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Hillary twists and turns…….

Check THIS OUT!    It’s all about how Hillary is in a total frenzy now because she thinks Kevin McCarthy said the Republicans called a Benghazi panel only to derail her presidential aspirations.

It’d be pretty shocking if that’s really what he said and she’d have a right to be outraged.
But this is what he actually said:

“Everybody thought Hillary Clinton was unbeatable, right?” McCarthy said on Fox News. “But we put together a Benghazi special committee, a select committee. What are her numbers Friday? What are her numbers today? Her numbers are dropping. Why? Because she’s untrustable. But no one would have known any of that had happened had we not fought.”

Get that?  Admittedly, it sounds questionable, but you can see he’s not saying the Benghazi hearings were political at ALL (as if he would if it were totally true?)…it’s clear to me that he’s saying that WHAT THEY KNEW WOULD COME OUT IN THE HEARINGS was important enough to show Americans how untrustworthy she was.  They knew the truth and knew she should be outed on it.  And she has been, if leftwingers would only get the wax out of their ears and the metal veils off their eyes.

Wasn’t that worth holding hearings over?  They got information, the families know better what happened (but not enough, not yet), they exposed Hillary Clinton and why shouldn’t the truth be exposed if she could possibly become president of America?

And brother, did Hillary and her writers pull out all the stops  in her very self righteous indignation. Check out the look in her eyes and the anger…the nastiness…presidential?  Ever see a look like that on the Bushes or Reagan or even Bill Clinton?  hillary madHere’s what she says now (I’m so eager to call her a name while I type this but I’m being a good girl….):

“When I hear a statement like that— which demonstrates unequivocally that this was always meant to be a partisan political exercise (Z:  really?) — I feel like it does a grave disservice and dishonors not just the memory of the four that we lost, but of everybody who has served our country,” Clinton said. “I really regret the way that they have treated this serious matter.”

“Dishonors the four?”  As if Republicans haven’t done anything and everything they can to get to the root of that situation out of respect for the dead and their families?  She twists this sentiment to her advantage?  I believe the only thing she regrets is that anybody learned of her sloppiness and probable complicity in Benghazi.   The Republicans only goofed in allowing the media to intimidate them and letting her stonewall information, etc.

She’s utterly dreadful.   But she sure appeals to leftwingers who drink her Kool Aid.

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28 Responses to Hillary twists and turns…….

  1. bocopro says:

    Y’know . . . I’ve thought it over v-e-e-r-r-y carefully, put a lot of time and consideration into it, and Hillary Rodent Clinton just doesn’t seem to be a good choice for running this country at this particular time . . . or a lemonade stand either.

    She might be a nice person with her friends and associates, but so was (they say) Ted Bundy.

  2. silverfiddle says:

    Good grief. President Hillary Rodham Clinton would pretty strong evidence God is punishing the United States of America…

  3. bunkerville says:

    Angry white girl now plans Executive action regarding guns. Strident is an understatement

  4. McCarthy should have chosen his words more carefully because his words are easily misconstrued.

    Part of the problem is his use of “but,” followed by questions about Hillary’s drop in the polling numbers. His words do seem to indicate that the Benghazi Committee’s primary purpose was to derail Hillary’s road to the White House.

    Bocopro, what say you about the “logic” and “clarity” in McCarthy’s statement? I’d love to see you reword McCarthy’s statement.

  5. Forgot to say…

    McCarthy’s statement “Everybody thought Hillary Clinton was unbeatable, right?” followed by the rest of the statement gives Hillary plenty of ammunition.

  6. Z,
    you can see he’s not saying the Benghazi hearings were political at ALL

    I have to disagree. His statement is poorly crafted — if such was his intention. His question “Everybody thought Hillary Clinton was unbeatable, right?” followed by the rest of what he said damns him.

    You know what? McCarthy’s careless statement may give Hillary an uptick in her polling numbers. We shall see.

  7. bocopro says:

    McCarthy brings to mind two lines from Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man Is Hard To Find”:

    The grandmother shrieked. She scrambled to her feet and stood staring. “You’re The Misfit!” she said. “I recognized you at once!”

    and the Misfit’s final assessment of her

    “She would of been a good woman,” The Misfit said, “if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.”

    Or perhaps as Orwell stated it, “In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will often be seen as a revolutionary act.”

  8. silverfiddle says:

    How does Hillary think the shrieking harridan act is going to attract any votes?

    That harsh, metallic voice, the soulless, Charles Manson stare…

    The scolding tone, pointing finger… All she lacks is a head full of curlers and a rolling pin in her other hand…

  9. geeez2014 says:

    AOW, I thought long and hard about posting this because as I say, it could be misconstrued, but this statement at the end “But no one would have known any of that had happened had we not fought.” is, to me, the golden ring. It shows the fought hard to get the facts known so her untrustworthiness (to say the least) was exposed…that they KNEW this stuff and had to stop her.
    I don’t disagree that his words were clumsy, but they’re LIVE, and I think the Right has to be more careful as the Left gets a pass CONSTANTLY.
    Here’s what he might have said: ““We were appalled at the information we were getting and that the public wasn’t hearing it; that’s one of the reasons that we put together the Benghazi special committee, for the families, for the education of our countrymen, and to show Hillary Clinton’s sloppy complicity and attempts to cover for that horrible loss of Americans. She’s untrustable and perhaps her slipping poll numbers are reflecting our hearings…No one would have known any of that had happened had we not fought.”

    Did I pass? 🙂 Your input is always valuable, thanks for that.

  10. geeez2014 says:

    AOW: I’m SORRY! I just realized you asked bocopro to issue a statement, not me! Well, I think mine is valid; let’s see if you or he agrees!!

    SF: Excellent comments! YES YES….the Shrieking harridan act is EXACTLY what I’m trying to get at. Look at that FACE! Such anger. I’ll bet if she cooked a day in her life, that rolling pin would have been all OVER Bill Clinton!

    Did you all ever notice Biden’s smiling demeanor gets like a satanic thing when he’s REALLY angry or blasting Republicans? Check it out. His smile sometimes gets wider and WIDER and wider as he gets MORE nasty. That’s a little scary to me, too 🙂

    bopcopro; Flannery O’Connor….BLISS. That line about shooting is sublime. But almost everything Flannnery wrote is.

    Bunkerville; next thing you know, they’ll allow candidates to issue Executive Orders about guns!! 🙂

  11. silverfiddle says:

    Z: Yes! I have noticed that about Biden! Diabolical, isn’t it?

    Also, you can tell by Obama’s eyes when he is irritated but trying to hide it. I want to say it’s his pupils going down to pinpoints, but that can’t be it. Obama tries to play it all cool, but he’s really a prickly churl who hates being questioned by those he considers beneath him.

  12. geeez2014 says:

    From a friend in this morning’s emails:
    Bill tried to cheer up Hillary this morning by reminding her that Nelson Mandela wasn’t elected president until after he had served 27 years in prison.
    pretty appropriate for my post today!
    (thanks, C)

  13. Z,
    Your version is much better.

    However, it might be better to avoid mention of poll numbers.

    With a name like McCarthy, the man should be careful not to appear to be on a witch hunt.

  14. Hillary is trying to project and air of righteous anger.

    Instead, she comes across as a shrieking harridan to those of us who can’t stand her in the first place.

    But how does her air of righteous anger play with Democrats? Very well, I think.

  15. bocopro says:

    “Nelson Mandela wasn’t elected president until after he had served 27 years in prison.”

    Ah, magnifique! Parfait! En d’autres termes, c’est nul; laisse tomber.

  16. geeez2014 says:

    SF…I’m glad you’ve noticed it, too……..it IS “Diabolical”…And PRICKLY CHURL is the perfect word for Obama…you can just FEEL his seething anger…the way he’s so loathsome regarding anything Republican is barely disguised; he hesitates for long periods to maintain his cool, I think. Awful little man.

    AOW… I get what you’re saying, believe me. As for how Dems like her anger? They LOVE it because they’re so full of hate themselves….sad people.

    Bocopro? En Anglais, si’l te plait!

  17. geeez2014 says:

    for those of you who want to read about REAL AMERICAN WOMEN, check out Mustang’s great post…really fascinating.
    I have to admit Hillary might have done better at the situations described in his post than I would have….

  18. bocopro says:

    Just a snobbish way of saying that the wisdom Slick shared with Shrillary is Great, Perfect (considering her habits and her history). So what the opposition says about her is no big thing; she should just let it slide.

  19. geeez2014 says:

    Je sais…J’ai vécu en France pendant 4 ans…a Paris

  20. cube says:

    I think McCarthy didn’t choose his words carefully and Hillary & friends are making hay with the situation. We can see through her faux outrage, but the libs want to believe she’s been wronged by the vast right wing GOP machine.

    Mon Français n’est pas aussi bon que mon Espagnol, mais j’ai eu l’essentiel de la conversation.

  21. geeez2014 says:

    Cube, pas mal du tout! Bien! My French isn’t too hot, either…I understand and can speak better than write it, that’s for sure. My German is a bit better. My Spanish accent is dangerously good so I try not to speak it; it’s embarrassing when people think from my accent (like when ordering ‘arros con pollo!’) that I speak it fluently!
    And yes…..FAUX OUTRAGE, indeed…you’re exactly right.

  22. cube says:

    I am fluent in Spanish so I don’t worry about that, but my French is another matter. I made the mistake of speaking French to my daughter’s Haitian friend and she began to rattle off words in French so fast that I couldn’t keep up. She insisted from then on that my pronunciation was too good to not continue studying French and always asked me about my progress… in French 🙂

    Danke and sprechen sie Deutsch is the extent of my German, but the romance languages tend to have many similarities and once you know one, a facility for the others develops.

  23. geeez2014 says:

    Cube “once you know one, a facility for the others develops.”

    YIKES…..with the ‘either’ in my sentence, it sounds like I was saying your French isn’t too good…It wasn’t perfect, but I don’t know anybody not born/raised in France whose French is perfect, and you were quite good…and I was only commiserating that mine should be better….except that I started learning it in my late Forties….not an advantage.

    What was an advantage was having been raised speaking/hearing Armenian..French, Turkish, etc….I don’t speak Armenian well now, but knowing ONE language other than one’s own REALLY helps with other languages…Having known German somewhat well really helped my French….
    great stuff. I’d love to take a class in either today.

  24. cube says:

    Now that you mention it… I am outraged… in a faux way 🙂 I’m kidding. I didn’t take your comment in a bad way at all. I prefaced my French statement by saying that my French is not as good as my Spanish. I wish it wasn’t so, but it’s the truth.

    I think that because of exposure, some people develop a facility for languages. French class was a cake class for me. An easy A for me, while others struggled. I attribute it to knowing Spanish, another romance language.

  25. in the words of Barack Obama, “What was the question?”

  26. lisa says:

    Amazing how the left always manages ti benefit from everything that is said and/or every siutuation that occurs,good or bad.
    She took that statement and twisted more than it already was.
    They really are an angry bunch of petulant children

  27. skudrunner says:

    McCarthy is the torch bearer for the GOP. No matter what, the republicans can’t help but go into self destruction. He has surpassed Trump for helping H get the nomination and quite possibly the election. He must have learned from Romney, how to tank a sure win.

    So far the only thing the republican majority has accomplished is to keep Bengazi alive and not even that failed.

  28. Lisa says:

    they need to have a srategyy like the dems do. Like didn’t Watergate bring down Nixon’s poll numbers? Didn’t mean he didn’t commit a crime

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How To Get Around The Newspaper Paywalls

UPDATE:  I did an presentation update to this original post called How To Get Around The Newspaper Paywalls.  This presentation has several great ways to get around those paywalls, enjoy!

Today, the Anniston Star joins a growing list of newspapers that are charging people to view content online.  The Gadsden Times started doing this around a month ago and they charge you $9.95 a month for online content.  The Anniston Star will charge people $13.00 dollars a month after the first month 99 cents promotional rate.  This change has created a huge backlash online on social media sites.  To me, I am not too surprised this is happening!

Newspapers all across the country have lost subscribers since the internet was created.  Many people have dropped their print subscriptions and have read the newspapers online.  So newspapers are finding ways to recoup their revenue by charging people to read online.  Some people have given up on newspapers all together because they lean-to the left as well.  The newspapers around NE Alabama / NW Georgia also does not like me Nathan Young and the Geek Alabama blog because I am competition.

Newspapers are dying, the website CareerCast named newspaper reporters as the worst job in America.  Newspaper workers across the country have been laid off.  And the workforce’s at many newspapers have shrunk through the years.  At this rate, I don’t see a future for many smaller newspapers across the country.  Sure, the big newspapers like the New York Times will always be around.  And by the way, they have a much better paywall system than the other newspapers.

Since this is Geek Alabama; I am here to show you, the average person, some ways to get around the newspaper paywalls.  The first option is to go to websites like or the TV station websites whom often tells the same stories as the newspapers for free.  Another simple way is to use a different internet browser when you reach the free article limit.  I have Google Chrome and Internet Explorer installed on my computer.  That means I can get double the free articles every month!

Have you reached the free article limit and still don’t want to pay?  I have found a very simple solution so you don’t have to pay.  To do this trick, you need Internet Explorer installed on your computer.  By the way, everyone should have two internet browser programs installed on your computer.  I have Google Chrome and Internet Explorer installed on mine!  Go to the control panel on your computer and click on Network and Internet.  Then click on delete browsing history and cookies.

You open up the internet properties folder.  Make sure the tab is on “General”, then scroll down to Browsing History and click on delete.

Make sure you have check-marked cookies and website data, history, and temporary internet files.  Click on delete and there you go!  I tried this and that annoying pop-up you see on the Gadsden Times website is now gone.  You have to do this every time after your free article limit is up.  So for now, I will use Google Chrome for my average internet stuff and use Internet Explorer to access the newspapers!  You have to be glad to not see a paywall pop-up!

Don't like seeing these!

Don’t like seeing these!

Before this post ends, the Anniston Star is putting a paywall on just about everything including videos and photos.  That means this fall people are going to get angry when they can’t view their high school football photos.  I have a great suggestion for TV 24!  Why not hire me and two other people who would take photos at high school football games each week during the season.  The photos would be put online for everyone to see for free!  More people will come to you instead of going to the newspapers.  It’s a win-win for everybody!

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  2. Incognito mode 🙂 deletes cookies after you exit, leaving you with one browser and not deleting the ones you need. At least in chrome!

  3. Thanks for the tip and the comment! I would always have two browsers, just in case one goes down, it has happened before where Google has quit working.

  4. I have two as well 🙂 I just refuse to use IE haha. Chrome and firefox for me.

  5. I found your article interesting. However, I noticed that you made no mention to the fact that circulation of paid newspapers is regulated by the US Post Office. Until recently, online circulation could not be counted a part of a newspapers circulation. Now the Post Office allows the online readers to be counted, but only if they are paying at least 50% of the print newspapers price. My question to you is why you as an informed person have not discussed this fact.

  6. Can you please clarify this because I have found nothing online supporting your statement. Most newspapers are delivered by drivers and not the postal service. The postal service is only used to mail newspapers to people who live far away. I just do not see how the US Post Office can make money from newspapers that are not delivered by them.

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Sigourney Weaver has been Contacted about GHOSTBUSTERS 3

As you know there's been a lot of talk about a new Ghostbuster 3 movie over the last year and half. It's happening, it isn't happening. Bill Murray keeps bashing on the idea, at the same time he's interested. Ivan Rietman is attached to direct, but the studio doesn't want him to. There is just a lot of messy details out there, that as of right now, no matter how bad we might want it, there seems to be nothing solidly set in stone for this movie. Except for the fact that Sigorney Weaver has been contacted about the movie.

Earlier this year she said that she was unsure about whether Ghostbuster 3 was actually going to happen, but apparently she's been talking to Reitman. In a recent interview she talks about a few ideas for the film that we've already heard, but also mentions that she's been contacted.

I've also been contacted, All I said was I really think my little boy Oscar, who went through that traumatic kidnapping, should be a ghostbuster. So I think that might happen.

As for what Oscar would be like in the film she describes him as being "grown up, and he'd be like Zach Galifianakis." Ummm, could you imagine Galifianakis taking on the role of Oscar? That would be so weird. I think Oscar would be around 20 years old now wouldn't he? So they would cast a younger actor that's like Galifinakis?

As far as where the movie currently stands she says,

They're working on the script. Ivan knows what he's doing, so let him work on the script.

She also adds that if the script isn't good then they won't do the movie. So here we are back to square one. You would think they'd have a completed script already. They've been working on it for a long ass time now. Maybe the just can't crack a good story.

What do you all think about this Ghostbuster 3 movie madness?

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If you target well you get to make your emails Shexzy

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This month I had the usual chats with people about getting better engagement from their emails. The place I tend to start is the creative, mainly because it is the easiest thing for someone, not as advanced with email as I, to interact and empathise with. Subsequently they are “more inclined to fix an email than ‘faff’ about building a targeted list” as one of them told me recently.

So normally it begins with the pre-header and building for Outlook’s imageless preview pane: keeping the images smaller in the top third, getting more text in etc. etc. the stuff we all say everyday.

However, in the hope of motivating people to want to segment better, there is the opinion that for certain, special emails, that would go to already very engaged subscribers, the image blocking would not be a problem.
This would be because the recipients know that brand already so you only have to worry about the subject line to make them prioritise it. Many recipients will already have safe listed the sender and the others probably just load the images without thinking anymore.

At that point, you have the freedom to be creative, as long as you satisfy various filters’ image to text ratios.

The kinds of email I am talking about are normally things like:

  • Invites to special events with a very targeted audience.
  • People who go to the same thing every year.
  • People who always interact with the emails.
  • Special offers on products that people have on their wish lists.
  • There are also niche lists for scarce things like Pure360’s Scally Rally list for instance.

When there is scarcity and people will be more engaged, you have more freedom to be creative…
…as long as you make the experience good and avoid the junk filters.

In some ways, that can even be a goal for marketers…

Luke ‘Stat-Walker’ Glasner (Jedi of Metrics), tells us to look at the money because that is what the bosses see.
If you can prove profit each time and then make it better, you’re all talking the same language, showing good results and everyone’s a winner.

Too often we only look at the open rates and click throughs, with only one list all getting the same email.
If you target correctly and aim to get more engagement, then send the engaged a prettier email next time, in the knowledge that they will see it all, your life is easier and you should get better conversions.
I’m sure there was a shorter way of saying that?

Then tie that in with Luke’s approach: you are onto a winner and your emails are shexzy!

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  1. I love your takeaway (in all its lengthy glory): continually targeting further to maximize your return. And I like the idea of giving your hard core subscribers some “shexzy” content to chew on. If you know they can view it, give ’em the good stuff!

    Thanks for the post,

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Organic Chemistry - Definitions

General Formula - An algebraic formula that can describe any member of a family of compounds (i.e. CnH2n+2)
Empirical Formula - Simplest ratio of atoms of each element in a compound (i.e. C2H5)
Molecular Formula - The actual number of atoms of each element in a molecule, with functional groups indicated. (i.e. C4H10)
Structural Formula - Shows the atoms Carbon by Carbon, with the attached Hydrogens and functional groups. (i.e. CH3CH2CH2CH3)
Displayed Formula - Shows how the atoms are arranged and the bonds between them.
Homologous Series - Bunch of organic compounds with the same general formula.
Structural Isomer - Same molecular formula; atoms connected in different ways.
Chain Isomers - Different arrangement of the Carbon skeleton.
Positional Isomers - Same skeleton and same atoms/groups of atoms attached but it is attached to a different Carbon.
Functional Group - Same atoms arranged into different functional groups

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Organic Chemistry - Alkanes and Petroleum

- Alkanes are hydrocarbons with the general formula CnH2n+2 and are saturated.

- Crude Oil (petroleum) is mainly alkanes and can be separated into fractions by fractional distillation:

1) Crude oil is vaporised at 350c.

2) Vaporised crude oil goes into a fractionating column and rises through the trays. Large Hydrocarbons won't vaporise.

3) As the vapour goes up the column it gets cooler. Each fraction condenses at a different temperature and are drawn off at different levels. [340c = Mineral oil;
250c = Gas Oil (diesel); 180c = Kerosene/paraffin (Jet Fuel/Central Heating);
110c = Naphtha (Petrochemicals); 40c = Petrol]

4) The Hydrocarbons with the lowest boiling points don't condense and are drawn off as gases at the top.

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Organic - Petroleum + Alkanes as Fuels

- Heavy fractions can be cracked to make smaller molecules which are in high demand and more valuable, i.e. C10H22 > C2H4 + C8H18

Thermal Cracking - Takes place at high temperatures and high pressure; Produces lots of alkenes; Alkenes used to make valuable products like polymers.

Catalytic Cracking - Makes motor fuels and aromatic hydrocarbons; Uses a Zeolite catalyst (hydrated aluminosilicate) at a slight pressure and high temperature; Cheaper, and catalyst speeds up the reaction.

- Combustion burns alkanes with O2 to produce CO2 and H2O.
- Incomplete combustion (not enough O2) produces CO which is poisonous as it binds to sites on Haemoglobin. CO can be removed by catalytic converters.
- NOx are produced when high pressure and temperature in car engines cause N2+O2 in air to react. The hydrocarbons + NOx react in sunlight to form ground-level Ozone which contributes to smog, irritates peoples eyes, aggravates respiratory system and causes lung damage

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Organic - Alkanes as Fuels

- Catalytic converters remove unburnt hydrocarbons and NOx's.
- Acid rain is caused by burning fossil fuels that contain Sulfur. The Sulfur burns to produce SO2 which enters the atmosphere and is converted to H2SO4.
- Acid rain destroys trees and vegetation but SO2 can be removed using CaO.

- Greenhouse gases stop heat from the Sun going back into space. CO2 is a green house gas and burning fossil fuels produces CO2.
- Some electromagnetic radiation from the Sun reaches the Earth and is absorbed. The Earth then re-emits it as infrared radiation.
- 3 Main greenhouse gases are Water Vapour, CO2 and CH4. Too much heat is getting trapped and the Earth is getting warmer (Global Warming).
- When alkanes in fossil fuels are burned they also produce Water Vapour.
- Methane is produced by rubbish rotting in landfill sites

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Interesting how things get around…

Last July (2009), Arab News in Saudi Arabia reported that:

A joint US-Israeli missile defense system meant to shield Israel from Iranian attack hit a snag when a series of tests were aborted because of malfunctions, defense officials said Thursday.

The project, said to be called “ The Arrow,” a joint project between Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd. And Chicago-based  Boeing Company failed it’s tests, though the parties involved were said to play down the glitches and stated they expected in such a complicated multilayered missile-defense system, that those difficulties would not “affect the long-term development of the system.”

Arab news stated that a Pentagon Official who spoke “on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to disclose details of the tests” said that “the mission was an interception test and also exercised the Arrow system’s interoperability with other elements of the US ballistic missile defense system.”   They further stated that the tests took place off the coast of California, and it was “the communication glitches between the missile and the radar which led US defense officials to abort the test before an intercepting missile could be fired.”

The quote the Pentagon as further saying, “the target missile was dropped from a C-17 aircraft.  It said the radar system detected the target, but not all test conditions to launch the Arrow Interceptor were met, and it was not launched.”

This is all a part of  a system Israel is developing to protect it from all forms of attack, Arab news reports, “ranging from short-range rocket fire from Lebanon and Gaza to long-range missiles from Iran.”


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Newtype wrappers

This page proposes newtype wrappers, a new feature for Haskell indended to make newtypes more flexible and useful. It tackles head-on the problem underlying #7542 and #2110.

The problem

Suppose we have

newtype Age = MkAge Int

Then if n :: Int, we can convert n to an Age thus: MkAge n :: Age. Moreover, this conversion is a type conversion only, and involves no runtime instructions whatsoever. This cost model -- that newtypes are free -- is important to Haskell programmers, and encourages them to use newtypes freely to express type distinctions without introducing runtime overhead.

Alas, the newtype cost model breaks down when we involve other data structures. Suppose we have these declarations

data T a   = TLeaf a     | TNode (Tree a) (Tree a)
data S m a = SLeaf (m a) | SNode (S m a) (S m a)

and we have these variables in scope

x1 :: [Int]
x2 :: Char -> Int
x3 :: T Int
x4 :: S IO Int

Can we convert these into the corresponding forms where the Int is replaced by Age? Alas, not easily, and certainly not without overhead.

  • For x1 we can write map MkAge x1 :: [Age]. But this does not follow the newtype cost model: there will be runtime overhead from executing the map at runtime, and sharing will be lost too. Could GHC optimise the map somehow? This is hard; apart from anything else, how would GHC know that map was special? And it it gets worse.
  • For x2 we'd have to eta-expand: (\y -> MkAge (x2 y)) :: Char -> Age. But this isn't good either, because eta exapansion isn't semantically valid (if x2 was bottom, seq could distinguish the two). See #7542 for a real life example.
  • For x3, we'd have to map over T, thus mapT MkAge x3. But what if mapT didn't exist? We'd have to make it. And not all data types have maps. S is a harder one: you could only map over S-values if m was a functor. There's a lot of discussion abou this on #2110.

The proposal

Clearly what we want is a way to "lift" newtype constructors (and dually deconstructors) over arbitrary types, so that whenever we have some type blah Int blah we can convert it to the type blah Age blah, and vice versa.

Tantalisingly, System FC, GHC's internal Core language, already has exactly this!

  • A newtype constructor turns into an FC cast:
      MkAge x    turns into       x |> AgeNTCo
      AgeNTCo :: Int ~ Age

The |> is a cast, and the AgeNTCo is a coercion axiom witnessng the equality of Int and Age.

  • Coercions can be lifted, so that
      [AgeNTCo]       :: [Int] -> [Age]
      Char -> AgeNTCo :: (Char -> Int) ~ (Char -> Age)
      T AgeNTCo       :: T Int ~ T Age
      S IO AgeNTCo    :: S IO Int ~ S IO Age

So all we need is concrete syntax to allow you to ask for these lifed coercions in Haskell. I couldn't think of a good way to do this, but now I have a proposal:

  newtype wrap w1 :: [Int] -> [Age])
  newtype wrap w2 :: (Char -> Int) -> (Char -> Age)
  newtype wrap w3 :: T Int -> T Age

and dually

  newtype unwrap u1 :: [Age] -> [Int])
  newtype unwrap u2 :: (Char -> Age) -> (Char -> Int)

This brings into scope the variables w1, w2, etc, with the declared types. Applications of these wrappers and unwrappers have the same cost model as newtype constructors themselves: they are free.

More precisely

  • The type specified in a newtype wrap/unwrap declaration must be of the form type1 -> type2.
  • wrap and unwrap are keywords, but only when they occur right after the keyword newtype.
  • Wrappers/unwrappers can be polymorphic
      newtype wrap foo :: [(Int,b)] -> [(Age,b)]
  • Multiple "layers" of newtype can be wrapped at once (just as in foreign declarations). For example:
      newtype Fun a = MkFun (a -> a)
      newtype Age = MkAge Int
      newtype wrap foo :: (Int -> Int) -> Fun Age

Type soundness

This proposal rests on very similar foundations to the "newtype deriving" feature, and suffers from precisely the same issue with type soundness; see #1496, #5498, #4846, #7148. For example, consider

  type family F a
  type instance F Int = Int
  type instance F Age = Char

  data T a = MkT (F a)

  newtype wrap bad :: T Int -> T Age

  bogus :: Int -> Char
 bogus n = case (bad (MkT n)) of
              MkT c -> c

The problem is, as usual, the type function hiding inside T's definition. The solution is described in [ Generative type abstraction and type-level computation]. It is still not implemented, alas, but adding the newtype wrappers introduces no problems that we do not already have.


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This all-day workshop conducted by David Hart and Brea Lemke of the University of Wisconsin-Madison explored a range of GIS tools to support stormwater management. These tools included L-THIA (Long-Term Hydrologic Impact Assessment) developed by Purdue University; BASINS (Better Assessment Science Integrating Point and Nonpoint Sources) developed by the Environmental Protection Agency; ISAT (Impervious Surface Analysis Tool) developed by the NOAA Coastal Services Center; and SLAMM (Source Loading and Management Model) developed by Robert Pitt and John Voorhees. The workshop ended with a demonstration of GIS interoperability to support floodplain management in Wisconsin.

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A test-driven JS assessment

This repo includes a set of tests that can be used to assess the skills of a candidate for a JavaScript position, or to evaluate and improve one's own skills.

I want to work on the tests; what do I do?

To use the tests, you will need to install Node. Note that on Windows, there are some reports that you will need to restart after installing Node - see #12.

You can clone or download this repo. Once you have done so, from the root directory of the repo, run:

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You can then view the tests in your browser at http://localhost:4444.

When you visit that page, all of the tests should be failing; your job is to get the tests to pass. To do this, you'll need to refer to the tests in the files in the tests/app directory, and edit the files in the app/ directory. Once you update a test, you can reload the test page in the browser to see whether it worked.

You can also run (most of) the tests on the command line:

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The command line runner is a work in progress; contributions welcome :)

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The repo includes jQuery, Backbone, and Underscore. You can use these libraries when writing your solutions!

I want to contribute tests; what do I do?

Submit a pull request! The tests are currently loosely organized by topic, so you should do your best to add tests to the appropriate file in tests/app, or create a new file there if you don't see an appropriate one. If you do create a new file, make sure to add it to tests/runner.js, and to add a stub for the solution to the corresponding file in app/. Finally, it would be great if you could update the answers as well.

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This book collects two decades of the most significant essays, addresses, and major book reviews of this prominent American historian. It includes two important presidential addresses, as well as essays on changing historical concerns of the past decades, the value of comparative history, the South in Reconstruction times and the South today, and the use of fiction in history (and history in fiction). Whether reviewing William Safire's novel Freedom or evaluating Henry Adam's portrait of Jefferson, Woodward's essays reflect a lifetime of thought on history and historical writing.

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The intended audience are people with a solid understanding of the basics of software testing, who are looking for ideas on how to improve their tests and testing-related activities. The ideas in this book will be useful to many different roles, including testers, analysts and developers. You will find plenty of tips on how to organise your work better so that it fits into short iterative cycles or flow-based processes, and how to help your team define and organise testing activities better.

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Consistency: Shot Selection and Other Mistakes We Make

Sometimes our only choice is a risky one.

People ask me who’s better, Tiger or Jack. It’s close, but if they played one 18-hole round, both men in their primes, I’d have to take Jack. He was longer than Tiger, a better putter, and he’d game-plan Tiger to death. Nicklaus at his best always found a way to win.

— Lee Trevino

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Some of that “new math”:

One triple bogey = three birdies.

Mistakes and Misses

When I was a young man, each mistake was a drama.  Then I learned this from a friend and grew up a bit:

I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happen to us all.

Ecclesiastes 9:11 (King James Version).

Throwing clubs and getting mad at myself seemed to have less meaning.  It also occurred to me  that getting upset about a shot I’d already hit didn’t change my score a bit.   Oh, sure, anger is often motivation to do better the next time.  Save it for after the round.  The next shot is too important to let emotion affect your judgment.

Getting mad on the course is an element of shot selection.  As Trevino indicates, one of Nicklaus’ great strengths was his ability to work his way around a course without making many mistakes.  Of course, I can think of mistakes Nicklaus made.

Prince Phillip in uniform; Queen Elizabeth laughing at him. We all make mistakes; the question is how do we respond to them.

Does anyone remember that he 3-putted on the 12th hole at Augusta while going on to win in 1986?  Does anyone remember that he hit his drive, on the 72nd hole in the 1977 British Open against Tom Watson, right into the tall rough and almost out-of-bounds?

What is notable is that he hit his next shot to 40 feet, and, then, holed that putt for birdie.

He put it behind him.

He did the same at Augusta.

Tom Watson recently told the story about his first two years on tour.  He made this commitment to himself:  he said he’d never get worse than a double bogey.  He didn’t.  And he continued with his tour card.

A Game of Imperfect

What do these stories teach us?  Golf is a game of misses.  It’s often not how many great shots we hit – those are in fact rare – but how many bad shots we avoid.  In “mathematical” terms, it is called reducing variance or truncating the distribution.  In every day terms, it is called avoiding any real bad results.  In almost all endeavors, one can come back from a bad result; you get knocked down in boxing and you get back up; you have a bad year in investing; you come back with a better year than the prior year was bad.  You get knocked out, and it’s all over.  How

The commonality of all these situations is that it is not whether something bad happened, but what you do next that will determine the outcome.

If you are playing a long par 4, with a green guarded on the left by out-of-bounds, and on the right by a stream, and your club into the green will be at best a 4 wood on a good day, think about how to play the hole as a par 5.  A birdie on the par 5 (4) or a par (5) will beat a triple bogey on the par 4 (7), any day of the week, on anyone’s scorecard.

Van de Velde considers playing out of the Barry Burn at Carnoustie in Angus, Scotland, 1999.

The picture of Jean Van de Velde during the 1999 British Open is infamous.  It means more than he carded a triple bogey and went into a playoff.  Somewhere on that hole, he lost his judgment.  I suspect over half of the weekend golfers in the crowd on that Sunday could’ve carded better than a 7.

Take into account in playing a hole and planning your round, first and foremost, that you will miss shots.  It will happen.  Shooting a low score means avoiding big scores at any level of golf.  It takes 7 birdies to shoot 65; but a triple bogey and three bogeys turns those amazing 7 birdies into a round no one will ever notice.  It requires consistency.

Gene Sarazen used to say, about match play, that he knew he’d make about 7 mistakes a round, and he also knew that his opponent would too.   If your opponent doesn’t, hats off to him.  But don’t take risky shots to try to “win;” first you have to “avoid losing.”  To repeat, it takes 3 birdies – three – to make up for one triple bogey.

How to “Score”

The underlying concept is that one scores better when one can minimize variability — or as insurance companies and options traders at the Board of Trade call it, variance.

It turns out, by the way, that doing so is not just limited to golf. Most gambling games are more about variance than expected value. It’s just that the House knows it, and gamblers don’t.

Here is why. Take Blackjack. An average expected return on a hand is almost 50/50. This occurs, however, with the House winning 56% of hands and paying 3 to 2 on blackjacks. The House could even give 50/50 odds and still expect to win. The reason is that, as long as the House’s opponent does not have infinite money (Phil Mickelson does not have it), the bleeding away of the bank roll in the 56% of hands leaves the player with a dwindling bankroll. This leads to bet size reduction, if one is betting optimally, so a 3-2 payoff does not make up for the bleeding.  In common parlance.

Don’t gamble on your round of golf. Leave that for the casino.

It’s a sucker’s game … in a way that most people don’t even realize.  That’s right.  It’s insidious.

That’s why we point out that one triple bogey equals three birdies. If you get a triple, it’s very hard to get those three birdies to make up for it. If you get even a double bogey, two birdies can be tough. A setback is a worse result than a great result is good, simply because it is harder to make up the strokes than it is to lose them.  They show the amazing shots on television; they don’t show the 17 holes where a tour player avoided a bogey.  No math argues for consistency more. Don’t play the sucker’s shot.

If you go for the hero’s shot, your chances of making it have to be several times better (not just, say, three times better) than the strokes to par you will lose if you don’t make it (say it is a chance at a birdie, versus a triple).  This merits repetition.  If you go for the hero’s shot, your chances of making it have to be several times better than the strokes to par you will lose if you don’t make it.

One doesn’t have to be a green-eye-shade to understand the costs of risk in golf.

This intuition is hard to come by — really hard to come by.  It is, like the way a player loses his money at the Blackjack table, subtle.  (That is why Casino’s make money — most people don’t realize how truly behind they are before they start playing — if it were as obvious, people would play a lot less.) Understand this reasoning, and you will understand why consistent scoring is so important, and risk is something to be handled very, very, very carefully on a golf course and more so in a tournament.

Play, then Practice

This has implications for practice and play.  During play, unless you are in a situation where you are on the 18th hole of the club championship, or the 18th hole of the US Open, and you have to make birdie to tie, you want to play to your strengths, to what you can do consistently.  This will lower your score. It doesn’t have to be a grind.  You only have to play a little bit better than average on most holes for it to add up to a very good score at the end.  Good scores aren’t made by shooting an ace (1) on a par 4; they are made by avoiding a triple (7) on a par 4 and playing well on every other hole.

If you want to try to hit a career shot, practice it on the practice range.  That’s why they call it “practice.”

If you’re standing over the ball and thinking of yourself as Jack Nicklaus or Tiger Woods or Ben Hogan – good; save that thought (unless you are under 16, when you should dream as though there is no tomorrow).  Step back.

Ever notice that almost all the professionals “bail” out to the right on No. 11 in the Masters?

Hit the shot you can hit; and then go to the practice range and think about how Nicklaus or Woods or Hogan would have hit it and see if you can.

In almost all endeavors in life, it’s not about our very best efforts, but about avoiding disaster when we make one of our worst efforts.  It’s not about the bad shot that we just hit, but how well we hit the next shot.  It’s not about the double bogey on the hole we just played, but how we play the next ten holes.  You cannot think that the bad shot is who you are; let it get in the way of your better judgment.  Let’s repeat:  one triple bogey is worth three birdies.

I can promise you that it is easier to shoot one triple bogey than three birdies in a round, even for Sarazen, Jones, Hogan, Palmer, Player, Watson, Nicklaus, Woods and McIlroy.  Let’s repeat that:  it is easier, any day of the week, to shoot a 7 on a par 4 than three threes on par 4s, any day of the week.  Remember it.  It’s new math.

One triple bogey = three birdies.

The point of the quote from Ecclesiastes is in no sense religious.  One has to understand that “time and chance” happen to us all.

If we remember that “time and chance” happen to us all, we can start thinking about the path toward consistency and likely achieve better scoring.  It all seems like common sense when it is laid out, but understanding it will save you a lot of money that could be spent on a good therapist.  Most people play golf instead of going to a therapist.  They don’t play to have yet another reason to see one.

Isaac Newton

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Congratulations on your coup.  You have successfully convinced a bunch of idiots about how you are going to rescue them in their irresponsibility and stupidity, give them money they did not earn from those that worked hard for their money, and made promises you immediately broke in your first week of office.  It’s amazing how charisma, charm, and articulate speech, which makes some liberal newscasters get tingling in their legs, got you, a Chicago sleaze-bag politician nobody, into the most powerful position in the world.

We all know you don’t care that your cabinet selections all should be in jail for tax evasion, because of your example, they know they are better than the rest of us.  They have succeeded even where Al Capone failed.  Good work!

Now that you got the rest of your comrades with enough power to do whatever you tell them to do, you can now begin to form this country into something you, and your teachers (Bill Ayers, Saul Alinski, Reverend Wright, etc) taught you to do.  You’ve been following Saul’s formula to the letter, and so far it has been successful.  Your plans of ruining the capitalist economy to force a global currency is well on its way.  The technique’s that Saul taught you to convince people to allow you to turn over private ownership to the government looks to be succeeding as well.  We all know that in order for this to succeed, you have to get it done before everyone realizes what you are really doing; and that’s socializing America.  After all, you know better than some primitive idiots back in the 1700’s about how people should live and be allowed to live.  Everyone know that intellectuals that sit in Univerisities all their lives know more about the world than those that actually have to work in the system.

Now of course there’s the constant preaching of comrades to force the rich to pay more taxes and allow that money to be given to those that didn’t earn that money.  It was a good idea to make them look like the bad guys, even though it’s the rich that give jobs to others.  It’s almost funny how they preach about this and yet don’t pay taxes themselves.  Al Capone would be impressed!

You have succeeded in having been the first President to have more sleaze-bags and crooks in his administration than any previous, including the Clinton and Nixon administrations combined!  Well done!

However, what impresses me the most, is how you are paying off those that funded your campaign and carreer, by calling it a “Stimulus Package”.  How masterful!  You have been able to put together a veritable Christmas bags worth of useless liberal gifts to organizations and other things that have absolutely nothing to do with stimulating the economy.  You have successfully put together a full pork package, without anything useful to hide that pork other than a name!  You have, with sweet talking, and emotion, been able to tell the citizens of the United States of America to go to Hell, and yet are making them look forward to the trip!  Genius!!

If the country is still around after your first term, I’m anxious to see what other methods you’ll use to sieze power from the people.  Heck, Joseph Stalin did it, and the people cheered for him.  Adolf Hitler did it, and the people would cry at his speeches even get tingling up their legs when he spoke.  If you can keep this up, then surely you can sieze even more power and property to finally make this a socialized Utopia, and since the UN and world population depends so much on America, they’ll fall right in, and then you’ll finally be able to prove that socialism works, even after it has always failed previously.  The key here being there will not be a competing system to destroy it.  How clever!

I am also impressed at how you have, with your comrades, distracted the populace from religion by supplanting it with a false religion.  The religion of Global Warming and environmentalism.  A very clever way to gain control of private enterprise while distracting the populace with fear and lies.  I mean seriously, you’ve got them convinced that small cars and wind power will solve all problems.  I was impressed with your statements claiming people had to get rid of their gas guzzlers, turn the heating down to 68 degrees, use florescent bulbs, and use tire gages to combat the climate demons.  I love how you put yourself above everyone else by driving a brand new GM limo with super heavy metal plating and the largest gasoline engine GM makes that barely will get 6 miles to the gallon, then you crank up the heat in the oval office to 85 degrees because you’re from Hawaii and as we all know, all Illinois politicians from Hawaii deserve special treatment and don’t have to live the standards they preach.  I mean, you’re the President and they are just the people clinging to their religion and guns.  They couldn’t possibly think for themselves.  They need someone to tell them how to live and what to do.  It was Vladimire Lenin that said, “A lie told often enough becomes the truth”, and you have the news media in your pockets.  Well played!

I love how your minions are blind to the obvious truth and have chosen to unconditionally follow you to the ends of the Earth.  They have a knack for excusing criminal behavior in their fellow comrades and call it forgivable mistakes, yet when one opposes them on the radio, for example, they will try every means they can to shut them up and censor them.  We both know the truth must never be exposed.  After, one of your contemporaries of the past, Adolf Hitler, said, “The great masses of the people… will more easily fall victims to a great lie than to a small one. … What luck for rulers that men do not think!”  Your friends in Hollywood have been quite successful at distracting the populace from thinking.

I may want to point out something though.  Americans have a reputation for not accepting authority forced upon them for a long period of time.  You see, unlike Europe, whos population, until recently, was used to a dictator or socialist oligarchy running their country for centuries.  They lost the will to fight it.  Americans, on the other hand, are famous for not putting up with such crap, at least not for long.  I predict to you, Mr. President, that if a peaceful and civil means is lost to the American people to fix this mess (that’s being able to vote the change), that the revolutionary war of 1776 will be nothing compared to a second revolution to restore the Constitutional government as it was originally.  This, by no means is a personal threat, but is a result of historical observation and my opinion.  History tends to repeat itself.  The USA as it is today, has turned into the country those earlier revolutionists originally fought against.  It stands to reason that unless major changes are made to restore the country as it was originally, that a revolution will happen again.

John F. Kennedy, a predecessor of yours, did say that when a government removes the means for the people to change it peacefully, then an unpeaceful method is all that is left to emerge.  Let’s hope your actions don’t cause this to happen.

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Opening in Chicago, 01/22

As the holiday season fades into memory and the output of prestige films slows to a trickle, I’m reminded of what a bad time of year this can be for movies. There’s very little of interest in this week’s batch of Openings, which I expect is the beginning of a trend that will last at least until the beginning of March (if not longer).

Extraordinary Measures (trailer)
Director: Tom Vaughn (Starter for Ten, What Happens in Vegas)
Personal Interest Factor: 5
So Jeanine and I were discussing the other day: what demonstrates more dedication on behalf of a father? Extraordinary measures, or desperate measures? I think we finally decided that you resort to the desperate measures after the extraordinary ones don’t work. It’s probably the most interesting thing to discuss about the movie, since discussions about how Harrison Ford’s career as a box-office draw are obviously and painfully over soon get sad and descend into hazy nostalgia.
Metacritic: 44

Director: Adrián Biniez
Personal Interest Factor: 5
Uruguayan film about a supermarket guard who becomes obsessed with a cleaning woman by watching her on the security cameras.
Metacritic: 64

Legion (trailer)
Director: Scott Stewart
Personal Interest Factor: 5
I feel like we’ve so absorbed the tricks of movie marketing that most of us can immediately tell, upon first seeing this trailer, that the old lady is a monster of some kind. And I mean, immediately. On another note, Paul Bettany must be one of the most boring actors around, but I keep reading where people think he’s good, apparently solely on the strength of Master and Commander. Oh well.
Metacritic: no score yet

35 Shots of Rum
Director: Claire Denis (Chocolat, Nenette and Boni, Beau Travail, The Intruder)
Personal Interest Factor: 8
I think that’s as high a Metacritic rating as I’ve seen in some time. In addition, the film ended up at #5 in the IndieWire critics survey for the year, even though it actually ranked sixth (they’re not good with numbering over at IndieWire). It’s about a widowed conducter adjusting to life after he moves in with his daughter.
Metacritic: 92

Tooth Fairy (trailer)
Director: Michael Lembeck (The Santa Clause 2, Connie and Carla, The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause)
Personal Interest Factor: 2
From the Self-Fulfilling Prophecies As Marketing Department comes the promise that I “can’t handle the Tooth.”
Metacritic: 40

William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe (trailer)
Directors: Emily Kunstler & Sarah Kunstler
Personal Interest Factor: 6
Documentary about the famed civil-rights lawyer made by his daughters.
Metacritic: 62

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  1. From

    ex⋅traor⋅di⋅nar⋅y: beyond what is usual, ordinary, regular, or established: extraordinary costs.

    des⋅per⋅ate: reckless or dangerous because of despair or urgency: a desperate killer.

    So this says to me that Brendan Fraser’s character is only making a smaller than usual effort to save his kids. While Michael Keaton’s character would do anything that would save his kid.

  2. I’m just happy Tooth Fairy is finally released. I’ve been reading about it in the trades as being “in development” for almost 20 years. Feels like the end of an era.

    Now I don’t have to read about it again until Disney begins development on a reboot in six months.

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Review: Elle

Elle, which recently won two Golden Globes, is a disturbing, interesting, but not entirely satisfying psychological thriller directed by Paul Verhoeven with an electrifying performance by Isabelle Huppert. I left the film figuratively scratching my head. What did I just see?

The film begins in black, with the sounds of a struggle. Then we see a cat, calmly watching as its owner is raped. The woman is Huppert, her assailant is wearing a ski-mask. He leaves, and she calmly cleans up the broken vases and takes a bath, the blood from her invasion soaking the bubbles. As she’s taking a bath, your mind is screaming–“you’re destroying evidence,” but she has no thought of reporting the crime to the police.

Turns out Huppert is the CEO of a video game company that creates very violent games, and she is the daughter of an infamous mass murderer. She thinks about revenge, and purchases items to protect her, like mace and an ax, and when the perpetrator leaves her little notes and texts suggesting he’s closer to her than she thinks, she doesn’t really freak out, I mean, not like I would.

What Huppert and Verhoeven do in this film is make a victim of a crime a horrible person. There are many subplots (too many) that show her as an awful human being. She is disgusted by her elderly mother’s romance with a younger man. She is sleeping with her best friend’s husband. She isn’t helping matters with her son, who is having a baby with a monstrous young woman (when it becomes obvious that the child is not his, she is the only one who points it out). But because she is being stalked by some kind of psycho, we cut her some slack. A lot of slack.

Then the film takes a turn that I imagine might anger many feminists–it angered me. I don’t want to go into it, but let’s just say when she finds out who her rapist is (and I figured it out pretty easily) she doesn’t react the way we want her to, or the way the film is marketed. This isn’t so much a revenge film as a film about a woman who is seriously fucked up, long before she was raped.

Other than Huppert’s clever performance, Elle is far too sordid and unpleasant for me to recommend.


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The 11 pictures are from “The Lost World” build on the “Oyster Bay” sim.  Sera Bellic has done it again, creating a wonderfully immersive underwater adventure that must be seen to be fully appreciated.  The land description reads, “Welcome to The Lost World. The city of Atlantis Sera Bellic style. Bring your swim suits and scuba gear and explore this lost world. Swim suits are a must.”

I highly recommend a visit to this build.  The marine life alone makes this an incredibly enjoyable experience.   You mix in the various nautical artifacts and the relics of Atlantis and you have an incredible photographic opportunity.  Be sure and check this out before her whimsical imagination replaces it with her next creation.

I hope you enjoy the pictures and, as always, the SLURL is located at the bottom of this post.

Visit this location in Second Life by clicking here:  The Lost World

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Columbia Gorge & Cascades

Incredible scenery and multisport active vacation

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From $2595

Dates & Pricing
  • Jul 09 - Jul 14 2017 $2595
  • Jul 16 - Jul 21 2017 $2595
  • Jul 23 - Jul 28 2017 $2595
Group Discounts

Group discounts for our published trip dates begin with as few as eight people. Please contact us for details.

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Looking for a one of a kind, once in a lifetime experience? Look no further. All you need to do is pick any open trip date, get your group together and we will do the rest.

At a Glance

Tour start | end: Portland, Oregon
Length: 6 Days / 5 Nights
Rating: Intermediate

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Tour Overview

Bike, Hike & Raft in Spectacular Scenery

Sojourn features incredible natural wonders during Oregon bicycle tours in the Columbia Gorge region. Navigated more than 200 years ago by Lewis and Clark, the region is the crown jewel of the Pacific Northwest. Snow capped peaks tower majestically above glacial lakes, waterfalls cascade into mountain streams, and colorful wildflowers punctuate fields and roadsides.

Oregon's Columbia Gorge region offers extensive opportunities for cyclists to tour lightly traveled roads through stunning scenery. To the south lies majestic and glaciated Mt. Hood, Oregon’s tallest peak. To the north, Washington’s Mt. Adams forms an equally impressive backdrop.

Ride a bike path that Bicycling Magazine describes as a "must ride.” Enjoy stunning vistas along a gorgeous two lane road that winds past a series of spectacular waterfalls and awe-inspiring overlooks. Join your tour mates on a professionally guided raft trip. Visit historic Timberline Lodge on Mount Hood where snowfields remain through the summer.

Walk along a remote alpine lake featuring stunning views of Oregon's tallest peak as it looms across the lake. Swim or paddle a canoe in the lake's pristine water before cycling through rolling orchard farmland into the Hood River Valley.

The town of Hood River, where you will be based for four nights of your trip, is a cultural hub for outdoor enthusiasts of all kinds. It is also home to coffee houses, shops, restaurants, cafes and several of Oregon's finest brew pubs.

What's Included In This Tour

  • This could be the bike tour that offers the most dramatic and stunning scenery of all Sojourn trips.
  • Enjoy cycling, hiking, and an afternoon raft trip on a Wild & Scenic River (appropriate for all levels).
  • Witness the world's greatest concentration of waterfalls during a spectacular ride in the Columbia Gorge.
  • Walk along a remote alpine lake fed by glaciers high on Mount Hood.
  • Sample Hood River's local craft beer, wine, and fresh produce.
  • Your trip includes transfer from Hood River to the airport in Portland at the conclusion of the tour.
What's Included in this Tour?

Tour Itinerary

Day By Day Tour Overview.

  • Day

    Enjoy a ride on the bike path along the Willamette River that Bicycling Magazine describes as a “must ride” in a city often named tops in the US for bicycling.

  • Day

    Narrow winding roads and stunning vistas highlight your ride along a magnificent two-lane road featuring the world’s greatest concentration of waterfalls. Walk to the footbridge that crosses Multnomah Falls, Oregon’s highest and most spectacular at 620’.

  • Day

    Visit a remote alpine lake fed by glaciers high on the flanks of Mt. Hood, Oregon’s tallest peak. The stunning views of this imposing peak are often reflected in the lake. Take a dip, paddle a canoe, or enjoy a hike before cycling through patchwork orchards in the Hood River Valley.

  • Day

    Cross the Columbia River to Washington to ride lightly traveled roads under the shadow of snow-capped Mt. Adams. Raft the White Salmon River, a designated Wild and Scenic River, on a professionally guided trip. Visit Full Sail, Hood River’s most popular microbrewery.

  • Day

    Your guides will select a hike that best features views of the surrounding glacier-covered peaks and abundant wildflowers of the season. Visit Timberline Lodge on Mt. Hood then return to Hood River for a bike ride, to browse shops, or take a windsurfing lesson.

  • Day

    Your final day will be spent cycling a route named by Bicycling Magazine one of the top rides in the US. What begins as a bike path becomes a quiet and winding road offering spectacular vistas high above the Gorge.

Want to Learn More?

Download the Tour Itinerary for a detailed day by day description.

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Pekin, IL

The trip was fabulous... incredible scenery, beautiful and challenging cycling, great guides, delicious food... what more could we ask?

Lodging Information

Distinctive lodging, carefully selected to complement your tour.

  • Riverplace Hotel, Portland

    This boutique Kimpton property graces the banks of the Willamette River and is adjacent to shops and restaurants of the River Place. (1 night)

    Lodging Website
  • Columbia Gorge Hotel, Hood River

    A classic Mediterranean Revival Style hotel built in 1921. This lovely restored property is situated above a 207’ waterfall and overlooks the Columbia River. The Hotel’s amenities combine to make this a perfect base for your active vacation. Spa, restaurant, bar. (4 nights)

    Lodging Website

Other Tours You May Enjoy

  • Vermont bicycle tour cyclists in the Lake Champlain Valley

    Lake Champlain, Vermont

    This world renowned tour has garnered multiple accolades from respected authorities. Experience the best of Vermont with Sojourn.

    from $2095
    6 Days / 5 Nights
  • Wine Country California Bicycle Tours late day light

    California Wine Country & Coast

    Wine Country, Redwoods, and the Pacific Coast in one spectacular trip. Magnificent scenery, boutique inns, and private wine tastings.

    from $2595
    6 Days / 5 Nights
  • Maine Bicycle Tour & Active Vacation: Bike, Hike, Kayak, Sail

    Acadia National Park

    One of the most scenic of US national parks is the backdrop for this incredible active vacation. Bike, hike, kayak, and sail.

    from $2795
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Building signs need to be ADA compliant and we can help you with all your needs. The Grafics Unlimited team will talk to you about your goals and help you determine the right size, material and placement for your company. Please see below for some of the ADA Signage that we have done.

If you have any questions give us a call (800) 659-1216, (775) 331-1100 or contact us online.

The term “ADA Signs” has come into common use in the architecturalconstruction and signage industries with the advent of the Americans With Disabilities Act, or ADA. Unfortunately, it’s a misunderstood term. Most people think it’s synonymous with braille signs. Certainly, signs with braille and raised characters are the most visible manifestation of the law requiring access to the built environment, but the sign standards in the ADA Accessibility Guidelines, or ADAAG, require much more than just braille and raised characters on some signs.

In general, almost every sign that would be considered an “architectural” sign must comply with one or another of the ADA Guidelines. In other words, if a sign identifies a permanent room or space of a facility, including exits, directs or informs about functional spaces of the facility, or identifies, directs to, or informs about accessible features of the facility, it must comply. Signs for advertising and marketing purposes, temporary signs, company logos and names are examples of signs or sections of signs that do not have to comply.

Although, because of the rules requiring Braille on some signs, the signage section is looked upon as benefitting persons who are blind and visually impaired, some of the sign guidelines benefit persons with mobility impairments or hearing impairments. In addition, one can say generally that easy to read and well thought out signage systems are of definite benefit to people who are deaf, have problems speaking, have cognitive disabilities or psychiatric conditions that cause them to avoid speaking to strangers.

The general rules for signage covered by the law are these:

All signs must have non-glare backgrounds and characters. (Exception is for reflective parking and other traffic signs.) Glare and reflection are a major problem for persons with vision impairments, and particularly for the elderly.

All signs that contain visual characters must have a high dark to light (or vice versa) contrast between characters and their background. The important issue is not color, but lightness and darkness. Thus, a sign with very light gray letters on a charcoal gray background would be fine, but a sign with red letters on a black background would not.

All signs must have “easy to read” typefaces. The rules are different for signs that identify rooms and spaces, and signs that direct and inform. That’s because persons who are “functionally blind,” that is, have no usable vision, are able to locate doors, and therefore can locate signs adjacent to doors that identify them, but have no consistent way to find directional and information signs that could be located anywhere along corridors.

Directional and informational signs can use upper and lower case letters (recommended by many experts for visual readability) and “simple” serif typefaces of a non-decorative nature. No condensed or extended typefaces are allowed. Strokes are of medium weight, not too bold or too thin. The size of the letters is dictated by the distance of the sign from the expected position of the sign reader. Signs high upon walls or overhead must have 3 inch high characters (measured by the uppercase character).

Signs that identify rooms and spaces are to be located adjacent to the door they identify so they can be located by persons who are functionally blind. For the most part, one sign is used by both tactile and visual readers, so there are compromises to assist tactile readers. However, it is possible to use two separate signs with the same information. Tactile signs require uppercase characters in sans serif typefaces. (Helvetica is not required, other sans-serif typefaces can be used.) The characters can be from 5/8 inch to 2 inches high. The Braille must accompany the characters (below the characters) and must be Contracted Braille (formerly called Grade 2 Braille). The signs are installed 48 inches minimum from the baseline of the lowest raised character and 60 inches maximum from the baseline of the highest raised character. If pictograms are used to identify the space (example: restrooms with gender pictograms), they must be in a six inch high clear field and accompanied by a tactile character and Braille label below the field.

There are four symbols that stand for accessibility. One is the familiar International Symbol of Access, or “wheelchair symbol.” It’s used generally to show that persons with mobility impairments can access entrances, restrooms, or pathways. Three are specifically for persons with hearing impairments. The “ear” symbol is the International Symbol of Access for Hearing Loss, and is used to show the availability of an assistive listening system. The “keyboard” symbol stands for a TTY or text telephone. The “phone” symbol with sound waves stands for the availability of a volume controlled phone.

The actual standards for the signs (and most other standards used in ADA regulations and state building codes), are actually the product of the ANSI (American National Standards Institute) A117.1 Committee. This large committee is made up of a balanced group of representatives from industry, the government, disability organizations, designers, code officials, and experts. it meets in 5 year cycles to revise the last published standard. The standard is then used by the International Code Council for its model building code, and has formed the basis of the new version of the ADA Guidelines, now called the 2004 ADA/ABA.[2]

They are already adopted by several federal agencies, and had been approved by the Department of Justice and were awaiting final review by the OMB when the Obama Administration came in. Ironically, although they are actually a product of the Clinton administration and have taken 8 years to make it through the Bush Administration, the Obama Administration now considers them Bush Administration regulations, and is holding them up. Therefore, they are back at the Department of Justice for a review by the new administration.


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Malting accreditation

Barley Australia has announced malting accreditation for the La Trobe and Flinders barley varieties from the InterGrain–Syngenta collaboration.

The two varieties were accredited following evaluation in association with the Malting and Brewing Industry Barley Technical Committee.

La Trobe was developed for low to medium-rainfall areas, while Flinders is suited to medium to high-rainfall areas. From a quality perspective, both varieties have malting characteristics suited to export brewing markets.

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Western grower services

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Roger States

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The GRDC has appointed Roger States as the new grower services manager in Western Australia.

In his new role, Mr States will facilitate the regional adaptation of the GRDC’s research, development and extension to help speed the delivery of research outcomes to growers.

This will involve identifying RD&E needs, managing regional information delivery, overseeing regional research and promoting the GRDC’s products and services by working closely with GRDC Western Panel members, researchers, advisers and growers.

Before joining the GRDC, Mr States worked in crop protection and agronomy, most recently with crop protection company Sipcam Pacific Australia.

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HSD award finalist

De Bruin Engineering’s Harrington Seed Destructor (HSD) was named a finalist in the international 2015 Edison Awards, which recognise innovators and innovative products and services.

In response to global herbicide resistance, the HSD was designed to destroy weed seeds captured in harvest operations, preventing them from returning to the seedbank in broadacre cropping. The HSD was nominated as a finalist in the ‘Smart Agriculture’ section in the ‘Applied Technology’ category, along with two other inventions.

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Farm business manual

The GRDC has released a manual to help increase farm business management knowledge and skills for growers and advisers. Authored by Mike Krause from Plan2Profit Agri, the Farming the Business manual comprises three modules, including an overview, ‘how to’ and advanced sections.

It also features on-farm case studies highlighting strategies that have helped other growers across the country improve their farm businesses.

These case studies profile: New South Wales growers David and Nell Mott from Wagga Wagga, and Tony and Vicky Geddes from Holbrook; Tasmanian growers Michael and Fiona Chilvers from Launceston; Victorian growers Bruce and Lachie Wilson from Winchelsea, and Robert and Scott Nicholson from Campbells Bridge; and South Australian growers John Gladigau and Robin Schaefer from Alawoona, and Steve, Lhot and Jerome Martin from Minlaton. Hard copies of the free manual are available from Ground Cover Direct (1800 11 00 44 or, a $10 postage charge applies.

To view or download the manual, visit the GRDC website.

GRDC Research Code PTP00001

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Global recognition

Professor Michael McLaughlin, an authority on fertiliser management from the University of Adelaide whose work was instrumental in helping growers through the Millennium Drought, has been named the 2015 International Fertilizer Industry Association Norman Borlaug Award laureate. Since 1993 the annual award has recognised research that has led to significant advances in crop nutrition as well its successful communication to growers.

Professor McLaughlin’s work focuses on the fundamental mechanisms of fertiliser behaviour in soils to improve its effectiveness. His research is characterised by the use of new methods to examine fertiliser behaviour and effectiveness such as isotope tracing and dilution methods to determine the fate of added fertiliser and to benchmark improvement in crop nutrition.

In the mid-2000s, in the face of severe drought, Professor McLaughlin and two colleagues developed a fact sheet advising on nutrient management under drought conditions and recommendations for fertiliser management, which has been used widely across Australia.

A CSIRO science fellow, Professor McLaughlin is a long-time GRDC collaborator. His work spans more than 30 years and three continents and now has global impact through the establishment of the Adelaide Fertiliser Technology Research Centre.

Rural women’s awards

The Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation (RIRDC) has announced the state winners of the 2015 Rural Women’s Awards.

South Australian RIRDC Rural Women’s Award winner Sarah Powell runs a mixed-farm business at Wharminda on the Eyre Peninsula. Ms Powell’s award-winning project aims to establish and manage a ‘Champions Academy’ pilot program, to create opportunities for emerging community leaders.

Recipient of the Western Australian RIRDC Rural Women’s Award is InterGrain chief executive officer Tress Walmsley, formerly a grains commercialisation officer with the Department of Agriculture and Food, WA. Ms Walmsley won the award for her ‘oodles of noodles’ project, which seeks to increase demand for noodle wheat by encouraging consumer interest in udon noodles.

Winners of the Northern Territory and Victorian RIRDC Rural Women’s Awards respectively are Dr Sally Isberg, who runs the Centre for Crocodile Research, and third-generation orchardist Katie Finlay. Award recipients in New South Wales and Tasmania will be announced in advance of the national award winner at a ceremony in Canberra on 9 September.

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