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DON'T WAIT TO CREATE: Its nearly 2019!
With this year coming to an end, I have started planning for next years classes. I mentor a group of local quilters (21 of them) for 28 weeks in the year. They are constantly looking for new challenges. So my creativeness has been very limited due to time but I am very happy passing on my knowledge to others. As a big thank you to all the women who have mentored me over the years, I believe I have the responsiblity to pass on what I know to the next generation of sewers.
Check this out! Found in my garden last week while I was weeding. It is a section of garden that hasn't required my attention for a very long time (years). This was my husband's tee-shirt. Cotton Polyester mix fabric. Most of the cotton has rotted leaving only the polyester fibre and the label. He obviously didn't miss it and it must have fallen out of our bedroom window!
This is my first attempt at wet felting (below). I usually use my embellishing machine. This was harder on the hands but so much fun. I was under the strict guidance of my friend Sandra who wouldn't let me stop working the fabric until she was happy it was well felted. We used Ashford corridale and Merino/silk slivers. Such great colours (photo doesn't do it justice).
I turned my piece into a knitting needle roll for a friend.
her latest knitted item in 4ply Rowan yarn using pattern from the Patons Ombre baby book.
Spool Caps. Are you using the correct spool cap for your spool on your machine? I have been writing trouble shooting articles as part of one of my classes. Its amazing how such a simple thing can cause so much trouble.
In the picture above I am basting a cot quilt using fabric rolls. The backing is on the roll to the far left, next is the batting followed by the quilt top. The single roll on the right is part of the quilt that has been basted. Some quilters use swimming pool noodles. I thing the fabric rolls are to light as it was hard to keep the rolls still I may look into something slightly heaver like PVC pipping.
During the later part of this year, I ran several Trapunto classes using both traditional and modern methods.
This is Alison's sample. I really liked how she imiated the pattern in her fabric with her quiting.
This is my own method of Trapunto which does not involve cutting away or stuffing.


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Dealers, customers benefiting from DTNA's Elite Support program
by James Menzies July 28, 2015 @JamesMenzies
YOUNTVILLE, Calif. — It takes more than investments in bricks in mortar to expand the capacity and maximize the efficiency of a dealer network.
Investments must also be made into new processes if dealerships are to make the most of their existing space and improve their throughput. Friedrich Baumann, senior vice-president, aftermarket with Daimler Trucks North America, said the biggest of these investments within the DTNA organization is Elite Support. It's a voluntary program that recognizes dealers that meet more than 123 performance criteria. Dealers must also re-certify each year, meeting continuously tougher standards.
Participating dealers meet each year to refine the entry requirements and add new criteria. So far, 179 North American dealers belong to the program and they are offering an elevated service level to customers and achieving some valuable internal benefits as well.
One of the new requirements, added just this year, is that Elite Support dealers will soon need to be able to provide customers with information that will allow them to make decisions regarding their truck, driver and freight within two hours of a service event.
"This is really important for many reasons that directly impact the customer," said Catherine Auckland, director, aftermarket marketing with DTNA. "It allows the customer to make a decision about the big three (driver, truck and load) within two hours and enables improved throughput at the dealership because every truck's issue is known before it arrives."
Brad Fauvre, president, Velocity Vehicle Group with 24 locations in California, Nevada and Arizona, said becoming an Elite Support dealer has been beneficial in many ways.
"For those of us who have implemented it, it has fundamentally changed how we go about the business," Fauvre said during a press event here today. He noted the average throughput at one of Velocity's locations was five days before becoming an Elite Support dealer; it has been reduced to less than three days. Fauvre said a sidelined truck costs its owner about $1,000 a day in lost revenue.
"If we can save them a couple days, it really drives to their bottom line," he said.
Part of the process of becoming certified involves cleaning and organizing facilities.
"Tools can clutter and you might have a bay that's used to store jacks and other types of tools," explained Rick Reynolds, president and dealer principal of Peach State Truck Centers. "A dynamic of this program has been a lean systems approach. See where clutter is, eliminate waste, bring better order to our shops. That brings additional capacity to our shops."
"My facility is 50 years old," added Scott Pharr, president of Western Star dealer Piedmont Truck Center in Greensboro, N.C. "It took a big effort to get it cleaned up. Our people are more proud of it today."
Customers, it turns out, do care about a shop's cleanliness, confirmed Ray Hufnagel, president of truck fleet Plastic Express.
"We do care about how clean the shop is," he said. "If you don't have a clean shop, you're probably not running an efficient shop. We walk through and look at things."
Elite Support dealers also aim to provide a consistent level of service, even for transient customers. A fleet based in Edmonton, Alta. should receive the same quality service at an Elite Support dealership in Florida as it does at its local shop, dealers claim.
"That's the beauty of the Elite Support program; there's a level of quality and consistency not only in the way customers are treated, but the process the truck will follow to get repaired," said Reynolds.
Fauvre said about 80% of the work done at some of his locations are for transient customers. They don't get treated any differently than locals, he insisted.
"We've always seen it as terrific business," he said of transient customers. "We have to execute well on all of it."
Elite Support dealers who took part in a panel discussion here today said becoming certified has helped them retain technicians, who see their earnings increase due to improved efficiencies and take more pride in their cleaner, better-organized workplace.
And as customers learn about the program, some are seeking out Elite Support dealers.
"Our customers understand they get a higher level of service from an Elite Support dealer than they would get from a non-Elite Support dealer," said Baumann.
For Hufnagel, who once changed his entire fleet over to Freightliner from another brand because a dealer refused to cover a clutch job that Hufnagel said should've been under warranty, improvements at the dealer level have been critical in helping him run his business.
"You lose a truck for a day, that's revenue you'll never replace," he said.
by James Menzies @JamesMenzies
James Menzies is editor of Today's Trucking. He has been covering the Canadian trucking industry for more than 20 years and holds a CDL. Reach him at james@newcom.ca or follow him on Twitter at @JamesMenzies.
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Q: Generate report for every week I'm trying to get the report on weekly basis to know the status of how many were actually using the product.
This is my current query
select
COUNT(*) as 'TotalPurchased',
SUM(case when date<= DATEADD(day, -7, GETDATE())THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) as 'week1'
from #myreport

I wanted the output as
Totalpurchased   week1  week2 week3 ..........so on
  82              80     14    16

It should go upto year end.
I'm getting the output for only one week from the above query. I'm fetching the data from the temporary table with sql 2008 r2 environment.

A: You can use dynamic sql and PIVOT to do this if you're bent on returning columns:
DECLARE @cols AS VARCHAR(8000),
    @query  AS VARCHAR(8000)

SELECT @cols = STUFF((SELECT ',' +   QUOTENAME(YrWeek)
                    FROM (SELECT DISTINCT CAST(YEAR(rpt_dt)AS VARCHAR(4)) + '-' + CAST(DATEPART(week,rpt_dt)AS VARCHAR(2))'YrWeek'
                          FROM #myreport
                          WHERE rpt_dt > DATEADD(YEAR,-1,GETDATE()))sub
                    ORDER BY LEFT(YrWeek,4) DESC,RIGHT(YrWeek,2)DESC
                   FOR XML PATH(''), TYPE
            ).value('.', 'VARCHAR(MAX)')
        ,1,1,'')

SET @query = 'SELECT * FROM
                (
                SELECT CAST(YEAR(rpt_dt)AS VARCHAR(4)) + ''-'' + CAST(DATEPART(week,rpt_dt)AS VARCHAR(2)) YrWeek, COUNT(*)CT
                FROM #myreport
                GROUP BY CAST(YEAR(rpt_dt)AS VARCHAR(4)) + ''-'' + CAST(DATEPART(week,rpt_dt)AS VARCHAR(2))
                ) AS T1
                PIVOT (SUM(CT) FOR YrWeek IN ('+@cols+')) AS T2

'
EXEC(@query)

In this example it's pulling every week in the last year, from today backward.
Here's a demo, using just a list of dates and taking a count of records by that date, which I think is the same as what you're ultimately doing.
SQL Fiddle

A: Try something like this (you may have to adjust the date range as you need it):
SELECT
    COUNT(*) AS 'count',
    CONVERT(nchar(4), DATEPART(year, [date]))
     + '-' +
    CONVERT(nchar(2), DATEPART(wk, [date])) AS 'week'
FROM #myreport
WHERE
    [date] BETWEEN GETDATE() AND DATEADD(week, 52, GETDATE())
GROUP BY
    CONVERT(nchar(4), DATEPART(year, [date]))
     + '-' +
    CONVERT(nchar(2), DATEPART(wk, [date]))
WITH ROLLUP

The data is returned in rows rather than columns. Database queries work this way and it is highly impractical to try and force the data into dynamic columns. You can only resort to what Conrad said, or use dynamic sql (building a string with a while-loop) to do the same. I would not do that.
WITH ROLLUP will simply add another row with 'Week' = NULL and the total sum as 'Count'.

A: Try this for weekly report
SELECT
    FLOOR((DATEDIFF(DAY, 'YourStartDate', [DateColumn])) / 7) + 1 AS [Week],
    CAST(CAST(DATEADD(WEEK, FLOOR((DATEDIFF(DAY, 'YourStartData', [DateColumn])) / 7), 'YourStartData') AS DATE) AS NVARCHAR(16)) + ' - ' +
    CAST(CAST(DATEADD(DAY, FLOOR((DATEDIFF(DAY, 'YourStartData', [DateColumn])) / 7) * 7 + 6, 'YourStartData') AS DATE) AS NVARCHAR(16)) AS [Range],
    COUNT(*) AS [TotalPurchased]
FROM
    [Table] WITH (NOLOCK)
GROUP BY
    FLOOR((DATEDIFF(DAY, 'YourStartDate', [DateColumn])) / 7)
ORDER BY
    FLOOR((DATEDIFF(DAY, 'YourStartDate', [DateColumn])) / 7) + 1

Result will show you:
week number, range (from YourStartDate - up to 7 days) and TotalPurchased. You can also use CAST(GETDATE() as date) as a parameter instead of 'YourStartDate'

A: This is just another solution that you can tailor as you wish.
Note that there isn't a variable set of columns. Maybe you should re-question your requirements. Returning a result with variable set of columns will not just mess with your execution plan caching, it can represent a problem to your database mapping in application that needs that result.
Well, here it goes...
DECLARE @start datetime = '2012-6-1'

;WITH tally AS (
  SELECT TOP 52 -- change this if you want more or less than a year of data
    N = row_number() OVER(ORDER BY (SELECT 0)) - 1
  FROM master.dbo.syscolumns sc1)
,weekSums AS (
  SELECT
    N,
    val =
      (SELECT COUNT(*) -- Can be ISNULL(SUM(amount), 0) or something else
      FROM #myreport
      WHERE [date] > DATEADD(dd, N * 7, @start) AND at <= DATEADD(dd, (N + 1) * 7, @start))
  FROM tally)
SELECT
  totalPurchased = (SELECT sum(val) FROM weekSums),
  week1 = (SELECT val FROM weekSums WHERE N = 0),
  week2 = (SELECT val FROM weekSums WHERE N = 1),
  week3 = (SELECT val FROM weekSums WHERE N = 2),
  ...
  week52 = (SELECT val FROM weekSums WHERE N = 51)

You can see tally for week numbering, weekSums for summing it up and final select to show the results. It is fast, execution plan can be saved and reused (e.g. when wrapped in SP).
NOTE: This script CAN be finished with dynamic coalescing/stuffing but I don't support that kind of approach if not absolutely necessary.

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Das Boston Nature Center and Wildlife Sanctuary ist ein  großes Schutzgebiet im Bostoner Stadtteil Mattapan im Bundesstaat Massachusetts der Vereinigten Staaten. Es wird von der Massachusetts Audubon Society verwaltet.

Schutzgebiet
Auf dem Gelände stand früher die heute nicht mehr existente psychiatrische Klinik Boston State Hospital. Die Massachusetts Audubon Society hat es in einen weitläufigen Park umgewandelt und nutzt es unter anderem dazu, den Bostoner Einwohnern die Natur näher zu bringen. Auf den Wiesen und in den Feuchtgebieten des Schutzgebiets leben mehr als 150 Vogel- und mehr als 40 Schmetterlingsarten, zudem gedeihen dort über 350 verschiedene Pflanzenarten. Besuchern stehen  Wanderwege zur Verfügung, von denen die Hälfte barrierefrei zugänglich ist. Es gibt auch einen Gemeinschaftsgarten, der von 260 Familien bewirtschaftet wird.

Siehe auch
 Liste der Schutzgebiete der Massachusetts Audubon Society

Einzelnachweise

Weblinks

Schutzgebiet der Massachusetts Audubon Society
Geographie (Boston)

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The Consumer Technology Association (CTA) announced the CES 2020 Innovation Honorees. The CES Innovation Awards program is an annual competition honoring outstanding design as well as engineering in consumer technology products across 28 product categories.
A panel of industry experts judged submissions based on engineering qualities, aesthetic and design, functionality as well as consumer appeal. In addition, products recognized as Best of Innovation are given to those rating among the highest in each product category, or to multiple, in the event of a tie. However, a Best of Innovation designation is not guaranteed in each product category.
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The full list of Best of Innovation and Honorees were revealed prior to CES 2020. Honorees are showcasing their winning products in the Innovation Awards Showcase at CES 2020.
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Human Capable Norm Glasses
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Oct 20, 2018 | CNA News, Latest
I am pleased to introduce you to the newest members of our staff at Cardinal Newman Academy.
Jessica Pedersen joins us as music instructor. Jessica sings alto in James River Singers and previously was a soloist with the Richmond Choral Society and alto section leader in the choir at St. Benedict's Catholic Church. She has also sung in the Schola at St. Joseph Catholic Church and the University of Richmond Women's Chorale. Before moving to Virginia, Jessica sang in Idaho with the Boise Baroque Chamber Choir, Opera Idaho and the Boise Master Chorale, and in Arizona with the choir program at Northern Arizona University, where she studied history and music. Jessica and her husband David live in Chesterfield with their three sons.
Kate Lagarde teaches Latin and Invitation to the Pain of Learning. Kate previously taught at Veritas Preparatory School in Williamsburg, Virginia, and Chelsea Academy in Front Royal, Virginia, teaching courses in Latin, Theology, choir, and math, and led an extra-curricular Irish Dance club. Kate graduated summa cum laude, as the salutatorian from Christendom College with a major in philosophy and minor in liturgical music.
Susana Mulcahey teaches French. She graduated from the University of Connecticut with a Bachelor's Degree in French and a minor in Portuguese. Susana has also studied Italian, Spanish, and Arabic. She has also studied at the University of Lisbon and the University of Haute Normandie, Mont St. Aignan, France. Susana also has a Master's Degree in Special Education from North Carolina Central University. Susana has worked in a variety of settings, including French Language immersion, special needs education, Reggio Amelia, Montessori, and English Second Language (ESL).
Maya Walters is our Administrative Assistant. Maya attended Our Lady of Mount Carmel School and Peninsula Catholic High School. She graduated with a B.A. in History from VCU, where she served as a celebration leader for the Vacation Bible School and a religious education teacher at the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart. Following graduation Maya worked as a classroom assistant at Central Montessori School. She has also spent time volunteering for Sportsbackers Stadium, Hands On Greater Richmond, and as a DJ on WRIR. Maya is also an arboreal climbing assistant at Riverside Outfitters and is the community liaison at Gallery5.
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Xbox Series X: Release date, price, pre-order, controller and more
By Michael Andronico 13 January 2020
Everything we know about the new Xbox
(Image credit: Microsoft)
Goodbye Project Scarlett, hello Xbox Series X. Actually, make that just Xbox. Microsoft's next-gen console has finally been fully unveiled as a PC-shaped tower that promises to be the company's "fastest, most powerful console ever."
That means features like 4K visuals at a consistent 60 frames per second, 8K and 120fps capabilities, a beefy AMD Zen 2 processor and a next-gen SSD that will all but eliminate load times for upcoming games like Halo Infinite and Hellblade 2.
Here's everything we know about Xbox Series X, including the console's price, release date, controller, game lineup and more.
Update: Dec 17: Microsoft says that the Xbox Series X will simply be called Xbox, which opens the door for other consoles in the series.
Xbox Series X cheat sheet: What you need to know
What it is: Microsoft's most powerful game console ever
The name: The new console is simply called Xbox and Xbox Series X is the series name
Release date: Holiday 2020
Price: TBD
Key features: 4K visuals at 60 FPS, 8K and 120 fps support, ray tracing, near-instant load times
Key games: Halo Infinite, Hellblade II, full Xbox One backward compatibility
Specs: Custom AMD Zen 2 CPU, Custom NVMe SSD, GDDR6 memory
Xbox Series X release date
Xbox Series X is slated for a Holiday 2020 release, which will put it right up against Sony's PS5. Based on previous console launches, we're expecting it to hit sometime in November.
Xbox Series X price
Xbox Series X doesn't yet have an official price, but we expect it to go for a premium given its high-end specs. For context, both the original Xbox One and Xbox One X launched at a $499 price point.
However, you will have an option to pay for your Series X in installments. The upcoming console has been added to Microsoft's Xbox All Access program, which allows you to finance an Xbox One S or Xbox One X for as little as $19.99 per month. All Access members can upgrade to Series X starting in Holiday 2020 once they've made 18 payments.
Xbox Series X pre-order
Xbox Series X isn't quite available for pre-order yet, but we'll be sure to update this section once it is. However, if you sign up for Xbox All Access now, you can eventually upgrade to a Series X starting Holiday 2020.
Xbox Series X specs
Xbox Series X features a custom AMD Zen 2 processor that promises four times the power of the Xbox One X. Other features include ray tracing support, up to 120fps gameplay, 8K resolution, GDDR6 memory and variable refresh rate support. The system will also have a custom SSD that promises a 40x performance increase and virtually no load times.
Price TBD
Release date Holiday 2020
Processor Custom 8-core AMD Zen 2
RAM GDDR6 up to 16GB
Storage Custom NVMe SSD (capacity TBD)
Ray Tracing Yes
Maximum resolution 8K
Maximum framerate 120 frames per second
Other key features include Variable Refresh Rate support, meaning the console can change the refresh rate on the fly based on what type of TV or monitor is connected (that means that support for G-Sync and FreeSync monitors may be possible). Series X will offer Microsoft's Variable Rate Shading technology, which improves rendering performance without sacrificing picture quality.
With features like Auto Low Latency Mode and Dynamic Latency Input, Series X should offer more responsive inputs than previous Xbox consoles, which could be key for competitive games.
In an interview with Gamespot, Xbox chief Phil Spencer stressed that Microsoft is focusing on getting games to run at 4K at a steady 60 frames per second on Series X. Spencer also noted that fast load times is a major design priority, which is where the system's custom SSD will come in.
While Xbox Series X's high-end specs should easily power a VR headset, don't hold your breath for virtual reality on the next Xbox. Speaking to Stevivor, Spencer noted that VR is not a priority for Microsoft's next-gen console.
"I have some issues with VR — it's isolating and I think of games as a communal, kind of together experience," Spencer told Stevivor. "We're responding to what our customers are asking for and… nobody's asking for VR."
Xbox Series X controller
Xbox Series X will launch with a new version of the Xbox Wireless Controller. While it looks fairly identical to the current Xbox One controller, the gamepad will feature a dedicated Share button for easily capturing screenshots and game clips, as well as a revised d-pad based on that of the Xbox Elite Series 2 controller.
In a blog post, Microsoft also says that its "size and shape have been refined to accommodate an even wider range of people." Better yet, the new controller will also work with Xbox One and Windows 10 PCs.
Xbox Series X games
There will of course be some major titles releasing at the same time or shortly after the Series X launches to tempt people into buying the new console, but you won't need it to play these new games. Xbox has promised that the exclusives available on the Series X will also be playable on the Xbox One and PC, marking it from Sony's PS5-or-nothing approach to its launch games. It may sacrifice potential sales if players see they can get the same games on a platform they already own, but it's a gentler approach than Sony's taking, which may keep Microsoft in gamers' good books during the launch period.
Halo Infinite, the highly anticipated next installment in Microsoft's flagship shooter series, will launch alongside Xbox Series X in Holiday 2020.
At The Game Awards 2019, Microsoft studio Ninja Theory revealed Senua's Saga: Hellblade II, the sequel to the beloved 2016 psychological action game. The game is being built exclusively for Xbox Series X and PC, and the debut in-engine trailer should give you a solid idea of what the console is capable of.
We don't know much else about the launch lineup, but the Series X will support all existing Xbox One games, including the vast library of backward compatible Xbox and Xbox 360 titles.
Other titles confirmed or expected to be in development for next-gen consoles include The Elder Scrolls VI, Starfield and Grand Theft Auto 6, so it seems safe to assume that those will land on Xbox Series X as well. According to TechRadar, Rage 2 developer Avalanche Studios is working on a next-generation title.
During its fall 2019 earnings call, EA confirmed that it has a new Battlefield game in development for next-gen consoles (according to GameSpot). The publisher is also skipping this year's installment of NBA Live to focus on a next-gen version for 2020, as reported by Polygon.


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Monads, part three
Posted on February 28, 2013 by ericlippert
In this series we're approaching an understanding of monads "bottom up", by trying to suss out the pattern, rather than by going "top down", starting with category theory or functional language practice. Last time I identified five generic types that are frequently used in C#; today we'll start looking for commonalities beyond their being generic types.
Before we get into that though I want to call out three small ways that I'm going to try to increase the clarity of this exposition:
First, one of the types I mentioned last time was the generic delegate type Func<T>, which represents a T that can be produced on demand. The problem is that as we start exploring the higher-order functional programming nature of monads, I'm going to need to use Func<A, R> to represent functions of one variable, and it's going to get confusing to also use Func<T> to represent a T that can be produced on demand. I'm therefore going to from now on assume that we have a generic delegate
delegate T OnDemand<T>();
and use that as one of our examples of a monadic type.
Second, I mentioned last time that it is an accident of history that Nullable<T> restricts its type argument to non-nullable value types. I am going to ignore that inconvenient fact for the rest of this series and pretend that Nullable<T> can work on any type.
Third, I'm also going to ignore the fact that the Lazy<T> type has different thread-safety modes you can put it into; deriving a new lazy value from an old one probably should preserve the original value's thread safety mode. I'm going to ignore that issue.
OK, with that out of the way, let's dig in. The first thing to notice about the nullable, lazy, on-demand, asynchronous and sequence types is that they are all things that produce a value, more or less. The nullable type might not produce a value, and the sequence type might produce any number of values, but the values are always values of the underlying type. All these types are in some sense a "wrapper" around some number of values of the underlying type. And in fact, we can go farther than that. If you have a particular value of the underlying type, you can always easily make a wrapper type that produces that value:
static Nullable<T> CreateSimpleNullable<T>(T item)
{ return new Nullable<T>(item); }
static OnDemand<T> CreateSimpleOnDemand<T>(T item)
{ return ()=>item; }
static IEnumerable<T> CreateSimpleSequence<T>(T item)
{ yield return item; }
The Lazy<T> and Task<T> simple-value wrapper methods are left as an exercise.
And in fact this is the first requirement of the monad pattern: if M<T> is a monadic type then there's got to be an easy way to turn any value of type T into a value of type M<T>.
Now, you might think that of course the second requirement is "and you've got to be able to get the values back out again too". As we'll see, that's close but not quite right. The second requirement is more subtle than that, so we're going to approach it cautiously. We'll start with a very specific question: you can add one to an integer, but how do you "add one" to a monadic wrapper around an integer?
As we just spent eight entire episodes discussing, the compiler already knows how to do so to a nullable int. This is already "baked in" to the language; you just add one and the compiler takes care of everything for you. But if it didn't, we do know how to write the code. I'll write it much less concisely than normal to illustrate each step carefully:
static Nullable<int> AddOne(Nullable<int> nullable)
if (nullable.HasValue)
int unwrapped = nullable.Value;
int result = unwrapped + 1;
return CreateSimpleNullable(result);
return new Nullable<int>();
OK, that was easy. Notice that the operation of adding one to a nullable integer is of course another nullable integer, because the original one might have been null. But the operation here was very straightforward: if there is a value we unwrap it, then we perform the addition operation on the unwrapped value, and then we wrap the resulting value. Is that the general pattern? Let's look at another example and see what happens when we follow this pattern:
static OnDemand<int> AddOne(OnDemand<int> onDemand)
int unwrapped = onDemand();
return CreateSimpleOnDemand(result);
It looks plausible. It compiles. Is it correct? No. If you start with the delegate
()=>DateTime.Now.Seconds
and add one, you do not end up with
()=>DateTime.Now.Seconds + 1
but rather
()=>some fixed value
which seems wrong. The "on-demand-ness" of the left hand side of the addition has disappeared; its value becomes fixed at the moment that the AddOne method is called, and the resulting wrapped value no longer implements the desired semantics. The correct way to add one to an on-demand integer is to ensure that the new on-demand integer demands the original one itself:
return ()=>
(Again, I'm showing all the steps explicitly; realistically we'd write this code with far more concision.)
This preserves the desired semantics; now the original on-demand value is demanded every time the newly-demanded value is requested.
Now, in the correct code you'll notice that we did use the "unwrap and do the operation" mechanism. The difference between the nullable int operation and the on-demand int operation lies in how the resulting wrapped type is created. With the nullable monad we can get away with aggressively unwrapping the value, doing the computation, and producing a simple wrapper around the new value. The on-demand monad has to be a lot more clever about how the new wrapper is created; it is not a simple wrapper around a value. Rather, it produces an object whose structure encodes the sequence of operations that are going to happen on demand. (This ability is one of the key feature that makes monads useful; we'll return to this point later on in the series). In this case, it produces a delegate that invokes the original delegate.
Let's quickly go through the "add one" operations on our other integer wrapper examples. I'll continue to be unnecessarily verbose.
static Lazy<int> AddOne(Lazy<int> lazy)
return new Lazy<int>(()=>
int unwrapped = lazy.Value;
Unsurprisingly, adding one to a lazy integer looks a lot like a combination of adding one to a nullable integer and adding one to an on-demand integer. Note that the original lazy value is not computed until the new lazy value is computed; the laziness is preserved.
async static Task<int> AddOne(Task<int> task)
int unwrapped = await task;
Well that was easy! This looks even easier than the nullable example we started with, but that's because we are taking advantage of the C# 5 compiler's ability to generate a whole lot of code on your behalf. As an exercise, try writing the AddOne operation on asynchronously-computed integers in C# 4.
static IEnumerable<int> AddOne(IEnumerable<int> sequence)
foreach(int unwrapped in sequence)
yield return result;
Again, we are taking advantage of the C# compiler's ability to write lots of code on your behalf. It is instructive to write out this code without using foreach or yield. And of course this code code be even more concise; this could be written:
return from item in sequence select item + 1;
All right, what have we learned so far?
The first rule of the monad pattern is that there's always an easy way to go from a value of the "underlying" type to a value of the "wrapped" type.
The second rule of the monad pattern is that adding one to a wrapped int somehow produces another wrapped int, and does so in a way that preserves the desired "amplification".
That second rule looks like it could use some work. Next time on FAIC we'll start to generalize from our example of adding one to a "wrapped integer" as we continue to refine the second rule of the monad pattern.
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31 thoughts on "Monads, part three"
Joshua Rodgers on February 28, 2013 at 9:22 am said:
Excellent post as always, Eric. I've always used Monads in a more intuitive way (i.e. they're just a common pattern), but never really understood them coming from the functional perspective. Your bottom-up approach is starting to really clear them up for me conceptually and I think I can see where this is going, now.
Kabwla Two-Lips on February 28, 2013 at 9:55 am said:
He's not going to write a Graph/Sudoku solver again, is he?
Lars K on March 1, 2013 at 8:11 am said:
Yes. Brilliant. 🙂
The post actually had me thinking: "What awesome new C# 6 feature could he be building up to with this?" Maybe we'll see a new 'bind' keyword announced on April 1. 😛
Tudor on March 8, 2013 at 7:31 am said:
Unfortunately he no longer works for Microsoft.. 😦
Brian on August 16, 2013 at 3:56 pm said:
Not working for Microsoft any longer really wouldn't get in the way of an April 1st announcement, would it?
InBetween on February 28, 2013 at 12:52 pm said:
Great post as always. On a side note, what happened with you FAICasting? Any progress?
Eric Lippert on February 28, 2013 at 3:14 pm said:
I made considerable progress at the end of last year when I had some time off; my last eight castings worked well. But I've gotten busy with a new job, and I can't melt aluminum in the rain. I'll pick it up again in the spring.
Cool, looking forward to it! Your blog inspired me to start learning about casting myself, it's something I've wanted to try for a while.
Codecat on March 1, 2013 at 1:49 am said:
Would it be safe to use decorators as a metaphor for monads, or would that lead to terrible misconceptions further down the line? The fit seems quite good so far!
Dev on March 18, 2013 at 11:07 pm said:
good metaphor although Monads is more abstract than decorator. It provides you a way to compose any number of functions to any scale.
Sam on March 1, 2013 at 2:12 am said:
Looks like debugging these things could be a real pain, not?
RaceProUK on March 1, 2013 at 7:21 am said:
Don't see why – you can set breakpoints in lambas, and all the normal VS debugging tools will work correctly in that context (in my experience anyway).
Eric Lippert on March 1, 2013 at 8:09 am said:
It depends. On the one hand, debugging asynchronous workflows can be tricky. You don't have the "call stack" crutch to lean on because it is no longer the case that *where you came from* is logically connected to *where you're going next*. And it is hard to look at a bunch of tasks and understand how they are all related.
On the other hand, objects that represent workflows can also be easier to debug with a little work up front. LINQ queries are essentially monadic workflows and there are debugging tools to help you, say, see what SQL is going to be spit out the other end.
defaultex on March 2, 2013 at 1:53 am said:
Having recently done up a multi-threaded XML serializer/deserializer that made very heavy use of monads. Yes it can be a real pain.
for (i = 0; i { DoStuff(i); };
for (i = 0; i { DoStuff(j); };
With another thread (or in my case many other threads) calling someDelegate(). You can even stick a break point in the lamda and still not see what's going on. But the second one produces the expected results, the first is very unpredictable especially if those other threads are not busy and someDelegate is going into a ConcurrentQueue.
Bah it mangled the loop declaration. Just picture a loop with a lot of iterations, the second one with "int j = i" before a lamda declaration.
tobi on March 1, 2013 at 7:31 am said:
Although I already kind of understood monads this explanation has sharpened my understanding of them. Even though I learnt no additional formal knowledge I can now make more sense of monads.
I feel the formal way of explaining them is very useful and concise … for people who already understand them! All others get lot in the details and in the formulae.
Chris B on March 1, 2013 at 1:55 pm said:
Sounds a lot like the story presented here: http://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/blog/archives/monthly/2013-02.html#e2013-02-12T14_53_00.htm
Carl D on March 1, 2013 at 8:17 am said:
"concision" What a wonderful word. Great series already! Looking forward to the rest of the journey – I've read many articles on the "what are they" of monads but never really got to the "why do I care" level of understanding.
Ralph Becket on March 3, 2013 at 7:36 pm said:
I confess I never had much trouble understanding monads, although I've always found the "explanations for OO programmers" to be confusingly verbose (although given the comments on these posts, that makes me an outlier!).
In the past I have always explained monads like this:
Imagine you have a sequence of processing steps you want carried out in order, each step being a function whose output is the input to the next step (i.e., step -> step -> step -> …).
Now imagine you want to extend this idea in two ways:
– you want to add some meta-data (e.g., you want to also count how many steps have taken place);
– at any point you want to be able to skip the rest of the steps (or possibly take different successive steps) depending on the meta-data.
Moreover, you'd like to do this without having to make changes to your "step" functions.
At this point you might come up with the idea of a "glue" function to join your steps together. Now your processing function looks something like this step -> glue -> (step -> glue -> (…)). The "glue" has the job of updating the meta-data (e.g., incrementing the "number of steps" counter) and/or making a decision (e.g., if the number of steps has reached some threshold, skip the remaining steps).
Some glue functions are very simple (e.g., for the Nullable type). Others may be more complex (e.g., for parsing or tree searching or for pure IO or …).
Now, if you call your set-up function (which contains the initial input and meta-data) "return" and your glue function "bind", then you pretty much have a monad.
Because the "return" and "bind" functions all have the same "shape", you can construct families of operations over monads which do useful things for ALL monads, all without having to change your original "step" functions.
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Rob on March 4, 2013 at 12:52 pm said:
Does the pattern indicate whether there should be side effects? (Coming from functional programming, it seems as if it should not). E.g., wrapping a Lazy, given that the monadic pattern as you indicated should encode the *sequence of operations*, it seems as if the operations for initializing the original Lazy shouldn't initialize the original Lazy, but in fact should be encoded in the new Lazy's initialization and the original should be unaffected.
Eric Lippert on March 4, 2013 at 2:59 pm said:
The intersection of monads, side effects and functional languages is precisely what motivates their use in those languages: monads are used in purely-functional languages to encode the notion of "these side effects must occur in this order", even though such languages discourage side effects and often do out-of-order evaluation.
anonymous on March 5, 2013 at 12:15 pm said:
(Disclaimer: I'm not familiar with C#, I am familiar with Haskell, and I am unfamiliar with and eschew Category theory.)
It appears to me that all of the AddOne examples are actually demonstrating a Functor instance for each type, not a Monad instance.
The property is described as: "we unwrap it, then we perform the addition operation on the unwrapped value, and then we wrap the resulting value."
If we replace "addition operation" with "an operation", then whether or not we are describing a Functor or Monad depends on whether that operation knows about the wrapper or not.
In the case of adding one (where we think of the + operator as a two argument function), it's arguments and return do not involve the wrapping type, so this is a Functor property.
If the operation *returns the wrapping type* then it is a Monad.
I hope this clarification helps. IMO, it's helpful to introduce Functors first (and all of these examples actually do so!), and then proceed to Monads. (There is also a common middle step called Applicative.)
That is precisely what I am attempting to do — introduce functors and then procede to monads — but I am attempting to avoid saying "functor" any more than necessary because I'm trying to keep this friendly to developers who don't have a background in functional programming, algebra, etc. Thanks for the note!
alendar on March 22, 2013 at 2:39 am said:
I'm doing some code testing and I noticed the method
async static Task AddOne(Task task)
will actually work only if the task parameter is started, otherwise it should be started before the await line, right?
Eric Lippert on March 22, 2013 at 8:11 am said:
Good point; the question of whether tasks are "hot" — started as soon as they are created — or "cold" — started explicitly — was a long debate when we were designing async/await. I'm glossing over those kinds of details in this series.
Alex on July 8, 2013 at 8:32 am said:
I'm sure I must be doing something stupid, but I can't figure out what. The "CreateSimpleNullable" function refuses to compile for me, on both VS2010 and VS2012. The section "return new Nullable(item);" gives an error on the which reads "The type 'T' must be a non-nullable value type in order to use it as parameter 'T' in the generic type or method 'System.Nullable'
Gaah. Didn't realise the comments would strip of angle brackets and any contents. The two incorrect bits should read:
return new Nullable<T>(item)
gives an error on the <T> which reads
Nullable (of T) has a constraint on T that says that it must be a "struct" (i.e. a value type). Somewhere in the introduction to all this, Eric pointed out that he was going to ignore that constraint in his discussions. If you want to get things to compile, you will need to constrain T properly.
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At the age of 25, Jose Rivera made a life-changing decision. He and his wife Imelda decided to leave their native Puerto Rico for better opportunities on the United States mainland. Jose earned a degree in Veterinary Science and put his love of animals to work as an ICU Surgical Vet Technician. Now in his 50s, Jose is an avid cyclist and runner, logging multiple 5k and 10k races per month, Jose never imagined he would find himself at the crossroads of another life-changing event.
After dinner one evening, Jose and Imelda were discussing plans for a home renovation project when suddenly his speech became slurred and his face began to droop. His wife, who is a physician, knew immediately that something was seriously wrong. She called 911 just as Jose passed out.
He was rushed to the ER at Medical City Denton where doctors confirmed he had stroke caused by a brain aneurysm. He was placed in an induced coma and a tracheostomy was performed to support his breathing. After 10 days in the ICU, Jose began to show some signs of improvement, but a full recovery was still a long way off.
For more than a month, Jose worked tirelessly on rehabbing his body physically and building his endurance, balance, and ability to perform daily life tasks. By the time he completed his inpatient stay, he was able to walk with a walker, but still had some cognitive challenges. Jose, however, had bigger goals in mind: He wanted to get back to biking, running, and working with his beloved animals again.
That's when Jose turned to the Day Neuro Program at Baylor Scott & White Institute for Rehabilitation – Frisco (BSWIR-Frisco), a unique care setting designed to help prepare patients who require extensive neurological rehab return to work and an independent lifestyle.
Jose's priority was to get rid of his walker. Each day, he worked tirelessly with his physical therapists (PT) daily on balance exercises and incorporated mental and physical tasks with walking. Jose reached a milestone when he was able to maintain his balance without assistance.
"Shelby, my PT, pushed me but in a great way. She never let me pity myself."
Jose soon retired his walker and as his balance continued to improve, he asked his PT if he could get out on his bicycle. Six-mile rides turned into 11-mile rides and with every small victory, Jose gained greater confidence and motivation to keep going. During recreational therapy, Jose would tend to the garden in our courtyard and would even use vegetables he helped grow to make homemade pizza for his entire therapy group. To improve his cognition and memory, Jose's speech-language pathologist incorporated computer-based activities into his treatment. He admits he didn't particularly enjoy one of the games at first, but soon came to appreciate its value in improving his memory and helping him accomplish complex tasks, two important skills needed to return to his job.
By the time Jose completed the Day Neuro Program at BSWIR-Frisco, he was biking, running, gardening and ready not only to get back to work, but to tackle the home renovation project he and his wife were planning.


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Colombian Rueda has left as Chile's national coach
Colombian Reinaldo Rueda is no longer the national coach of Chile. The 63-year-old trainer will probably return to his home country to take over the national team again. He had been in office in Chile since the beginning of 2018.
Rueda led Chile to fourth place at the Copa América in 2019. He previously worked as national coach of Colombia, Honduras and Ecuador. He was present at the World Cups of 2010 (with Honduras) and 2014 (with Ecuador).
Rueda's successor must lead Chile to the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. The Chileans started the South American qualifying tournament poorly with 4 points from four matches.
Source: RTL Nieuws by www.rtlnieuws.nl.
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The invisible Korean hand in injustice to Sarita
Indian woman boxer Sarita Devi and her cousin Devendro Singh justifiably feel cheated, robbed and deprived of possible gold medals at the Incheon Asian Games.
Ever since the decision went against her, Sarita Devi was only seen crying inconsolably and she obviously took it to heart. That was evident from the way she refused to accept the bronze awarded to her for her semi-final loss in the lightweight division.
Intriguingly, both the Indian boxers lost their bouts against the Korean opponents and there lies the catch. There are ways and ways to get a verdict in your favour in non-measurable sports. In boxing, a bench of three judges adjudicates a bout and the outcome is decided on a majority vote.
There was no need of a review or protest over the verdict after the reported statement of Sarita's opponent Park Jina that she was embarrassed as the Indian was the clear winner. If she had indeed stated thus then the judges should be investigated and punished.
By all accounts what happened to Sarita was blatantly unfair and what she did at the prize distribution ceremony was her emotional outburst. As an international boxer of standing even she knows that she has crossed the line by refusing to let the bronze medal be put around her neck, but then these things happen at the spur of the moment even though the International Boxing Association (AIBA) see it differently.
Now Sarita faces the severest punishment meted out for her lack of sportsmanship - a ban from the ring for life by AIBA, unless some influential officials of the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) and International Olympic Committee (IOC) plead on her behalf to treat her leniently considering the emotional stress she was in. But the OCA has a sort of exonerated her by reinstating her bronze medal.
Boxing bouts are notorious for subjective considerations. It is too much of a coincidence that apart from Sarita and Devendro there was another bout involving yet another South Korean and it went against a Mongolian boxer.
What defies boxing logic is that all three judges gave the bout to the Korean, making it amply clear that the decision was taken even before the boxer got into the ring!
Mary Kom, the flyweight gold medallist quipped "of course Park won because she is Korean" and that sums it up.
In sport, the people controlling international federations have enormous clout. For over three decades Pakistan's late Anwar Chaudhry ran AIBA with an iron fist, first as secretary general and then as president before he was overthrown by the incumbent president Chinese Tapei's Chin-Kuo Wu in 2006.
An engineering professor, Chaudhry was ruthless. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) questioned his selection of judges and referees and even stopped grants to AIBA until there is fair play in that sport. He was even accused of manipulating results, making Pakistani boxers victors. He lost his post eventually facing the usual allegations of embezzlement of AIBA funds. Still, he managed to poll 79 votes to Wu's 83 and it only shows how well he took care of his vote bank.
The current president, onsidered a decent person, has funnily nothing to do with boxing as such. He was a basketballer, though he has been associated with boxing in his country.
The AIBA has a secretary general in Caner Doganeli of Turkey. But he also doubles up as a vice president and he doesn't seem to have control over his principal post.
For all practical purposes the secretary-general's work is apparently being handled by Executive Director Ho Kim of South Korea. That explains why the Koreans are taken care of in the ring.
Another example of South Korean manipulation came during Chaudhry's time when in 1988 Olympics in Seoul, their boxers had a windfall. In one of the fights, the video showed the American boxer landing 86 punches to the Korean's 32 and yet three of the five judges gave the bout to the latter. An independent review of Sarita's bout can clear the matters and India should approach the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CSA).
In the 1982 Asian Games the Koreans tried to get pally with an Indian basketball referee knowing that he would be officiating in their match against China. The tried to gift him expensive gadgets, but the ref was too smart not fall for the bait and he promptly reported the matter to the organisers.
The sport is replete with such manipulations by the authorities. Hockey is the best example. After being subjugated for decades, the Europeans came back with vengeance by changing rules to suit them and to the disadvantage of the Indians. India slowly lost its voice in the corridors of power and that meant they could not even stop umpires inimical to them from being posted for their matches.
It is simple, you either have a say in the board room to take care of your team or perform so well on the field of play so that you have the clout.
(Veturi Srivatsa is a senior journalist. The views expressed are personal. He can be reached at v.srivatsa@ians.in)


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Q: Rails simple_fields_for with array not working I have a form of a user and a user has many trips (a trip belongs to one user only). When editing the user, i also want to be able to edit the number of people attending the trip. the thing is i only want to show trips that lay in the future. for that i have a method def future_trips inside my user model.
now, i can display the edit page of the user just fine, but it doesn't show the trips. this is my view (in haml):
- simple_form_for model do |f|
  = f.input :username, disabled: true
# ... some more stuff...

  %hr/
  .table-container
    %table
      %thead
        %tr
          %th= 'Trip name'
          %th= 'Amount people'
      %tbody
        %p= model.future_trips.size # shows 2
        #THIS DOES NOT WORK:
        - f.simple_fields_for model.future_trips do |form|
          %tr
            %td= 'hello'
            %td= form.input :attendees

in my user.rb model i put accepts_nested_attributes_for and has_many :trips and in my trips.rb model I have belongs_to :user.
Why is it not working? I thought simple_fields_for worked with an array.

A: It was a stupid mistake... I typed
- f.simple_fields_for model.future_trips do |form|

but the correct way would be
= f.simple_fields_for :trips, model.future_trips do |form|

So i used - instead of = and forgot :trips. that was the problem


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Why Lauren chose the name: Sometimes a name just fits! Having watched Doe #19 wandering about the Cincinnati Women's Club property several times, Lauren felt drawn to the name Juniper, or Junie for short, and we here at "deer headquarters" think its perfect!
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For the first two years of our program, Juniper was our resident culinary critic, eschewing the offerings of corn at our bait sites that most other deer find so alluring. In fact, a member of our team once observed her sniffing disdainfully at the corn before turning away with her head held high, rather as though she had expected a four star restaurant only to be taken through a McDonald's drive-thru.
We aren't quite sure what changed, but these days Junie is a frequent visitor to our bait sites. Has our corn gotten better or has she lowered her culinary standards? She's not saying ….
Avenue with her BFF, ~6 year old Doe #17. The pair is often seen with Doe #17's final fawn, a now-all-grown-up strapping young buck (who unlike most male fawns, hasn't yet left his mother).
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Ford Foundation donation has kept players in football
Eastern Commerce/Monarch Park team now in its fourth season
Eastern Commerce/Monarch Park players go through practice on Thursday. The team, started with help from the Rob Ford Foundation, is now in its fourth season.
By Ryan Young
While Mayor Rob Ford was in political hot water this week, the Eastern Commerce/Monarch Park high school football team his foundation helped kick-start was getting set for its fourth season.
The two schools joined forces in 2009 and are one of a group of underprivileged local schools that have received funding from the Rob Ford Football Foundation.
This is the same foundation that the mayor is facing a lawsuit over for allegedly violating the Municipal Conflict of Interest Act during a Feb. 7 city council meeting where he and fellow councillors voted to rescind a previous order that he repay $3,150 in donations to his foundation from lobbyists and clients of lobbyists.
Sean Henderson, head coach of the football team and head of the science department at Eastern Commerce, is no politician but he can attest to the financial help the program received to get started from the Rob Ford Foundation.
"I won't comment on anything political," said the 31-year-old at his team's first practice behind Eastern Commerce on Thursday. "But I can say with certainty that Ford's foundation put money into this program."
Along with the Toronto Argonauts and some in-school fundraising, the football program launched after receiving roughly $30,000 according to the team's general manager and Eastern Commerce faculty member Lesley Wallace.
"It's always in the back of our minds how long we can keep this thing going," Wallace said, while also pointing out that the school needed to spend $2,000 to recondition 50 helmets before this season.
"It's been nothing short of a miracle how well the kids have got along together. They've become personal friends."
Wallace and Henderson, a former University of Toronto football player, have been at the forefront of the program since its inception. A little help is always needed, however, and Henderson came by some honestly when the program first started.
"While running one of our first practices I was struggling handling all the kids when a passerby noticed and offered to help," Henderson said, of Scott Wooder, a former Queens University football player. "At the end of the day he said he'd be happy to come back tomorrow and he's been here every day since."
Eastern Commerce boasts a student body of roughly 350 students and Monarch Park a little under a thousand.
The football team has had its growing pains on the field competitively — they finished 0-4-1 in the Toronto School Board District's Tier 2 East/West Region last season before a tough playoff loss, but the benefits of having the program are apparent.
"It's helped build a football mentality around the school," Henderson said. "We've had a lot of students that have faced tough circumstances where they've struggled and the natural option is to just quit.
"It's hard to stick with this and that when things get hard but with the older guys on the team to look up to it makes it easier.
"The twinning of schools has been great not only for the players but the neighbourhood as well. It helps bring the whole community together."
Running back Ted Koulakis has played on the team every year.
"We lost a lot of close games last year but we have great coaches who teach us it's not just about winning, its learning life lessons," said the 18-year-old.
"This year we have some new guys and a new quarterback, but we also have some experience and want to win. We're a smaller team but we got the mentality to hit big and play big."
The schedule for the season won't be released until later this month but the team will be playing all of its games on the road this year as their home field at Monarch Park is currently under construction while being upgraded into a dome.
With the three extra away games it will cost an additional $1,000 for buses according to Wallace.
It's all worth it in the end for the student-athletes, says Koulakis.
"If I weren't playing football I'd probably be going home and just playing Xbox and doing homework." he said.
"Probably just Xbox."
By: Ryan Young
Posted: Sep 7 2012 5:51 pm
Filed under: Football • High School • Sports
Topics: Canadian Football League • Monarch Park • Rob Ford • Sean Henderson • Toronto Argonauts
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3 shot in Vancouver apartment lobby; suspect barricaded
Police didn't know yet what led up to the shooting or the identities of the people who were shot.
3 shot in Vancouver apartment lobby; suspect barricaded Police didn't know yet what led up to the shooting or the identities of the people who were shot. Check out this story on kitsapsun.com: https://www.kitsapsun.com/story/news/2019/10/03/3-shot-vancouver-apartment-lobby-suspect-barricaded/3859235002/
GILLIAN FLACCUS, Associated Press Published 4:32 p.m. PT Oct. 3, 2019
Police respond to a shooting at an apartment building, top rear, in Vancouver, Wash., Thursday, Oct. 3, 2019. Vancouver police say a resident of the building shot several people in the lobby of the Smith Tower Apartments. (Photo: Gillian Flaccus, AP)
VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) — A man opened fire Thursday in the lobby of an apartment building for seniors in Vancouver, Washington, striking at least three people, authorities said.
Fire officials said two people with critical injuries were transported to a hospital.
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Austin Studebaker was buying drinks at a Plaid Pantry across the street from the apartment building when he saw "the most cop cars I've ever seen in my life swarm in."
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Vancouver is a city of about 175,000 people just north of Portland, Oregon.
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We are regularly asked our advice on how to style a beautiful rustic wedding and we start by establishing the time of year that the couple are planning to get married and quite how 'rustic' they are prepared to go! This year we've witnessed a real move towards a more 'Rustic Glam' feel with the introduction of more sparkle, mercury glass and sequins to the look.
Spring bulbs in galvanised pots make lovely homespun centrepieces – a job for the green-fingered amongst your bridal party! 1. Daffodil yellow can be teamed with neutrals such as navy, grey or stone to create a colour palette with a nod to spring. Add in rustic textures such as hessian and bark to complete the look. 2. Use pairs of distressed stone urns planted with hellebores to dress your alter, or stand on pedestals at either end of the top table. 3. Create simple, tall centrepieces using small blossom branches in enamel jugs. 4. Blue and white vintage crockery works brilliantly with spring bulbs and can evoke a country farmhouse feel. 5.
Choose cottage garden flowers such as delphiniums, phlox and daisies to create the feel of the countryside. Finish bouquets and containers in hessian and twine. 6. Use hay bales as seating outside your reception venue, top them off with mis-matched vintage blankets and eiderdowns. 7. Ask the creative members of your wedding party to create outdoor signage on old doors, crates and pallets, for a rough and ready personal detailing. 8. Lavender plants in aged terracotta pots make inexpensive centrepieces. 9. Use a rusty old wheelbarrow, filled with ice, to present and serve bottled drinks. 10.
Pumpkins and gourds can be hollowed out for floral or candlelit centrepieces. 11. Attach place names to apples and place at every place setting to give a pop of colour and a bonus pre-starter snack! 12. Wrap simple glass containers in pliable bark and tie with jute and twine to create vessels with a rustic feel. 13. Consider oak leaves in your bouquets to provide texture and a real seasonal detail. 14. Use log slices to display your centrepieces or decorate a dessert table to add height variations. 15.
No rustic winter wedding would be complete without copious amounts of twinkly lights wrapped around uprights and hanging from the ceiling. 16. Raise hurricane lamps on sections of small tree trunks to give them height and finish with holly and berries around the base. 17. Lots of pillar candles en masse can be very atmospheric in the right rural setting. 18. Place simple bare twigs and branches in tall, slim containers and finish with a dusting of artificial snow. 19. Team antique, 'mercury' glass in shades of silver, champagne and gold with more natural elements such as hessian and vintage cotton doilies to add a touch of glamour to your rustic look. 20.


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by xymphora xymphora.blogspot
Entered into the database on Wednesday, August 02nd, 2006 @ 12:46:10 MST
Before I leap back into the world of boycotts, a slight detour into the subject of the American anthrax attacks:
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld owns a considerable number of shares in a corporation called Gilead Sciences;
Gilead owns the intellectual property rights to Tamiflu;
Tamiflu is a pharmaceutical touted by the Bush Administration as a remedy for anthrax (although in fact it is not indicated for anthrax);
the anthrax attacks on the United States vastly increased the demand for Tamiflu, and thus increased the value of Gilead, and thus made Rumsfeld a lot of money;
the anthrax for the attacks almost certainly came from an American military laboratory at Fort Detrick;
one of the named suspects at the lab is Philip Zack, a man who left the lab in 1991 after being involved in a racist attack against a fellow scientist of Arab origin, and a man who was observed having unauthorized access to the area of the lab containing the Ames strain of anthrax used in the attacks, around the time that some of the anthrax went missing (he had such access in 1992, after he had left the lab);
Philip Zack attracted a mysterious lack of official interest in the investigation of the anthrax attacks (as opposed to the completely innocent Steven Hatfill, who was hounded by the FBI, almost as if he were a distraction); and
Philip Zack, as neatly described here (found via here), went on to work for Gilead (identified from a scientific paper published in December 2000).
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