been capped off. -Thom


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posted by Thom Holwerda on Wed 27th Apr 2011 21:25 UTC, submitted by foldingstock
This release supports a much larger variety of hardware and multiprocessor systems than previous releases, thanks to updates of ACPI and APIC and ACPI interrupt routing support. Hammer volumes can now deduplicate volumes overnight in a batch process and during live operation. The 'hammer dedup-simulate' command can be used to estimate space savings for existing data. DragonFly now uses gcc 4.4 as the default system compiler, and is the first BSD to take that step. DragonFly now offers significant performance gains over previous releases, especially for machines using AHCI or implementing swapcache(8).


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No matter how many miles you've walked, how many diets you've tried, or how long it's been since giving birth, that extra bit of flab on your belly, which arrived along with your baby, doesn't seem to want to budge. Sound familiar? That's why we've gathered these simple ways to reclaim your prepregnancy stomach, once and for all!
The stubborn tummy (why crunches don't always work)
During pregnancy the outermost abdominal muscles stretch and separate to make room for the expanding uterus. Even after birth, though, when the uterus shrinks back to its original size, these ab muscles can stay separated (after a vaginal delivery or a c-section). And crunches can do more harm than good when trying to lose baby weight. "Crunches put pressure on the tissue that connects the outermost abdominal muscles, which can further separate them," says Julie Tupler, a nurse and coauthor of Lose Your Mummy Tummy. The key to toning up your tummy: Brace your stomach and focus on engaging the innermost ab muscle, the transverse abdominus, since this is the muscle that really supports the uterus and gut and keeps your belly sucked in. This also helps prevent back pain.
You can engage and tone your transverse ab muscle while you do almost any activity—or when you're just sitting around. How? Sit up straight, shoulders down, and draw your belly button in toward your spine. "Imagine you're wearing a corset and you're pulling its strings tight," says Lisa Druxman, a fitness trainer and author of Lean Mommy. Believe it or not, sitting this way (say, while you're reading to your child) or standing this way (maybe while you're waiting in line at the store or changing a diaper) will make your abs firmer and flatter. It'll instantly elongate your torso and strengthen your abs and back. If you think you'll forget to do this, tie a piece of string around your waist while your ab muscles are drawn in, and leave it there. Every time you expand your stomach, you'll feel the string pull and remember to keep your abs taut.
Posture perfect
Once you know how to engage your abs (see above), you can turn simple activities into toning exercises. For instance, instead of holding your baby on your side (which causes you to jut out your hip and let your stomach go), hold her in front of you with both arms. "Use your baby as a stabilizer," says Brooke Siler, a Pilates expert and author of Your Ultimate Pilates Body Challenge. Keep your shoulders down and back straight while pulling your belly in toward your spine. "It's hard to hold your baby and that posture for very long, but doing it for even two minutes at a time is a great exercise," she says.
Two tummy toners
If you've just given birth, wait until your doctor gives you the green light—usually about six weeks post delivery—before doing these exercises.
Baby Reverse Curl
- Lie on your back with your baby on your chest.
- Bend your knees, bringing them in to your chest.
- Rest your baby on your shins, holding her hands, and then lift them up so that your shins and your baby are parallel to the ground. Your thighs should be at a 90-degree angle to your torso.
- Contract and engage your abs and lower your shins (and your baby) so that your feet are slightly off the ground. Hold for a moment, then lift your shins up so that they (and the baby) are parallel to the ground again.
- Repeat 10 to 15 times (your baby will like flying through the air while you tone up).
Scissor Lifts
- Lie on your back and extend your arms behind you as far back as you can reach. Hold on to a sturdy table leg or couch leg.
- Bring your legs straight up into the air so that they're at a 90-degree angle to your torso.
- Engage your ab muscles (especially your transverse ab muscle) and lower your right leg down so that it's just off the ground. Hold it there for a few seconds while keeping your pelvis stable, your tummy taut, and your back flat.
- Snap your right leg up, and repeat with your left leg. Try 10 reps on each leg.
Bloat busters
- Drink lots of water, to flush excess fluid out of your system and help move high-fiber foods along the intestinal tract.
- Eat water-rich fruits and vegetables, like oranges, tomatoes, asparagus, and celery, which act as gentle, natural diuretics.
- Eat potassium-rich foods, like bananas, spinach, and apricots, since this mineral counteracts sodium and helps rid the body of water.
- Eat slowly; when you eat quickly, you gulp more air, which leads to gas and bloating.
- Drink lots of carbonated drinks, which cause gas and bloating.
- Eat a lot of cruciferous vegetables (like broccoli) right before putting on a slim-fit dress, since this causes gas and bloating.
- Eat foods high in salt, which causes water retention throughout the body and belly. Chew gum, as it makes you swallow air and become—you guessed it—gassy and bloated. - From Lyssie Lakatos, dietitian and cofounder of The Nutrition Twins
Looks to avoid
Tucked-in tops, which accentuate the belly.
Oversize clothes: "You may think you look thinner in clothes three times too big, but this actually makes you look larger, especially in the waist," says Rachel Florio, a celebrity-trend expert in New York City.
Empire-waist tops paired with A-line skirts: The two trends together will make you appear round all over.
Fat blasters (cardio counts, too)
There's no way around it: Cardiovascular exercise is crucial to getting rid of belly weight. But this doesn't mean you have to devote hours a day to working out. An easy fat-blasting exercise: a power walk, even with the stroller, keeping abs pulled in and spine straight. If you want to burn fat faster and increase metabolism (which enables you to burn more calories even while resting), increase the intensity of your walk for a few minutes at a time, or put your baby in a backpack to add extra weight to your walk, says New York-based fitness expert Ken Mahadeo. Also consider a weight-lifting program, since this builds muscle and boosts metabolism. Shoot for an hour of exercise most days. It doesn't have to be all at once—you can break it up into 10- or 20-minute slots.


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by TED BRIDIS, AP Technology Writer
WASHINGTON - The House on Thursday passed the second bill in three days that would outlaw "spyware," irritating software that quietly monitors the activities of Internet users.
It would add penalties of up to five years in prison for people convicted of installing such programs without a computer user's permission.
The bill, known as the "Internet Spyware Prevention Act," passed 415-0. It would give the Justice Department (news - web sites) $10 million to crack down on companies and others that secretly install spyware and those who attempt to trick victims into disclosing personal details and financial information in e-mail scams popularly known as "phishing."
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Volunteers needed for local Relay For Life
The American Cancer Society is seeking volunteers in Nolan County – cancer survivors, caregivers, community leaders, anyone wanting to make a difference in the fight against cancer – to organize and recruit fundraising teams, garner community support, coordinate logistics, seek refreshments and prizes, plan entertainment and lend a hand to ensure the success of the 2012 event. The Relay For Life of Nolan County supports the American Cancer Society's mission of saving lives by helping people stay well, by helping people get well, by finding cures and by fighting back against the disease. It brings together friends, families, businesses, hospitals, schools, faith-based groups ... people from all walks of life – all aimed at celebrating the lives of those who have had cancer, remembering those lost, and fighting back against the disease. "Relay is all about communities uniting with the Society and supporting its efforts to create a world with less cancer and more birthdays," said Jacque Thweatt, Community Manager of Development. "We need volunteers to help this year by joining the planning committee for Relay For Life. Without additional volunteers, this event may not happen. It is because of the preceding volunteers that certain types of cancer are now highly treatable, even curable. With more help, we will continue to save lives and win the fight."Want to learn more? American Cancer Society staff and volunteers will be available to answer questions and provide further details on the 2012 meeting at the Nolan County Coliseum Annex on Wednesday, Jan. 11, from 11 am to 2 p.m. You can also call Jacque Thweatt at 325-672-0994.For more information about Relay For Life, visit relayforlife.org. To learn more about the American Cancer Society or to get help, call us anytime, day or night, at 1-800-227-2345 or visit cancer.org.


text: 3-3 Law School* Early Admission Program Complete your undergraduate and law degrees in six years Hamline University's 3-3 program, in partnership with Mitchell Hamline School of Law, allows highly talented and motivated students to pursue a variety of paths to law school, including majors in: Business, Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) - All Concentrations Communication Studies Criminology and Criminal Justice Economics English History Legal Studies Philosophy Political Science Psychology Religion Women's Studies Students wishing to pursue any 3-3 track should meet with a Legal Studies professor upon entrance to Hamline for assistance in planning their coursework. No entry form or commitment is required. If you decide partway through your studies that the 3-3 track is no longer right for you, then simply continue on with your studies and graduate in four years. 3-3 students must declare a major and a minor and work with an academic advisor in each department as early in their academic career as possible. If students pursue the Legal Studies major, then their academic minor may be in any other program. Visit the Legal Studies - Law School Early Admission 3-3 Major for more details. If students pursue a major in any program other than Legal Studies, then they must declare a Law School Early Admission (LSEA) minor, which requires these four undergraduate courses: LGST 1110 Legal Systems in American Society PHIL 1130 Logic LGST 1300 Legal Advocacy, Policy, and Practice LGST 5900 Legal Studies Practicum or LGST 5800 Senior Seminar And LAW 9121 Contracts, to be completed by the end of the first year of law school. Download Declaration of Early Admission Law School/ 3-3 Legal Studies Major/Minor Hamline Plan Requirements In addition to completing an academic major and minor, 3-3 students must: Complete all Hamline Plan requirements and 100 semester credits. Complete required breadth of study credits (credits outside the major department). Students pursuing a Legal Studies major in three years must earn 76 breadth of study credits (though 20 of them will likely come from their academic minor). Those pursuing another major may count the 28 credits of their first year of law school and the 16 LSEA minor credits, so must only earn 32 additional breadth of study credits during their time in the College of Liberal Arts or School or Business. Apply to graduate by December the year before they intend to start law-school. Admission to Law School Participation in the 3-3 program does not guarantee law-school admission. 3-3 students must still apply for and be accepted to the law school under the same criteria as all other applicants. 3-3 students must: Sit for the Law School Admission Test (LSAT) and complete the application process to Mitchell Hamline School of Law through the Law School Admission Council (LSAC) during their junior year. Materials and scholarship applications are also available on the LSAC website and at the law school. Complete and transfer back to the College of Liberal Arts or School of Business 28 credits of successful law school work with a grade of C- or better. All students are also strongly encouraged to meet with a member of the law-school admissions office by no later than the beginning of their Junior year. Continuation After the Junior Year 3-3 students earn their undergraduate degree after successful completion of 28 credits of law-school course work (C- or better grades). If a student is not accepted to law school after their junior year, the student may complete their undergraduate degree in the College of Liberal Arts or School of Business, possibly converting their minor to a second major. Transfer Students Transfer students are eligible for the 3-3 program. In addition to the requirements set forth above, transfer students must take a minimum of sixteen (16) credits in the major while enrolled in the College of Liberal Arts or School of Business.. Please meet with a Legal Studies professor for assistance in planning your coursework as soon as possible. *Hamline University, accredited by the Higher Learning Commission (HLC), maintains an affiliation and collaborative relationship with Mitchell | Hamline School of Law, an autonomous law school created by the combination of Hamline University School of Law and William Mitchell College of Law and which is separately accredited by the American Bar Association (ABA).


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Archaic as the technology seems today, ham radio was Jeff Pulver's first social network.
Pulver, co-founder of Internet-based telephone company Vonage, said he began
experimenting with ham radio at age 9 to combat loneliness. Three and half years later, he gained a novice's license.
"From the time I got my license, I haven't shut up since," Pulver told entrepreneurs and technology enthusiasts Tuesday at a gathering of NJ Tech Meetup, held at the Howe Center of Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken. "It gave me confidence to know there were people in the world who wanted to talk to me."
Pulver said that formative experience with radio empowered him to pursue curiosity throughout life, which would later result in exploring the market for Internet-based telephony while working as a systems administrator at Wall Street investment firm Cantor Fitzgerald in the 1990s.
Pulver took that experience to help found Vonage, a broadband phone provider formed in Edison in 2001.
"I had this crazy idea to let the world talk for free," Pulver said to an audience of about 200, undoubtedly familiar with modern video-calling services such as Skype and FaceTime. "I did that precisely because no one said you couldn't," he said.
Pulver, now a co-founder of Zula, a startup that develops mobile apps to improve productivity and collaboration among teams, said his pursuits have been less by design and more about stumbling and discovering passions.
An investor in Twitter, Pulver views social media as an extension of the world he discovered when experimenting with radio.
"If you unbound yourself a little from reality and have the courage to believe in yourself, go do it," he said. "Because that license to believe in yourself will take you anywhere."
His message resonated with the audience.
Aaron Price, founder of NJ Tech Meetup, tweeted his favorite line from Pulver's talk: "If you don't know what you're doing, you can do anything."
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Arabhorse Farm Tours
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ArabHorse.com proudly invites you to attend the 2013 7th Annual ArabHorse Farm Tour in sunny Scottsdale, Arizona. This is a must-attend event unlike any other in the world. Here is the perfect way to welcome in the New Year! Scottsdale's most prominent Arabian horse farms open their doors, welcoming the public to enjoy National Champion horses, meet top trainers, and learn more about this incredible breed. Come share our passion for the Arabian horse. The Farm tours will begin on December 28th and continue through January 1st. All events are FREE TO ATTEND. Please note all events are outdoors on real working Arabian farms, so dress appropriately. There will be limited seating for viewing presentations.


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Yahoo! Publisher Launches
Posted by Andru Edwards - Categories: Business Tools,
Yahoo! has begun the rollout of their Yahoo! Publisher service, offering a $5000 prize to the site which most creatively implements the new service, namely Y!Q. Y!Q allows site visitors to perform a contextual search in relation to the content that is displayed on the current page. For example, if I was at a site reading about the latest version of the Apple PowerBook and used the Yahoo! Publisher contextual search, it would display the most relevant search results at that moment in time regarding the new PowerBook. To me, it looks similar to Vibrant Media's IntelliTXT ads, which I actually don't mind too much.
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Xbox 360 To Retail At About $300
Posted by Troy Categories: Video Games,
We're not too shocked that the Xbox 360 will be sold for around $300, but we're curious about how profitable the machine is going to be for the first cycle of manufacturing. Aside from that, but I'm not sure if I'll pick one up at launch. Ironically, I'm hoping that Microsoft can convince me to spend hundreds of dollars on launch day to get one as the thing just seems so damn cool. Either way, I can't wait for the next-gen consoles to arrive.
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Converting LP To MP3
I personally don't own any LPs or EPs, but I might consider converting some of my dad's albums later on. I honestly don't see much in the collection, but some invaluable LPs like a Pryor record are just too good to let them go to waste. I could buy a new record player, but even with all these technological advances they still haven't created a portable LP player. This CNet article presents a more rational solution to anyone that wants to preserve and convert their records.
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Posted by Edwin Soto Categories: Misc. Tech, Mods / Hacks,
Gross, yet sadly intriguing. If any of you try this mod/hack/disgusting feat - let us know, and take pictures.
"Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine" is a cockroach-controlled mobile robot system. The system uses a living Madagascan hissing cockroach atop a modified trackball to control the three-wheeled robot. Infrared sensors also provide navigation feedback to create a semi-intelligent system, with the cockroach as the CPU.
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E3 2005: Booth Babe Video Montage
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Well E3 is over. We know you enjoyed the moblog which featured booth babes a plenty - now check out the video. You know you want to. The video is hosted on my blog.
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Forget-Me-Not Panties
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While not real, it is certainly an interesting use of technology. The concept behind Forget-Me-Not panties is that they have a built-in GPS, and can detect body temperature and heart rate. All of the data could be viewed and managed remotely, thus allowing you to see if your wife/daughter/mother is getting their freak on when they aren't supposed to. Check out this "testimonial":
When my daughter hit puberty I nearly had a heart attack. She started looking like a woman and suddenly she was wearing revealing clothing and staying out late with her friends. Rather than become an over-protective parent , I decided to try forget-me-not panties.
They work wonderfully. My wife and I bought our Sarah several pairs so we can watch her around the clock, and if we see her temperature rising too high, we intervene by calling her cellphone or just picking her up wherever she is.
This is one of the many sites taking part in the Contagious Media project.
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DIY Lighter Than Air Flying Robot
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Here's another one for all you do-it-yourselfers out there. Lighter than air is an autonomous flying robot. It utilizes blimp design principles, combining a helium filled envelope with 3-channel motor control allowing it to navigate in 3 dimensions. The schematic can be found at the creator's site. Cool, but I doubt not as flashy as the robot helicopter.
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Xbox 360 E3 Faceplate Giveaway
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In case you missed it, Playfeed is giving away an Xbox 360 Limited Edition customized faceplate. This one is from E3, and has the multiple green circle effect along with the text "E3'05 Limited Edition" emblazoned on the front. Yup - you can score a faceplate a full six months before the console debuts.
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Power Strip Liberator
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I sometimes wonder why I can't come up with gimmicky-yet-functional gadget ideas that might make me rich. Probably my lack of creativity coupled with the fact that I have no desire to do an actual work. I digress. Anyways, check out the Power Strip Liberator. All it really amounts to is a one foot extension cable. The allure here is that you can plug in all of your huge power blocks into any surge protector without having to shuffle around to make room. These things are only $1.79. Genius.
E3 2005: Mortal Kombat Shaolin Monks
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Mortal Kombat fans get ready because Midway is releasing yet another title of this huge franchise. This time is a little different, because now the game is played almost like the previously used "Konquest" mode. You experience the Mortal Kombat II world as either Liu Kang or Kung Lao. The characters will each have 10 different fatalities, weapons, interactive environments, and customizable characters. Jump down for some screenshots.
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Ten things to do in and around Matlock this weekend.
Bored? Got nothing to do this weekend? Here is our guide to what's on!
Live music from Matt McKenzie.
Friday 14th March - 8.30pm.
Live music by Matt McKenzie at Designate @TheGate on Smedley Street.
Contact 01629 760033 for more information.
Lego club.
Saturday 15th March - 1.30pm to 3.00pm.
Free drop in club for all ages at Designate @TheGate on Smedley Street.
The magic of the Beatles.
Friday 14th March - 7.30pm.
Tribute act to the Beatles, celebrating the golden anniversary of A Hard Day's Night at the Winding Wheel in Chesterfield.
Tickets: £19.50.
Contact 01246 345222 or visit http://www.chesterfieldtheatres.co.uk/.
Shaun Byran
Sunday 16th March
Classic folk, pop, rock and country sing along at the Old Poet's Corner, Ashover.
Ladies in retirement.
Friday 14th March - 7.30pm.
Victorian melodrama at the Pomegranate Theatre in Chesterfield, directed by Ian Dickens.
Tickets: £16.50.
Contact 01246 345222.
Poetry reading.
Friday 14th March - 7.15pm.
Reading by Derbyshire poet Laureate Helen Mort and former laureate River Wolton of a selection of their latest work at Chesterfield Library.
Admission free.
Places must be reserved, contact 01629 533400 or visit http://www.derbyshire.gov.uk/.
Hey Presto!
Saturday 15th March - 1.30pm and 3.30pm.
Presented by Peaceful Lion Productions at the Pavillion Arts Centre, Buxton.
Tickets: £7 and £6.
Contact 0845 127 2190 or visit http://www.buxtonoperahouse.org.uk/.
Oasis UK tribute.
Saturday 15th March - 7.30pm.
Oasis tribute show at the Winding Wheel, Chesterfield.
Tickets: £19.50.
Contact 01246 345222 or visit http://www.chesterfieldtheatres.co.uk/.
Bananas in Pyjamas.
Sunday 16th March - 2pm.
Show at the Pomegranate theatre in Chesterfield.
Tickets: £14 and child £12.
Contact 01246 345222 or http://www.chesterfieldtheatres.co.uk/.
Miles Jupp.
Sunday 16th March - 7.30pm.
Show by the actor, writer and comedian Miles Jupp at the Pavillion Arts Centre in Buxton.
Tickets: £13 and £15.
Contact 0845 127 2190 or visit http://www.buxtonoperahouse.org.uk/.


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