 being in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the longest country name in the world.
WHERE'D MY FIRE GO?!?!?!
I ban zapperpost for having an image saying "Deltik" in his sig...As far as I can tell, this kicked off when people on the left, accused people who questioned higher than usual immigration of being racist. By labelling them racist, it stoked the fires of zealotry. 

People just wanted a debate about immigration because they were seeing impacts in jobs, housing, school places, and hospital beds. 

Most know that the majority of the issues are down to government policy rather than immigration, and the fact that the Labour of the 70s and tories of the 80s killed off industries but didn’t reinvest in new industry to help communities. 

But to reframe it as “they are all racist” didn’t help their view. Rather than debating and discussing, they accused. And the right were able to harness that and use it to their advantage as they always do. (The right, unlike the left, tend to be WAY better organised!)

The same with the LGBTQ and BLM issues. Genuine societal issues that marginalised groups had, but if you questioned ANY part of it, you were either a racist, or a trans/homophobe and the debate was shut down. The loudest activists shutting down debates that needed to be had, and the result was people moving farther to the right because they felt abandoned by the left to the middle class. They want to know they’re being listened to and not ignored, as the tories ignored them in the 80s.

I don’t even think it’s a right / left issue. But rather a centre / left issue. The centre want to discuss and debate, and the left call them bigoted, pushing them to the right. 

It’s made worse when people who seem to genuinely want to fight for justice end up being chancers and opportunists like the leaders of the BLM campaign who used funds to buy mansions etc. 

Both left and right are at fault and it’s only by hearing one another’s concerns and not shutting one another down, that a common ground will be found and a compromise reached on all subjects. 

 When we can clearly see that it’s the media and the politicians driving wedges into society so we’re fighting amongst ourselves rather than focusing on the real issue of class warfare. Who benefits from the infighting?? 

There is something inviting about an empty chair.
And a bit unnerving.
Until recently, grabbing a coveted seat next to a window in Roesch Library or a rocking chair in Kennedy Union was unthinkable. As the spring semester wound down, students in their fervor to finish strong escaped the distractions of their dorm rooms in favor of a quiet spot or cubby where they could cram with classmates.
Now, I can sit wherever I want. And it just feels wrong.
For 16 years, the inevitable end of the traditional academic year has caught me off guard, despite it being marked in bright blue on my calendar. The excitement starts as a low hum around the Stander Symposium and grows in volume and pitch as we head into final presentations and exams. By graduation, it’s a raucous roar, accentuated by the cheers of family of our newest forever Flyers.
And overnight, just like that, everyone disappears.
I should be used to it by now, but it always throws me, that first time I emerge from the office and pass the empty gazebo on my way to the abandoned plaza.
Staring into nothing and imagining all the somethings is a skill we stoke here at UD. It’s found in the businesses our students create, the art they make, the inventions they dream and the partnerships they cultivate. It’s also evident in the 64 blank pages we begin with each issue, only to have all their good ideas overflow from the print issue and onto our redesigned blog (take a look: udayton.edu/magazine).
With summer upon us, we give ourselves permission to slow down just a bit, to breathe and see in a way the distractions of other seasons do not afford. So pull up a chair and read awhile. We’ve got some prime seats just itching to be filled.The hexadecimal color code #060a59 is a dark shade of blue. In the RGB color model #060a59 is comprised of 2.35% red, 3.92% green and 34.9% blue. In the HSL color space #060a59 has a hue of 237° (degrees), 87% saturation and 19% lightness. This color has an approximate wavelength of 465.01 nm.
As per inside scoop available, Toyota has finally come up with the launch date of its much-awaited sedan, all new Toyota Camry. After a slew of anticipated launch dates for the car surfacing on the internet, the carmaker has been reported to have finally zeroed in on 24th August as the launch date for the sedan.
It’s been since 1997 that the car has left its mark amongst the sedan-enthusiasts across the global market. The Toyota Camry never lagged in justifying Toyota’s famous tagline; Luxury Beyond Excellence. The car is being favored more in the Toyota line-up in India because of its unparalleled styling, design and performance.
Besides its balanced and attractive look, the car will be induced with many other changes. As far as exterior changes are concerned, front fascia, improved fog lamps and different styling to the bonnet are few changes that have been included. Engine too is to be changed, as we might not see the 2.5L petrol heart coupled with six-speed automatic transmission.
Good News! Brandy received her first DIC VA check. It came in on Friday. Very exciting news because we were told she might not get a dime for up to and possibly longer than one and a half years. She was/is a hardship case having NO money which we told the jerk at the VA. He simply said he could do nothing. He didn’t even tell her about the hardship application that, once we knew about, she filed. We had to figure that one out by ourselves. The government is so helpful. The last time I was in room 222 at regional in St. Pete, they informed a widow of two days that her husband wasn’t dead because the computer was showing him still alive.I spent some time walking along the ridge looking for some perfect ice rimes. I crouched down low and used my tilt-shift lens to emphasise the rimes. I then took three photos with the lens shifted fully left, centred and shifted fully right - these photos were stitched together to create a very wide angle shot.Feeling confident with your work but not sure how to perform it? Join us as Aaron Simm walks you through his methods of polishing your work and getting performance-ready! This workshop is intended for poets who already have a small repertoire of work and are seeking help with transitioning from practicing in their bedrooms in front of a mirror to performing onstage in front of a live audience.
Aaron Simm is a playwright, improviser, and award-winning spoken word artist. He is a multiple time-slam champion and is a three-time finalist at the Canadian Individual Poetry Slam. He performed Places to Wait at the Toronto and Winnipeg Fringe Festivals to critical acclaim and is the author of three poetry chapbooks. Aaron has been teaching writing and performance for seven years and has coached slam teams in both Winnipeg and Victoria. His work has been featured on stages and at festivals across the country.
As of August 2nd, CityStudio has moved to a new location at 709/711 Douglas St, located just below Crystal Garden and has accessible washrooms on-site. An elevator is available to reach the space.Functions are the “salt” of functional languages: they can appear everywhere in expressions, they can be applied, passed as parameters, and returned back by other functions. When a function may take as input another function, or can output a function, we say it is a higher-order function.
You have already seen here some examples of higher-order functions. For instance:
# let sumc x y = x+y;; val sumc : int -> int -> int = <fun>
The type operator
→ associates to the right.
So, the correct parenthesization of the type
int → int → int is
int → (int → int).
Therefore,
sumc is a function that, when applied to an integer x, evaluates to a function
that maps an integer y to the sum x+y.
Higher-order functions can also take functions as arguments.
For instance, let
countzero be a function
that computes the number of zeros (in a given range) of a function
f: int → int taken as input.
# let rec countzero f a b = if a>b then 0 else (if f a = 0 then 1 else 0) + (countzero f (a+1) b);; val countzero : (int -> int) -> int -> int -> int = <fun> # countzero (fun x -> x*x - 4) 0 5;; - : int = 1
The type of
countzero can be read as follows:
when fed with a function with type
int → int (the parameter
f)
and two integers (the parameters
a and
b),
it evaluates to an integer (the number of zeros of
f in the range [a