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Chile president to visit Obama on June 30
Chile President Michelle Bachelet visits the White House on June 30 to confer with President Obama, the White House announced Thursday.
The two leaders will discuss the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, as well as efforts at "expanding educational exchanges and deepening our collaboration in the areas of energy, science, and technology," said a White House statement.
Bachelet, first elected president in 2006, just began another term after taking a four-year break. Chile does not allow its presidents to serve consecutive terms.
The June 30 trip to the White House "will highlight our close relationship with Chile and our strong partnership with the Bachelet Administration on advancing peace and global security, social inclusion, and free trade," said the White House.


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Rare books in the New York State Library
Darrell Welch, former Rare Books librarian with the NYS Library, will discuss the rare book collection at the NYS Library and highlight a representative selection of items.
Among the treasures to be discussed and displayed will be the first English language description of New York - Daniel Denton's A Brief Description of New York Formerly called New Netherlands, 1670. Darrell will also talk about one of the first books printed in New York, Bradford's Laws, 1691, a book that marks the beginning of the modern legal system of government in New York.
One rare book that is representative of the strength of the medical collections is William Beaumont's Experiments and Observations on the Gastric Juice and Physiology of Digestion (Plattsburg, 1833). These and many other treasures will be featured.
The program is free and will be presented:
January 16th
12:15-1:15 p.m.
Register on-line:
Friday, January 11, 2008
New York State Library to present program on Rare Books.
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|States Attorney Jerry Brady
Hopefully, Police Chief Settingsgaard will feel the need to drop "Broken Windows" as a community policing strategy or at least be compelled to modify the application of it to some degree. In addition, I hope that he will understand from this point forward, that it is essential to meet with all community leaders who have input in changing this community. The reason that this is important is because the Chief informed me in a 5/2/08 letter that because he and I were "incompatible" as leaders that he couldn't continue relationship with our organization simply because I pressed him to do what he committed to do, by providing a record of disposition on all the handguns taken in during the 2007 Peoria Gun Exchange event. To date, the Chief has refused to provide the agreed upon information and disrespects us as a community partner by contending that he and his department has to do nothing in response to our request. (see the letter that the Chief sent to me below)
|Peoria Police Chief Settingsgaard
Quite frankly, when it comes to a community and community service, and life and death issues such as those we are dealing with in Peoria, people who are "incompatible" are compelled to meet one another and reach toward greater goals to secure opportunities, get things done, and potentially save lives.
|Mayor Jim Ardis
Director Peoria Assn. Of Pastors
A Letter From The Peoria Chief Of Police:
btw: 1- The Gun Exchange was NOT co-sponsored by the city, this ws fully sponsored by the Peoria Assn. of Pasotrs. 2- A full listing of disposition WAS agreed on BEFORE the exchange and has not yet been delivered for our review. 3- I delivered a letter to his office only after he would not return calls and at least one email sent asking for the information or a time frame. 4- In the meantime, the Chief seems to have became upset as our organization spoke out on another public issue, dealing with the Police, that had nothign to do with this without "running it by him" first.


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From time to time, The Scout will feature interborough food tours designed as culinary and geographic explorations of our fair city. Each has been field tested, in a single day,…Read More
From time to time, The Scout will feature interborough food tours designed as culinary and geographic explorations of our fair city. Each has been field tested, in a single day,…Read More
The Royal Tenenbaums is Wes Anderson's visual love letter to New York. Though never explicitly named, the film presents a stunningly constructed pastiche of the quirky, the kitschy and the…Read More
A sleek, bustling addition to the 'hood, Bar Milano is turning out elegantly prepared, upscale food with terrific service and a buzzy environment.
323 3rd Avenue,
New York, NY 10010
Daily, 7am–3am
Lunch: Mon–Fri, 12pm–3pm
Dinner: Mon-Sun, 5pm–12am
Brunch: Sat and Sun, 10am–3:30pm
Bar menu: Daily, 12:00pm – 2:00am (offered in the bar only from 5:00 pm – 2:00 am)
Photo: Barry Whittaker
Take the first sip of a frothy egg cream at Brooklyn Farmacy, and you instantly recognize the taste of good medicine. It helps that you are seated at a classic soda fountain counter in a lovingly restored drug store with original fixtures from the 1920's. There are endless wooden drawers and nooks stocked with vintage bottles, once containing lotions and potions for the folks of Carroll Gardens. Syphoning the last taste of a milk shake, or scraping the bottom of a sundae dish— you can't help but reminisce about the good old days.
513 Henry St
Brooklyn, NY 11231
Summer Hours
Open Daily from 12-10pm
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You could easily walk right past this tiny gem on a quiet stretch in Tribeca; one the outside, it's nondescript and unassuming.
71 North Moore Street
New York, NY 10013
Daily, 11am–4pm and 5pm–3am
This soaring, sexy bi-level restaurant is sure to impress your out-of-town guests, but the Asian-inspired food is good enough to merit a visit on its own. Have a cocktail at the bar upstairs while you wait for your table, then descend the long staircase – perhaps to the huge communal table lit by dramatic chandeliers or a more intimate spot – and settle in for some family-style noshing.
75 Ninth Avenue
New York, NY 10011
Sun-Mon 5:30pm–11pm
Tue-Wed 5:30pm–midnight
Thurs-Sat 5:30pm–1 am
Find respite on a desolate stretch of 10th Avenue in West Chelsea at La Luncheonette, a little slice of France in the unlikeliest neighborhood. Just blocks away from the madness of the Meatpacking District, this hidden jewel serves up rustic, hearty French fare. The space is sparse yet charming – specials written in chalk on blackboards, a glistening tarte tatin sitting on the counter, exposed brick walls and slate floors, and hooks in the corner for everyone to hang their coats. You'll find classic French dishes prepared without fuss – duck confit salad, sautéed skate in a caper-butter sauce, stick-to-your-ribs cassoulet. A glass of wine is a must, as is lingering over a slice of that warm tarte tatin with a cup of faintly cinnamon-spiced coffee.
130 10th Avenue
New York, NY 10011
Mon-Fri noon-3:30pm and 6-11:30pm
Sat-Sun 11:30am-3:30pm and 6pm-11:30pm
Thanks to a recent expansion, this popular budget Greek spot is now enormous (and takes credit cards and reservations) — but there's still a mob scene at the hostess stand every night.
505 Columbus Avenue
New York, NY 10024
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A great show today with Dr. Miki Purnell who shared her wonderful wellness tips and information about top Asian Superfoods! She shared information and recipes for miso soup, black rice, gobo root (burdock), green tea, oriental mushrooms and much more! We played some fabulous music from her sensational CD: Swingin' to the Sea! Here is the show link.
Here are some of Dr. Purnell's suggested links to where to buy good quality green tea and her excellent green tea recipe: http://mikipurnell.wordpress.com/
AND - Here is Dr. Purnell's fabulous Kinpira Gobo recipe: http://mikipurnell.wordpress.com
And of course - my fabulous summer recipe of the week: Peanut Butter Mouse Tartlets - a no-cook dessert that you will love - easy to make too! Click for the recipe!
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This was something completely new for me, and I had a blast! Indoor karting isn't the newest thing on the block, and I know that most of you have already done this or do this on a regular basis. This was my first time _actually_ on a kart track of this kind, and it was pretty awesome!
Unlike many kart houses, the one that I went to here in Phoenix actually has gasoline powered carts. Producing roughly 8HP, they have a top speed of 45 MPH. Sure, that doesn't sound like very much to you JCW drivers, but when you put that in a chassis that rides about 1/2″ off the ground, rolling on wheels and tires that are about 5″ in diameter, total, it's amazing the sensation of speed you get. Continue reading "My First Indoor Karting Adventure"


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The MetaFlows Security System (MSS) monitors network traffic to detect and prevent Malware and other advanced network security threats. Our network security software discovers hidden (previously unknown) security problems because it is based on a shared intelligence framework. Rather than using ONE intelligence source (like all other security products), the MSS correlates multiple, real time, shared threat intelligence feeds at once.
Metaflows' network security software can be installed in minutes on standard, off-the-shelf hardware and instantly provides real-time and historical reporting through a secure web application and email alerts. Metaflows runs on Linux CentOS/RedHat, VMware (Server/Player or ESX4), Amazon EC2 or Microsoft Azure supporting a variety of storage and monitoring configurations.
We also provide turn-key Malware detection appliances optimally designed to scale from 20 Mbps to 10 Gbps
Sensors perform deep packet inspection of your network traffic and (optionally) collect Syslog messages from all other security devices you already have (like Firewalls). By design, packet payloads never leave the local sensor's disk and therefore your own network. In our system the separation of packet data and event data is very strict and makes SaaS-based Malware protection much safer.


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2011 Film Festival
2011 marks the twentieth anniversary for the Florida Film Festival. With this in mind we created a poster image that focused on squarely on Florida. The neon sign is an homage at the vintage signage of roadside motels found on the roadways of Florida from the 50s, 60s and 70s. The messaging though is all Florida Film Festival. Big thanks to our pals at Think Creative for working with on this year's concept again and to Billy Davis who nailed this illustration.


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Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum
Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
Special Web Site Features
Listen to the Experts: Tom Romano's Reflections
Workshop 1: Creating a Community of Writers
I think to have a good writing program at middle level the kids have to have time to write. You've got to carve out chunks of time in your language arts classroom so that kids can actually be putting pen to paper. If you don't do that, if you do the due-Friday method where you make a writing assignment Monday and then it's kind of a mystery what happens, and it's due on Friday, it's not going to work. The good kids, the kids who are talented, you know, they'll write something; but those kids that need a lot of support, it won't happen.
Listen to Tom (mp3) Back
Getting ideas on paper, then crafting the writing
First, I want to get kids with the feeling that they can express themselves on paper at the top of their lungs and that they don't have to look back. There is language in them, it's there to be called upon, and I want to get them to throw it out on paper and not worry about how it looks.
William Stafford, the late William Stafford, said, "Lower your standards if you're having trouble writing." And he said, "If you still can't write you need to lower your standards more." So I show kids my drafts, my handwritten drafts, my typed drafts that have all kinds of typos in them because I don't go back and correct when I'm trying to trust the gut. That's when I want kids to get a writing state of mind and to not hesitate to put words on paper.
The other thing that I think is true about writing is crafting writing. When I talk about voice in student writing, I'm with two minds. Part of me says trust the gut, go with it, say the word, truth. The other part of me says, okay, now after you've done that let's talk about craft a little bit, let's talk about how strong verbs work, let's talk about how dialogue works. I mean, there's 180 crafts lesson that you could do. So trust the gut and craft.
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When they write, they read. I mean, you can't write without reading. I mean, we're always talking about reading and how we respond to text, but I also want to get my students reading the books that demonstrate things that they can do. So, for example, in the middle school level I would have those kids reading plenty of young adult literature at their grade level so that they could try the same things that these authors are trying. And if, you know, when you move farther along in middle school and then on up into high school it seems like kids more and more write about what they have read and they write about it in an expository way, and I think that if we do that without having kids read plenty of expository writing about literature then we're short-circuiting a huge teachable aspect of writing, and that is learning from what we read. So we can't ever stop that. We've got to read what we're going to write. Best way to write poetry is to immerse yourself in poetry, and then you'll start to write poetry.
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Musings on Love from Philly Youth Radio
February 21, 2013 in GPRX Blog by Jones Franzel
"Twilight and other movies are just fantasies…you have to wake up in order to find love." — Jaya Montague, "What Twilight Didn't Teach Me About Love" from Philly Youth Radio
For the month of Valentine's Day, Philly Youth Radio offers three totally different reflections on love in their awesome new series, "At the Heart, from the Heart." See the promo video (for radio! We love it!) and hear the pieces below.
Philly Youth Radio – "At the Heart, From the Heart" (trailer) from aidan un on Vimeo.


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Aberdeen Murder Trial Delayed Until Spring
ABERDEEN, S.D. (AP) - The trial of a Waubay man accused of killing his 2-year-old daughter by shaking her has been delayed until mid-April in federal court in Aberdeen.
Mario Contreras has pleaded not guilty to murder and other charges. The American News reports that he was to go on trial this fall but his attorneys requested more time to prepare.
Authorities say 2-year-old Aleeya Cook of Sisseton died Jan. 11 after being violently shaken. Investigators say Contreras told them the toddler fell and hit her head while he was caring for her, but doctors said the girl's injuries were consistent with a shaken baby syndrome.
Contreras could face life in prison if convicted on the murder charge.
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Interest in players this time of year is like the weather — the significance lies in the degrees. The Rockies plan on tendering Ian Stewart a contract, but haven't ruled out trading him. The Cubs have interest, but their seriousness is unclear. One National League executive said late Monday night that Stewart represented a good fit for Chicago. The Rockies, until now, have resisted the urge to move the third baseman. They turned down Arizona at last July's trading deadline.
The reason? His potential. He's a left-handed slugger with a 25-home run season on his resume. The talent exists, leaving the Rockies afraid he would succeed elsewhere if moved. But this winter, the Rockies are leaning toward cutting ties with the 26-year-old.
The Cubs are among the several teams looking for a third baseman, including the Angels and Tigers. The Pirates also had some interest last season. Because Stewart will make roughly $2 million in arbitration, which is not fully guaranteed, the Rockies don't have to give him away. Can they receieve a functional part in return? That's something they are determined to find out, given their confidence in prospect Nolan Arenado, who will compete for a job in spring training and represents the future at the position.


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If your financial aid award includes federal work study, you are also eligible for community service federal work-study positions. These positions focus on improving the quality of life for community residents or solving problems related to their needs. They provide wonderful opportunities to contribute to campus life as well as to the greater Milwaukee community.
Some examples of CSFWS positions include tutoring grade school children through the College of Education, helping Campus Ministry coordinate community-based assistance programs such as Hunger Task Force or working with the Urban League. Not all FWS positions have a community service designation. Ask the employer or Student Employment Services staff if you have a question about a specific position.
The Marquette University Student Employment Services is one of the units within the Office of Student Financial Aid and has the following responsibilities:


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Ransom Calls Ace Hood Album Garbage! "I Freesbied That Sh*t. It Was Straight Trash" + Straight Clowns On Spectacular From Pretty Ricky
Ransom ranting on the industry
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Welcome to the SSU Portfolio!
The WASC Commission has reaffirmed the accreditation of Sonoma State University at its meeting February 17-19, 2010. The Commission confirmed "that Sonoma State University has satisfactorily addressed the Core Commitments to Institutional Capacity and Educational Effectiveness, and has successfully complete the three-stage review conducted under the WASC Standards of Accreditation." The Commission also wishes "to express its appreciation for the extensive work that the university undertook in preparing for and supporting this accreditation review."
The Commission is asking for an interim report, due by November 2012 to address progress on three topics: undergraduate retention and graduation, per the CSU's initiative on closing the achievement gap; progress toward completing the "accountability loop" in the university's assessment of student learning and program review process; and progress in rejuvenating and assessing general education.
Click below for the full text of the WASC Commission letter dated March 11, 2010.
View WASC Commission Letter, March 11, 2010
The WASC Visiting Team included:
- Paul L. Gaston, Trustees Professor, Kent State University, Chair
- Nalsey B. Tinberg, Professor of Mathematics, Occidental College, Assistant Chair/Editor
- Desdemona Cardoza, Provost, CSU, Los Angeles
- Cecile Lindsay, Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, CSU, Long Beach
- Dennis D. Muraoka, Interim Associate Provost, CSU, Channel Islands
- Terry M. Wildman, Director, Center for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Virginia Polytechnic Institute


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Memphis Man Tries to Stab Mother Over TV Remote!
"A fight between mom and son over a television remote ended with an urgent call to police. Anne Daniels says when she grabbed the remote control early Thursday morning, her son lost control, pulled out a knife and swung at her neck." - Memphis News
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Reviewed by Samantha L. (age 7)
My favorite part is when Poulette's friends were about to cook the fox who was about to eat Poulette. I like this part becasue it was so funny when the fox cried and sobbed and ran away to his mommy. My favorite character is the fox because he is so funny that he makes me laugh my head off. The fox reminds me of myself because I am stubborn and selfish, and the fox is the same way as me!
I would recommend this book to everyone because I think that they would like this book because of the fox who sobbed and sobbed when he was about to be eaten. That was the funniest part.


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Hi, I'm Jane Garapick. Welcome to Getting to TRUE Love.
True love
It's what we're all looking for. Getting to TRUE Love is about just that – showing you how and where to find the love that you want.
I'm just a woman who really gets what it's like to be looking for that one elusive true love that you can never seem to find. And I'm here to tell you that it does happen, it can happen for you, and the good news is that it's completely under your control.
I know because it happened for me - I've been happily married to the man of my dreams for over a decade now.
But before that I was stuck in a never ending cycle of bad relationship after bad relationship, doing all the wrong things and attracting all the wrong guys. Until I learned the simple secrets to attracting my own one true love.
I want to share with you what I've learned, and give you the tools to attract the perfect man into your life, so that you can have the kind of happiness that I've found.
I Was Just Like You
Just like you, I wondered what was wrong with me, why I couldn't seem to get it right, why nothing that the experts told me to do was working, why I seemed to be the only one not figuring it out. Why I was still single. Still.
And just like you, I had tried everything. Looked everywhere, went to all the "right" places. Joined all the "right" things. And just like you, I was attractive, intelligent, sexy, fun-loving, and desirable. Just like you.
That's why I created this website. Because of you. Because you remind me of myself not so long ago. Because I was just like you.
With hopes and dreams. And disappointments and fears. Everywhere you've been in your relationships, I've been there, too. On that begging end. On the heartbreak side of love. And like you, not just once. I didn't learn my lesson the first time either. I've been in the worst of relationships. Over and over again.
But my story doesn't end there and it doesn't have to for you either. Because from that heartbroken, love-blinded side of the heart that you know all too well, there's a whole other side just waiting for you to discover; the real "happily ever after" side that you only dream about right now. The side that you don't know at all, that you're starting to believe doesn't exist. That's the side I'm on now. With the true love of my life. The One.
I'm here to show you how it really happens, and how it can happen for you, too.
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About Me
I'm the one previously single woman who's been there in every sense of the word.
Now happily married to the man of my dreams for almost a decade, I was on the begging end of one-sided relationships for most of my dating history.
I know firsthand, all too well, what it's really like to lose all hope of ever getting it right. From trying to meet "the One" while selling shoes at the local mall (where I learned a lot about people, but not about meeting Mr. Right), to going to all the hip nightclubs just in case "the One" was there (he wasn't), I've been through all of the drama the dating scene has to offer.
I've always had a penchant for helping people through tough times; as a young woman I regularly volunteered on a Suicide Prevention hotline and conducted Suicide Prevention workshops for teens in local high schools.
Like most people, I've always wanted to make a difference in the world; to somehow affect the human condition in such a way that would make a positive difference in the way people live their lives. I've always had a heart for the underdog – from the student who's picked last when choosing teams, to the little lost dog that followed me home all covered in oil.
From the teenage girl who has sex too soon because she just wants to be loved, to the teenage boy who's so uncomfortable in his own skin, trying so hard to fit in that he doesn't even know who he really is anymore. I've always wanted to help people find and understand that little girl and boy inside all of us, just wanting to be loved, to be understood, to feel like we have worth.
While studying at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Colombia, I dreamed of becoming a counselor to help other women like me to build and retain their self-esteem. As fate would have it, I finished my degree just before the birth of my first child, at which point I became a stay at home mom (a decision that I have never regretted!)
Now that my children are able to function fairly well on their own, I find myself yearning again to help others through understanding and counseling. While I'm not interested in working full time, even from home, I'm able to steal a few precious moments here and there (most of my posts are written at night after the kids are asleep) and get some thoughts down in the hopes of these words reaching someone who needs to know there is someone out there who understands what they're going through.
I'm originally from Vancouver, British Columbia. After living for a while in Southern California, I'm now back in the beautiful Pacific Northwest in the state of Washington. Enjoying all of the wondrous, serene beauty that nature has given us with my soul mate of a husband, two spirited, joyful children, and two cuddly, fluffy little dogs. In the process of living happily ever after.
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Solving Africa's currency illiquidity problem
Some 41 currencies serve the African continent. Many of these are characterised by their illiquid and rarely traded status on the global financial market, as well as their volatility. So for those wishing to do business with Africa, these currencies — as difficult and expensive to source — can pose a real problem.
From the Namibian dollar to the Seychellois rupee, it is vital that organisations are able to source emerging market currencies reliably, on time, and at competitive prices. Yet such necessities often elude those trading with Africa, who view currency concerns as one of the biggest barriers to the development of Africa as an emerging — and therefore high growth — opportunity for international investors.
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Express. Home of the Daily and Sunday Express.
Solskjaer targets derby history
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has urged his Cardiff side to make history when they face Swansea in next weekend's south Wales derby.
The Bluebirds claimed a morale-boosting 2-1 win over Norwich on Saturday to climb off the foot of the Barclays Premier League table.
Goals from Craig Bellamy and debutant Kenwyne Jones gave Solskjaer a maiden Premier League win as manager; it was Cardiff's first win in eight top-flight fixtures.
They now move on to face local rivals Swansea in a derby meeting which could play a big part in shaping where the two clubs end the season.
No side has ever completed the league double in meetings between the two Welsh clubs, but Cardiff have the opportunity to be the first at the Liberty Stadium, having claimed a 1-0 win on home turf in November.
"I know about the history of this fixture, I am aware there has never been a league double," said Solskjaer.
"Let's go out and make history. Why not? This may be the time.
"I watched the south Wales derby on television earlier this season when Cardiff won and the return is going to be another tough match.
"Over the years I have watched the Swans' journey with Roberto Martinez, then Brendan (Rodgers) and now Michael (Laudrup) in charge.
"There is a passion among Cardiff fans which I knew about before and has been evident since I arrived.
"We understand what this fixture means to the fans."
Cardiff's win owed much to the spark provided by the introduction of Wilfried Zaha from the bench in just the 38th minute.
But Norwich had more than enough chances to win several games, with Cardiff goalkeeper David Marshall turning in the latest inspired display of an excellent season for the Scotland international.
His compatriot Robert Snodgrass was Norwich's best player, opening the scoring and leading by example throughout.
The midfielder's performance came at the end of a week where he apologised to the club's fans for an angry exchange with supporters during last weekend's game against Newcastle.
And Hughton was full of praise for the 26-year-old.
He said: "Robert got the goal, and showed what he is. He is a wholehearted player who wants to do well. We had a situation with him last week but he was big enough and brave enough to apologise and he is a big player for us.
"He will not look to hide away and he has been a real good player for us."


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Opera has released the 11.50 edition of its browser; code-named "Swordfish", the new product comes with some interesting developer-focused options. Back in 2007, Opera introduced its Speed Dial "favorite bookmark" functionality — in Opera 11.10 (released a couple of months ago), the company also added hooks for developers to control the way their site looks when rendered in a Speed Dial cell.
In Opera 11.50, the company says it's taking a step further with Speed Dial extensions: Developers can now render live content in a Speed Dial cell, allowing several thought-provoking use cases. Opera invites programmers to look at its extensions catalog and play around with some of the recently submitted Speed Dial extensions.
From 11.50 onward, extensions can now share cookies with the browser. This means that Opera extensions can interact with APIs and websites that would otherwise require extra authentication. This is done through an explicit
<access> setting in the extension's config.xml, says the company.
"Our browser engine has now been bumped up to Presto 2.9.168, which means there are a number of new standards features, compatibility fixes, and performance tweaks — among other things, we've improved our CSS parsing performance by 10 to 15%," says Opera.
Also new is the
classList API. Using
classList, developers can add, remove, or toggle a class on an element, without the need for complex regular expressions or libraries.
Opera 11.50 now comes with support for HTML5 Session History & Navigation, which allows developers to control and manipulate the session history of a particular browsing context.
The company has also recently updated the mobile iteration of its browser with two product releases: Opera Mini 6.1 (for Android, Blackberry, J2ME, and Symbian) and Opera Mobile 11.1 (for Android and Symbian).
While Opera Mini 6.1 is primarily a security and stability release, Opera Mobile 11.1 has been updated to use the Opera Presto 2.8 rendering engine. This boosts the browser's capabilities with a whole host of new HTML5 and CSS 3 features — many of which only just made their official desktop debut in the Opera 11.50 release two days ago.
According to Opera, "The CSS Multi-column Layout Module specification allows designers to finally create complex, print-like multi-column layouts without having to abuse table markup. The HTML5 session history and navigation API allows for new ways to programmatically control and manipulate the browser's session history, save a web application's state, and handle user interactions (without breaking things like the back button)."
Finally, the W3C File API allows web applications to open, read, and manipulate data inside local files — all completely client-side. Opera Mobile 11.1, like Opera 11.50 for the desktop, currently has partial support for this API.
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Ancient DNA and Sumerians
A few months ago someone asked me (via email) which populations I would love to get typed (genetically that is). There is one population which did not come to mind at the time: the Sumerians. Why? Because these are arguably the first historic nation. The first self-conscious ethnic group which operated by the rules which we define as the fundamentals of literate civilization. Strangely, they are an ethno-linguistic isolate. My own assumption until lately has been that this is not too surprising, in that prior to the rise of expansive civilizations (Sargon of Akkad) there was much more linguistic and ethnic diversity than we currently see around us. Or, was evident even in the early Iron Age. In other words, the ancient Fertile Crescent may have resembled the highlands of Papua, with Hurrians, Akkadians, Gutians, Elamites, Sumerians, etc., all speaking mutually unintelligible dialects which diverged very far back in the mists of antiquity.
I am no longer quite so sure about this model. That is largely due to the possibility that there was a great deal of demographic change between the Mesolithic and the Bronze Age, with successive waves of layering and replacement. My rough model is that a few groups of farmers may have expanded to swallow up thousands of hunter-gatherer groups. These homogeneous farmer societies eventually would diversify, because they were not united by the institutional forces which cemented later imperial regimes, in particular, literate elites which had a sense of consciousness which extended deep into the past because of written records. Therefore, the diversification would presumably have been similar to what we see with Romance languages, or Indo-Aryan, branching out from an common root language which replaced many competitors rapidly. Without writing and large scale polities the divergence would be more rapid, and there would be many more tips on the phylogenetic tree.
The Sumerians, and their neighbors the Elamites, as well as groups like the Hatti and Hurrians & Urartian, pose problems for this thesis. None of these groups seem to be Indo-European or Semitic, the two dominant language families of Near East by ~1,000 B.C. You have in the ancient Near East then a situation where the light of history reveals before us not the diversification of Indo-European and Semitic speaking farmers, but rather a host of unique and disparate peoples, all simultaneously lurching toward literate civilization, one after another.
Something just does not add up in my models. Genetics will not solve the puzzle, but it may help in elucidating relationships. The origins of the Sumerians are murky, but many scholars have suggested that they may have arrived from the south (the oldest city, Eridu, is in the south). Others have suggested that the Sumerians descended from the mountains of the northeast. Though I presume that the people Arabia have changed a great deal since antiquity, it would be interesting if it was found that the Sumerians resembled the Qatari (at least the Eurasian component) more than they did the modern Assyrians.


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Victoria's western district continues to inspire the music of Neil Murray, one of Australia's most respected singer-songwriters.
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Murray, who is still based in the region, grew up around Ararat and Lake Bolac.
"It's the country that raised me and whenever you have those formative years as a child, especially if it's in the land, it's a part of you. It's my country. It's what nurtured me," he says.
The founding member of the Warumpi Band, most renowned for his track My Island Home sung by Christine Anu, is well known for his work with Indigenous musicians from the top end and across Australia.
He says it's something that refreshes him as a musician.
"Very few make an impression in the mainstream, but that's not what inspires me. It's people that generally the mainstream aren't aware of.
"I like to hear truth and honesty. I like to hear real art."
His song Where my people go came to him while doing a healing walk along the Hopkins River from Warrnambool to Lake Bolac.
"We did it for first time in 2005, the first healing walk, a bunch of us non-Indigenous and Indigenous people together walking in the land following ancestral pathways.
"This tune came to me on the second day of the walk and I carried it in my head until I got to Lake Bolac and I wrote it down."
Neil Murray is performing at the Bendigo Folk Club on Friday 30 November, at Commonground Festival in Seymour on Saturday 1 December and Torquay Bowling Club on Sunday 8 December.


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Andrei Arlovski post-fight interview
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The rubber match between the Pitbull and the Maniac in front of a sold out house at Mandalay Bay did not end as explosively as the first two bouts. After dominating the match for five rounds, Tim "The Maniac" Sylvia defended his belt by beating Andrei "The Pitbull" Arlovski in a decision at UFC 61. It was obvious to many watching the fight that something just wasn't right with Arlovski. Andrei just didn't seem to have anything on his punches, and never took the fight to the ground, which is a strong aspect of his game. The day after the fight, there were rumors of Andrei possibly getting injured during the fight and being suspended for not reporting those injuries during the match. I was fortunate to be able to get a post fight interview with the Pitbull to set the record straight.
Bullz-Eye: Andrei, thank you for doing this post-fight interview. I know the last thing one wants to do after a loss is talk.
AA: No problem, it's okay.
BE: How are you feeling? Both you and Tim Sylvia were pretty banged up. In fact Tim Sylvia said, "What a war."
AA: I am disappointed with the loss mentally.
BE: How long did you train for the fight on July 8?
AA: I started training three months before UFC 59. Then I took three weeks off; trained through July 8.
BE: Did your training go as planned? And how did you feel as the fight got closer?
AA: Training went very well. I was prepared. I felt great and I was ready for the fight.
BE: Is there anything you would change building up to the fight now that you can look back?
AA: I wouldn't necessarily change, but I add a few more things to training.
BE: When the fight was over all I could say was, "What a slug fest." You guys really beat the piss out of each other. You landed some great punches, but they just didn't seem to have quite enough on them to take Sylvia out. Is that a fair observation?
AA: Yes.
BE: Tim Sylvia said in his post-fight interview that you are a tough, tough guy and you must have fixed your chin because he couldn't put you away. Did you and your team feel your chin was a weak point and did you do anything different to correct it?
AA: My chin is fine. My chin was always fine.
BE: You obviously have excellent grappling skills. I was a little surprised that you didn't take the fight to the ground especially after the second round. Was your game plan to keep the fight off the mat and why?
AA: We had plans to take the fight to the ground at some point. But due to certain circumstances, I could not execute it.
BE: Tim Sylvia obviously has a great deal of respect for you, but says he dictated the entire fight. Is that the way you see the fight?
AA: I did what I could under the circumstances. I don't want to judge.
BE: I know you are a good man and do not like to talk trash, but Sylvia says this fight will shut up all the people who thought his being champion was a fluke. He feels this fight shows who the real champion is. How do you feel about that?
AA: Tim is the champion today. I respect that he is champion.
BE: A lot of UFC fans were disappointed the fight wasn't more exciting; however, I feel true fans of MMA (mixed martial arts) appreciated the high level of skill both of you exhibited in your "stand-up". Is there anything you would like to say to the fans that were booing?
AA: I am also disappointed that I was unable to live up to my potential and demonstrate what I was prepared to do.
BE: Is it true you were suspended by the Nevada State Athletic Commission for not reporting an injury during the fight?
AA: I do not want to talk about my injuries or look for any other excuses.
BE: How long before your injuries heal up?
AA: Time will tell.
BE: You have such a good outlook and never offer up excuses for your losses. How does it feel to be thought of as such a positive role model?
AA: I just try to live my life, train hard and do the best that I can. If my life and accomplishments affect other people in a positive way or inspire (them) to do right thing, it's a blessing to me.
BE: Andrei, the championship fight on July 8 was a war. Even though it did not go your way, I feel we will be seeing a lot more of the Pitbull in the future. What is next for you?
AA: I will take some time off to rest and heal. And I will be back in training and get ready for my next fight.
BE: Is there anyone you'd like to thank?
AA: I would like to thank God, my team, training partners, friends, family, sponsors, and I would especially like to thank my fans for their support, win or lose.
BE: Andrei, thanks again. Good luck.
During the interview, as you probably could tell reading it, Andrei was very reluctant to talk about "certain circumstances" that hindered his performance. During the second round of the fight Andrei blocked a kick with his leg and ended up with an injury that obviously hindered his performance. His reluctance to discuss this really shows what type of athlete and person he is. He will never offer up an excuse for his performance. However, I am of the opinion that you can talk about the circumstances surrounding a fight, including injuries, without looking like you're giving an excuse for your loss.
I was very curious about the severity and type of injury Andrei incurred, as I'm sure all his fans are. I decided to contact Leo Khrolinsky, Team Pitbull manager.
BE: Leo, let me first thank you for taking the time to discuss Andrei's fight against Tim Sylvia.
Leo Khrolinsky: You're welcome.
BE: What is your opinion of Andrei's training leading up to the fight?
LK: In my opinion, Andrei was very well prepared for the fight. He trained very hard for UFC 59 and had only two weeks off before he began training for UFC 61. He was well rounded and ready for Tim.
BE: Were there any injuries during his training leading up to July 8?
LK: He sustained an injury to his ankle a few weeks ago that was attended to. Every now and then you get hurt while training, but that is normal.
BE: After the second round it just seemed that Andrei, although throwing some good strikes, just didn't have his usual power behind them. I heard the second round is when the injury occurred. Can you give us an account of what happened?
LK: Andrei doesn't want us to talk about this. He sustained an injury to his kneecap and his left foot. During the actual fight, he didn't tell his corner he was injured because he did not want us to stop the fight.
BE: Did Andrei have an MRI performed?
LK: We have an MRI scheduled for his foot, ankle and knee on Monday. We will see the doctor on Tuesday for the results.
BE: So there is no prognosis yet?
LK: Not yet. His knee and foot are swollen and we need the MRI to tell us if there is a problem.
BE: What affect did these injuries have on his ability to fight?
LK: After we learned about his injuries, it explained why he fought the way he did the fourth and fifth round. His punches lacked his power, his movement was off and now we understand why he couldn't execute a take down.
BE: Did the Nevada State Athletic Commission suspend Andrei for not reporting his injuries during the fight?
LK: I am not sure if he is required to report the injury and we are not sure that there is actually a suspension.
BE: Is there anything you would like to add that we haven't covered?
LK: Thank you for your time to write this article and thank you to all his fans for their support.
BE: Thanks again Leo.


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At the outset, Saturday's soccer match at Victory Field looked to be a wide open shootout, as the Chestnut Hill College men and the visitors from New Jersey's Caldwell College each scored twice during the first 15 minutes of the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference clash.
After that, though, the defense on each side dug in, and the issue was decided by a single goal, with the Caldwell Cougars cashing in early in the second half and then fending off the locals to prevail, 3-2.
Just two days earlier, the CHC Griffins had poked their heads above the .500 mark in the CACC standings, defeating Delaware's Goldey-Beacom College, 3-1, on goals by junior Mark Pugliese, sophomore Brooks Mirabella, and senior Gavin Reid.
With both Reid and freshman Pat Steger (another regular starter) out of action on Saturday, Chestnut Hill backslid to 3-3 in the conference and 4-5-1 overall, while Caldwell returned to the Garden State at 2-2 in the CACC and 5-4-1 overall.
"We had a good win on the road the other day, and I'm disappointed that we didn't play the same way today on our home turf in front of our fans," commented CHC coach Keith Cappo. "Caldwell didn't do anything spectacular, but they did a good job of capitalizing on our mistakes. We created chances to score more goals than we did, but we didn't finish."
The Griffins did manage to match the first two markers chalked up by the visitors. A header by Caldwell's Arben Cosovic started up the scoreboard just over three minutes into the match, but Chestnut Hill leveled the count six minutes later. From near the middle of the 18, sophomore Chris Wilson passed the ball down low outside the left post for the scorer, junior Darryl Richardson.
In the next minute, CHC was trying to bring the ball upfield but turned it over on an ill-conceived lateral pass. The Cougars charged down the left wing and scored on an outside blast by Evan Teitelbaum. The visitors almost went up 3-1 just after that, but a hard shot aimed inside the left post was stopped by CHC junior goalie Michael Goldstein (five saves).
With 30:54 still to play in the opening half, the Griffins tied the bout at 2-2, with Richardson taking the ball down near the right endline and then crossing it inside. Sophomore Bobby Stocklin was making a run toward the left post and punched the ball home.
After that, the scoreboard settled in for a long autumn's nap, finally stirring again 12 minutes into the second half. The Cougars converted on a header for the second time in the game, as Facundo Zalazar applied his noggin to a ball lofted in from the left flank by Teitelbaum.
Not long before that, the hosts had a near miss at the other end on a head ball by Mirabella. About six minutes after their guests' go-ahead goal, the Griffins were up on offense for back-to-back corner kicks, but one ball was headed out of danger by a Cougar defender and the other travelled too far in the air on the restart to set up an effective shot. With about 13 minutes left to play, the CHC sideline thought Caldwell committed a hand ball violation in the penalty area, but no whistle was heard. There were more opportunities, but things just wouldn't click for Chestnut Hill. Cappo felt the absence of Reid and Steger was one of the factors.
"Both add a lot of dynamics to our offense, so that hurt us today," he said. "There were just little things wee needed to do better; understanding situations and the timing of the game."
Caldwell appeared to have Goldstein beat for an insurance score with a dozen minutes left, but CHC senior Chris Moore booted the ball off the doorstep of the Griffins' goal. As the clock dropped through the final 10 minutes, hopeful home fans had to stifle cheers as a shot by Kevin Bushbeck went over the crossbar and attempts by Stocklin and freshman James Annobil strayed outside the right post of the Cougars' cage.
Back down on level ground at 3-3 in the conference, Chestnut Hill will needed to raise its game to finish the month in winning territory.
"I hope that we'll learn that we have to play the full 90 minutes, and especially that we can't get down early so many times, because it's tough to have to keep coming back," Cappo said. "We should take a lesson from today's game that you just can't have letdowns, can't take plays off, because you're always going to pay for that at the college level."


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Ava Gardner was born in North Carolina in 1922. She got her 'big-break' when a representative of MGM saw her photo in the window of her brother-in-law's photography studio in New York.
Her first handful of films in early 1940's were mainly one liners, until she starred in the film noir 'The Killers' opposite Burt Lancaster. She went on to have a briefly successful career with movies like 'Mogambo' and 'The Barefoot Contessa', but she often felt insecure in her acting abilities and moved to Spain in 1955.
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I've been greatly enjoying reading everyone's responses to Life A User's Manual, and if you haven't done so yet I urge you to register your opinion, regardless of it you read it during the Big Read or at some other point in the past.
I'd like to talk about one point that's come up a number of times in a number of ways–people are largely dividing the book into "stories" and "descriptions," which is a fair enough way to roughly group the material in Life.
I think that virtually everyone likes the stories, and with good reason, as they're quite fanciful, entertaining, generally well-plotted, intriguing, meaningful, etc. Where we see much more differentiation is in the descriptions, which some people like, some don't like, and some seem to have grown to like after deciding to just go with them.
Long lists and purely descriptive prose are definitely a subjective thing, in Life as well as in all of literature. For the record, I like Perec's descriptions very much, not just in this book but in his others as well, and I could probably read an entire book that was just Perec describing objects, but I recognize that this will not be the case for everyone. (And likewise, I'm left indifferent by descriptions in many other books.)
But whether or not you like the descriptions as much as I do, there's a very strong argument for them being there, and for you going with them and reading them. First of all, they should be there because Perec was obsessed by them, and Life is nothing if not Perec indulging his obsessions. This is what good authors do: they put their obsessions into the form of books, which we then read. Life was the capstone achievement of a lifetime of Perec following the things that intrigued him, and I doubt he knew why he found these things intriguing, nor why he wrote about them in the manner he did. The only way to even hasten a guess is to read Life and offer your response to it. That's as it should be. Because if any author can tell you why he or she is obsessed by something, and why he or she writes about it in the way they do, then you're wasting your time reading their books. All you need to do is listen to their explanation, and you'll have saved yourself countless hours.
My second reason that you should take the descriptions like anything else has to do with reading as an experience. If you look at the stories in Life, they evoke in us a very common experience–that of following a good story, which we encounter everywhere in life: talking to friends, watching movies, listening to the radio, forming our own life narrative, etc, etc. It's only normal that all of humanity can love a good story because we're all so used to the pleasures of them.
The descriptions, by contrast, are something most of us are probably unfamiliar with. And that's good. That's why it's worthwhile to read them, to see Perec defamiliarize our world and our idea of "reading literature," and to discover what kind of pleasures can be evoked by Perec's particular manner of writing. Perhaps, at length, you will conclude that you don't like the pleasures peculiar to Perec's descriptions, and perhaps you will conclude that you feel you have nothing to gain by seeing Perec approach objects in our world through these unfamiliar byways. That's fine. As I said last week, not everyone will be equally moved by all great books, and that's as it should be.
But if you are going to make a credible attempt at reading Life, you must at least give the particular experience of Perec's method a chance to work over you–that is, you must read the descriptions, even though you may initially get nothing from them, and see if the experience of them begins to become meaningful for you. This is the great fun and the great adventure of reading truly innovative literature: you get to see something that you never before saw, which can frequently be a difficult and frustrating experience in the beginning. But I urge you to stick with it. The rewards are immense, and unattainable anywhere else.


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Fallen Soldier Memorial at University of Montana to be Official State Iraq and Afghanistan War Memorial [AUDIO]
On Saturday, October 26, following the home Grizzly military appreciation football game against Eastern Washington, the Fallen Soldier Memorial will be recognized as the official State Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans Memorial.
David Bell, co-founder and president of Grateful Nation Montana, said on Wednesday, October 16, that the timing for the announcement is fitting to honor the memorial.
"30 minutes after the final whistle of the Griz game, there will be a short dedication ceremony for the Fallen Soldier Memorial," Bell said. "The governor will be there, along with president Royce Engstrom, General Quinn, myself, and I hope, many of the attendees of the game will stop at this ceremony on their way out."
Bell said many of the family members of those fallen soldiers enshrined in the memorial will attend the event.
"We've got quite a few of the families, that we call our Gold Star families, parents, spouses, and siblings of our 43 Montana soldiers who will be there," Bell said. "We actually have 38 children left behind by our 43 fallen soldiers, and quite a few will be attending the game. Many are coming from outside Missoula to attend the dedication. The ceremony will last no more than 30 minutes, and it's a great opportunity to honor those who stepped up and served their country and laid down their lives, and who we need to remember."
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Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Antonio Brown (ankle) is expected to miss another game or two, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Jerricho Cotchery has broken ribs.
|Take a look back at the career of Plaxico Burress.
That means the Steelers' latest pickup at wide receiver, Plaxico Burress, is going to get snaps Sunday against the Cleveland Browns. Look for him when the Steelers get close to the red zone.
Burress, who will wear No. 80, told Ross Tucker on SiriusXM Radio on Wednesday that the Steelers have designed a red-zone package for him. With Charlie Batch starting at quarterback against the Browns and Burress at wide receiver, it's going to feel a lot like the 2004 Steelers.
Isaac Redman is banged up in the backfield, and Steelers coach Mike Tomlin says he's not sure who will start between Jonathan Dwyer and Rashard Mendenhall.
Perhaps the Steelers can bring back Duce Staley for the role.
Follow Gregg Rosenthal on Twitter @greggrosenthal.


text: After messing around with this for a couple of days, with some very helpful messages from Donald Becker, I still had not managed to make WOL work on the S2466. Using pci-config it was possible to put the onboard NIC into the D3 state and to observe that the correct bit was set in the NIC when a magic packet hit it. But no matter how late into the poweroff sequence it was put into this state, once powered off (poweroff or shutdown -h), it wouldn't power back on after the magic packet arrived. I had emailed Tyan support but they never sent anything back. So today I called them, and the word came down that: (The following quotes may not be exact but are as close as I can remember.) "WOL only works on the AMD MPX boards from the S1 state". S1 state has the motherboard fully powered but the disks may be spun down. The rationale given for this appalling design decision (or more likely, cover up for the design error) was that "Most people who care about such things use a remote management card in the machine, so WOL would have been redundant". Sure, and that's why there are so many posts from people trying to make WOL work on the S2466 mobos! Well, we can all stop asking because apparently you can't get there from here. It's possible this is still a BIOS problem that they could fix but I'm leaning more towards the hypothesis that they neglected to put in the hardware support required for the NIC to actually trigger a power on event. The more I learn about Tyan the less I like them. Surely they've known all there is to know about the broken WOL for at least 3 years, yet they didn't ever post the reason for the lack of WOL function in their FAQ section for this motherboard. Could it possibly be that they didn't want to lose sales by admitting the board couldn't do WOL in a manner that was of any use to anybody? Regards, David Mathog mathog at caltech.edu Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech


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Moved to clojure-doc.org:
Mar 29, 2011
(I wanted to edit the original page, but somehow I couldn't; I spent 10 minutes looking for an edit link or button and then I gave up; someone please integrate this with the rest.)
There are three main ways to work with Clojure from Emacs:
1. Inferior-mode : a simple mode that will start a VM as a subprocess and then
communicates with its repl via stdin/stdout pipes.
- Functionality is minimal (you can send expressions to eval and do a little
bit more), but...
- Due to its simplicity this is always working. Also, all output goes to a
single place (it's just like a REPL).
- This is how the core developers work, because often support for the other
method of connecting lags behind a littlebit.
Advantages: simple; working with all versions of Clojure (including
the very bleeding edge).
Disadvantages: limited number of commands; simplistic output (results
of expressions is intermixed with stdout output); it's easy to kill
the REPL buffer by accident and that kills your VM subprocess.
Setup: you typically need to write a script that will start you
clojure VM, and configure Emacs to tell it where to run this script.
2. SLIME: a rich, complex mode that provides various commands to
communicate with an external VM via a socket. The VM is started
independently, and loaded with a package called swank-clojure,
which opens a server that listens on port 4005. This server
interprets an asynchronous protocol by SLIME ("emacs-rex") which
consists of simple s-expressions. swank-clojure implements many of
the commands in the emacs-rex protocol, and provides SLIME with
appropriate responses. SLIME is an Emacs package which provides
UI/workflow for various LISP targets, and it is able to connect to
the VM with a TCP socket (via its slime-connect command).
- About 70% of SLIME functionality is implemented by Swank-Clojure.
Evaluating expressions, bringing up documentation, browsing
(a-propos) of symbols from packages, completion, list and killing
threads, etc. The "who calls" functions aren't there, and a few
- Swank-clojure sometimes breaks on newer versions, and can be
difficult to debug quickly if you're not familiar with its code.
On the other hand, it does get fixed eventually--people are using
it--and on relatively "recent" versions it works well.
- Setup involves: installing and configuring SLIME, installing and
starting the Swank-Clojure server in your VM. (See below).
- Where SLIME places the output of commands can be confusing if you
don't know how it works:
1. Return values get rendered in the Emacs minibuffer
2. stdout of the main thread goes to the slime-repl buffer
3. stdout of all the other threads go to the console of
the VM, because they inherit System/out
4. Side-effects from converting return values to string
(i.e., from lazy seqs, e.g., (map println (range 10)))
appear in the minibuffer too, interspersed with the
return values.
Advantages: rich set of commands, asynchronous execution;
buffer/workflow management.
Disadvantages: swank-clojure support sometimes lags behind the latest;
more complicated installation; can be confusing to interpret output.
Setup: You don't really need to use fancy package management if you
use the following simple method:
- Clone SLIME from https://github.com/technomancy/slime/.
Unfortunately, you need to use this version and not the latest one
that comes with Emacs.
- Clone Swank-Clojure from
- Clone Clojure-mode
Make sure you're using the versions above, which are usually in a
known working state. The minimal setup in Emacs for making this work
Note: clojure-mode is independent of SLIME, and provides editing
functionality in Emacs only, has nothing to do with SLIME; you only
need it to make editing easier.
Note(2): you need the slime-repl add-on for Swank-Clojure to work
3. nREPL and others: a server for sending asynchronous eval requests
via a socket is being worked on (nREPL). The purpose of it is to have
other GUIs than Emacs share a common server connection method to a
running VM. It does not yet provide a common package of utilities that
you can invoke, its definition is limited to asynchronous evaluations.
A common library of backend tools is being worked on, and it is hoped
that correspond Emacs support will arise to take advantage of that
library, to replace SLIME with more Clojure-specific support.
(See mailing-list on 'nREPL' for details and a long thread.)
- Functionality is minimal (you can send expressions to eval and do a little
Apr 08, 2011
Hi Anthony,
I'm having trouble following these instructions. I have GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (i586-suse-linux-gnu). Whether I start with my normal .emacs_d or technomancy-emacs-starter-kit-4ba4630/init.el, loading package.el and/or package-maint.el gives me the error message "unknown keyword :risky", and presumably as a result, the command M-x package-list-packages does not get defined. I would upgrade to Emacs 24 if it had been released! Any suggestions welcome. Thanks.
Aug 27, 2011
I've spent quite a bit of time trying to get this setup. The nice folks on #clojure irc.freenode.net helped me out. A lot of blog posts are outdated. These details are for a slime/swank setup. I may not be 100% correct on my descriptions, so apologies for that in advance.
General overview:
emacs->slime <-> swank->swank-clojure->clojure
My understanding is that emacs talks to a swank server via the slime library. Swank can communicate to a number of lisps via a back end, one of which is clojure via the swank-clojure backend.
You should install the package manager as described at the top of this page. I used the emacs-starter-kit so all I needed to do was run (in emacs):
M-x package-install, scroll down to
clojure-modeand then press
i(for install) then
x(to execute).
y(yes) I want to install
I installed leiningen (links are further up on the page as to how to do this). I personally used Homebrew since I'm on OSX (via terminal):
brew install leiningen
Then, as of the time of writing (via terminal):
lein plugin install swank-clojure 1.3.2
Create a new project (via terminal):
lein new <projectname>
Open a file in the lein created clojure project in emacs and
M-x clojure-jack-in
Switch to the swank buffer. If you get an error as I did about not being able to find lein, add this to your dotemacs:
(setenv "PATH" (concat "/usr/local/bin:" (getenv "PATH")))
where /usr/local/bin is the path to lein. Because you're appending the path to lein to the start of the existing PATH, you will still need to include the colon. Restart emacs and repeat the jack-in process.
The following paragraph may not be 100% correct, but I think the gist is correct
clojure-jack-inis defined in
clojure-mode. This tells lein to start the swank server using swank-clojure, and grabs a known working copy of SLIME from the swank-clojure jar file that's downloaded when you install swank-clojure as a lein plugin. Meanwhile, lein walks the filesystem from the current working directory looking for the project.clj and will setup the correct class paths. Clojure-mode then loads the copy of SLIME it received from the swank jar into emacs and uses it to connect to the now running swank server.
The general process of the instructions at the top of this page are correct. A further outline can be found on the swank-clojure github readme, linked earlier on in this page. Hopefully this comment will shed a little more light on some of the magic that happens.
Oct 07, 2011
Thanks for the effort and the instructions given above. As a new entrant into clojure and to some extent to Emacs, I struggled a bit to install and get them working and had to refer many resources in web.
To help people like me starting out in "Emacs + Clojure + Swank + Leiningen", I am putting together detailed set of instructions building on top of what is in the page above:
DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS - for EMACS + CLOJURE :
(emphasis on Windows - will apply to other OSs also):
Emacs set up:
1. Follow Emacs Starter Kit page (http://github.com/technomancy/emacs-starter-kit) to pick-up latest precompiled binary of Emacs from http://code.google.com/p/emacs-for-windows/updates/list. [If you have earlier versions that v24 installed, skip this and copy "package.el" as given in the top of the page instructions. I used v24. Cant say about previous versions.]
2. Unzip the contents to folder of your choice.
3. Add the Emacs directory path to your Path variable (e.g., C:\Emacs, C:\Emacs\bin) in the Environment variables section (My Computer >> Properties >> Advanced >> Environment Variables >> System Variables) - Google for more if you need more instruction on this step
4. Launch and Test Emacs by typing "runemacs" by opening command prompt by typing cmd in Start >> Run or by clicking Command prompt icon in the task bar
Emacs Starter kit set up:
1. Original instruction in Starter Kit page and on top of the page: Add Marmalade as a package archive source in ~/.emacs.d/init.el
There are couple of points which might confuse a newbie.
1.1.An empty emacs.d directory gets created when you install emacs in your home directory. So look in your home directory for this folder.
1.1.1 for Unix ~/. is the home. For windows XP --> "C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data" is the home folder.
1.2 Package dependencies need to be added to init.el and .emacs file. Top of the page instruction says .emacs file. Emacs Starter kit page and the Issue # 20 - http://code.google.com/p/marmalade/issues/detail?id=20 say init.el.
1.2.1 Either of them alone did not work for me. I created both. BEWARE: Don't waste time looking for these files if yours is a fresh installation. Both these files need to be created manually afresh.
In init.el add:
(require 'package)
(add-to-list 'package-archives
'("marmalade" . "http://marmalade-repo.org/packages/") t)
In .emacs file add the contents given in top of the page.
1.3 Next run 'M-x: "package-refresh-contents"'. (M is Alt key in windows). Again, first time this needs to be manually installed. Emacs tab completion did not show the command for me. Just type and press enter.
1.3.1 Then run "M-x package-install <hit enter> starter-kit <hit enter>"
Clojure mode set up:
Install clojure-mode by pressing M-x package-install and choose clojure-mode.
Install Leiningen:
Leiningen is required for swank clojure and SLIME set up.
1. Download windows or OS specific distribution pre-complied binaries from - as of 7th Oct, 2011, I downloaded 1.6.1-windows from http://github.com/technomancy/leiningen
2. Unzip in a any folder (e.g.,C:\lein)
2.1 WARNING: Git has some certificate checking issue which was fixed by Phil which is included in this download itself. DO NOT Download the separate ".bat" file as given in the Leiningen site.
(Additional info: Not necessary to read if you don't want to bother: http://github.com/blog/738-sidejack-prevention-phase-2-ssl-everywhere#comment-9002 and http://github.com/blog/738-sidejack-prevention-phase-2-ssl-everywhere#comment-9002)
3. Include the "lein" directory (C:\lein, C:\lein\bin) in windows PATH.
3.1 Download "wget.exe" to C:\windows (This automatically includes in the path)
4. Move to lein directory and do a "lein self-install"
5. Next do a "lein deps" from "C:\lein" where the project.clj is available. THIS IS IMPORTANT. Many instructions/ tutorials don't say this explicitly.
6. Test lein by creating a new test project by running
6.1 "lein new test"
Install Swank-clojure
(ref: [http://github.com/technomancy/swank-clojure/blob/master/README.md#readme):
7. run "lein plugin install swank-clojure 1.3.2" (ref: swank-clojure site)
8. Test by "lein swank" to see if the server is started in local.
This will install swank-clojure
Run Emacs with swank/SLIME:
9. Create a new project in a location where you want. Refer to steps 6, 6.1
10. Type "runemacs" in command prompt from the project folder. This will launch emacs.
11. Type M-x in Emacs
12. Select/ type "clojure-jack-in"
13. Swank server will be started and you will be in SLIME/ swank mode.
Happy hacking...!
Nov 10, 2011
I am struggling probably much more than you do.
I have followed all you indications to install emacs, lein and SLIME/swank. When at the end I runemacs, type M-x, type "clojure-jack-in" I get [No match]. What am I doing wrong?
Nov 15, 2011
Did you get to solve the problem?
If you have advanced as far as installing swank, I am not sure why this occurs?
Were you able to start a swank sever using lein swank?
How does your .emacs file look like?
Nov 15, 2011
Thanks for you answer.
For now I have given up with emacs. I went over the no match issue, but had some other kind of error.
This has been a VERY LONG adventure in frustration atter frustration for an older user of Visual Lisp an Visual Basic. I have hack some code here and there and know that clojure can do exactly what I want. In my case the clojure code is not a problem but it is becoming mission impossible to find an IDE that you can install, code and compile without having to install and configure a bounch of other things like lein, swank, slime etc ... etc...
I'll keep on trying until the come out with the clojure install for windows with all the goodies inside.
Thanks again,
Nov 16, 2011
Hi Jose
In that case, did you try Clooj? It is supposed to be a easy-to-setup and simple editor. I haven't tried yet. EDIT: I just downloaded it. It's just a jar file and looks like zero installation.
I think it is worth a try.
Nov 16, 2011
On my pilgrimage through all the available deveopment platforms I think I did try it, but I am going to give a second look again.
Thanks. Will keep you posted,
Dec 22, 2011
You might have a look at the radically simplified setup (requires lein):
and the more extensive blog post (and video) here:
The clojure-mode in ELPA / package.el is outdated and currently does not contain M-x clojure-jack-in
I simply cloned clojure-mode from github into ~/.emacs.d and reference it in ~/.emacs like so:
(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/")
(require 'clojure-mode)
Then continue with steps 2 and 3.
It really doesn't take longer than a few minutes.
Feb 17, 2012
Can we get this information clearly flagged at the top of the page, please? It's not clear from anywhere in the text of this page (or, in fact, anywhere else that I can see) that tromey.com/elpa is deprecated. I wasted a couple of hours last night in part because of this.
There's a further source of confusion in that if you're on emacs23, you need to grab a specific version of package.el - from http://github.com/technomancy/package.el. If you follow the clojure-mode link in the body of this page, the README you end up at has apparently the right link, but it's directly to a blob in a git repo, so it's not abundantly clear that it's a link that's maintained to point at the correct version.
It also seems that if you're going to use package.el, you must use the Marmalade repository.
Jan 19, 2012
In the section about where SLIME output goes, there is this rule:
3. stdout of all the other threads go to the console of
the VM, because they inherit System/out
Is it possible to view or redirect the console of the VM? It would be nice to be view output of things happening on other threads!


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ScissorBoy brauchte ein neues Print oder Verpackung Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 25 Designs von 13 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
We need a 4 X 6" postcard print ad designed for our online TV series for hairstylists. We are launching the site in a few weeks so we need a design fast!
The winning designer will also be given high priority as a candidate for designing our next full page design immediately following this design.
I would like to have a full color postcard designed (double sided) to promote our new video education series.
I would like to have a pic of myself (call me ScissorBoy - the guy in the scissorboy shirt) and Amy (the lady in the scissorboy shirt) incorporated into the poster somewhere. I have pics of us as well as some logo artwork in png format at:
(click on the thumbnail pic for a larger view then click on the download button to download the full size version)
Feel free to use other pics as long as we are able to freely usethem or can purchase the rights to use them for a reasonable amount.
You can arrange the text however you think it will look good and addwhatever backgrounds or images you think would make this design lookawesome ;)
Good luck and I look forward to seeing your submission!
Below is the text I would like to have appear on the page (you don't have to use all of the text if there isn't enough room):
- JoinAmy E. and ScissorBoy in salons from Hollywood toMoscow
- Look over the shoulder of top hairstylists and learn how to do what they do!
- Learn the newest cut, color and styling techniques
- Learn how to attract LOYAL high paying clients
- Be inspired with new tips, tricks & techniques
- Everything is broken down into easy to follow step-by-step instructions
- Skip to the part you want to watch. Pause, rewind and comment
HIGHLIGHT TEXT at the bottom of the poster:
- New episodes every Monday on:
- your hairstyling station
This design should be post card sized. However, we do not want it to be a post card (that means you do not have to leave space for stamps/address etc.)


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Wednesday, August 10, 2011
I have no interest in debating the theological merits of that topic and I'd appreciate it if none of you did either. I'd just like to know something.
What is up with leftists and giant papier-mâché puppets of doom?
You see them all the time in secular leftist demonstrations and I sort of understand using them there. Well, no, actually, I don't. If you want to convince me to back your cause, looking as stupid as you possibly can is no way to go about it.
But I really don't understand using them in church. Do these people seriously believe that people like me are going to take one look at ridiculous displays like this and think, "Jeepers, are these people spiritual!! Maybe they're right and I'm wrong."
Because that's not the message I'm picking up, yo.
30 comments:
- Brian P. Craig said...
The left-wing puppet aesthetic goes back to the 1960s and Bread and Puppet Theater, which performed at all sorts of protests and featured a giant Uncle Sam puppet. Given that many of these current Catholic dissidents cut their teeth back then, it's easy for them to have borrowed the idea.
- August 10, 2011 at 4:04 PM
- WannabeAnglican said...
I see Wallace, but where's Gromit?
- August 10, 2011 at 4:04 PM
- Brian P. Craig said...
And as for using them in churches, I guess it's the same as breaking into a missile plant and spray-painting graffiti. The mentality is to go right to the source of what you're protesting. You're right, however, to point out that it shows a complete loss of understanding of what goes on in a church, especially at Mass.
- August 10, 2011 at 4:08 PM
- Scott Diekmann said...
You've got to replace the Word with something - hence the puppets.
- August 10, 2011 at 5:13 PM
- D said...
Dude, what's with Smirky McHalo on the right?
- August 10, 2011 at 9:32 PM
I'm one who believes that one's preferences in art reflects one's personality.
- August 11, 2011 at 12:53 AM
They are really creepy but the whole giant puppet thing crops up at big opening ceremonies and stuff to,The Beijing Olympics managed to avoid them I hope London does too.
Certain sort of performance art seems to use them all the time, carnivals etc.Why do they have to be so ugly and badly proportioned??
wv-snized = hidden sneezing under giant puppet of doom.
- August 11, 2011 at 3:58 AM
- Albert Herbert Hawkins said...
Why offer a carefully constructed sermon or a thoughtful and convincing essay when you can apparently express yourself with skills acquired in infant school? Which leads me to ponder, why are we wasting money sending seminarians away to study for years on end...we could just ordain 5 year olds!
- August 11, 2011 at 8:08 AM
5 years olds would be TERRIFIED of something like this - it would haunt their dreams for the rest of their lives.
Call it natural taste.
- August 11, 2011 at 2:18 PM
Everything they've learned they learned on Sesame Street?
- August 11, 2011 at 2:51 PM
- Andy said...
Sorry, these are just a bit too creepy for my palate. I agree with Therese Z; these would have scared the bee-jeebers out of my sons at a tender age.
- August 11, 2011 at 3:38 PM
- JohnH said...
Brian, thanks for the tip about the Bread and Puppet Theater. That explains a lot. Also, thanks for pointing out that Catholic dissidents are keen on this stuff. Orthodox Catholics like myself think this stuff is revolting during the liturgy (nauseating elsewhere perhaps, but revolting at Mass).
This site is a little like a car wreck. You know it will be bad, but it is hard not to look.
- August 11, 2011 at 10:34 PM
- Sand Mama said...
To me this just seems like more of the consistently weird attempts of Catholic Liturgy Committees and a certain type of priest to appeal to 'youth'.
They (stubbornly?) never ever get it that they look foolish indeed to the young people they are trying to 'relate' to.
This started in the '70's and so many of us are now in our 40's. Attendance isn't up at these things, I wonder when they will realize it isn't working...
- August 12, 2011 at 9:54 AM
Another hat tip to Brian for the enlightenment
- August 12, 2011 at 1:55 PM
Regardless of origin the intention may be to stifle dissent, as in: go along with my agenda or I'll clobber you.
- August 13, 2011 at 8:49 AM
- Galletta said...
Can't they be used as pinatas?
- August 13, 2011 at 9:23 AM
- Brian Delaney said...
Whenever you see those puppets, you know there is danger ahead to both faith and morals !
- August 14, 2011 at 8:30 AM
It makes perfect sense, when what is important to these people is to make changes to the church to make themselves happy with pride (deadly sin), God and the church become a joke!! Bring in the puppets and the clowns!!
- August 14, 2011 at 2:46 PM
soon to be formerly Episcopalian
- August 16, 2011 at 12:49 AM
The "liturgical" use of puppets by the Bread and Puppets Theater, from their wikipedia page:
"In December 2001 the Theater returned to New York with The Insurrection Mass with Funeral March for a Rotten Idea: A Special Mass for the Aftermath of the Events of September 11th. It was presented at Theater for the New City, and billed as "a nonreligious service in the presence of several papier-mâché gods." The "Insurrection Masses" are a common format for the Bread & Puppet Theater, as are such "Funerals", though the "rotten" ideas change.
- August 17, 2011 at 6:00 AM
Bread and Puppet is still active, I see adds for shows every couple of months, or they're part of some festival or another. However, I have never seen puppets as part of a Catholic liturgy in Vermont.
Thank God for good priests, good taste, and good judgement!
- August 18, 2011 at 8:41 PM
Coming to a "church" near you soon: Mardi Gras Mummers Bands.
- August 22, 2011 at 8:31 PM
Leftists have never progressed past childish mentalities which is why they love this schtick.
- August 23, 2011 at 11:11 AM
- priest's wife said...
I would show the photo to my kids- but they would get nightmares
- August 23, 2011 at 12:40 PM
- Richmonde said...
I was going to say its 10th-hand Marxist theory about the need to be ludic and reclaim "carnival", but Sand Mama has said it for me.
- August 28, 2011 at 1:04 PM
I think it is an interesting observation that what seemed so radical in the 60s now seems so out of place and misguided...The so-called radicals haven't woken up to the fact that they are now so, so seriously out of date. Viva neo-orthodoxy!!!
- August 30, 2011 at 7:44 AM
Wow. Must be a leftist RC thing. I am an Episcopalian and most here would consider me pretty liberal but I would never, ever think these idiotic puppets are okay at anything.
- September 3, 2011 at 6:34 AM
- Infidel de Manahatta said...
Living in Manhattan I see giant paper mache puppets from time to time. And like you I never understand HOW exactly it is supposed to make your cause look good.
Size isn't everything!
Then again maybe I have paper mache puppet envy.
- January 9, 2012 at 4:01 PM
They don't worry about whether children will be scared. Their children never survived the womb.
- February 10, 2012 at 4:32 PM
The puppets are a strong argument against female "ordination." If it would lead to more big paper puppets, the answer just has to be no.
- July 27, 2012 at 12:47 PM