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My baby came 5 days earlier than expected. Today she's one week old.
I had mixed feelings about even announcing this – privacy issues and all. Some people have already Twitter'd or Blabbl'd or AssSqueak'd about it, and a few comedy websites have picked it up as if it's some dark rumor. So let's make it official – on Wednesday, April 15th, my way-more-brilliant-and-resilient-than-me wife gave birth to our first child – Alice Rigney Oswalt.
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But MySpace has become a neglected strip mall, which is slowly going out of business because someone built a shiny new mega-mall just down the street. Every now and then you stop by because abandoned, derelict buildings have a weird beauty to them. Have you been over to Friendster lately? The rats are so tame they'll let you pet 'em. So think of this as me taping up a discreet flyer in the window of the sketchy Chinese restaurant next to the dollar movie theater where they're still showing THE WILD WILD WEST. I want to announce this, but people are going to have to pack a sandwich and drive somewhere to find it.
But yeah, babies. There's a whole cluster of us, my friends and I, having babies, all within weeks of each other. A friend of ours pointed out that we all conceived in late July or early August – during or after the San Diego Comic-Con. She said, "You guys saw some chick dressed as Wonder Woman, got all hot and bothered, and then went and made a baby with your wives."
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No, what gave us our Life-Spawning Hanzo Steel Trouser Swords was the early TERMINATOR footage.
I'm sorry if this is getting sentimental and precious. I'm one week fresh from bringing another life into the world, and I'm fragile.
And I'm raw because of the sudden, early arrival. Nothing went wrong medically. The delivery could not have been smoother, or more matter-of-fact. But watching my daughter get lifted into the light and hearing her first cry didn't have a tenth of the emotional impact as the clanging un-reality of entering the delivery room.
Do they design delivery rooms the way they do on purpose? Because there's something pointedly mystical about the whole thing – a passing-through-a-shimmering-gate kind of Arthur Machen groove they've got going on at the hospital. One minute I'm sitting in the hallway while they prep my wife – in my light blue scrubs, booties and mask – and the next I'm being hustled into an over-lit, creamy-white room full of masked people, all of them subtly gliding and waltzing around silvery, flickering machines that hug the walls like the ghosts of giant spiders. I hold my wife's hand and we make jokes but all I'm thinking is, "When you leave this room, everything is different." It's a case study version of the Afterlife, one you can't stay in – but neither can the tiny person who appears there. You're supposed to carry them out of a sterile, safe room where you're both surrounded by professionals and experts and R*E*A*S*S*U*R*A*N*C*E and back out into a world you've been knocking around in for forty years. You've seen a lot of beauty and grace out there in the world but holy FUCK are there a lot of casual, cruel, and clumsy cretins…most of them in charge of all the dangerous machinery.
What was also bittersweet about the whole thing was how her arrival so beautifully tore the delicate tissue my day-to-day existence is made of. I didn't realize, until the 2am feedings and sudden squalls of crying and pooping how, how over-structured I'd made my existence.
And before I use the term "nerd" here, can we all quietly retire that term? "Nerd" has become too narrow in 2009. The first thing you think is, "Nerd – yeah, it's someone who likes comic books and science fiction." And I do.
But that term now has to be stretched to include extreme cinema, bizarre archival footage, music, travel, food, excellent TV shows like THE WIRE and BREAKING BAD and, let's face it, most sports. I put regular experimentation with exotic drugs under that umbrella. And "nerd" just doesn't cut it.
How about – "enthusiast"? That covers my interests, which are too wide-ranging and rambling to satisfy my distant, bewildered relatives who thought they had Christmas shopping all sewed up for me when they heard "comic book", and grab the nearest thing with Spider-man printed on it. Then again, I never need to worry about running out of coffee mugs.
Where was I? Oh yeah, my enthusiasms.
So, between the internet and my circle of ear-to-the-ground enthusiast friends, I've got weeks and months and, sometimes, years mapped out in advance of what I'm going to see, and hear, and read, and what I'm rubbing my hands together in anticipation of. And I've reached a point in my career where I'm given a lot of early screeners and galley proofs and screenplays, so I'm forever three or four months ahead of the curve. But then there are special occasions. I want to experience these fresh out of the bakery ovens, and not at the point where the yeast meets the eggs. I want to sit, side-by-side with the masses, and bang my head against the seat in front of me, and re-visit my teenage self, and all of the things he loved.
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I'm sure you've read my earlier blog entry, GAY-THAM FOR STATHAM. It's been added to a lot of standardized American textbooks, and President Obama is having it added to the Preamble.
So for months and weeks I was anticipating the release, last Friday, of CRANK: HIGH VOLTAGE.
And let's take a moment here. CRANK, let's face it, was the cinematic equivalent of meth, terror, oral sex and shameful joy, delivered at the end of a taser. And I saw the fucker on TV.
And nowthe writer/directors – Neveldine and Taylor, who are probably, as I write, this, having a shirtless pit-fight with a hippo full of PCP – were laying down a goddamn SEQUEL to their masterpiece. "Yeah, remember that opium you took that enabled you to speak to the dead for five minutes? Well, we've got this new stuff that'll let you punch one dead person for ten minutes." That's what the mere CONCEPT of a sequel to CRANK felt like.
So me and my circle of friends (let's call us the LONErs – League of Nerdy Enthusiasms, for people who can quite give up the "N" word) were all planning on hitting the Thursday midnight screenings. Because any dickpimple can type "First!" into a comment thread. But to LIVE he concept of "First" – that's where the last drops of Viking blood ended up in the bloodstream.
But little Alice had different plans for me, and once I saw her, in the way station of the delivery room, I didn't want to know anything else. At least, not for awhile.
We stayed in the hospital until Saturday. I won't go into the minute-by-minute details of the stay, except to say that, at midnight on Thursday, I was following the Twitter feeds of Aziz Ansari, Paul Scheer, Eric Appell, Steve Agee and Scott Aukerman while they watched the midnight screening of CRANK: HIGH VOLTAGE and I lay on an army cot in my wife's hospital room. Alice was sleeping in her crib and having the cloud-flavored dreams that babies have while I read my friends' text-bursts about exit wounds, groin trauma and Corey Haim.
"It's a whole new deal," said Dave Grohl, who had the room next to ours. His daughter came on Friday, and on Saturday afternoon we lugged our wives' luggage down to our respective cars. I didn't say much – it was Dave's second baby, and I figured I needed to absorb whatever advice he was giving. Except that it was being transmitted from a sleep-deprived rocker to a sleep-deprived comedian, so that's all I really took away – "It's a whole new deal." He might have said more but I was hearing less, so that's what I got.
And it is a whole…new…deal. I'm going to be honest and say I haven't decided, one way or another, whether it's good or bad. I know I'd rather sit with Alice and her mom, watching AMERICAN IDOL while we keep reminding ourselves that it's night, and that AMERICAN IDOL may as well be our GOOD MORNING AMERICA, the way our schedule is now. And I spend my days like one of the bush pilots in ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS, sitting and sipping coffee, and waiting for my wife or the night nurse to send me out on an errand. I've learned to love podcasts, which make driving around feel less like an intellect sinkhole than listening to the radio.
And I'm warning you, LONErs out there on the brink of parenthood – staring at your baby will become your new X-Box, your new Alex Ross art, your new Tarantino film. You'll stare and stare with the kind of fascination you haven't felt since you first saw STAR WARS (or THE MATRIX – fuck, I keep forgetting I'm forty). My gallery of otherwordly avatars – the masked killers and vigilantes and film noir sirens and Lovecraftian hosts – are still around, but they're faded and have to wait their turn. We'll see if I turn into a pedantic, boring asshole, an ex-LONEr who renounces his past and tries to protect their kid from everything they used to spice their existence.
Tuesday morning I went to the first screening of CRANK: HIGH VOLTAGE at The Arclight. I went with a friend of mine, Gerry Duggan, who had HIS kid, his son, on Monday the 13th, two days before Alice.
Our wives insisted we at least get out and see this movie they knew we were dying to see. Those are the kind of super-cool chicks we married.
And there we were, in the Arclight, with what looked like five other random people. CRANK: HIGH VOLTAGE didn't do well, which I think President Obama needs to address in his next State of the Union.
But Gerry and I sat there, happily assaulted by the seizure-inducing editing, lung-bursting pace and all-around psycho-kill-titty-scrotum-ness of CRANK: HIGH VOLTAGE. Neither of us had showered. We'd gotten three hours of sleep between us in as many days. We were dehydrated and shaking from coffee and junk food.
And, we lived the reality of CRANK: HIGH VOLTAGE better than any of our friends who'd seen it the previous Thursday. It was if someone created the greatest 3-D technology ever – Jason Statham was onscreen being sweaty, exhausted, jittery, confused and smelly, and that's EXACLTY HOW WE WERE SITTING IN THE THEATER.
Thank you, Baby Alice. You made the first movie I saw after your birth the most immersive cinematic experience I've ever had. I owe you my understanding when, at 22, you write your first screenplay – CRANK 9: PREGNANT AS FUCK.
And unless you see CRANK: HIGH VOLTAGE after four days of screaming, poo-filled diapers and sleep deprivation, to the point where your body is emitting a swamp-ass odor that could pierce the engine block of a pickup truck, then I don't want to know you. CRANK: HIGH VOLTAGE demands that kind of dedication.
In short, it's the perfect movie for new fathers. Because you're going to live a version of that movie every day for the rest of your life.
Oops, Alice is crying. Gotta get inside with the baa-baa.
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Abu Nasr Mansur was a native of Gilan which is mentioned in The Regions of the World, a Persian geography book of 982. His family, the Banu Iraq, were rulers of Khwarazm the region adjoining the Aral Sea, and it was in this region that Abu Nasr Mansur studied and became a disciple of Abu'l-Wafa. Abu Nasr Mansur was teaching in this area when he first began his association with al-Biruni whom he taught from about 990. This began an important collaboration which was to go on for many years.
The end of the 10th century and beginning of the 11th century was a period of great unrest in the Islamic world and there were civil wars in the region in which Abu Nasr Mansur was living. Khwarazm was at this time part of the Samanid Empire which ruled from Bukhara. Other states in the region were the Ziyarid state with its capital at Gurgan on the Caspian sea. Further west the Buwayhid dynasty ruled over the area between the Caspian sea and the Persian Gulf, and over Mesopotamia. Another kingdom which was rapidly rising in influence was the Ghaznavids whose capital was at Ghazna in Afganistan.
In 995 the Banu Iraq, of which Abu Nasr Mansur was a prince, was overthrown in a coup. It is not clear what happened to Abu Nasr Mansur at this stage but certainly his pupil al-Biruni fled at the outbreak of the civil war. It seems that Abu Nasr Mansur was, some little time later, employed at the court of Ali ibn Ma'mun and remained at the court when his brother Abu'l Abbas Ma'mun succeeded him. Both these brother married sisters of the ruler Mahmud from the powerful state at Ghazna which would eventually take control of Ma'mun's kingdom.
Both Ali ibn Ma'mun and Abu'l Abbas Ma'mun were patrons of the sciences and supported a number of top scientists at their court. Not only did Abu Nasr Mansur work there but from about 1004 al-Biruni also worked there, renewing the collaboration between him and his teacher. The wars in the region, however, were to disrupt the scientific work of Abu Nasr Mansur and eventually he and al-Biruni left in about 1017. Mahmud was extending his influence over the region from his base in Ghazna and made a demand of Abu'l Abbas Ma'mun in 1014 to have his name inserted into the Friday prayers. This was a signal that he wanted an end to Ma'mun's rule and for the region to come under his control. After Ma'mun had at least partially agreeded to Mahmud's demands, he was killed by his own army for what they considered to be an act of treachery. Following this Mahmud marched his army into the region and gained control. Both Abu Nasr Mansur and al-Biruni seem to have left with the victorious Mahmud. It seems that Abu Nasr Mansur spent most of the rest of his life at Mahmud's court in Ghazna.
Abu Nasr Mansur is perhaps most famous for his collaboration with al-Biruni. Certainly Abu Nasr Mansur worked on many topics as a result of requests from al-Biruni and a total of twenty-five works are known to have been written by him. It is possible that in this list of twenty-five two names of works that have come down to us are different titles for the same work while another title may refer to a fragment of a larger work (in which case there are only twenty-three). Seventeen works have survived and they show that Abu Nasr Mansur was an extremely able astronomer and mathematician. Of Abu Nasr Mansur's works seven are on mathematics, the rest are on astronomy. All the surviving works have been published, most have been translated into at least one European language, and this gives some indication of the importance attached to his work.
Many of Abu Nasr Mansur's works were dedicated to his student al-Biruni. In fact al-Biruni himself lists twelve works which he says Abu Nasr Mansur dedicated to him (although some historians read al-Biruni's words as meaning that he wrote the works himself, but this interpretation seems highly unlikely). The first such work which Abu Nasr Mansur dedicated to al-Biruni was written around 997, soon after the civil war had disrupted their work. In his own writings al-Biruni sometimes quotes results due to Abu Nasr Mansur which he says he worked on at al-Biruni's request. Certainly both men seem keen to give full credit to the other's contributions.
Abu Nasr Mansur's main achievements are his commentry on the Spherics of Menelaus, his role in the development of trigonometry from Ptolemy's calculation with chords towards the trigonometric functions used today, and his development of a set of tables which give easy numerical solutions to typical problems of spherical astronomy.
Abu Nasr Mansur's reworking of the Spherics of Menelaus is particularly important since the Greek original of Menelaus work has been lost, although there are several Arabic versions. Menelaus's work formed the basis for Ptolemy's numerical solutions of spherical astronomy problems in the Almagest Ⓣ. The work is in three books: the first book studies properties of spherical triangles, the second book investigates properties of systems of parallel circles on a sphere as they intersect great circles, while the third book gives a proof of Menelaus's theorem.
In his work on trigonometry Abu Nasr Mansur discovered the sine law
a/sin A = b/sin B = c/sin C.Abu'l-Wafa may have discovered this law first and Abu Nasr Mansur may have learnt it from him. Certainly which of the two has priority is hard to determine and will almost certainly never be known with certainty. A third person who is sometimes credited with this same discovery is al-Khujandi but it seems less likely that he was the discoverer since, as Samso writes in [1]:-
... he was essentially a practical astronomer, unconcerned with theoretical problems.The claims of al-Khujandi to be the discoverer of the sine law are further discussed in his biography.
The article [4] is a description and study of The table of minutes of Abu Nasr Mansur. The author of [4] traces the origins of the work to the 10th century Damascene tables by Habash. Abu Nasr Mansur's treatise discusses the five trigonometric functions which are used to solve problems in spherical astronomy. The article shows the improvement achieved by Abu Nasr Mansur in using 1 as the value of the radius, instead of 60 as was done by most Arabic astronomers.
Other work by Abu Nasr Mansur on astronomical topics included four works on the construction and application of the astrolabe. His proof of the sine law appears a number of times in his works, for example in Almagest of the Shah, Book of the azimuth, Treatise on the determination of spherical arcs, and Treatise in which some geometrical questions addressed to him are answered. The questions referred to in the title of this last work were addressed to him by al-Biruni. Others works include Treatise in which a difficulty in the thirteenth book of the Elements is solved and A chapter from a book on the sphericity of the heavens.
Article by: J J O'Connor and E F Robertson
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Supplementation With L. Reuteri in H. Pylori Infected Adults
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|Condition or disease
|Dyspepsia H. Pylori Infection
|Dietary Supplement: L. reuteri Dietary Supplement: Placebo
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Fifty-six (56) subjects, aged 18-70 years will be recruited from patients with dyspeptic symptoms referred to the clinic for consultation about H. pylori infection and who have not previously been treated for this infection. Patients in whom H. pylori infection is confirmed (by endoscopy with biopsy) and who fulfil the inclusion criteria, will be invited to enter the study. After written consent has been obtained subjects will be randomly allocated to one of two groups, one to receive omeprazole (2x20mg/day) + 1 tablet placebo per day and the other to receive omeprazole (2x20mg/day) + 1 tablet (2x108 CFU L. reuteri) ProGastria per day.
After randomisation on Day 0 of the study, the subjects will also be asked to complete a gastrointestinal symptom rating score (GSRS) to determine baseline symptomology.
Intervention will begin on Day 1 and last for 28 days after which therapy will be stopped. The subjects will be asked to complete the GSRS questionnaire on Day 14 and Day 28. At Day 14, the patients GSRS scores are monitored and the patients interviewed. In those patients where there is a marked deterioration of their condition or symptoms, these will be considered treatment failures and eradication therapy will then be started on Day 15.
The day after therapy is stopped (Day 29), patients symptoms will be assessed. All patients will undergo gastroscopy to determine the presence of H. pylori or not. If H. pylori infection is confirmed (by endoscopy and biopsy staining), these subjects will be given triple therapy to eradicate the infection and followed up on Day 90 of the study.
On Day 29, those patients that no longer complain of symptoms and are shown to be free of H. pylori infection by endoscopy (treatment success group), will continue with no further therapy until Day 90.
On Day 90 all subjects will be given a UBT to determine the presence of H. pylori infection and symptoms will be again assessed using GSRS. Asymptomatic patients with negative breath test will be considered recovered. In those patients where persistent H. pylori infection is confirmed by breath test, second line therapy will be implemented as indicated.
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|Effect of Dietary Supplementation With L. Reuteri ProGastria in H. Pylori-infected Adult Subjects Treated Only With Proton Pump Inhibitors
|Study Start Date :
|October 2011
|Estimated Primary Completion Date :
|April 2012
|Estimated Study Completion Date :
|April 2012
Placebo Comparator: Placebo
Dietary Supplement: Placebo
Chewable tablet, one tablet per day for 28 days
Active Comparator: L. reuteri
L. reuteri will be delivered at a dose of 1x108 CFU of each strain of L. reuteri giving a final dose of L. reuteri of 2x108 CFU. One dose is to be taken once per day giving a dose of L. reuteri of 2x108 CFU/day.
Intervention: Dietary Supplement: L. reuteri DSM 17938 and ATCC PTA 6475
Dietary Supplement: L. reuteri
Chewable tablet, one tablet/day for 28 days
Other Name: L. reuteri DSM 17938 and L. reuteri ATCC PTA 6475
- Increase in the number of subjects with treatment success after 28 days of treatment with omeprazole + L. reuteri compared to those given omeprazole + placebo. [ Time Frame: 28 days ]Treatment success is defined as the absence of H. pylori infection as shown by a significant reduction in symptoms on Day 28 and by the absence of H. pylori on gastric biopsy at Day 28.
- Fewer patients in the L. reuteri treatment success group with demonstrated presence of H. pylori infection, measured as UBT on Day 90 compared to the placebo treatment success group [ Time Frame: 3 months ]
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- Infection with H. pylori defined by endoscopic examination with biopsy H. pylori staining
- Non-ulcer dyspepsia
- Absence of other pathology as shown by basic clinical laboratory tests (blood and urine) as well as abdominal ultrasound
- No earlier eradication therapy for H. pylori infection
- Written informed consent
- Stated availability throughout the entire study period
- Mental ability to understand and willingness to fulfil all the details of the protocol.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Duodenal or gastric ulcer
- MALT lymphoma
- Gastric resection (at any time)
- First level relatives of gastric cancer patients
- Absence of GI symptoms
- Use of NSAIDs, aspirin or other anti-inflammatory drugs within 1 week (for occasional use) or 3 weeks (for chronic use) of inclusion
- Use of oral antibiotics and/or PPIs and/or H2-antagonists during the 2 weeks prior to ingestion of the study product
- Pregnancy
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|Gastroenterology Hepatology Centrum THALION, Poliklinika Mytna - 2.poscodie Mytna ul. 5, 811 07, Bratislava, Slovakia
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Although Go supports object-oriented programming, it provides neither classes nor inheritance (is-a relationships). Go does support the creation of custom types, and Go makes aggregation (has-a relationships) extremely easy. Go also allows for the complete separation of a type's data from its behavior, and supports duck typing. Duck typing is a powerful abstraction mechanism that allows values to be handled (for example, passed to functions) based on the methods they provide, regardless of their actual types. The terminology is derived from the phrase, "If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it's a duck." This produces a flexible and powerful alternative to the traditional classes and inheritance approach but it requires those of us used to the more traditional approach to make some significant conceptual adjustments to really benefit from Go's object orientation.
Go represents data using fundamental built-in types such as
int, and
string, or by aggregations of types using
structs. (Unlike C++, Go's
structs are not classes in disguise. For example, Go's
structs support aggregation and delegation, but not inheritance.) Go's custom types are based on the fundamental types, or on
structs, or on other custom types.
Go supports both named and unnamed custom types. Unnamed types with the same structure can be used interchangeably; however, they cannot have any methods. Any named custom type can have methods, and these methods together constitute the type's interface. Named custom types even with the same structure are not interchangeable. (Throughout this article, any reference to a "custom type" means a named custom type, unless stated otherwise.)
An interface is a type that can be formally defined by specifying a particular set of methods. Interfaces are abstract and cannot be instantiated. A concrete (that is, non-interface) type that has methods specified by an interface fulfills the interface that is, values of such a concrete type can be used as values of the interface's type as well as of their own actual type. Yet no formal connection need be established between an interface and a concrete type that provides the methods specified by the interface. It is sufficient for a custom type to have the interface's methods for it to satisfy that interface. And, of course, a type can satisfy more than one interface simply by providing all the methods for all the interfaces we want it to satisfy.
An empty interface (one that has no methods) is specified as
interface{}. Go's empty interface can serve the same role as a reference to a Java
Object or a C/C++
void.) Since the empty interface makes no demands at all (because it doesn't require any methods), it can stand for any value (much like a pointer to any value), whether the value is of a built-in type or is of a custom type. Incidentally, in Go terminology, we talk about types and values rather than classes and objects or instances (because Go has no classes). Function and method parameters can be of any built-in or custom type or of any interface type. In the latter case, this means that a function can have a parameter that says, for example, "pass a value that can read data," regardless of what that value's type actually is. (This will be shown in practice shortly.) For now, let's just look at a very simple custom type a stack starting with how values are created and used, and then look at the implementation of the custom type itself.
We will start with the output produced by a simple test program:
$ ./stacker 81.52 [pin clip needle] -15 hay
Each item was popped from the custom stack and printed on its own line.
The simple test program that produced this output is
stacker/stacker.go. Here are the imports it uses:
import ( "fmt" "stacker/stack" )
fmt package is part of Go's standard library, but the
stack package is a local package specific to the stacker application. A Go program or package's imports are first searched for under the
GOPATH path or paths, and then under
GOROOT. In this particular case, the program's source code is in
$HOME/goeg/src/stacker/stacker.go and the
stack package is in
$HOME/goeg/src/stacker/stack/stack.go. The
go tool will build both of them so long as the
GOPATH is (or includes) the path
Import paths are specified using UNIX-style "
/"s, even on Windows. Every local package should be stored in a directory with the same name as the package. Local packages can have their own packages (like
path/filepath), in exactly the same way as the standard library.
Here's the simple test program's
main() function that produced the output:
func main() { var haystack stack.Stack haystack.Push("hay") haystack.Push(-15) haystack.Push([]string{"pin", "clip", "needle"}) haystack.Push(81.52) for { item, err := haystack.Pop() if err != nil { break } fmt.Println(item) } }
The function begins by declaring the haystack variable of
type stack.Stack. It is conventional in Go to always refer to types, functions, variables, and other items in packages using the syntax
pkg.item, where
pkg is the last (or only) component of the package's name. This helps prevent name collisions. We then push some items onto the stack, pop them off, and print each one until there are no more left.
One amazingly convenient aspect of our custom stack is that despite Go's strong typing, we are not limited to storing homogeneous items (items all of the same type), but can freely mix heterogeneous items (items of various types). This is because the
stack.Stack type simply stores
interface{} items (that is, values of any type) and doesn't care what their types actually are. Of course, when those items are used, then their type does matter. Here, though, we only use the
fmt.Println() function, which uses Go's introspection facilities (from the
reflect package) to discover the types of the items it is asked to print.
Another nice Go feature illustrated by the code is the
for loop with no conditions. This is an infinite loop, so in most situations, we will need to provide a means of breaking out of the loop for example, using a
break statement as in our example, or a
return statement. We will see an additional
for syntax in the next example.
Go functions and methods can return a single value or multiple values. It is conventional in Go to report errors by returning an error value (of type
error) as the last (or only) value returned by a function or method. The
custom stack.Stack type respects this convention. Now that we have seen the
custom stack.Stack type in use, we are ready to review its implementation (in file
package stack import "errors" type Stack []interface{}
The file starts conventionally by specifying its package name. Then it imports other packages it needs in this case, just
errors. When we define a named custom type in Go, what we are doing is binding an identifier (the type's name) to a new type that has the same underlying representation as an existing (built-in or custom) type and which is treated by Go as different from the underlying representation. Here, the
Stack type is a new name for a slice (a reference to a variable-length array) of
interface{} values and is considered to be different from a plain
[]interface{}. Because all Go types satisfy the empty interface, values of any type can be stored in a
The built-in collection types (maps and slices), communication channels (which can be buffered), and strings can all return their length (or buffer size) using the built-in
len() function. Similarly, slices and channels can also report their capacity (which may be greater than the length being used) using the built-in
cap() function. It is conventional for custom collection types our own, and those in the Go standard library to support corresponding
Len() and
Cap() methods when these make sense. Since the
Stack type uses a slice for its underlying representation, it makes sense to provide
Stack.Len() and
Stack.Cap() methods for it.
func (stack Stack) Len() int { return len(stack) }
Both functions and methods are defined using the
func keyword. However, in the case of methods, the type of value to which the method applies is written after the
func keyword and before the method's name, enclosed in parentheses. After the function or method's name comes a possibly empty parenthesized list of comma-separated parameters (each written in the form
variableNametype). After the parameters comes the function or method's opening brace (if it has no return value), or a single return value (as a type name such as the
int returned by the
Stack.Len() method shown here), or a parenthesized list of return values, followed by an opening brace.
In most cases, a variable name for the value on which the method is called is also given in our example here, we have used the name
stack (and with no conflict with the package's name). The value on which the method is called is known in Go terminology as the receiver. (In other languages, the receiver is typically called
this or
self using such names works fine in Go, but is not considered to be good Go style.)
In our example, the type of the receiver is
Stack, so the receiver is passed by value. This means that any changes made to the receiver would be made on a copy of the original value and, in effect, lost. This is not a problem for methods that don't modify the receiver, such as the
Stack.Len() method shown here. The
Stack.Cap() method is almost identical to the
Stack.Len() method (and so is not shown). The only difference is that the
Stack.Cap() method returns the
cap() rather than the
len() of the receiver
stack. The source code also includes a
Stack.IsEmpty() method, but this is so similar to
Stack.Len() it just returns a bool indicating whether the
len() equals 0 that again it isn't shown.
func (stack *Stack) Push(x interface{}) { *stack = append(*stack, x) }
Stack.Push() method is called on a pointer to a
Stack (which will be explained shortly), and is passed a value (
x) of any type. The built-in
append() function takes a slice and one or more values and returns a (possibly new) slice, which has the original slice's contents, plus the given value or values as its last element or elements. If the stack has previously had items popped from it, the underlying slice's capacity is likely to be greater than its length, so the push could be very cheap: simply a matter of putting the
x item into the
len(stack) position and increasing the stack's length by one.
Stack.Push() method always works (unless the computer runs out of memory), so we don't need to return an error value to indicate success or failure. If we want to modify a value, we must make its receiver a pointer. (Go pointers are essentially the same as in C and C++, except that pointer arithmetic isn't supported or necessary.) A pointer is a variable that holds the memory address of another value. One reason that pointers are used is for efficiency for example, if we have a value of a large type, it is much cheaper to pass a pointer to the value as a parameter than to pass the value itself. Another use is to make a value modifiable. For example, when a variable is passed into a function the function gets a copy of the value (like the
stack passed into the
stack.Len() function). This means that if we make any changes to the variable inside the function, they will have no effect on the original value. If we need to modify the original value as is the case here, where we want to append to the stack we must pass a pointer to the original value, and then we can modify the value that the pointer points to inside the function.
A pointer is declared by preceding the type name with an asterisk (
*). So here, in the
Stack.Push() method, the stack variable is of type
*Stack; that is, the
stack variable holds a pointer to a
Stack value and not an actual
Stack value. We can access the actual
Stack value that the pointer points to by dereferencing the pointer this simply means that we access the value the pointer points to. Dereferencing is done by preceding the variable name with an asterisk. So when we write
stack, we are referring to a pointer to a
Stack ( a
*Stack); and when we write
*stack, we are dereferencing the pointer (that is, referring to the actual
Stack that the pointer points to).


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Say what you will about Gearbox's Duke Nuke Forever, but it sounds like their community party was, as the kids used to say, "Off the hook."
Here we see Randy Pitchford, Gearbox co-founder and CEO, beatboxing up on stage to celebrate the imminent release of a game most thought would never see the light of day.
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Morning Five: 12.16.09 EditionPosted by rtmsf on December 16th, 2009
- Will Brandon Knight become the next Derrick Rose Tyreke Evans John Wall for John Calipari at Memphis Kentucky? One of the top players in the Class of 2010 has, according to Zagsblog, listed his final four schools: Kansas, Kentucky, UConn and Florida. He'll sign in the spring, but you have to believe that with Wall leaving Lexington in April, the Wildcats would be very well situated for another one-and-done point guard prospect to enter the school.
- Arkansas can't seem to get anything right lately. It's a small violation, but the Hawgs self-reported a violation involving photo images of players in a magazine.
- This was rumored last week, but it became official yesterday. The Big Ten will formally explore the option of adding a twelfth team to its mix, ostensibly to have a football championship game. We hope to have an analysis up later on this, but how will it affect basketball? John Gasaway thinks it will come down to Pittsburgh or Missouri.
- Do you know anything — anything at all — about the Western Carolina Catamounts and their star player Jake Robinson? Educate yourself.
- Roy Williams explained himself further on his radio show Monday night. Let's just say that he didn't apologize for overreacting, instead choosing to contextualize his thinking of the incident to excuse his behavior. Here's the relevant excerpt, but we suggest you read the entire thing here.
Saturday night, all of a sudden, some guy stands up and starts yelling at Deon and it came from behind our bench. And you know how when some things happen, you instantly think of something? My first thought was, 'Now our parents are having to listen to somebody else, and it's in our own building.' And so I turned around and I said, 'Who said that?' And about 40-50-60-70-80 people started pointing up at this guy. The guy gets up and starts gyrating with his arms and everything like, 'Yeah, it was me,' and that kind of thing. And it really did tick me off. I turned and said something to the ushers behind the bench and they started up through there, and I turned around and coached the game. I have no idea what happened. I never turned around to the guy again. But my feeling was immediately that our parents who sit right behind our bench have to put up with that stuff again in our own building. So that was it. And after the game, they told me that they had escorted the young man out. Supposedly what had happened was they had asked him for his ticket and he didn't have a ticket or wasn't supposed to be sitting in that seat. Supposedly, and I want to emphasis the word supposedly, he didn't cooperate as much as they wanted, and they chose to take him out.


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Company Press Release
Zweig-DiMenna Mourns Loss of Marty Zweig
NEW YORK--With great sadness, Zweig-DiMenna Associates LLC announced the passing of Martin (�Marty�) E. Zweig earlier today.
Born in 1942 in Cleveland, Ohio, Zweig was a legendary investor, prolific writer and iconic teacher. Having begun trading stocks as a teenager, Marty began his more formal career in the 1970s writing investment newsletters while he was a Professor of Finance. One of the most highly regarded investment newsletters in the country, The Zweig Forecast was published for twenty-six years, from 1971-1997. Zweig�s investment picks regularly outperformed the market. The Zweig Forecast ranked number one for risk-adjusted returns during the 15 years it was monitored by Hulbert Financial Digest. Zweig is credited with original and important statistical market research, including the creation of the put/call ratio, a technical measure of investor sentiment that is now a common market indicator. Zweig�s creation of the put/call ratio was part of his ground breaking research for his Ph.D. in Finance. Zweig was also a frequent contributor to business magazines, including Barron�s.
Throughout the 1980s, Zweig was a regular guest on PBS�s Wall $treet Week with Louis Rukeyser. During one such appearance in 1987, Zweig famously and accurately forecasted the October 1987 stock market crash. In 1992, he was voted into Wall $treet Week�s Hall of Fame. He authored two books on the financial markets, the best-selling �Winning on Wall Street,� (1986) and �Winning with New IRAs,� (1987).
In 1984, he and Joe DiMenna founded Zweig-DiMenna Partners, their first of several long/short hedge funds. Zweig-DiMenna Partners is one of the longest-running and most successful of the flexible long/short hedge funds. Zweig also created two closed-end funds traded on the New York Stock Exchange, featuring his investment philosophy - The Zweig Fund in 1986 and The Zweig Total Return Fund in 1988.
Said Joe DiMenna, �Marty became a mentor and close friend shortly after he hired me in 1977 while I was still in college. I had long read his investment newsletters, told him so in a letter, and soon afterwards found myself working with him side by side. He was a wonderful, kind and generous person and I will always be grateful for the opportunity to have been his friend and partner. Marty was one of a kind. He will be missed. On behalf of all the people at our firm, my deepest sympathies and condolences go out to his wife Barbara and his sons Zack and Alex.�
Martin Zweig graduated with a B.A. in Economics from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1964. He later received an M.B.A. from the University of Miami and a Ph.D. in Finance from Michigan State University. Martin Zweig was a member of the Undergraduate Executive Board of The Wharton School and active in a number of charities.
Zweig was an avid art and memorabilia collector. He was also an ardent salsa dancer, poker player, runner and student of baseball statistics.
He is survived by his wife Barbara and sons Zack and Alex.
There will be a celebration of his life with details to be announced.
Donations can be made to the Zweig Family Center for Living Donation at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City or the American Cancer Society.


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THE BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO DYING – A MeMo Panel Discussion
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Water Garden & Features Q & A
Q: How do I "overwinter" or get my pond plants ready for the winter?
– Maryann in Wisconsin
A: If you live in cooler climates – even those that don't dip too far below freezing – it's almost time to prepare your plants for winter. Each type of aquatic plant needs to be cared for in a different way, but the most important factor to remember is that the roots of your plants must not come into contact with ice or freezing temperatures. If they do, they simply won't survive.
Keeping in mind regional variances, here's how to keep your aquatic plants healthy, happy and ready to bloom again next spring:
- 1. First, remove any dead leaves from the plants growing around your pond. Give bog plants, like irises and taro, a good inspection and clip off any unhealthy growth, spent leaves or blooms. You want your plants to go into winter as healthy as possible so they emerge strong and stout in the spring.
- 2. Next, pull on your waders and tend to your hardy water lilies. Pull them out of your pond and trim them to about 3 inches above the root system. When you're done, move the pots or baskets to 18 inches deep or lower, where they'll be warm and safe from winter frost.
- 3. If you have tropical and floating aquatic plants, like tropical lilies or lotus, it's easiest to treat them as annuals: Remove them from your pond and mulch the soil and root balls. In most climates, they won't survive the cold winter conditions. You can try to overwinter them in your shed or garage, but it can be difficult, as many of the tropical varieties require temperatures above 60 degrees Fahrenheit and strong light to survive.
- 4. Treat floating aquatic plants, like water hyacinth and lettuce, as annuals, too. Fortunately, they're relatively inexpensive to replace year after year.
- 5. For hardy lotus, trim back the foliage after they have gone dormant and turned brown. Don't trim them while the plant and leaves are still green, as it can cause it to be susceptible to diseases that creep in through the hollow stems. In cooler climates, move your plants to a cool, but frost-free area in your yard or the bottom of your pond, along with your water lilies.
Depending on the size of your pond and the number of plants you have, this winterizing chore shouldn't take longer than an afternoon, but you'll be rewarded in the spring with healthy growth that will once again beautify your outdoor living space!
POND TALK: Have you ever overwintered your tropical water lilies indoors? How did you do it?
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In this post I would like to spend a few words on how cinematography was a gift to me, in the same way DSLR film making has been.
I guess I was born in a very judgmental family. Back in the days my mum and dad used to chat a lot about how things should have been done, how they would have done stuff, how this or that was entirely wrong and so on. Call it fate or Karma, but in the end I ended up being a super critic for a long part of my life. Just because I did not realize I was critic, to me it was just being "normal". Apart from the fact that it's hard to draw a line, and say what can be considered normal and what can't, I guess it's just how you feel about your world.
Doing some group therapy, getting a partner and having a baby…. well, that changed my life. Even more doing what most might call "spiritual" work, rather I would rather call it just food for your soul. The path ahead of me it's rather long, mostly you will never end walking, again that is just "normal" now.


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Geoff Nunberg rushes to the defense of "hopefully," in "The Word 'Hopefully' Is Here to Stay, Hopefully," which appears at npr.org. Numberg (or the headline writer) may be right in saying that "hopefully" is here to stay. But that does not excuse the widespread use of the word in ways that are imprecise and meaningless.
The crux of Nunberg's defense is that "hopefully" conveys a nuance that "language snobs" (like me) are unable to grasp:
Some critics object that ["hopefully" is] a free-floating modifier (a Flying Dutchman adverb, James Kirkpatrick called it) that isn't attached to the verb of the sentence but rather describes the speaker's attitude. But floating modifiers are mother's milk to English grammar — nobody objects to using "sadly," "mercifully," "thankfully" or "frankly" in exactly the same way.
Or people complain that "hopefully" doesn't specifically indicate who's doing the hoping. But neither does "It is to be hoped that," which is the phrase that critics like Wilson Follett offer as a "natural" substitute. That's what usage fetishism can drive you to — you cross out an adverb and replace it with a six-word impersonal passive construction, and you tell yourself you've improved your writing.
But the real problem with these objections is their tone-deafness. People get so worked up about the word that they can't hear what it's really saying. The fact is that "I hope that" doesn't mean the same thing that "hopefully" does. The first just expresses a desire; the second makes a hopeful prediction. I'm comfortable saying, "I hope I survive to 105" — it isn't likely, but hey, you never know. But it would be pushing my luck to say, "Hopefully, I'll survive to 105," since that suggests it might actually be in the cards.
Floating modifiers may be common in English, but that does not excuse them. Given Numberg's evident attachment to them, I am unsurprised by his assertion that "nobody objects to using 'sadly,' 'mercifully,' 'thankfully' or 'frankly' in exactly the same way."
Nobody, Mr. Nunberg? Hardly. Anyone who cares about clarity and precision in the expression of ideas will object to such usages. A good editor would rewrite any sentence that begins with a free-floating modifier — no matter which one of them it is.
Nunberg's defense against such rewriting is that Wilson Follet offers "It is to be hoped that" as a cumbersome, wordy substitute for "hopefully." I assume that Nunberg refers to Follett's discussion of "hopefully" in Modern American Usage: A Guide, a book that I have owned and consulted often, for several decades, and which remains authoritative on the many points of language that it addresses. Nunberg, once again, proves himself an adherent of imprecision, for this is what Follett actually says about "hopefully":
The German language is blessed with an adverb, hoffentlich, that affirms the desirability of an occurrence that may or may not come to pass. It is generally to be translated by some such periphrasis as it is to be hoped that; but hack translators and persons more at home in German than in English persistently render it as hopefully. Now, hopefully and hopeful can indeed apply to either persons or affairs. A man in difficulty is hopeful of the outcome, or a situation looks hopeful; we face the future hopefully, or events develop hopefully. What hopefully refuses to convey in idiomatic English is the desirability of the hoped-for event. College, we read, is a place for the development of habits of inquiry, the acquisition of knowledge and, hopefully, the establishment of foundations of wisdom. Such a hopefully is un-English and eccentric; it is to be hoped is the natural way to express what is meant. The underlying mentality is the same—and, hopefully, the prescription for cure is the same (let us hope) / With its enlarged circulation–and hopefully also increased readership–[a periodical] will seek to … (we hope) / Party leaders had looked confidently to Senator L. to win . . . by a wide margin and thus, hopefully, to lead the way to victory for. . . the Presidential ticket (they hoped) / Unfortunately–or hopefully, as you prefer it–it is none too soon to formulate the problems as swiftly as we can foresee them. In the last example, hopefully needs replacing by one of the true antonyms of unfortunately–e.g. providentially.
The special badness of hopefully is not alone that it strains the sense of -ly to the breaking point, but that appeals to speakers and writers who do not think about what they are saying and pick up VOGUE WORDS [another entry in Modern American Usage] by reflex action. This peculiar charm of hopefully accounts for its tiresome frequency. How readily the rotten apple will corrupt the barrel is seen in the similar use of transferred meaning in other adverbs denoting an attitude of mind. For example: Sorrowfully (regrettably), the officials charged with wording such propositions for ballot presentation don't say it that way / the "suicide needle" which–thankfully–he didn't see fit to use (we are thankful to say). Adverbs so used lack point of view; they fail to tell us who does the hoping, the sorrowing, or the being thankful. Writers who feel the insistent need of an English equivalent for hoffentlich might try to popularize hopingly, but must attach it to a subject capable of hoping.
Follett, contrary to Nunberg's assertion, does not offer "It is to be hoped that" as a substitute for "hopefully," which would "cross out an adverb and replace it with a six-word impersonal passive construction." Follett gives "it is to be hoped for" as the sense of "hopefully." But, as the preceding quotation attests, Follett is able to replace "hopefully" (where it is misused) with a few short words that take no longer to write or say than "hopefully," and which convey the writer's or speaker's intended meaning more clearly. And if it does take a few extra words to say something clearly, why begrudge those words?
What about the other floating modifiers — such as "sadly," "mercifully," "thankfully" and "frankly" — which Nunberg defends with much passion and no logic? Follett addresses those others in the third paragraph quoted above, but he does not dispose of them properly. For example, I would not simply substitute "regrettably" for "sorrowfully"; neither is adequate. What is wanted is something like this: "The officials who write propositions for ballots should not have said … , which is misleading (vague/ambiguous)." More words? Yes, but so what? (See above.)
In any event, a writer or speaker who is serious about expressing himself clearly to an audience will never say things like "Sadly (regrettably), the old man died," when he means either "I am (we are/they are/everyone who knew him) is saddened by (regrets) the old man's dying," or (less probably) "The old man grew sad as he died" or "The old man regretted dying." I leave "mercifully," "thankfully," "frankly" and the rest of the over-used "-ly" words as an exercise for the reader.
The aims of a writer or speaker ought to be clarity and precision, not a stubborn, pseudo-logical insistence on using a word or phrase merely because it is in vogue or (more likely) because it irritates so-called language snobs. I doubt that even the pseudo-logical "language slobs" of Nunberg's ilk condone "like" and "you know" as interjections. But, by Nunberg's "logic," those interjections should be condoned — nay, encouraged — because "everyone" knows what someone who uses them is "really saying": "I am too stupid or lazy to express myself clearly and precisely."
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Schroders Responsible Investment Report Q4 2014
In the latest Schroders Responsible Investment Report: banks' new approach to risk; corporate tax; carbon action and ESG engagement with BHP Billiton and Debenhams.
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*I also had a meeting with the special education team with our public school system to do Miles' last evaluations. He has been a truly delightful kid these last two weeks- loving, affectionate, and fun. I was worried he'd go into his last evaluation and charm the pants off of everyone and they would look at me like I was a crazy person. But- the combination of a new environment and too much stimulus threw the boy off of his game and he tested like I hoped he would. As much as I wish that Miles was up to developmental standards- two years with inadequate nutrition and very little stimulous in an orphanage are keeping him from being on target. He's making great progress but he still needs services. So I'm really glad that he tested in a way that proved that he is in desperate need of lots of services. We go in next week to write his IEP (Individual Education Plan) for his new at risk preschool program that he will start in the fall. I'm so excited for him. I think that this will be AWESOME for him. Plus- they send the short bus to our house to pick him up. He is going to think that he has died and gone to heaven getting to ride a bus to school like his big sister.
* I tried my very first sweet potato yesterday. I'm in love. I'm going to want one with every meal now.
* We've had lots and lots of time in the pool this weekend. We put up our blow up pool in the back yard and went to a pool party with family on Saturday. My children will be as brown as biscuits (the ones that aren't naturally brown!) in no time flat, while I will probably remain pasty white all summer long.
* My friends Ellen and Sandy are collecting formula for children in Congo. They are up well over 100 cans. I'm so lucky to have friends with such caring hearts.
* The hubs had strep throat all week last week. Man sickness. God help us all. Thankfully he has made a full recovery and is going back to work today.
* I took the big kids to see their first play this weekend. We went to see a children's production of Hansel and Gretel with my aunts and cousin Julia. My kids have been reinacting the scene where the witch gets put in the oven with such enthusiasm. Maybe they will become theatre junkies!
* Consider this your daily reminder to please vote for Millions of Miles in the Circle of Moms Top 25 adoption blogs contest. We are holding steady in 3rd place but there are LOTS of great blogs on there that are catching up. You can vote once a day- so please please take a couple of seconds to click over and vote for us! The direct link to vote for MoM is HERE.
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Egypt Tightens Security During Id Celebrations
Tahrir square blockaded by troops; army aims to thwart attempts of Muslim Brotherhood supporters to enter during holiday.
Tanks stood at intersections and roadblocks cut main thoroughfares in Egypt on Tuesday, as authorities tightened security during the annual Muslim Id al-Adha holiday amid continued deadlock between supporters of the ousted Islamist president and the military-backed interim government.
Troops sealed off Cairo's Tahrir square with rows of armored vehicles and barbed wire, hoping to thwart any new attempt by supporters of Mohammed Morsi to enter.
In recent weeks, they have tried to storm the plaza, which was the birthplace of the 2011 uprising that forced longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak from power. Authorities have repeatedly warned pro-Morsi protesters from heading to Tahrir to avoid confrontations.
Security, already volatile since 2011, has worsened since the military overthrew Morsi in July following mass protests calling for his resignation.
The interim authorities have launched a major security crackdown on Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood, arresting nearly 2,000 members, charging its top leaders with inciting murder and violence, and breaking up demonstrations by Morsi supporters with what rights groups call excessive force that has killed hundreds.
Morsi himself has been detained incommunicado.
The crackdown has not prevented Morsi supporters from holding near-daily protests demanding his return however, even though fewer now attend since they regularly descend into violence. Clashes have often erupted between the protesters and security forces and supporters of the military.
For the Id holiday, the faithful prayed in neighborhood mosques Tuesday at sunrise to celebrate the prophet Abraham's readiness to sacrifice his son to God.
Interim president Adly Mansour and Egypt army commander Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi appeared on state television, praying at an air force mosque in an eastern Cairo district.
Blood pooled in Cairo's streets as sheep and cattle were slaughtered as part of the festivities.
In an Eid blessing published Monday on his Facebook page, Brotherhood leader Essam el-Erian asked from God "more freedom" for his country's political life.
"Tomorrow, history will recount the failure of a bloody and fascist military coup, on the hands of a people who know the meaning of freedom," El-Erian added.
El-Erian, who is wanted on charges of inciting Morsi supporters to kill opponents of his rule, is currently in hiding.
Since Morsi's ouster, the military and interim government have been following a transitional roadmap whose stated objective is to lead the country to democracy. It entails amending the Islamist-backed constitution and holding presidential and parliamentary elections by next year.
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Let's Sing 2019 has the X Factor.
Let's Sing 2019 is out just in time for your Christmas and New Year parties and it's a right good craic.
There's nothing quite like karaoke to set a party off and embarrass yourself.
"Embarrass myself, I'm a good singer" I hear some of you cry. Well the fact is either way it is embarrassing isn't it, but at least with Let's Sing 2019 you can make a fool of yourself in the comfort of your own home.
All you need is a PS4 and - assuming like 99% of the population nowadays you have a smartphone - you're ready to go.
Usually with games like Let's Sing you get an updated playlist and some menu tweaks for your money every year.
Let's Sing 2019 breaks the mould somewhat in that it actually offers tangible improvements and new modes instead of simply an updated track list.Damien Lucas, gaming columnist
But this is different, Ravenscourt have actually made a genuine effort here with some excellent game modes to enjoy.
There is no online mode but your scores are entered into online leaderboards.
Solo and multiplayer offerings are superb with the standard mode for single and multiplayer (up to four). But the crowning achievement is undoubtedly Mix Tape 2.0 mode. Here five songs are mashed up at random - you can create your own mashups too - and present an entirely different challenge and plenty of fun.
This is the perfect party mode and was hours of comedy gold with friends and family in playing it for the purposes of this review.
The presentation is excellent with the music videos accompanying the lyrics on screen as you tackle each song.
And there are 30 of them bundled with the game with a nice mix for different eras including Rita Ora - 'Anywhere', Shawn Mendes - 'There's Nothing Holdin' Me Back', DNCE - 'Cake By The Ocean', Martin Garrix & Dua Lipa - 'Scared To Be Lonely', Lorde - 'Green Light', ABBA - 'Mamma Mia', No Doubt - 'Don't Speak' and so on.
DLC - which gives you a host of extra songs - is reasonably price but crucial to Let's Sing 2019's longevity.
The Platinum version of the game comes with the Let's Sing Song Pass and will set you back around £50 but is well worth it.
Let's Sing 2019 breaks the mould somewhat in that it actually offers tangible improvements and new modes instead of simply an updated track list. Overall it is an excellent package and the perfect party game for over Christmas and New Year but one which will also last you well into 2019.


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makes a bubble chart with bubble features defined by the symbolic wrappers wk.
makes a bubble chart from multiple datasets datai.
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- Data elements for BubbleChart can be given in the following forms:
{xi,yi,zi} a pure bubble value {Quantity[xi,ux],Quantity[yi,uy],Quantity[zi,uz]} a bubble value with units <|kxxi,kyyi,kzzi|> association of keys and bubble value wi[{xi,yi,zi},…] a bubble with value {xi,yi,zi} and wrapper wi formi->mi a bubble form with metadata mi
- The values zi should be positive.
- Data not given in these forms is ignored in forming the bubble chart.
- Datasets for BubbleChart can be given in the following forms:
{e1,e2,…} list of elements with or without wrappers <|k1e1,k2e2,…|> association of keys and values TimeSeries[…],EventSeries[…],TemporalData[…] time series, event series, and temporal data WeightedData[…] augmented datasets w[{e1,e2,…},…] wrapper applied to a whole dataset w[{data1,data1,…},…] wrapper applied to all datasets
- The following wrappers can be used for chart elements:
Annotation[e,label] provide an annotation Button[e,action] define an action to execute when the element is clicked Callout[e,label] display the element with callout labeling EventHandler[e,…] define a general event handler for the element Hyperlink[e,uri] make the element act as a hyperlink Labeled[e,…] display the element with labeling Legended[e,…] include features of the element in a chart legend Mouseover[e,over] make the element show a mouseover form PopupWindow[e,cont] attach a popup window to the element StatusArea[e,label] display in the status area when the element is moused over Style[e,opts] show the element using the specified styles Tooltip[e,label] attach an arbitrary tooltip to the element
- In BubbleChart, Labeled, Callout and Placed allow the following positions:
Top,Bottom,Left,Right,Center positions within bubbles Above,Below, Before, After positions outside bubbles {{bx,by},{lx,ly}} scaled position {lx,ly} in the label at scaled position {bx,by} in the bubble
- BubbleChart has the same options as Graphics with the following additions and changes:
AspectRatio 1 overall ratio of width to height BubbleScale "Area" feature scale used for bubbles BubbleSizes Automatic size range to use for bubbles ChartBaseStyle Automatic overall style for bubbles ChartElementFunction Automatic how to generate raw graphics for bubbles ChartElements Automatic graphics to use for each of the bubbles ChartLabels None labels for data elements and datasets ChartLegends None legends for data elements and datasets ChartStyle Automatic style for bubbles ColorFunction Automatic how to color bubbles ColorFunctionScaling True whether to normalize arguments to ColorFunction Frame True whether to draw a frame around the chart LabelingFunction Automatic how to label bubbles LabelingSize Automatic maximum size of callouts and labels LegendAppearance Automatic overall appearance of legends PerformanceGoal $PerformanceGoal aspects of performance to try to optimize PlotTheme $PlotTheme overall theme for the chart ScalingFunctions None how to scale individual coordinates TargetUnits Automatic units to display in the chart
- BubbleChart layers bubbles from largest to smallest for maximal visibility.
- The arguments supplied to ChartElementFunction are the bubble region {{xmin,xmax},{ymin,ymax}}, the values {xi,yi,zi}, and the metadata {m1,m2,…} from each level in a nested list of datasets.
- A list of built-in settings for ChartElementFunction can be obtained from ChartElementData["BubbleChart"].
- The arguments supplied to ColorFunction are x, y, and z.
- Chart Element Schemes feature themes affect the data's graphic styling. Themes include:
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- Style and other specifications from options and other constructs in BubbleChart are effectively applied in the order ChartStyle, ColorFunction, Style and other wrappers, ChartElements, and ChartElementFunction, with later specifications overriding earlier ones.
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In 2013, Winston-Salem was awarded a Bicycle Friendly Community Designation at the Bronze Level from the League of American Bicyclists. This award recognizes improvements the city has made in infrastructure, education, encouragement, and enforcement as well as the policy that guides decisions.
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