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Two children discovered dead - Yahoo!

Digital Citizen — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 20:52:14 +0000

The way a Yahoo! news story tab about two children being found dead appeared on my browser (and prob

Замыкания в Ruby

expl0rer — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 12:01:42 +0000

Функциональные приемы программирования все больше и больше проникают в популярные языки. Так в Scheme я могу создать замыкание – процедуру, которая ссылается на свободные переменные в своем лексическом контексте. В записи это выглядит как функция, находящаяся целиком в теле другой функции. При этом вложенная внутренняя функция содержит ссылки на локальные переменные внешней функции. Каждый раз при выполнении внешней функции происходит создание нового экземпляра внутренней функции, с новыми ссылками на переменные внешней функции.

(define (make-adder n)
  (lambda (x) (+ x n)))

(define adder-100 (make-adder 100))
(adder-100 1)

101

В отличии от простой анонимной функции, замыкания захватывают окружение в котором они определены.

Замыкания можно использовать и в Ruby:

def make_adder n
  lambda { |x|
    x + n
  }
end

t = make_adder 100
puts t.call 1

Начиная с версии 1.9 будет работать и такая запись:

def make_adder_1_9 n
  ->(x) {
    x + n
  }
end

t_1_9 = make_adder_1_9 100
puts t_1_9.call 1

Auction seller won't agree to the sale

mbrandly — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 04:36:04 +0000

This does happen also, but not nearly as often as a buyer not performing. What we have in this case is a seller who, after the auctioneer says, “Sold!” doesn’t want to allow transfer of title — doesn’t want to agree to the sale.

Let’s discuss, first, when a seller can withdraw an item from an auction without recourse. In the two types of auctions per the UCC 2-328:

With reserve: The seller may withdraw the item from the auction anytime up until the announcement of “Sold!”

Without reserve: The seller may withdraw the item prior to the opening solicitation for bids, or may withdraw the item if after that solicitation, no bid is received within a “reasonable time.”

What we now want to discuss here in more detail is what happens when a seller wants to cancel or otherwise won’t agree to the sale by auction, outside of his permitted methods of withdrawal aforementioned.

Case #1: Seller wants to withdraw the item in a without reserve auction after the opening solicitation for bids, and after a bid is received within a reasonable time. This case is clearly prohibited by contract law precedent and the UCC 2-328. Court cases with standing in this type of withdraw have ruled nearly unanimously that the seller may not withdraw the item given these circumstances.

Case # 2: Seller wants to withdraw the item in a with reserve or without reserve auction after the auctioneer announces, “Sold!” The word, “Sold!” means that a contract has been formed between the seller and a buyer. If the seller wishes to void this contract, or withdraw from this contract, it can only be done with the consent of the buyer.

For example, the seller could say, “Gosh, I really didn’t want to sell my grandmother’s wedding ring, and I hope you (the buyer) understand … is it okay with you if I (the seller) just keep it, and you don’t pay for it?” Outside of mutual release from the contract, the seller’s voiding or withdrawal constitute a breach of contract; the buyer can sue for specific performance or compensatory damages, and typically win easily.

Is seller performance sometimes used in illegal and unethical schemes by auctioneers to promote, in particular, absolute (without reserve) auctions? Yes, unfortunately this has happened over the years, and continues in some markets. The schemes are basically one of two kinds and work as follows:

Scheme #1: Betty, the owner of a farm in Lincoln, Nebraska, wants to sell her farm at auction. These auctioneers using this unethical, illegal scheme tell Betty that by marketing the property as “SELLING ABSOLUTE” she will attract far more inquiries, and demand much more attention, and more bidders, for her auction. Yet, Betty doesn’t necessarily want to accept just any amount for her farm. The scheme is designed to go ahead with the absolute auction, and then if the final bid is not acceptable to Betty, she can just refuse to close (breach the contract).

How can this work? If the buyer wishes to sue Betty for specific performance, the auctioneer can assist Betty with a long, drawn out defense of the lawsuit, which in many cases, the buyer will see as costing them more than if he would just let Betty out of the deal. A variation on this scheme sometimes involves the auctioneer offering the buyer a bit of compensation “for their trouble,” in return for dismissal of the lawsuit.

Scheme # 2: Another scheme sometimes employed, and more-so in our Internet-age, is bidding for the seller in absolute (without reserve) auctions, thus withdrawing the item with such a bid. The Internet allows these types of bids to be made in an undisclosed fashion, via online bidding, so this can be accomplished without the other bidders’ knowledge. And, not to ignore that this same scheme was employed decades before now, with non-existent phone bidders, and/or phony absentee bidders. In other words, this scheme is much older than the current technology used to employ it.

Most auctioneers are ethical and act in accordance with the law. Schemes such as the above are being more exposed and buyers are becoming more informed about unethical and illegal auction practices; so as these practices become exposed, hopefully their use will diminish. Still, sellers sometimes won’t agree to the sale.

MTV Jams - Chicago Day

Scheme — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:44:09 +0000

Today has been a great day for my city of Chicago. Starting earlier in the day (6AM to be exact) MTV Jams has been playing non stop videos from many Chicago artists.

My video for “Chicano”, which you can watch below, was one of the videos chosen to be aired throughout the day. I was able to catch it at around 8 am and have been told it got played some times after that as well. Thanks to the homie Andrew at FakeShoreDrive and the people over at MTV Jams for making this happen.

I am very proud of having this video and song be the introduction of me to a lot of new people. I’ve never been one to follow, I always have stuck my guns and went against the grain. I’m glad there’s still people that respect that.

Watch “Chicano” as seen on MTV Jams.

Scheme (11.27.09)

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Vodafone to close pension scheme

neatnew — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:05:14 +0000

Mobile phone company Vodafone says it is planning to close its final salary pension scheme to 4,000 current staff…. From BBC News. Full story

This site may contain information about: mobile camera phone. The blog is also related to: mobile phone prices.

Travel confidence scheme expands

wnewsfeed6061 — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:57:57 +0000

A project helping young people with learning difficulties to gain confidence to travel independently is to be expanded…. From BBC News. Full story

This site may contain information about: flight package. The blog is also related to: cheap airline flight.

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fraudusa1000 — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:44:40 +0000

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SICP Exercise 4.21

Weiqun — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 02:49:17 +0000

SICP Exercise 4.21

; The evaluation proceeds as follows
((lambda (n)
   ((lambda (fact)
      (fact fact n))
    (lambda (ft k)
      (if (= k 1)
          1
          (* k (ft ft (- k 1)))))))
 10)

;-->

((lambda (fact)
   (fact fact 10))
 (lambda (ft k)
   (if (= k 1)
       1
       (* k (ft ft (- k 1))))))

;-->

((lambda (ft k)
   (if (= k 1)
       1
       (* k (ft ft (- k 1)))))
 (lambda (ft k)
   (if (= k 1)
       1
       (* k (ft ft (- k 1)))))
 10)

;-->

(if (= 10 1)
    1
    (* 10 ((lambda (ft k)
             (if (= k 1)
                 1
                 (* k (ft ft (- k 1)))))
           (lambda (ft k)
             (if (= k 1)
                 1
                 (* k (ft ft (- k 1)))))
           9)))

;-->
(* 10 ((lambda (ft k)
         (if (= k 1)
             1
             (* k (ft ft (- k 1)))))
       (lambda (ft k)
         (if (= k 1)
             1
             (* k (ft ft (- k 1)))))
       9))

;......

The following expression computes the 10th Fibonacci number.

((lambda (n)
   ((lambda (fibo)
      (fibo fibo n))
    (lambda (fb k)
      (cond ((= k 0) 0)
            ((= k 1) 1)
            (else (+ (fb fb (- k 1))
                     (fb fb (- k 2))))))))
 10)

An alternative definition of f:

(define (f x)
  ((lambda (even? odd?)
     (even? even? odd? x))
   (lambda (ev? od? n)
     (if (= n 0) true (od? ev? od? (- n 1))))
   (lambda (ev? od? n)
     (if (= n 0) false (ev? ev? od? (- n 1))))))

SICP Exercise 4.20

Weiqun — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 02:46:41 +0000

SICP Exercise 4.20

(define (eval exp env)
; ......
        ((letrec? exp) (eval (letrec->let exp) env))
; ......
)

(define (letrec? exp) (tagged-list? exp 'letrec))
(define (make-unassigned-letrec vars)
  (if (null? vars)
      '()
      (cons (list (car vars) ''*unassigned*)
            (make-unassigned-letrec (cdr vars)))))
(define (make-set-letrec vars exps)
  (if (null? vars)
      '()
      (cons (list 'set! (car vars) (car exps))
            (make-set-letrec (cdr vars) (cdr exps)))))
(define (letrec->let exp)
  (let* ((assi (let-assignment exp))
         (lvars (let-var assi))
         (lexps (let-exp assi)))
    (cons 'let (cons (make-unassigned-letrec lvars)
                     (append (make-set-letrec lvars lexps)
                             (let-body exp))))))

See SICP Exercise 4.6 for the definitions of let-assignment, let-body, let-var and let-exp.

I am going to skip the environment diagram. But I will explain why Louis Reasoner is wrong. Note that

  (let ((even?
         (lambda (n)
           <body of even? including call to odd?>)
        (odd?
         (lambda (n)
           <body of odd? including call to even?>)))
        <rest of body of f>))

is equivalent to

  ((lambda (even? odd?)
     <rest of body of f>)
   (lambda (n) <body of even? including call to odd?>)
   (lambda (n) <body of odd? including call to even?>))

There are three lambda functions in the above piece of code. The arguments even? and odd? of the first lambda function have no relationship whatsoever with odd? in the body of the second lambda function and even? in the body of the third lambda function. The way I see it, the arguments even? and odd? of the first lambda function are just names. We can rename them to foo and bar if we like. Therefore the above code will not work. Louis Reasoner is wrong.

Pelosi: Americans Would Accept More Red Ink for Jobs

Scotty Starnes — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:59:24 +0000

The Progressive's Brain is full of Moonbats

The liberal progressive mind is a scary thing. After scamming taxpayers out of $787 billion, Pelosi thinks Americans are her party’s personal piggy-bank and will continue to accept more debt for jobs. That’s why Obama and other Democrooks are holding a “jobs summit” in December. They need to take more money to “save and or create” jobs.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says Americans could “absorb” higher deficits in exchange for more jobs. Pelosi and her progressive goons passed the stimulus back in January and promised the American taxpayers it would immediately produce jobs. The only items the American Recovery Act produced was waste, fraud, imaginary congressional districts, fuzzy math and Obama’s mythical phrase of “saved or created jobs.”

Progressives will not admit that the stimulus is a complete failure. If it was a success, progressives wouldn’t need that White House “jobs summit.” Obama, Nancy and the progressives are now calling for a second stimulus but refuse to call it a stimulus. On top of that scheme, Nancy and the progressives are going to raise taxes on the purchase and sale of stocks, options, derivatives and futures to “pay” for their newest scam.

Fox News reports:

The California Democrat said on a conference call Tuesday that Americans could “absorb” the hit to the federal budget, and she argued that their biggest complaint is not that the deficit is big — it’s that they’re not seeing any benefit in return for increasing the U.S. debt load.

“We have to shed any weakness that anybody may have about not wanting to be confrontational on this subject for fear that we’d be labeled not sensitive to the deficit,” Pelosi said, in a recording posted by Think Progress.

“The American people have an anger about the growth of the deficit because they’re not getting anything for it. … If somebody has the idea that the percentage of GDP of what our national debt is will go up a bit, but they will now — and their neighbors and their children — will have jobs, I think they could absorb that, and then we ride it out and bring money in,” she said.

“But I think if anybody is asking the public, ‘Would you rather have a job or the percentage of GDP of our national debt would go up a little bit?’ I think that everybody wants a job.”

Pelosi continued the conference call by faking shock about the growing deficit numbers. How can one be shocked when they have control of the White House, the House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate and it is your party’s spending that grew the deficit? Pelosi and the progressive movement are the ones responsible for the increasing deficit. Since Obama took office, the progressives have been on a spending spree and have treated the American taxpayers as their personal credit cards.

Most common-sense Americans are angry because they were promised change. Americans were also promised jobs. As of now, Americans have received nothing but the bill for these progressive schemes.

If $787 billion caused unemployment to jump up to 10.2 percent and really didn’t save or create any jobs, what will an extra $150 billion produce? Nancy, stop the spending. Destroy every health care bill that is in the House and Senate. Kill the cap-and-trade scheme and any other scheme that will take money out of the taxpayer’s pocket. Last, and most important, stop using American taxpayers are your personal credit card.

This is where the anger resides. The progressive mind isn’t so progressive. It’s strictly regressive and that is why we find ourselves in this mess today…the progressive mind.

RODNEY HOLUM JR.

fraudusa1000 — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:48:15 +0000

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Beurs-World Trade Centre

expopedia — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:00:18 +0000

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Beurs-World Trade Centre
Beursplein 37
3011 AA Rotterdam (Netherlands)
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MTV Jams Press Release for "Chicago Day"

Scheme — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:40:58 +0000

MTV JAMS HOSTS “CHICAGO DAY” ON FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27 FEATURING VIDEOS FROM SOME OF CHICAGO’S GREATEST INCLUDING KANYE WEST, COMMON AND JENNIFER HUDSON

Special Segments Hosted By MTV News VJ Sway

New York, NY – November 24, 2009 – Chi-Town takes over MTV Jams on Friday, November 27 with “Chicago Day” featuring videos from the hottest artists including Kanye West, Common, Jennifer Hudson, Lupe Fiasco, and many more. “Chicago Day” will also focus on showcasing talent from the underground music scene. MTV Jams partnered with Fake Shore Drive, Chicago’s #1 hip hop blog, to find some of the city’s up and coming new artists including Rhymefest, GLC, Ben One, Skooda Chose, and Scheme.

“Chicago Day” on MTV Jams marks a pivotal point in Chicago hip hop history, by not only showcasing national talent, but also by giving up and coming and independent artists the chance to shine alongside of them,” says Andrew Barber, founder of Fake Shore Drive.com.

“Chicago Day” will also look inside the music of the city and focus on the philanthropic efforts of those dedicated to making the city a safer place for inner city youth. MTV News VJ, Sway and one of hip hops finest; David Banner hit the streets to talk to the people of Chicago. David Banner also talks with Sway about his “Heal the Hood” Organization, which is dedicated to stopping the violence that is plaguing the city. Sway also sits down with George Daniels, Godfather of Chicago music to talk about how the music in the city has evolved.

MTV Jams partnered with Chicago-based Mid-C Media to shoot all of the interview footage.

Tune into MTV Jams on Friday, November 27 as “Chicago Day” gives viewers access to new as well as classic videos from some of the hottest artists from Chi-Town.

De Doelen Concert and Congress Centre

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De Doelen Concert and Congress Centre
P.O. Box 972
3000 AZ Rotterdam (Netherlands)
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Brabanthallen Den Bosch

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Brabanthallen Den Bosch
Diezekade 2
5222 AK ’s-Hertogenbosch (Netherlands)
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Maastrichts Expositie & Congres Centrum (MECC)

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Maastrichts Expositie & Congres Centrum (MECC)
Postbus 1630
6201 BP Maastricht (Netherlands)
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Amsterdam Convention Factory

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Amsterdam Convention Factory
Czaar Peterstraat 213
1018 PL Amsterdam (Netherlands)
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Autotron

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Autotron
Postbus 142
5240 AC Rosmalen (Netherlands)
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Amsterdam Arena

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Amsterdam Arena
Arena Boulevard 1
1101 AX Amsterdam Zuidoost (Netherlands)
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The Manifesto EP - Remixed by Rashid Hadee

Scheme — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:37:15 +0000

The homie Rashid Hadee just told me yesterday that he is just about done remixing The Manifesto EP.

I’m looking forward to hearing this one myself.

Taken from Amazon.com, in regards to the homie Rashid Hadee:

“The talented producer has laced tracks for MCs such as Little Brother, Psalm One & Longshot, Thaione Davis and Manov War. He has also shared production duties with fellow Chi-town native Kanye West and produced songs for Abstract Mindstate that featured Common Sense and Special Ed.”

Much love to the homie Rashid Hadee for taking his time to work on this.

I’ll put up a download link to it as soon as he wraps it up.

Scheme (11.24.09)

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fraudusa1000 — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:24:34 +0000