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With bellys and refrigerators full of turkey, the Christmas season is now in full swing. Below is a list of next weekend's holiday events in the region.
BERWICK, Maine
Saturday, Dec. 1
Christmas on the Farm — The 2012 Parade theme is "Christmas on the Farm." The parade route will start at 2 p.m. from Wilson St. then straight across to Allen St. (RT. 236), proceed right onto Sawmill Hill Rd. down by the bridge crossing onto Sullivan St. by the Town Hall (with the regular flow of traffic) and going right onto Wilson St. TIME: Check in will begin at noon at the old Prime Tanning Parking lot off at the corner of Wilson & Sullivan Streets. (We are NOT using the parking lot of the Police Station because it is under construction) Berwick Firefighters will direct entries to their designated locations in the parking lot and some entries will be on Wilson St. and Fire and EMS vehicles will be on Jordan St. Entries participating in judging must check in at the Check-in station to let the Parade Committee know you have arrived. Judging will begin at 12:30 p.m. Floats and other participants not being judged need to arrive by 1:30 p.m.
Saturday, Dec. 1
Rockingham Choral Society Concert for the Holidays — The Rockingham Choral Society, under the direction of Andrew Gaydos, will present its Concert for the Holidays. The concerts will be Saturday, Dec. 1 at First Parish Church, 218 Central Avenue, Dover at 7:30 p.m. General admission is $12 and seniors and students $10. Advance tickets are available at reduced prices online at www.rockinghamchoralsociety.org.
The concert will feature J.S. Bach's Wie schon leuchtet der Morgenstern, Lauda per la Nativita del Signore by Respighi, several Chankah and holiday selections, and selected sing-along traditional carols. The society was formed in 1957 and has a tradition of presenting classical and contemporary choral works in the Seacoast area. The society has approximately 60 members from various communities including Dover, Lee, Exeter, Barrington, Rye, North Hampton and Hampstead. For more information and to purchase tickets, please visit our website at www.rockinghamchoralsociety.org.
Thursday, Nov. 29 to Saturday, Dec. 1
Poinsettia trials — The Macfarlane Greenhouses, the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station, and the Thompson School horticultural facility at the University of New Hampshire will host the popular Poinsettia Trials Open House Thursday, Nov. 29, through Saturday, Dec. 1.
Visitors to the free event, now in its seventh year, will enjoy more than 100 poinsettia varieties and assist in ongoing research.
Poinsettias on display will go far beyond the traditional red to shades of pink, apricot, and deep burgundy; variegations of red, white, and pink shades; and those with names like Polar Bear, Red Glitter, Holly Jolly Dark Red, Sparkling Punch, Candlelight, Tapestry, and Ruby Frost. Visitors to the trials will assist in research by recording their favorites from among new and different varieties. Completing this survey will enter visitors into a drawing to win a poinsettia. In addition, visitors can tour the greenhouses and see the 12-foot poinsettia tree in the lobby of the Whittemore Center.
The Poinsettia Trials Open House is at the Macfarlane Greenhouses at 296 Mast Road, on the west edge of campus, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday and Saturday. On Thursday and Friday metered parking is available at the UNH Visitor Center across from the greenhouses; parking on Saturday is free. The greenhouses are also served by Wildcat Transit's free shuttle service: www.wildcattransit.com.
ELIOT, Maine
Saturday, December 1
Tree lighting ceremony — Join us on the first Saturday of December for the annual Tree Lighting Ceremony at Hammond Park. The ECSD will provide hot chocolate and cookies, with a sing-along led by Marshwood High School chorus. Plus, Santa will make a grand entrance and join the festivities. Bring your camera, your very best singing voice and something warm to wear. The event will only be postponed in the event of rain or a severe snowstorm (a little snow won't hurt us). The event will take place at Hammond Park at 6 p.m.
Sunday, Dec. 2
Rockingham Choral Society Concert for the Holidays — The Rockingham Choral Society, under the direction of Andrew Gaydos, will present its Concert for the Holidays. The concert will be Sunday, Dec. 2 at 3 p.m. at Christ Church, 43 Pine Street, Exeter. General admission is $12 and seniors and students $10. Advance tickets are available at reduced prices online at www.rockinghamchoralsociety.org.
The concert will feature J.S. Bach's Wie schon leuchtet der Morgenstern, Lauda per la Nativita del Signore by Respighi, several Chankah and holiday selections, and selected sing-along traditional carols. The society was formed in 1957 and has a tradition of presenting classical and contemporary choral works in the Seacoast area. The society has approximately 60 members from various communities including Dover, Lee, Exeter, Barrington, Rye, North Hampton and Hampstead. For more information and to purchase tickets, please visit our website at www.rockinghamchoralsociety.org.
Saturday, Dec. 1
Oh, Christmas tree — A Christmas tree lighting will be held in the center of town at 5 p.m.
Saturday, Dec. 1
"SEA the MIRACLES" Holiday parade — The pride of Hampton is evident in the theme for this year's Christmas Parade, which kicks off at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 1.
Like a beautiful sunrise over Hampton Beach, "SEA the MIRACLES" reflects the miracle of Christmas, the miracle of sharing our lives on the Seacoast with our family and friends, and the two miracle miles in Hampton; the beach and downtown. Let's "SEA" the Hampton miracles of living in a wonderful seacoast town.
Do you have a business or an organization that would like to share in the excitement of the 2012 Hampton Christmas Parade? Create a float depicting this year's theme, "Sea the Miracles" and be part of the experience of the three-mile parade route through Hampton. Creative floats celebrating our wonderful seacoast town, downtown Hampton, our family and friends, and the miracle of Christmas will make this year's parade a memorable event. Please go to Experience Hampton's website:
www.experiencehamptonnh.org for entry application forms, rules and regulations for floats, and parade committee contact information. There are no entry fees. Get your entry in as soon as possible.
Saturday, Dec. 1.
Book fair at Barnes and Noble — A book fair will be held at Barnes and Noble in Newington from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. to benefit the Newington Public School. A percentage of all items purchased in the store using the Newington Public School voucher will be donated to the school. Shoppers can also visit www.BN.COM/bookfairs between Dec. 1-6 to make purchases online that will support the school.
Monday, Dec. 3 and Monday, Dec. 10
Pet Photo Nights at the Fox Run Mall — Four-legged family members are invited to join in the holiday fun this year. Shoppers will be able to bring their pets to the mall to sit on Santa's lap during Pet Photo Nights on Dec. 3 and Dec. 10. Festivities will take place from 6-8 p.m. on both nights. All pet owners are encouraged to bring their animals in a cage or keep them on a leash.
Saturday, Dec. 1
Tree lighting ceremony — Businesses in Newmarket will be celebrating the gift of giving with caroling and the annual town tree lighting ceremony, which takes place downtown from 5-6 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 1.
Additionally, members of the Lamprey Arts & Culture Alliance (LACA) plan to roast chestnuts out on Main Street, and trade those treats for canned food donations to benefit a local food bank, from 12-2 p.m. Carolers will also stroll the downtown area. The Riverworks will host its Holiday Craft Fair from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. that day. Expect loads of locally-made crafts.
Christmas Fair — Newmarket Community Church will also hold its annual Christmas Fair on Saturday, Dec. 1. The church, located at 137 Main St., will open its doors for the event from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., rain or shine. The event takes place in the church vestry, and admission is free.
Shoppers can expect to eat and visit with new and old friends while perusing some of the goods on hand. Organizers say there will be something for everyone — from grab bags for the children to Christmas decorations to booths selling vintage goods and "man cave" items.
Other highlights for the fair include a visit from Santa, door prizes, a raffle and auction and games and toys for kids. For more information about the fair, please call the church office at 603-659-3892.
Saturday, Dec. 1
Portsmouth Holiday Parade — Mayor Eric Spear has named the Rotary Club of Portsmouth, which is celebrating its 90th year of serving the local community, as grand marshal of the "A Sharing Season" 2012 Illuminated Holiday Parade and Food Drive on Dec. 1.
Parade participants and spectators are being urged to also help others by donating nonperishable food items to support three local food pantries, which are experiencing 50 percent increases in clientele compared to last year. Volunteers from Portsmouth High School will push shopping carts, loaned by Shaw's, along the parade route to collect the food from paradegoers.
The carts will join eight marching bands, as well as floats, vehicles, walking units and Santa Claus when the parade steps off at 6 p.m. following the annual Holiday Tree Lighting Ceremony, which begins at 5 p.m. with holiday music performed by the Portsmouth Middle School Band at the parade reviewing stand in Market Square and concludes with the official tree lighting at 5:30 p.m. An estimated 9,000 people are expected to line the 1.1-mile parade route that begins at the Plaza 800 area and ends at the South Mill Pond parking lot.
The food pantries' wish list can be found on the mayor's page at www.cityofportsmouth.com, along with the parade route and other information related to the evening's activities. The city will offer a set $3 parking fee between 3 and 7 p.m. at the High-Hanover Parking Facility for those attending the festivities. The list of downtown streets to be closed from 4 to 9 p.m. will be listed at www.CityofPortsmouth.com a few days before the parade.
UNH Faculty Concert Series featuring Robert Stibler and Abbey Hallberg Siegfried — The University of New Hampshire Department of Music Faculty Concert Series presents "A Brassy Baroque Christmas," featuring Robert Stibler, Mark Zielinski and Adam Gallant on trumpet and Abbey Hallberg Siegfried playing organ. The concert takes place at 7:30 p.m. at St. John's Episcopal Church, located at 101 Chapel St. in Portsmouth. It will feature Baroque music for the Christmas season by Bach, Balbastre, Vivaldi, and Le Begue.
Weekends in December
Candlelight Stroll at Strawbery Banke — Candlelight Stroll at Strawbery Banke Museum, now in its 33rd year, offers visitors a glimpse into an authentic "Winter's Eve on Puddle Dock." The experience that is one of New Hampshire's most-treasured holiday events is a family tradition for many who return year after year to savor what's new as well as their favorite details.
Families are drawn to the magic of an authentic "old-time" Christmas, when night watchmen walked and cheery bonfires warmed passersby. Visitors travel in a horse-drawn carriage along the lanes lit with real candle lanterns. The historic houses are decorated to their eras with fresh greens and dried herbs and flowers collected from the museum gardens. Candlelight Stroll takes place Dec. 1-2, 8-9 and 15-16. Saturday hours are 5-9 p.m.; Sunday hours are 4-8 p.m. Tickets are $20 for adults; $10 for children 5-17 and free to children under 5. Family ticket is $50 for two adults and accompanying children under 17. Tickets are available on the Museum website starting Nov. 1. There is a $2 per ticket discount for tickets purchased between Nov. 1 and Nov. 30. Tickets may also be purchased in the Strawbery Banke Museum Store, open daily 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Free parking and free admission at all times for the Museum Store. For information, call 603-433-1100 or visit www.strawberybanke.org
Sunday, Dec. 2
'Natalie MacMaster: Christmas in Cape Breton' at The Music Hall — An electrifying performer thrilling audiences from Carnegie Hall to Prairie Home Companion to The Music Hall, this Cape Breton Island fiddler weaves her skill, passion, and incredible musicianship to produce performances filled with foot-tapping rave-ups, heart-wrenching ballads, world-class step dancing, and fiddling fireworks. Performances take place at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. at The Music Hall, located at 28 Chestnut St. Tickets are available in advance for $35 or at the door for $44.
Seacoast Wind Ensemble Holiday Concert — The concert takes place at 3 p.m. at the First United Methodist Church of Portsmouth, located at 129 Miller Ave. It will feature holiday favorites, both sacred and secular, and ranging from classical to popular music. Admission is free, but donations will be gratefully accepted at the door. The Seacoast Wind Ensemble, a 50-piece concert band, has been entertaining audiences throughout the Seacoast and beyond for more than 25 years.
Thursday, Nov. 29
Make a wreath — The Rochester Public Library presents Holiday Wreath-making on Thursday, Nov. 29. Join us to decorate your holiday wreath! We'll provide the decorations, you just bring your wreath! Studley Flower Gardens will be here from 10 a.m. to noon and from 6 to 8 p.m. to help you create beautiful, festive bows. Stop in any time from noon to 6 p.m. to decorate your wreath unassisted. This event is free! The Rochester Public Library is located at 65 South Main St. and no registration is necessary. For more information please call (603) 335-7550 or visit www.rpl.lib.nh.us.
Friday, Nov. 30
Tree lighting — The Greater Rochester Chamber of Commerce is pleased to be presenting Rochester's second annual Holiday Tree Lighting Ceremony. The Tree Lighting Ceremony, underwritten by Frisbie Memorial Hospital, will be held on Friday, Nov. 30, from 5:30-6:30 p.m. at Central Square in downtown Rochester.
Those who attend will enjoy hot chocolate and cookies provided by Citizens Bank; dance performances provided by Studio 109 Dance, Voice & Drama; caroling provided by the Frisbie Memorial Hospital carolers; cookie decorating at the Chamber office and a very special visit from Santa! Children may visit Santa at Federal Savings Bank, located at 17 Wakefield St., any time between 5:30 and 6:30 p.m. Be sure to bring your camera for pictures! Mayor Thomas "T.J." Jean will also be at the ceremony to light Rochester's holiday tree for the first time of the 2012 holiday season and a reading of "T'was the Night Before Christmas" will take place after the lighting.
In addition to the festivities at the square, several downtown merchants and eateries will also be participating to help kick off the holiday shopping season. Participants to-date include Bella Fresca, Carney Medical Supply, J & K Second Hand Shop, Mel Flanagan's Irish Pub & Caf�, Moe's Italian Sandwiches, Portable Pantry Caf� & Catering and Skele-Tone Record and Clothing. Be sure to visit the Chamber website at www.rochesternh.org for the most updated list of participating merchants and a detailed list of offerings.
Saturday, Dec. 1
Bell ringing — Granite State Ringers, New Hampshire's only community bronze handbell choir, is pleased to announce an audience interactive concert December 1, 2012 at 7 p.m., at the First United Methodist Church, 34 South Main Street, Rochester, New Hampshire. This event is open to the general public. Admission is a suggested donation of $10.00 per person.
Led by director, Joan Fossum, this concert will feature a variety of holiday music including Martha Lynn Thompson's arrangement of Leroy Anderson's "Sleigh Ride", Hark the Herald Angels Sing" composed by Felix Mendelssohn and arranged by Cathy Moklebust, Sherman's arrangement of "Carol of the Bells", and "All I Want for Christmas" composed by Donald Gardner and arranged by Matthew Prins. Granite State Ringers will perform the first half of the concert. Children between the ages of 5 and 18 will then have the opportunity to play alongside GSR during the second half. A child volunteer, selected at random, will also have the chance to be choir director.
or those who are not familiar with handbells, think of a handbell choir like the keys on a piano. Each person in the choir controls a few piano keys. The more octaves of bells you have, the more people are needed. The bells are kept in order like a key board – lowest to highest – in chromatic order.
andbell and handchime ringing is a great way for people of all ages to have an opportunity to experience the joy of music. Even very young children with little or no musical experience can participate by copying rhythms and playing simple melodies. Handbell ringing can offer all people the chance to learn the basics while building confidence and music appreciation.
For additional information on this organization and upcoming performances, please visit our website www.granitestateringers.org.
Sunday, Dec. 2
Soup, Chili and Chowder Fest — On Sunday, Dec. 2, Rochester Firefighters Toy Bank will be hosting a Soup, Chili and Chowder Fest to benefit the Rochester Firefighters Toy Bank.
The Fest will run from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Knights of Columbus Hall on Columbus Avenue. Those coming to the festival will pay $5 to sample all of the entries and judge them, they will also be provided with a beverage and dessert. At the end of the Festival the ballots will be counted and the winning contestants will get a plaque for 1st place for soup, chili or chowder.
If you would like to participate, we would like you to bring the soup, chili or chowder to the K. of C. Hall by 10:30 a.m. on that day. If you would like to set up a display and serve it, you are welcome to do so. If you would like to take part in this Fest, please contact Paul or Cindi at 335-7545 or at email@example.com.
Holiday parade — The Greater Rochester Chamber of Commerce's "Cartoon Christmas" parade is slated for Sunday, Dec. 2, at 3 p.m.
The parade will feature an array of floats from businesses, organizations and youth groups, as well as high school marching bands, marching units, equestrians and more. For the 10th year, Profile Bank has provided a generous contribution to underwrite this year's parade.
The parade route will begin on Wakefield Street by the triangle at the entrance to the Richard Creteau Technology Center. It will proceed south on Wakefield Street, turn right onto Union Street, turn left onto North Main Street, to South Main Street, and disband in front of the Rochester Common.
Approximately 2,000 individuals participate in Rochester's Holiday Parade each year and thousands view the parade as spectators during the parade and via broadcasts throughout the holiday season, compliments of Metrocast. All are welcome to join in the holiday spirit generated by this festive community event. Entries will be accepted through Nov. 26. For more information or to receive an entry form and instructions for Rochester's Holiday Parade, please call the chamber office at 332-5080 or visit www.rochesternh.org.
Holiday Pops Concert — Following the parade, the Strafford Wind Symphony will present its free annual Holiday Pops Concert at 6 p.m. The concert will be at the Emmanuel Church Family Life Center at 24 Eastern Ave. Special guest Tom Haines, University of New Hampshire assistant professor and Boston Globe journalist, will share his storytelling talents by narrating the Polar Express. A bake sale and gift basket raffle will also be held during the event. For additional information, visit www.straffordwindsymphony.com.
l Toy Bank campaign or for information on any of the benefit events, please contact Cindi Potts at the Fire Department at 603-335-7545 or email email@example.com.
Friday, Nov. 30 to Saturday, Dec. 1
Home for the Holidays — For the first time, the South Berwick Home for the Holidays celebration on Friday, Nov. 30, will conclude with a community candlelight sing on the lawn at Town Hall. In fact, musical offerings will be a central part of the entertainment this year. From the carolers stopping in Main Street stores to the minstrel wandering along Lower Main, the downtown festivities from 5 to 8 p.m. will feature an impressive selection of song and instrument.
The new South Berwick Public Library on Young Street will host violin students from the Violin & Fiddle Studio of Salmon Falls Mills; organist Priscilla Pelletier is offering a concert at the Free Baptist Church, and the popular Hand Bell Choir will return to Seacoast Christian Academy.
Everyone in the community is invited to join the Main Street carolers led by members of the Rock My Soul gospel group. At the close of the evening, revelers are encouraged to gather with local singer Susie Burke 8 p.m. at Town Hall for a final candlelight sing.
The annual Home for the Holidays event, now in its eighth year, has been drawing more than 1,000 people downtown each year to decorate cookies, ride a carriage drawn by mini horses, visit Santa, and purchase the art of local women.
The Women's Holiday Art Show, a central part of the event, will be held this year in the Jewett-Eastman House, the former public library at 37 Portland St., where 15 women will be selling handcrafted art, jewelry, books and CD's. Now in its 14th year, the art sale also will be open Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Among the new businesses in town, Portico Porch on Lower Main plans games and music Friday evening, uptown Affinity Salon and Spaworks will offer free hand massages and sugar treatments, and Pamela du Long will open her art studio at Young Street. For adults, there will be wine tastings along the way, and "sobotinis" at Isidores.
Besides the violin concert, the library will offer an outdoor campfire, cocoa and cider and a seasonal story read by elves as well as crafts and a gift from "Santa's Bookshelf." Pepperland will host its traditional cookie decorating for kids while parents warm up with toddies and talk.
Large canvases will be erected on the sidewalk outside MaineLine Tattoo to create community-made murals that will be raffled off at the end of the evening, and Doodlebugz Pottery Studio will set up in Central School for those who want to take an artistic break.
In the last eight years, Home for the Holidays has become a centerpiece of community life in the holiday season as downtown business owners keep their doors open into the evening and town residents and visitors fill the streets with cheer.
SoBo Central, the nonprofit group that provides an umbrella for Home for the Holidays and six other local programs, will run its popular scavenger hunt beginning and ending at either Bob's Trophies or SoBotique. The hunt will challenge families to find hidden objects at retail outlets around town, and those who succeed will win a prize at either location.
On Saturday, there will be craft fairs at the First Parish Federated Church, First Baptist Church and Marshwood High School. The Jewett House also will be open 10-2 on Saturday.
The Home for the Holidays brochure with a complete listing of activities is online at www.southberwickmaine.org or SoBo Central's website at www.sobocentral.org.
Saturday, Dec. 1
Gingerbread house contest — Participants are needed for a Gingerbread House contest hosted by Strafford Historical Society and Farmyard Friends 4H Club. The contest will be held on Saturday, Dec. 1, at the Waldron Store. Categories will be as follows: Youth up to age 11; junior age 12-17; adult; and family. All entries will receive a ribbon with winners receiving a rosette. No charge to enter. Drop off will be Friday, Nov. 30 from 1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. or call to make other arrangements. Houses will be on display Saturday only during Christmas in Strafford. Pick up will be Saturday from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. For more information, please call or email Carla Robidas at 332-6637 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Saturday, Dec. 1
Farmers' and crafters' market — The Wakefield Marketplace, a farmers' and crafters' market, is celebrating the end of its 17th summer season with a holiday craft fair at St. Anthony's Parish Hall, 251 Meadow St., on Saturday, Dec. 1 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
A wide assortment of distinctive hand made gifts and home grown products will be available to help you with your Christmas shopping and home decorating. Hand made goods include holiday decorations and wreaths, tree ornaments, yarn and fabric creations, jewelry, dolls, teddy bears and much more. Farm products such as wool yarn, roving and felt, meats, eggs, honey, maple syrup will be offered, along with baked goods. So do your Christmas shopping early at the Wakefield Marketplace Holiday Fair!
Holiday events to spread cheer regionally
With bellys and refrigerators full of turkey, the Christmas season is now in full swing. Below is a list of next weekend's holiday events in the region.


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Ambassadors are needed for 2-hour blocks throughout the run of conference. A brief description for each welcome activity is included. Please click on each Sign Up when you are ready to choose the day and time. You will need to click on 'Edit' and log in using the user name and password provided to you in the email. If you do not have a user name or password and are interested in being an Ambassador, contact John Chrastka at email@example.com to receive login credentials.
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Some thoughts on Haskell library design
Few weeks ago, I released a first (experimental) version of my Haskell Neural Network library.
And since then, I have been thinking about the design of this library (and got some feedbacks from haskellers) : how to improve it, how to let people easily plug their stuffs in it, etc. In this post I'll try to share my thoughts about how HNN can be improved (without anything neural network specific). I hope it will somehow be useful to someone.
Typeclasses — "Is it really worth creating a typeclass for … ?"
Let's first replace this in its context. I like very much the typeclass feature of Haskell, I already used it for many things. But hey, HNN is a project for the Haskell community, I just can't throw some typeclasses in it without actually thinking about why it would be good, and why it wouldn't. Wouldn't it be overkill and thus make haskell code using HNN less nice ?
In my case, it is about the list-of-value storage. I started to store the weights and the inputs/outputs with lists of double. Pretty inefficient yeah, but I was rather prototyping than seriously writing the library. Then I moved to the uvector package, on Hackage. Way more efficient. But, you may wonder the following : "what would he do if we have an even nicer and more efficient container ?" — and you're right. For the moment, intern stuffs are stored in an UArr and I provide both a list-based interface and an UArr-based one. But, hell, it's already annoying to maintain both of these ! But I couldn't at that moment look at my code with enough hindsight to get the good and the bad and actually operate the necessary changes to make it for the release of the 0.1 version.
A possible plan for the next version is to have a typeclass representing Storage related functions, and instanciate it for UArr and List. Then I'd abstract the functions that I have to call differently for List, UArr and all in the Storage typeclass and thus would only require an instance of Storage to be given to the functions I need. This way, if you have some container in some other part of your project, or if you just want to have a more performant / specific container store your values, it'll be possible, provided you will give the necessary functions at the typeclass instanciation.
Now that I shared my reasonning path, yeah, obviously, there will be a typeclass for value storing. I even have some ideas about other uses for typeclasses, in particular one being suggested by Thomas Bereknyei : it would represent a computation. Why would it be interesting ? So that we could have complex computation units within neural networks, or interacting with neural networks. I'm particularly thinking of Kohonen Maps or recurrent neural networks.
About "exposed function granularity"
Maybe you already wondered whether you should expose few functions covering most of the tasks you library accomplishes or if you should rather provide many functions for little tasks. First, I don't think there's an universal answer to that question. It highly depends on the "combinatorial" capacity of the underlying concepts. For example, parsec provides many little functions because using parsec consists in combining these little functions to create more complex parsers. With neural networks, we don't have that much of a combinatorial power. I mean, you create your neural network, apply training functions on it, and then use it. And the library does not have (yet) enough maturity to provide features like neural network combinations or so. So what's the best for HNN ?
For the moment, we only have few functions doing almost all the job, giving them parameters to have the necessary flexibility to train the neural network with the smoothness we want, etc. I think it might be interesting to provide something similar to data structure folding for the neural networks, or even consider offering a graph-oriented interface (after all, that's what neural networks are) and provide graph traversal functions to operate on the neural network. The key point here is to – whatever way I choose – provide higher order functions to operate on the neural networks, in addition to the simple and straighforward functions we can find in the library for the moment.
I will try to introduce some typeclasses to offer more flexibility to the future users, the number one priority being for the value storage. In addition to that, I have to provide users functions offering them to do nearly anything they want on the neural network, like we have folds for lists, trees and all. If these both goals are satisfied in a close future, HNN should definitely be more interesting for serious use. Another point I have to consider is to offer even better performances since neural networks "just" compute stuffs. UArr helped a lot for that, but I'm pretty sure I can introduce other improvements on that aspect of HNN. I just need to read again some pages of the GHC manual 😉
I hope these thoughts will be useful to someone. At least, they have been to me.


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I thought it might be polite to introduce myself. So here I go:
I'm not an IT guy by profession. More something like a mix of an enthousiast, a geek and a power user. I like to think I know at least something about everything but not everything about something. A broad knowledge rather than deep knowledge that is.
For well over a decade I've been toying with GNU/Linux. Most of the distributions I worked with are Debian and Debian-based. The past few years though it has been exclusively Debian. I'm also on Windows XP but all blame for that, I shall forward on to my employer.
Apart from being an open source enthousiast, privacy (or shall I say the lack thereof) is something I read and think about. News papers of the past few months have been very interesting and have only strengthened my beliefs and fed my concerns around this matter.
Until 2 weeks ago I was completely *BSD ignorant. I think I never gave it any attention because I thought: BSD is less open/free than GPL, BSD has a smaller user base so probably less software/hardware support. Basically not interesting enough to learn a new OS. I didn't even consider reading about *BSD.
The thing that made me change my mind was a web page which had "highly secure" and "BSD" in the same scentence! Really?? I thought it might be worthwhile to have a closer look after all.
Since the stress at OpenBSD is much on security, I concluded that it would be my best fit of all the BSD flavours. Good stuff!! There was also a very recent book that had fantastic reviews "Absolute OpenBSD 2nd edition". That made me decide to give it a real try. I added an HD to my current Debian box and configured a dual boot and more less patiently waited for the book to arrive in my mail box.
Just as I did with my move from Windows 2000/XP to GNU/Linux more than a decade ago, I'm currently dual booting. And just as I did back then, sometimes I'm gnashing my teeth and pulling my hear out, at least the ones that are left.
The learning curve though, seems to be much less steep. Partially because I'm already familiar with the UNIX way of dealing with things and partially because the book is truly fantastic and it's well written! That makes I'm actually taking the time to read, reread, and practice .
I'm sure I'll have more gnashing of teeth ahead of me but I'm already starting to feel at home with OpenBSD!
Hello, and welcome to daemonforums! You're quite correct in the assessment of OpenBSD's security stance (though to be honest, *any* BSD is better security-wise in the default config than any mainstream OS like Linux, Windows, or OS X).
1) Modify code for a popular BSD-licensed project, and modify code for a popular GPL-licensed project.
2) Don't make the source for your modifications available to anyone.
3) Hire a lawyer, because Stallman will eventually sue you for violating the GPL.
Which seems more free now?
Just curious.
Linux/Network-Security Engineer by Profession. OpenBSD user by choice.
Welcome virtuvoos !
Sure you'll benefit from daemonforums.org
I wish you a nice stay !
Thanks for the welcomes.
Currently I'm not dual booting anymore, the HD with Debian on it is in the drawer of my desk, just in case I want to recover something I forgot to copy. OpenBSD actually works better on my curent hardware than Debian did
So one happy OpenBSD user here.
Welcome virtuvoos!! Daemonforums is a second to none BSD site. It is nice to meet you. I've been running FreeBSD since 5.x and OpenBSD since 5.0. I also like Debian and am a long time Slackware user. I really like OpenBSD a lot.
Another very belated welcome to you, virtuvoos!
I, too, use OpenBSD for work and it fulfills the requirements for every aspect of my audiophile nature. I do think the audio system in OpenBSD is highly under-appreciated. I do have a little raspberry-pi on which I run FreeBSD, but for all else I am running Puffy. I am quite excited at the prospect of using OpenBSD on my BeagleBone-Black (I can see the armv7 port of OpenBSD becoming very popular in the next while). Also, I will install it on my just-acquired Thinkpad T43 when it arrives next week ... Glad you are a fellow fan of the blowfish.
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MINNEAPOLIS — Much of the health club industry growth in the past several years has come from small format club operators, says The Mercanti Group, a boutique investment bank headquartered in Minneapolis.
U.S. club membership tops 41 million, revenues exceed $17 billion annually, and since 1983 the business has enjoyed 8 percent annual growth, according to Mercanti's recent report about the industry.
The trend will be aided by continued growth of larger format, multipurpose club operators, who have opened approximately 150 new facilities since 2004. However, increasingly small-format, niche-oriented or express clubs have and will continue to aid growth, says Mercanti Group Director Dave Remick, who authored the report.
The explosive unit growth of the small format clubs has been financed through franchising.
"Smaller format clubs tend to have more convenient locations and focus on a particular customer niche — women only, one-on-one training, fitness only — whereas the larger format, multipurpose club operators need larger real-estate footprints that are more expensive and difficult to develop, and by their nature, focus on offering a broad array of services, amenities and activities catering to a more diverse customer group, including families," he says.
The industry's growth has raised concerns regarding overcapacity. However, Remick notes that the bulk of new club openings are small format facilities with more limited member capacities.
"Clearly the bar has been raised," says Remick. "The industry, despite some consolidation, remains highly fragmented, and most health clubs in the U.S. remain in the hands of single-unit operators. It is ripe with opportunity."


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Salavans disguised himself knowing that these women probably wouldn't want their photos taken in the first place. He wore a surveyor's costume, complete with an assistant and a surveyor's pole. The results offer an unconventional into the world of prostitution that takes it off city streets and to quiet moments. (Via Feature Shoot)


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"We have a way of doing things here, and it's not going to change to accommodate a very small minority."
GEORGETOWN, Del. - After her family moved to this small town 30 years ago, Mona Dobrich grew up as the only Jew in school. Mrs. Dobrich, 39, married a local man, bought the house behind her parents' home and brought up her two children as Jews.
For years, she and her daughter, Samantha, listened to Christian prayers at public school potlucks, award dinners and parent-teacher group meetings, she said. But at Samantha's high school graduation in June 2004, a minister's prayer proclaiming Jesus as the only way to the truth nudged Mrs. Dobrich to act.
I'm sure you can guess what happened next. The good people of Georgetown Delaware realized that their behavior was unconstitutional (not to mention exclusionary and rude), apologized to the Dobriches, and changed their ways.
Actually, the Dobriches were threatened and her son was ridiculed for wearing his yarmulke and called "Alex the Jew." At one school board meeting, where Ms. Dobrich spoke about the need for policies that did not exclude people based on faith, another speaker said, "If you want people to stop calling him 'Jew boy,' you tell him to give his heart to Jesus."
This quote from a local resident seemed to sum up the community's attitude:
"We have a way of doing things here, and it's not going to change to accommodate a very small minority," said Kenneth R. Stevens, 41, a businessman sitting in the Georgetown Diner. "If they feel singled out, they should find another school or excuse themselves from those functions. It's our way of life."


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When it comes to big data, how many V's are enough?
Analyst Doug Laney used three -- volume, velocity and variety -- in defining big data back in the '90s. In recent years, revisionists have blown out the count to a too-many seven or eight. "Embrace and extend" is alive and well, it seems, expanding the market space but also creating confusion.
When a concept resonates, as big data has, vendors, pundits and gurus -- the revisionists -- spin it for their own ends. Big data revisionists would elevate value, veracity, variability/variance, viability and even victory (the last being a notion so obscure that I won't mention it further) to canonical V status. Each of the various new V's has its champions. Joining them are the contrarians who have given us the "small data" countertrend.
In my opinion, the wanna-V backers and the contrarians mistake interpretive, derived qualities for essential attributes.
The original 3 V's do a fine job of capturing essential big data attributes, but they do have shortcomings, specifically related to usefulness. As Forrester analyst Mike Gualtieri puts it, the original 3 V's are not "actionable." Gualtieri poses three pragmatic questions. The first relates to Big Data capture. The others relate to data processing and use: "Can you cleanse, enrich and analyze the data?" and "Can you retrieve, search, integrate and visualize the data?"
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As for "small data:" The concept is a misframing of the data challenge. Small data is nothing more or less than a filtered and reduced topical subset of the big data motherlode, again the product of analytics. Fortunately, attention to this bit of big data backlash seems to have ebbed, which lets us get back to the big picture.
3 V's and Beyond
The big picture is that original 3 V's work well. I won't explain them; instead, I will refer you to "Big Data 3 V's: Volume, Variety, Velocity," an infographic posted by Gil Press. You'll see that the infographic posits viability -- essentially, can the data be analyzed in a way that makes it decision-relevant? -- as "the missing V." The concluding line: "Many data scientists believe that perfecting as few as 5% of the relevant variables will get a business 95% of the same benefit. The trick is identifying that viable 5%, and extracting the most value from it." Hmm... It seems to me that the missing V could equally well have been Value.
Neil Biehn, writing in Wired, sees viability and value as distinct missing V's. Biehn's take on viability is similar to Press's. "We want to carefully select the attributes and factors that are most likely to predict outcomes that matter most to businesses," Biehn says. I agree, but note that the selection process is purpose-driven and external to the data.
"The secret is uncovering the latent, hidden relationships among these variables," Biehn continues. Again, I agree, but how do you determine predictive viability, generated by those latent relationships among variables? Professor Gary King of Harvard University read my mind when he stated, at a conference I attended in June, "Big data isn't about the data. It's about analytics." Viability isn't a big data property. It's a quality that you determine via big data analytics.
"We define prescriptive, needle-moving actions and behaviors and start to tap into the fifth V from big data: Value," Biehn asserts. Again, how do you determine prescriptive value, which Biehn notes is derived from, and hence is not an intrinsic quality of, big data? Analytics.
Analytics verifies not only the accuracy of predictions, but also the effectiveness of outcomes in achieving goals. Analytics ascertains the validity of the methods and the ROI impact of the overall data-centered initiative. ROI quantifies value, complementing the qualitative measure validity. Both V's are external to the data itself.
Compounding the Confusion
Variability and veracity are similarly analytics-derived qualities that relate more to data uses than to the data itself.
Variability is particularly confusing. "Many options or variable interpretations confound analysis," observed Forrester analysts Brian Hopkins and Boris Evelson back in 2011. Sure, and you can use a stapler to bang in a nail (I have), but that doesn't make it any less a stapler.
"For example, natural language search requires interpretation of complex and highly variable grammar," Hopkins and Evelson wrote. Put aside that grammar doesn't vary so much; rather, it's usage that is highly variable. Natural-language processing (NLP) techniques, as implemented in search and text-analytics systems, deal with variable usage by modeling language. NLP facilitates entity and information extraction, applied for particular business purposes.
(An entity is a uniquely identifiable thing or object; for instance, the name of a person, place, product or pattern, such as an e-mail address or Social Security number. Extractable information may include attributes of entities, relationships among entities, and constructs such as events -- "Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama, born January 17, 1964, an American lawyer and writer, is the wife of the 44th and current President of the United States" -- that we recognize as facts.)


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A yawning gap has developed between Kuro and Hisa's vote totals. Other voters are getting their own yawns and are staying away from this match. It's almost like they're willfully throwing Hisa under the bus in favor of Kuro and an all Achiga-hen Side-A Finals. Just past the 18 hour mark and she still has less than 40 hardcore supporters behind her.
She is going to need a miracle rush to catch up - except Miracle Rush is Achiga-hen Side-A's opening theme.
Spoiler for MIRACLE RUSH!:
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Someone call the mercy rule into play, I can't stay through two more innings of this slaughter.
Riku Harada may have only got into the 2003 final with 95 votes but her opponent was only 11 behind, that was as far as I can recall the previous low-water mark.
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Sho Taniguchi is with us, he is down in Achiga City and the Girls' Academy, where they are enjoying themselves. Sho, what's going on over there?
Sho: High spirits and high hopes for an upset. The musical troupe Green Leaves is performing their smash hit "Yatta!" and everyone is dancing along to the music. It's a cloudy evening down in Nara but there is no rain, and that is a good thing. The hope here is that Kuro Matsumi, who is currently leading Hisa Takei in this contest, will pull off the "Upset of the Century" against Toki Onjouji but they are aware that if it doesn't happen, they shouldn't be surprised. To get this far, and to see the Dragon Lord finish this high is already a victory in and of itself. That's the scene down in Achiga, we'll send it back to you.
Just a reminder, folks, the General Election for the Saimoe Prime Minister, the Grand Final of this 2012 2channel Anime Saimoe Tournament will take place at 1 a.m. JST on Saturday, November 3. Be sure to vote at ast2012.saimoe.me and follow our tracker at fc.jpn.org/ast2012. Coverage of the Victory Rally at the National Stadium in Tokyo will begin at about 8 p.m. Our international correspondent from Australia, RJ Tayler, will cover the final hour and a half for you here on 2channel World. This is the 2012 2channnel Anime Saimoe Tournament. Stick with us.
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Interesting fact is the ones who beat Nodoka in the past tournaments became the champions. I guess this means Toki will win this year.
If this is true then poor Nodoka, three times didn't get to become champion because someone else beat her and became the champion instead of her
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Well thank you to all at 2channel world, I am broadcasting from a super-secret and very special location tonight. The official tally-room at SAIMOE 2012 HQ, my annual visit to the engine room that drives the tournament every year. Amid the banks of computers and operators are some scrutineers from the rival camps and from the Japanese electoral office to make sure everything is as per usual and votes tallied properly. Also with us today are representitives from the various media outlets, NHK, BBC and CNN as well as "Aya" and "Hatate" from the Genesokyo press association.
Over inside the Budokan tonight the fans have been entertained by some of Japan's best musicians including for one night only X-Japan and Godiego, playing a medley of Anime's greatest hits. A highlight for me has been the return of Yuki Nagato & Haruhi Suzumiya alonside ENOZ, proving that time improves performance. Speaking of which the drummers of all the bands tonight will gather as we close in on the announcement. As well we have a feature from last night's entertainment alongside me to receive the envelope containing the winner of tonight's contest Miss Azusa Nakano who will do the honours tonight.
An honour also has been received by the KHSMC a second special semifinalist's chair, the only such places that have two are the rebuilt Applefield Orphanage and the only residence in Japan that two are present the Hiiragi home and shrine. A chair has also been delivered to the Achiga Mahjong Club as well, so girls at the appointed time could you make your way there as we get your reactions win or lose.
Well Miss Azusa Nakano would you like to make a few remarks, "Well good luck girls It was wonderful to be back in competition this time round and I had a bit of time to enjoy it and catch up with my fellow finalist Nagi who bears no grudges. Not like last year, the tears were truly shed by all HTT members. Time awaits you in Toki too so you need some truest luck when you go against her."
Now we cross live to the arena, a mass traditional drumming starts to gather pace....
The results have been checked as ok. Azu-nyan take it away....
"The final place in SAIMOE 2012 will be taken by.......
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1位 257票 松実玄@咲-Saki- 阿知賀編 episode of side-A
2位 126票 竹井久@咲-Saki- 阿知賀編 episode of side-A
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Welcome back, and we can tell you that it WILL BE Toki vs. Kuro for the Final.
Spoiler for SF 2 Result:
Sho! You're down in Achiga. How is it down there?
Sho: People here are chanting "We've got second place! We've got second place!" It seems that they are not expecting Kuro Matsumi to defeat Toki Onjouji, even though there are some who are clinging on to hope that this will indeed be the case. Listen, it has been a great campaign for Kuro, the Dragon Lord, but it seems that her road will end here at the final. Nonetheless, it's been a great run for Achiga Girls' Academy. And to see one of their aces make it to the final says a lot about the quality of moe here in Nara Prefecture. It's been a great ride. I'll be back on Saturday to report from the National Stadium in Kokuritsu, back to you, Hachi.
And we will resume coverage of the 2012 2channel Anime Saimoe Tournament with the Final Showdown of the Vanguards (and this time it's for all the marbles) on Saturday, November 3, live from Tokyo and the National Stadium, where there will be a large crowd welcoming the champion. Will it be the Futuristic Player, Toki Onjouji? Or the Dragon Lord, Kuro Matsumi? Find out on Saturday on your home for coverage of the 2channel Anime Saimoe Tournament...2channel World!
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As many expected, Hisa's run finally comes to an end at the hands of Matsumi Kuro. Kuro won by a lot more than I thought she would but I guess same series matches can end up one sided like this. I probably should have expected more from Kuro after Toki killed Nodoka in the previous match. Unlike with Toki's match, the vote totally in this match is pretty bad like Kuro's previous all Saki matches. It seems only Toki is able to draw in voters when only one series is involved in the match. Both finalists will not only be Saki characters but they will be characters that didn't appear in the original anime. Good luck to Kuro against Toki, she'll need it.
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Toki. Like she'll lose at this point.
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Surprisingly (or maybe not) this match was practically devoid of fakes. Hisa had an epic near-vertical rush, but it was short of the miracle she needed. In a merciless show of force, Kuro ruthlessly responded with an even more vertical rush of her own. Almost as if to drive home the message that it is these fresh faces who now own the faction's Miracle Rush™. This curbstomp by the Dragon Lord on a fellow faction member completes the ousting of Saki's old guard by the new blood.
Perhaps Kuro's performance here is also partly a display of power to project the image that she has what it takes to face against Team Saki's leader. Only time will tell if Kuro really has it in her, though. She'll definitely need everything she has against the absolute, unstoppable Toki.
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Come to think of it, the coming Final Match is also a proxy match of sorts between the moe talents of Kana Hanazawa and Yui Ogura - two seiyuu known and admired for their adorably soft and sweet voices.
By virtue of their contributions to the "field" of moe, both deserve at least one character as champion. As to who those characters should be, is another matter entirely.
Yui has a stronger character advantage this time, though; Evidently with Toki's consistently strong performance.
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The Canadiens, as a team, are definite underdogs in their Eastern Conference semifinal series with the Boston Bruins.
Stu Cowan: No shortage of underdogs on Habs' roster
The Canadiens, as a team, are definite underdogs in their Eastern Conference semifinal series with the Boston Bruins.
Heading into the 2013-14 National Hockey League season, the Bodog betting website had the Canadiens listed at 28-1 odds to win their 25th Stanley Cup. After sweeping the Tampa Bay Lightning in the first round of the playoffs, the Canadiens' odds dropped all the way to 8-1.
But the Bruins were listed as the Cup favourites heading into the conference semifinals at 5-2 odds, followed by Chicago (15-4), Pittsburgh (6-1), Anaheim (13-2), Los Angeles (7-1), Montreal (8-1), the New York Rangers (10-1) and the Minnesota Wild (12-1).
Everyone likes an underdog, and there are a lot of individual underdogs on the Canadiens' roster.
Of the 20 Canadiens who dressed for Thursday's 4-3 double-overtime win over the Bruins in Game 1, five of them were never selected at the NHL entry draft. That's a quarter of the roster.
The Bruins had two undrafted players in their lineup: defencemen Torey Krug and Kevan Miller.
The five undrafted Canadiens are: defencemen Francis Bouillon, Mike Weaver and Josh Gorges, and forwards David Desharnais and Rene Bourque.
Bouillon, 38, and Weaver, who turned 36 on Friday, might make up the most unlikely defensive duo in the NHL.
Bouillon is in the NHL thanks to Michel Therrien, who has a long history with the defenceman. Therrien made Bouillon his captain when he was coaching the junior Granby Prédateurs and in 1996 they became the first Quebec team in 25 years to win the Memorial Cup. When Therrien was hired by Montreal to coach the Fredericton Canadiens in 1997, he asked the club to offer Bouillon a contract, but was told the 5-foot-8 defenceman wasn't good enough to play in the American Hockey League. Bouillon spent his first two years after junior playing for the Wheeling Nailers of the East Coast Hockey League and the Quebec Rafales of the International Hockey League. Heck, he even played roller-hockey for the Montreal Roadrunners before making his NHL debut with the Canadiens in 1999.
The NHL was nothing but a dream for Weaver when he was playing at Michigan State University. The Gazette's Pat Hickey recently reported that former Atlanta Thrashers GM Don Waddell went to scout one of Weaver's teammates, but was impressed by the 5-foot-10 Weaver's physical style of play on defence and offered him a $25,000 signing bonus after he graduated.
"I was just hoping to get a scholarship," Weaver told Hickey. "I wasn't drafted and I didn't think pro hockey was in my future."
Gorges wasn't drafted after a junior career with the Kelowna Rockets that included a Memorial Cup championship in 2004 and a silver medal with Team Canada at the world junior championship. Gorges was also never picked at the junior Western Hockey League draft. Listed at 6-foot-1, Gorges was ranked 99th by NHL Central Scouting in his draft year, but was considered too small by NHL team scouts.
"Too small" is something the 5-foot-7 Desharnais has heard his entire life. He was passed over at the NHL draft despite having seasons of 118 and 108 points in his last two years of junior with the Chicoutimi Saguenéens. The Canadiens invited him to their rookie camp in 2007 basically as a favour to Guy Carbonneau, who was Montreal's head coach at the time and had been part of the Saguenéens ownership group. Desharnais started his pro career in 2007-08 with the Cincinnati Cylclones of the East Coast Hockey League.
Size was never a problem for the 6-foot-2, 217-pound Bourque, but his inconsistency that often frustrates Canadiens fans also turned off NHL scouts when he was playing at the University of Wisconsin.
"We talked about that a little bit in his days with us and I'm not quite sure if maybe he had hit that consistent button enough in his college days," longtime Wisconsin coach Mike Eaves recalled on Friday. "He would show flashes. The one thing that Rene could always do in college is that he was pretty consistent in his ability to play big in big games. He loved to score goals. Maybe that consistency button wasn't there enough.
"This is a funny little fact," Eaves added with a laugh. "He's the best open-net goal-scorer I've ever seen. You know, when the other team pulls their goalie … he never missed. Honestly, he would have four or five goals a year that were empty-net goals. You know, some guys they get all nervous … but he would put that thing in all the time, which is kind of a funny inside story."
Eaves added that Bourque's personality might have something to do with his lack of consistency.
"He's kind of a laid-back guy," the coach said. "If you're going to get to know Rene, I think you got to spend a lot of time with him. You and I both know people in that realm, where it just takes time because they're quiet people and he's one of those guys. We're talking about both sides of the same coin. One one side, when the game's on the line he tends to show up, but on the other side he's not always there game in and game out."
Bourque has hit the consistency button during the playoffs with four goals and one assist in five games to go along with a plus-6 and a team-leading 17 hits.
The Canadiens have a few other underdogs who were late picks in the NHL draft. Brendan Gallagher was a fifth-round pick (147th overall) in 2010, Andrei Markov was a sixth-round pick (162nd overall) in 1998 and Douglas Murray was an eight-round pick (241st overall) by San Jose in 1999. Brandon Prust was selected in the third round by the Calgary Flames in 2004, but was never picked at the Ontario Hockey League junior draft. He made the London Knights as a walk-on with Dale Hunter as his coach. Hunter still recalls Prust telling him: "Put me in and you'll never take me out, coach."
The rest, as they say, is history.
After the Canadiens acquired Weaver from the Florida Panthers at the NHL trade deadline in March in exchange for a fifth-round draft pick, the defenceman did a Q&A interview for HabsTV on the team's official website. One of the questions was what would be his best piece of advice for young players in the league?
"Just figure out what type of game they play," Weaver said. "It took me a few years to really figure out that I couldn't score goals and I was a guy that there was a need for. There's a need for every type of player out there. Some guys are going to score goals, some guys are going to be on the penalty kill, some guys are just going to be depth guys. You've got to figure out your game.
"You can a make a pretty good career out of putting it off the glass and out," he added. "There's guys that can go end to end with the puck. You really got to figure out exactly who you are as a player and stick to that and don't change it for anybody. There's a puzzle at the end, but there's a lot of pieces that actually have to go together to make that puzzle. That's what every organization strives for is to find that completed puzzle."
The Canadiens look like they're getting closer to doing that with the help of their underdogs.
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The Chestnut Hill-based Pennsylvania Girlchoir joined forces with its male counterpart, the Germantown-based Keystone State Boychoir, for a joint Christmas concert Sunday afternoon, Dec. 16, in the Episcopal Church of the Holy Trinity on Rittenhouse Square.\
Before an audience that packed the church's Victorian Romanesque sanctuary, the two halves of Commonwealth Youthchoirs performed a varied yet complementary program of holiday favorites, separately and together, that showed both ensembles to be among the region's finest choruses.
With music director Joseph Fitzmartin at the piano and associate music director Steven Fisher on the podium, the Boychoir sang first. In classical selections such as Purcell's "Come, Ye Sons of Art," four movements from Britten's "A Ceremony of Carols" and the Bach/Gounod "Ave Maria," the boys sang with impeccable diction and a pure tonal quality.
There was an engaging rhythmic lilt to their singing, even in these classical works, which often require more precise rhythmic delineation than is needed in popular Christmas music. Then, in the popular numbers, the boys sang with an impressive tightness of ensemble that enabled their high spirits to soar over the foundation of technically solid singing. "Christmas Time is Here" and "Holly Jolly Christmas" received particularly winning renditions.
Although the Keystone State Boychoir does not produce the sound of the Anglican cathedral choirs of bygone legend — my personal favorite choral sound — it nonetheless offers a beautifully modulated tone that is effective in a broad variety of repertoire. And with Fitzmartin's supportive accompaniment at the piano, the boys constitute one of the region's finest vocal ensembles.
The Girlchoir's repertoire leaned more in the direction of the classics. Under the direction of Vincent Metallo and Zerrin Agabigum Martin, the girls' performances of Faure's "Cantique de Jean Racine," Handel's "Let's Imitate Her High Notes," "No, di voi non vo' fidarmi" and Ippolitov-Ivanov's "Blagosloi, dushe moya, Ghospoda" were stellar. Their tone was full-bodied, not just at the top of their range but at the bottom as well.
For its final weekend of subscription concerts of 2012, the Philadelphia Orchestra and guest conductor Gianandrea Noseda played a program of music by Borodin, Elgar and Tchaikovsky. I caught the Saturday, Dec. 15, performance in Verizon Hall and came away mildly-satisfied but not much more than that.
The program's major work was Tchaikovsky's "Symphony No. 3 in D major." Along with the First and Second Symphonies — "Winter Dreams" and "Little Russian" — the romantic Russian's early efforts in the classical symphonic form have always been regarded as the poor relatives of the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Symphonies.
And well they should. Whereas Nos. 4, 5 and 6 exhibit a triumphant mastery of developmental techniques, overall structure, stunning orchestration and peerless lyricism, Nos. 1, 2 and 3 reveal a composer struggling to deal with all of those aspects of composition. When you include in the discussion Tchaikovsky's trio of magnificent ballet scores — "The Nutcracker," "Swan Lake" and "The Sleeping Beauty — it's no wonder that his first three symphonies rarely receive more than grudging respect. And should you take note of the well-deserved reverence afforded all four symphonies of Brahms, Tchaikovsky's German contemporary and rival, you might wonder why any of the first three is ever programmed.
Perhaps because Tchaikovsky is a composer who remains one of the most popular of all classical musicians, whose music is known and loved by those who are not familiar with much classical music. The problem, however, is that a conductor must impose upon the score the structural concision and focused expression the music doesn't contain within it, and then he must elicit playing from his orchestra of immaculate ensemble and sonic splendor if even the most convincing rendition is to succeed.
Neither occurred convincingly Saturday evening. Noseda's interpretation was good but not good enough to overcome the Third Symphony's flaws. The playing was attractive but insufficiently distinctive to cover the score's weaknesses.


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AUSTIN — A union for correctional officers in Texas says understaffing is putting guards at increased risk, especially around the holidays, during what has already been the deadliest year inside state prisons in more than a decade.
Union leaders want better pay for the nearly 5,000 correctional officers working for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. The agency lost about 500 guard positions after lawmakers slashed the state budget last year, according to the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Correctional Employees.
The base salary for a first-year correctional officer in Texas is about $28,000. After seven years on the job, guards make about $37,000 annually before overtime.
Between budget cuts and retention difficulties, the union claims the agency is 2,700 guards short and says understaffing is putting officers at heightened risk. There have been at least 10 inmate-on-inmate killings inside Texas prisons this year, up from three in 2011.
There were five in 2010 and just one in 2009, according to agency figures.
Union leaders say the dangers inside lockups are amplified around the holidays.
"During the holidays, TDCJ employees aren't the only ones wishing they were at home," said Lance Lowry, a local union president. "Correctional officers have to be on high alert during the holidays because there is a greater risk of suicides and escapes throughout Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's."
State prison officials did not immediately return a phone message Friday. As of September, none of the killings inside prisons occurred in units where the agency is experiencing chronic difficulties filling corrections officer vacancies.
Last month, the union sent a letter to Gov. Rick Perry asking that he support an immediate 3.5 percent cost of living raise for correctional officers. The letter goes on to ask for a combined 14 percent raise over the next four years.
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Sorry for not having posted in a while, I'm sure you all missed me. (psh.) I've been on vacation. Actually I'm still on vacation, but I actually thought of something to write about. It's just a weird trend I've noticed. Most normal people have kids that want to have nothing to do with the professions of their parents. Of course, when you have children whose parents are very famous, well, maybe it's just hard not to follow in your parents' footsteps. The most famous example in science is perhaps Pierre and Marie Curie, whose daughter Ir
- Nobel laureate Arthur Kornberg's son, Roger, won the Nobel in Chemistry this year;
- Bob Grubbs' son, Barney, is a chemistry professor at Dartmouth;
- Robert Scheidt's (at Notre Dame, an inorganic chemist, does work on metalloporphyrins and nitric oxide) son, Karl, is an organic prof at Northwestern;
- Steven Zimmerman, the son of the great organic chemist Howard Zimmerman, is a professor at the University of Illinois;
- One of my chemical heroes, Barry Sharpless, has a son who's a grad student in chemistry, and will hopefully not inherit his father's philosophy on seminars.


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Surely you've seen those eye-catching "in Wilmington" billboards and ads with musicians, painters, actors and chefs doing their thing in front of a picket fence. Or maybe you've come across the two-page event calendars in various publications that list scores of entertainment and cultural events scheduled for the month.
The calendars, billboards and ads just hint at the depth of the Wilmington Arts & Entertainment Marketing Initiative, which was launched earlier this year. This multi-year effort aims at three major goals—exposing Wilmington residents and those in surrounding areas to the incredible wealth of arts and entertainment offerings in Wilmington, connecting arts organizations in new ways to create co-promotions and to help foster audience crossover, and creating an easy-to-use centralized place for patrons to find out about what's happening in Wilmington at any given time.
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Fortuitously, there was a previous marketing campaign on which to build: the "in Wilmington" initiative, with the theme "Wilmington—in the Middle of It All," was developed several years ago by the city to promote business in the downtown area. Mobius New Media —the agency executing and managing the campaign—extended that concept, changing the face of it with a new logo, and adding the catch phrase "In Your Backyard"—intended to illustrate just how accessible Wilmington's arts and entertainment offerings are (thus the picket fence on billboards and ads).
Things are changing for the better, says Campaign Manager Brianna Hansen. "With game-changers like World Cafe Live at the Queen coming to town, new nightspots like the jazz club The Nomad, and a number of new restaurants opening downtown, Wilmington's rebirth is accelerating," she says.
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