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- Frequently asked questions about building GHC
Frequently asked questions about building GHC
This page collects questions and advice about building GHC from source. It is particularly prone to going out of date. Please help keep it relevant and accurate. At the moment it's fairly un-structured; please feel free to add structure if that'd make it easier to follow.
Platform-specific guidance belongs under one of the platform-specific help pages linked from the Building guide contents page.
Space in TMPDIR
One difficulty that comes up from time to time is running out of space
TMPDIR. (It is impossible for the configuration stuff to
compensate for the vagaries of different sysadmin approaches to temp
The quickest way around it is
setenv TMPDIR /usr/tmp or
setenv TMPDIR . (or the equivalent incantation with your shell
of choice).
The best way around it is to say
export TMPDIR=<dir>
in your
build.mk file. Then GHC and the other
tools will use the appropriate directory in all cases.
Warning "warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type"
You may occasionally see a warning from the C compiler when compiling some Haskell code, eg. "warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type". These are usually harmless, but it's a good idea to report it on the mailing list so that we can fix it.
Warning "ar: filename
GlaIOMonad__1_2s.o truncated to
archiving warning messages like the following are not a problem:
ar: filename GlaIOMonad__1_2s.o truncated to GlaIOMonad_ ar: filename GlaIOMonad__2_2s.o truncated to GlaIOMonad_ ...
GCC 4 issues
It has been observed on Gentoo systems that GCC 4 may fail, complaining about there being no
-nopie option. You can either use GCC 3, re-emerge ghc or just edit your
/usr/bin/ghc script to remove the
-nopie flag (the latter is by far the quickest and is perfectly safe).
Cpp variations
GHC's sources go through
cpp before being compiled, and
cpp varies
a bit from one Unix to another. One particular gotcha is macro calls
like this:
SLIT("Hello, world")
cpps treat the comma inside the string as separating two macro
arguments, so you get
:731: macro `SLIT' used with too many (2) args
cpp doesn't tell you the offending file!
Workaround: don't put weird things in string args to
cpp macros.
Cabal/Distribution/Compat/FilePath.hs: No such file or directory
You may see this:
Distribution/Compat/FilePath.hs:2: error: Cabal/Distribution/Compat/FilePath.hs: No such file or directory make[1]: *** [depend] Error 1 make: *** [stage1] Error 1
Possible Solution::
Be sure you have run
sh darcs-all get to get all necessary packages. Don't forget to run
sh boot again after you pull in new packages.
xargs: /usr/bin/ar: terminated by signal 11
You may see this when compiling libraries:
(echo Control/Concurrent_stub.o System/CPUTime_hsc.o System/Time_hsc.o ; /usr/bin/find Control/Applicative_split Control/Arrow_split Control/Concurrent_split Control/Concurrent/Chan_split ...long mess... Text/PrettyPrint/HughesPJ_split Text/Printf_split Text/Read_split Text/Read/Lex_split Text/Show_split Text/Show/Functions_split -name '*.o' -print) | xargs /usr/bin/ar q libHSbase.a /usr/bin/ar: creating libHSbase.a xargs: /usr/bin/ar: terminated by signal 11 make[2]: *** [libHSbase.a] Error 125 make[2]: *** Deleting file `libHSbase.a' make[1]: *** [all] Error 1
What is happening is that the ghc build system is linking thousands and
thousands of tiny .o files into
libHSbase.a. GNU
ar isn't optimised for
this use-case and it takes far more memory than it really needs to. So
what happens is that ar takes >500Mb of memory and your virtual
machine / virtual server probably isn't configured with that much memory
and so the linux kernel OOM killer terminates the ar process.
To make this worse, since there are so many .o files, it takes several
invocations of ar to link them all. On each invocation
ar is building
the symbol index (-q is ignored) and this is what takes the most time
and memory. It's a good deal quicker to use a custom program (100 lines
of Haskell) to build
libHSbase.a and then use
ranlib just once to build
the symbol index.
[Duncan Coutts] I submitted a patch to gnu
binutils to make ar take less memory when
linking 1000's of files so it now only takes around 100Mb rather than
500Mb when linking
libHSbase.a. That patch is included in version 2.17 I
think (in other words most systems don't have it yet).
What you can do in the mean time is either configure your virtual
machine with more memory or turn off the split-objs feature when you
configure ghc. Just add
SplitObjs=NO to your
mk/build.mk file (which
may not exist to start with). (The Gentoo ebuild does this


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Dutch yearn for return of mythic ice skating race: Will 2013 be the year?
As winter deepens in the Netherlands, the Dutch keep watch on their thermometers, anxiously trying to will the temperature to drop low enough to freeze the many canals that crisscross the country.
Once that happens, they'll rush outside to take part in the country's favorite winter activity: ice skating.
But locals are particularly keen for the "Big Freeze" in the northern province of Friesland, where, when the conditions permit, an 11-city speed and leisure skating race, or Elfstedentocht, is held.
The 200-kilometer marathon along a network of canals passes through 11 Frisian cities and typically attracts upward of 16,000 skaters.
For the past 15 years, however, the Dutch have been disappointed. It's simply not been cold enough for the race to be held.
For an Elfstedentocht to take place, Friesland's canals needs to be frozen to a thickness of 15 centimeters, according Wiebe Weiling, chairman of the Koninklijke Vereniging De Friesche Elf Steden, the organization that organizes the event. This requires an extended run of consecutive freezing days and freezing nights.
Last year was a near miss, but close enough to get many Dutch excited enough to start sharpening their blades.
"Last year, even though we had a very short winter that lasted only 14 days, we could actually have had the Elfstedentocht if we'd just had two more days of freezing weather," says Weiling. "In most of Friesland, the canals had the requisite 15 centimeters of ice."
The most recent winner, a farmer named Henk Angenent, took 6 hours and 49 minutes to complete the course in 1997.
Will 2013 prove to be the year that brings a freeze deep enough to hold the Elfstedentocht for the first time since then?
Tough to tell, says Weiling, a first-rate skater who has participated in two Elfstedentochts.
For one thing, winters are getting milder everywhere in the world. While there were 15 Elfstedentochts held in the twentieth century, weather experts believe that this century will only see one race every 10 years.
In Stavoren, the oldest city in Friesland and one of the stops on the Elfstedentocht, the weather forecast for the last week of 2012 calls for rain and low temperatures between 3 and 9 C (37 to 48 F).
Maybe January will bring a change.
Other skating opportunities
With or without Elfstedentocht, the skating-obsessed Dutch are still eager for winter, says Annamarie Thomas, a Dutch Olympic speed skater and two-time world champion in short distances.
"Most people in Holland know how to skate, since we have so much natural ice around," says Thomas, who started skating at the age of four and who as a child skated to school throughout the winter. Thomas's father skated the Elfstedentocht twice.
Today, Thomas coaches speed skaters and continues to train. She says even without Elfstedentocht, there are plenty of opportunities for locals and visitors to take part in the country's winter pastime.
When the canals freeze each winter, the skating crowds come out in force.
Novices who want to give canal skating a whirl will find the experience exhilarating, though caution is advised.
"If you're new to Holland and have never skated on a canal before, make sure you see other people out there before you hop onto the ice," Thomas says. "It's also advisable to take a knife along and cut into the ice, particularly on canals where you don't see anyone or there are very few people skating. If it's hard to cut through the ice, then it should be safe to skate on.
"Remember that it's never safe to skate under a bridge because the ice may not be frozen there."
For those not ready to glide on a canal, there are plenty of indoor rinks across Holland. During the New Year period, most cities build ice rinks on their central squares that bring together seasonal charm with the pleasures of outdoor skating.
Click on the links below (in Dutch) for information on ice skating rinks in select Dutch cities.
Amsterdam: Winterplaza (until January 6, 2013):
Elst: Winter Festival (until January 6, 2013):
Tilburg (speed skating rink): Ireen Wust Isjbaan
Enschede (speed skating rink): Ysbaan Twente

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Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric ocelot
by Nashath Rafeeq on Sep.27, 2011, under cool, News
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I have upgraded to ubuntu 11.10 oneiric ocelot yesterday from a regal panda 11.04 hear are my thoughts on it.
The good..
- The interface has been polished and the Unity interface is usable now
- I like the new login screen with its smooth animation. But some how when you lock the machine the old interface is visible
- The lock screen animation is much smoother now
- The icons that have been used look much nicer and cleaner
- search inside unity works and their no lag between pressing the windows key and the unity menu opening up
- The new Empathy and Gwibber looks really nice
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At EY we have one strong global leadership team that sets one single global strategy and agenda.
To ensure we are efficient and effective, we have organized our legal entities into 28 similarly sized business units, called Regions, in terms of both people and revenues. These Regions almost all of which are purposely not single countries, are grouped into four geographic Areas:
This structure is streamlined – it allows us to make decisions quickly, and ensures that we execute our strategy and provide exceptional client service wherever in the world our clients do business.
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Pantarbe is a vitrious green-gray stone that has moderate hardness and chemical resistances. It is easily carved and shaped, but has irregular cleavage. The higher the purity of the ore, the more pronounced the glassy sheen is. Metallic Pantarbe resembles vitrious iron with a green hue.
Pantarbe is a foundation material for the Cry-Of-Freedom RP in the moderated forum (pending). The material has always been present and it is the entire reason that there is a setting composed of drifing sky islands and airships flitting from one to another. Like hydrogen and helium, this material exists to create lighter than air ships, but unlike zeppelins and hot air balloons, these craft cannot be destroyed by a well placed arrow or a careless match.
Magic/Cursed Properties
Pantarbe is a very light material, but in direct sunlight, it does something rather amazing, it floats. Given the purity of the ore and the mass and the amount of sunlight reaching the stone, a pebble might drift around like a hailstone in slow motion while thick high purity slabs might drift up into the air heedless of silly things like gravity and physics. Also, the larger the piece and higher the purity, the longer the stone in question will hang in the air even after sunlight is no longer present, IE night or cloud cover.
Purified Pantarbe
The ore can be crushed and smelted, though at some difficulty, once freed of the stone matrix, it will fly away if not worked in darkness. The resultant metal, also called Pantarbe or Worked Pantarbe, is rigid and strong, but lacking in flexibility. It is highly efficient in retaining solar power making it the ideal material for constructing airships. A sufficiently large airship constructed with Purified Pantarbe can stay in the air overnight without fear of crashing to the ground. Smaller craft must beech somewhere.
In rare cases, nodules of almost pure Pantarbe can be found, so long basking in sunlight (IE Space) that though they have lost their floating attribute, they now emit sunlight. These stones can be used as currency like precious gems, and as tools to keep airships in the air even in dark conditions. Unlike normal pantarbe, sunstone is very brittle and cannot be shaped. Attempts to do so generally cause the stone in question to break into worthless chunks.
A Note on Mining
Pantarbe ore is important as it keeps the islands of the sky floating. If too much ore is mined from an island, the mass of the island countered the lift of the ore and begins to sink. These islands will either stabilize at a lower altitude when their bouyancy stabilizes, or will slowly crash into the sea. Thus while important, mining the ore is a double edged sword.


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Deloitte Systems Engineering Business Analysis Functional Consultant in Cleveland, Ohio
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- 69 killed, 180 injured in factory blast in eastern Chinese city of Kunshan
- Dust believed to have been ignited, causing explosion
- Two executives from the company have been placed under arrest
- President Xi Jinping calls for efforts to help the injured, orders full investigation
A factory explosion killed 75 people Saturday in China, according to state-run news agency Xinhua.
The blast occurred at 7:37 a.m. Saturday (7.37 p.m. Friday, Eastern time) in the city of Kunshan in the eastern province of Jiangsu. Along with the dead, the explosion also injured 180 people, Xinhua said, citing officials.
Officials have called the explosion a "work safety accident," the state media organization reported.
Those injured in the explosion were transferred to hospitals in the nearby cities of Shanghai, Suzhou, Wuxi and Nantong. Most of the victims were suffering from burns, Xinhua reported local health authorities as saying.
Chinese President Xi Jinping called for "all-out efforts" to treat the survivors. Residents in the city of Nantong have been lining up to donate blood to aid the victims' recovery.
Flames may have ignited "metal dust" in the Kunshan Zhongrong Metal factory, a wheel-hub-polishing facility, according to initial investigations.
Xi also said that he would order a full investigation into the tragedy and ensure that those responsible for the accident were held fully accountable. He has assigned state councilor Wang Yong to lead the investigation, Xinhua reported.
Two senior executives at the Taiwan-invested company have been placed in police custody. Yang Dongliang, director of the State Administration of Work Safety, who is heading an investigation team for the accident, said there was "very serious dereliction of duty," given the conditions within the factory.
Xinhua reported that Yang has said that the company that owns the facility shoulders most of the blame for the accident, but added that local government departments should also bear some responsibility for poor implementation of regulations.
The factory is a supplier of U.S. car maker General Motors, according to state TV news.


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arthrogryposis(redirected from Alves syndrome)
Also found in: Dictionary, Encyclopedia.
1. persistent flexion of a joint.
2. tetanoid spasm.
Congenital defect of the limbs characterized by severe contractures of multiple joints.
[arthro- + G. gryphōsis, a crooking]
arthrogryposis/ar·thro·gry·po·sis/ (ahr″thro-grĭ-po´sis) persistent flexure of a joint.
n. pl. arthrogrypo·ses (-sēz)
The permanent fixation of a joint in a contracted position.
arthrogryposis multiplex congenitaA rare sporadic condition characterised by joint contractures, dislocations, rigid skeletal deformities (e.g., clubfoot or talipes equinovarus), skin atrophy and replacement of limb muscles with fibrous tissue. AMC is not a sui generis disease, but rather a descriptive term that signifies multiple congenital contractures. The aetiologies encompass both neurogenic and primary myopathic diseases, but most cases are not due to neuromuscular disease.
Uncertain; a common link may be intrauterine movement during a critical period of limb development.
Congenital defect of the limbs characterized by contractures of multiple joints.
[arthro- + G.gryphōsis, a crooking]
arthrogryposisCongenital fixation of the limb joints, usually in an extended position. The condition is probably due to a destructive disorder of the motor nerves to the muscles around the affected joints during the pregnancy.
1. persistent flexion of a joint.
2. tetanoid spasm.
congenital arthrogryposis with dysraphism
arthrogryposis with delayed or arrested closure of the neural tube. Called also arthrogryposis multiplex congenita. See also complex vertebral malformation.
arthrogryposis and hydranencephaly
see akabane virus disease.
inherited arthrogryposis
occurs in catle, pigs and sheep. In cattle it is commonly associated with cleft palate, sometimes with other skeletal defects and also prolonged gestation.
lupine-induced arthrogryposis
occurs in calves whose dams have ingested Lupinus spp. that contain the teratogenic alkaloids anagyrine and/or ammodendrine between 35 and 100 days gestation. These alkaloids impair the natural active movement of the developing fetus so that it grows in a static state resulting in deformities of the limbs. Many western lupine species, bitter lupines, contain these teratogenic alkaloids but they are usually not palatable and not eaten. The alkaloid conine in Conium maculatum can also produce this syndrome.
arthrogryposis multiplex congenita
see congenital arthrogryposis with dysraphism (above).


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Lujo wrote:I think I've had a dynamite trick for the bloodmage. I remember struggling with it untill I switched it up completely, and whatewer I switched it to made it go down easily. I've always found bloodmage silver to be much harder.Big Like: Bloodmage Gold: Well, that was fun. Dvarwen BM, and was carefull not to let the bugger heal up too much (he did maybe once or twice, and I spent a lot of blackspace looking for BURNDAYRAZ to start lvling). Anyway, more of a puzzle, much easier than BM silver once you figure it out, and a very nice twist. And yes, my suspicions were confirmed - the big lesson is in fact that there is another damage glyph besides the one which gets prepped every time.
Remembered what that note was about - as long as the boss doesn't spawn in a corner where you can't pissorf him, a dwarf can do it with no relevant items. Well I did find Getindare and used it, but still - I had a platemail and a keg of mana that I ment to buy but somehow never did. Bought a health potion and I did have a Troll Heart.
Strat - Well, use whatever mens to level up, the sooner you find the fireball the better. Kill and IMAWAL wraiths (no bloodpools, lowish healht). If you can level up with about a 1/4 or a 1/5 of the map left (use IMAWAL if at all possible), start working on the boss. Save as much popcorn as possible through all this, and try to be lvl6. Convert any utility except B2P, pissorf and possibly getindare. Anyway, pissorff the boss many many times. Use up the mana potions first, then start using B2P untill you run out of exploration. Heal up by killing popcorn and drinking blood (immediately, don't hit the boss in between). Level up from killing all the popcorn (invest the sanguine health into killing fatter popcorn if need be), and when you level up, being a dwarf you'll be able to land hits on the boss. Keep killing popcorn and healing off sanguine and use your health potions if need be. It worked twice for me so far...
In short - dwarves can get their health to where they can melle the boss without him healing up even once.
ChasGB wrote:I finally tackled this challenge, and incorporated a recent forum development into my approach. The map has minotaurs in it, and I was able to PISORF enough mid-level minotaurs around the boss where I was attacking the minotaurs, soaking about 2 or 3 hits per (dwarf with platemail is a wonderful thing) all the while getting bounced into the boss. Use the resulting blood pools to fill up, continue with another minotaur. Once the minotaurs were gone, PISORF the boss as normal.
It doesn't break the Bloodmage Gold challenge, but it sure makes it a good bit easier by making efficient uses of resources.
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A friend joked yesterday after a frustrating experience dealing with Comcast that "I think we need a public option for cable/wireless companies."
But there's a real issue here. The United States gets very mediocre results in terms of broadband price and speed compared to other industrialized countries. It's true that some of this has to do with the difficulty of wiring a relatively sparsely-populated country. But lots of places in the United States are as dense as Stockholm, and in Sweden the average is 18.2 mbps, which you won't find anywhere in this country. As Mark Loyd has written:
The United States will not meet President Bush's goal of universal broadband by the end of 2007 — not by a long shot. The number of subscribers to Internet services is growing faster than the adoption of "dial-up," yet for the most part these subscribers are not connected to the broadband technology Congress described in 1996 as a two-way communications service capable of high-speed delivery of data, voice, and video.
This failure to connect over half the country to advanced telecommunications service is not a technological failure. It is a 21st century public policy failure. In the 1990s, policies established by the Clinton administration to encourage public/private telecommunications partnerships, to connect schools and libraries to the World Wide Web, and to allow competitive service providers onto the networks of the local telephone monopolies all sped up the deployment of broadband around most of the nation. These policies were either deliberately abandoned or hampered by the Bush administration.
The increasing noise from Washington about the lack of a U.S. broadband policy obscures the fact that a policy choice was made by the Bush administration to rely entirely on "market forces" to determine how and where advanced telecommunications services would be deployed. That policy has failed.
It's no coincidence that the cable company is always a go-to liberal example of private sector dysfunction. I would ditch Comcast in favor of a rival cable company except . . . there isn't a rival cable company that served by neighborhood. Nor does my window face the right direction for DirectTV. So it's Comcast or nobody, and thus the quality of Comcast's offerings and customer service tends to be extremely bad. Appropriate regulation and public investment have a big role to play in this field.


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BRADENTON, Fla. -- Approaching his second full Major League season, Starling Marte strongly feels he will improve on his 2013 performance, partly because he feels strong after a relatively inactive offseason.
Unlike the previous couple of years, the Dominican outfielder only dabbled in his country's Winter League.View Full Game Coverage
BRADENTON, Fla. -- Approaching his second full Major League season, Starling Marte strongly feels he will improve on his 2013 performance, partly because he feels strong after a relatively inactive offseason.
Unlike the previous couple of years, the Dominican outfielder only dabbled in his country's Winter League.View Full Game Coverage
"I didn't play as much as I used to," Marte said, with coach Heberto Andrade translating. "I'm ready to work. I feel fresh, good."
Marte played three regular-season games with Escogido -- just enough to get in some practice in getting hurt, something Marte does almost as well as run.
"It does seem like he's got a magnet on him, for sure," said Pittsburgh batting coach Jeff Branson, with a bewildered smile, after seeing another Grapefruit League pitch bounce off Marte's left hand.
Marte had taken a pitch on the same hand in his second game with Escogido. He returned a few days later, only to tweak his back. He came back from that in another few days and strained a groin muscle.
That was about the time the Pirates said, "No mas," and asked Marte to stay home.
He complied, although he probably wasn't thrilled with it. A fabulous 2012-13 Dominican Winter League season had set the stage for his tremendous April, when he established himself as a leadoff weapon by batting .327 with an on-base percentage pushing .400. So while Marte came into this Spring Training better rested, he also felt less sharp. And two hits in his first 17 spring at-bats backed that suspicion.
But the Bucs wanted to keep him in one piece, which can be a full-time job. When Marte returned in mid-September from a three-week absence with a bruised right hand, head athletic trainer Todd Tomczyk came up with a so-called "oven mitt" for him to wear on the hand when on the bases. Maybe Tomczyk should provide a plastic bubble for Marte to play in all the time.
Marte can't change the aggressive, all-out way he plays the game, which contributes to the dings and costs him a few calibers as a leadoff man. Some leadoff men, especially in the first inning, take as many pitches as possible to get an extended look at that day's opposing starting pitcher, perhaps in the process draw a walk to jump-start the offense.
That's not Marte. In the 119 games he led off last season, he drew five walks. In his young career, he has drawn a total of 31 unintentional walks in 748 plate appearances.
"I'm working on it," Marte said of finding a little more patience. "I am an aggressive hitter. But I'll do my best to get more bases on balls."
Marte partly makes up for it by doing other atypical leadoff things. Extra-base power, for one. His 26 doubles, 10 triples and 12 homers last season made him the Pirates' second triple-double man in 21 years (Jack Wilson, 2004).
"He gives us a dynamic presence atop the lineup no one else can match," manager Clint Hurdle said.
Marte also makes up for it by getting hit with pitches. It's a pretty amazing set of numbers: Compared to those 31 unintentional walks, he has been hit by pitches 27 times.
Of course, bases on balls are painless.
It is a much smaller sample size, obviously, but this spring Marte has yet to walk and has been hit by pitches twice even though "he has made an adjustment off the plate," said Branson, who intends to find a way to help Marte shed the bull's-eye.
"He's moved off the plate a little bit," Branson said, "but [pitchers] are still coming after him. The knock on [Marte] is he'll chase in [swing at inside pitches], so they're still coming in on him, to see how far they can go."
"It's part of the game," Marte said with a shrug. "Anybody can get mad, but it's all fine, because I never get the feeling it's on purpose. If I ever felt that somebody hit me on purpose, that'll be different."
Being hit with pitches appears to upset Marte less than being hit with questions about Gregory Polanco. No, not upset; that's probably too strong. But Marte, a kid of 25 himself, seems to have begun to resent being asked about looking forward to sharing an outfield with his countryman, all of three years younger.
"He's a young kid with a lot of tools, so it'll be good," Marte said, adding significantly, "like having [Jose] Tabata in right field."
Polanco has already caught up with Marte in one regard: He was the most recent Dominican Winter League season's golden child, as both the league's Rookie of the Year and MVP.
However, Marte will still be the catalyst in Pittsburgh.
"I just want to improve what I did last year," he said. "Do much better, stay more focused on my game. The main thing is to help the team win games."
No left fielder was better at that last season. Marte did not win the National League Gold Glove Award for left field -- which he has pledged to take away from Carlos Gonzalez of the Rockies -- but he won something certainly more meaningful. Metrics say he saved 20 defensive runs, the best rating among all Major League left fielders.
So when the blackboard in Charlotte Sports Park on Saturday listed the Pirates' leadoff batter for the game against the Rays as "Sterling Marte," it perhaps wasn't a typo.
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Keeping Kennedy's Promise - The Numbers Game
One of the finest books written about the history of the Peace Corps is "Keeping Kennedy's Promise" by C. Payne Lucas and Kevin Lowther. Published in 1978 in a limited edition, the book is almost impossible to find today.
Although the book was written almost 25 years ago, the issues that were raised are still as relevant as the day the book was published. In this issue of Peace Corps Online we provide an excerpt from the chapter titled "The Numbers Game" which we believe is extremely important now that the Peace Corps has been given a mandate to double the number of volunteers in the next five years.
The purpose of this article is not to discourage the Peace Corps from reaching their goal. Rather it is to point out that the last time the Peace Corps expanded so rapidly, there were serious problems. By studying the problems in the last rapid expansion and knowing the pitfalls, it is our hope that the Peace Corps will avoid its previous mistakes.
About the Authors
The book was written by C. Payne Lucas and Kevin Lowther who together had almost 20 years cumulative experience working in the Peace Corps. C. Payne joined the Peace Corps headquarters staff in 1961 and served as Peace Corps Director in Togo and Niger before returning to Washington in 1966 to become Deputy Regional Director for Africa. In 1967, he became Regional Director for Africa.
Kevin Lowther served as a Volunteer in Sierra Leone from 1963-65. He then participated in a training program and served recruitment, assigned to visiting historically black colleges in the South during the first half of 1966. He joined the Washington staff as a public information officer in 1966 and the Africa Region in 1967 as Operations Officer for Southern Africa.
In 1969, Lucas and Lowther were asked by Peace Corps Director Joe Blatchford to establish a new office to help returned Volunteers to apply the skills they had developed abroad into relevant community-based and professional activities at home. In 1971, as they departed the Peace Corps, Lucas and a group of ex-PC staff and Volunteers established
. Lowther became a newspaper editor for seven years, then joined the Africare staff to open its first program in Southern Africa. He spent five years in Zambia and came back in 1984 to run Africare's expanding portfolio of eight countries in Southern Africa.
C. Payne Lucas has been honored by several U.S. presidents as well as leaders of more than two dozen African nations, receiving decorations from the national orders of Benin, Cote d'Ivoire, Niger, Senegal and Zambia, and the 1984 U.S. Presidential End Hunger Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement "in the effort to achieve a world without hunger." C Payne Lucas was recently honored by the Peace Corps with the Franklin H. Williams Award for outstanding leadership contributions that returned Peace Corps Volunteers of Color have made in the area of community service.
How the Book was written
Their book provides an inside look at the Peace Corps and relies on a large body of internal Peace Corps documents bearing on agency policies, program development, and volunteer performance. One of the principal sources for the book is the agency's own extensive evaluations of individual country programs written by the highly sensitive observers who worked in Charlie Peter's Evaluation Division.
The authors are preparing a second edition to their book which will be ready for sale at the Peace Corps Fortieth plus one in June. In the meantime, please read this excerpt from "Keeping Kennedy's Promise"
The Numbers Game
In the heady days of the New Frontier (and at the height of the Cold War), a large Peace Corps seemed to make eminently greater sense than a small trial effort.
In the heady days of the New Frontier (and at the height of the Cold War), a large Peace Corps seemed to make eminently greater sense than a small trial effort. Although many within and outside the administration counseled caution, the Peace Corps had caught the nations imagination. It was a natural response to embarrassing American failures in the foreign assistance field, an antidote to The Ugly American. It asserted Americans' pride in themselves as a practical as well as peaceful people. It was a daring stroke in the ideological contest between Western democracy and the socialist doctrines for the allegiance of the postcolonial world.
Nothing, however, better explains the unmet promise of the Peace Corps than its initial emphasis on placing large numbers of volunteers in the field. (Warren) Wiggins himself later conceded that the commitment to mounting a Peace Corps of major proportions created a momentum of its own that eventually overwhelmed the agency's ability to develop and manage programs effectively. Too much was left to the overromanticized adaptability of volunteers and too little was subject to sound discovery and planning of jobs. Huge programs were inaugurated before staff could thoroughly scout the unfamiliar terrain of strange cultures. As a result, hundreds of volunteers marked time in poorly chosen assignments.
The numbers game, as it came to be called, was an inherently contradictory process. The Peace Corps first had to find willing host countries, and frequently it had to court uninterested and suspicious governments. Later, the preoccupation with building larger and larger programs contrasted oddly with the agency's abiding belief in the worth of the individual volunteer; and the well-advertised premium on quality in choosing volunteers was compromised when necessary to meet continuing commitments to countries hosting hundreds of volunteers.
Programming was shallow. Inexperience conspired with a conscious bias among many Peace Corps staff against becoming too like the technical experts and professional programmers in the foreign aid establishment. Volunteers in any event were assumed to be competent to find their own program if necessary. By definition they were highly flexible self-starters who could adjust to shifting circumstances on the job. To force them into rigidly defined roles might smother their native American ingenuity. Confident that almost any right-spirited American could accomplish some good overseas, the Peace Corps was able in good conscience to sacrifice thousands of volunteers at the altar of expansion.
Five thousand volunteered during the Peace Corps first official month-March 1961. Beyond tentative interest in Ghana, Colombia, Chile, Tanzania, and the Caribbean island of St. Lucia, however, there was no comparable surge of interest abroad. Several governments preferred to study the new, somewhat mystifying, American initiative cautiously. (Sargent) Shriver and senior aides left almost immediately to find willing host countries to accommodate the stampede of applicants. Shriver stimulated many program requests with his charisma and infectious idealism. A president's handshake and a minister's quick calculation of his manpower needs and the thing was done.2 Washington staff dashed abroad, responding to any vibration of interest, and returned to headquarters with skeletal program requests. Job descriptions were supplied later, but the basic commitments were made at the upper echelon, often by Peace Corps and host officials who were only vaguely aware of what the volunteers would be doing or the field conditions they would encounter.
The Philippines seemed an ideal setting for one of the Peace Corps maiden programs.
There were early and widespread signs that the "numbers game" was insinuating itself into the Peace Corps programming process. The first serious embarrassment was the Philippines, where it soon became obvious that the first volunteer arrivals-teachers' aides-were not desperately needed. Yet the Peace Corps proceeded with plans to send hundreds more to serve as teachers aides and to work in something hazily described as community development.
The Philippines seemed an ideal setting for one of the Peace Corps maiden programs. The country had experienced a half century of American stewardship before independence and in a sense shared a common political heritage with the United States. A sizable commitment of volunteers to the Philippines seemed only natural. But their early efforts were largely wasted in ill-defined roles.
In Colombia, the Peace Corps appeared bent on repeating its difficulties in the Philippines. More than 600 volunteers were planned by the end of 1963, prompting the staff member in charge of the community development program to lament the emphasis "on how many they (Washington) can get into the field instead of what they are doing. …Colombia can't support any more."
Declining morale and poor standards of dress among volunteers were reported from Ecuador in 1963 by a concerned American scholar who visited the program. He wrote to Peace Corps/Washington that too many underemployed volunteers were visibly congregating in the cities: "If you see clusters of Ecuadoreans standing on one street corner staring without expression at a cluster of Peace Corpsmen on the opposite corner, as I did on more than one occasion. . . you cannot help but realize that something is amiss." He recommended against sending additional volunteers "to populate other street corners or coffee shops" unless the Peace Corps could find suitable work for them. "A fast build-up of numbers of Volunteers right now," he warned, "may make good reading in the United States and may please even some elements of the Ecuadorean government. But it is a sham and a delusion to 'sell' it as either necessary or desirable."
One of the first severely critical analyses of the numbers phenomenon emerged from an evaluation of the Senegal program in 1963. It strongly implied that the rapid growth of the Peace Corps in its first two years had retarded the ability of staff in Washington and overseas to program carefully. "Reckless expansion and frantic scrambling initially necessary to get the agency on its feet seem to have taken on the qualities of absolute virtue," the report said. "Careful planning, definition of policy, concern with standards. … [are] censured as creeping bureaucracy an epithet. The Peace Corps has acquired a certain momentum. This is desirable, but only so long as we control it. Presently it seems to be controlling us. …We'll do a better job in the long run if we do a better job now. Volunteers lose their dedication when they find sloppy and indifferent programming and back-up, and become sloppy and indifferent themselves."
In a covering note to a similarly uncomplimentary review of the program in Brazil, Charles Peters, the agency's director of evaluation, suggested to Shriver in 1963 that the Peace Corps was "being prostituted by an attempt to play the numbers game with a sick project. … As an evaluator, you feel you have a duty to raise hell-that … you've got to make clear to the people in Washington how demoralizing the numbers game can be when witnessed by unemployed Volunteers." It was a typical comment from the agency gadfly and conscience, a man who was forever citing the gaps between the Peace Corps ideals and reality-to little avail.
Shriver was extremely sensitive to suggestions that the Peace Corps was deliberately fostering a "numbers game." In August 1963, Peters told the director that he hoped a critical report on the Liberia program would "deal a deathblow to thinking of Liberia as a dumping ground for large numbers of marginal PCVs. We played that game in the Philippines and brought ourselves one hell of a lot of trouble."
The Peace Corps was proceeding on the basis of America's "historic commitment" to Liberia, it said, and intended to "wedge" a thousand or more volunteers into Africa "by hook or crook."
The report questioned plans to introduce 150 additional volunteers in the fall of 1963 to supplement the eighty-two teachers already in Liberia. The Peace Corps was proceeding on the basis of America's "historic commitment" to Liberia, it said, and intended to "wedge" a thousand or more volunteers into Africa "by hook or crook." Liberia, according to the schedule of projects, was due to escalate shortly to 325 volunteers in a country of just one million people. "If it was done in the assumption that Liberia is a 'safe' place for rapid deployment of Volunteers," the report complained, "our quarrel is with the soundness of Peace Corps expansionist policy."
Shriver tartly denied that the Peace Corps planned to "wedge" volunteers into Africa, which he doubted could absorb the 3,000 volunteers mentioned. "We have no such expansionist policy," he said with finality. Nevertheless, by 1966 there were more than 3,000 volunteers serving in Africa.
Shriver agreed in theory, at least, that a few volunteers doing excellent work were preferable to many doing average or mediocre jobs. He was clearly impressed with one evaluators "firm conviction that the reasoning that pushed us for the numbers at any cost will eventually eat out the heart of the Peace Corps if it is not stopped. . . . Our basic strategy for Congress, for public opinion, for host country acceptance and for recruiting need be nothing more complex than excellence and service. Numbers have little to do with either."
The White House was calling upon the Peace Corps to double its size, and President Johnson was contemplating at least 20,000 as the immediate goal.
Meanwhile, the Peace Corps was growing by quantum leaps to its peak of about 15,000 volunteers and trainees in 1966. The White House was calling upon the Peace Corps to double its size, and President Johnson was contemplating at least 20,000 as the immediate goal. People were volunteering in record numbers in the mid-1960s but still more were needed to satisfy the expanding demand.
The initial doubt and skepticism in foreign minds had quickly given way to substantial acceptance of the Peace Corps and its volunteers. Thirty countries swelled the list of subscribers in 1962, exceeding the agency's ability to recruit and train volunteers who matched its high standards. There simply were not enough qualified volunteers to maintain existing commitments, much less add to them. As programs grew larger and more numerous, bitter controversy arose over which regions and countries were to receive the best applicants.
Jack Vaughn, then regional director for Latin America, expressed concern to Shriver early in 1963 that Africa and the Philippines were getting most of the college graduates, thus leaving Latin America with less-qualified manpower. Peters, meanwhile, urged stricter selection standards across the board and suggested that the "strong element of fantasy in our program projections for Latin America will be revealed if we apply tough standards." In other words, if the Peace Corps truly accepted only the top applicants, it would be unable to provide the number and caliber of volunteers promised. Shriver conceded that congressional criticism of the size of the Philippines program-and the need for volunteers elsewhere-might dictate postponing new programs there until later in 1963. But he never conceded that the Peace Corps might be deliberately or unintentionally compromising selection standards.
Peace Corps selection criteria graded trainees from 5 to 1 in descending order of excellence. From early 1962 it had been policy to select for training only applicants classified 5 and 4, although 3s were being taken into some programs. Wiggins, in fact, decided in the spring of 1962-just as the Peace Corps was entering its most hectic period of growth-to experiment with 3s. He personally reviewed a number of applications and agreed with the selection staff that only a third to a half of the 3s were worth inviting to training. Wiggins-the architect of expansion-decreed that the Peace Corps should cut back its programs rather than accept 3s who had not been reviewed jointly by program staff as well as by selection personnel. This laborious procedure was followed for a time, but it soon was honored more often in the breach because of competing pressures on the program staff. As a result, many poorly qualified 3s slipped into training to help satisfy overseas "demand."
One program in Central America began floundering badly. Both the program and selection offices conceded that the volunteers serving there (circa 1963) were a "barrel-scraped crew." Faced with internal rumblings that the Peace Corps was deliberately lowering its standards rather than canceling projects or accepting shortfalls, Shriver rejected advice that the number of 3s selected for training should be carefully limited and that the Peace Corps awake to its "crisis of quality." He strongly disagreed that 3s were necessarily weak. Many had performed as well as the top-rated volunteers. He doubted that limiting selection to 5s would have any more than marginal effect on the quality of volunteer work.
But Shriver's ideals rested on mere mortals. It was one thing to philosophize that 3s should be given an opportunity to serve because some had performed above expectation. It was quite another to overlook the widespread consequences of the Peace Corps concession to benign mediocrity. This became increasingly evident during the Peace Corps surge of expansion in 1963-1966. The agency was committed to having 10,000 volunteers in the field by August 1965, and although the shortage of qualified applicants forced the agency to trim its projections, the selection machinery actually overfilled some projects. One selection officer that year admitted making a "farce" of a Latin American country's request: "We dumped PCVs . . . with hardly a by-your-leave to the country director. We told young Americans they were vitally needed to fill non-existent jobs."
The numbers complex had firmly insinuated itself in the Peace Corps operational ethic. Thus the African regional office in Washington could write to its director in Guinea of "our mutual wish for a big program" while the director strove hard to save what program he already had. And the Turkey program could forge ahead in 1966 on a record of four years of non-accomplishment-living testimony, said one Peace Corps observer, to the Peace Corps "enormous faith in the magic power of numbers."
A 1965 program document drafted in Washington spoke of the Turkey project in almost fictional terms
A 1965 program document drafted in Washington spoke of the Turkey project in almost fictional terms: "The government of Turkey now accepts the Peace Corps fully and is ready to initiate formative and institutional changes based on the competency and availability of Volunteers. There is no question that when a program involves a large number of PC Vs, the leverage for induced change and improvement increases." The statement was meaningless, of course, except for what it revealed about the agency's abstract programming and its preoccupation with scale as a measure of impact. The arrogance of "leverage for induced change" made an odd contrast with Shriver's stated belief that the size and impact of a program were not necessarily related.
While the Peace Corps was inflating programs of questionable substance in Turkey and elsewhere, it was also holding at bay several smaller countries that were requesting relatively modest projects. Shriver was opposed in principle to spreading the Peace Corps among too many nations, especially ministates, lest this stretch the abilities of talented overseas staff-not volunteers-beyond the breaking point. The view had not yet taken hold, as it would a few years later, that narrower, tightly planned, and tightly administered projects in smaller countries offered better hope of genuine impact than did many of the massive, diffuse, and inefficient programs then in vogue.
After establishing forty-six country programs within the first two years, the Peace Corps added only two nations to its roster-Kenya and Uganda-in 1964 - 1965. Many small countries were put off, their requests tabled while the Peace Corps shepherded hundreds of volunteers into Nigeria, Brazil, Colombia, India, the Philippines, and Thailand to sustain large, ongoing commitments.
As early as 1962, the bias against smaller countries was challenged within the agency. Many directors in the French speaking countries of West Africa objected to the stress upon big programs-only large projects seemed to be entertained in Washington. Shriver sympathized. but argued that small projects were a poor test of a programs potential and were costlier to mount.
Three years later, country directors in Africa were still concerned that imaginative new programs, requiring ten or fifteen volunteers, were being rejected in Washington in favor of large, established projects. David Hapgood, one of the agency's most perspicacious evaluators, lent special force to this refrain when he returned in 1965 greatly impressed by what he had seen a handful of volunteers accomplishing in Niger, a poor Saharan nation that the Peace Corps clearly regarded as a marginal program. The Peace Corps, Hapgood said, was cheating itself by ignoring or shortchanging smaller countries. Man for man, woman for woman, volunteers had a better opportunity to achieve tangible results in these less grandiose, more manageable undertakings than in the larger arenas preferred by the Peace Corps. "The individual Volunteer is of declining importance as the program expands," Hapgood said with conviction.
Hapgood criticized the Peace Corps tendency to think big-a fault that he believed encouraged some host countries to let their imaginations exceed their capacity to employ large numbers of volunteers effectively. He was not against bigness per Se; he was worried that the agency's clarity of purpose and the quality of its programs might suffer in proportion to a project's obesity.
Shriver disagreed. The entire Peace Corps was "minuscule" in terms of the overall needs. Even 20,000 volunteers would be pitifully few. To Hapgood's recommendation that the Peace Corps expand successful programs slowly at first and build on sound experience, Shriver replied that this risked allowing good projects to stagnate.
The Peace Corps never did place 20,000 volunteers in the field at one time. But it tried.
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Samsung Alias U740 Review
posted by PhoneArena Team / Apr 06, 2007, 2:47 AM
Included in the retail package is the U740 phone, 800 mAh battery, travel charger, headset adapter with 2.5mm jack, and user guide.
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1. bubba unregistered
this is not samsungs first attempt at a phone with a qwerty keyboard on it...remember the samsung d307
posted on Oct 20, 2010, 1:55 AM 0
2. Vagabundus unregistered
Why the comparison to the more expensive EnV? Of course the EnV is better in most of these categories: That's why it is twice the size, heavier and more expensive. How about comparisons with some other models--to give a better feel for where the phone "sits" in terms of all available phones. I haven't used this phone, but the review feels like a hatchet job, similar to comparing the W385 to many other phones that clearly outclass it. For example, would someone be better off with this phone than with the phones priced less? How does it stack up against phones its same size and weight? Good points, but the frequent comparisons to the EnV seem a bit over the top, especially when taken with reviews of other phones where such a big deal is made over the size and weight of the phone.
posted on Oct 01, 2007, 12:49 PM 0
3. Tara unregistered
I recently purchased the Allias and I like it. The keyboard is small, but for the price versus that of the EnV...I can't complain.
posted on Mar 21, 2008, 9:45 PM 0
4. Andy unregistered
I have the Alias and it's very good. I found the EnV too big to fit comfortably in my pocket. The keyboard is small, but you get used to using it very quickly. If you have big hands you probably will have more trouble with it. I wouldn't use it if you plan on texting 50 times a day, but I can check and respond to my emails easily.
posted on Mar 23, 2008, 10:13 PM 0
5. Jazen unregistered
I bought a used U740 as my work phone (I own a Voyager but I do custodial) and I can honestly see where Samsung was going with it. It can be such a great phone! BUT there's so many bugs and UI issues that makes one wonder how Samsung (or Verizon) made such a mess. I won't compare it to the enV or Voyager, since the features aren't up to the same bar. But I do feel the enV is a more stable phone
posted on Apr 14, 2008, 1:38 AM 0
6. Comment unregistered
I purchased the U740 to take advantage of the Vcast pack for the Internet. Over all the phone is good. Yes the phone with the full keyboard is awsome. There are # of bad points I've noticed with it over the past month of using it. There is no camera button on the side, the view of the picture on the phone after it's saved sucks, and the battery drains fast when in low cover areas. The good points of this phone. Speaker phone when the phone is closed works (unlike most of the LG phones), a 4 gig micro sd card is supported at this time (8 gig is the max with a future software upgrade), love the cam corder with audio, and Internet usage for mapquest is good. Overall I would not get rid of this phone anytime soon.
posted on Jul 04, 2008, 9:49 PM 0
7. unregistered
really? a 6.4 because it's not as good as the env? obviously they've never noticed what an ugly beast the env is because this phone is like half the size and infinitely better looking, I've had this phone for like a year and a half and it's really been great, the keys are a little small and I can see that being a problem for a lot of people but i think at least half the population (including me) has fingers small enough to use it completely comfortably, they're very well designed as well as small keys go and i almost never have problems where i hit the wrong key, the only problems i have are that it is pretty hard to dial numbers when it's opened like a normal phone and over time the keys leave little scratches on the screen from hitting it every time you close the phone, well my main problem is that the verizon UI sucks but that's the same on the env, so yeah if you have rather small fingers i would definitely say this is a good enV alternative phone and i really don't regret getting it, the enV 2s look a lot better than the originals though so those wouldn't be a bad choice either in my opinion
posted on Jul 22, 2008, 1:37 AM 0
8. jess_jane1318
Posts: 1; Member since: Sep 29, 2008
i have had the samsung u740 (alias) since December 2007. it has given me nothing but Trouble! i am not rough with my phones but i do expect them to work well and this one hasn't worked well at all. the 1st one i had only connected to alltel towers... messed up right. so they gave me a new one. 2nd one would shut off on me constantly. i told them about it and they sent me a new one 3rd one did the same as the second. 4th one is turning off on me the hinge is so lose it feels as if it will fall off at any time and it will not send any pix or fix messages even with 2 to 3 bars of 1x and ev service. this phone is junk! it has proven to be more of a hassle then what it is worth and it is very unreliable! i would advise anyone agaisnt buying this phone. not worth the hassle it put you through, and definitely not worth the money.
posted on Sep 29, 2008, 12:47 PM 0
9. LoveTheAlias unregistered
I've had the Alias since May 2007 ... a year and a half ... and I LOVE IT!!! Why in all of the pages of review is there no mention of the speech-to-text ability of this phone? Seems like this site did nothing but knock the phone, comparing it to the clunkly, heavy, and U-G-L-Y enV ... yet all my friends with the enV envy me!! Texting is great on it, I have NO trouble with the keyboard ... you'd have to have really thick fingers to have much trouble with the size of the keys. The mp3 player on it is great .. I don't have an ipod or any other mp3 player and this phone is the reason why!! The double flip hinge is very very sturdy, even after a year and a half of my friends and I constantly playing with its double flip. The battery has held up well for me, and being away from family and friends, and using it as my mp3 player for work-outs, I use the battery A LOT. The reception is great, the sound quality is great. Really the only complaint I had with the phone was having to go out and get earbuds with a special connector for the phone, but I got those on ebay for about $6 with shipping so no biggie. The only other thing I can possibly think of is that when someone borrows it for the first time to make a call, it is a little overwhelming to them trying to distinguish the number keys amongst all the other keys; but once you look at it for a second, it goes back to awing them in amazement and enV ;) There may be the iphone and lg shine and blah blah blah out there, but I will be keeping this phone for a whole lot longer because I am nowhere close to being sick of it. BEST PHONE I'VE EVER OWNED AND I LOVE IT!!
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