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4/3/13 Tigers at Twins: Target Field
Another day of the week, another day in the winter wonderland that is Target Field:
Thankfully this day the Tigers started hitting a little less later after we were let in to the stadium, if that makes sense. This time, I headed almost directly to left field when the gates opened:
But when I realized that the Tigers weren't hitting just yet, I headed to foul ground to try to get a ball from the pitchers warming up:
This resulted in me getting a ball from Brayan Villarreal:
Then I decided that right field was far less crowded than left field, so I headed over there for the hitting group that included Prince Fielder, Miguel Cabrera, and Victor Martinez. The decision on which side of the outfield to stand on for this group is harder than you may think. While Miguel Cabrera is a triple crown winner (and a right handed hitter), a bunch of his home runs at Target Field will be lost to the second deck overhang in left field. Also, he is one of those hitters who can seriously drive the ball out to any part of the field, and not just his pull side. On the other hand, Prince Fielder usually takes very short rounds of batting practice. Last year in the final series against the Twins, there were several times when he took one-pitch rounds. He literally got in the cage, swung at one pitch, and got back out of the cage. Usually when a hitter does this it's at the very end of his group's hitting as a sort of "lightning round", but he did it in the middle rounds and was the only one doing it. To combat this, though, Victor Martinez hits the ball for way more power from the left side of the plate.
It turned out that I made the right decision:
That would be a home run ball from Victor Martinez. I completely misjudged it, as I did for all but one ball this batting, but thankfully it landed in a row with no one else in it. It was a very frustrating batting practice in this regard. I don't know what it was, but whenever I thought the ball was coming right to me, the ball died because of the cold and didn't even make it to the seats, but then when I thought it was going to fall just short of me, the ball would fly over my head and less than two feet over my glove. I would say I lost two to three baseballs to misjudgments on my part. I also didn't know it at the time, but this was my 450th career snag.
Thankfully, though, there was one ball that I didn't misjudge. When Prince Fielder got up, I moved back in the right field section of seating, as I usually do. He then launched a ball that I could tell was going over my head, so I sprinted back and looked back at where the ball was going to land. The ball then hit the gated fencing of the second deck terrace (I don't know if that's the proper word for it, but it feels right):
and then bounced down in the standing room before bouncing back up in the air:
where I managed to grab it before it could bounce back down and also managed not to run into the person running full speed in the opposite direction at the ball while it was mid-air.
I was then going to go down to the first row of the section of seating to give the ball to one of a group of kids who had been trying really hard to get a ball from the Tigers players, but people were blocking the staircase to go down there. So instead, I gave the ball to this kid who was in the wheelchair-ish seating at the top of the section of seats:
For the record: yes, he did have a glove; I just would have much rather given it to kids who were very actively pursuing a baseball, and I felt obligated to give a ball away since I had now snagged five baseballs this season without giving one away. That would be the last ball I snagged this game, bringing my total up to three baseballs for the day.
As for the game, I tried to get a ball from the bullpen in the pre-game warm-ups:
But the opportunity somehow managed to slip me by despite there being a ball on the ground of the bullpen right in front of me. It was then that I decided to stay in left field for the beginning of the game because:
1. This was my view:
2. There were invisible people sitting to my right:
But mostly 3. This spot was almost guaranteed to be in the sun for the whole game- While this game was not as cold as Opening Day, it was forecasted–and thus I was prepared for it–to be mid-50s. It was in the high 30s for most of the game. In the sun it was bearable; in the shade, I was getting frostbite.
Given this, once enough people arrived in the seats to force me up into the shaded part of the seats, I gave up sitting in left field and just headed over to the standing room section:
It'll take me a while to get sick of that view. The wind I was experiencing on the other hand…
While I was up there, I spent a good chunk of my time 1. Using groups of people who walked into the standing room as human windshields and 2. Talking to an usher who happened to be in my sports management interview paper group. The basic premise of the interview groups is we separated the 150-student class into groups of what people wanted to go into when they were done with school, and so this usher and I were both in the "Front Office: MLB" group, in which we interviewed Terry Ryan (if you don't know who he is, close this entry effective-immediately and don't return until you have done some Google research on him. If you're really interested, you can listen to the interview here: Terry Ryan interview. It's pretty boring from an outside listener's standpoint, but that's because it was for a class first, so there were mandatory questions we had to ask him. Anyway, I talked with this usher about first the cold and then how we both have become less invested in the outcomes of games as a result of us both attending a ton of games. He for work, and I for ballhawking.
When he took his break and I resumed withstanding the cold with nothing to distract me, I noticed that whoever had conducted the raising of the flag ceremony had forgot to lock the flag pole, so I took a peek inside just to see what was in there:
Fun times. Cold times.
Then in the bottom of the ninth inning, I headed over to left field again to try to get a ball from one of the bullpen players. I figured the game would be over pretty soon with the Tigers up 2-1, but the Twins thankfully made me go home a couple outs early. See Phil Coke walked Trevor Plouffe, who then got pinch-run for by Jamey Carroll. Then Brian Dozier got a single to send Carroll. This brought up Eduardo Escobar. He then launched a ball that looked to be headed to my left into the bullpen. Instead, the cold knocked it down for a walk-off double.
The Tigers players got out of the bullpen as fast as they could, so this probably cost me a ball, but I was fine with this as it was a Twins win. What I was really afraid of when there were runners on first and third was extra-innings. This would have been torture. So really, anything besides this was fine by me, and a walk-off win was just icing on the cake. If you're having trouble picturing the walk-off, here's a picture showing where I was and where the ball landed:
After that, I walked back to the Minneapolis side of campus, where I took the Campus Connector back to my dorm on the St. Paul side.
- 3 Balls at this game (2 pictured because I gave 1 away)
Numbers 449-451 for my lifetime:
- 5 Balls in 2 Games= 2.5 Balls Per Game
- 3 Balls x 22,963 Fans= 68,889 Competition Factor
- 64 straight Games with at least 1 Ball
- 14 straight Games with at least 2 Balls
- 60 Balls in 16 Games at Target Field= 3.75 Balls Per Game
- 15 straight Games with at least 1-2 Balls at Target Field
- Time Spent On Game 12:05-7:18= 7 Hours 13 Minutes


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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A federal health official said Wednesday that West Virginians can use tap water however they choose after last month's chemical spill contaminated it for days. Still, public skepticism remains over its safety and some local doctors are advising some of their patients not to ingest it.
The Jan. 9 spill of a coal-cleaning chemical at Freedom Industries in Charleston spurred a water-use ban for 300,000 people for up to 10 days. After officials cleared thousands to use water again, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials advised pregnant women to consider a different water source.
However, on Wednesday, the CDC reaffirmed its stance on the water's safety, even for pregnant women.
"You can drink it. You can bathe in it," said Dr. Tanja Popovic, acting director of the National Center for Environmental Health and Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. "You can use it how you like."
Popovic said the CDC's original suggestion meant only to empower pregnant women to make their own health decisions.
"They may not want to eat certain food," Popovic said. "They may not want to fly. It doesn't mean that flying isn't safe."
Still, many restaurants refuse to cook with it. And some local doctors are telling certain patients, like children under 3 and people with compromised immune systems, not to drink it, said Dr. Rahul Gupta, health officer for Kanawha and Putnam counties.
And Wednesday, two schools closed early after the licorice odor indicative of the spilled chemical wafted through several classrooms and a cafeteria. Some students started feeling light-headed, and had itchy eyes and noses. A teacher who fainted and another student went to the hospital, said state schools Superintendent James Phares.
Trying to provide some clarity, Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin said he is evaluating options to send teams into some people's homes to check their water. He previously said his team didn't plan to test in homes.
"We all have the same question — is my water safe?" Tomblin said at a news conference. "This question is justifiable and can't be ignored."
After the spill, state and federal agencies scrambled to identify how much of the material that leaked could be safely in the water supply.
Officials have based testing at the water treatment plant, fire hydrants, in schools and various other spots across the affected region.
House Speaker Tim Miley and Minority Leader Tim Armstead urged Tomblin to start representative sampling in select homes across the affected nine-county area. The lawmakers suggested urging West Virginia American Water pay for the tests. The state should actually conduct the testing, they said.
Governor spokeswoman Amy Shuler Goodwin confirmed that Tomblin is evaluating in-home testing options.
Riverside High and Midland Trail Elementary in Kanawha County closed Wednesday morning because of a prevailing licorice smell resembling the chemical that spilled. Tests later showed no detection of the chemical. The schools canceled Thursday classes, too.
Superintendent Phares said schools were flushing their pipes Wednesday because of a water main break earlier in the week and didn't finish before students arrived.
Students won't be back at those schools until the chemical is no longer detected, Phares said. The West Virginia National Guard is conducting tests Wednesday evening and Thursday morning.
The chemical wasn't detected in previous testing.
The CDC's Popovic argued that the doctors' advice to not drink the water doesn't conflict with CDC recommendations.
"Because the general guidance is applicable to everybody, there are always individuals who may be a little bit different and they want to implement additional measures staying away from something," Popovic said.

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While the hoopla surrounding the recently released iOS 4.3.4 (and iOS 4.2.9) focused on it killing the PDF exploit that allowed JailbreakMe.com to function -- and could potentially allow bad guys to attack the iPhone and iPad as well -- it looks like Apple also patched an exploit that had been used to achieve untethered Jailbreakers since iOS 4.1. According to @i0n1c:
For those that did not get it: iOS 4.3.4 does not only fix jbme3 as announced, but also silently kills the ndrv_setspec() integer overflow.
In addition to that iOS 4.3.4 also adds code to dyld to detect attacks with binaries using "incomplete code signing".
"Incomplete codesigning attacks" were used for all untether exploits from at least iOS 4.1.0
Wonder if {Apple] only tried to stop my xploit from modifying LCs at runtime with the new check, or if they knew it would stop [incomplete codesigning] attacks.
That last tweet revives the debate about wether or not Apple is simply concerned about iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch security, or if they're specifically targeting Jailbreak exploits to close down. Some, like JailbreakMe.com, are such a risk Apple closes them as soon as possible. Others, like ndrv_setspec() survived for months and several IOS updates.
Either way, we once again thank the Jailbreak developers for their time and tenacity in always looking for new exploits and new ways to Jailbreak.
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If VARs had three wishes, or even five, what would they ask of their vendors?
Solution provider executives answered that question at a discussion moderated by Jere Brown, CEO of Dimension Data Americas, on whether vendors are keeping up with their partners at the Best of Breed 2013 conference, hosted by CRN's publisher The Channel Company.
"It's like a marriage: Some are good, some are bad, and you have to fight through the ugly spots to get to the good spots," said Rick Marcotte, CEO of DLT Solutions, of the relationship between partners and vendors.
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You are at a crosswalk behind a swell of pedestrians, waiting for an opening in the crowd to make your crossing.
As you throttle at top speed to cross a busy stretch of Fort Hamilton Parkway, you see the pedestrian countdown clock nearing zero. So you don't slow down when you reach the cutaway sidewalk ramp, and due to its steep incline, your chair tips over backwards into the street. The next thing you know, you are lying in front of a stationary sanitation truck while traffic whizzes by just a few feet from your head.
This is no hypothetical scenario, but rather a first person account of Jean Ryan's own harrowing experience as shared during the Vision Zero Town Hall Meeting at Brooklyn Borough Hall on April 1.
Ryan told the panel of city officials, "Almost all of my friends who use wheelchairs have been hit at least once, sometimes more than once. And that's crossing with the light in the crosswalk.
"You might not know it, and you probably don't, but across the city, curb cuts just aren't there or they're really too steep," Ryan said. " We have many curb cuts with gullies right underneath them where our chairs totally get stuck, and the city keeps saying they don't have the money [to fix this]. How does that make us feel?"
Ryan, who serves as the vice president of public affairs for the New York chapter of the national civil rights organization Disabled in Action, also addressed the issue of poorly painted streets, the rectification of which is a central tenet of the 63-point Vision Zero plan.
"A lot of the things we're talking about with Vision Zero consider paint as a solution, which I think is great, but if you don't keep on painting, it fades," Ryan said. "If we don't keep up the paint, it's like a PR thing."
City Council member and Transportation Committee chair Ydanis Rodriguez led the Town Hall meeting, where residents gathered to provide their input into the Vision Zero plan.
Joining him were Borough President Eric Adams, Pubic Advocate Letitia James, several members of city council, NYPD Chief of Transportation Thomas Chan, DOT Commissioner Polly Trottenberg, TLC Chief Operating Officer Conan Freud, Transportation Alternatives Deputy Director Noah Budnick, and Brooklyn Borough Director Kicy Motley of the Mayor's Community Affairs Unit.
Sitting at Adams' side was Michelle Charles, whose five-year-old son Roshard was killed by a hit-and-run driver while crossing Empire Blvd. between Nostrand and Rogers avenues on March 16 at approximately 8:30 p.m.
"Often times, we talk about this issue and we don't put a face on the impact," Adams said. "I think in memory of young [Roshard], we can send a serious statement, we can push this agenda forward."
Of the 48 Brooklynites allotted time to speak at the town hall, several reported being involved in accidents with motorists while cycling or on foot, and most were convinced that drivers were at the heart of the problem.
Still, resident and frequent driver Tal Barzilai said he felt it needed to be acknowledged that not all pedestrian and biker casualties are exclusively the fault of the motorists. He added to his statement that he meant no disrespect to those who have lost loved ones in traffic accidents.
In response to Ryan's call for more gently sloping curb cuts and a more aggressive road painting campaign, Trottenberg said, "It's been a tough winter, and now that the weather has finally turned, DOT will be out aggressively restriping."
Ryan shot back that even before the winter, fading paint has been an issue. Rodriguez came to Trottenberg's defense, saying, "We're working with a new administration now," though he did not specify as to whether the former administration was to blame for any lack of progress on such projects.
Trottenberg invited Ryan to convene with her in the near future to further discuss issues faced by persons with disabilities so progress can be made toward making city streets safe for all New Yorkers.
"Your stories are pretty moving and I want to make sure we're doing a better job on that," Trottenberg told Ryan.


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Harry Styles: London Studio Stop
Harry Styles heads into a studio in London for a quick stop on Tuesday morning (January 22).
The 18-year-old One Direction singer just returned from Japan with the band, where they started to film their concert movie.
PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of One Direction
After the 2013 NME Awards nominations were revealed, Harry found himself nominated for Best Villain and 1D is up for Worst Band! Eek!
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Three exhibitions are on view at the San Francisco Public Library:
EMPIRE OF THIRST: Robert Dawson's Photographs of Water in the West
CALIFORNIA DELTA: Rural Charms and Natural Beauty by Rich Turner (opens July 10)
HAND BOOKBINDERS of CALIFORNIA: 38th Anniversary Exhibition"
In conjunction with his solo exhibition "Empire of Thirst: Robert Dawson's Photographs of Water in the West" which continues through August 1st in the Jewett Gallery at the the San Francisco Public Library, Robert Dawson will give an Artist's Talk. Details as follows:
TUESDAY, July 13th, 6:30 p.m. at the Koret Auditorium; 100 Larkin Street at Grove
From the Library's webpage for this exhibition:
"In numerous projects over the past 30 years documenting the west, photographer Robert Dawson has found inspiration in water. He sees water as the most compelling metaphor and prescient symbol for the attitudes that have shaped the landscape of the American West. The San Francisco Public Library is hosting a special exhibition this summer that combines images from several of Dawson's photography projects in Empire of Thirst – Robert Dawson's Photographs of Water in the West, in the Jewett Gallery, Main Library, on view June 26 through Aug. 1.
The full range of our nation's regard for the natural world has manifested itself in western water history. Dawson's photography examines these cultural values and attitudes—from loving stewardship and respect to outrageous abuse and plunder—that have brought us to this critical point with the natural world. While the water crisis is global, Dawson has chosen to focus on the American West. It is here that the impact of rapid development of arid lands is immediately visible for all to see.
"Growing up in California I was always aware of the importance of water. I can still remember the panic of my parents in 1956 when California's intricate levee system almost broke after an enormous rain and threatened to flood all of Sacramento. The urgency of our six-year drought in the 1980s focused my thinking about water in the West," explains Dawson.
Included in the exhibition are both color and black and white photographs that address the issue of water. Some of Dawson's work looks at our culture's desire to possess, control and shape the land and water to our needs, other photographs document the misuse of water and still others examine a complex, evolving relationship to water that Dawson hopes to influence with his work.
The exhibition draws from five separate photographic projects including The Great Central Valley Project which examines California's agricultural heartland and the reshaping of that intensively farmed valley. The Water in the West Project looks at attitudes toward agriculture, mining, resource development, recreation, Native Americans, growth and environmental controversy. The Truckee River-Pyramid Lake Project explores one western water system and the conflict over its water by the Paiute Indians, the ranchers of western Nevada and the city of Reno. The Farewell, Promised Land Project examines California's environment and its history. The fifth project is the result of his recent work as the first Photographer-in-Residence for the City of San Jose's Cultural Affairs Office and its Environmental Services Department. He has been photographing the city's wastewater treatment facility, examining how our culture deals with wastewater.
As Dawson explains, "…photography has taken me through several projects on various subjects. But I always seem to find water wherever my work takes me. Throughout this journey I have always tried to stay close to the essential nature of water. Water is life and for me a never-ending source of inspiration."
A related exhibit, California Delta: Rural Charms and Natural Beauty – Photos by Rich Turner, will be on view July 10 through October 7, in the Wallace Stegner Environmental Center at the Main Library. Turner's photographs, in both color and black and white, memorialize the diversity of the Delta region in all its breathtaking beauty.
Related exhibition opening July 10th:
"California Delta: Rural Charms and Natural Beauty" Photographs by Rich Turner, on view in the Wallace Stegner Environmental Center, Main Library, 5th Floor
And last but not least:
HAND BOOKBINDERS of CALIFORNIA: 38th Anniversary Exhibition
"The Hand Bookbinders of California celebrate their 38th Annual Members' Exhibition at the San Francisco Public Library. The exhibition features the work of professional bookbinders, amateurs and students of the art and craft of hand bookbinding. Examples range from finely gold-tooled leather bindings to avant-garde artists' books, and innovative designs from the traditional to contemporary.
The Art of Hand Bookbinding: special tours by members of the Hand Bookbinders of California on the following Thursday mornings at 11a.m., July 8 and 22, and August 12. In the Skylight Gallery."
All programs at the Library are free and open to the public; call 415-557-4277 for more information.


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Advocacy around open government reforms to date has largely revolved around the intrinsic value of transparency, accountability, and participation. In a resource-constrained environment, development practitioners, policy makers, and citizens increasingly have to be more judicious. Adopting new methods or tools – such as open contracting mechanisms, open data dashboards and participatory budgeting – is not free.


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Seemingly out of nowhere, a LEGO The Hobbit video game trailer has been released. This should not only be a fun game, but a great addition to the LEGO LOTR video game.
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Are you looking for good on campus taxation graduate schools programs? Whether you're an experienced tax professional looking to expand your expertise and earn your credit hours, or whether you're interested in pursuing a new career in taxation, great on campus taxation programs might be out there that meet your needs to earn your degree in taxation.
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Choosing Potential On Campus Taxation Graduate Schools Programs
No matter your level of experience—whether you're new to tax or an experience professional—you might be able to learn a lot from on campus taxation graduate school programs. You might be able to build your resume out with additional education, earn credit hours you might need, or gain expertise in a new concentration area. Online taxation graduate programs might help you to do that in a way that fits into your life.
Basics of On Campus Taxation Graduate Schools Programs
Want to apply to attend on campus taxation graduate programs? Figuring out where to start might be a challenge. One good thing to consider when making this decision is whether you're interested in a specific taxation concentration. If you're already an experienced taxation professional, it is possible that you already work in one of these concentration areas, but if you're new to the field or
interested in pursuing a new career, identifying your potential interest in one of these areas might be a great way to narrow down your field of options.
Degree in Taxation Concentrations
Concentration areas within taxation can generally be narrowed down into the categories of personal and business or corporate taxation. Personal taxation might include things like income tax preparation, assistance with tax audits, and other related tasks. If you're interested in business taxation, you might focus on things like state and local tax (SALT), sales and use tax (S&U), international, federal, internal auditing, risk management, compliance, and more. If you know you're interested in studying one of these subjects, you might be able to find great on campus taxation graduate programs with the relevant focus. More generalized programs may also be available.
Why Consider On Campus Taxation Graduate School Programs?
Studying in an on campus taxation graduate program might bring a number of useful benefits. You might be able to become part of the local campus community by attending events and taking advantage of valuable networking opportunities. You might be able to collaborate with your peers and professors, utilize campus facilities like libraries and technology labs, or even services like academic counseling, career counseling, tutoring, and more. The specific services and facilities offered by your on campus taxation programs of interest may vary, so remember to follow up with each school for more information when deciding where to apply.
Types of On Campus Taxation Graduate Programs
Whether you want to earn a master's degree, your doctorate, or a taxation graduate certificate, great on campus taxation graduate programs might be out there for you to consider. You might want a convenient local option, commutable between home and work, or want to use your education to explore an exciting new location. Either way, a number of options and degree types may be available for you to consider.
On Campus Masters in Taxation Programs
Interested in on campus masters in taxation programs? Whether you want to study close to home and work, or find a campus in a new and exciting location, great options may be available for you to consider. On campus masters in taxation programs might offer a few different degree types upon completion:
- M.S.T. (Master of Science in Taxation)
- LL.M. (Legum Magister, or Master of Law)
- M.S.A. (Master of Science in Accounting, with a potential taxation concentration)
- M.Acc. (Master of Accountancy, with a potential taxation concentration)
- M.P.A. (Master of Professional Accountancy, with a potential taxation concentration)
Depending on your goals and interests, you may find that certain degree types might suit you a little better. M.S.T., for example, is a degree type unique to taxation, so some of these programs might focus more on technical taxation skills and knowledge. LL.M. programs, meanwhile, might be offered by schools of law, and might be a good fit if you're particularly interested in the legal aspect of taxation, or are interested in pursuing your J.D. Meanwhile, programs like the M.S.A., M.Acc., or the M.P.A. might be available with more general accounting programs in addition to potential taxation focuses.
No matter what concentration or degree type you may be interested, the specific details of each program may vary on an individual basis, so remember to reach out to schools of interest for more information when deciding where to apply.
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On Campus Taxation Doctoral Programs
Considering on campus taxation doctoral programs? If so, great options may be out there for you to consider. Many taxation professionals seeking a doctorate in taxation might opt for a program offering a J.D., or Juris Doctor (Doctor of Law). These programs might be offered by schools of law. If you're particularly interested in the legal aspect of taxation, or if you may want to practice law, a J.D. program might be a great choice for you. If you haven't earned your master's yet, you may even be able to find a continuous program to earn your LL.M. or even your M.S.T. at the same time.
If you're not interested in earning your J.D., you might instead want to look at taxation Ph.D. programs. These programs might also focus on tax law, or other aspects of taxation, and might be applicable to your career in a variety of ways. Additionally, Ph.D. programs might be a good choice if you'd like the option to go on to teach at the university level or conduct research.
As with other programs and levels, remember to follow up with programs of interest for more specific details, as they might vary on an individual basis from what is described here.
On Campus Taxation Graduate Certificate Programs
Not quite ready to earn a graduate degree, but interested in additional graduate level taxation education? Or maybe you already hold your master's or doctorate, but want to study another taxation subject at the graduate level? If so, you may be interested in on campus taxation graduate certificate programs. Graduate certificate programs in taxation might allow you to pursue a specific subject or concentration within taxation at the graduate level without enrolling in a full degree program. These programs may also be available both at the master's and post-master's level, meaning you might be able to find great programs at a variety of levels. Because of the many ways these programs might vary, it's important to follow up with the programs you might want to attend for more information when choosing where to apply.
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In New York: Staggering Number of Missing Blacks Fuel Speculation of 'Human Traffickiing'by GDN Shared Post August 14, 2009
NEW YORK (NNPA) – One of the great undiscussed dilemmas plaguing this city is the number of runaways and abducted children. The numbers are staggering. AMBER Ready Inc./Foundation states that annually about 800,000 children are reported missing in America. "The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime defines human trafficking as 'the acquisition of people by improper means such as force, fraud or deception, with the aim of exploiting them.' …
In New York, we have an epidemic of missing and 'alleged' runaways who are actually victims of criminal groups who are profiting off of their sexual labor," declared retired detective Marquez Claxton. "Local law enforcement, in spite of federal funding, does not adequately address or even acknowledge the existence of 'human trafficking' operations that are expanding throughout the Black and Latino community. Many of the listed 'runaways' are actually victims of human trafficking. Law enforce- ment in general only discusses human trafficking in terms of the Asian and Latino immigrant population while ignoring the threat to young and under-aged indigenous Black and Latino women."
In response to a series of questions, the police department told the Amsterdam News that they did have federal funds to "investigate human trafficking."
A Sgt. Nieves told the paper, "There is a unit in the police department that falls under the Organized Crime Control Bureau. The police department does receive funds from the government."
Deputy Commissioner of Public Information Paul Browne added, "The NYPD's Organized Crime Control Bureau has detectives dedicated to the investigation of human trafficking in which, typically, young women are exploited for purposes of prostitution."
Browne added, "So far this year, the NYPD has arrested over 200 individuals (and 366 last year) engaged in the promotion of prostitution which, as I said earlier, is often the ultimate outcome of human trafficking."
A mother, wanting to remain anonymous, recently contacted the Amsterdam News distraught that her daughter had been missing for several days. She feared the 16-year-old had fallen victim to a prostitution ring.
While this particular story has a happy ending with the teenaged girl being found hours later after news coverage and various phone calls helped create something of a groundswell, the child's mother complained about how law enforcement refused to label the case "abduction," as opposed to a "runaway."
"Our young girls between the ages of 11 and 16 are disappearing at alarming rates in our communities," said Tulani Kinard, activist and Brooklyn City Council candidate. "Much too often they are being written off as 'runaways.'
There is a definite rise in human trafficking, whether by abduction or being lured into a 'situation' from which there is no return. Once the label of being a 'runaway' is associated with a missing child police report, the case is easily put aside and forgotten. I am advocating that more state funds are allocated to support New York's landmark Safe Harbor for Exploited Youth Act. We have to protect our children."
As they prepare to launch the nation's first wireless child protection service and community predator program, AMBER Ready, Inc. and the AMBER Ready Foundation declared that as 50 million of America's children will return to school this fall; by summer, 1 million of them will be classified as missing or abducted. Working to reduce this number and to quickly recover those who are away from home, AMBER Ready, Inc. and the AMBER Ready Foundation will host the AMBER Ready Back-to-School Safety Weekend in Times Square, August 15-16.
Calling it "Child Safety in the palm of your hand," Kai D. Patterson, president and founder of AMBER Ready, said that the AMBER Ready Program incorporates a major technological advance in the effort to find missing or abducted children. Research has shown that missing or abducted children not recovered in the first four hours likely never will be. The program enables parents and guardians to store their children's photo, description and other valuable information in a profile in their wireless multimedia phones.
Patterson continued that if the unfortunate situation ever occurs, an AMBERReady subscriber can immediately transfer information to their local law enforcement agency, media stations, airports, and the AMBER Alert network, saving valuable time
AMBER Ready Inc./Foundation states that an estimated 1.3 million children actually go missing each year — going up 468 percent from 1982 to 2000. Blacks and Latinos, the least informed about what do when children are abducted, equaled 65 percent of the total non-family abductions, with African- Americans making up 42 percent of that group and Hispanics 23 percent.
AMBER Ready Foundation/Inc. insists that the ahead-of-time collation of vital data, including a photo and identifying characteristics; ultimately saves time in the instance that a search needs to be established.
Patterson maintains that, while it varies state to state, there is typically more than a two hour delay in making initial children reports, and the vast majorities (74 percent) of abducted children who are murdered are dead within the first three hours of abduction.
Meanwhile, the New York State Missing Children's Report shows that the number of missing children has actually decreased since 2007. However, it remains a dangerous issue that affects the lives of children and their families, especially in New York City.
Over 5,000 missing child cases were reported in 2008 within the five boroughs alone. An estimated 53 percent of the reported cases were for children ages 13-15; 49 percent of them were Black and 60 percent of them were female.
The national number of missing children has decreased by 3 percent to 20,414 in the year 2008. According to Missing and Exploited Children Clearinghouse Annual Report, "Nearly all missing children cases were reported as suspected runaways (92.3 percent).
"Abduction cases accounted for approximately 1 percent of the total reports, and abductions committed by family members comprised the most frequent form of abduction." There have been an increasing number of missing females in these cases. In 2008, missing females were up to a booming 94 percent from ages 13 and over. Statistics have shown that the number of male cases makes up 40 percent of the total number of missing children.
According to a 2009 article in Police magazine, most runaways leave home as a result of discontent with their current status quo, whether it is financial, social or academic. However, there is still no underlying cause of runaway cases, making it difficult for police intervention at times.
More than 75 percent of runaways return home within two weeks, making the remaining runaway cases low priority to the police department.
According to Police magazine, runaway cases are sometimes viewed as "family problems that have been foisted on law enforcement."
Many parents are critical of the police department's indirect negligence toward runaways, fearing that children may fall subject to sexual abuse, international abduction or various forms of harassment.
The staggering number of missing children in New York City is unfortunate and families continue to search for their loved ones. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children advises parents to teach their children of the potential dangers of runaway attempts as well as inform children of effective safety precautions, including Internet safety, to avoid possible abduction.
It also advised that parents maintain a recent photo and proper identification, including the heights and weights of their children, in the event that they go missing, allowing police to immediately embark on search efforts for that child. If you have any questions or any information about missing children, call 1-800-FIND-KID.
Kinard concluded, "Our families and communities need more support for social and family service programs that do the preventive/safety awareness work as well as the long-term caring of children who are victims of the crime of human trafficking."
For more information, call 1-866-60-AMBER or log on to www.amberready.com. Also for more information visit missingkids.com.
Erica Brown and Oscar McDonald contributed to this story.


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Sometimes, things have a way of working out.
The career of Sean McDermott, former Lansdale resident, Eskimo's gym rat and Philadelphia Eagles defensive coordinator, is a perfect example, according to his father, Rich.
Sean is the defensive coordinator of the heavily favored Carolina Panthers in Sunday's Super Bowl, though he maybe had just as good a chance to land with their opponent when he lost his job with the Eagles in 2011.
Rich is a former assistant football coach at Ursinus and West Chester who created the football environment that helped make his son who he is today as the man who runs one of the NFL's top units.
Rich has some ideas about why Sean was fired...


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Mark J Hammerschmidt, age 58, of Sleepy Eye, died Monday, August 12, 2013 at the Sleepy Eye Medical Center.
Mark J Hammerschmidt, age 58, of Sleepy Eye, died on August 12, 2013, at Sleepy Eye Medical Center. Friends may call on the family on Wednesday from 5 to 7 p.m. and will continue on Thursday from 9:30 until 10:30 a.m. at the St. John's Ev. Lutheran Church, Sleepy Eye. Memorial Service will be held at the St. John's Ev. Lutheran Church, Sleepy Eye, on Thursday, August 15, 2013 at 10:30 am. The clergy will be Pastor Kevin Draper. Arrangements are with the Sturm Funeral Home in Sleepy Eye. On line condolences may be left for the family at www.sturmfh.com
Mark Joseph Hammerschmidt was born on November 18, 1954 in Redwood Falls, the son of Paul and Sylvia (Bellig) Hammerschmidt. He grew up and lived on a farm in rural Wabasso until he was eight years old when he moved with his family to Sleepy Eye. Mark attended St. Mary's School and graduated in 1973. He was active in Boy Scouts and earned his Eagle Scout Badge. Mark married Cheri Zagurski on November 7, 1981 in Omaha, Nebr. He worked for Hansen Distributing of Sleepy Eye from 1973-1986 and then Tow Distributing of Mankato from 1986-2013. Most recently Mark worked for Mathiowetz Construction. He was a member of St. John's Church, Pheasants Forever and the Eagles. He loved all outdoor activities, especially hunting and fishing.
Mark is survived by his wife, Cheri of Sleepy Eye; children, Zach (Jessi) Hammerschmidt and daughter, Isabella of Madelia, Danielle (Jacob) Firle of Seattle, Wash., Courtney and son, Kaiden of Sleepy Eye, Shelby of Sleepy Eye; brothers and sisters, Gary (Shirley) Hammerschmidt of Morgan, Lyle (Pat) Hammerschmidt of Alexandria, Glen (Marilyn) Hammerschmidt of Garfield, David (Nancy) Hammerschmidt of Spicer, Cheryl Zuhlsdorf of Alexandria, Monica (James) Wurtzberger of New Ulm; mother-in-law, Jacque Zagurski of Omaha, Nebr.; aunts and uncles, Ursula Broich of Sleepy Eye, Robert Bellig of Redwood Falls and Betty Schmidt of Redwood Falls.
He was preceded in death by his parents; and father-in-law, Bob Zagurski.


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ChubbyMan needed a new print or packaging design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 22 designs submitted by 4 freelance designers.
Travellers Auto Barn
Hey, we are a camerpvan/car rental/sales company focusing on the backpacker market in Australia. http://www.travellers-autobarn.com.au. We are currently rebranding the shop front of our Sydney branch and need all our vans/cars in cartoon style.
Backpackers, Travellers, People walking by
We will need cartoon style high resolution eps. files for our campervans/cars. I've uploaded two examples which you bascially can just copy/paste. We require these for four vehicles:
1. HiTop Campervan: We will need excellently the same as in example one (see attachment) - but just the camper, not the text or photos all around, also don't worry about the branding on the vehicle - just plain white. We will need a day layout & night layout version.
2. Stationwagon: We will need exactly the same as in example two (see attachment) - but only day layout (so no internal viewing requried) - the front of the car should also point to the left (just opposite to what you can see on EXAMPLE two.
3. Compact Car: Please see example of Hatch-Corolla - again, we only need a day option (on internal viewing required)
4. Chubby Camper: This one will be more complex - will require day & night layout pics just like in the attached EXAMPLE ONE plus a file from the back. You can use this link https://travellers-autobarn.box.net…bnihcjicq2 to see how our Chubby Campers look like from the inside as a day/night layout version aswell as the back


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Lee.mellon needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 359 designs submitted by 90 freelance designers.
Usay Compare (usaycompare.co.uk) a trading style of Usay Business Ltd.
Usay is the UK's largest and fastest-growing individual Private Medical Insurance intermediary. We offer clients a full-market comparison service, comparing policies from leading insurers such as Bupa, AXA PPP, Aviva, PruHealth and many more. Our fully-trained advisers help clients to weigh-up all the options to find the right policy at the right price.
Within a matter of months, UsayCompare.co.uk will be the only place where UK consumers can both compare and purchase a Private Medical Insurance policy online.
Usay Business Ltd is fully authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority.
There is no set target audience however the following is a guide:
- UK consumers
- 35-60 years old
- A,B, C1 socio-economic groups (affluent)
- Mainly individuals and families but also small to medium-sized enterprises
Our corporate website (UsayCompare.co.uk) was recently re-designed to take on-board our online comparison engine and increase awareness of other products we can offer –i.e. life insurance and Accident, Sickness and Redundancy protection.
We are looking for a new logo to be used across the business. The text needs to be simply 'Usay Compare'. The colours that are currently used in the website design need to be used for the logo design also; there must be synergy between the logo design and website.
One of the Ideas we have is to split the word usay into a Big U and little say, so would read "U say" as 2 seperate words.
The logo must convey:
- our expertise
- that we compare the entire Private Medical Insurance market
- that we are professional and trustworthy
- our service ethos
It must also act as an 'umbrella' logo, allowing us to use the same logo with reference to a variety of different products (eg, health, ASU and life insurance).
http://www.bestmedicalcover.co.uk - we like the simplicity of this logo
http://www.comparethemarket.com/hea…insurance/ - We like the way the words make up the main logo.
https://www.simplyhealth.co.uk/sh/p…mepage.jsp - We like the fact that this is different and lively
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.


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abort playing the role of
nil and
shift the role of
amb in OCaml
Prompts as local exceptions
shift as a green
shift vs
The tutorial on delimited continuations was given together with Kenichi Asai (Ochanomizu University, Japan) in the evening before the Continuation Workshop 2011.
The concept of continuations arises naturally in programming: a
conditional branch selects a continuation from the two possible
futures; raising an exception discards a part of the continuation; a
tail-call or
goto continues with the continuation. Although
continuations are implicitly manipulated in every language,
manipulating them explicitly as first-class objects is rarely used
because of the perceived difficulty.
This tutorial aims to give a gentle introduction to
continuations and a taste of programming with first-class delimited
continuations using the control operators
reset. Assuming no prior knowledge on continuations,
the tutorial helps participants write simple co-routines and
non-deterministic searches. The tutorial should make it easier to
understand and appreciate the talks at CW 2011.
We assume basic familiarity with functional programming languages, such as OCaml, Standard ML, Scheme, and Haskell. No prior knowledge of continuations is needed. Participants are encouraged to bring their laptops and program along.
CW2011 Tutorial Session. September 23, 2011
Tutorial notes for OchaCaml and Haskell
Haskell-tutorial.pdf [86K]
ContExample.hs [4K]
A sample shift/reset code in Haskell, in the
Cont monad -- the monad for delimited control
ContTutorial.hs [9K]
The complete code for the Haskell portion of the tutorial
ACM SIGPLAN Continuation Workshop 2011 (co-located with ICFP 2011)
Tokyo, Japan. Saturday, September 24, 2011.
This tutorial-like Haskell code illustrates the application of delimited control for non-deterministic search. We apply different search strategies to the same non-deterministic program without re-writing it. A non-deterministic computation is reified into a lazy search tree, which can then be examined in different ways. We write non-deterministic search strategies as standard depth-first, breadth-first, etc., tree traversals.
The search tree is the ordinary tree data type, with branches constructed on demand. The tree is potentially infinite, as is the case in the example below.
data SearchTree a = Leaf a | Node [() -> SearchTree a]We implement three tree traversals, which collect the values from leaf nodes into a list:
dfs, bfs, iter_deepening :: SearchTree a -> [a]
Using the
Cont monad from the standard monad transformer library
and its operations
shift and
reset, we
implement two primitives: non-deterministically choosing a value
from a finite list, and reifying a computation into a
choose :: [a] -> Cont (SearchTree w) a reify :: Cont (SearchTree a) a -> SearchTree aOther non-deterministic operations --
mplus (to join two computations),
choose' (to choose
from a potentially infinite list) -- are all written in terms of
The running example non-deterministically computes all Pythagorean triples, naively:
ex = do x <- choose' [1..] y <- choose' [1..] z <- choose' [1..] if x*x + y*y == z*z then return (x,y,z) else failureWe show the first five found triples:
test3d = take 5 . dfs . reify $ ex -- diverges!! test3b = take 5 . bfs . reify $ ex -- [(3,4,5),(4,3,5),(6,8,10),(8,6,10),(5,12,13)] test3i = take 5 . iter_deepening . reify $ ex -- [(3,4,5),(4,3,5),(6,8,10),(8,6,10),(5,12,13)]Depth-first search expectedly diverges. Breadth-first and iterative deepening are both complete strategies and both find the answer if it exists. Expectedly iterative deepening takes much less memory than breadth-first search.
Searches.hs [9K]
The complete Haskell code with comments and tests. The comments tell why the search tree is defined as it is, with a thunk.
Embedded probabilistic programming
The paper explains the reification of non-deterministic programs as lazy search trees. We use the same technique here, only in Haskell rather than OCaml, and without probabilities.
Preventing memoization in (AI) search problems
The explanation of the trick to prevent unwelcome implicit memoizations
This technical report shows that the delimited continuation
etc. are macro-expressible in terms of each other. The report thus
confirms the result first established by Chung-chieh Shan in ``Shift
to Control'' (Scheme Workshop, 2004). The report uses a more uniform
technique that lets us skip an arbitrary number of
prompts. The report formally proves that
implemented via
shift indeed has its standard reduction
semantics. It is a common knowledge that first-class continuations are
quite tricky -- and delimited continuations are trickier
still. Therefore, a formal proof is a necessity.
The report shows the simplest known Scheme implementations of
shift0 and
control0 (similar to
cupto). The method in the
report lets us design 700 more delimited control operators, which
compose stack fragments in arbitrary ways.
Technical Report TR611, Department of Computer Science, Indiana
University, 2005
delim-cont.scm [10K]
Scheme code with the simplest implementation of
control0 and other
delimited continuation operators in terms of
reset. The code includes a large set of test cases.
``Lambda the Ultimate'' discussion thread, esp. on the meaning of
delimited contexts
impromptu-shift-tr.scm [61K]
The master SXML file of the report
Writing LaTeX/PDF mathematical papers with SXML
[The Abstract of the paper]
The salient feature of delimited-control operators is their ability to modify answer types during computation. The feature, answer-type modification (ATM for short), allows one to express various interesting programs such as typed printf compactly and nicely, while it makes it difficult to embed these operators in standard functional languages. In this paper, we present a typed translation of delimited-control operators shift and reset with ATM into a familiar language with multi-prompt shift and reset without ATM, which lets us use ATM in standard languages without modifying the type system. Our translation generalizes Kiselyov's direct-style implementation of typed printf, which uses two prompts to emulate the modification of answer types, and passes them during computation. We prove that our translation preserves typing. As the naive prompt-passing style translation generates and passes many prompts even for pure terms, we show an optimized translation that generate prompts only when needed, which is also type-preserving. Finally, we give an implementation in the tagless-final style which respects typing by construction.
Joint work with Ikuo Kobori and Yukiyoshi Kameyama.
We present a simple CGI framework for web programming with nested transactions. The framework uses the unmodified OCaml system and an arbitrary, unmodified web server (e.g., Apache). The library makes writing web applications (CGI scripts) as straightforward as writing interactive console applications using read and printf. We write the scripts in the natural question-answer, storytelling style, with the full use of lexical scope, exceptions, mutable data and other imperative features (if necessary). The scripts can even be compiled and run as interactive console applications. With a different implementation of basic primitives for reading and writing, the console programs become CGI scripts.
Our library depends on the delimcc library of persistent delimited continuations. The captured delimited continuations can be stored on disk, to be later loaded and resumed in a different process. Alternatively, serialized captured continuations can be inserted as an encoded string into a hidden field of the response web form. The use of continuations lets us avoid iterations, relying instead on the `Back button.' Delimited continuations naturally support `thread-local' scope and are quite compact to serialize. The library works with the unmodified OCaml system as it is.
Delimited continuations help us implement nested transactions. The simple blog application demonstrates that a user may repeatedly go back-and-forth between editing and previewing their blog post, perhaps in several windows. The finished post can be submitted only once.
Fest2008-talk.pdf [204K]
Fest2008-talk-notes.pdf [244K]
The demonstration of the library at the Continuation Fest 2008
The extended version of the talk, Clicking on Delimited Continuations, has been given at FLOLAC in July 2008. The extended version includes a detailed introduction to delimited continuations.
caml-web.tar.gz [16K]
The source code for the library of delimited-continuation--based CGI programming with form validation and nested transactions. The library includes the complete code for the Continuation Fest demos.
We present Church-style call-by-name lambda-calculus with delimited control operators shift/reset and first-class contexts. In addition to the regular lambda-abstractions -- permitting substitutions of general, even effectful terms -- the calculus also supports strict lambda-abstractions. The latter can only be applied to values. The demand for values exerted by reset and strict functions determines the evaluation order. The calculus most closely corresponds to the familiar call-by-value shift/reset calculi and embeds the latter with the help of strict functions.
The calculus is typed, assigning types both to terms and to contexts. Types abstractly interpret operational semantics, and thus concisely describe all the effects that could occur in the evaluation of a term. Pure types are given to the terms whose evaluation incurs no effect, i.e., includes no shift-transitions, in any context and in any environment binding terms' free variables, if any. A term whose evaluation may include shift-transitions has an effectful type, which describes the eventual answer-type of the term along with the delimited context required for the evaluation of the term. Control operators may change the answer type of their context.
cbn-xi-calc.elf [19K]
Twelf code that implements the dynamic semantics (the
eval* relation) and the type
inference (the
teval relation). The
teval relation is
deterministic and terminating, thus constructively proving that the
type system for our Church-style calculus is decidable. The code
includes a large number of examples of evaluating terms and
determining their types.
gengo-side-effects-cbn.pdf [161K]
Call-by-name linguistic side effects
ESSLLI 2008 Workshop on Symmetric calculi and Ludics for the semantic interpretation. 4-7 August, 2008. Hamburg, Germany.
Compilation by evaluation as syntax-semantics interface
Linguistics turns out to offer the first interesting application of the typed call-by-name shift/reset. The paper develops the calculus in several steps, presenting the syntax and the dynamic semantics of the final calculus in Figure 3 and the type system in Figures 4 and 5. The paper details several sample reductions and type reconstructions, and discusses the related work.
A Substructural Type System for Delimited Continuations
That TLCA 2007 paper introduced the abstract interpretation technique for reconstructing the effect type of a term in a calculus of delimited control. The technique progressively reduces a term to its abstract form, i.e., the type. The TCLA paper used a call-by-value calculus with a so-called dynamic control operator,
shift0. Here we apply the technique to the call-by-name
calculus with the static control operator
Simply typed lambda-calculus has strong normalization property:
the sequence of reductions of any term terminates. If we add delimited
control operators with typed prompts (e.g.,
cupto), the
strong normalization property no longer holds. A single typed prompt
already leads to non-termination. The following example has been
designed by Chung-chieh Shan, from the example of non-termination of
simply typed lambda-calculus with dynamic binding. It uses the OCaml
delimited control library. The function
loop is essentially
fun () -> Omega: its inferred type is
unit -> 'a, and consequently, the evaluation of
loop () loops forever.
let loop () = let p = new_prompt () in let delta () = shift p (fun f v -> f v v) () in push_prompt p (fun () -> let r = delta () in fun v -> r) delta ;;
Chung-chieh Shan also offered the explanation: the answer
type being an arrow type hides a recursive type. In other words,
the type of
unit -> 'a, hides the answer
type and the fact the function is impure.
Olivier Danvy has kindly pointed out the similar non-terminating example that he and Andrzej Filinski designed in 1998 using their version of shift implemented in SML/NJ. Their example too relied on the answer type being an arrow type.
Carl A. Gunter, Didier R'emy and Jon G. Riecke: A Generalization of Exceptions and Control in ML-Like Languages. Proc. Functional Programming Languages and Computer Architecture Conf., June 26-28, 1995, pp. 12-23.
The paper that introduced
cupto, the first
delimited control operator with an explicitly typed prompt.
Delimited Dynamic Binding
Reformulation of the above in terms of shift and simply typed lambda-calculus.
Simply typed lambda-calculus with dynamic binding is not strongly normalizing
A differently-formulated proof: representing general recursive types
[The Abstract of the paper]
We propose type systems that abstractly interpret small-step rather than big-step operational semantics. We treat an expression or evaluation context as a structure in a linear logic with hypothetical reasoning. Evaluation order is not only regulated by familiar focusing rules in the operational semantics, but also expressed by structural rules in the type system, so the types track control flow more closely. Binding and evaluation contexts are related, but the latter are linear.
We use these ideas to build a type system for delimited continuations. It lets control operators change the answer type or act beyond the nearest dynamically-enclosing delimiter, yet needs no extra fields in judgments and arrow types to record answer types. The typing derivation of a direct-style program desugars it into continuation-passing style.
Joint work with Chung-chieh Shan.
Type checking as small-step abstract evaluation
Detailed discussion of the two main slogans of the paper:
delim-control-logic.pdf [250K]
The extended (with Appendices) version of the paper published in Proc. of Int. Conf. on Typed Lambda Calculi and Applications, Paris, June 26-28, 2007 -- LNCS volume 4583.
Chung-chieh Shan. Slides of the TLCA 2007 Presentation, Jun 26, 2007.
small-step-typechecking.tar.gz [10K]
Commented Twelf code accompanying the paper
The code implements type checking -- of simply-typed lambda-calculus for warm-up, and of the main lambda-xi0 calculus -- and contains numerous tests and sample derivations.
In the recent paper `Typed Dynamic Control Operators for Delimited Continuations' Kameyama and Yonezawa exhibited a divergent term in their polymorphically typed calculus for prompt/control. Hence the latter calculus, in contrast to Asai and Kameyama's polymorphically typed shift/reset calculus, is not strongly normalizing. Unlike the untyped case, typed control is not macro-expressible in terms of shift. Kameyama and Yonezawa conjectured that the (typed) fixpoint operator is expressible in their calculus too. The conjecture is correct: Here is the derivation of the fixpoint combinator, using the notation of their paper. The combinator is not fully polymorphically typed however: the result type must be populated.
f be a pure function of the type
a -> a and
d be a value of the type
a (in the paper,
d is written as a black
dot). As in the paper, we write
# for prompt. The
#( control k.(f #(k d; k d)) ; control k.(f #(k d; k d)) )appears to be well-typed. It reduces to
#(f #(k d; k d)) where k u = u; control k.(f #(k d; k d)) then #(f #(f #(k d; k d))) eventually to #(f #(f #(f ..... )))Since we are in a call-by-value language, the above result is not terribly useful, but it is a good start. We only need an eta-expansion: Suppose
f is of the type
(a->b) -> (a->b). Let
d be any value of the
a->b: this is the witness that the return type is populated.
We build the term
FX = #( control k.(f (\x . #(k d; k d) x)) ; control k.(f (\x . #(k d; k d) x)) )that is well-typed and expands as
#(f (\x . #(k d; k d) x) ) where k u = u; control k.(f (\x . #(k d; k d) x)) and then f (\x . #(k d; k d) x) we notice that k d = control k.(f (\x . #(k d; k d) x)) so we get f (\x . FX x)Thus we obtain
FX x = f (\x . FX x) x, which means
FX is the call-by-value fixpoint of
Without access to the implementation of Kameyama and
Yonezawa's calculus, we can test this expression using the
cupto-derived control. The latter is implemented in OCaml. We cannot
test the typing of our fix, since the type system of cupto is too
coarse. We can test the dynamic behavior however. To avoid passing the
witness that the result type is populated, we set the result type to
a->a, which is obviously populated, by the identity
open Delimcc let control p f = take_subcont p (fun sk () -> push_prompt p (fun () -> (f (fun c -> push_subcont sk (fun () -> c))))) let fix f = let p = new_prompt () in let d = fun x -> x in let delta u = control p (fun k -> f (fun x -> push_prompt p (fun () -> (k d; k d)) x)) in push_prompt p (fun () -> (delta d; delta d));; (* val fix : (('a -> 'a) -> 'a -> 'a) -> 'a -> 'a = <fun> *) let fact self n = if n <= 1 then 1 else n * self (pred n);; fix fact 5;; (* 120 *)
Yukiyoshi Kameyama and Takuo Yonezawa:
Typed Dynamic Control Operators for Delimited Continuations (draft Oct. 21, 2007).
Kenichi Asai and Yukiyoshi Kameyama:
Polymorphic Delimited Continuations
Proc. Fifth Asian Symposium on Programming Languages and Systems (APLAS 2007), LNCS
A general recursive type is usually defined (see
Kameyama and Yonezawa) as
\mu X. F[X] where
X may appear negatively (i.e., contravariantly) in
F[X]. If
X appears only positively (as in the type of
integer lists,
\mu X. (1 + Int * X))), the resulting type
is often called inductive.
A general recursive type, e.g.,
\mu X. X->Int->Int can be characterized by the following signature:
module type RecType = sig type t (* an abstract type *) val wrap : (t->int->int) -> t val unwrap : t -> (t->int->int) endprovided that
(unwrap . wrap) is the identity. If we
have an implementation of this signature, we can transcribe a term
such as
\x. x x from the untyped lambda-calculus to the
typed one.
ML supports one implementation of
RecType, using
iso-recursive (data)types. However, there is another implementation,
using ML exceptions. Since exceptions are a particular case of
delimited control, we obtain another proof that simply
typed lambda-calculus with a cupto-like delimited
control is not strongly normalizing.
Call-by-need, or lazy, evaluation is call-by-name evaluation with the memoization of the result. A lazy expression is not evaluated until its result is needed. At that point, the expression is evaluated and the result is memoized. Thus a lazy expression is evaluated at most once. Lazy expressions may nest: a lazy expression may include other lazy expressions.
We implement lazy evaluation without any mutation or other destructive operations -- essentially in call-by-value lambda-calculus with shift and reset.
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International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical SciencesVolume 2003 (2003), Issue 60, Pages 3809-3825doi:10.1155/S0161171203210176
1Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, Miusskaya Square 4, Moscow 125047, Russia2Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, UK
Received 18 October 2002
Copyright © 2003 Victor A. Galaktionov. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
We consider a higher-order semilinear parabolic equation ut=−(−Δ)mu−g(x,u) in ℝN×ℝ+, m>1. The nonlinear term is homogeneous: g(x,su)≡|s|p−1sg(x,u) and g(sx,u)≡|s|Qg(x,u)
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Royals Birthdays – January 6
1974 – Alvin Morman (Pitcher – 1999)
1915 – Tom Ferrick (Scout – 1969-??)
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Maria Glossop was a Ravenclaw student at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the 1990s. During the 1996-1997 school year, she could usually be found in the entrance to the Clock Tower, and traded Gobstones for Chocolate Frog Cards and chess pieces.
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- ↑ She was at least in her first year at Hogwarts during the 1993–1994 school year.
- ↑ "World Exclusive Interview with J K Rowling," South West News Service, 8 July 2000 - "Hogwarts just serves Britain and Ireland."