$1 million over two years for research and development associated with sand retention to reduce reliance on sand pumping and sand carting in the longer term.
$1 million for seagrass meadow restoration with the aim of rebuilding large seagrass meadows off the metropolitan coastline.
$1 million for the establishment and initial implementation of a Gulf St Vincent wetlands plan to map new wetlands and stormwater harvesting schemes to prevent damaging run-off filled with sediment and pollutants from entering the sea.
$1.2 million to establish three artificial reefs, which will have environmental and economic benefits, including use as sand retention devices.
What does this mean in reality? Well the $5.2 million for SA is small in comparison to the NSW funding initiatives but is a promising start to addressing some of SA's coastal issues.
The increased sand replenishment funding for two years will provide a 'once off' increase in the amount of sand on metropolitan beaches but the amount of sand and its effectiveness will rely on expert advice as to where the sand is sourced and the location of the beach nourishment. It is uncertain what will happen beyond the first two years of increased funding? It would be good to see a sustainable sand replenishment program based on projected beach nourishment calculations for future needs.
The R&D funding to develop sand retention strategies reflects the Marshall Government's dissatisfaction with the current Metropolitan Living Beach Strategy despite the detailed input of coastal engineering research consultancies over the last 35 years. Another review could be useful but only if it genuinely 'value-adds' to the previous studies with their numerous options and costings for sand replenishment and sand retention.
The funding for a wetlands plan seems like a sensible idea as the goal is to work towards reducing the amount of pollutants and sediment reaching Gulf St Vincent. Similarly the $1 million funding for seagrass meadow restoration will be a welcome boost to the existing restoration project.
However, the $1.2 million dollar fund to establish three artificial reefs looks like it is under-funded unless this is purely for feasibility studies. In comparison the Semaphore offshore breakwater, which started as semi-submerged reef structure ended up costing around $2 million.
So overall there are positive signs that the Marshall government recognizes the need for a 'short-term' financial boost to coastal management. The hope is that this can then be translated into a sustainable 'long-term' resourcing strategy with greater certainty for coastal management funding into the future.


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US Not Alone in Restricting Asylum Eligibility
by Ramon Taylor | posted in: News, Refugee Crisis America	|
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers reopen the border gate of the Gateway International Bridge that connects downtown Matamoros, Mexico with Brownsville, Texas, Oct. 10, 2019.
Victoria Macchi and Patsy Widakuswara contributed to this report.
NEW YORK – U.S. President Donald Trump's effort to dramatically curtail claims for asylum in the United States — cheered by the administration's supporters and condemned by immigration rights advocates — is unprecedented on America's southern border but not unique on the world stage.
Europe, in particular, has imposed restrictive rules for asylum-seekers that predate this year's flurry of activity in the United States.
Recent months have brought sweeping changes in how the U.S. handles asylum claims at the border. Those changes are expected to preclude asylum for the vast majority who seek it.
Washington has forged pacts with Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador, designating them as asylum destinations where claims are to be filed before protection is sought in the U.S. The accords work hand-in-hand with a Trump administration policy, temporarily greenlighted by the U.S. Supreme Court, stipulating that non-Mexicans must seek asylum in a third country they transited on route to the U.S. border before filing a claim in the U.S.
The result, according to critics, is a de facto asylum ban that forces people to file claims in some of the most impoverished and violent nations in the Americas.
"No one is seeking protection in countries from which everyone is fleeing," said Helena Olea, an international human rights lawyer, and Alianza Americas human rights adviser.
President Donald Trump addresses a campaign rally, Oct. 10, 2019, in Minneapolis.
For his part, Trump on Thursday proudly touted his immigration agenda at a political rally in Minnesota, saying, "My administration is taking historic action to secure the border. We have reduced illegal border crossings by over 60% since May, and we are building the wall [between the United States and Mexico] faster than anyone ever anticipated it could be built."
For all the attention the White House's border initiatives have drawn, the United States is not alone in forging regional asylum deals in which nations share responsibility for processing claims filed by people fleeing persecution, conflict, violence, or human rights violations.
The "safe third" model
It has been 29 years since the European Union adopted its first "safe third country" asylum initiative, known as the Dublin Regulation. In its present-day form, any migrant who requests asylum at an E.U. country's borders, having entered from another E.U. country (or Norway or Switzerland), is refused entry.
The procedure was intended to share the burden of asylum-seekers among nations party to the 1951 Refugee Convention and the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).
As the Syrian refugee crisis has worn on, leaders representing some of the involved nations have grown weary of burden-sharing responsibilities. Denmark, a member of the E.U., declined to participate in the Malta Agreement, a stop-gap effort to expedite screenings and redistribute migrants rescued in the Mediterranean Sea. The pact was signed by Finland, France, Germany, Italy, and Malta in September.
On Oct. 4, Italy signed a decree designating 13 non-E.U. countries across West Africa and Eastern Europe as "safe countries of origin." The move gave Italy greater discretion to examine and reject asylum claims from those countries.
The U.S., meanwhile, has had a "safe third country" agreement in place since 2004 — with its northern neighbor, Canada. Like its recently signed agreements with Central American countries, the U.S.-Canada pact requires asylum-seekers who transit through either country to seek protection there first, regardless of their preference for an ultimate destination.
Economic migrants
In its interim final rule — the basis for the current U.S. asylum ban — the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) questioned whether some "aliens genuinely fear persecution or torture, or are simply economic migrants seeking to exploit our overburdened immigration system."
Trump has long said that U.S. immigration law contains loopholes for economic migrants.
That sentiment, too, has reverberated among right-wing voters in Europe opposed to accepting asylum-seekers in their countries. In January, Italy's then-Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini said his country had taken in "too many fake refugees."
Some see a more complicated dynamic — "mixed flows" of people fleeing both violence and economic distress — at a time of heightened migration overall.
"In the U.S. now, and Europe during their crisis, the entire human rights apparatuses were never designed to actually deal with that level of people," said Cristobal Ramón, immigration project senior policy analyst at the Bipartisan Policy Center. "[They] crumbled under the weight of all this."
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) New York director, Ninette Kelley, says the agency has been working on a "holistic approach" with partners in the Central American region to address asylum capacity.
"We need to invest in trying to help the governments get control of their countries and impose law and security in accordance with human rights principles and, at the same time, reinforce asylum systems along routes so that we don't see this mass exodus in an unmanageable way for any country," said Kelly.
Acting Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kevin McAleenan reacts while protesters interrupt his remarks at the Migration Policy Institute annual Immigration Law and Policy Conference in Washington, Oct. 7, 2019.
Funding asylum pacts
According to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, planned efforts to increase regional asylum capacity include $47 million in aid to Guatemala through the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
"The goal is to build the shared capacity to extend asylum protections in partner countries in the region and ensure that those who need protection from persecution for political, racial, religious, or social group membership can seek them as close to home as possible, without putting themselves or their family in the hands of dangerous smugglers," Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan wrote in prepared remarks for an immigration policy conference that was interrupted by protesters.
According to UNHCR's 2018 Global Trends Report, 3.5 million people were awaiting decisions on their asylum applications by the end of 2018, while an additional 1.7 million had submitted new claims.
The U.S. was the world's largest recipient of new individual applications (254,300). Peru, with a population one-tenth the size of the U.S., received 192,500 claims, followed by Germany (161,900), France (114,500), and Turkey (83,800), according to UNHCR.
A policeman observes the scene as immigrants who arrived aboard a cargo ship from Turkey queue for meals in a basketball arena where they have been given temporary shelter in the town of Ierapetra, Crete, Nov. 28, 2014.
In Turkey — where 1 in 22 people is a refugee — a March 2016 deal with the European Union determined that Syrian refugees on the Greek Islands could be returned to Turkey. In exchange, Europe would accept Syrian asylum-seekers already in Turkey.
Like the U.S.-Central American pacts, human rights activists have decried the E.U.-Turkey deal. Human Rights Watch reported in July that Turkish officials have been forcibly returning Syrian asylum-seekers to Syria, under the pretense of voluntary return.
The Bipartisan Policy Center's Ramón says the U.S. should learn from the experiences of other nations that have sought to redirect flows of asylum-seekers.
"If there isn't any capacity [in Central American nations], they [asylum-seekers] will likely just look at the situation, and say, 'You know what? I'm not being processed. I'm going to try to go back to the United States,' or in some cases, [they] may go back home," Ramón said.
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CenDel & DCF Award $235K to Kent County Nonprofits
· Monday, November 5th, 2018
The CenDel Foundation and the Delaware Community Foundation have distributed $235,000 in grants to nonprofits focused on emergency housing, homelessness, hunger and health care. The grants were distributed from the Benjamin Potter Charity Trust, a fund administered by CenDel and the Delaware Community Foundation. Grants were distributed to nine organizations in November. The grant amounts ranged from $15,000 to $40,000.
The 2018 recipients included the Boys & Girls Clubs of Delaware, Cancer Support Community of Delaware, Catholic Charities, Communities in Schools, Delaware Breast Cancer Coalition, Food Bank of Delaware, Milford Housing Development Corporation, NCALL Research and Westside Healthcare.
The funding will be used by the recipients to help feed, house, and provide health and educational services to those in need in central Delaware. The largest grant, totaling $40,000, was awarded to the Boys and Girls Club. The money will be used to provide weekend meals to children and to expand the food pantries at three Kent County Boys and Girls Club sites.
According to John Wellons, President and CEO of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Delaware, "The money will allow us to expand our food bag program for kids to Kent County. Through a partnership with the Harry K. Foundation, we'll be able to offer food bags to kids so they have a little extra on their stomachs during the weekend. Food insecurity is such a huge issue in Delaware.
The Delaware Breast Cancer Coalition also received a $30,000 grant that will assist cancer patients with out-of-pocket medical costs, rent and transportation. According to Lois Wilkinson of the Delaware Breast Cancer Coalition, "We really appreciate receiving this grant. I just can't tell you how many letters and thank yous we receive from those we help. They are overwhelmed from their diagnosis and are grateful for whatever we can do. From helping them pay for their heat or electric, it makes a big difference."
The Potter Trust, established by Colonel Benjamin Potter in 1843 is one of the oldest trusts in the nation and has helped the economically underprivileged in Kent County for 175 years.
Photo: Recipients of the CenDel and Delaware Community Foundation grants included the Boys & Girls Clubs of Delaware, Cancer Support Community of Delaware, Catholic Charities, Communities in Schools, Delaware Breast Cancer Coalition, Food Bank of Delaware, Milford Housing Development Corporation, NCALL Research and Westside Healthcare.
$200K in grants available to nonprofits serving Kent County
· Friday, April 27th, 2018
Nonprofit organizations supporting the needy in Kent County are invited to apply for grants from the Potter Trust Grants Fund at the CenDel Foundation, a fund of the Delaware Community Foundation. The application deadline is June 15, 2018.
The mission of the Potter Charity Trust, created in 1843, is to aid the economically underprivileged in Kent County by supporting charitable organizations serving these individuals. The grant making committee has established the areas of focus that will be considered for funding:
Crisis/Emergency Assistance Funding for basic needs
Grants will support proposals for charitable organizations and activities involving programs that have a lasting, positive impact on Kent County. The committee will be looking for collaboration among nonprofits and/or collaboration with a state agency, or non-collaborative programs providing emergency financial assistance.
The committee will award approximately $200,000 in 2018 to qualified 501(c)3 nonprofit organizations that serve Kent County. Each grant request must be submitted on a POTTER CHARITY TRUST GRANTS FUND 2018 Grant Application Form, available online at delcf.org/grants. Applications must be submitted online by June 15, 2018.
All applicants will be notified of the committee's decision in writing by fall of 2018. For more information, please contact Tenish Gregory, (302) 724-7538 or Tenish@cendelfoundation.org.
About the CenDel Foundation
The CenDel Foundation, in partnership with the Delaware Community Foundation, is committed to helping generous people transform the community through charitable giving. For more information, please call 302.724.7538 or visit www.cendelfoundation.org.
$200K in Grants Available for Nonprofits Serving Kent County
· Thursday, April 13th, 2017
All applicants will be notified of the committee's decision in writing by September 15, 2017.
For more information, please contact Tenish Gregory, (302) 724-7538 or Tenish@cendelfoundation.org.
$20K in grants available to support the arts in Kent County
· Tuesday, January 24th, 2017
The Kent County Fund for the Arts (KCFA) is accepting applications from arts organizations, schools, clubs, and civic/community organizations for programs that help to foster growth of the arts in Kent County.
Applications are available at delcf.org/grants and must be postmarked by April 3.
KCFA will award more than $20,000 this year. The KCFA was created in 2008 through a generous contribution by Rosemary M. Twilley, in memory of Joshua M. Twilley, Esq., and with the support of members of the greater Kent County community, the Greater Dover Committee, and arts patrons across the state. The fund's assets are administered by the Kent County Fund for the Arts Advisory Board and managed by the CenDel Foundation, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization and component fund of the Delaware Community Foundation.
For more information, contact Tenish Gregory, tenish@cendelfoundation.org.
The CenDel Foundation works to improve the lives of all in Central Delaware through philanthropy. The foundation manages charitable funds for individuals, families, business and organizations and distributes income from the funds as grants to humanitarian, educational, health and cultural entities throughout Central Delaware. The CenDel Foundation is a fund of the Delaware Community Foundation and partners with the DCF in many aspects of its joint efforts to serve Central Delaware.
Kent County Nonprofits Receive $240K in Grants to Help Low-Income Residents
· Tuesday, November 15th, 2016
Low-income Kent County residents will have increased access to health care, emergency housing and home repairs, and more with the support of $240,000 in grants from the Benjamin Potter Trust Fund. Grants are made annually from this fund of the Delaware Community Foundation, with the help of a grants committee convened by the CenDel Foundation.
Grantees — BACK: Bruce Kelsey, Delaware Guidance; Christina Richter, Delaware Breast Cancer Coalition; Michael Rogers, Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance; Joe Myer, NCALL; Larry Haas, Food Bank of Delaware.
BACK: BJ Van Kavelaar & Gina Campo, Caring Hearts, Helping Hands; Lois Wilkinson, Delaware Breast Cancer Coalition; Valerie Miller, Milford Housing Development Corporation.
Not pictured: Jim Purcell, Communities in Schools of Delaware.
Caring Hearts Helping Hands, Inc. – $10,000: Caring Hearts Helping Hands, Inc. will provide support to low-income working families with food gift cards for the holidays.
Communities in Schools of Delaware, Inc. – $30,000: Communities in Schools of Delaware will partner with the Food Bank of Delaware, Goodwill, NCALL, Westside Health and several other local nonprofits to coordinate a continuum of care for students in need and their families.
Delaware Breast Cancer Coalition– $40,000: Delaware Breast Cancer Coalition. will provide immediate financial assistance to Kent County residents in need who are undergoing treatment for breast cancer. Bilingual applications are being created.
Delaware Guidance Services for Children and Youth, Inc. – $50,000: A Delaware Guidance Clinician will be located within with Nemours Pediatrics in Dover to provide coordinated care and ongoing therapy for low-income children, with an emphasis on early intervention.
Food Bank of Delaware– $30,000: The Food Bank will partner with Banneker and South Dover Elementary schools to operate the Backpack Program, which will provide backpacks filled with meals during weekends and school breaks for children with the greatest need.
Milford Housing Development Corporation (MHDC) – $40,000: MHDC will partner with Modern Maturity Center and Catholic Charities to provide free emergency home repairs to eliminate unexpected and immediate threats to life, health and safety for low-income homeowners.
National Council on Agricultural Life and Research Fund (NCALL) – $40,000: NCALL will partner with the Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance to provide a plan for crisis and emergency assistance for residents in the Restoring Central Dover plan area.


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LaFace Records was an American record label based in Atlanta, Georgia, that operated as a unit of Sony Music Entertainment from 2008 to 2011 and was historically a part of Bertelsmann Music Group from 1989 to 2004. It was most active and achieved its greatest commercial success during the 1990s, dealing largely in the field of urban music. It was originally distributed by its co-creator Arista Records from 1989 through 2001, after which it was shuttered and absorbed into Arista. In 2004, the label was rebooted, and it began operating through Jive Records until both were absorbed into RCA Records in 2011. Today, the label's back catalog and reissues are managed by Legacy Recordings.

Company history
LaFace was formed in 1989 as a joint venture between the producing duo Antonio "L.A." Reid & Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds, and Arista Records. The combined nicknames of the duo's successful production company inspired the name of the label.  LaFace went on to become a successful label throughout the 1990s, responsible for launching the recording careers of such popular acts as: TLC, Toni Braxton, Outkast, Pink, Usher, Goodie Mob and Donell Jones. Towards the end of the decade, LaFace produced fewer artists, while Babyface began to focus more on his own music career.  The label was acquired completely by Arista and BMG in 1999.  In 2001, L.A. Reid was appointed Chairman/CEO of Arista.  As a result of Reid's promotion, LaFace was dissolved as most of its prominent acts moved up to the main Arista label to continue to work under Reid.

In 1992, LaFace signed Georgia duo Outkast. After receiving a $15,000 advance from LaFace in 1993, Outkast started recording the album, which was executive produced by L.A. Reid and Babyface. Outkast's first album, Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik, was released April 26, 1994 and entered the top 20 on the Billboard top 200. The album went on to achieve Platinum status in America.

In 2004, after the corporate restructuring of the BMG labels, LaFace was reactivated as one-quarter of the newly reconstructed Zomba Music Group during the Sony BMG joint venture at the time. Most of its former roster, who had moved on to Arista, returned to the company upon its reactivation.  In 2011, LaFace (along with its previous Jive/Zomba distributor) was again shuttered, this time being absorbed into RCA Records.

Former artists
The following is a list of artists who have recorded for LaFace Records.

 1 Life 2 Live
 Az Yet
 B-Rock & The Bizz
 Toni Braxton
 The Braxtons
 Ciara
 Damian Dame
 Corey Glover
 Goodie Mob
 Jermaine Jackson
 Donell Jones
 Kenny Lattimore & Chante Moore
 Outkast
 Pink
 Pressha
 Tony Rich
 Sam Salter
 Shanice
 Society of Soul
 TLC
 T.I.
 Usher
 YoungBloodZ

In-house producers
 L.A. Reid
 Babyface
 Daryl Simmons
 Kayo
 Dallas Austin
 Organized Noize
 Tim Thomas & Ted Bishop

See also
 List of record labels
 Rosa Parks v. LaFace Records

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2011 disestablishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
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When the universe (or the California Department of Transportation) gives you a sign… Listen. Read. Interpret. Heed. And for goodness sake, embrace it.
Here's a great example of my favorite sign. It reads: fun ahead, next ___ miles. Doesn't matter if it's 3 or 300 filling in the blank, the twisties sign is always a good one. I welcome it with a joyful heart. Like Birthday candles for a 5 year old, it never gets old seeing it on the side of the road and every time is like the first time. I personally think its safe to say that "curves ahead" is exciting in ways you never grow out of.
Sometimes it is just that obvious when you're heading in the right direction.


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Culture Travel Australia Art Aboriginal
In 1770, a ship called The Endeavour made land in a lovely cove not yet called Botany Bay, observed by Gweagal men. Spears were waved on one side; shots fired on the other. An Aboriginal man was wounded. When the arrivals picked up the fleeing men's belongings, they found not weapons but fishing equipment. And so began the history of white Australia, soon to be spattered with such tragic communication failures like bloodstains on a beach.
Some of the artefacts retrieved by the first explorers found their way to the British Museum and are now on show in a landmark exhibition, Indigenous Australia: fragile, beautifully worked spearheads and painted shields that would have scotched the idea of ignorant savages scraping a living off indifferent land, for those who had eyes to see.
Today, 250 years after that first landing, Aboriginal art is still not widely understood by Westerners visually schooled in the Renaissance and Impressionism. In Melbourne, Den, an indigenous Queenslander, explains to me that for Aboriginal people, everything starts and ends with the land. He takes me through the beautiful Botanical Gardens, a dream of landscaped order amid what was wilderness in 1846 when they were planted. He shows me medicine plants and those with precious water in their roots, and tells me about the Dreamings, the founding stories of the Ancestors, the great beings whose actions created that land.
Each people has totemic Ancestors whose Dreamings they recite, enact and paint. In doing so, they learn their land, the routes through it and their duties upon it. In Western art, a landscape usually explains its subject; in Aboriginal art, the land explains the paintings. The dashes and circles are wind and contour and that eternal necessity, water. A painting is map and icon and more.
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When land rights first became a topic of legal discussion in Australia in the 1970s, many Aboriginal people turned to art to explain their form of ownership. These paintings went to court, as a form of deposition in native title claims, and some of them succeeded.
Not before time. Cook and his cohorts had looked at the raw rocks and shivering gum trees and envisioned a promising site for a prison as wide as the horizons in terra nullius, or empty land. How those first explorers reconciled the artefacts they brought back with the notion of an unpeopled land is hard to grasp. When we struggle to spot the landscape features or Ancestral Beings amid the circles and dots of Aboriginal painting, it is worth remembering that they are not the only ones to have looked at Australia's ancient topography and seen things that others would say aren't there.
In the Museum of Victoria's Bunjilaka Aboriginal Cultural Centre, I learn that selective seeing – or hearing – was a common failing. In 1835, John Batman persuaded the indigenous Kulin people to sign over large tracts of Victoria – according to him, anyway; they viewed it differently. The Crown scotched the plan, saying the land was Crown property (another version the Kulin might challenge) and the Treaty, now in England, is still disputed.
Batman, a megalomaniac who helped found Melbourne (he tried to call it Batmania) and "a rogue, thief, cheat and liar, a murderer of blacks and the vilest man I have ever known" according to his neighbour, is honoured with roads, gardens and statues all over Victoria. Near the imposing bulk of Parliament House, a statue of 19th-century poet Adam Lindsay Gordon bears strange praise: "He sang the first great songs these lands can claim to be their own." I think about the Aboriginal songs, thousands of years old, that Bruce Chatwin traced in his odd but compelling book The Songlines, and start to wonder if it is Aboriginal art that needs explaining, or the entire history of Australia.
Despite having astonishing rock etchings that predate France's Lascaux Caves paintings by more than 20,000 years, much of Australia's indigenous art was deliberately impermanent. Bodies were painted with ochre, drawings made in sand, and the traces removed once a ritual finished.
Most of what we call Aboriginal art is a modern solution to the desperate problem of communicating with an uncomprehending world.
In 1971, when Geoffrey Bardon started teaching art to children in Papunya, a squalid Northern Territory settlement full of displaced Pintupi people, the adults seized their chance, painting everything from canvas and brick to hubcaps and tiles
in an attempt to explain their "country" to the race that had claimed it for their own. Many of those paintings are now famous, their likenesses plastered over every tacky tourist tchotchke in Australia.
Yet the symbols and stories of the Dreamings – the keys to these maps of the Aboriginal world view – are still known by far too few of us. Chatwin observes that Aboriginal song is hard to appreciate because of the endless accumulation of detail, although he believes that even a superficial reader can glimpse a moral universe "in which the structures of kinship reach out to all living men, to all his fellow creatures, and to the rivers, the rocks and the trees". Like most of his book, this is probably partly true but also romantic and simplistic. Still, no populist work has tried to understand the art as Chatwin did the songs.
Not all Aboriginal art is so complicated. At the Bunjilaka Centre's First Peoples exhibition, intricate metal baskets hang in an eerily blue room: reimagined coolamons, vessels made from bark that traditionally hold newborn babies. The Empty Coolamons are indigenous artist Robyne Latham's eloquent memorial for the Stolen Generations: children taken from their parents in a deliberate attempt to absorb them into white Australian society. Perhaps, I think, admiring, regretting, we should avoid interpretation altogether. After all, these works are wordlessly beautiful – and as eloquent as a lament. "Aboriginal visual art," poet Les Murray has said, "is Australia's equivalent of jazz: a major new art style arising from the most oppressed group in our nation."
Still, though the Dreamtime may be as hard to explain as free jazz, context is vital if we are to understand. John Patten of the Bunjilaka centre puts it simply: "I don't like the name Dreamtime. I prefer just to call it history."
History without context is dangerous, or offensive. On Melbourne's Swanston Street, an extraordinary building has just been unveiled that has a grave face incorporated into its exterior. William Barak, a Wurundjeri Willum elder, successfully negotiated in 1863 for land to establish a farming community in northern Victoria. His settlement, Coranderrk, was self-sustaining until the inhabitants were thrown out two decades later; Barak led attempts at diplomacy, in vain.
His art, including Ceremony, a joyous portrait of his people celebrating the Dreamtime through the music and dance of a corroborree, is in the exhibition. It isn't hard to understand, either. However, you will learn nothing of Barak's story from his face on a building of premium flats – an odd place to honour a lifelong activist for indigenous land rights. Sixty kilometres away, his grave lies forgotten near a monument to the dead, in a sparse, peaceful cemetery that is all that remains of Coranderrk.
The drive back is gorgeous, through pine-green, fern-pelted valleys; it jars to re-enter the modern city. The dissonance is national but not necessarily eternal: perhaps this exhibition can help Australians to open their eyes and at last, 250 years on, find common ground.


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Tesla Model 3's new international delivery timeline opens the door for other new EVs
Fred Lambert | Aug 12 2017 - 2:03 pm PT
When Tesla launched the production version of the Model 3 a few weeks ago, it also updated estimated delivery timelines based on different criteria – mainly Model 3 options, date of reservation, and country of reservation.
While it doesn't exactly come as a surprise, deliveries outside the US are now not expected for another year even for those who reserved on the first day. Most reservation holders outside the US are being told "late 2018" by Tesla and "2019" for those in right-hand drive markets.
The long wait opens the door for other electric vehicles to try to win over those reservation holders before Model 3 hits their market.
With its range and price, the Model 3 is not really competing against other electric vehicles right now. Instead, it is opening electric vehicles to a new bigger market and attempting to steal market shares from gas-powered cars.
The close to 500,000 people who placed a reservation for the Model 3 have something in common, they are ready to buy an electric car.
That's doesn't necessarily mean any electric car.
There are plenty of reasons why someone would especially want a Tesla Model 3, whether it'd be for the design, performance or access to Tesla's Supercharger network for example.
Maybe autonomous driving is more important for them and since Tesla claims that each Model 3 is equipped with an Autopilot hardware suite that will enable fully self-driving capacity with future software updates, it's the only currently available vehicle that promises that aside from Model S and Model X. There's nothing else to consider.
There are also some EV enthusiasts who wouldn't even consider another car than a Tesla because of other automakers' lobbying efforts to slow down the advent of electric cars.
But for those who are only looking to stop buying gas and convert their commute to electric mileage, they might not want to wait another year.
What other options do they have?
As we recently reported, Tesla is really pushing to get them into a Model S. They recently updated the base version of the car to change the options and make it more powerful, but that's still a significant premium over what Model 3 reservation holders expected to pay.
Someone could also choose the route of Tesla's certified used cars, which is actually what I did. I ended up paying ~$50,000 USD, which is about the current price of a Model 3 since the base options are not yet available. I have a first day Model 3 reservation, but my estimate delivery date is "late 2018" in Canada and therefore, I plan on enjoying driving the car for at least another year.
There are also other EVs that Model 3 reservation holders outside the US might want to consider if they don't want to wait another year.
In my opinion, the next-gen Nissan Leaf is likely going to be the most tempting new EV for those people.
Outside the US, the Chevy Bolt EV is still only offered in limited supply with allocations of only a few hundred by country, so it doesn't really make the list.
But recent spy shots of the next-gen Leaf, which is set to be officially unveiled next month, indicate that the design refresh could appeal to a wider market who don't want to suffer driving a "weirdmobile" just for the sake of it being an EV, like it is arguably the case for the current Leaf.
Furthermore, if recently reportedly 'leaked' specs turn out to be true, a base price of roughly $30,000 for the vehicle with a range of around 160 miles could prove popular in several markets.
The vehicle could offer similar specs as Renault's Zoe, but in a different form factor closer to the Model 3 than Renault's compact electric car.
For those willing to consider shorter range options, the latest VW e-Golf could be a possibility. It has a comparable starting price as the Leaf and it has an EPA-rated range of 125 miles (200 km).
The 2018 version could feature an increased range to make it more competitive with the next-generation Leaf, but the vehicle remains a compliance car that has difficulties competing due to the $10,000 premium on the gas-powered version of the very same car.
Its availability is also not great. For example, deliveries of the 2017 model only recently started in low volume in Canada.
BMW's only all-electric vehicle could be an option for some, but with a higher starting price than the Model 3 for a shorter range and fewer options, it's likely going to be hard to swallow for reservation holders.
Unless the German automaker has a surprise for the 2018 version, we are likely going to have to wait for BMW's next generation of electric vehicles expected in 2019 to start competing with Tesla's Model 3.
Hyundai Ioniq Electric
Despite being a low volume vehicle, Hyundai is having a lot of success with the all-electric version of the Ioniq, as we anticipated in our review.
At ~$30,000 before incentives and a range of ~125 miles (200 km), the vehicle could prove a viable cheaper option.
Again though, it's still a low volume vehicle and Hyundai reportedly can't keep up with the demand. It makes the availability difficult in some markets, but the Korean automaker is reportedly looking to increase production by 50%.
What other options could there be? Let us know in the comment section below if you are a Model 3 reservation holder who started considering other options or even if you are not a reservation holder, let us know if you think of other interesting alternatives to waiting for Model 3.
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What happens when Cosmo and Wanda encounter Danny Phantom? A crossover short fans have been wanting for 10 long years.
On Tuesday (February 21), Nickelodeon released a new short starring all four of animator Butch Hartman's TV shows: The Fairly OddParents, Danny Phantom, T.U.F.F. Puppy, and Bunsen Is a Beast. The latter premieres tonight, and if this short is any indication, it looks like we're about to have our new favourite animated series.
Hartman pointed out on Instagram this short is "the first NEW DANNY PHANTOM animation in 10 years" (if you don't count his video of the Danny Phantom characters aged a decade, that is).
As Danny tries to capture escaped ghosts, he gets in over his head after Dudley Puppy plays with the controls. Timmy and his fairy godparents, along with newcomer Bunsen, end up in Danny's lab, much to everyone's confusion. The short (sort of) reunites iCarly stars Jerry Trainor and Jeremy Rowley, who voice Dudley and Bunsen, respectively. Check out the nostalgic-inducing video above.


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Man arrested after returning to pick up his meth pills he forgot at Chonburi restaurant
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A forgetful drug suspect was arrested after he reportedly came back to a restaurant in Ban Bueng district to pick up the methamphetamine pills he forgot.
Ban Bueng police were called by the unidentified owner of a chicken and rice restaurant to come and check a bag that a customer forgot at the restaurant at 1:30 AM yesterday, December 5th. The restaurant's owner's name was withheld by police to protect his safety.
The restaurant was located in the Nong Chak subdistrict of Chonburi. Volunteer police arrived and examined the bag and found five meth pills. The restaurant's owner said the bag belonged to a male customer who came to eat at his restaurant and left on a motorbike, forgetting the bag on the table. The owner recorded the moment while he was opening the bag as evidence.
While the plainclothes volunteer police were phoning Ban Bueng police, the suspect, Suriya Naphan, arrived at the restaurant, grabbed the bag, and tried to drive his motorcycle away stealthily. However, Suriya alerted the police and was asked to be searched. Seeing so, the 28-year-old suspect only stated he came to pick up his "important" belongings he forgot and then tried to run away.
Volunteer police outran Suriya and caught him with a bag concealing the pills. The suspect, an Amnat Charoen native, was transported to the Ban Bueng police station where he reportedly confessed that he forgot his bag at the restaurant after taking three meth pills. The suspect was charged with illegal drug possession and driving under the influence of illegal drugs.


Lindsay Harrel presents a powerful story of healing, adventure, and learning how to live life to the fullest. Megan Jacobs always wished for a different heart. Her entire childhood was spent in and out of hospitals, sitting on the sidelines while her twin sister Crystal played all the sports, got all the guys, and had all the fun. But even a heart transplant three years ago wasn't enough to propel Megan's life forward. She's still working as a library aide in her small Minnesota hometown and living with her parents, dreaming of the adventure she plans to take "once she's well enough." Meanwhile, her sister is a successful architect with a handsome husband and the perfect life—or so Megan thinks. When her heart donor's parents give Megan their teenage daughter's journal—complete with an unfulfilled bucket list—Megan connects with the girl she meets between the pages and is inspired to venture out and check off each item. Caleb—a friend from her years in and out of the hospital—reenters her life and pushes her to find the courage to take the leap and begin her journey. She's thrown for a loop when Crystal offers to join her for reasons of her own, but she welcomes the company and the opportunity to mend their tenuous relationship. As Megan and Crystal check items off the bucket list, Megan fights the fears that have been instilled in her after a lifetime of illness. She must choose between safety and adventure and learn to embrace the heart she's been given so that she can finally share it with the people she loves most.
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'The World in a Box': the Global History of the Peepshow [EN]
John Plunkett
As a simple and portable lens-based device, the peepshow was one of the commonest forms of visual entertainment across nineteenth century Europe. Exhibited by a travelling showman who added verbal narrative to the images, the peepshow was used to present stories of all kinds, albeit view of foreign events and landscapes were enduringly popular. This box was one way that 19th c Europeans looked at the broader world, but it would be just as accurate to call it the box that travelled across the world. It was adapted into many diferent performance and narrative traditions. In Persian, it was called the shahre farang ['European city'], in Arabic, the Sandook El Donya ['box of wonders'], in pinyin it is la yang pian ['pulled foreign pictures'], and, in India, it was reinvented through the familiar figure of the bioscopewallah. My paper will elaborate the various global forms of the peepshow as an example of transculturation: it will compare similar accounts of their appeal, design and exhibition, and reflect on the way that the device encourages a rethinking of Eurocentric accounts of 19th C media technologies and the history of immersive media. It will also reflect on shared history of peepshow and stereoscopy, and the methodological problems and opportunities deriving from researching the global history of the peepshow.


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Atomic Time: A History of the Cesium Beam Atomic Clock
Bausch & Lomb Tripod Magnifier
Beyond the Limits: Flight Enters the Computer Age
The Blessing of the Sun: Sociology over Astronomy
A Brief History of Geomagnetism and A Catalog of the Collections of the National Museum of American History
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Burndy Library: a report made on the occasion of occupying its permanent building in April 1964
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Coming from a small town, I had nothing but big dreams. Not really understanding the value of education during high school I neglected my academics. Infatuated with sports and leadership, I enlisted in the United States Marines Corps infantry, where I matured rapidly and gained invaluable skills that are forever-instilled in me. After being honorably discharged I found myself lacking goals and ambitions, which was reflected in my mindset at college. I was astonished to feel this way; having no drive to excel was something I had not experienced before. I decided to take a break from school for a year to rediscover lost ambitions. Physically and mentally I worked and grew, and in return, I was clear minded and regained a feeling of ease and confidence. I returned to school with that hungry attitude to be great. I now see my schooling in a different, clearer light and I immerse myself in it, striving to reach my maximum potential, so I can have a large and positive effect on the world.
So you might be thinking, why did I pick such a rigorous major? During my time of reflection and struggled transition out of the Marines I thought deeply about my current and past passions, which have remained with me over the years. I found myself thinking back to when I was a little kid, building intricate forts and tree houses and again in more advanced applications as a Marine, building mud machine-gun towers and bridges. I've connected to engineering throughout my youth and into my adulthood, and I felt a calling to this major, driven by the same emotions that lead me to the Marine Corp Recruit Depot, Paris Island, South Carolina. Fulfilling my outgoing spirit, now I have an outlet for my past transitioning struggles.
I enjoy doing this research opportunity because it diversifies my academic and professional experiences and will provide me with a unique skill or edge in my career. Besides suffering from the typically struggles of military transitioning: PTSD, tinnitus, and physical injuries, I think one of the biggest struggles were no longer having a mission and purpose. Getting out of the Marine Corps I was no longer around an elite team that overcame tremendous challenges and important missions. Being in Professor Mostofi's lab, surrounded by a new team, working on exciting projects that are significant to our country, which is similarly to my military missions, makes me feel inspired and complete again.
Hi my name is Robert Williams I'm a first year Chemical Engineering major at Santa Barbara City College. I am doing research with the INSET program here at UCSB. This program is a summer research opportunity that gives undergrads exposure to research. I am in my third week so far of project INSET. During week one I was introduced to Maria and Erika our program directors. During this first meeting they told us what to expect and what we should learn from our research here over the summer.
During week one I was focused on what will be expected from me as a researcher. During this time I also got to meet my mentor and most of the lab team. From talking to them I got a better sense of my role in the lab and my part over all research goals. I noticed that my lab members are very nice and helpful. When I have a problem they are eager to help me figure it out or refer me to someone who could. I also did a lot of background reading for my project during week one. My project is focused on building an optical system tailor made for microfluidic devices. I don't have much of a background in optics and I haven't taken physics yet so I had to read a lot.
Once Week two came around I was fairly comfortable in my lab environment and with asking the people around me for help. During this week I also had to continue doing background research. The reason why I need to read this much is because my system must be able to work 100% on paper way before I pick up a tool and start building my optical system. So week 2 and week 3 so far have consisted of a lot of reading and also finding the proper equations needed to predict how my optical system will behave when fully built.
Finally To whoever reads this and plans on doing research asking questions is very important and will not make you look bad, especially if you have been working hard but became stuck. So don't be afraid to ask questions!
… If that is my biggest complaint with this internship then I would say the positives definitely outweigh the negatives. For a review to those who attended the safety workshop in first week, when working in a chemistry lab (which ours is) it is required to wear closed toed shoes and pants (of course safety goggles and a lab coat also) in the case of a chemical accident. Well, better safe than sorry. Now that I have gotten that large concern off of my chest, lets hear the good news.
Well, I will start by asking a question. Has this internship changed me? Am I a different person now then who I was eight weeks ago? I would say so. I now have eight weeks of research under my belt. As for how that has changed my skills and goals, I now know how to make a scientific poster, write an abstract, present a power point in front of a very large camera and the most qualified professors, and a better grasp on what I want out of academia. I guess overall, a large increase in my scientific "confidence." Yet, when I look back at what was the most important to me, it was the people.
It is kind of funny, when I used to think of professional researchers, I would think of these very serious people in white lab coats. Now that I have spent many hours in labs with these folks, I have found the only true stereotype is the lab coat thing but ours are blue. These people have great senses of humor, are extremely intelligent, hardworking, and are down to earth. Educationally speaking they are very different, electrical engineering, physics, neuroscience, polymer chemistry. I guess, our group needs to be in order to solve such a difficult interdisciplinary problem. Yet, what I have observed to be very similar in all the researchers is their sense of curiosity. I hypothesize this huge curiosity is what makes the lab I worked in so special. It was the source of energy that pushed my mentor to spend many long nights in the clean room designing something new. Yet, as I said before, it was in everyone I worked with. In our post doctoral polymer chemist, it was curiosity that helped him design a new type of functional polymer. I even found curiosity building up in myself.
So to conclude, what INSET program has taught me is how to use my curiosity to push myself to explore research and I hope that anyone reading this unlocks their own curiosity because it is curiosity that will change this world for the better. Ask the question, "how does this that work and how can I make it work better?" Better yet, do it!! It seemed to work for me. 🙂 Thank you INSET for helping me learn so much more about myself in eight short weeks.
Have you ever wondered if the effects of blindness could be reversed?
This summer I worked on a biomimetic device to restore vision to the blind. Yes, that was my project. The minute I realized what it was we were working on, I thought it was the coolest thing to be a part of. Not only was I able to see how research like this is done in a lab, or talk to the master mind behind this plan, but I was able to be apart of this amazing research project. So here is my project summed up into a few sentences. They are going to build an interface (which is kind of like a chip) that will be implanted behind the retina (back of the eye). It will basically mimic a biological channel in the eye that plays a key role in vision. The way vision will be restored to the blind is by using potassium ions that are already found in the fluid within the eye. Yup, that was the project I worked on for 8 weeks. Pretty cool, huh?
Comparing the first day I walked into the lab and now, I would say this was one of the best experiences I have ever had. The first day I was not only intimidated, I was scared, but that faded away real fast. Everyone in my lab is super nice and my mentor is probably the most patient person I have met yet. He made my time here a lot easier because if I did not understand something he would clarify it for me, even if I made him explain it in 10 different ways, he didn't show frustration. on a side note, one of the things I had to give up this summer to work in the lab was sandals, shorts, dresses, anything that made our legs vulnerable to spills was cut out of my wardrobe. I am a barefoot, sandals kind of girl so, yes, that was the hardest thing I had to do this summer! On the Brightside, I finally learned how to walk in sneakers. I learned a lot in my short 8 weeks here as an intern. The internship had us do these workshops, which may seem silly at first, but in reality they helped out a lot. Also, the presentation we had to give is a lot of work, but I improved in my presentation skills dramatically so it was worth every ounce of stress. Now I know how to give a scientific presentation, and take something complicated, my project, and make is as simple as possible so people who know nothing about the science aspect can understand it. This internship helps shape you in different ways. Not only are you here doing research, but you are also doing other things on the side. The other good thing about this internship is I got to live on campus and that was AWESOME! All the interns were a blast too. I definitely have many memories with them. This was definitely one of the best summers I have had so far.
I would like to take this opportunity to share with you my experience before I applied for INSET and how it has transformed my life. Before I was selected to be part of INSET, I had a rough idea of what to expect for the program even though I had never done research in the past. Some people who have known me for years at Santa Barbara City College (SBCC) would often times tell me how beneficial it would be for me to do research and internships; "You are definitely suited to do research, " they would say. What they did not know is that I could not apply for INSET because of certain circumstances that prevented me from doing so. When I finally got the opportunity to apply for INSET, I had a conversation with a faculty member from SBCC, who more than my ex-organic chemistry professor is my friend and confidant, namely Jens Kuhn. He encouraged me to not hesitate to apply for INSET as well as for other internships. I did, and within a couple months, I was notified of my selection for INSET. As I was reading the e-mail Maria Napoli sent about my selection in my car, after a long but productive day of school, a lot of emotions fused into one and tears started to roll down my face as I kept reading the e-mail. I then preceded to accept the INSET offer right away. It has been indeed an honor and a privilege to be part of the INSET program this summer 2013. Over the past seven weeks, I have met and worked with people who are so passionate about what they do and willing to cooperate. Specifically, at The Read Lab, everybody is always willing to go out of their way to help me run experiments effectively, and, by doing so, they have made me feel very special. I feel extremely fortunate to be part of The Read Lab and to be working on the nitroso project because of its applications in various reactions, which, by the way, have a small environmental impact. I never thought I would learn so much in such a small period of time and run so many reactions, which will be illustrated on my poster. Thanks again Read Group for the fantastic collaborative team work atmosphere you have built and let me be part of it. Thanks Charles Frazier and Javier Read de Alaniz too; you two have shown me what it means to be a true team leader. INSET just could not get any better and am glad I applied. Now I know what to do next: more research!


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Flexible coinductive logic programming
FRANCESCO DAGNINO, DAVIDE ANCONA, ELENA ZUCCA
Journal: Theory and Practice of Logic Programming / Volume 20 / Issue 6 / November 2020
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2020, pp. 818-833
Recursive definitions of predicates are usually interpreted either inductively or coinductively. Recently, a more powerful approach has been proposed, called flexible coinduction, to express a variety of intermediate interpretations, necessary in some cases to get the correct meaning. We provide a detailed formal account of an extension of logic programming supporting flexible coinduction. Syntactically, programs are enriched by coclauses, clauses with a special meaning used to tune the interpretation of predicates. As usual, the declarative semantics can be expressed as a fixed point which, however, is not necessarily the least, nor the greatest one, but is determined by the coclauses. Correspondingly, the operational semantics is a combination of standard SLD resolution and coSLD resolution. We prove that the operational semantics is sound and complete with respect to declarative semantics restricted to finite comodels.
Type safe incremental rebinding
DAVIDE ANCONA, PAOLA GIANNINI, ELENA ZUCCA
Journal: Mathematical Structures in Computer Science / Volume 27 / Issue 2 / February 2017
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 May 2015, pp. 94-122
We extend the simply-typed lambda-calculus with a mechanism for dynamic and incremental rebinding of code. Fragments of open code which can be dynamically rebound are values. Differently from standard static binding, which is done on a positional basis, rebinding is done on a nominal basis, that is, free variables in open code are associated with names which do not obey α-equivalence. Moreover, rebinding is incremental, that is, just a subset of names can be rebound, making possible code specialization, and rebinding can even introduce new names. Finally, rebindings, which are associations between names and terms, are first-class values, and can be manipulated by operators such as overriding and renaming. We define a type system in which the type for a rebinding, in addition to specify an association between names and types (similarly to record types), is also annotated. The annotation says whether or not the domain of the rebinding having this type may contain more names than the ones that are specified in the type. We show soundness of the type system.
Extending the lambda-calculus with unbind and rebind
Mariangiola Dezani-Ciancaglini, Paola Giannini, Elena Zucca
Journal: RAIRO - Theoretical Informatics and Applications / Volume 45 / Issue 1 / January 2011
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 March 2011, pp. 143-162
We extend the simply typed λ-calculus with unbind and rebind primitive constructs. That is, a value can be a fragment of open code, which in order to be used should be explicitly rebound. This mechanism nicely coexists with standard static binding. The motivation is to provide an unifying foundation for mechanisms of dynamic scoping, where the meaning of a name is determined at runtime, rebinding, such as dynamic updating of resources and exchange of mobile code, and delegation, where an alternative action is taken if a binding is missing. Depending on the application scenario, we consider two extensions which differ in the way type safety is guaranteed. The former relies on a combination of static and dynamic type checking. That is, rebind raises a dynamic error if for some variable there is no replacing term or it has the wrong type. In the latter, this error is prevented by a purely static type system, at the price of more sophisticated types.
D-oids: a model for dynamic data-types †
Egidio Astesiano, Elena Zucca
Journal: Mathematical Structures in Computer Science / Volume 5 / Issue 2 / June 1995
We propose a semantic framework for dynamic systems, which, in a sense, extends the well-known algebraic approach for modelling static data structures to the dynamic case. The framework is based on a new mathematical structure, called a d-oid, consisting of a set of instant structures and a set of dynamic operations. An instant structure is a static structure, e.g. an algebra; a dynamic operation is a transformation of instant structures with an associated point to point map, which allows us to keep track of the transformations of single objects and thus is called a tracking map. By an appropriate notion of morphism, the d-oids over a dynamic signature constitute a category.
It is shown that d-oids can model object systems and support an abstract notion of possibly unique object identity; moreover, for a d-oid satisfying an identity preserving condition, there exists an essentially equivalent d-oid where the elements of instant structures are just names.
A calculus of open modules: call-by-need strategy and confluence†
SONIA FAGORZI, ELENA ZUCCA
Journal: Mathematical Structures in Computer Science / Volume 17 / Issue 4 / August 2007
We present a simple module calculus where selection and execution of a component is possible on open modules, that is, modules that still need to import some external definitions. Hence, it provides a kernel model for a computational paradigm in which standard execution (that is, execution of a single computation described by a fragment of code) can be interleaved with operations at the meta-level, which can manipulate in various ways the context in which this computation takes place. Formally, this is achieved by introducing configurations as basic terms. These are, roughly speaking, pairs consisting of an (open, mutually recursive) collection of named components and a term representing a program running in the context of these components. Configurations can be manipulated by classical module/fragment operators, hence reduction steps can be either execution steps of the program or steps that perform module operations (called reconfiguration steps).
Since configurations combine the features of lambda abstractions (first-class functions), records, environments with mutually recursive definitions and modules, the calculus extends and integrates both traditional module calculi and recursive lambda calculi. We state confluence of the calculus, and propose different ways to prevent errors arising from the lack of some required component, either by a purely static type system or by a combination of static and run-time checks. Moreover, we define a call-by-need strategy that performs module simplification only when needed and only once, leading to a generalisation of call-by-need lambda calculi that includes module features. We prove the soundness and completeness of this strategy using an approach based on information content, which also allows us to preserve confluence, even when local substitution rules are added to the calculus.
A theory of mixin modules: algebraic laws and reduction semantics
DAVIDE ANCONA, ELENA ZUCCA
Journal: Mathematical Structures in Computer Science / Volume 12 / Issue 6 / December 2002
Mixins are modules that may contain deferred components, that is, components not defined in the module itself; moreover, in contrast to parameterised modules (like ML functors), they can be mutually dependent and allow their definitions to be overridden. In a preceding paper we defined a syntax and denotational semantics of a kernel language of mixin modules. Here, we take instead an axiomatic approach, giving a set of algebraic laws expressing the expected properties of a small set of primitive operators on mixins. Interpreting axioms as rewriting rules, we get a reduction semantics for the language and prove the existence of normal forms. Moreover, we show that the model defined in the earlier paper satisfies the given axiomatisation.
A calculus of module systems
Journal: Journal of Functional Programming / Volume 12 / Issue 2 / March 2002
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 March 2002, pp. 91-132
We present CMS, a simple and powerful calculus of modules supporting mutual recursion and higher order features, which can be instantiated over an arbitrary core calculus satisfying standard assumptions. The calculus allows expression of a large variety of existing mechanisms for combining software components, including parameterized modules similar to ML functors, extension with overriding as in object-oriented programming, mixin modules and extra-linguistic mechanisms like those provided by a linker. Hence CMS can be used as a paradigmatic calculus for modular languages, in the same spirit the lambda calculus is used for functional programming. We first present an untyped version of the calculus and then a type system; we prove confluence, progress, and subject reduction properties. Then, we define a derived calculus of mixin modules directly in terms of CMS and show how to encode other primitive calculi into CMS (the lambda calculus and the Abadi-Cardelli object calculus). Finally, we consider the problem of introducing a subtype relation for module types.
A theory of mixin modules: basic and derived operators
Journal: Mathematical Structures in Computer Science / Volume 8 / Issue 4 / August 1998
Mixins are modules in which some components are deferred, that is, their definition has to be provided by another module. Moreover, in contrast to parameterized modules (like ML functors), mixin modules can be mutually dependent and their composition supports the redefinition of components (overriding). In this paper, we present a formal model of mixins and their basic composition operators. These operators can be viewed as a kernel language with clean semantics in which one can express more complex operators of existing modular languages, including variants of inheritance in object-oriented programming. Our formal model is given in an 'institution independent' way, that is, it is parameterized by the semantic framework modelling the underlying core language.