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Netflix Saves Longmire From Cancellation, Orders Fourth Season
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New Analytics Advantage with Hadoop Program empowers organizations to become Analytics 3.0 enabled
PARTNERS USERS GROUP CONFERENCE, DALLAS (Oct. 21, 2013) – Organizations are now entering a world where big data analytics need to intersect with their traditional analytics methods in order to remain competitive and uncover new business opportunities. To help customers succeed in this, SAS, Teradata (NYSE: TDC) and Hortonworks introduce Analytics Advantage Program with Hadoop. This next-generation offering expands on the success of the original SAS and Teradata Analytic Advantage program for in-database analytics to now include Hortonworks – the leading contributor to and provider of enterprise Apache™ Hadoop®.
In a recent research report on Analytics 3.0 by Tom Davenport and the International Institute for Analytics, Davenport states, "It is clear that organizations are not keeping traditional and big data analytics separate; rather, they are combining them to form a new synthesis. While aspects of Analytics 3.0 will continue to emerge, organizations need to begin transitioning now to the new model. The new SAS, Teradata and Hortonworks offering will help companies quickly tackle Analytics 3.0 head on."
The new Analytics Advantage with Hadoop program leverages award-winning capabilities for in-database data preparation, analytic model building and deployment and has combined Teradata's Appliance for SAS® High-Performance Analytics offering with the Teradata Appliance for Hadoop built on Hortonworks Data Platform. Using Teradata's new Unified Data Architecture (UDA), this high-speed integrated offering allows customers to discover, build and deploy analytic models promoting businesses' ability to act upon analytic insights from any type of data across a seamless environment and faster than ever before.
"This offering lets organizations get the data, discover what's in it, build the analytic models and deploy them where they need to in near-real time. They can access data of any type, size and complexity, all with common metadata to understand data lineage," said Scott VanValkenburgh, SAS Senior Director of Alliances. "This allows companies to not only exploit analytics on new big data types but quickly, and more importantly, uncover the value of these new data types to their current analytic processes."
"The combined best-of-breed technologies and resources of this partnership center around enabling the transformational power of Hadoop," said Shaun Connolly, Vice President of Corporate Strategy, Hortonworks. "We are committed to working with SAS and Teradata to deliver enterprise-ready, stable distribution of the open-source platform for big data processing and management."
"We're delivering faster time-to-value and lowest total cost of ownership and operations – to address the most daunting analytic challenges facing businesses today," said Rob Berman, Vice President of Alliances, Teradata. "With the wide range of new data technology options on the rise, many organizations seek the expertise of recognized leaders Teradata and SAS to deliver integrated solutions and services they can trust."
Today's announcement was made at the annual conference of Teradata Users, Oct. 20-24 at the KBH Dallas Convention Center. Themed "Unleashing the Power of Data," the event spotlights the most pragmatic deployments in the most exciting big data analytics environments today, as well as advanced data warehousing. The conference includes sessions on SAS and on Teradata analytics and applications, with dynamic presentations by leading organizations, IT analysts and academic researchers across all industries.
About Teradata
Teradata Corporation (NYSE: TDC) is the world's leading analytic data solutions company focused on integrated data warehousing, big data analytics, and business applications. Teradata's innovative products and services deliver data integration and business insight to empower organizations to achieve competitive advantage. Visit teradata.com for details. Teradata is a trademark or registered trademark of Teradata Corporation in the United States and other countries.
About Hortonworks
Hortonworks is the only 100-percent open source software provider to develop, distribute and support an Apache Hadoop platform explicitly architected, built and tested for enterprise-grade deployments. Developed by the original architects, builders and operators of Hadoop, Hortonworks stewards the core and delivers the critical services required by the enterprise to reliably and effectively run Hadoop at scale. Our distribution, Hortonworks Data Platform, provides an open and stable foundation for enterprises and delivers a modern data architecture with the support of key technology partners. Hortonworks also provides unmatched technical support, training and certification programs. For more information, visit www.hortonworks.com.
About SAS
SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. Through innovative solutions, SAS helps customers at more than 65,000 sites improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster. Since 1976 SAS has been giving customers around the world THE POWER TO KNOW®. SAS and all other SAS Institute Inc. product or service names are registered trademarks or trademarks of SAS Institute Inc. in the USA and other countries. ® indicates USA registration. Other brand and product names are trademarks of their respective companies. Copyright © 2013 SAS Institute Inc. All rights reserved.

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I share my experiences in genealogy education, including taking classes at the National Institute for Genealogical Studies and preparing my BCG portfolio. I also post updates to my personal research and general genealogy news.
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Changing My Speciality and Learning about U.S. Census Records
-For my personal research, specializing in U.S. records is ideal. While many of my ancestors immigrated here in the late 19th century, I want to start with the latest in my family history and work backwards, learning as much as possible about each generation. This means that I'll be working mostly with U.S. records for some time.
-As a professional genealogist, I will want to know as much as possible about the records available to me in order to serve my clients' needs. The records that are most accessible to me are U.S. records.
That said, I am still very interested in learning about German, as well as Italian, records. I will continue to take classes in these areas (as well as many others) after I obtain my certificate in U.S. Records, for professional development.
On another note, the latest class I've taken at NIGS is U.S. Census Records. While I've worked with census records a great deal before, I feel like I have a much better understanding of them now. This course was particularly helpful in identifying the questions that were asked on each census, and determining what unique and useful information can be obtained from each census year. I also learned about some sources I would not have thought to look for, specifically non-population schedules, such as tax lists and veterans schedules. I think the latter will be especially useful in my research, since I believe that many of my ancestors served in the military or would have been receiving a pension around the time these schedules were taken.
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I noticed that you have taken some of the NIGS courses and wondered what you thought of them. I am considering taking some of them in the future. I just wish that they were regular university courses instead of "Continuing Education" because then I could use the GI Bill to pay for it. :)ReplyDelete
Have you been learning a lot through the classes?
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I'm sorry that I didn't see this comment before now - I don't get an email when people comment since I moderate the comments, hmm.
I have found the classes to be very helpful, especially the methodology classes, which teach you how to research properly so that your work is professional and you are more efficient.
The records courses are informative as well, but very general (country specific). Pennsylvania records have their own little quirks, like anywhere else, that I am learning about as I research.
I can't seem to find financial aid for continuing education either, except in a very limited number of loans - and I have quite enough of those, lol. If only BYU had an online option...we can dream, I guess.


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March/April 2006
The Creative Use of The Mind - Editorial
As we prepare for the Wesak Festival and the celebration of the Buddha's breakthrough some 2500 years ago, let us ponder on the potential of the mind, especially when the lighted bridge of the antahkarana has been constructed, to penetrate beyond the outer realms of life to the inner, causal level of the soul, and, still higher, the intuitive realm of buddhi.
The Great Approaches (The Coming New Religion), Part I - Djwhal Khul
It can be seen, therefore, that a very difficult interlude is now taking place in the world today. It is one wherein a process is being undergone by humanity which is similar to that which takes place so frequently in the life of an individual. The soul of the world is taking cognizance of outer affairs, preparatory to taking hold of the world situation.
The Free and Flowing Current of Life - Dale McKechnie
Two thousand years ago, Christ took advantage of the influence of Aries to introduce and express through His own being and life many new ideas…Among them, and the most important of all, was the revelation of the all-inclusive love of God.
Is Denunciation A Duty? - H. P. Blavatsky
In fact, the duty of defending a fellow man stung by a poisonous tongue during his absence, and to abstain, in general, "from condemning others", is the very life and soul of practical theosophy, for such action is the handmaiden who conducts one into the narrow Path of the "higher life", that life which leads to the goal we all crave to attain.
The Creative Process In The New Era - Crea Lynn
Experiencing the creative process, whether it be creativity or creative activity, is experiencing the "flow"…a higher state of consciousness where everything moves together abstractly in a synchronous dance.
Points of Synthesis: Plato and A. A. Bailey - H. Krog Nielsen
This presentation of the philosophy of Plato…will show, with the writings of the Tibetan as our background, a clear esoteric side to Plato and that he can be of inspiration for spiritual thinking today and also of use in the philosophical teaching in our schools.
Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727), The Last Great Magician - Robert G. Waggener
Newton had a definite belief in what we today as students of the Ancient Wisdom call "Ether" or that substance underlying all of matter and space. Apparently, he obtained this belief from his study of Alchemy and some have suggested he could not have developed his theory of gravity without this underpinning belief from Alchemy.Books and Publications


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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) – Oklahoma State University officials fretted about the school's public image as details emerged about the sexual assaults of several male students on campus, and maintained throughout that it was appropriate to withhold details of the attacks from police, according to records obtained by The Associated Press.
Even after an official from the U.S. Department of Education suggested the university had misinterpreted a portion of the Family and Education Rights Privacy Act, or FERPA, an OSU attorney insisted the federal law prevented them from disclosing details of an internal investigation to police.
"OSU did not have consent from the respondents or the complainants to reveal their student discipline records, which are educational records, to (campus police)," OSU assistant university counsel Mackenzie Wilfong wrote in a legal memo to the university's top lawyer after Stillwater police had already launched a criminal investigation into the alleged assaults.
"And (campus police) did not fit into one of the exceptions, therefore as has been the practice of student conduct, this information was not disclosed, pursuant to FERPA," Wilfong added.
The memo was among dozens of documents and emails obtained by the AP in response to an open records request submitted to the university on Dec. 14.
Nathan Cochran, a 22-year-old former member of the FarmHouse fraternity, has been charged in Payne County District Court with three counts of sexual battery, and Stillwater police have suggested there could be as many as a dozen additional cases. Cochran has pleaded not guilty and been released on $100,000 bond.
Cochran's attorney, Jay Husbands, did not immediately return a phone call seeking comment Thursday. A preliminary hearing in the case is set for Jan. 7.
Oklahoma State has faced criticism for handling the complaints against Cochran through a university disciplinary board and not notifying local or university police after learning about the alleged assaults. In response, OSU President Burns Hargis has called for an investigation into the university's handling of the matter.
Stillwater police began an investigation of Cochran only after the student newspaper, The Daily O'Collegian, called seeking information about the allegations on Dec. 6, nearly a month after the first alleged victim provided a written complaint to the university's office of student conduct, records show.
OSU's General Counsel Gary Clark acknowledged in a Dec. 12 email to OSU spokesman Gary Shutt that university officials could have notified the police.
"I don't think we couldn't contact the police but the issue was that in the absence of victim consent there wasn't anything to tell the police," Clark wrote.
In another email to Hargis on Dec. 13, Robert Sternberg, OSU's provost and senior vice president, wrote that he was frustrated with media accounts of what appeared to be a misinterpretation of FERPA and a violation of the Clery Act, a federal law that requires reporting of certain crimes on campus.
"It promotes the stereotype that people in Oklahoma are too stupid to understand either Cleary (sic) or FERPA," Sternberg wrote to Hargis. "Somebody ought to be called on the carpet for being so irresponsible."
Hargis responded that Clark, along with OSU attorneys Wilfong and Doug Price, made the determination that they were complying with FERPA. "Hardly a stupid group," Hargis wrote. "I'll have Gary (Clark) brief you."
Hargis also bristled at the suggestion in one online publication that OSU officials covered up the matter until after reporters notified police.
"That is clearly not what happened," Hargis wrote in a Dec. 13 email to Sternberg. "I think the editor should understand that no minors were reported to have been molested, the acts did not happen on campus preventing OSU Police jurisdiction and the complainants were encouraged to go to the police and did not want to nor have their names released."
And in an email exchange between attorneys Clark and Wilfong on Dec. 12 over which provisions of FERPA took precedence, Clark expressed concern about the growing number of media reports about the situation.
"Could we have shared the name of the alleged responsible party prior to the final results of the determination (by the Student Conduct Education and Administration) of responsibility?" Clark wrote. "We need to get this exactly right to put an end to the day to day stories."
In another email to OSU spokesman Shutt, the director of communications for the OSU Alumni Association, Chase Carter, expresses concern that an advertisement for OSU appears on a newspaper's website next to a story about the ongoing sexual assault investigation.
"The OSU rape case is the headline story, and then a pop up to apply to OSU appeared right next to it," Carter wrote. "Might not be a bad idea to suspend at least the online advertising on the site until we get passed (sic) this."
Sean Murphy can be reached at
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Atrocity In Fallujah
Robert Fisk
April 01, 2004 "The Independent" -- "The bodies were hanging upside down on each side of the bridge. They had no hands, no feet, one had no head." My old Iraqi friend had been driving into Fallujah just after the massacre, the stoning, the burning. He was shaking as he told me what he saw. "They were hanging upside down above the highway, on the old railway bridge which bridge, now a road bridge. The people of Fallujah were just driving over the bridge as if nothing was happening, right past the bodies." The bridge is on the west side of the Sunni Muslim city, across the Euphrates river, and the corpses had been tied to the girders about six feet above the road. "When we left, there were no helicopters, no police, no soldiers, it all seemed quite normal; except for the bodies. They were burnt brown. I couldn't tell if they were men or women."
In fact, there were four Western men slaughtered in Fallujah yesterday - all contractors for the Americans, some apparently armed - and they had been dragged from their cars, mutilated, stoned, burnt, beaten with iron pipes. One of them was decapitated, then dragged through the streets behind a car. What the Anglo-American occupation power later called a "particularly brutal" crime - a somewhat restrained comment in the face of such barbarity - was all too real on the videotapes filmed by Iraqi camera crews in Fallujah but which were not shown on Western television stations last night.
Another man gave a chilling description of how the men were dragged from their car, begging for their lives. "They had gasoline splashed on them and were set alight," he said.
It was an especially terrible day in Iraq. Five US Marines were killed only 20 miles from Fallujah by a roadside bomb and 15 Iraqis were wounded by a car bomb in the city of Baquba which had been intended for an Iraqi police convoy.
As usual, Iraqi dead were not counted by the occupation powers. But it will be the tapes that will be remembered by all who saw them - and by Arabs who were able to watch most of them, uncensored, on their own broadcasting channels.
They show the two burning vehicles and two men lying beside them. One, clearly a Westerner, is lying on his back, in brown trousers but with his shirt pulled up to his chest, staring at the sky. A tide of burning petrol embraces the corpse and his hands are standing claw-like above his chest. A crowd of screaming civilians - many shouting Allahu Akhbar (God is Great), and "Fallujah will be free" - then use a metal hook to drag another smouldering body from beneath the second vehicle. The youths are making V-signs at the camera as a man picks up an iron pipe and smashes it repeatedly on the charred remains. A second man steps forward to kick the head until it is completely severed from the body.
These were the horrors of Iraq yesterday, pictures which would have reminded the world of the American debacle in Somalia had they been shown outside the Middle East. For the crowd truss up one of the bodies with yellow tape, tie it to a car and then drag it down the main street towards the Euphrates bridge, all the while jumping up and down and laughing.
Cars and trucks can be seen hooting in impatience to overtake this obscene cortège as if such horrors were an everyday occurrence. There were many Westerners in Iraq last night who were praying that they would not be. One of the dead men - who were, in the words of one Iraqi in Fallujah, "slaughtered like sheep" - appeared to be carrying military identification tags. An US passport lay next to another. One local civilian said the mujahedin, "holy warriors", had thrown two grenades at each car before dragging the occupants onto the road.
In the past few weeks, attacks on foreigners have happened almost daily. Two Finns have been killed, along with a British and Canadian contractor, two American aid workers - one a woman - and two US missionaries, including another woman. The Americans have not suffered their current scale of casualties for more than two months.
Only a day earlier, Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt, the American deputy director of military operations in Iraq, was boasting that the US Marines in Fallujah were encountering fewer security problems and were "quite pleased with how they are moving progressively forward." Even more ironic was General Kimmitt's extraordinary distinction at a press conference between "terrorists" and "insurgents." He characterised the violence in Fallujah - the scene of yesterday's little massacre - as the work of "insurgents"; there was a difference, he said, between "former regime elements, perhaps trained in the Iraqi army" and who attacked soldiers and the Fallujah police station and "terrorists" who went in for "suicidal, spectacular attacks" which attack Iraqi army barracks, hotels, mosques and religious festivals in Karbala and Baghdad. These, he insisted, involved al-Qa'ida, Abu Mussab al-Zarkawi - the latest bogeyman whom the Americans publicised last month - and other groups.
The truth is that most US units have reported no "foreign fighters" in their areas of occupation and, despite General Kimmitt's claims, the US military largely believes the growing number of attacks in Iraq are being carried out by home-grown guerrilla organisations. It's the same problem the Americans have faced from the start: explaining how Iraqis whom they allegedly came to "liberate" should want to kill them.
The headquarters of the US administrator, Paul Bremer, is now surrounded by massive walls of concrete and steel, checkpoints of sandbags and iron gates and squads of heavily armed US troops. Yet the palace grounds are hit by mortar fire almost nightly. So what foreigner - or Iraqi for that matter - is now safe here?
I was outside one Western television office in Baghdad yesterday, observing yet another concrete wall being erected around it. Armed Iraqi militiamen stood at every corner of the compound and British security men were on guard inside. If Mr Bremer's old presidential palace with its triumphal gateway now resembles the seat of the old British Raj, the office I visited was beginning to look like those fading photos of the British residency at Lucknow during the Indian Mutiny. For this is what we have now come to in Baghdad: foreigners on the run.
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Cinnabon Inc., a snack leader in the bakery-cafe segment, has signed a master franchise deal to develop several bakeries in Georgia, marking the brand's entry into the Eurasian country and further cementing Cinnabon as a global leader in baked goods and specialty drinks.
Under the agreement, master franchise partners, Sam Samuelyan and Stepan Panosyan of BrandCity LLC, will open seven stores in Georgia within the next six years. The partners expect to open the first location in the capital city of Tbilisi in 2014.
Although new to Georgia, the Cinnabon brand has a significant presence throughout Europe and Asia, with locations in bordering Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Turkey. In nearby Russia, Cinnabon has opened 103 locations in four years, with plans for another 30 in the next year.
"The master franchise agreement in Georgia, a previously untapped market, represents the tremendous opportunity abroad for Cinnabon," says Mike Shattuck, president of FOCUS Brands International, which handles overseas expansion for Cinnabon, as well as Carvel Ice Cream, Moe's
Southwest Grill, Schlotzsky's Deli, and Auntie Anne's Pretzels. "We're excited to have the opportunity to work with such esteemed businessmen as Mr. Samuelyan and Mr. Panosyan and to introduce our product to the country."
Through BrandCity, master franchise partners, Samuelyan and Panosyan, of Armenia, also operate Cinnabon in Armenia, as well as a diverse portfolio of brands, including KIA Motors, Paul Bakeries, Segafredo Zanetti coffee shops, and Southern Fried Chicken.
Cinnabon has more than 1,000 locations in 55 countries. By year's end, Cinnabon projects new market launches in Morocco, Tunisia, Albania, Iraq, Mongolia, and Ukraine. Overseas expansion will remain a central growth initiative for the foreseeable future, says Shattuck, and Cinnabon is currently seeking franchise partners in North African countries, Korea, Taiwan, Brazil, Spain, France, and Germany. FOCUS Brands International expects to open more than 260 global units of all its franchise concepts throughout 2013.
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Lucan 430pm - Autumn 2018 Term - Junior Group
If this club is fully booked, you can join the waiting list by clicking on the button below and/or register interest in our 5:45pm club in Lucan by visiting our clubs page. If we get enough interest in the 5:45pm club, then we will contact those that have registered interest that the club is going ahead. We also have loads of clubs around Dublin & Kildare, so you may find another suitable club with availability near you.
Our weekly STEAM clubs for primary kids are jam-packed with exciting, educational activities. It's not just a LEGO club, a tech club, an art club or a science club. It's everything combined, ensuring children get hands-on with new materials and projects every week. There is nothing quite like Designer Minds!
Coming up for our Autumn 2018 term…
- Young Scientists will learn to culture bacteria and watch it grow before their very eyes, extract DNA from a banana and explore the world of renewable energy through hands on experiments
- For the Techies, we'll be using our brand new Dash robots to introduce children to coding and robotics
- We've also got lots of exciting Engineering and teamwork challenges using LEGO, ArcKit and the Sphero robot!
- During our Art project this term, we'll show kids how to process digital photos, while design will be part of a number of other projects.
- We'll use Minecraft to make Maths fun!
- … plus much, much more!
Prior to the start of the term, you can secure a place with a €36 deposit. If, after the first club, your child decides that they don't want to continue, then let us know immediately, and we will refund your payment, minus €12 for the first club. That means that you can try a club, absolutely risk free!
This is the junior group page for children in 1st to 3rd class. You can register a child in 4th to 6th class, by visiting our senior group page.
Autumn Term Club Dates: 25/09/2018, 02/10/2018, 09/10/2018, 16/10/2018, 23/10/2018, 06/11/2018, 13/11/2018, 20/11/2018, 27/11/2018, 04/12/2018
If the term has already started and there are still spaces in your chosen location, feel free to join in at any stage and only pay for the remaining weeks. If your chosen location has booked out and you can't find a suitable club at another nearby location, you can put your name on the no-obligations waiting list.
See our Frequently Asked Questions and About pages for full details about Designer Minds. Videos and photos of Designer Minds in action can be found on our Facebook page.
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04.01.08 Fast BreaksPosted by rtmsf on March 31st, 2008
We haven't broken out one of these in a while, but there's no time like the present…
- The Lopez Bros. say adios to Stanford, merely three days after losing their Sweet Sixteen game to Texas.
- Western Kentucky head coach Darrin Horn is reportedly the choice to take over for the embattled G. David Odom at South Carolina, making Horn the second WKU coach in the last five years to leave for an SEC school (Dennis Felton – Georgia). Update: apparently Odom isn't leaving SC after all – in fact, he's getting a new 10-year contract!
- Not that anyone expected otherwise, but Midwest Region MOP Stephen Curry is staying in school at Davidson for at least another year.
- The IU implosion continues in the aftermath of the Kelvin Sanctions saga – starters Armon Bassett and Jamarcus Ellis have been kicked off of the team. Just guessing, but methinks this miiiight have been purposeful.
- And former McD's AA Taylor King (rotflmao) is transferring out from under the iron fist of Coach K at Duke – word is that Villanova or Gonzaga is his likely destination.
- Sean Sutton is reportedly getting forced out at Oklahoma St. – it's been no secret around here that we thought he was doing a horrid job, we guess that the benefactors at OSU agreed.


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Crystal Amplifier Plus
Samsung's proprietary digital amplifier technology, Crystal Amplifier Plus, delivers HD quality sound through you Samsung Home Entertainment System. This innovative technology was designed to filter sound sources twice to minimises distortion and produce crystal-clear sound. Now everything you hear sounds exactly the way it was meant to be heard.


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Why are chestnuts called as "chestnuts?? Something to do with them resembling hearts? Don't know but who cares? It tastes awesome and that is all that matters. For folks who haven't tasted this, its sort tastes like fire-roasted "Jack fruit seeds".For those who haven't tasted either, I say, you don't know what you are missing. I had once before posted about how to cut and roast chestnuts. Since then I have found a "relatively" easier method to cut it and roast it. But please keep in mind that the chestnut isn't an easy nut to crack. But no pain, no gain,right?
- Clean the chestnuts and wipe them clean.It can't be slippery.
- The chetsnut had a dome-d top and a flat bottom.
- Place the chestnut on a firm non-skidding surface. Using a sharp serrated knife put a deep slit on the sides. Please be careful and protect your digits.
- Line them in a baking tray.
- Preheat the oven at 400 degrees F. Bake it for a good 20-25 minutes. The tough skin will put away from the delicious nut inside.
- Remove the shell and remove the inner membrane.The membrane is bitter.
- The nut should look clean and yellow and roasted. Ummm, delicious!
- Here, enjoy! Or use it in a curry-


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Graduated chainmail earrings hang from silver-plated loops on surgical steel wires. Colored anodized aluminum measures approximately 1" long. Choose from purple, green, pink, blue, red, or black. Shown on card for photo, these earrings come in a black gift box with white interior lining.
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Rare birds sanctuary to open in Bahrain
Hundreds of exotic birds, including some critically endangered, will go on display for the first time in Bahrain next month at a new sanctuary, a report said. A blizzard of colour can be seen at Al Aziza Birds Kingdom at Amwaj IslMore…
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Introduction: Mary Harrell-Sesniak is a genealogist, author and editor with a strong technology background. In this blog article, Mary follows up on an article she wrote back in January 2013 and, thanks to helpful suggestions from some of her readers, tries to uncover more of the Robert Ripley genealogy mystery.
Early in 2013, the GenealogyBank Blog published my article on Robert L. Ripley (see Solve the Robert 'Believe It or Not!' Ripley Ancestry Brick Wall), and – believe it or not – we're still working on his ancestry. Knowing that Ripley's family history was a mystery, in that 2013 article I asked readers to help break through a brick wall in the Ripley family tree. Their answers were informative, although much of his ancestry continues to be elusive.
What I want to do now is provide an update to this genealogical quest to uncover Ripley's family history. First, I suggest you click on the link to read my previous Ripley article, to see what clues I could present to my readers at that time. Next, read the comments several readers left at the end of that article, providing additional clues. Let's look at some of those follow-up clues now, to make what progress we can in smashing through this Ripley brick wall.
The Ripley Brick Wall
As I explained in my 2013 article about the Ripley genealogy mystery:
I can't seem to crack the brick wall in his genealogy. He left no descendants and was only married briefly to actress Beatrice Roberts. I can't discover his family history any further back than his maternal grandmother.
Prefers "Robert" to "Leroy"
Leroy Robert Ripley (c.1890-1949), (who went by "Robert" or "Robert L."), did many things in his career, including work as a cartoonist, a sportswriter and amateur anthropologist.
Conflicting Birth Dates
Ripley's World War I draft registration reports that he resided at 136 W. 65 Street in New York. He was 25 and recorded his birth on the registration form as 15 February 1892 in Santa Rosa, California. What is interesting about this is that, at other times, he reported his birth date as 25 December 1890 and 26 December 1890 (thought by some genealogists to be his real date of birth). Wikipedia reports Ripley's birth date as 22 February 1890.
Ripley described himself as an artist, writer and cartoonist working for associated newspapers at 170 Broadway. As his mother had died several years earlier, he reported that he supported a brother and was single. He signed his name as Robert LeRoy Ripley. Although recording errors are common, it would be interesting to find his birth record to confirm the actual day and year on which he was born.
No Descendants
Ripley was married briefly to Beatrice Roberts in 1919. She was only 14 at the time of their marriage, and the couple separated after just three months. They finally divorced in 1926, and had no children. Ripley never remarried, and died childless.
Ripley's Parents
Robert Ripley was the son of Isaac Davis Ripley (1854-1904) and Lillie Belle Yoka, Yocka or Yocke (1868-1915). His parents married on 3 October 1889 in Sonoma, California (California County Marriages 1850-1952, database at familysearch.org) and are buried at Odd Fellows Lawn Cemetery in Santa Rosa, California (see findagrave.com).
Ripley's Father
In 1870, the Belpre (Washington County) Ohio Census reports that Isaac was possibly residing in the household of Jason and Phelia A. Stubs (or Stubbs or Stutes). Isaac was 16 at that time and attended school. (See http://ohgen.net/ohwashin/OMP-2.htm, Ohio Historical Society, Newspaper Microfilm Reel # 38487 – marriage license for Jason Stubbs and Phelia A. Hunter of Belpre on 8 May 1865.)
Once he reached California, various Great Registers (see familysearch.org) report that Isaac Davis Ripley worked as a carpenter. His birth place is consistently reported as Ohio, which is confirmed by the 1900 Santa Rosa (California) Census reporting him being born in Ohio in September of 1854.
His Mother and Maternal Grandparents
Lillie Belle was the daughter of Nancy Yocke (1828-?) and an unknown father from Germany.
In 1880, Lillie lived with her widowed mother, according to the Analy (Sonoma County) California Census. Her mother was listed as a housekeeper. She had been born in Tennessee and her parents were both from North Carolina. Lillie was the only child in the household. Her birth was shown as Missouri and her parents as having been born in Tennessee and Germany.
At the time of Lillie's marriage to Isaac Davis Ripley in 1889, he was 35 and she was 20.
One of the readers of my 2013 article, Donna Bailey, wrote:
Well, this article [Miami News (Miami, Florida), 13 May 1962, from Google News Archives] helps explain a little. It states that Lillie Belle was born on the Santa Fe Trail in a covered wagon on the way to California. And Isaac ran away from home at age 14, which explains why he is at the Stutes home in 1870 already on his way to California, which he does show up in voter lists in Yuba in 1874.
Donna later wrote again, adding more information:
Some more clues. There is a marriage record for a Phillip Yoka and a Nancy A. Card, married in Washington Township, Johnson County, MO, on 4 Dec. 1870. According to her grave at Find a grave [Sebastapol Memorial Lawn Cemetery], Nancy's middle name was Ann, so this could be our Nancy.
I checked the marriage record and it seems consistent with other records. It does note that the officiant was Justice of the Peace William Fisher, so it is unlikely that a church record exists. I also checked the Miami News article. It gives us the clue that Isaac Davis Ripley was born of old American stock in West Virginia, which differs from records reporting Ohio. Perhaps his roots were from that state.
His Two Siblings
When Robert Ripley died on 27 May 1949, he left the bulk of his estate in trust to his two siblings, Douglas and Ethel "Effie" Ripley. Effie (1885-1965) married Fred Marion Davis (1884-1957) and is buried at Golden Gate National Cemetery in San Francisco next to her husband, who was a veteran of World War II. We still have not located the final resting place of Douglas.
His Sister
Another reader named Mallory wrote:
Ethel (Effie) Davis was married to Fred Davis – she was alive in 1947 and apparently in 1949 when she and her husband flew back to NY from the funeral of her brother [Robert Ripley]. She and her other brother Douglas inherited the majority of the estate. Effie was dead before 1971. The family home still exists… Ethel was born in 1893, her brother Douglas in 1904. The father Isaac died in 1905. Robert (Leroy) had to work to help support his mom and sister. There are two nephews named Robert and Douglas (not sure who their parents were) – they show up in local newspaper clippings.
The Renewed Ripley Brick Wall Challenge
So readers, there you have it.
With the genealogy research we've done since my 2013 article was posted, we have learned that Robert Ripley's father, Isaac Davis Ripley, ran away from home – and we have learned the probable identity of his Yocke grandfather, a German named Philip.
But that's about it – so I am opening up the Ripley brick wall challenge again. Can any of our readers help us get back further on Ripley's family tree?
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Normally, when a team has five of its hitters drilled in two games a case can be made for retribution. There's been no such talk from the Mets about the Detroit Tigers taking liberties with their hitters.
Jim Leyland's pitchers have always been aggressive, so perhaps this is just a case of not having control early in spring training.
Nonetheless, it hurts just as much in March as it does in July. It will be interesting to see how the Mets respond if somebody takes one in the ribs today.
Retaliation is tricky at any time, but especially during spring training because players are going in and out of the lineup and pitchers are just trying to make the team. Then again, the solution might be to sign Armando Benitez for the day.
Dillon Gee, today's starter for the Mets against Detroit in Port St. Lucie, does have a spot in the rotation. Just saying.
Also scheduled to pitch today for the Mets are LaTroy Hawkins, Pedro Feliciano, Greg Burke and Josh Edgin.
SANTANA NOT READY: Terry Collins told ESPNNewYork.com yesterday Johan Santana is "not too close,'' to getting back on the mound.
One has to wonder if Santana's surprise mound appearance might have set him back. At the time, GM Sandy Alderson was projecting he wouldn't throw for about ten days.
Whether or not Santana reinjured his shoulder is hard to ascertain, but he didn't do himself any favors and his progress has been set back.
METS MUSINGS: Outfielder Kirk Nieuwenhuis could resume baseball activities today, but is still a way from getting into a game. I'll have something more about Nieuwenhuis' disappointing spring later. … Daniel Murphy will take batting practice again today and could get into a minor league game this weekend. … I wrote yesterday about the Mets taking a look at outfielder Brennan Boesch. There could be mild interest. Perhaps working against Boesch is his age. At 27, one would assume an upside, but if this is so, why was he released? It can't just be the strained oblique.


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In my last post, I showed how you could implement the Int construction over resumptions, to derive a higher-order programming language from a first-order one. However, this is not yet a practical tool. The code I gave presented the language as a bunch of combinators, which rapidly get quite painful to write serious programs. Most of us prefer the lambda calculus to SKI combinators for good reason --- programs with variables and binders are much easier to read, since the code that actually does work in not obscured in a rat's nest of plumbing combinators that route data from one combinator to another.
I had hoped to rectify that in this post, by showing how to compile the linear lambda calculus into combinator terms. But when I started to write it, I realized that I needed to write a warmup post first, which would introduce the basic ideas in a simpler setting. So I'll defer compiling linear types for a little while, and show how to embed total functional programming into OCaml.
Now, at first, this might sound completely impossible. OCaml is an impure programming language, in which every function potentially has side effects (like I/O, state manipulation, exceptions, and concurrency). How could it ever be possible to embed a pure language into an impure one? The answer to this problem is data abstraction. ML has a module system that permits constructing abstract data types, and so we can give an implementation of an abstract data type of total programs, and then use type abstraction to ensure that we can never construct a program that fails to terminate.
The total language I'll use in this example is Goedel's System T, which is arguably the first proper total functional programming language. He extended the simply-typed lambda calculus with a type of natural numbers, and iteration over them (logicians call this system "higher-type arithmetic"). This system is remarkably expressive --- for example, you can write the Ackermann function in it --- but ever function in it still terminates. He introduced this system as part of his famous Dialectica (or functional) interpretation of logic. This interpretation deserves its own series of posts, exploring its applications to functional programming. But that's a major digression, so in the meantime you'll have to content yourself with Andrej Bauer's implementation of it in Coq.
So now let's return to System T and its denotational semantics. The lanaguage is basically the simply-typed lambda calculus extended with natural numbers and iteration over them. $$ \newcommand{\zero}{\mathsf{z}} \newcommand{\succ}[1]{\mathsf{s}({#1})} \newcommand{\iter}[4]{\mathsf{iter}({#1}, \zero \to {#2}, \succ{#3} \to {#4})} \begin{array}{lcl} A & ::= & 1 \bnfalt A \times B \bnfalt A \to B \bnfalt \N \\ e & ::= & () \bnfalt (e, e) \bnfalt \fst{e} \bnfalt \snd{e} \bnfalt \fun{x}{e} \bnfalt e \; e' \\ & | & \zero \bnfalt \succ{e} \bnfalt \iter{e}{e_z}{x}{e_s} \bnfalt x \bnfalt e : A \\ \Gamma & ::= & \cdot \bnfalt \Gamma, x:A \end{array} $$ $$ \begin{array}{cc} \frac{ x:A \in \Gamma } { \judge{\Gamma}{x}{A} } & \frac{ } {\judge{\Gamma}{()}{1}} \\[1em] \frac{\judge{\Gamma}{e_1}{A_1} \qquad \judge{\Gamma}{e_2}{A_2}} {\judge{\Gamma}{(e_1, e_2)}{A_1 \times A_2}} & \frac{\judge{\Gamma}{e}{A_1 \times A_2}} {\judge{\Gamma}{\pi_i(e)}{A_i}} \\[1em] \frac{\judge{\Gamma, x:A}{e}{B}} {\judge{\Gamma}{\fun{x}{e}}{A \to B}} & \frac{\judge{\Gamma}{e}{A \to B} \qquad \judge{\Gamma}{e'}{A}} {\judge{\Gamma}{e\;e'}{B}} \\[1em] \frac{ } {\judge{\Gamma}{\zero}{\N}} & \frac{\judge{\Gamma}{e}{\N} } {\judge{\Gamma}{\succ{e}}{\N}} \\[1em] \frac{\begin{array}{l} \judge{\Gamma}{e}{\N} \\ \judge{\Gamma}{e_z}{A} \\ \judge{\Gamma, x:A}{e_s}{A} \end{array}} {\judge{\Gamma}{\iter{e}{e_z}{x}{e_s}}{A}} & \frac{\judge{\Gamma}{e}{A}} {\judge{\Gamma}{(e:A)}{A}} \end{array} $$
So $\zero$ and $\succ{e}$ are the zero and successor operations, and the $\iter{e}{e_z}{x}{e_s}$ operation is essentially a fold operation over natural numbers. You give it a natural $e$, and a term $e_z$ of type $A$ in case $e$ is zero, and an operation $e_s$ that takes an $A$ and produces a new $A$ to handle the successor case.
This language has a denotational semantics in any cartesian closed category with a natural numbers object. It looks like this: $$ \begin{array}{lcl} \interp{\judge{\Gamma}{x}{A}} & = & \pi^\Gamma_x \\ \interp{\judge{\Gamma}{()}{1}} & = & !_\Gamma \\ \interp{\judge{\Gamma}{(e, e')}{A \times B}} & = & \left\langle \interp{\judge{\Gamma}{e}{A}}, \interp{\judge{\Gamma}{e'}{B}} \right\rangle \\ \interp{\judge{\Gamma}{\fst{e}}{A}} & = & \interp{\judge{\Gamma}{e}{A \times B}}; \pi_1 \\ \interp{\judge{\Gamma}{\snd{e}}{B}} & = & \interp{\judge{\Gamma}{e}{A \times B}}; \pi_2 \\ \interp{\judge{\Gamma}{\fun{x}{e}}{A \to B}} & = & \lambda(\interp{\judge{\Gamma, x:A}{e}{B}}) \\ \interp{\judge{\Gamma}{e\;e'}{B}} & = & \left\langle\interp{\judge{\Gamma}{e}{A \to B}}, \interp{\judge{\Gamma}{e'}{A}} \right\rangle; \mathit{eval} \\ \interp{\judge{\Gamma}{\zero}{\N}} & = & !_\Gamma; \mathit{z} \\ \interp{\judge{\Gamma}{\succ{e}}{\N}} & = & \interp{\judge{\Gamma}{e}{\N}}; \mathit{s} \\ \interp{\judge{\Gamma}{\iter{e}{e_z}{x}{e_s}}{A}} & = & \left\langle id_\Gamma, \interp{\judge{\Gamma}{e}{\N}} \right\rangle; \iota(\interp{\judge{\Gamma}{e_z}{A}}, \interp{\judge{\Gamma, x:A}{e_s}{A}}) \end{array} $$ The basic idea is that a well-typed term $\judge{\Gamma}{e}{A}$ is a morphism $\interp{\Gamma} \to A$, where $$ \begin{array}{lcl} \interp{\cdot} & = & 1 \\ \interp{\Gamma, x:A} & = & \interp{\Gamma} \times A \end{array} $$ In other words, we are representing the environment of a term as a tuple of values of the appropriate type. Therefore, the operation $\pi_x$ projects the $x$-th component out of a nested tuple, so that if $x:A \in \Gamma$, then: $$ \begin{array}{lcl} \pi^\Gamma_x & \in & \interp{\Gamma} \to A \\ \pi^{(\Gamma, x:A)}_x & = & \pi_2 \\ \pi^{(\Gamma, y:B)}_x & = & \pi_1 ; \pi^\Gamma_x \end{array} $$ (As an aside, this is quite closely connected with de Bruijn indices.)
Here are the notational conventions I'm using.
- $f; g$ is composition in the diagrammatic order. That is, if $f : A \to B$ and $g : B \to C$, then $f; g : A \to C$.
- $!_A$ is the unique map $A \to 1$.
- If $f : A \to X$ and $g : A \to Y$, then$\left\langle f, g \right\rangle$ is the evident map $A \to X \times Y$.
- If $f : A \times B \to C$, then $\lambda(f)$ is the curried morphism of type $A \to (B \Rightarrow C)$.
- $\mathit{eval}$ is the application operator of type $(A \Rightarrow B) \times A \to B$.
- For natural numbers, $z : 1 \to \N$ and $s : \N \to \N$ are the zero and successor morphisms.
- If $f : A \to B$ and $g : A \times B \to B$, then $\iota(f, g) : A \times \N \to B$ is the iteration operator.
My specification of the universal property of natural numbers (i.e. $\iota$) is a little idiosyncratic, and is actually an equivalent variant of the official definition of parameterized natural numbers objects in category theory. This formulation is a little easier to use in programming and semantics.
So now, let's introduce an OCaml abstract data type of programs from System T.
module type T = sig type ('a,'b) hom type nat val id : ('a, 'a) hom val compose : ('a, 'b) hom -> ('b, 'c) hom -> ('a, 'c) hom val unit : ('a, unit) hom val pair : ('a,'b) hom -> ('a,'c) hom -> ('a, 'b * 'c) hom val fst : ('a * 'b, 'a) hom val snd : ('a * 'b, 'b) hom val curry : ('a * 'b, 'c) hom -> ('a, 'b -> 'c) hom val eval : (('a -> 'b) * 'a, 'b) hom val zero : (unit, nat) hom val succ : (nat, nat) hom val iter : ('a, 'b) hom -> ('a * 'b,'b) hom -> ('a * nat, 'b) hom val run : (unit, nat) hom -> int end
What we've done is to introduce a new type
('a,'b) hom which is the type of morphisms from
'a to
We then introduce identity and composition morphisms, and the categorical operations for each of the data types in our language. We have the terminal map
unit, the pairing
pair and projection (
fst and
snd) morphisms, currying (
curry) and evaluation (
eval) maps, and the zero (
zero), successor (
succ), and iteration (
iter) operators. Our interface also has a
run operation, which lets us observe the results of running a closed program of type
Strictly speaking, there's a slightly abusive pun in this interface. I'm defining the morphisms of a category, and I'm reusing the syntax of OCaml types to name the objects of the semantic category of types of T. Since OCaml does not have a mechanism for kind-level data, there is no alternative to this abuse, but it's worth noting in case you want to do something like this in a language (like Agda or Haskell) which does let you define datakinds.
Now, we can implement this module.
module Goedel : T = struct type ('a, 'b) hom = 'a -> 'b type nat = Z | S of nat let id x = x let compose f g a = g (f a) let unit _ = () let pair f g a = (f a, g a) let fst (a, b) = a let snd (a, b) = b let curry f a = fun b -> f (a, b) let eval (f, v) = f v let zero () = Z let succ n = S n let rec iter z s (a, n) = match n with | Z -> z a | S n -> s(a, iter z s (a, n)) let run tm = let rec loop = function | Z -> 0 | S n -> 1 + loop n in loop (tm()) end
There are no real surprises in this implementation module. We're representing T functions with OCaml functions, T pairs with OCaml pairs, and natural numbers with a new datatype of Peano style numbers. Iteration is just the obvious recursive definition. The point is that ML's type abstraction will protect us from constructing bad elements of the hom type, because clients can only construct values of hom-type using the operations we export.
One caveat is that this data abstraction actually relies on strictness. If we had tried to define this ADT in Haskell, then we would actually lose the termination guarantees. This is because under a lazy semantics, the nonterminating computation inhabits every type, no matter what. For example, we could define:
bad :: Hom () Nat bad = compose bad succ
The fact that call-by-value and call-by-name can interpret each other via a CPS-translation means that it ought to be possible to make this kind of data abstraction work in Haskell, but I don't see how, offhand.
At this point we're basically where we were in the last post, but with a different language. We've got a denotational semantics, and a combinator-based implementation of it --- but we'd really like to use some of the great programming language advances of the last fifty years, like variables.
So, let's implement this as an OCaml extension. I'll use Camlp4, but the same tricks should work with (e.g.) Racket's macro system, or with Template Haskell, and if anyone ports this code, post a link in the comments.
If you're copying this code into a toplevel, here are the incantations you'll need to convince the OCaml toplevel to accept quasiquotes and grammar extensions.
#load "dynlink.cma";; #load "camlp4oof.cma";; open Camlp4.PreCast let _loc = Camlp4.PreCast.Loc.ghost
Our first step will be to introduce a datatype for T-level types and terms. There's nothing too surprising in the datatype declarations. The only extra (relative to the semantics above) is that I've thrown in let-binding to make the examples more readable.
module Term = struct type var = string type tp = Nat | One | Prod of tp * tp | Arrow of tp * tp type term = | Var of var | Let of var * term * term | Lam of var * term | App of term * term | Unit | Pair of term * term | Fst of term | Snd of term | Zero | Succ of term | Iter of term * term * var * term | Annot of term * tp let rec print_tp () tp = let print fmt = Printf.sprintf fmt in match tp with | One -> "unit" | Nat -> "nat" | Prod(tp1, tp2) -> print "(%a * %a)" print_tp tp1 print_tp tp2 | Arrow(Arrow(_, _) as tp1, tp2) -> print "(%a) -> %a" print_tp tp1 print_tp tp2 | Arrow(tp1, tp2) -> print "%a -> %a" print_tp tp1 print_tp tp2
We're going to follow a Lisp-like strategy in embedding the syntax of our language. OCaml already has a syntax
for types and programs, so we might as well re-use that for parsing our language. So our "parser" is just a function
that takes an OCaml AST, and converts it into elements of the
term and
tp datatypes.
Camlp4 lets us match quotations in pattern match expressions, so this is really quite easy. Here,
<:ctyp< t >>
just matches an AST with the same shape as the term
t. Holes inside of a patter can be bound to variables using the
$x$. We can also do the same thing with expressions, using the quotation form
<:expr< e >>. As a result, all of the issues of precedence and so on are handled automatically, with exactly the rules as OCaml. (The one limitation is that the syntax of the primitive iterator is a little bit ugly.)
let rec tp = function | <:ctyp< nat >> -> Nat | <:ctyp< unit >> -> One | <:ctyp< $a$ -> $b$ >> -> Arrow(tp a, tp b) | <:ctyp< $a$ * $b$ >> -> Prod(tp a, tp b) | _ -> failwith "unhandled type expression" let rec term = function | <:expr< () >> -> Unit | <:expr< ($e1$, $e2$) >> -> Pair(term e1, term e2) | <:expr< (fst $e$) >> -> Fst (term e) | <:expr< (snd $e$) >> -> Snd (term e) | <:expr< Zero >> -> Zero | <:expr< Succ($e$) >> -> Succ(term e) | <:expr< iter (match $en$ with | Zero -> $ez$ | Succ $lid:x$ -> $es$) >> -> Iter(term en, term ez, x, term es) | <:expr< let $lid:x$ : $t$ = $e1$ in $e2$ >> -> Let(x, Annot(term e1, tp t), term e2) | <:expr< let $lid:x$ = $e1$ in $e2$ >> -> Let(x, term e1, term e2) | <:expr< ($e$ : $t$) >> -> Annot(term e, tp t) | <:expr< $lid:x$ >> -> Var x | <:expr< fun $lid:x$ -> $e$ >> -> Lam(x, term e) | <:expr< ($e1$ $e2$) >> -> App(term e1, term e2) | _ -> failwith "Unknown expression" end
We will also want to construct terms of ML type
('a,'b) hom, using references to the module we
implemented. The
Quote module gives a set of functions, which construct AST nodes corresponding to
each of the combinators in our interface. The only interesting case is
find, which receives a
context (a list of variables and their types), and constructs the appropriate projection (corresponding to
$\pi^\Gamma_x$ in our denotational semantics). Note that this function can fail if we try to look up a
variable not bound in the context.
module Quote = struct let id = <:expr< Goedel.id >> let compose f g = <:expr< Goedel.compose $f$ $g$ >> let unit = <:expr< Goedel.unit >> let fst = <:expr< Goedel.fst >> let snd = <:expr< Goedel.snd >> let pair f g = <:expr< Goedel.pair $f$ $g$ >> let prod f g = <:expr< Goedel.prod $f$ $g$ >> let curry f = <:expr< Goedel.curry $f$ >> let eval = <:expr< Goedel.eval >> let zero = <:expr< Goedel.zero >> let succ = <:expr< Goedel.succ >> let iter z s = <:expr< Goedel.iter $z$ $s$ >> let rec find x = function | [] -> raise Not_found | (x', t) :: ctx' when x = x' -> <:expr< Goedel.snd >> | (x', t) :: ctx' -> <:expr< Goedel.compose Goedel.fst $find x ctx'$ >> endNow, what we'll do is to write a typechecker that implements the typing rules I gave above. The nicest way of writing typecheckers is (IMO) in a monadic style. The monad I'll use is a reader plus error monad. The context is the read-only state, and the
with_hyp operation temporarily extends the state with a hypothesis in a block, and the
returns the projection code and the type for a variable. The
error function takes a format string and returns
an error object, using OCaml's nifty CPS-style output formatter.
module Context = struct open Term type ctx = (var * tp) list type 'a result = Error of string | Done of 'a type 'a t = ctx -> 'a result let return v = fun ctx -> Done v let (>>=) m f = (fun ctx -> match m ctx with | Done v -> f v ctx | Error s -> Error s) let with_hyp hyp cmd = fun ctx -> cmd (hyp :: ctx) let lookup x ctx = try Done (Quote.find x ctx, List.assoc x ctx) with Not_found -> Error (Printf.sprintf "'%s' unbound" x) let error fmt = Printf.ksprintf (fun msg ctx -> Error msg) fmt let run cmd = cmd [] end
Now, once we've defined the context monad, we can actually write the typechecker. Our typechecker is actually an elaborater, which is a common pattern in type-based compilation. We don't just typecheck a term, we also produce a term in the output language as part of the typechecking process. Furthermore, we also use bidirectional typechecking, in which we split the typechecker into two functions,
check and
synth. The
check function takes a term and the type to check it against, and returns the elaborated code. The
synth function just takes a term, and it infers a type for that term, in addition to emitting the code for that term.
module Elaborate = struct open Term open Quote open Context
check function has the type
Term.term -> Term.tp -> Ast.expr Context.t . It compares introduction forms (such as lambdas and pairs) against their expected types (arrow and product type) and complains if they don't line up. Note that because we check a function against a type, we know what type to ascribe to the variable that goes into the context. Likewise, we require let-bindings to be bound to an inferrable term in order to figure out their type.
You can also see that the value we return uses the operators from the
Quote module to construct terms to return. It lines
up exactly with the denotational semantics, illustrating that semantics can profitably be viewed as a guide to the design patterns of functional programming.
let rec check e tp = match (e, tp) with | Lam(x, e), Arrow(tp1, tp2) -> with_hyp (x, tp1) (check e tp2 >>= (fun t -> return (curry t))) | Lam(_, _), tp -> error "expected function type, got '%a'" print_tp tp | Unit, One -> return unit | Unit, tp -> error "expected unit type, got '%a'" print_tp tp | Pair(e1, e2), Prod(tp1, tp2) -> check e1 tp1 >>= (fun t1 -> check e2 tp2 >>= (fun t2 -> return (pair t1 t2))) | Pair(_, _), tp -> error "expected product type, got '%a'" print_tp tp | Iter(en, ez, x, es), tp -> check en Nat >>= (fun tn -> check ez tp >>= (fun tz -> (with_hyp (x, tp) (check es tp)) >>= (fun ts -> return (compose (pair id tn) (iter tz ts))))) | Let(x, e1, e2), tp2 -> synth e1 >>= (fun (t1, tp1) -> (with_hyp (x, tp1) (check e2 tp2)) >>= (fun t2 -> return (compose (pair id t1) t2))) | _, _ -> synth e >>= (function | (t, tp') when tp = tp' -> return t | (_, tp') -> error "Expected type '%a', inferred type '%a'" Term.print_tp tp Term.print_tp tp')The
synth function has type
Term.term -> (Ast.expr * Term.tp) Context.t . Bidirectional typechecking experts and focalization ninjas will be puzzled to see
Zero and
Succ as having synthesized type, since they are introduction forms. (Normal people will regard this as entirely normal.) I now think the normal people are right, and that this is actually proof-theoretically justified, for reasons that would be a massive digression to go into. At any rate, you can see the dual pattern to checking here -- if you have an application, and you can infer the type of the head, then you have a type to check the argument against.
and synth e = match e with | Var x -> lookup x | Zero -> return (compose unit zero, Nat) | Succ e1 -> check e1 Nat >>= (fun t1 -> return (compose t1 succ, Nat)) | App(e1, e2) -> synth e1 >>= (function | t1, Arrow(tp2, tp) -> check e2 tp2 >>= (fun t2 -> return (compose (pair t1 t2) eval, tp)) | t1, tp_bad -> error "Expected function, got '%a'" Term.print_tp tp_bad) | Fst e' -> synth e' >>= (function | t', Prod(tp1, tp2) -> return (compose t' fst, tp1) | t', tp_bad -> error "Expected product, got '%a'" Term.print_tp tp_bad) | Snd e' -> synth e' >>= (function | t', Prod(tp1, tp2) -> return (compose t' snd, tp2) | t', tp_bad -> error "Expected product, got '%a'" Term.print_tp tp_bad) | Let(x, e1, e2) -> synth e1 >>= (fun (t1, tp1) -> (with_hyp (x, tp1) (synth e2)) >>= (fun (t2, tp2) -> return (compose (pair id t1) t2, tp2))) | Annot(e, tp) -> check e tp >>= (fun t -> return (t, tp)) | _ -> error "checking term in synthesizing position" endNow we can perform the one bit of metaprogramming magic which lets us splice in our DSL into ordinary OCaml terms. This extends OCaml's grammar with the
T(t) construct, which constructs a term of type
(unit, 'a) hom from the lambda-term
module Extension = struct open Syntax EXTEND Gram expr: LEVEL "top" [[ UIDENT "T"; tm = expr -> match Context.run (Elaborate.synth (Term.term tm)) with | Context.Done (e, _) -> e | Context.Error msg -> Loc.raise _loc (Failure msg) ]]; END endHere are a few examples. (I had to resist the temptation mightily, but I managed not to give factorial as an example.)
module Test = struct let e1 = T(let sum : nat -> nat -> nat = fun x y -> iter (match x with | Zero -> y | Succ n -> Succ n) in sum (Succ (Succ (Zero))) (Succ (Succ (Succ Zero)))) let e2 = T(let sum : nat -> nat -> nat = fun x y -> iter (match x with | Zero -> y | Succ n -> Succ n) in let mult : nat -> nat -> nat = fun x y -> iter (match x with | Zero -> Zero | Succ n -> add y n) in mult (Succ (Succ (Zero))) (Succ (Succ (Succ Zero)))) end
You can run these using the
Goedel.run function. Multiplying 2 and 3 is not the world's most exciting computation, but (a) we had a type-based guarantee that this multiplication would terminate, and (b) we embedded this into OCaml, where it is decidedly not the case that all functions terminate. IMO, that is exciting!
For comparison, here's what
e2 looks like as a combinator expression (with all the extra
Goedel.blah prefixes stripped out, so that this is actually less noisy than it could be):
let e2 = compose (pair id (curry (curry (compose (pair id (compose fst snd)) (iter snd (compose snd succ)))))) (compose (pair id (curry (curry (compose (pair id (compose fst snd)) (iter (compose unit zero) (compose (pair (compose (pair (compose fst (compose fst (compose fst snd))) (compose fst snd)) eval) snd) eval)))))) (compose (pair (compose (pair snd (compose (compose (compose unit zero) succ) succ)) eval) (compose (compose (compose (compose unit zero) succ) succ) succ)) eval))
It's probably possible to make this a bit more readable with judicious use of infix operators, but frankly there's no real comparison in terms of readability --- having variables is a massive win, even though there is a totally compositional translation from lambda-terms into combinator expressions. It's actually not outside the realm of possibility that someone would want to use the
T() macro, but basically no one would want to write the desugared version. (And if they did, whoever had to maintain that code would probably throw it out and rewrite it...)


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Heaven and Hell
While we believe in the existance of heaven and hell, we do not look uopn them as physical places. The Holy Fathers teach us that
*for those who love God, heaven is the eternal existance in His loving presence. God is their ultimate desire and, consequently, their reward as well. Since, for most of us, our love for God is far from perfect, His love for us and the continual prayer of the Church refines and purifies our love, making us ever more able to find all our joy in Him.
*for those who hate God, hell is also eternal existance in His loving presence but, according to Saint Isaac of Syria, they "will be chastized with the scourge of love. How cruel and bitter this torment of love will be. The sorrow which takes hold of the heart which has sinned against love is more piercing than any other pain." For the evil, "eternity of hell" is not the deprivation of the love of presence of God but rather the torment of external existence in the presence of a Love which is unwanted, rejected and despised.
The criterion upon which Christ will judge us is love!
Our capacity to love others is based upon our acceptance of God's love, for He is Love itself. Christ commanded us to love God above all else and to share God's love with others. Upon this we will be judged.
God's all consuming love, then acts in two ways. It is
*the eternal fulfillment and joy of the blessed as well as
*the eternal suffering and condemnation of the wicked.
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1033 " .....To die in mortal sin without repenting and accepting God's merciful love means remaining seperated from him forever by our own free choice. The state of definitive self-exclusion from communion with God and the blessed is called "Hell".
Thanks for the informative post. :D
I did have a question though, about the following quote that you posted from the CCC:What does the catechism mean when it uses the term "state"?
The reason I decided to ask about the Catholic Church's official stance on this is because I do recall having read several articles on the internet about how Pope John Paul II has said that heaven and hell are not *literal places*, but are "states of being."
Greetings all!
I wanted to know if someone could tell me the Eastern Orthodox Church's view on heaven and hell and how their position may agree or disagree with that of the Catholic Church.
I was always under the impression that they were/are *literal* places that truly do exist and that we will be sent to either one after Christ's judgement at His Second Coming.
I believe that the Catholic Church views hell not as a literal place, but rather as an eternal seperation from God. **
What is the Eastern Orthodox view on this?
God loves the damned as much as he loves his saints. He wants the cure of all but not all accept his cure. This means that the forgiveness of sins is not enough preparation for seeing Christ in glory...St. John Chrysostom says that one must "be reconciled to God. Paul did not say, "Reconcile God to yourselves, for it is not He who hates, but we. For God never hates."
1. If God is not "present" in Hell, how can Hell exist, being separate from the Source of all existence?
2. Is the idea of Hell tied to God not being able to stand sinners in His presence?
The ideas of Hell and Purgatory are both tied to the fact that God can not stand sin in his pressence, not sinners but sin, for we are ALL sinners, even the greatest of Saints.
Herein lies part of the problem. God does not have a problem with sin in his presence. It is sin that runs screaming in pain and foaming at the mouth from the all consuming fire of His holiness. Sin cannot bear to be in the presence of God. I think it was likened to the difference between diseased eyes and healthy eyes looking at brilliant light. It is the same light for both yet while the healthy eyes are able to look without discomfort, even finding it pleasureable, the diseased eyes suffer extraordinary pain.


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These great tats are sported by a remarkable young man who started as an ER tech in our ER, went on to become a PA, and subsequently went on to work for (what else?) a cardiology group.
Bonus points if you can identify the abnormalities in each tat. Dr Wes, you are disqualified from the contest.
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@nd degree, type I & acute inferior MIReplyDelete
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Wenckebach and inferior STEMI!ReplyDelete
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Send it off to the Science Tattoo Emporium?ReplyDelete
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Is the first Mobitz Type II?ReplyDelete
I wanna hire that guy...ReplyDelete
Wonder if his tats will ever match his own rhythm? That would be an interesting situation. Very cool.ReplyDelete
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Scott Hall: Enter the brotherhood
January 22nd, 2014 | Ian Richardson
I'd never stepped foot inside Scott Hall prior to move-in day my freshman year, but looking back at the experiences I've had and relationships I've formed here since then, I don't think I could have chosen a better place to live. Scott Hall has truly become my home away from home.
What's so great about Scott? Well, for starters, it's a great place to be geographically. Proximity to the Barnett Fine Arts building adds a bonus for music, art and theatre students, and Scott is also closer to the Chapel and the dining hall (I'm especially OK with that last one) than most of the other halls.
When it comes to hall stereotypes, people may refer to Scott as the "studious" hall or the "nerdy" hall, but trust me; we do a lot more here than read books and quote Star Wars to each other. In fact, throughout the year there are all sorts of great activities that have become traditions here in Scott. Here are a few of them:
- The Southside Shindig. On one night every fall semester, all of the residence halls on the south side of campus (Scott, Walther and Spence) gather for one big party. There's great food, live music and all sorts of fun outdoor games.
- The Scott Hall Barbecue. On this night, the hungry residents of Scott all gather for a late-night snack of grilled burgers, chips and bottomless root beer. For some reason, burgers taste way better when it's almost midnight.
- Hall Chapels. Held in the basement, these alternate Chapel services are a unique experience where you get to worship alongside the guys who you do life with every day.
- The Scott Hall Dodge Ball Tournament. This is the ultimate test of floor patriotism (and one of my personal favorite events). Once a semester, we reserve the gym floor at the Mabee Fitness Center for a late-night of dodge ball extravaganza. Each floor competes as a team to see who will take home the trophy.
Along with all-hall events like these, each floor has its own personality and set of fun activities that it does every year. But even though Scott has six unique floors, the hall as a whole really feels like a unified community — a brotherhood.
Whether you're spending quality time with other Scott guys at an all-hall event, chatting with our cool residence director Jonathan Webb, or hearing the assistant at the front desk say "welcome home" as you walk in the front door, there's an almost tangible bond that surrounds this hall and the activities that take place inside. It's the feeling of 200-plus guys coming together from all around the globe and living life together as the family of God.
Scott Hall is a great place to live — much better than I can do it justice in a single blog post. But you don't have to take my word for it. Come check us out. Before you know it, you'll find yourself a part of the brotherhood, too.


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The elections may be over, but the current Congress still has work to do.
The elections may be over, but the current Congress still has work to do.
On Sept. 13, 2012, acting U.S. Secretary of Commerce Rebecca Blank declared the Northeast's groundfish industry a federal disaster, opening the door for Congress to allocate funds for fishery disaster aid. Of course, any disaster relief should first address the needs of fishermen and their families. But the package currently being negotiated should also include funds to reinvigorate scientific research, which is essential to maximizing the economic benefits of tomorrow's fishing industry.
The fishing industry is important for Massachusetts, generating billions in economic activity annually. In New Bedford, the number one fishing port by value of catch in the United States and home to several major processors, the stakes are especially high. But the industry has been hurting for years and efforts to maximize productivity have been hampered by a lack of reliable scientific data.
We need reliable, independent science. And Massachusetts is best equipped to provide it.
When the federal government first began regulating America's coastal fisheries in 1976, with the passage of the predecessor to today's Magnuson-Stevens Act, the law was hailed for basing future fishing decisions on hard science. Scientific data, would inform the decisions of the regional fishing councils the law created, allowing the councils to carefully balance the interests of environmentalists and those of fishermen and their communities. Unfortunately, there was little scientific research about fishing available at the time, other than attempts to count how many of each species fishermen were landing. While Magnuson-Stevens has been amended several times in the intervening 36 years, most recently in 2007, scientific research that can help our fishing industry maximize opportunities remains limited.
That's because there has not been adequate, sustained funding for independent research centers. At times of crisis, regulators and industry players search frantically for data. When the crisis passes, research dollars disappear. The most consistent research occurs at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)'s own National Marine Fisheries Service research facilities. But NOAA's research, which attempts to estimate the number of a particular species of fish in hundreds of square miles of ocean at a given time, yields broad ranges and approximations. In addition, thanks to years of mistrust between NOAA and the industry it regulates, NOAA's data is increasingly questioned by many in the industry. Determining the number, type and location of fish, their ability to replenish themselves and their interaction with other undersea life has proven unexpectedly difficult. Add the effects of global warming and other environmental changes, and NOAA faces an impossible task: to balance the interests of fish and fishermen in a rapidly changing environment using scientific evidence that is, by its own scientists' admission, often unspecific, unproven and unreliable. NOAA has been put in the position of acting not only as judge and jury, but as prosecution, defense and expert witness.
In 2008, NOAA researchers estimated that Gulf of Maine cod were quickly recovering from previous overfishing. Then in 2011, researchers estimated instead that the stock was only one third of the size of the previous estimate. Based on the latest research, NOAA is preparing to cut already low cod catch limits by as much 70 percent next year. Yellowtail flounder is facing additional cuts after an 80 percent reduction last year. And scallops, often New Bedford's most valuable catch, could be cut by as much as 30 percent.
Our marine environment and our fishermen face unprecedented challenges. If we have any hope of building the kind of consensus and broad trust that will be necessary to move forward, we must relieve NOAA of the burden of playing all of those roles.
I am urging Senator Kerry, Senator Brown and Congressman Frank to use the opportunity presented by federal disaster relief legislation to strengthen independent centers of marine science expertise. Only with significant investment and the collaboration of outside experts can we hope to build trust in increasingly critical, but increasingly complicated, scientific data.
Fortunately, Massachusetts, particularly New Bedford, already has the foundations for such independent centers of maritime science. Federal dollars should flow to these institutions.
In 2002 the University of Massachusetts joined with the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries, the state agency charged with managing marine resources, to establish the Marine Fisheries Institute, an organization dedicated to becoming a national leader for innovative and practical fisheries management, but the Institute has atrophied for lack of funding. With the latest warnings from regulators, the Commonwealth is considering new investments in these institutions. Now is the time for the federal government, the dominant player in fisheries research and regulation, to step up.
In particular, the School for Marine Science and Technology (SMAST) at UMass Dartmouth is uniquely suited to provide this research. SMAST has an ideal location as well as a history of fostering positive collaboration between all fishing stakeholders.
SMAST can also boast a proven record of success in fishery research. In the 1990s the scallop industry was on the verge of collapse when SMAST pioneered new research on a very tight budget that proved the scallop population wasn't devastated, allowing previously closed areas to be reopened. For ten years, the New England Fishery Management Council used SMAST data along with data from NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service, to set annual catch limits for scallops. Today the scallop fishery is one of the most valuable in the United States.
I also urge the Massachusetts delegation to work to secure the majority of any disaster aid for the Commonwealth. Seventy percent of all groundfish in New England is landed in Massachusetts, so if Congress passes a $100 million aid package, $70 million should be spent to assist fishermen in Massachusetts through both research and aid.
I will continue to work for investments from the Commonwealth as well. In this year's state budget, I successfully secured $200,000 for SMAST to conduct species count analysis on groundfish and scallops, with $50,000 specifically set aside for research of Gulf of Maine cod. Six months earlier, the Commonwealth appropriated over $1.1 million for further groundfish research, which remains unspent pending a decision on the best research approach. I have been working with my colleagues in the State House, as well as House leadership, to secure these funds for yellowtail research, which could help both groundfish and scallop fishermen.
By fostering improved, independent research, we can create jobs in New Bedford and strengthen our position as a world leader in marine science. As our oceans change, we can sustain marine life and marine industry only with substantially improved knowledge of the fishing grounds.


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The President Bids Farewell to BearMeat
Resigning to "Spend more time with my family"
My principal editorial duties (fawning over Emily Ingram, worshipping Mulk, praising Brock, mocking Drew, and lamenting Kevin Steele) will be shared between The Good Judge (who promises to return from his three-month hibernation within the next three months) and the Guvn'r (whose enthusiasm as of late portends great things for the future of these here BearMeats). I will miss all of the fellow bloggers I met along the way who have helped us become the go-to blog for Baylor sports satire. I want to thank all of our Oso Amigos and BearBackers for their support and encouragement through the last year and a half.
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I realize that now that GuyMo is gone, the albatross has been taken from our necks and we have a clean slate to work with. I also realize that the Gentleman Bears just won the Paradise Jam Crown in the Virgin Islands with victories over Notre Dame and Winthrop. These are optimistic times to be a Baylor fan. However, I am a writer who needs a certain level of melancholy and pathos in order to be inspired. These events have proved too much for my frail constitution. Some times an old cowboy just has to hang up his spurs.
Paradise Jam Champions?!?! A New Era Dawns . . .
Seriously, thank you all for reading and commenting on my posts and I will be with this blog in spirit, ala Obi Wan Kenobi, as it continues to stagger into the future with a heart full of hope and a belly full of hallucinogens.
Sic 'em, Bears!
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Here's what's up in the world of TV for Thursday, July 18. All times are Eastern.
Intervention (A&E, 9 p.m.): After staging more than 200 interventions—with 156 of the show's subjects remaining sober, by the network's count—A&E cuts off the supply to this coincidentally habit-forming docuseries tonight. Fitting for the show's low-premise/high-stakes hook, it goes out with little fanfare, with one final addict urged toward quitting (doing so in front of TV cameras, which kind of makes it okay to make light of the program, right?). With the show coming to an end, Jessica Jardine is seeking your assistance in starting a Scared Straight-style program to warn viewers of the dangerous allure of Duck Dynasty.
Wilfred (FX, 10 p.m.): On the occasion of Jenna's birthday, the show deals with the delicate art of gift-giving. If anyone needs advice on the delicate art of gift-wrapping, let it be known that Rowan Kaiser knows his way around a Scotch Tape dispenser.
Graceland (USA, 10 p.m.): The synopsis for tonight's episode promises underwater sequences, so Genevieve Valentine recommends that viewers keep all their valuables and handheld electronics in a plastic bag until the hour is up.
Monty Python's Flying Circus (11 a.m.): For Special Achievements in the Field of Funny Names, Zack Handlen recognizes Flying Circus' "It's A Living," the episode that introduced the world to Raymond Luxury Yacht and the somehow more cumbersomely named political candidates of the Silly Party, the Slightly Silly Party, and the Very Silly (Independent) Party. This is Kevin Philips-Bong, signing off.
Gilmore Girls (1 p.m.): Bunheads Renewal Watch, Week 21: We've been reduced to prodding ABC Family for an answer via headline, so we could use the spa day Lorelai and Emily take in the second of this week's Gilmore Girls episodes. If David Sims' carries any more Amy Sherman-Palladino-related stress in his shoulders, he's liable to crack his own collarbone.
Friends (3 p.m.): The TV Roundtable has already had its say about "The One With The Boobies," but where do Sonia Saraiya and Joe Reid stand? Fisher Stevens is standing by to over-analyze their answers.
The Big Bang Theory (CBS, 8 p.m.): Relive Bob Newhart's visit to the show with "The Proton Resurgence," and maybe figure out a way to break the thing down to just his appearance, the highlight of the episode and a guest spot worthy of a short with a BBT-esque title like "The Proton Isolation" or something.
Project Runway (Lifetime, 9 p.m.): A longtime staple of the TV Club lineup, Project Runway's jersey was officially hoisted into the rafters at the end of its 11th season—we can no longer bring ourselves to force someone into watching 90 minutes of this thing on a weekly basis. With Phil Dyess-Nugent watching and reporting back on the première, however, we can temporarily "make it work." (Hooray for moldy catchphrases!)
Music Mavericks (Ovation, 9 p.m.): You probably don't need another biography series to let you know about the impact David Bowie and Elton John have had on the last four-plus decades of pop. But how else are future generations supposed to accidentally stumble across footage of Labyrinth's "Dance Magic"? The Internet? That's preposterous.
ET On OWN (OWN, 10 p.m.): Tonight's "High In Hollywood Uncovered" special is either a piece of smart counter-programming (re: the Intervention finale) or a victim of poor timing (re: the death of Cory Monteith). Either way, we can all agree: The title "High In Hollywood Uncovered" makes little to no grammatical sense.
The Palm Beach Story (TCM, 8 p.m.): Preston Sturges and Joel McCrea follow their Sullivan's Travels teamup with a whip-smart screwball comedy concerning a quarreling couple, a boozed-up hunting club, and that essential component of any late-Depression Sturges comedy: millions of dollars.
Blast Vegas (Syfy, 9 p.m.): Of course, if "whip-smart" isn't quite your bag, there's this week's Syfy Original, which can't possibly rise to the, er, heights of Sharknado—but it does feature Frankie Muniz and Barry Bostwick! (Hey, where are you going? Didn't you read us write "Barry Bostwick"?)
Auto Racing: Australian V-8 Supercars (Speed, 8 p.m.): Take your pick of simulcasted international sporting events tonight: The British Open, the Tour De France, or, causing a thunder Down Under: SUPERCARS! What makes them so "super," you might ask? Why, rocketing to Earth as infant cars when the planet Krypton exploded, boasting horsepowers much greater than those of ordinary mortal cars, of course!
Futurama: The show turns its satirical gaze toward the Saturday-morning cartoons of the 1970s and '80s—kind of like that one episode of Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures, but with fewer pointed criticisms of The Real Ghostbusters, which Dennis Perkins appreciates.


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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Dec. 24, 2009) - Junior Paul Hoilman (Johnson City, Tenn.) and sophomore Bo Reeder (Cookeville, Tenn.) were named to the Louisville Slugger Pre-season All-American Third Team announced Collegiate Baseball earlier this week.
"This is an outstanding honor for Paul and Bo," said head coach Tony Skole. "This recognition is well deserved, and is justified by what they have accomplished in the past and what they represent. These two young men are great ambassadors for ETSU, the athletic department and all of college baseball. They truly represent what an All-American is all about, and what it means to be a student-athlete at the Division I level."
Hoilman pounded out a .380 batting average a season ago and slugged 17 home runs. The junior enters the season tied with Kennesaw State's Jace Whitmer as the active leader in the Atlantic Sun in home runs with 26. Hoilman finished tied for second in the conference in RBI with 66 in 2009.
Reeder had an outstanding freshman campaign as he knocked in 53 runs while hammering out 39 extra base hits. A Louisville Slugger Freshmen All-American selection in 2009, Reeder also posted a .339 batting-average and a .661 slugging percentage. The Cookeville, Tenn. native also made 17 appearances on the mound for ETSU holding a record of 4-4 with one save striking out 26.
"Not only are Paul and Bo among the elite students at ETSU, they are also extremely involved in community service and are two of the most dedicated and hardest workers that I have ever coached," Skole said. "They each have the rare ability to make everyone around them better no matter what activity they are involved in. I am very excited to see what the future holds for each of these outstanding young men. I couldn't be more proud of them."
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