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Static analysis of members of dynamic
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Typing of members of dynamic
Author: eernst@.
Version: 0.2 (2018-09-04)
Status: Under discussion.
This document is a Dart 2 feature specification of the static typing of instance members of a receiver whose static type is dynamic.
This document uses discussions in this github issue as a starting point.
For Dart programs using a statically typed style, it is often helpful to use the most precise static type for an expression which is still sound. In contrast, if such an expression gets type dynamic it often causes subsequent type computations such as inference to make less useful decisions, or it may mask errors which are likely or guaranteed to occur at run time. Here is an example:
String toString([bool b = true]) =>
b ? 'This is an A!' : 'Whatever';
foo(List<String> xs) {
for (String s in xs) print(s);
main() {
dynamic d = new A();
var xs = [d.toString()];
foo(xs);
In this example, the actual type argument passed to the list literal [d.toString()] by inference depends on the static type of the expression d.toString(). If that expression is given the type dynamic (as it would be in Dart 1) then the resulting list will be a List<dynamic>, and hence the invocation of foo would fail because it requires an argument of type List<String>.
In general, a receiver with static type dynamic is assumed to have all members, i.e., we can make the attempt to invoke a getter, setter, method, or operator with any name, and we can pass any list of actual arguments and possibly some type arguments, and that will not cause any compile-time errors. Various checks may be performed at run time when such an invocation takes place, and that is the whole point: Usage of expressions of type dynamic allows developers to skip the static checks and instead have dynamic checks.
However, every object in a Dart program execution has a type which is a subtype of Object. Hence, for each member declared by Object, it will either inherit an implementation declared by Object, or it will have some implementation specified as an override for the declaration in Object. Given that overriding declarations must satisfy certain constraints, we do know something about the properties of a member declared in Object. This allows static analysis to give static types to some expressions which are more precise than dynamic, even for a member access where the receiver has type dynamic, and that is the topic of this document.
We will obey the general principle that an instance method invocation (including getters, setters, and operators) which would be compiled without errors under some typing of the receiver must also be without compile-time errors when the receiver has type dynamic. It should be noted that there is no requirement that the typing relies only on declarations which are in scope at the point where the invocation occurs, it must instead be possible to declare such a class that the invocation can be statically typed. The point in obeying this principle is that dynamic invocation should be capable of performing every invocation which is possible using types.
For instance, d.toString(42) cannot have a compile-time error when d has static type dynamic, because we could have the following declaration, and d could have had type D:
class D {
noSuchMethod(Object o) => o;
Null toString([int i]) => null;
Similarly, d.noSuchMethod('Oh!') would not be a compile-time error, because a contravariant type annotation on the parameter as shown above would allow actual arguments of other types than Invocation.
On the other hand, it is safe to assign the static type String to d.toString(), because that invocation will definitely invoke the implementation of toString in Object or an override thereof, and that override must have a return type which is String or a subtype (for String that can only be Null, but in general it can be any subtype).
It may look like a highly marginal corner of the language to give special treatment to the few methods declared in Object, but it does matter in practice that a number of invocations of toString are given the type String. Other members like hashCode get the same treatment in order to have a certain amount of consistency.
Moreover, we have considered generalizing the notion of "the type dynamic" such that it becomes "the type dynamic based on T" for any given type T, using some syntax, e.g., dynamic(T). The idea would be that statically known methods invoked on a receiver of type dynamic(T) would receive static checking, but invocations of other methods get dynamic checking. With that, the treatment specified in this document (which was originally motivated by the typing of toString) will suddenly apply to any member declared by T, where T can be any type (that is, any declarable member). It is then important to have a systematic approach and a simple conceptual "story" about how it works, and why it works like that. This document should be a usable starting point for such an approach and story.
In this section, Object denotes the built-in class Object, and dynamic denotes the built-in type dynamic.
In the following, we specify the static type of certain expressions of a specific syntactic form. In the situation where an expression e is of the form d.m(arguments) or d.m<typeArguments>(arguments) where d is a primary, m is an identifier, arguments is an actual argument list, and typeArguments is a list of actual type arguments, the applicable case is one that includes all of e, not just the property extraction part of e, that is, not just d.m.
Let e be an expression of the form d.m where the static type of d is dynamic and m is a getter declared in Object; if the return type of Object.m is T then the static type of e is T.
For instance, d.hashCode has type int and d.runtimeType has type Type.
Let e be an expression of the form d.m where the static type of d is dynamic and m is a method declared in Object whose method signature has type F (which is a function type). The static type of e is then F.
For instance, d.toString has type String Function().
Let e be an expression of the form d.m(arguments) or d.m<typeArguments>(arguments) where the static type of d is dynamic, m is a getter declared in Object with return type F, arguments is an actual argument list, and typeArguments is a list of actual type arguments, if present. Static analysis will then process e as a function expression invocation where a function of static type F is applied to the given argument part.
So d.runtimeType(42) is a compile-time error, because it is checked as a function expression invocation where an entity of static type Type is invoked. Note that it could actually succeed: An overriding implementation of runtimeType could return an instance whose dynamic type is a subtype of Type that has a call method. We decided to make it an error because it is likely to be a mistake, especially in cases like d.hashCode() where a developer might have forgotten that hashCode is a getter.
Let e be an expression of the form d.m(arguments) where the static type of d is dynamic, arguments is an actual argument list, and m is a method declared in Object whose method signature has type F. If the number of positional actual arguments in arguments is less than the number of required positional arguments of F or greater than the number of positional arguments in F, or if arguments includes any named arguments with a name that is not declared in F, the type of e is dynamic. Otherwise, the type of e is the return type in F.
So d.toString(bazzle: 42) has type dynamic whereas d.toString() has type String. Note that invocations which "do not fit" the statically known declaration are not errors, they just get return type dynamic.
Let e be an expression of the form d.m<typeArguments>(arguments) where the static type of d is dynamic, typeArguments is a list of actual type arguments, arguments is an actual argument list. It is a compile-time error if m is a non-generic method declared in Object.
No generic methods are declared in Object. Hence, we do not specify that there must be the statically required number of actual type arguments, and they must satisfy the bounds. That would otherwise be the consistent approach, because the invocation is guaranteed to fail when any of those requirements are violated, but generalizations of this mechanism would need to include such rules.
For an instance method invocation e (including invocations of getters, setters, and operators) where the receiver has static type dynamic and e does not match any of the above cases, the static type of e is dynamic.
When a cascadeSection performs a getter or method invocation that corresponds to one of the cases above, the corresponding static analysis and compile-time errors apply.
For instance, d..foobar(16)..hashCode() is an error.
Note that only very few forms of instance method invocation with a receiver of type dynamic can be a compile-time error. Of course, some expressions like x[1, 2] are syntax errors even though they could also be considered "invocations", and subexpressions are checked separately so any given actual argument could be a compile-time error. But almost any given argument list shape could be handled via noSuchMethod, and an argument of any type could be accepted because any formal parameter in an overriding declaration could have its type annotation contravariantly changed to Object. So it is a natural consequence of the principle mentioned in 'Motivation' that a dynamic receiver admits almost all instance method invocations. The few cases where an instance method invocation with a receiver of type dynamic is an error are either guaranteed to fail at run time, or they are very likely to be developer mistakes.
Dynamic Semantics
This feature has no implications for the dynamic semantics, beyond the ones which are derived directly from the static typing.
For instance, a list literal may have a run-time type which is determined via inference by the static type of its elements, as in the example in the 'Motivation' section, or the actual type argument may be influenced by the typing context, which may again depend on the rules specified in this document.
0.2 (2018-09-04) Adjustment to make d.hashCode() and similar expressions an error, cf. this github issue.
0.1 (2018-03-13) Initial version, based on discussions in this github issue.

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Despite its obvious ramifications, the issue of money in politics has been seen as something of an obsession of good-government liberals. An issue for nerds more than for those concerned with the everyday struggles of working people. But what so many of those people fail to appreciate is that election financing is the root issue of so many of the other issues we are passionate about. Care about the environment? Good luck with the Koch Brothers spending hundreds of millions to defeat candidates who propose that agenda. Think workers should find it easier to organize and fight for fair wages? Well, there's big money lined up to oppose you on that wherever you live. And we've long known that Big Money has done its best to hijack the debate on education.
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By The Armorer on December 11, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (29)
You were warned.
Oh, sure, they *say* it's for missile defense. But we know the truth. It's all for the founding of the Imperium! You only *think* Mr. Obama is going to assume the reins of power next month. In fact, these 'droids will flood the streets and keep us in our place, when the overthrow occurs!
Multiple Kill Vehicle Completes Hover Test
Missile Defense Agency Director Lieutenant General Patrick O'Reilly announced that a test of the Multiple Kill Vehicle-L (MKV-L) was conducted Tuesday, Dec. 2 at the National Hover Test Facility at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. Preliminary indications are that planned test objectives were achieved.
Objectives of the test included having the MKV-L hover under its own power and prove its capability to recognize and track a surrogate target in a flight environment. During the test, the MKV-L's propulsion system demonstrated maneuverability while tracking a target. The MKV-L transmitted video and flight telemetry to the ground.
The MKV-L mission is to destroy medium through intercontinental-range ballistic missiles equipped with multiple warheads or countermeasures by using a single interceptor missile. During an actual hostile ballistic missile attack, the carrier vehicle with its cargo of small kill vehicles will maneuver into the path of an enemy missile. Using tracking data from the Ballistic Missile Defense System and its own seeker, the carrier vehicle will dispense and guide the kill vehicles to destroy any warheads or countermeasures.
The MKV-L development team is led by Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company.
The Raytheon Company is also developing a separate multiple kill vehicle technology (MKV-R) on a dual-path basis.
For a nice hi-res pic, click here. H/t, Bloodspite.
Update: Since some people are starting to ask technical questions, or are leaning towards a falsity check - here's the link I should have provided earlier - the video comes from the Missile Defense Agency.
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By Argent on December 11, 2008 11:40 AM
Very cool but i refuse to be impressed until there's lasers and a sonic screwdriver. I must admit I wonder just how much fuel the thing uses.
By Pogue on December 11, 2008 12:30 PM
I, for one, welcome our alien overlords... There're clearly willing to spend on defense reasearc. :-p
By paulmont on December 11, 2008 1:00 PM
But all I ever wanted was freaking dolphins with freaking lazers attached to their heads!!!
By Blake Kirk on December 11, 2008 1:06 PM
We r can haz Bolo soon?
By Katherine Optima Maximae on December 11, 2008 1:10 PM
Is this an RPG killer?
By John of Argghhh! on December 11, 2008 1:31 PM
Kat - no, this is an ballistic missile killer.
Paul - we're working on those, but Greenpeace keeps busting on us for being cruel to sharks.
The sharks? They *like* lasers...
By Mrs G on December 11, 2008 1:51 PM
I bet that would work great against zombies
By Rod Thorsen on December 11, 2008 1:58 PM
This seems old, I'll swear or affirm (for those who don't swear) that I saw this. Too unique to mistake. Yeah, I know the date on it says this week. No conspiracy, just that they're still working on it I guess.
By RetRsvMikeMike on December 11, 2008 2:13 PM
this IS the droid you were looking for.
By Pogue on December 11, 2008 2:17 PM
Yeah Rod, I remember seeing a test like this several years ago, although I think that was shorter and it just came up, hovered and dropped - no lateral repositioning. Does seem pretty fuel intensive though.
By Josh on December 11, 2008 2:39 PM
Either this is an obvious question that everybody else missed, or I missed something important...
How BIG is it? I haven't been able to find any frame of reference in the photo or the video. For some reason my instincts say it's about a foot or two long, but the description as a killer of ICBM warheads suggests that it should be the size of an automobile at least.
And yes, I agree that the design seems like it would consume fuel at an incredibly high rate. A reaction control system makes sense if you're floating in space and just need to make tiny adjustments, or if you're feeding it from a turbine like in the Harrier, but this doesn't look like it has a turbine...maybe it's just throwing hypergolic fuels out the sides?
By JimC on December 11, 2008 3:08 PM
I hate to admit this but when I saw the picture I thought it was a joke. I thought it was a hi-tech/SciFi new defense system to defend Beth's Chickens in the Hen House. OOOPS.
By Paul in BarneyFrankistan on December 11, 2008 3:28 PM
Rod & Pogue,
You probably did see a similar video before, but of the current Kinetic Kill Vehicle (KKV).
The MKV will be an improvement. Each GBI (Ground Based Interceptor) can currently carry one KKV, so we would typically need to launch multiple GBIs for each inbound ICBM. The MKV takes advantage of improved technology to put several KVs on each GBI, improving the Pk, particularly against more sophisticated adversaries (PENAIDS, multiple RVs, etc.). It's the missile defense version of MIRV.
As for the fuel consumption - not a concern, given the short engagement time. The KKV divert thrusters only fire during the endgame, a few seconds before impact. The hover tests take advantage of the high thrust developed by the divert thrusters to perform realistic ground tests - since they need to deliver over 1g in order to maneuver during the endgame, some clever folks realized that you can use one thruster to hover the KV while the others maneuver.
By Duane Roelands on December 11, 2008 3:31 PM
I'm glad that I'm not the only one who had the weird feeling that I had seen this footage before. Like, ten years ago. I'm not a tinfoilhatter, but it certainly does feel like this is recycled footage.
Ah, Paul, a man after my own heart. Never met an acronym he couldn't use... but at least defines 'em!
So, Paul - d'you happen to work for Raytheon or Lockheed-Martin?
Thanks Paul, that does sound familiar. I seem to recall with the earlier test the ability to hover wasn't really a requirement, someone realized that it had enough thrust to do it so why bother with expensive zero g testing...
By Keith L. Bailey on December 11, 2008 4:42 PM
Fuel usage is relative. Remember this thing is designed to work in space. a zero-g enviroment therefore it would use less fuel than it does on the ground.
Ahhhh, so they're not actually intended to lift themselves off the ground, hm? Makes much more sense now.
So my question still stands...how big is it?
Only thing I've found on size so far:
http://www.armscontrolwonk.com/781/multiple-kill-vehicles-mkv. Can't speak for the reliability or source of this photo.
Interesting photo, Rod. It looks like 12 of those interceptors are mounted on the test vehicle (the high res photo shows them marked as "INERT". ) The photo of the guy holding it makes me think the interceptor has a diameter of around 6 inches. That would make the inner carrier vehicle about 18 inches in diameter so the major diameter is somewhere around 32 inches. Using the Mk 1 Eyeball on the video makes me think the vehicle length is between 5 and 6 feet. Also, even though all the visual clues make me want to think it's a small vehicle, once the thrusters shut down it takes almost a second to fall to the net. That would mean a hover altitude of 25 - 30 feet. The side shots make it look like it's hovering maybe 5 body lengths high, which would be about right if I'm not totally out to lunch on my other guesses. Now, after all this deduction someone will show me a full size model and it'll only be six inches long...
By AW1 Tim on December 11, 2008 9:05 PM
Now see,
Here I was thinking that this is the perfect room-clearing device. You just get your droid to toss one of these little RONCO flailing death machines in the door, and it does it's thing.
I could imagine the quizzical looks of those inside when this rolls in and just lays there. They draw closer, try to figure it out, then all of a sudden BLAMMO!
It leaps up and starts spewing death in every direction. Anyone not hit would probably sh!t themselves to death anyway, so it's a win-win situation.. :)
Heh..... I can haz a gross plz? I haz planz.....
By Josh on December 12, 2008 2:04 AM
Haha yeah, my friend said the EXACT same thing when I showed him the video!
By Paul in BarneyFrankistan on December 12, 2008 8:49 AM
John -
Remember, NASA is the National Association for Synthesizing Acronyms!
Neither Raytheon nor L-M, but I worked on another aspect of NMD about ten years ago - spent lots of time commuting between DC and Falcon AFB.
By Grimmy on December 12, 2008 10:05 PM
Don't know about the techy stuffs, but the cage it's in does imply that the gizmo has rage/twitch control issues.
Just listen to that thing spit and hiss. Needs therapy for sure and for certain.
By Silver on December 13, 2008 12:59 AM
If they find an efficient fuel source for this thing, we're doomed. Especially if Colossus gets control of them.
By BillT on December 13, 2008 2:06 AM
It hovers, makes a gawdawful racket, and spits chemically-propelled kinetic-kill projectiles in seemingly random directions in seemingly random sequence.
By Rod Thorsen on December 13, 2008 2:16 AM
BillT, don't you fly one of these?
By Grimmy on December 13, 2008 2:48 AM
Serious question:
What happened to the program that was using genetically enhanced space monkeys that threw hand-fulls of hyper velocity poop pellets at missiles?
That's a program I could get behind. Way behind.
PS. Don't blame the hyphen on me. Spell checker done it.
Weeeeeeeell, it looked like me going into a couple of hot LZs, and the faw-down-and-roll-over at the end was kind of familiar...
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Growing up in the suburbs of New York, 9/11 has always been an important day for me, my friends, and my family. For my young kid readers who aren't familiar with why this date is significant, on September 11, 2001, four planes were hijacked by terrorists and flown directly into the Twin Towers in New York City, the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. and a field in Pennsylvania, killing thousands of people. The United States and especially the area surrounding the Big Apple was devastated. Professional baseball games in New York City were cancelled after the attack, but even when they resumed, it was hard to forget the events that people had just witnessed. One ballplayer needed to step up and bring the nation together. That player would turn out to be 2016 Baseball Hall of Fame inductee, Mike Piazza.
Mike Piazza struck fear into any pitcher he faced throughout his 16-year career from 1992-2007 with the Dodgers, Marlins, Mets, Padres, and A's. The 62nd-round pick by LA became a perennial All Star, with 10 Silver Slugger Awards, 427 career home runs, a .308 lifetime batting average, and a .545 slugging percentage. Arguably the best hitting catcher of all time, Piazza became a fan favorite in the Mets organization, thanks to him being one of the driving forces in the Mets' 2000 National League pennant run, and he was still playing his home games in Shea Stadium when the terrorist attacks on 9/11/01 occurred.
Ten days after those attacks, baseball resumed with a game at Shea Stadium, pitting the Mets against the Atlanta Braves on an emotional night for the entire USA. Atlanta was leading 2-1 entering the bottom of the eighth, when Piazza stepped up to bat with one out and pinch-runner Desi Relaford at first base. At the second pitch he saw from Braves reliever Steve Karsay, Piazza crushed the ball into deep left-center field for a two-run, go-ahead home run! Click here to see the home run. All of New York and the United States rejoiced as the Mets, on the back of the Piazza homer, won the game, 3-2.
Congratulations, Mike Piazza, on your ticket to Cooperstown. You had a wonderful career, but to be honest, you could have had that one at-bat against the Braves and still made it into the Hall. That's how huge that shot was for baseball and the United States. Thanks for reading this post and I hope you enjoyed it. Check back soon for more of "all the buzz on what wuzz."
A Snow-y Savior in San Francisco 1/23/16
In honor of Snowzilla 2016, let's discuss one of the wackiest moments in World Series history. The moment doesn't have to do with snow, but it does have to do with J.T. Snow. You may not know who J.T. Snow is, but he was a solid player for 16 seasons in the 1990s and 2000s, but perhaps his most famous moment in baseball came when he wasn't even at the plate.
The Angels were playing in San Francisco against the Giants in Game Five of the 2002 World Series. Entering the bottom of the seventh inning, San Fran was up, 8-4. With two runners on, one out, and reliever Ben Weber on the mound for the Angels, Kenny Lofton stepped to the plate. On a 2-1 count, Lofton crushed a pitch to deep right center field for an eventual triple. J.T. Snow scored first as Lofton continued to sprint across the bases.
Meanwhile, Giants' manager Dusty Baker's three-year-old son and Giants' bat boy, Darren, went to get Lofton's bat, but didn't realize that Giants' third baseman David Bell was still running hard towards home from second base, trying to score. Snow, however, did realize that and, as soon as he touched home plate, grabbed the young and tiny Darren and swooped him out of Bell's way, avoiding a collision that would have made Dusty Baker's family not too happy. Everything turned out okay in the end, though, as the Giants won the game by a final score of 16-4 and took a 3-2 lead in the Series. However, the Angels came back and won their first World Series in franchise history in seven games.
Oh well, Giants fans. At least your bat boy was unhurt and Dusty Baker didn't get yelled at by his family. By the way, if you want to see the play I just described to you, click here. Anyway, thanks for reading this post and I hope you enjoyed it. Check back soon for more of "all the buzz on what wuzz."
The Original Griffey 1/15/16
Ken Griffey, Jr. is going to the Hall of Fame! But wait, who's Ken Griffey, Sr.? He may be overshadowed by his son, but George Kenneth Griffey, Sr. was a great hitter. During his 19-year career from 1973-1991 with the Reds, Yankees, Braves, and Mariners, Griffey collected 2,143 base hits, 152 home runs, and 859 RBIs. The three-time All Star outfielder was a driving force for Cincinnati's Big Red Machine throughout the 1970s. He was part of their two World Series championships in 1975 and 1976 after having two fine regular seasons. Combined, Griffey, Sr. batted .322 with 330 hits in those two Reds championship years. He batted over .300 in five other seasons besides the aforementioned ones and scored over 100 times in 1976 and 1977.
Griffey, Sr. was by far the best Griffey in baseball history until his son hit 600+ home runs en route to the Hall of Fame. But there is one moment that links the two together that is absolutely magical. On September 14, 1990, the Mariners were playing the Angels in Los Angeles. Ken Griffey, Sr. and Jr. were batting in the two and three spots in the Mariners' lineup. In the top of the first inning, after a Harold Reynolds walk, Senior came up and hit a home run to make the score 2-0. Then, Junior hit a home run! It was and still is the only time that a father and son duo hit back-to-back home runs in baseball history.
So even though Junior is going to Cooperstown, Senior still had a great career and got to enjoy some of it as his son's teammate. Thanks for reading this post and I hope you enjoyed it. Check back soon for more of "all the buzz on what wuzz."
How Well Do You Know the MLB World Series Winners? 1/10/16
So I recently got into Sporcle, a website with tons of quizzes on lots of different topics. Being myself, I've been hooked on the baseball quizzes. The one baseball quiz that I have done consistently well on is the one where you have to write down every single World Series winner. My record for completing this quiz is three minutes and 21 seconds.
So why am I telling you this? Well, it's very simple: I challenge you to beat my record. Click right here to do the quiz and make sure to send me your high score either by tweeting me @BaseballwMatt or by commenting in the comments section below. I believe in you! You can beat my score! You just have to try hard enough!
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If I Had A Hall of Fame Ballot 2016 1/4/16
Hall of Fame voting is this Wednesday for the Class of 2016! I'm so pumped to see who's going to get in, who's going to barely miss the cut, and who surprisingly won't make it. In honor of Hall of Fame voting season, here are the players who I think should get into the Hall in 2016 in their first year of eligibility:
Player One: Ken Griffey, Jr.
Why? He was a member of the All-Century team of the 1900s and only played for just a single decade (the 90's) in the 100-year span. The 13-time All Star and 1997 AL MVP's 630 career home runs and 1,836 RBIs rank sixth and 15th all time, respectively.
Player Two: Trevor Hoffman
Why? It's very simple: the seven-time All Star and two-time saves leader is one of only two pitchers in baseball history with over 600 saves (601 to be exact). That 2.87 career ERA isn't too shabby, either. He also helped the Padres get to the franchise's second World Series in its history in 1998 by saving a whopping 53 games with an ERA of 1.48. [Bonus from Matt: If Hoffman gets in, he will be my 16th HOF'er interview. Here's the interview I did of Hoffman in 2013.]
Player Three: Billy Wagner
Why? He's no Trevor Hoffman, but the seven-time All Star has a great case for the Hall of Fame in 2016. He saved 422 games during his career while posting an ERA of 2.31. Oh, and those 422 saves rank fifth all time.
Just to clear things up, Griffey, Hoffman, and Wagner are not the only players I think deserve to be in the Hall. I also think that Mike Piazza, Jeff Bagwell, Edgar Martinez, Alan Trammell, Jeff Kent, Tim Raines, and Fred McGriff belong in Cooperstown. Anyway, do you agree with my opinions? Leave your thoughts in the comment section. Thanks for reading this post and I hope you enjoyed it. Check back soon for more of "all the buzz on what wuzz."
Three Wins in Three Cities? Which Team Did That? 1/1/16
Two posts ago, I asked you the following questions: There's only one baseball team to win a World Series while playing in three different cities. What was the team and in which cities did they play their home games in which years? For those who answered each question correct, good job! If you didn't, here are the answers.
The Atlanta Braves have won three World Series in franchise history and won each of them while playing their home games in different cities! How funny is that? Their first championship came in 1914 against the juggernaut Boston Red Sox, who already had won two of the first ten Fall Classics up to the '14 season. On the back of a 94-59 record, the Boston Braves took care of the Sox in a four-game sweep.
The next Braves championship came in 1957, while playing their home games in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The Milwaukee Braves had a great team which included Hall of Famers Warren Spahn, Eddie Mathews, Red Schoendienst, and Hank Aaron. They took down the Mickey Mantle-led New York Yankees in a heated seven-game series.
The third and most recent Braves World Series win was as the Atlanta Braves in 1995. The '90s Braves made it to five World Series during the decade, but won it all only in '95. With the help of a pitching staff that included Hall of Famers Greg Maddux, John Smoltz, and Tom Glavine, Atlanta took down the powerful Cleveland Indians in six games.
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For decades, recreational boats and commercial ships alike have used a variety of antifouling paint products to prevent marine growths from adhering to vessel hulls. Paints formulated with cuprous oxide and other similar copper compounds come in two basic forms: ablative paint, which is designed to wear off and constantly expose fresh layers of biocide, leaching copper into the environment in the process, and non-ablative paint, which doesn't physically erode but also leaches copper into the water in order to work. How much so? Estimates suggest a 30ft sailboat will leach about two pounds of copper into the water each year, and that can lead to trouble when boats are found in concentrated environments like marinas, where copper levels can quickly build up to the point where they exceed toxicity standards.
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Unterseeboot 74 ou U-74 a été le nom de plusieurs sous-marins allemands ou U-boot durant la Première et la Seconde Guerre mondiale:
L'Unterseeboot 74, de type UE I, sous-marin de la Kaiserliche Marine, a été lancé en 1915 durant la Première Guerre mondiale et qui a été coulé le .
Durant la première Guerre mondiale, l'Allemagne a possédé deux autres sous-marins avec un nom similaire:
UB-74, un sous-marin de type UB III, lancé en 1917 et qui a été coulé le .
UC-74, un sous-marin de type UC II, lancé en 1916 et qui a été interné à Barcelone le ; s'est rendu le ; démoli à Toulon en .
L'Unterseeboot 74, un sous-marin de type VII.B, a été lancé en 1940 et a participé à la deuxième bataille de l'Atlantique durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale et qui a été coulé le .

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Friends of the Festival Friday is Friday May 9th! Members See UNLIMITED FREE MOVIES Until 6pm!
Published May 1, 2014 Uncategorized Closed
Tags: ACTRESS, ART AND CRAFT, CLUB SANDWICH, EVERYBODY STREET, FAULTS, Friends of the Festival Friday, MOEBIUS, September, SHORTS: AVANT GARDE, SHORTS: CHARACTER STUDY, SHORTS: DOCUMENTARY, SHORTS: DRAMATIC, SHORTS: INTERNATIONAL, SHORTS: NARRATIVE, THE AUCTION, THE STRANGE LITTLE CAT, WATER LIKE STONE, WHITEY: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA V. JAMES J. BULGER, WILD CANARIES
SAVE THE DATE: Friends of the Festival Friday is coming up on Friday May 9th! This is the special day during our festival where current MFF members can see UNLIMITED FREE MOVIES before 6pm! Not a member? Click here to sign up today and take advantage of this amazing benefit AND get access to the amazing film programming and sneak preview opportunities that MFF provides year-round!
Sign up for a Friends of the Festival membership at any level and you will have access to Friends of the Festival Friday. To take advantage of Friends of the Festival Friday, just come to the Friends of the Festival table, located in the Box Office tent in our Tent Village (in the MICA lot on 131 W. North Avenue), on Friday, May 9th and check in with your name to pick up your Friends of the Festival card. Then just show this card at the theater when you arrive to gain free entry to any film you'd like to check out before 6pm.
WHAT FILMS CAN I SEE?
The following films will be screening during Friends of the Festival Friday (click here for the complete descriptions):
CLUB SANDWICH – Poignant drama, gentle comedy, and a hint of transgression mix brilliantly as we observe the coming of age of a 15-year-old teen vacationing with his single mother in a sleepy Mexican beachfront resort. From the director of Lake Tahoe and Duck Season.
MICA Brown Center
THE AUCTION – This poignant character study from Quebec follows a sheep farmer who's stayed true to the way of life he inherited from his father even as, one by one, his neighbors sell off their farms to developers. As he reaches old age, his two daughters come back into his life in ways that change him forever.
MICA Gateway Building
SHORTS: INTERNATIONAL – A cross-section of stellar short films from around the world.
MICA Lazarus Graduate Studio Center
MOEBIUS – South Korean maverick Kim Ki-duk returns with perhaps his most shocking and darkly humorous exploration yet of the connections between pleasure, penance, spirituality, and the human impulse for violence.
The WindUp Space
SHORTS: DRAMATIC – A stellar collection of dramatic short films!
UB Business Center
EVERYBODY STREET
EVERYBODY STREET – More than a dozen photographers (including Ricky Powell, Jamel Shabazz, Martha Cooper, and Boogie) are the subject of this visually rich documentary celebrating artists who have given us new ways to see both the streets of New York and the colorful characters that populate them.
WATER LIKE STONE – A documentary portrait of Leeville, Louisiana, a fishing village among the fastest-disappearing wetlands in the United States-and the unforgettable characters who call it home.
FAULTS – Ansel Roth is one of the world's leading experts on cults, and has built a career out of helping former members overcome brainwashing and reintegrate into society. He's also a broken man, joylessly slogging from hotel to hotel in a futile attempt to promote his poorly received second book to ever-dwindling crowds. So when he's approached by a distraught couple seeking his help in rescuing their daughter from a new and powerful cult family, Ansel's anything but enthusiastic-until they put a large sum of money on the table. From Riley Stearns, director of MFF 2013's Opening Night short The Cub, comes a brilliant film that confidently moves between dark comedy, thriller, serious drama.
SEPTEMBER – After a seemingly solitary woman's beloved dog passes away, she becomes overwhelmed by her loneliness. In her search to ease the pain of losing her best friend, she unexpectedly connects with a sympathetic family that lives in her neighborhood. This expertly crafted and warmly human film from Greek director Penny Panayotopoulou signals her triumphant return after a decade-plus hiatus from filmmaking.
ACTRESS – Brandy Burre had a recurring role on HBO's The Wire before giving up her career to start a family. When she decides to reclaim her life as an actor years later, the domestic world she's carefully created crumbles around her. The latest non-fiction film from the director of Fake It So Real (MFF 2011).
UB Langsdale Auditorium
SHORTS: DOCUMENTARY – The best in short form documentary film from across the continent!
SHORTS: CHARACTER STUDY – An unbelievable array of characters populate these brilliant, artful short films filled variously with wry humor, wit, warmth, satire and a penetrating insight into human nature.
SHORTS: NARRATIVE – A cross-section of stellar narrative short films.
ART AND CRAFT – For several decades, gifted and incredibly prolific forger Mark Landis compulsively created impeccable copies of works by a variety of major artists, donating them to institutions across the country and landing pieces on many of their walls. Art and Craft brings us into the cluttered and insular life of an unforgettable character just as he finds his foil in an equally obsessive art registrar.
WHITEY: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA V. JAMES J. BULGER – This documentary dissects legend from fact in investigating the story of Boston gangster James "Whitey" Bulger, uncovering a web of corruption in the process. From the director of Crude and co-director of Brother's Keeper, Some Kind of Monster, and the Paradise Lost trilogy.
WILD CANARIES – From the director of 2010's Gabi on the Roof in July comes this captivating blend of comedy, romance, and mystery set in contemporary Brooklyn. The all-star indie cast includes Levine alongside Sophia Takal, Alia Shawkat, Annie Parisse, Jason Ritter, and Kevin Corrigan.
THE STRANGE LITTLE CAT – This strikingly original film builds on Robert Bresson's ideas of space and sound to create a moving-image sculpture inside a Berlin apartment during a family gathering. Notes of gentleness and tension merge to form a strange visual symphony.
SHORTS: AVANT-GARDE – Films that explore the boundaries of cinematic form and content.


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Issue Date: Summer, 2005
Editor: John Barton
Number of contributors: 19
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The Malahat's Long Poem Prize, held in alternating years, continues to attract the very best work of poets who appreciate the chance to "go long" in order to fully explore their creative vision. Two awards are presented in this category; in the Summer 2005 issue the honours were shared by Margo Button and Harold Rhenisch. Button's poem, "Blue Dahlias," (also that year's Gold poetry winner at the National Magazine Awards) is set out in forty numbered parts, each consisting of five ghazal-like couplets. The poem is a slow and measured meditation on (among many things) the establishment of a garden, its demands, its rewards, and its heartbreaking constant reminders that nature cannot ever be truly tamed. The quiet grief from the memory of a son's suicide intrudes upon an otherwise tranquil setting like "blood grass in the shade." This is an assured and elegant work.
Co-winner Harold Rhenisch's "Abandon," (a National Magazine Award honourable mention) employs free-form lines and scattershot references in a restless tribute to generations of pioneers, adventurers, and seekers of all kinds. At times playful, at times deadly serious, the poet employs the touchstones of places (primarily in British Columbia) where a connection to the land and its forbears has been felt. These memories are the lightning strikes that set off little wildfires of philosophical musings and, ultimately, a theory of poetics that encompasses a wide-ranging vision and intelligence. Other poets in this remarkable issue include Jan Conn, Mike White, Nick Thran, and Sean Horlor.
Clea Young's story, "Split," looks at how a difference of opinion about babies can be a divisive one, and K. Alexander Cooper's " Border Crossing" is a dark, almost cinematic, glimpse of the desperate world of refugees and casual violence that could be right out of a Conrad novel. The excellent book reviews include a thoughtful appraisal by Brian Bartlett of the anthology, Breathing Fire 2: Canada's New Poets, edited by Lorna Crozier and Patrick Lane.
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Cisco's NDS: The Future Of TV Is TV - All Wall And All You...
NDS, the TV technology firm Cisco recently bought for $5 billion, was in town for a couple of days this week, ensconced in the W hotel and showing off its vision of TV's future, which essentially means that this could be a preview of "Cisco TV."
It was good to catch up with fellow Brits Nigel Smith, chief marketing officer and Nick Thexton, chief technology officer at NDS. It's their job to figure out how people will be using their TVs so that NDS can provide the technologies that cable TV companies will need to service future subscribers.
Here's my take and my notes from the demo:
The NDS team were on the third floor of The W hotel in downtown San Francisco, inside a cavernous meeting room, within which they had built an enclosed "living room" filled with the type of electronics and displays that would likely be found in most homes three to four years from now.
Moving from the expanse of the outer space and into the relatively small living room felt confining and claustrophobic at first, and the massive screen, taking up almost the entire wall in front of the sofa -- wasn't helping matters. But the clarity of the display and the ability to quickly resize the video feeds into small or super-large, helped open up the room. It was surprising how quickly I got used to a massive screen so close to my eyes.
Messrs. Smith and Thexton believe that most homes will have racks of big screen, borderless LCD displays, tiled across an entire wall. Here are some other predictions:
- Not all content will be viewed at maximum size, morning TV news, for example, would be viewed in a much smaller area.
- There would be space on the TV Wall for a digital clock, calendar, post-its, etc., (See below.)
- Prime time content such as 'American Idol' would have metadata that could trigger tags that change view area size at key places, expanding during dramatic moments. The meta tags would also be used to trigger advertising and other forms of commercial services.
- The meta tags would be controlled by the TV show producer. (This takes advertising control away from the cable operators, will this be a problem?)
- There will be a bright future for 4K, the super HD technology developed for the movie recording industry. The demo I saw was excellent.
- Our future TVs will not be controlled through touch, or by talking, or by gestures in the air. The controls will be in the remote control tablet. Today's TV remote is controlled by micro-gestures, a tiny press of the channel button. It makes no sense to replace that with grand gestures, arm waving , etc., Good point.
- The remote control is an iPad or any touch screen tablet. The interface offers easy, slider based controls, and it also doubles as the 'second screen' allowing web browsing, and for novel forms of TV show interactions.
- The interface NDS has developed runs on Chrome. Even though Google is becoming a competitor in this space, the relationship is defined as 'co-opetition' and the two companies have exchanged some TV related technologies.
- The TV content will be made personal through learning what viewers watch.
- Of course, Twitter comments, Facebook updates, etc can be seen in off-center viewing spaces.
- 22 speaker audio systems will be able to direct audio to listeners, cutting down on room noise.
- Wall TVs could bring the family back around the same screen again, which is something that I miss.
- Various technologies for engaging with adverts, etc., (I've never met anyone that wants to engage with an advertisement but their market research is better than mine.)
- Every year they tease me about my being a 'cord-cutter' and it's true, I don't have a cable TV bill to pay and I haven't paid one in years. But it wasn't me that cut the cord, it was Comcast and I saw them do it, something to do with my not paying the bill.
I don't miss Comcast. I now watch all my TV content through an old MacBook Pro sans display, attached via HDMI to my flatscreen TV; and a $10 Radio Shack antenna plucks dozens of crystal clear HD channels out of thin air (better quality than the lossy video compression of cable TV).
NDS technologies are deeply embedded within the TV distribution infrastructure and this makes it a key player in the "TV War" that's brewing, the battle for the massive mountain of TV ad dollars that's motivating a big chunk of the tech sector.
NDS is very focused on the incumbents, the huge cable and telco firms that provide cable TV to the masses. This is precisely the industry that many Silicon Valley tech firms such as Google, Apple, and many others, want to disrupt with their own networks.
Cisco is also very focused on incumbents -- cable and telco firms are huge customers. Clearly, there's a deep split forming in Silicon Valley between the tech companies that want the TV industry disrupted and those that want to keep them in business. Will it become a battle that's won by the best technologies? ...or best business models?
(Please see my up coming Foremski's Take analysis of Silicon Valley's TV opportunities.)


Nicholas Cole has worked in the Communications Industry for over 15 years in various roles in Professional Services and Consulting. Prior to MATRIXX, Nicholas worked for Portal Software (acquired by Oracle) for over 10 years delivering projects from pre-sales activities right through to production deployment as Technical Account Manager and Solution Architect. In Oracle he worked with several Tier 1 operators as Enterprise Architect covering Oracle's extensive communications software application footprint. As lead Architect Nicholas worked on Oracle Communications Global Business Unit's largest mobile operator BSS/OSS transformation programme at the time. Nicholas started his career in software with Sybase as Technical Consultant involved with customers in both the Finance and Communications industry. He holds a MA Joint Honours in Computing Science and Management Studies from the University of Aberdeen.


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End of Year Report
Written by JTMATPosted on 20/07/2018 20/07/2018
For this, my final, blog of 2017/18 I would like to do two things: update readers about the progress we've made as a Trust this academic year, and share with you my thoughts as we move into the summer break.
This year has seen the Trust grow, both in terms of its breath and its depth. We have seen four primary schools join the Trust this academic year: Rykneld Primary (in November 2017), Shobnall Primary (June 2018), Winshill Village Primary and The Mosley Academy (both July 2018). In addition, we've seen the development of John Taylor Free School from a shell of a site at the start of the academic year into an over-subscribed, fully-staffed school with a character and ethos that belies its youthful status.
2018/19 promises further growth – with three local primaries set to join us before the end of the calendar year, and the development of a further free school, this time a primary school with a nursery, at Fradley Park.
But beyond breadth, our Trust grows deeper – as collaborations and networks develop. We've seen our safeguarding leads meet regularly, our business managers, our clerks to governing bodies, our SENCOs. I'm privileged to chair our Executive Group of Heads and other senior colleagues, and was so proud to see over 70 governor colleagues attend our annual governance conference only last week.
Our Trust is built on quality, and generosity. In times when resources can be in scarce supply, knowing that there are great teachers, leaders, support and administrative staff, governors and Trust directors, who work hard, work well, and work together – within and across our schools – is hugely rewarding and deeply humbling. As we move into the summer break, I want to thank them all for their support. It is they who move our Trust ever-closer to our vision of providing the absolute best for the children, families and communities we serve.
My final note is to those children. I was stirred during the recent World Cup, amidst all the excitement and enthusiasm, by this image:
The photograph (above) is of Kylian Mbappe, one of the great stars of the cup-winning French team and winner of the award for the best young player of the tournament, aged 14 in his bedroom. As you can see, it is adorned with posters of his idol – Cristiano Ronaldo.
Five years later, Mbappe is a World Cup winner, and the first teenager to score a goal in a World Cup Final since Pele (see below).
Back in his home district of Bondy, just 10km from the Stade de France, but a world away in terms of its levels of disadvantage, Mbappe has donated his World Cup winnings to a charity that develops sporting opportunities for young and disabled people in the area. There is a French mountaineering expression (that I hadn't heard until recently) of the "premiers de cordee" – the one in front of us who brings us all to the top. This is a role that Mbappe has seen fit to undertake – much to his credit.
It's a great message to close the year on for our children: First, dreams really can come true for those with the talent, ability to learn, attitude and support. Second, that our responsibility to help others achieve their dreams should come as an unquestionable consequence of the fulfilment of our own. It chimes with our own vision: "We believe in the power of education to improve lives – and the world."
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Full site editing is coming in WordPress 5.8
By Stuart Melling May 25, 2021
It's been quite some time since the contentious Gutenberg editor landed in WordPress, and from where I'm sat (as both someone who runs sites and helps others) the new editor looks to have been a roaring success. For sure there were early teething issues around legacy sites adapting, but I can say first hand from working day in, day out with hosting customers that the default Gutenberg interface is far more intuitive for new users than the classic editor ever was. From a personal perspective of running multiple websites with a fairly demanding content schedule, the new tools help create and deploy content much faster too.
So what's next? Well, even more controversy in the WP world. The next major WordPress core update is to version 5.8, and it's currently slated for a July 2021 release. With it comes a range of new features, but the biggest of all is a first look at full site editing (FSE). FSE refers to being able to use the Gutenberg block system to go beyond post and page layout changes. The ultimate goal of FSE is to put the Gutenberg blocks system to work for controlling a whole website. At least that's the end goal – WordPress 5.8's implementation looks to be something of a halfway house for now.
The update was recently confirmed by the core development team but it's not quite the final all-encompassing site editor some had hoped for. WP Tavern's Justin Tadlock confirmed what the summer release will change in practical terms for users:
In WordPress 5.8, users should gain access to the template editor. On the page-editing screen, it allows users to switch out of content-editing mode. From there, they can work on the overall template. Essentially, for this release, it would serve as a landing page builder.
One other feature that users should look forward to is the pattern directory. While it is not ready for integration into the WordPress admin UI, it does not need to be. Users will be able to copy patterns from the directory and paste them directly into their editor. In time, it should become a part of the built-in experience.
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Q: Too many whitespaces when outputting blade variables? A bit of background: I'm trying to create user-editable pages in a blog-style web application. The application consists of multiple pages worth of content included into one page; dynamically generated from the back-end and laid out one under the other.
Note: I am a Laravel newbie.
The content of the pages is kept in the DB; one DB record = page title + content. I retrieve all records and send them to the template:
class ContentController extends Controller {
    var $current_content;
    public function __construct() {
        $this->current_content = Content::all();
    }

    public function serveContent() {
        return View::make('home')->with('pages', $this->current_content);
    }
}

Over in the template I iterate through the object with the freshly retrieved data and display the contents for each page:
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        <input hidden type="button" class="edit-btn" value="Edit {{ $page->page }} section"/>

@endforeach

(The textarea is for the edit mode, it contains the same content as above; except this time it will be sent back to the DB).
The problem is that when outputting the variable contents with {{ $page->content }}, an absurd amount of whitespaces seem to be introduced.
Here's how the section looks in the browser: http://prntscr.com/bzeu4l
And here's what happens behind the scenes: http://prntscr.com/bzets2
Normally it would be completely and utterly irrelevant to me since the content is displayed properly. But when I unhide the textarea, it's clear that it receives the exact same data, with whitespaces: http://prntscr.com/bzeum8
This is a big problem because I don't want the DB values to be overwritten with spaces.
I could work around this by using regex and stripping what has more than 2 spaces when I save the data. But this feels like a workaround, not a solution.
Does anyone know an elegant solution to this? Since I'm a Laravel newbie, it's very possible that I'm missing something obvious about displaying variable values in Blade.
Thanks in advance.
PS: If anybody has any suggestions about my approach / if my approach with the textarea is flawed, I warmly welcome criticism.
Also, I am terribly sorry for the vague layout of the page, it's still in a very incipient stage. In case it's not evident, 'testhomecontent' and 'testservices' are practically $page[0]->content and $page[1]->content.

A: In blade when all spaces between the contents are preserved. So, to get rid of spaces change your following code

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To this:
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