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Q: Are lower-arity functions subtypes of higher-arity ones? I've found that there isn't a concept similar to "arity-based subtyping" in many languages that I've programmed in, where higher-order functions could consume functions of lower arity than their argument type, differing in a consistent way: say, preserving leftmost arguments in order, or requiring name-type pairs to match. For example, (A) -> C <: (A, B) -> C such that ((A, B) -> C) -> D admits (A) -> C. Would such a feature be equivalent to ad hoc polymorphism, and if so, why isn't it offered or used much/at all?
A special case that I'm particularly interested in is substituting values for functions of the same return type without wrapping in an identity function, i.e. ((A) -> B) -> C admitting B. If this exists and is better known under a different name, that would also certainly answer my question.

A: I am not aware of any subtyping system for which A -> C is a subtype of (A, B) -> C. That being said, there is no reason after all, (a -> c) => (a & b -> c) is a theorem of basically all logics so you could consistently design a type system with that subtyping rule. Nevertheless, I think there are several reasons that this is never done:

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*Subtyping rules generally comes with costs: they make type inference more difficult/more limited and they can complicate language implementation. You generally want to avoid them if you can't come up with a great reason to have them.

*It would be inconsistent with arity overloading which is a feature in many languages (Erlang, C#, Java, ...).

*It is not clear why you would want (A -> C) <: ((A, B) -> C) rather than, say (B, A) -> C or B -> A -> C. That is the subtyping relation is not as natural as typical ones and would be arbitrarily picked among related ones.

All that being said, a structural subtyping system is very similar to what you want. Suppose I have F = { a : A } -> C and G = { a : A, b : B } -> C. Because { a : A, b : B } <: { a : A }, by the rule (A <: B) => (B -> C <: A -> C), we have F <: G. This is basically what you want and exists in several programming languages already such as Elm and Typescript.

A: So it's not quite right to say that lower arity functions are subtypes of higher ones. You're not talking only about functions after all.
But if you have a delegate (function pointer, function variable, etc) that has a signature of a higher arity, it should be able to take a function that only satisfies part of the parameters. That is typesafe, though I'm not sure it has a proper name.
There are some gotchas there though. The function pointer will still want to pass in all of the arguments. Your implementation will need to be smart enough with the call stack to ignore those arguments, find the ones I need, and also clean everything up when done. Or you'll need to automatically wrap the function when assigning it to the variable expecting a higher arity (which then adds complexity when you're not directly assigning the function, and the same performance overhead as wrapping it yourself).


The Belém Cultural Center (CCB - Centro Cultural de Belém) is the largest building with cultural facilities in Portugal. Western Lisbon, 1992.
A very impressive Cultural center.
Love this place, JM. It would be worth a trip to Portugal just to see it. Great photo, too!
It's so big it has its own elevated gardens.
Big in any sense: please enlarge the image to appreciate it better!
Very nice Theme Day post JM!
I remember this beautiful place full of students when I visited Lisbon.It's really BIG! Great post!
Well that's big alright! BTW, rumor has it that it's your first birthday around here. If so WhoooHOooo, congratulations for a great year of wonderful photos my friend. Here's to many more!
How wonderful to have such a big building just for culture!
That's enormous. When you see the tiny cars, it make you realise just how big it is.
JM I adore your header.
BIG and all culture, that's fantastic!
This cultural center is enormous: a real treasure for everyone!
I agree with VP, this one should be enlarged.
A cultural center this size speaks well of the society which created it.
It's huge indeed and lovely modern architecture!
In the States this size of a center is dedicated to...shops and stores!!
That's big. And attractive, too.
Looks like a SUPER BIG cultural center! You could land a 747 in there!
My gosh, how many square feet in that building. Absolutely perfect post for today's theme.
Imagine having to walk around that place ... it's makig me exhausted just thinking about it.
Looks like one of those small scale models that designers have for show what a completed project will look like.
Wow, BIG is king! That's another BIG reason to travel to Lisbon. It makes me wonder what you had to climb up to find this gorgeous vantage point.
Big and sprawling! Very impressive and enviable!
Lisbon is a town of the art.
It is very important value tradition.


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Go Yo-han (* 10. März 1988 in Masan) ist ein südkoreanischer Fußballspieler.

Karriere

Klub
Seit dem Jahresanfang 2004 steht er im Kader des FC Seoul. Seitdem wurde er mit seiner Mannschaft drei Mal Meister, einmal Pokalsieger sowie einmal Ligapokalsieger.

Nationalmannschaft
Sein erstes bekanntes Spiel für die südkoreanische Nationalmannschaft absolvierte er am 14. Oktober 2009 bei einem 2:0-Freundschaftsspielsieg über den Senegal. Sein nächster Einsatz war dann erst wieder in einem Freundschaftsspiel im August 2012, worauf noch ein Einsatz innerhalb der Qualifikation für die Weltmeisterschaft 2014 folgte. Im Sommer des nächsten Jahres stand er dann im Kader der Ostasienmeisterschaft 2013 und spielte hier in zwei Partien des Turniers. Im Laufe des Jahres und des nächsten folgten dann noch ein paar Einsätze bei Freundschaftsspielen.

Nun trat wieder eine längere Phase ohne Einsatz für ihn ein. Erst in einem Qualifikationsspiel für die Weltmeisterschaft 2018 wurde er am 5. September 2017 gegen Usbekistan wieder eingesetzt. Danach folgte unter anderem noch die Ostasienmeisterschaft 2017, welche er mit seiner Mannschaft gewinnen konnte. Nach ein paar weiteren Freundschaftsspielen stand er schließlich auch im Kader der Mannschaft bei der Weltmeisterschaft 2018, wo er im letzten Gruppenspiel gegen Deutschland einen Einsatz bekam.

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Teilnehmer an einer Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft (Südkorea)
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Kraken pounce for four first-period goals against Nashville, win fifth consecutive game
Nov. 8, 2022 Updated Tue., Nov. 8, 2022 at 10:11 p.m.
By Geoff Baker Seattle Times
Jordan Eberle and his Kraken teammates came in here looking to continue their red-hot ways for the hometown fans in similar fashion to how they've largely steamrolled opponents on the road.
And fewer than 17 minutes into Tuesday night's 5-1 win over the Nashville Predators, Eberle had already potted two goals, the opposing netminder was hitting the showers and Climate Pledge Arena fans were having a grand old time like never before. That's because the Kraken wound up pumping a team record four first period goals behind Nashville starting netminder Juuse Saros, letting the hometown team prepare the postgame "Come and Get Your Love" victory music a little early ahead of their fifth consecutive victory.
Eberle's two goals bookended the explosive Kraken showing that period, his first one entering the net just 38 seconds in to further ignite a crowd that had greeted the home side with a rousing ovation when they took the ice following their first-ever three-game road sweep. Saros wasn't particularly sharp on Eberle's slap shot from atop the right faceoff circle, nor on his second goal on a quick wrist shot off a turnover that got the goalie yanked with 3:35 remaining in the frame.
In-between, the besieged netminder did his best to offset multiple Predators' giveaways, making a great stop off a one-timer by Morgan Geekie only to yield a screened goal on a Will Borgen wrister just seconds later. Andre Burakovsky got the goal of the night with 4:44 to play in the period, taking an Alex Wennberg pass off a turnover and hesitating until Saros committed and was down and out before sliding the puck home.
Brandon Tanev added an empty-net goal in the final 70 seconds.
Eberle's second goal came just over a minute later, effectively ending things. Filip Forsberg snapped the shutout midway through the middle period on a breakaway off a blocked Borgen shot at Nashville's blueline, but the Kraken killed off some ensuing penalties and boosted their record to 8-4-2.
What's been impressive about this Kraken stretch is that their record should probably be even better than it is after a couple of road games given away to Anaheim and Chicago. Those two losses — one in overtime — are the Kraken's only two road defeats all season in what could easily be a perfect record away from home.
As things stand, the Kraken, second in the Pacific Division behind Vegas, entered Tuesday with a 5-1-1 mark on the road compared to only 2-3-1 at home. Kraken coach Dave Hakstol had indicated at practice earlier in the week that it was important for his team to capitalize on this stretch of six consecutive Climate Pledge games.
It's a different rhythm so we've got to adjust to that rhythm," Hakstol said. "It's really important for us to be ready to take advantage of home games. We've proven we can go out and win on the road. And we've done a good job of that.
"We've won some big games here recently at home. Now, we've got to be excited for that opportunity and change the rhythm a bit and take advantage of that."
And that they did, even if they failed to light the lamp much after that opening period.
They still shut down two more power plays, running their penalty killing stretch to 13 straight. And they generally limited quality chances in front of goaltender Martin Jones in running their record against playoff teams from last season to a stellar 7-1-1.
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The Miracle on Johnson Street: How Community Support Saved a Landmark
On a night in January 2012, a fire roared through the Dalton-Bell-Cameron House, a flagship residence of High Point's Johnson Street Historic District. The house stands as the earliest documented Craftsman-style house in High Point and serves as the center piece of city's flagship historic district.
Carter Dalton, an up-and-coming attorney and politician and his wife Mary, purchased the lot at 1013 Johnson Street in 1913. The couple began construction of their home immediately and selected a style for their home that was a revelation for many High Pointers. The Craftsman-style features of the house were not influenced by traditional East Coast styles but looked to California and the Far East. The two-story house introduced exposed rafter tails, diagonal bracing beneath wide overhanging eaves, and sawn rake boards. For the next twenty years, these Asian-inspired grew details grew highly popular in High Point as Craftsman-style houses were built across the city.
The house has some interior features that are rare to the area. A handsome masonry fireplace mantle is composed of pressed brick with fluted pilasters and "egg and dart" detail, likely purchased as an ensemble. The floors of the dining room include boxed strip floors of oak, and the staircase is an example of a "Good Morning Stair", in which steps rise from both the kitchen and the living room to join before continuing to the second floor, allowing occupants the chance to cross paths and greet each other with the start of their day.
Later homeowners included the Harris Bell and Robert Cameron families. When the proposal for a historic district on Johnson Street was considered during the 1980s, the Dalton-Bell-Cameron House was determined to be at the heart of the best-preserved street in the city. When historian Tom Hanchett evaluated the neighborhood, he discovered that Johnson Street had lost only one significant structure. Residents proudly rallied for historic district designation to maintain that track record. The city council granted that designation to Johnson Street in 1986.
The path of preservation was not easy. Restoration on the street proved to be contentious as property owners resisted decisions made about their properties. Just a few years after the district was designated, the Dalton-Bell-Cameron House seemed destined for destruction because a Main Street business wanted to build a parking lot there. Community leaders saved the house by devising an alternative plan for a screened parking lot. Then, in 1998, a fire damaged the house, but an intrepid preservationist named Mary Powell Young DeLille completed a careful restoration and saved it from destruction.
When fire struck again in 2012, a small group of preservationists gathered at the house to meet with the owner's representative. The outlook for the house was not good. The fire was so devastating that it compromised the structural integrity of the building. Some considered razing the house, a decision that would have left a disheartening breach on the historic street.
Preservationists worked once again to save the Dalton-Bell-Cameron House, requesting an opportunity to identify a new buyer to restore the house. Although many were intrigued by the project, none could make the numbers work. In the meantime, no stabilization was done by the owner to prevent interior water infiltration. Without a roof, the house deteriorated further and by 2017, the city considered the structure to be a nuisance and ordered that the house be repaired or demolished.
With the apparent final chapter of the Dalton-Bell-Cameron nearing, the newly revitalized High Point Preservation Society rallied to save the house by raising $34,000 in private donations over the course of five days to purchase the house. The Society then sold the property to Margaret and Rick Lewis with a preservation easement and rehabilitation agreement to restore the house. Margaret Bell Lewis was motivated for restoration – the house was her childhood home! She agreed to restore the house in partnership with the Junior League of High Point as a Designer's Show House. Aspire Magazine signed on as the project lead and orchestrated 21 spaces by designers as diverse as High Point, New York, Toronto, Denver, and San Francisco!
The Johnson Street Miracle is the result of High Point's "Can Do!" attitude, and its intrepid preservation community. The project is an important accomplishment for High Point in several ways. The Dalton-Bell-Cameron House remains important for its historic and architectural significance, upholding its critical role as the center piece for the 30-year-old Johnson Street Historic District. Its restoration also illustrates a renewed spirit of revitalization in the city. As a newly restored architectural landmark, the house will embody the city's preservation of its past, its determination to recreate an "Uptown," and its growing investment in the future.
The High Point Preservation Society has a healthy list of preservation projects under its belt. Incorporated in 1984, it was certified a nonprofit organization in 1986 and early achievements include restoration of the 1907 Southern Railway Passenger Depot and establishment of the High Point Preservation Commission to oversee our historic districts. Most recently, the HPPS collaborated with county commissioners to preserve the c.1900 Hedgecock Farmstead with 12 dependencies at Rich Fork Preserve and is supporting work to preserve the Reverend Blair House, the childhood home of jazz great John Coltrane on Underhill Street.
The High Point Preservation Society is deeply appreciative of the community support surrounding the preservation of this important house, from donors including Margaret and Rick Lewis to the Junior League of High Point, and sponsors and ticket-holders! It is with their partnership that this amazing project has been accomplished!
The Grand Opening Celebration will take place October 18th, 2019, at 6pm. Tickets for this fundraiser are $125.
Showhouse Tours will take place October 19 – November 3, from 10am till 5pm. Tickets are $25.
To purchase tickets or for more information, call 336-889-5479 or visit the website.
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For Centuries Russians Kept Their Milk Fresh By Dropping What Into It?
Modern science has shown that more than a few folk remedies and practices have actual scientific merit and an observable mechanism at play, but one thing modern science can't tell us is what exactly motivated people to begin the practice in the first place. A curious example of this is the old Russian practice of dropping a live Russian Brown Frog in a container of milk to keep the milk from spoiling.
Science can now tell us the reason the trick works is because the frog releases a slimy secretion from its skin that happens to have fantastic anti-bacterial and anti-fungal properties which kill off bacteria in the milk. Microscopic analysis of the process aside, however, that certainly doesn't tell us exactly how Russian peasants stumbled upon the method of using frogs as milk preservatives.
Fortunately, however, knowledge of the practice lived on in Russian folklore because the team of researchers who uncovered the link between the frogs and the unspoilt milk have discovered 76 unique peptides in the milky secretions from the frog's skin that have potential for pharmaceutical use.


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Friday, Sep 5, 2008, 11:43
Gold off low, but still below $800
Gold edged up on Friday on solid physical purchases by Asian investors after slipping near $790 an ounce, but the metal stayed under pressure on the dollar's strength and weaker oil prices.
Investors were also shaken by sharp falls in equities, prompting them to shift to dollars while pulling funds out of risky assets, including precious metals, but Asian bargain hunters were detected buying gold on dips.
"Gold started lower in Asia, falling near $790, but around the level we are seeing a big amount of physical gold buying from Asian players," said Yuichi Ikemizu, managing director at Standard Bank in Tokyo.
COMEX gold futures were also off lows after settling down $5 in New York the previous day. The most active December contract was trading at $802.5, down $0.7 or 0.1% from the New York settlement.
The benchmark August 2009 gold contract on the Tokyo Commodity Exchange was trading at ¥2,750 per gram, down ¥108 or 3.8% from Thursday.
Cash gold fell as low as $789.05 on Wednesday, its weakest in two weeks and near its nine-month low around $773 hit in mid-August.
Buyers in India, the world's largest consumer, bought in large volumes on price dips ahead of the peak festive season in October.
Investment bank UBS, one of the largest gold dealers, said that over the last two weeks, it had seen its strongest physical sales in 20 years.
But market participants were keen to see if further bargain hunting would emerge in the physical market.
Gold prices have been put under pressure, slipping about 5% over the past week, reflecting the strength of the dollar and plunges in oil prices.
The dollar rose against the euro after US service sector data came in stronger than forecast, then extended its gains after European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet said the euro zone was in a period of weak economic activity.
Oil prices fell below $108 on Friday after dropping nearly 8% this week.
"Investors are extremely careful about taking new risk positions, including oil and commodities, while funds are shifting into the dollar," said Tatsuo Kageyama, a market analyst at Kanetsu Asset Management.
"It could take a while before the market can fully restore their confidence to shift back their positions into commodities," Kageyama said.
Platinum dropped as lingering concerns over demand for autocatalysts due to news of poor car sales in the United States prompted investment funds to sell.
Platinum faced speculative sales amid talk that carmakers were selling their holdings back to the market due to poor sales.
US auto sales results announced earlier in the week showed they fell 15.5% to 1.25 million units or to a seasonally adjusted, annualized rate of 13.72 million units in August.
This marks the 10th straight month of declining sales in the US auto market - the longest such downturn since the 2001 recession.
The benchmark TOCOM platinum contract for August 2009 was trading at ¥4,670 a gram, down ¥242 or 4.9% from Thursday.
At one point during the day, the platinum contract fell by the daily ¥300 limit, or 6.1%, to ¥4,612.
Spot platinum was at $1,373.50/1,393.50 an ounce, down from $1,391.50/1,411.50 in New York. Palladium was little changed at $281.50/289.50 an ounce from late New York.
Silver rose to $12.77/12.82 an ounce from $12.74/12.80 late in New York. (Reuters)
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Q: Why Decimal(math.pow(2,60)-1) is NOT equal to Decimal(math.pow(2,60))-Decimal(1)? The decimal module provides support for fast correctly-rounded decimal floating point arithmetic.
I wrote this to learn this module.
from decimal import *
getcontext().prec = 19
print(Decimal(math.pow(2,60)-1))
print(Decimal(math.pow(2,60))-Decimal(1))

the weird this is, I got 2 different results.
1152921504606846976
1152921504606846975

why is that?
Note the number is a long integer rather than a float/double

A: That is not weird at all. math.pow(2,60) will return a float (1.152921504606847e+18) with all the float limitations, such as deducting 1 from this large number will not change the outcome and you use this arithmetic before applying Decimal.
Indeed Using Decimal overcomes this as well as using the ** instead of math.pow.
>>> 2**60
>>> 1152921504606846976
>>> 2**60 - 1
>>> 1152921504606846975

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El sklandrausis es un plato tradicional de la gastronomía letona que tiene origen livoniano. Se trata de un pastel dulce hecho con centeno, demasiado, rellenado con patata o zanahoria y sazonado con alcaravea. Se puede servir como entrante o como plato principal y es típico de muchas celebraciones en este país. En 2013 fue reconocido como especialidad tradicional por la Comisión Europea.

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Ontario's Immigration minister Mike Colle says the "career bridging" program will benefit more than 3,000 newly-landed Canadian immigrants.
Career bridging programs have proven to be a cost-effective means to help new immigrants establish their footing in the Canadian job market. The programs aid by providing the necessary skills that has the foreign-trained professional meet Canadian standards in professional, linguistic, and cultural knowledge. Ontario is home to over 120,000 new immigrants every year.
C$335,700 will go exclusively to providing assessment, education, and skills training to immigrants with relevant previous experience in construction. George Brown College will receive C$341,300 to offer a graduate certificate program in construction management. Colle expressed his desire to do a better job of matching immigrants' skills with Ontario's need for trained construction workers.
The new money will address the needs of two of the largest immigrant contingents: teachers and engineers. The Ontario College of Teachers will receive C$666,000 to provide 307 teachers with support for obtaining credentials. More than C$1.5 million will go to 7,000 foreign-trained engineers arriving in Ontario every year in order to upgrade their skills to Canadian standards.
Immigrants who possess the necessary experience in food and agriculture inspection can register in a new training program to obtain a professional agrologist designation. Health professionals will receive C$4.1 million to fund programs for respiratory therapists, anaesthesia assistants, cardiac diagnosticians, hospital administrators, midwives, nurses, and physiotherapists.


The wholesale sunglass displays Olympic Eyewear offers feature attractive designs and quality craftsmanship. Some sunglass displays feature brand logos for easy customer recognition. The counter top and floor display models are best for stationary store displays. The sunglass stands are models that are more portable and feature a cover, which makes them excellent for trade shows, sunglass demonstrations, conventions, farmers markets and other events that require mobile displays. The displays are sold in quantities of one.


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Release Party with MICT (Media in Cooperation and Transition) and live concert by Sudanese singer Alsarah
Sudan Votes Music Hopes
Apr 8 – Apr 8, 2010
Sudan, Africas largest country, votes from the 11th to the 13th of April - for the first time in 24 years. Together with the Berlin-based NGO Media in Cooperation and Transition (MICT), we celebrate the release of the first Sudan-wide and locally produced music sampler in the history of the country. "Sudan Votes Music Hopes" is being distributed in Sudan in the form of audio-cassettes and brings together songs from musicians from all parts of the country. The message of the music is: "Yes to political participation! Yes to fair and peaceful elections!"
The album has been compiled by the German musician Max Herre, former member of the hip-hop band "Freundeskreis", and was produced by MICT. 12 artists from all across Sudan are featured on the sampler, among them internationally acclaimed artists such as Emmanuel Jal, NasJota and Emmanuel Kembe, as well as local musicians from both North- and South-Sudan. The songs are being aired on national and local radio stations in Sudan in the time leading up to the elections. All songs can be downloaded for free online on www.sudanvotes.com/musichopes.
The music sampler is part of MICTs project SudanVotes (www.sudanvotes.com), an initiative that supports and trains journalists in Sudan in order to improve the standard of election coverage and debate in Sudanese media. The project is supported by the German Foreign Office. More information about MICT can be found here: www.mict-international.org.
On the 8th of April, the gallery hosts experts and artists who will offer an insight into Sudanese politics and culture. The debate will be accompanied by screenings of new music videos from Sudan. The Sudanese singer Alsarah (www.myspace.com/soulsudani) will perform an exclusive live concert at 9 pm.
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MANITOBA BOOK RELEASE
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AUGUSTIN TEBOUL, FASHION WEEK 2012
LESUNG AUS DEN BERLINER WAHLKAMPFPROGRAMMEN
POLARKREIS
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KOW ISSUE 8: GENERAL STRIKE
OPEN EYE AWARD 2010
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KOW ISSUE 6: Relational Authorship, or: What is "Independent Publishing"?
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8 Clever Christmas Gift Wrapping Ideas
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9 Last Minute Christmas Gifts Made From Paper
We've all been there. Christmas is suddenly right around the corner; you're feeling like summer only ended three weeks ago and now you're stuck for inspiration, time and/or pennies when it comes to what to get for your friends and family. We all know at least one person in our circle who is seemingly just...Read More
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Study Reveals That People Prefer Paper Books Over E-Readers
A new report has confirmed the increasing popularity of physical books over e-readers – especially on holiday where paper is the ideal companion. So how was your holiday? Go anywhere nice? Lots of sun? Hopefully, you have managed to get a summer break and are now dealing with the barrage of questions about your holiday....Read More
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More Ruminations about Al Qaeda's War on Scholarship
Aaron Zelin has an interesting and informative post over at al-Wasat that provides some very useful context to my recent post about the newest messages from Anwar Awlaki and Adam Gadahn.
My post analyzed a recent move by Al Qaeda's American shills to throw out any Islamic scholarship that potentially refutes Al Qaeda's positions on jihad in favor of truthiness -- following a gut feeling that military jihad in the form of killing Americans is simply right, or as Awlaki put it "obvious."
Awlaki openly argues that no scholarship is necessary to justify this conclusion; Gadahn argues that Al Qaeda has its own scholarship which supports jihad, but like McCarthy's oft-cited list of Communists in the State Department, you'll just have to take his word for it.
Aaron shows that there is a lot of historical context behind this move and that jihadists have historically thrown out scholarship that they don't agree with. I would tentatively argue that what's new(ish) here is an attack on the actual process of scholarship.
Of the examples Aaron cites, Hassan Al-Banna, Osama bin Laden, Ayman Al-Zawahiri and Muhammad Al Maqdisi all dispute the scholars who disagree with them, arguing that they are corrupt or simply wrong. That's a little different from what Awlaki is saying in his latest message, which is that scholarship is itself unnecessary -- a radical shift from a cleric who has in the past tried very hard to justify his own scholarly prowess.
Compare this to Abdullah Azzam, the father of the modern jihadist movement, who believed the conclusions of scholarship fully justified his position on jihad and bemoaned the lack of Islamic scholarship and education among the soldiers who came to Afghanistan. In "Join the Caravan," he wrote:
As for the juristic details of jihad, such as distribution of booty and treatment of prisoners of war, these matters have arisen in many regiments. Due to ignorance about them, however, they were forced to pass them on to an area in which there was a scholar or scholars who could give their decisions according to the Islamic law. You will become aware, on account of the profound signs left by the Arab youths of modest education (possibly not even surpassing secondary school), of the severe need for propagators, Imams, reciters of the Qur'an and religious scholars.
The final example Aaron cites is a particularly interesting one, from "The Neglected Duty" by Muhammad Faraj, which corresponds pretty closely to the position Awlaki just staked out:
So he who says that knowledge is Jihad must realize that what is fard [obligatory] is fighting … If a person wants to increase his knowledge … he could do so, because there are no restrictions on knowledge, which is available for everybody. But to delay Jihad because of seeking knowledge is an evidence of the one who has no evidence … However, we do not underestimate knowledge and scholars, rather we call for that. But we do not use it as evidence to abandon the obligations that Allah ordained.
While Faraj goes out of his way to say he's not underestimating scholarship, he's saying that thinking shouldn't get in the way of killing. Or, in American idiom, shoot first and ask questions later.
Rather than competing in the battlefield of ideas, Awlaki walks his readers through an argument that dismisses the entire debate and says that it is incumbent on individuals to accept the common-sense argument for jihad without regard for scholarship as a process, or finding consensus, another key process in Islam.
Fighting Satan does not require a jurisprudence. It does not require consulting. It does not need a prayer for the cause.
Gadahn says almost exactly the same thing in his recent message, emphasizing the supremacy of "common sense" over scholarship and learning:
I shall mention briefly here a number of obvious facts which young men recognize before old men and laymen recognize before Ulama [scholars]. [...] This is why anyone who wants to debate the legal basis for the contemporary Jihad must refute all those fatwas and reject all those proven consensus and not just make do with relying to one fatwa or Alim [scholar].
Gadahn, however, hedges his bets by explaining that the mujahideen have their own scholarly books of jurisprudence, which he may or may not disclose at a later date, assuming someone gets around to writing them.
In sum, I am reading these latest communiques as an attack on the process of scholarship itself, rather than on specific types of scholars, i.e., corrupt vs. pure, or modern vs. historical.
Will this initiative against scholarship per se (as opposed to fighting individual opinions) will take hold in Al Qaeda? We'll see. Back in the 1980s, I think you could get away with this, because there was much less emphasis on self-education about Islam. There was no Internet. Would-be jihadists were shaped by those who they met and learned from.
Today, the online pool of potential jihadists loves to endlessly dissect Islamic scholarship and pose as educated people themselves. You can find interminable, tedious arguments about fiqh, madhabs and precedents on almost every jihadist message board. This process helps harden extremist views for many of the participants. The lesson here? A little knowledge is a lot more dangerous than no knowledge.
On the other hand, the core argument used by Al Qaeda and other jihadist groups is more political than religious and is predicated on the assumption that Muslims are being victimized all over the world. This is the primary driver of jihadist recruitment; the religious arguments are a form of secondary reinforcement.
The approach Al Qaeda is beta-testing with these releases may attract more unstable people in the short term (a speciality of Awlaki's), but it's only going to accelerate the transformation of Al Qaeda's membership from soldiers to thugs, a shift that has been sapping the organization's effectiveness for some years now.
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The following highlights the Inductees welcomed as members to the Wetaskiwin and County Sports Hall of Fame in March of 2014.
Don Siler moved to Wetaskiwin with his family when he was 12 years old. With an athletic older brother involved in sports it was only natural that Don do the same. As a youngster he was involved in hockey, fastball and track and field. It wasn't until high school that he participated in football. After graduating from the Wetaskwin High School Sabre football program, Don continued his football career and played Junior Football with the Calgary Mohawks and then University Football with the Calgary Dinos. As the Dinos quarterback, Don led his team to their first ever Canada West Championship, their first Atlantic Bowl Championship and first Vanier Cup Final.
In 1981 Elvin Kopp married his wife Jan and they settled at their newly purchased "That'll Do Ranch" near Westerose Alberta. Raising cattle was one of their ventures and after time Elvin decided that he would like to have some help dealing with his cattle. Consequently, a year after he started his life as a rancher Elvin attended a dog training clinic (1982). When he saw what a stockdog could do he was "hooked". He bought a Border Collie pup at the clinic and started training his protege. In 1984, two years later, Elvin entered his first competition and three years after that (1987) he was the World Sheepdog Champion, a meteoric rise to the top. During his time competing, Elvin trained eleven different dogs to championships.
Bob Hartnell is being recognized for his volunteer work in recreation and sport in Wetaskiwin. Bob was chairman or a member of many recreation committees; was President or Governor of numerous sport or hockey related organizations and leagues; coached and/or managed many hockey teams; initiated many innovative programs and organized countless hockey activities. Through his involvement Bob has made significant contributions to the citizens of our community. The people of our community and especially the youth have benefitted immensely from the volunteer commitment of Bob Hartnell and acknowledge his outstanding efforts and accomplishments.


On Love Books Group today I have a special cover reveal for Moonlight on the Thames by Lauren Westwood. What do you think?
Dmitri loves conducting his pop–up choir during the festive season, meeting people, and spreading joy and cheer around London. But he carries deep secrets from his past that robbed him of his dream to become a concert pianist.
Can two lonely hearts and souls be unlocked by music and moonlight and will they discover the healing power of love?
Lauren Westwood writes romantic women's fiction and is also an award-winning children's writer. Originally from California, she now lives in England in a pernickety old house built in 1602, with her partner and three daughters.
Thank you to Catherine Jones and Melanie at Aria Fiction for the opportunity to be on the blog tour.
Nice to have something to look forward too, cold night, hot chocolate and this wonderful book.


The 10 acre tidal basin will be the location of a massive 650 wet/dry slip marina.
What was, for so many years, the Bellinger Shipyards on the Intracoastal off of Atlantic Boulevard will become an upscale condo development with 590 units and its own marina.
Jacksonville Intracoastal LLC bought the property for $9.4 million. The lucky residents will have about 1,000 feet directly on the Intracoastal waterway, and that huge, 10+ acre tidal basin will make the perfect 650-slip marina. Developers state that about 60,000 square feet of retail and office space will co-exist with the new luxury condos. Much more on this as it develops.


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British foreign secretary quits in protest over Theresa May's Brexit plan
This is the second resignation in a day, leaving the British leader's Brexit plans all but in tatters.
Published: JULY 9, 2018 17:47
Updated: JULY 9, 2018 20:49
Britain's Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Boris Johnson arrives at 10 Downing Street in London, Britain, July 3, 2018.
(photo credit: SIMON DAWSON/ REUTERS)
LONDON - Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson quit on Monday over Prime Minister Theresa May's plans to leave the European Union, the second resignation in a day leaving the British leader's Brexit plans all but in tatters.
After a day when the foreign secretary canceled meetings for crisis talks at his official residence in central London, Johnson decided to walk from his job - just hours after May's Brexit minister David Davis did the same in protest at her plans.
The two resignations leave May badly exposed at the top of a government unable to unite over Britain's biggest foreign and trading policy shift in almost half a decade.
It also puts a question mark over whether the leader will try to weather it and stand firm in her commitment to pursue a "business friendly" Brexit, or will be faced with more resignations and calls to quit herself.
"This afternoon, the Prime Minister accepted the resignation of Boris Johnson as Foreign Secretary," May's spokesman said in a statement. "His replacement will be announced shortly. The Prime Minister thanks Boris for his work."
The departures raise the stakes for May, who secured a hard-won agreement with her deeply divided cabinet of ministers on Friday to keep the closest possible trading ties with the EU.
Many eurosceptics are angry, saying the agreed strategy betrays her promise for a clean break with the EU, raising the prospect that some could try to unseat her.
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Donald McLean
CIOC President
Donald McLean CIOC President Mr. Donald McLean has been involved in sports from an early age, and has competed in sports such as: football, athletics, rowing, tennis, and sailing. In 1990 and 1993 he competed in the Central American and Caribbean Games in Sailing (J24) and 1996 Olympics in Sailing (Star class). "Mr. McLean competed […]
Lori Powell
CIOC Vice President
Lori Powell Vice President Mrs. Powell is the first female elected to the CIOC executive, and was also Vice President of the Island Games Association for almost 5 years. Powell has been actively involved with sports on the island for many yours, including serving for many years as Vice President of the Cayman Island Swimming […]
Carson Ebanks
CIOC Secretary General
Carson Ebanks MBE, JP Secretary General Mr. Ebanks holds the position of Secretary General of the CIOC, he has served 2 other terms as Vice President of the Committee. Mr. Ebanks served as Chef de Mission for the Cayman Islands team at the 1994 Victoria Commonwealth Games and joint Chef de Mission for the Cayman […]
Bernie Bush
CIOC Treasurer
Bernie Bush Treasurer of the CIOC. Mr. Bush has been serving as Treasurer since 2001, and was the first Caymanian Chef de Mission for the CAC Games in Mexico, and the Pan American Games in Cuba. In addition, Mr. Bush served as the former President for the C. I. Athletics Association, was the founder and […]


A one-time treatment for patients with wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is gaining popularity in Europe. Oraya Therapy, made by US-based company Oraya Therapeutics, Inc., is being offered at more locations in Europe, including a National Health Service hospital in the UK and several hospitals in Germany.
Oraya Therapy has already been a regular treatment option in hospitals throughout Germany, the UK, and Switzerland, increasingly embraced by patients, doctors, and insurance providers. The one-time treatment is a non-invasive therapy for wet AMD patients meant to maintain or improve vision and decrease frequency of anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (anti-VEGF) eye injections.
Anti-VEGF injections are a conventional and commercially available treatment for wet AMD, but the required frequency of injections poses a burden to patients who are often not able to receive the optimal number of treatments.
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Oreo-Stuffed Chocolate Chip Cookies are one of the most fantastic cookies you'll ever eat!
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If you love Oreos, these Oreo-Stuffed Chocolate Chip Cookies are to die for!
You will get a double dose of chocolate with these jewels.
I used these ingredients. You will need two bags of chocolate chips for each batch.
Soften butter. Add sugar, brown sugar, eggs, baking soda, baking powder, salt and vanilla.
Add UNBLEACHED all-purpose flour. Bleached flour toughens baked goods. Add chocolate chips and stir until ingredients are completely combined. Form dough around an Oreo cookie.
Here I'm smoothing the chocolate chip cookie dough around the cookie.
Spray cookie sheets with cooking spray. Place shaped dough balls onto cookie sheet. I flattened the balls down with my hand.
Bake at 350 about 20-24 minutes or until done. Rotate racks every eight minutes.
Oreo-Stuffed Chocolate Chip Cookies are the size of your palm! They're big enough for a whole meal!
Prepare yourself for a serious sugar high!
These sensational monster-sized Chocolate Chip Cookies have a delightful surprise inside because they're stuffed with Oreo cookies! They are wonderful for Christmas Cookie Exchanges, holiday or tailgating parties or anytime you want to wow your guests.
Shape dough with hands around a single Oreo cookie and place each ball of dough a several inches apart on greased cookie sheets.
Flatten cookie dough down with the palms of your hands.
Bake for 20-24 minutes or until edges are light brown and cookies are done.
NOTE: There are times when I'm making a double batch of this recipe where I have to add an additional quarter to half cup of flour in order to get the texture right. If the dough gets too sticky, add a little flour to the batter.
NOTE: I was baking three racks in the oven at a time with 12 cookies per cookie sheet (18x26" cookie sheets). My cookies took 24 minutes to bake. I rotated racks every eight minutes.
These mammoth sized cookies will cure ANY sugar craving you have.
I loved the way these cookies turned out. They're such a large cookie, that it's like eating about three normal-sized cookies. These are perfect for tailgating parties and the Super Bowl!
Oreo-Stuffed Chocolate Chip Cookies are also terrific for Christmas Cookie Exchanges and holiday parties. Prepare to have all your friends and family drooling and wanting more!
The pictures are a great help/tool!
Hi, Mona! These really were amazing. Thanks so much for stopping by.


The Upper House of the Afghan Parliament, Mishrano Jirga, has welcomed the agreement on establishing a government of national unity.
The senators praised President-elect Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai and CEO-designated Abdullah Abdullah for establishing a joint government which they believed would protect the country from crises.
The legislators asked the Ahmadzai and Abdullah to practice their previous commitments and immediately sign the proposed security agreement with Washington.
"We welcome the national unity government agreement which took place in a sensitive situation and it really saved the country from crises," said deputy chairman Senate Muhammad Alam Izidyar.
The senators mentioned continued support of Afghan Forces and protection of Afghan borders must top the Kabul demands in the singing of BSA.


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News13 tracks shootings — Map shows area hotspots for gun violence
by: Braley Dodson
Posted: Apr 13, 2021 / 12:12 PM EDT / Updated: Dec 28, 2021 / 11:08 AM EST
A map of shootings within News13's coverage area, as of Dec. 28, 2021.
News13 is tracking the shootings of 2021.
The map below displays shootings that have happened in Darlington, Dillon, Florence, Horry, Marion and Marlboro counties. It also includes shootings in Scotland and Robeson counties in North Carolina.
Shootings are listed even if no one was injured in the incident. Fatal shootings are marked in red. Non-fatal shootings are marked in blue.
Click on a marker for more details about a shooting. For some shootings, a specific address was not provided by police, and the marker will show a city center or an approximate area as the location of the incident.
Some markers are extremely close together and have to be zoomed in on in order to be distinguished from each other.
The map is updated daily with the most recent information.
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