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I love a good pasta salad, and down here in the hot South, I prefer to make one that is not mayonnaise-based for our outdoor cookouts. This is my favorite one and it is always a crowd pleaser.
- 1 lb. Rotini Pasta
- 1 Packet Good Seasonings Italian Dressing (dry mix)
- 4 oz. Mini Turkey Pepperoni
- 8 oz. Asiago Cheese, diced (can also substitute Provolone)
- 1 Green Bell Pepper
- 1 Red Bell Pepper
- 3/4 Cup Olive Oil (not Extra Virgin)
- 1/4 Cup Balsamic Vinegar
- 2 1/2 Teaspoons Dried Oregano
- 1 Teaspoon Dried Parsley
- 2 Tablespoons Parmesan Cheese, Grated
- Salt to Taste
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- Drain and rinse with cold water.
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John deSteiguer became the seventh president of Oklahoma Christian University (OC) on May 1, 2012. He was inaugurated in special ceremonies on August 27, 2012.
A native of Tahlequah, Oklahoma, deSteiguer has spent two decades in higher education. He served Northeastern State University, his alma mater, as its director of development from 1993 to 2002 before coming to Oklahoma Christian.
During deSteiguer's nine years as OC's chief advancement officer, most recently as senior vice president for advancement, a record $110 million was given to the university, including the successful Higher Learning~Higher Calling campaign, which raised $64.3 million and was completed ahead of schedule.
That campaign led to significant improvements for Oklahoma Christian, including the new Lawson Commons, featuring the Freede Centennial Tower and McGraw Pavilion, and the $7.5 million initiative to build the Noble Science Wing and upgrade the Mabee Laboratories at Vose Hall. The campaign also produced four new endowed chairs and more than 60 new or enhanced maintenance, operating, and scholarship endowments.
The son of a naval aviator, deSteiguer lived in California, Nebraska, Texas, Virginia, and on the island of Guam as a child. After graduating from Tahlequah High School in 1980, he attended Northeastern State as a political science major. He was active in the Model United Nations program, became NSU's first Truman Scholar, and served as president of NSU's student government and the President's Leadership Class before his graduation in 1984.
A Rotary International Scholarship recipient, deSteiguer attended the University of the West Indies in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1984-85 before moving back to Tahlequah and serving as youth minister at South College Church of Christ.
He married Darla, his college sweetheart, in June 1986. The both earned juris doctorate degrees, magna cum laude, from the Pepperdine University School of Law in 1989. They moved to Dallas, where John practiced law with Haynes and Boone from 1989 to 1993.
In August 1993, the deSteiguers again returned to Tahlequah when NSU hired John as a senior development officer and as executive director of the NSU Foundation. He came to Oklahoma Christian in January 2003 as part of then-President Mike O'Neal's new administration.
John and Darla live in Edmond, where John is a deacon and frequent Bible class teacher at Memorial Road Church of Christ. Their daughter Abby attends Oklahoma Christian.
John is a member of several civic organizations, including OKC Rotary Club 29, the Oklahoma Bar Association, and the Oklahoma Planned Giving Council. He also serves on many boards, including those of the Edmond, Greater Oklahoma City, and Oklahoma State Chambers of Commerce, the Oklahoma State Fair, Allied Arts, Creative Oklahoma, and Oklahoma Independent Colleges and Universities.


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Stroudsburg has the makings of a dominant defense, and, yes, Pocono Mountain East has perhaps the Mountain Valley Conference's most talented quarterback, but determining who is going to win the conference this year is anyone's guess.
I really can't recall a more wide-open season since I started working at the Pocono Record in the fall of 2005.
Sure, Stroudsburg has the makings of a dominant defense, and, yes, Pocono Mountain East has perhaps the Mountain Valley Conference's most talented quarterback, but I just can't figure out who is going to win the conference this year.
I can say with some certainty that Allen and Dieruff, the MVC's newest teams, won't win it and Lehighton probably won't either, but other than that I see everyone else having a chance.
Pocono Mountain West is going to need a big year from quarterback Jeff Krisiak, a four-year starter, but he has a bunch of receivers and backs to work with. For the Panthers to succeed, their offense line will have to grow up in a hurry and the defense needs to become more consistent.
East Stroudsburg North lost record-setting back Joe Clouse, but Chuck Dailey always seems to have someone with loads of talent to give the ball to in his veer offense. If the Timberwolves can keep the ball off the ground and slow teams down defensively, they'll have a shot.
East Stroudsburg South suffered through one of its toughest seasons in ages with a 3-9 record in 2011. Not much went right for the Cavaliers, but quarterback Tyler McLaughlin grew up and played well. Look for small, yet powerful, running back Niko Petrone to open some eyes. When I was over at South last week, veteran coach Ed Christian was preaching discipline. If the Cavs have it, look out.
I really like Pocono East, but I like them just about every year. You won't find a more energetic coach than Phil Dorn and he has some weapons to put around quarterback Evan Fardella. The big question in Swiftwater is: can Fardella stay on the field? His broken collarbone in the season opener last year was a huge blow to the Cardinals. He made it back for the Bucket Game against Pleasant Valley, but he got hurt in that game, too. If Fardella can fight the injury bug, this could be a very interesting year for PM East.
It's hard not to be impressed with what Jim Terwilliger has done at Pleasant Valley. In three years with the Bears, Terwilliger is 23-18 and led PV to a shared MVC championship in 2010. Brandon Leap returns after playing well at quarterback in the final five games of the season. The Bears lost record-setting back Rob Getz, but Terwilliger was excited about some of his young backs and receivers. Having a standout middle linebacker like Dakota Everett sure helps things on defense, too.
Stroudsburg, the defending MVC champs, should have the best defense in the conference and one of the best in District 11. With Rutgers-bound tackle Sebastian Joseph, end Blaine Woodson and linebacker Philip Stokes, the Mounties have three impact players in their front seven. The big question is, how in the world can they replace quarterback Robert Bennie? Simple, they can't. No team could, but you don't try and replace a player like Bennie, who beat teams with his arm and legs last season. Don't forget about the losses of Andrew Brome and Ben Kloepping, a tough-nosed back and sure-handed receiver.
So, who is it going to be?
I think Eastburg North and ES South have a chance, but a lot will have to go right for them. One of them has to beat Stroudsburg head-to-head, no easy task.
I'm curious to see how Terwilliger uses Leap now that he doesn't have Getz to fall back on to get the tough yards in crunch time. Watch out for Everett, who doubles as a tight end, to make plays on offense.
When healthy, Fardella is dynamic. He has a cannon for a right arm and might just be the fastest player in the MVC. That said, I'm concerned about him taking big hits.
Stroudsburg's defense is going to stout, and the Mounties will need it while they find their identity on offense. The offensive and defensive lines should be good, another plus for Stroudsburg. Jordon Ellison is an outstanding kicker, too.
I'm going with the Mounties because they should win with defense and the kicking game every week.


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Perhaps I am a little confused, but didn't the Obama Administration tell the American public only months ago that TARP was turning a profit? But now the same administration is proposing to assess a fee on banks to cover losses from the TARP. Maybe President Obama is coming around to the realization that the TARP has indeed been a loser for the taxpayer. He appears, however, to be missing the critical reason why: the bailouts of the auto companies and AIG, all non-banks. This is to say nothing of the bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, whose losses will far exceed those from the TARP. Where is the plan to re-coup losses from Fannie and Freddie? Or a plan to re-coup our rescue of the autos?
If the effort is really about deficit reduction, then it completely misses the mark. Any serious deficit reduction plan has to start with Medicare and Social Security. Assessing bank fees is nothing more than a rounding error in terms of the deficit. Let's put aside the politics and get serious about both fixing our financial system and bringing our fiscal house into order. The problem driving our deficits is not a lack of revenues, aside from effects of the recession, revenues have remained stable as a percent of GDP, the problem is runaway spending.
The bank tax would also miss what one has to guess is Obama's target, the bank CEOs. Econ 101 tells us (maybe the President can ask Larry Summers for some tutoring) corporations do not bear the incidence of taxes, their consumers and shareholders do. So the real outcome of this proposed tax would be to increase consumer banking costs while reducing the value of bank equity, all at a time when banks are already under-capitalized.


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- Consider your Birth Surname families - the ones from your father back through his father all the way back to the first of that surname in your family group sheets or genealogy database. List the father's name, and lifespan years.
- Use your paper charts or genealogy software program to create a Descendants chart (dropline or graphical) that provide the children and their children (i.e., up to the grandchildren of each father in the surname list).
- Count how many children they had (with all spouses), and the children of those children in your records and/or database. Add those numbers to the list. See my example below! [Note: Do not count the spouses of the children]
- What does this list of children and grandchildren tell you about these persons in your birth surname line? Does this task indicate areas that you need to do more research to fill out families and find potential cousins?
- Tell us about it in your own blog post, or in a comment to this post, or in a comment on Facebook or Google+.
Ransom Spurlock (1807-1896) had 10 children and 62 grandchildren
- Three children had no offspring
- One child had 19 children
- Remaining six children had an average of just over seven children each
|John F. Spurlock (1850-1945)
John Fedrick Spurlock (1850-1945) had 19 children and 63 grandchildren
- Two children did not live to adulthood
- Remaining children averaged 3.7 children each
Jasper Jackson Spurlock, Sr. (1876-1940) had 4 children and 7 grandchildren
- One son had no children
- Other three children had an average of 2.3 children
- Other two sons had only daughters
Jasper Jackson Spurlock, Jr. (1912-1978) had 3 daughters and 7 grandchildren
- Three daughters had an average of 2.3 children
With the exception of my great-grandfather John F. Spurlock, family size seems to be about average for the time periods in which each man lived.
I have researched my Spurlock lines fairly well. Several of Ransom's children died before their children reached adulthood; widows remarried and information is scarce on a couple of the families. I continue to conduct descendancy research on a fairly regular basis, picking up bits and pieces of information about the collateral families.
My father had only daughters, so my own Spurlock line has "daughtered out" with no male children to carry the surname forward.
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Miku and I spent the day at Prospect Park with Helena and Kim, yesterday, and Miku was on her best behavior. And by best behavior, I mean the worst. I don't know if she was showing off in front of her girlfriends or what, but she decided she had to bark at every dog that passed her by, which is not like her. But of course, she would then run up and lick them and be totally fine, because she loves everyone and everything. Talk about all bark and no bite!


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What about those weed gangsters that are mad about you giving speeches in Bumfuck, Maine?
You seem to be missing many of my points.First of all, the thought leaders you dismiss as irrelevant or meaningless are the sources of the slogans slung back and forth at dinner tables. People who engage in this debate draw their conclusions by the shorthand of "Person X believes this way, and I like person X, so therefore I believe this way." They are not active participants in the formation of their own beliefs. They did not arrive at the conclusion that abortion is wrong for any reason other than because they have been conditioned to adopt that conclusion by some external force. The people who have something to say about it at the dinner table are, nearly invariable, just spitting out what they heard on Fox News or at church last Sunday.In order to change such minds, it is pointless to rely on a competing ideology on the opposite side of the debate. You will not convince someone who believes fetuses are babies that fetuses are not actually babies no matter how airtight your argument is. Because every ironclad dogmatic religious pillar of identity includes a trigger to protect against undermining it, every attempt to directly confront the religious proclamation that "Fetuses are children" will not only fail, but it will have the ultimate effect of strengthening that proclamation in the mind of its believer. Besides, trying to argue a moral point -- even if you see it as a scientific one, they see it as a moral one -- against someone self-assured of their own moral righteousness is utterly futile.The way past this argument is not through insisting that they draw a distinction between baby and fetus. Like I said: they're not going to. They just aren't. Drop it. Give up. That way lies madness, etc.The way forward is in bringing their attention to the fact that if you want to actually decrease abortion, rather than just whinging about it forever while it goes on all the same whether legal or illegal, then put your investment in effective sex education, ubiquitously available birth control for everyone, and set serious penalties for rape - both social and criminal.This line of reasoning has the benefit of removing the opponent's insistence on the stupid "crime and punishment" approach to abortion AND removing your own need to alter your opponent's moral framework. Let them go on believing that fetuses are babies. Let them think abortion is some kind of abomination before God. Who cares what they think? The point is they're no longer out for the blood of people who end up needing abortions for whatever reason, and as much as they might hate and spit and curse, they lose their momentum toward prohibition.
And, for FoFP, I offer this hypothetical example:READY10 PRINT "Abortion is murder."20 PRINT "All abortion?"30 PRINT "Yes. Because life begins at conception."40 PRINT "Ah! But [scientific jargon], so the fetus should be considered a part of the mother's body until X weeks of pregnancy."50 PRINT "No."60 GOTO 40
I think there's also an element here, where the definition of "life" may differ between the two parties. You may be talking about biology, but the pro-life camp often takes the viewpoint that an irreducible "soul" exists, and becomes a part of the baby/fetus/blastocyst at some point.So, even if you try to make the argument that a fetus is biologically 'part of the mother' up until a certain number of weeks, you can't scientifically approach the concept of a "soul" and when it does or does not inhabit a fetus. Essentially, it seems like you've jumped to stage two of an argument without addressing stage 1: Setting the parameters and definitions of the debate. Your solution sounds fine, as soon as your opponent agrees that pure atheistic biology is the context of the argument.In fact, one could posit that the entire debate vanishes as soon as that's agreed upon, regardless of how clever your position is.
The bible doesn't say life begins at conception
The way forward is in bringing their attention to the fact that if you want to actually decrease abortion, rather than just whinging about it forever while it goes on all the same whether legal or illegal, then put your investment in effective sex education, ubiquitously available birth control for everyone, and set serious penalties for rape - both social and criminal.
[Maybe a bit of a tangent...]I think the right psychic-kung-fu stance is to try to understand their position, the way they see it, then feel it out for weak points.If you want to feel what it's like in the pro-life space, visualize this:Imagine that you live in a world where it's legal to kill a child at any point before their first word. They're not really considered independent people until they can talk.This is obviously murder, right? But nobody else seems to think so. If you try to explain that a 6-month old baby is a person, people are like "It can't even fuckin' talk! You hate women."
QuoteThe bible doesn't say life begins at conceptionPsalm 139:13, if that matters.
*snipour response always amounts to "J'ai une vagoo, what about you?"And then I don't like that progressives like to turn around and make the same blanket assumptions about them
But do you really think that telling someone about a neat fact of biology is going to change their stance?I mean, they didn't ask for scientific evidence when they drew their initial conclusion, so why would that sway them after they've come to their decision?And if it's true that the decision is ultimately one about morality, starting by accepting their moral POV cripples whatever counter argument you're trying to make.
Quote from: PoFP on April 18, 2017, 05:26:17 pm*snipour response always amounts to "J'ai une vagoo, what about you?"And then I don't like that progressives like to turn around and make the same blanket assumptions about themSee my stance is rarely ever "us and them", per se. I make every possible effort to avoid having an "us" if at all possible. I see most liberals and/or progressives as dumbfuck assholes the exact same way I see most conservatives or right wingers as dumbfuck assholes. The question of which brand of retarded bullshit going on in their heads doesn't really matter since, historically speaking, right or left anything will very quickly round up subset - B and exterminate them if given half a chance.It's most pro or anti abortionists that give either side a bad name, same as it's most anybody who's pro or anti anything that paints that cause in a bad light. You wanna pick a side and argue for that? Fine, just remember that you have now just joined all the retards that the dude you're trying to get through to has had it up to here with. Oh and that dude? He's probably a retard too and will refute your every statement with with the most retarded crock of shit you can imagine.If it's anyone you have a chance of getting through to, they'll either be reasonably smart and usually somewhere near the fence and you'll be arguing over smallprint like how many months or else they're a total dumbfuck and you're probably as well just gaslighting shit out of them and leaving them to try and figure it out a bit better.
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I think that one of the key observations of focusing/CBPV is that programs are dealing with two different things - data and computation - and that we tend to get the most tripped up when we confuse the two.
- Data is classified by data types (a.k.a. positive types). Data is defined by how it is constructed, and the way you use data is by pattern-matching against it.
- Computation is classified by computation types (a.k.a. negative types). Computations are defined their eliminations - that is, by how they respond to signals/messages/pokes/arguments.
There are two things I want to talk about, and they're both recursive types: call-by-push-value has positive recursive types (which have the feel of inductive types and/or algebras and/or what we're used to as datatypes in functional languages) and negative recursive types (which have the feel of recursive, lazy records and/or "codata" whatever that is and/or coalgebras and/or what William Cook calls objects). Both positive and negative recursive types are treated by Paul Blain Levy in his thesis (section 5.3.2) and in the Call-By-Push Value book (section 4.2.2).
In particular, I want to claim that Call-By-Push-Value and focusing suggest two fundamental features that should be, and generally aren't (at least simultaneously) in modern programming languages:
- Support for structured data with rich case analysis facilities (up to and beyond what are called views)
- Support for recursive records and negative recursive types.
Minor addition to "core Levy"
I'll be presenting with an imaginary extension to Bauer's Levy language in this post.1 I've mucked around Levy before, of course, and it would probably help to review that previous post before reading this one. I want to make one addition to Levy before we begin making big, interesting ones. The derived form that I want to add - e1 orelse e2 - is computation code with type F bool if e1 and e1 have type F bool as well. This is definable as syntactic sugar, where x is selected to not be free in e2:
e1 to x in
if x then return true
else e2
One other aside - do remember that, at the cost of potential confusion, I modified Bauer's original Levy implementation to make force a prefix operator that binds more tightly than application - force g z y can be written with parentheses as (((force g) z) y).
Positive types, positive recursive types
The functional languages have the construction of positive types just about right: they're made up of sums and products. I used a special LLF-ish construction for datatypes in my exploration of Levy#, but the more traditional way of introducing datatypes is to say that they are recursive types μt.T(t). The recursive types we're used to thinking about are naturally interpreted as positive types, because they are data and are inspected by pattern matching.
There's a tendency in programming language design to shove positive recursive types together with labeled sum types to get a familiar datatype mechanism.2 I will go along with this tendency and merge labeled sums and recursive types, writing them as μt.[L1: T1(t), L2: T2(t), ..., Ln: Tn(t)].
Here are datatype definitions for trees of ints and lists of ints:
type+ tree = μtree. [ Leaf: int, Node: tree * tree ] type+ list = μlist. [ Nil, Cons: int * list ]Note from the definition of lists that we also allow types to have no arguments: it's possible to treat the definition of Nil as syntactic sugar for Nil: unit. The associated value is Nil, which is syntactic sugar for Nil ().
There are infinitely many trees and lists as we've defined them. In fact, it's just a convention of how we have to write programs that we think of positive types as being finite sums. Even though we can't write it down as a datatype declaration, it's perfectly reasonable to think of a built-in type of infinite precision integers as being defined as follows:
type+ int =
[ 0,
... ]
The same goes for built-in strings and the like - think of built-in types being positive enumerations that were provided specially by the language since the language didn't give us the ability to write down the full declaration containing all possible constants.
Powerful views
A point that has not, in my humble opinion, been made simply enough is that the perspective of focusing says that we should think about integrating much more powerful case analysis mechanisms into our programming languages. I learned about this point from Licata, Zeilberger, and Harper's 2008 Focusing on Binding and Computation, but their setting had enough other interesting stuff going on that it probably obscured this simple point.
Standard ML (and, to the best of my knowledge, all other functional languages circa-1997) only provides a limited form of case analysis - arbitrary finite views into the outermost structure of the datatype:
case x of
| Leaf 9 => ...
| Leaf y => ...
| Node (Node (Leaf 5, y), z) => ...
| Node (y, z) => ...
This limitation comes with a nice tradeoff, in that we can pretty effectively estimate how much work compiled code needs to do to handle a pattern match. However, the structure of focusing suggests that any mathematical function from a value's structure to computation is fair game. One well-studied modernization of pattern matching is views, which allows us to group computations in other ways. One use case would be allowing us to take an integer variable x and say that it is even or odd:
case x of
| 0 => return true
| x is even => return false
| ~1 => return false
| x is odd => return true
The focusing-aware view of pattern matching suggests that what a pattern match is actually doing is defining a case individually for each value structure - if we could write a countably-infinite-sized program, then we could expand the view-based program above to the no-longer-view-based, but infinitely long, program below:
case x of
| 0 => return true
| 1 => return true
| ~1 => return false
| 2 => return false
| ~2 => return false
| 3 => return true
| ...
So: the focusing perspective says that any effect-free (effects include nontermination!) mathematical function we can write from value structure to computations is fair game for case analysis; views are just one known way of doing this in an interesting way. In principle, however, we can consider much richer case-analysis machinery to be fair game. For instance, there is a mathematical function \(f\) from integer values int to computation code of type F bool with the variable coll free:
- If the integer is 1, the result is return true
- If the integer is less than 1, the result is return false
- Otherwise, if the integer is divisible by 2 and the result of dividing the integer by 2 is i, then the result is force coll i
- Otherwise, let j be 3 times the integer, plus one. Then the result is force coll j
rec coll: int -> F bool is
fn x: int =>
case x of
| 0 => return false
| 1 => return true
| ~1 => return false
| 2 => force coll 1
| ~2 => return false
| 3 => force coll 10
| ~3 => return false
| 4 => force coll 2
| ~4 => return false
| 5 => force coll 16
| ...
The important question here is: what is the right way to think about how we write down total functions from value structures? Are views about right, or do we need something different, clearer/more/less powerful? I don't have a sense for the answers, but I'm pretty confident that's the right question.
Views are only over the structure of values
One critical caveat: I used the phrase value structure in the previous discussion repeatedly on purpose. Because computations can always contain effects, we cannot poke at the computations at all when we think about views - the value structure is just the part of the value that we can inspect without traversing a thunk. Therefore, if we have this definition...
type+ somefn =
[ BoolFn: U (bool -> F bool),
IntFn: U (int -> F int) ]
...then a case analysis on a value of type somefn can have at most two branches - one for the BoolFn case and one for the IntFn case. We can't pattern-match into computations, so even though it would be reasonable to say that there are many, many values of type somefn, there are only two value structures that can be inspected by case analysis.
Negative types, negative recursive types
In call-by-push-value, the computation types (a.k.a. the negative types of polarized logic/focusing) are defined by the way we use them. Computation code of computation type does stuff in response to being used - a function does stuff in response to getting an argument, and so the most well-understood negative type is implication.
Conjunction (the product or pair type) is a bit slippery, says the CBPV/focusing methodology. We've already used conjunction as a positive type (t1 * t2), but we can also think of conjunction as being a negative type. This is because it's equally valid to think of a pair being positively defined by its construction (give me two values, that's a pair) and negatively as a suspended computation that awaits you asking it for its first or second component.
CPBV/focusing makes us choose: we can have either type of conjunction, or we can have both of them, but they are different. It will be convenient if we keep the normal tuples as positive types, and associate negative types with records - that is, with named products. Records are defined by how you project from them, and just as we tie labeled sums in with positive recursive types, we'll tie labeled products in with negative recursive types.
Negative recursive types are naturally codata in the same way that positive recursive types are naturally data: the canonical example is the infinite stream.
type- stream =
{ head: F int,
tail: stream }
It's natural to define particular streams with fixedpoints:
val Ones = thunk rec this: stream is { head = return 1, tail = force this } val CountUp = thunk rec this: int -> stream is fn x: int => { head = return x, tail = force plus x 1 to y in force this y }Say I wanted to get the fourth element of an infinite stream str of type U stream. The ML-ish way of projecting from records would write this as #tail (#head (#head (#head (force str)))), but I will pointedly not use that notation in favor of a different record notation: (force str).head.head.head.tail. It nests better, and works better in the case that record elements are functions. (Because functions are negative types, like records, it is very natural to have functions be the arguments to records.)
Negative recursive types as Cook's objects
Here's a bit of a case study to conclude. The entities that William Cook names "Objects" in his paper On Understanding Data Abstraction, Revisited are recognizably negative recursive types in the sense above.3 Cook's examples can be coded in Standard ML (see here), but the language gets in the way of this encoding in a number of places.4 To see what this would look like in a language with better support, I'll encode the examples from Cook's paper in my imaginary CBPV implementation. The recursive negative type looks much like a stream, and encodes the interface for these set objects.
type- iset =
{ isEmpty: F bool,
contains: int -> F bool,
insert: int -> iset,
union: U iset -> iset }
One difficulty: the Insert and Union operations that Cook uses involve mutual recursion. I don't have mutual recursion, so rather than pretending to have it (I've abused my imaginary language extension enough already) I'll code it up using records. The record type insertunion I define isn't actually recursive, it's just a record - this is analogous to using ML's datatype mechanism (which, as we've discussed, makes positive recursive types) to define a simple enumeration.
type- insertunion =
{ Insert: U iset * int -> iset,
Union: U iset * U iset -> iset }
val InsertUnion = thunk
rec x: insertunion is
{ Insert = fn (s, n) =>
(force s).contains n to b in
if b then force s else
rec self: iset is
{ isEmpty = return false,
contains = fn i => (force equal i n) orelse (force s).contains i,
insert = fn i => (force x).Insert (self, i),
union = fn s' => (force x).Union (self, s') },
Union = fn (s1, s2) =>
rec self: iset is
{ isEmpty = (force s1).isEmpty orelse (force s2).isEmpty,
contains = fn i => (force s1).contains i orelse (force s2).contains i,
insert = fn i => (force x).Insert (self, i),
union = fn s' => (force x).Union (self, s') } }
val Insert: U (U iset * int -> iset) = thunk ((force InsertUnion).Insert)
val Union: U (U iset * U iset -> iset) = thunk ((force InsertUnion).Union)
We've defined union of sets and insertion into a set, but we haven't actually defined any sets yet! Once we give the implementation of an empty set, however, we can manipulate these sets with a Java-esque method invocation style:
val Empty = thunk rec self: iset is
{ isEmpty = return true,
contains = fn x => return false,
insert = fn i => force Insert (self, i),
union = fn s' => force s' }
val JustOne = thunk (force Empty).insert 1
(force Empty).insert(3).union(JustOne).insert(5).contains(4)
As Cook noted, it's also very natural to talk about infinite sets in this style, such as the set of all even numbers and the set of all integers:
val Evens = thunk rec self: iset is
{ isEmpty = return false,
contains = fn i =>
force mod i 2 to x in
(case x of
| 0 => return true
| _ => return false),
insert = fn i => force Insert (self, i),
union = fn s' => force Union (self, s') }
val Full = thunk rec self: iset is
{ isEmpty = return false,
contains = fn i => return true,
insert = fn i => force self,
union = fn s' => force self }
1 If anyone is interested in helping me implement a toy language along these lines, I'm all ears. Also, the disclaimer that since I don't have an implementation there are surely bugs bugs bugs everywhere is strongly in effect.
2 As a practical matter, this makes it easier for the language to know where to put implicit roll/unroll annotations, so that programmers doesn't have to write these explicitly, which would be a pain.
3 Cook does give the disclaimer that this definition is "recognized as valid by experts in the field, although there certainly are other valid models." I carefully call these things "Cook objects" rather than "objects" - my claim is that negative recursive types correspond to what William Cook names objects, not that they correspond to what you call objects. Note, furthermore, that I could be wrong about what William Cook calls objects! I only have his paper to go on and I have been known to be a few cookies short of a haystack.
4 There are two issues with the encoding in SML. The most basic is that we have to encode the recursive types using SML's recursive type mechanism, which is biased towards the positive encoding of recursive types as finite sums. The other issue is that the way SML ties together (mutual) recursion with closures gets in the way - the standard way of writing a "thunk" as a function from unit is all over the place, and it wan't possible to define EmptySet so that it was mutually recursive with the definition of Insert and Union as a result. So, I'm certainly not arguing that SML facilities programming in (what Cook calls) an object-oriented style in a strong sense - it's unnecessarily painful to code in that style - but the minimal semantic building blocks of what Cook presented and named Object are present and accounted for. [Update:] As gasche discusses in the comments, Ocaml's records, and the way it deals with laziness, make it quite a bit better at encoding the example, but it's still not ideal.


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The Commission on Teacher Credentialing is weighing the changes after expressing concern that under-prepared teachers disproportionately serve students who are living in poverty and learning English.
"Until that changes, we need to tighten up our process a little bit," Commissioner Kathleen Harris said at a September commission meeting, where possible regulatory changes for under-prepared teachers were first discussed.
California grants emergency permits to credentialed teachers so they may instruct English language learners, deliver a bilingual curriculum, or serve as resource specialists or teacher librarians before they have the required authorization to do so. In order to hire teachers on emergency permits each year, school districts must preemptively declare with the state the number of under-prepared teachers they might need and certify that they will first try to recruit fully credentialed teachers.
Critics said that system has allowed districts to hire cheaper, under-prepared teachers en masse when fully trained teachers are available. California schools cut about 32,000 teachers between the 2007-08 and 2010-11 school years, the state legislative analyst reported.
The state issued 2,888 emergency permits in 2010-11, according to a commission report [PDF]. Eleven years earlier, when efforts to reduce class sizes led to a spike in hiring of under-prepared teachers, roughly 35,000 teachers were employed on emergency permits [PDF].
"California has come a long way in ensuring that all students have access to a fully prepared teacher, but we still have loopholes to close, and this is one of them," said Tara Kini, a senior staff attorney at Public Advocates.
School officials said the current system works and allows schools to staff classes in true emergencies, such as an auto accident that might suddenly put a teacher on medical leave. A teacher on an emergency permit is preferable to a rotation of substitutes, who are limited to serving 30 days in general education and 20 days in special education, they said.
"For instructional continuity, not only would students not learn, it really would not be safe in the environments that we work in" to rely on substitutes, David Simmons, director of human resources for the Ventura County Office of Education, said at the September meeting.
Officials also said the public meetings at which governing boards must approve districts' declarations of need for teachers served as checks on employing under-prepared teachers.
"Our community folks are saying, 'We want the folks who have the right credentials, the right qualifications' – they hold us accountable to that," Teri Burns, senior director of policy and programs at the California School Boards Association, said at the September meeting.
The commission did not have available the overall number of emergency permits that districts estimate in their declarations of need, but records from some districts showed estimates were greater than actual hires.
The Mt. Diablo Unified School District, for example, said it would need [PDF] 100 emergency permits for teachers without English language learner authorization and 12 for those without bilingual authorization in the 2010-11 school year. It later hired [PDF] nine teachers on emergency permits for English language learner authorization and one for bilingual authorization.
The Oakland Unified School District estimated [PDF] it would need 150 emergency permits for English language learner authorization and 30 for bilingual authorization that same year. It hired 26 teachers on emergency permits for English language learner authorization and 10 for bilingual authorization.
To supporters of the current system, such numbers show that schools are hiring teachers on emergency permits only when necessary. To critics, the numbers underscore the argument for individual emergency permit applications.
California required individual applications for emergency permits until 1994, when it moved to districtwide declarations of need. It also used to offer more types of emergency permits, which for many years were called credentials despite their lower training requirements.
In 2005, California replaced most emergency permits with short-term staff and provisional internship permits. One-year short-term staff permits are for unanticipated staffing needs and are not renewable. Provisional internship permits may be renewed once, but the commission also may decide today to eliminate this possibility.
If schools can make do with fewer or no renewals for those permits, Kini said, "why wouldn't we also apply it to emergency permits?"
The commission's report shows that, with the exception of teacher librarian credentials that require completion of longer training programs, authorizations to teach English learners, bilingual courses and resource specialist programs can be earned within three years – and they typically are.
But the current five-year limit on emergency permits is "very appropriate when needed," Derek Ramage, director of certificated workforce management for the Los Angeles Unified School District, said at the September meeting.
Kini disagreed. "As a parent, and I am a parent of a kid in public school, I don't want my student being taught by one of those (emergency permit) teachers for five years. I don't think any parent wants that," she said.
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The make_solution() uses several mini-templates to construct different parts of the .sln file. Here are the templates. The names pretty much explain the purpose of each template. The templates use the same principle as the project templates and are just segments of text with placeholder for substitution values that the make_solution() function populates with the proper values and weave together:
# A project template has a header and a list of project sections # such as ProjectDependencies. The ProjectDependencies # duplicate the dependency information in .vcproj files in VS2005. # For generating a solution that contains only C++ projects, no other # project section is needed. project_template_with_dependencies = """\ Project("${TypeGUID}") = "${Name}", "${Filename}", "${GUID}" ProjectSection(ProjectDependencies) = postProject ${ProjectDependencies} EndProjectSection EndProject """ project_template_without_dependencies = """\ Project("${TypeGUID}") = "${Name}", "${Filename}", "${GUID}" EndProject """ project_configuration_platform_template = """\ \t\t${GUID}.Debug|Win32.ActiveCfg = Debug|Win32 \t\t${GUID}.Debug|Win32.Build.0 = Debug|Win32 \t\t${GUID}.Release|Win32.ActiveCfg = Release|Win32 \t\t${GUID}.Release|Win32.Build.0 = Release|Win32 """ # This is the solution template for VS 2008 # The template arguments are: # # Projects # ProjectConfigurationPlatforms # NestedProjects # solution_template = """ Microsoft Visual Studio Solution File, Format Version 10.00 # Visual Studio 2008 ${Projects} Global \tGlobalSection(SolutionConfigurationPlatforms) = preSolution \t\tDebug|Win32 = Debug|Win32 \t\tRelease|Win32 = Release|Win32 \tEndGlobalSection \tGlobalSection(ProjectConfigurationPlatforms) = postSolution ${Configurations} \tEndGlobalSection \tGlobalSection(SolutionProperties) = preSolution \t\tHideSolutionNode = FALSE \tEndGlobalSection \tGlobalSection(NestedProjects) = preSolution ${NestedProjects} \tEndGlobalSection EndGlobal """
Whoever designed the Visual Studio build system was big on GUIDs. Almost every object is identified by a GUID including the types of various solution items like folders and projects:
# Guids for regular project and solution folder project_type = '{8BC9CEB8-8B4A-11D0-8D11-00A0C91BC942}' folder_type = '{2150E333-8FDC-42A3-9474-1A3956D46DE8}'
The SolutionItem class itself is really just a named tuple, but since ibs is not limited to Python 2.6 and up (when named tuples were introduced into the language) I use a dedicated class:
class SolutionItem(object): """Represents a solution folder or project The set of solution projects contain all the information necessary to generate a solution file. name - the name of the project/folder type - folder_type or project_type path - the relative path from the root dir to the .vcproj file for projects, same as name for folders guid - the GUID of the project/folder dependencies - A list of project guids the project depends on. It is empty for folders and projects with no dependencies. projects - list of projects hosted by the folder. It is empty for projects. """ def __init__(self, item_type, name, path, guid, dependencies, projects): title() self.name = name self.type = item_type self.path = path self.guid = guid self.dependencies = dependencies self.projects = projects
The make_solution() takes the source directory and the folders list to generate the solution file using a bunch of nested functions.
def make_solution(source_dir, folders): """Return a string representing the .sln file It uses a lot of nested functions to make the different parts of a solution file: - make_project_dependencies - make_projects - make_configurations - make nested_projects @param folders - a dictionary whose keys are VS folders and the values are the projects each folder contains. Each project must be an object that has a directory path (relative to the root dir), a guid and a list of dependencies (each dependency is another projects). This directory should contain a .vcproj file whose name matches the directory name. @param projects - a list of projects that don't have a folder and are contained directly by the solution node. """
The get_existing_folders() nested function takes and existing .sln file and extracts the GUIDs of every project in it. It returns a dictionary of project names and GUIDs that can be used to regenerate a .sln file with identical GUIDs to the existing ones.
def get_existing_folders(sln_filename): title() lines = open(sln_filename).readlines() results = {} for line in lines: if line.startswith('Project("{2150E333-8FDC-42A3-9474-1A3956D46DE8}") ='): tokens = line.split('"') print tokens name = tokens[-4] guid = tokens[-2] results[name] = guid return results
The make_project_dependencies() nested function takes a list of dependency GUIDs of a project and returns the text fragment that is the ProjectDependencies sub-section of this project in the .sln file.
def make_project_dependencies(dependency_guids): title() if dependency_guids == []: return '' result = [] for g in dependency_guids: result.append('\t\t%s = %s' % (g, g)) result = '\n'.join(result) return result
The make_projects() nested function takes the source directory and the list of projects and generates a text fragment that represents all the projects in the .sln file. It uses the micro templates defined earlier and the make_project_dependencies() function.
def make_projects(source_dir, projects): title() result = '' t1 = string.Template(project_template_with_dependencies) t2 = string.Template(project_template_without_dependencies) for p in projects: if p.type == project_type: filename = p.path[len(source_dir) + 1:].replace('/', '\\') else: filename = p.name dependency_guids = [get_guid(p.path) for d in p.dependencies] guid = get_guid(filename) if p.guid is None else p.guid d = dict(TypeGUID=p.type, Name=p.name, Filename=filename, GUID=guid, ProjectDependencies=make_project_dependencies(p.dependencies)) t = t1 if p.dependencies != [] else t2 s = t.substitute(d) result += s return result[:-1]
The make_configurations() function returns a text fragment that represents all the project configuration platforms. It works by iterating over the projects list and populating the project_configuration_platform template with each project's GUID.
def make_configurations(projects): title() result = '' t = string.Template(project_configuration_platform_template) for p in projects: d = dict(GUID=p.guid) s = t.substitute(d) result += s return result[:-1]
The make_nested_projects() function returns a text fragment that represents all the nested projects in the .sln file. It works by iterating over the folders and populating the nested_project template with the guids of each nested project and its containing folder. Each folder is an object that has guid attribute and a projects attribute (which is a list of its contained projects):
def make_nested_projects(folders): title() for f in folders.values(): assert hasattr(f, 'guid') and type(f.guid) == str assert hasattr(f, 'projects') and type(f.projects) in (list, tuple) result = '' nested_project = '\t\t${GUID} = ${FolderGUID}\n' t = string.Template(nested_project) for folder in folders.values(): for p in folder.projects: d = dict(GUID=p.guid, FolderGUID=folder.guid) s = t.substitute(d) result += s return result[:-1]
These were all the nested functions and here is how the containing make_solution() function puts them to good use.
try: sln_filename = glob.glob(os.path.join(source_dir, '*.sln'))[0] existing_folders = get_existing_folders(sln_filename) except: existing_folders = [] # Use folders GUIDs from existing .sln file (if there is any) for name, f in folders.items(): if name in existing_folders: f.guid = existing_folders[name] else: f.guid = make_guid() # Prepare a flat list of all projects all_projects =[] for f in folders.values(): all_projects.append(f) all_projects += f.projects # Prepare the substitution dict for the solution template projects = [p for p in all_projects if p.type == project_type] all_projects = make_projects(source_dir, all_projects) configurations = make_configurations(projects) nested_projects = make_nested_projects(folders) d = dict(Projects=all_projects, Configurations=configurations, NestedProjects=nested_projects) # Create the final solution text by substituting the dict into the template t = string.Template(solution_template) solution = t.substitute(d) return solution


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Why are the media hosting anti-gay bigots to comment on DADT?
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Media have turned to conservatives with histories of making bigoted, anti-gay remarks to comment on Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Mike Mullen's February 2 testimony on repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell (DADT). Those commentators include Family Research Council (FRC) president Tony Perkins, who had claimed that the "real issue" regarding the scandal involving former Rep. Mark Foley's (R-FL) interactions with congressional pages is the purported "link between homosexuality and child sexual abuse," and FRC senior fellow Peter Sprigg, who once said that he preferred to "export homosexuals" rather than "import them."
Media turn to FRC's Perkins, Sprigg for dubious DADT commentary
Sprigg on MSNBC: "[T]he presence of homosexuals in the military is incompatible with good order, morale, discipline, and unit cohesion." Appearing on the February 2 edition of MSNBC's Hardball, Sprigg claimed that "the presence of homosexuals in the military is incompatible with good order, morale, discipline, and unit cohesion. That's exactly what Congress found in 1993. And that's what the law states."
Perkins repeatedly cites unit cohesion canard on CNN. In a February 2 appearances on CNN Newsroom and CNN's Larry King Live, Perkins repeated the talking point that repealing DADT would undermine unit cohesion.
Studies indicate that decisions to lift gay bans in other countries and allow open service have not undermined "morale or unit cohesion." In an award-winning essay published in the fourth quarter 2009 issue of Joint Force Quarterly -- which is "published for the Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, by the Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University" -- Col. Om Prakash writes of DADT that "the stated premise of the law -- to protect unit cohesion and combat effectiveness -- is not supported by any scientific studies." Indeed, as Media Matters for America has documented, at least 25 nations - including more than a dozen North America Treaty Organization member countries - allow openly gay people to serve in their armed forced. Multiple studies of the impact of the decisions to lift bans on gays and lesbians serving openly in those countries have indicated that, in the words of one General Accounting Office report, "the inclusion of homosexuals in their militaries has not adversely affected unit readiness, effectiveness, cohesion, or morale."
Perkins previously made anti-gay comments about Foley scandal, Jennings
Perkins said "real issue" in Foley scandal was purported "link between homosexuality and child sex abuse." In an October 2, 2006, statement headlined "Pro-Homosexual Political Correctness Sowed Seeds for Foley Scandal," Perkins said that neither Democrats nor Republicans appeared "likely to address the real issue" in the Foley scandal, "which is the link between homosexuality and child sexual abuse." He added that "[i]gnoring this reality got the Catholic Church into trouble over abusive priests, and now it is doing the same to the House GOP leadership." Perkins reiterated the statement in an October 3, 2006, appearance on Hardball, in which he claimed that "there's clear research that shows that homosexual men are more likely to abuse children than straight men."
- Experts disagree with Perkins' claim. In fact, a 1995 study released by the American Psychological Association found that "gay men are no more likely than heterosexual men to perpetrate child sexual abuse." Similarly, in a July 2002 article, USA Today noted numerous experts in psychotherapy, psychiatry, and child sex abuse who argued that figures showing "male pedophiles are more likely to molest boys than girls" are not evidence that gay men are more likely to abuse children than straight men, because they conflate men who abuse boys with gay men. The argument that homosexuals are overrepresented in such cases is based on what John Hopkins University psychiatrist Frederick Berlin has described as the "flawed assumption" that men who abuse young boys are also attracted to grown men.
Perkins piece calling for Jennings' appointment to be withdrawn peppered with anti-gay rhetoric. In a June 29, 2009, Human Events piece stating that Obama administration official Kevin Jennings is "unfit" for his office and calling for Secretary of Education Arne Duncan to "withdraw his appointment at once," Perkins referred to Jennings as "the homosexual founder of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network" and claimed that he was "undoubtedly chosen for this post ... because the foundation of the homosexual education agenda is the concept of 'safe schools,'" a concept Perkins claimed "single[s] out homosexuals for more protection than others." Perkins also stated that Jennings "apparently believes in locking sexually confused kids into a 'gay' identity."
Perkins pushes falsehood that Jennings did not report a "15-year-old who meets sexual partners in a bus station restroom." In his Human Events piece, Perkins claimed "the most dramatic illustration" of Jennings' "unfitness" for his position is that Jennings did not report a "15-year-old who meets sexual partners in a bus station restroom," a claim based on Jennings' past statements about advice he gave to a student who told him about his relationship with an older man when Jennings was a high school teacher in the late 1980s. Perkins further wrote:
Sex between an adult and a young person below the "age of consent" (which varies from state to state) is a crime known as statutory rape, and some states mandate that people in certain professions report such abuse.
I do not know if "Brewster" was below the age of consent, nor whether Jennings was a mandatory reporter or violated mandatory reporting laws.
In fact, a 2004 letter from Jennings' attorney available at the time Perkins' piece was published, as well as a statement from the former student and his Massachusetts driver's license later obtained by Media Matters definitively show that he was at least 16 -- the legal age of consent in Massachusetts -- when he approached Jennings.
Perkins says "bizarre" Jennings seeks "to mainstream homosexuality in schools." On his radio show, Lou Dobbs stated, "There's suddenly a major political storm around him, charges that he has promoted homosexuality in schools, acknowledged past drug abuse, at one time demonstrating contempt for religion itself. Can any of that be true?" Perkins replied: "Well, unfortunately it is. I mean, this guy is bizarre, and it shows just how radical this administration is in pushing forward policies. ... This guy -- he established GLSEN ... to mainstream homosexuality in the schools." Perkins added, "This is an agenda that is being targeted all the way down to kindergarten. So this is -- the idea that this guy is heading up a safe and drug-free school program, and that he is advocating the expansion of homosexuality in the school and the curriculum" and that "people send their kids to school to get an education, and not to be recruited into a network of sexual behavior, whether it's homosexual behavior or heterosexual behavior." [United Stations Radio Networks' The Lou Dobbs Show, 9/24/09]
Sprigg once said he preferred to "export homosexuals" rather than "import them"
Sprigg apologized for comment that "trivialized the seriousness of the issue." In a 2008 interview with Medill News Service, discussing a bill that would make it easier for gay and lesbian Americans to sponsor their foreign partners' citizenship, Sprigg stated: "I would much prefer to export homosexuals from the United States than to import them into the United States because we believe that homosexuality is destructive to society." In a subsequent statement, Sprigg said he "used language that trivialized the seriousness of the issue and did not communicate respect for the essential dignity of every human being as a person created in the image of God" and apologized "for speaking in a way that did not reflect the standards which the Family Research Council and I embrace."
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Nuclear Sub Commander Decides to Fake His Death to End His Affair, Naturally
Married 43 year-old Navy nuclear submarine commander Michael Ward was having a little affair with a younger woman that he met online. These situations are a bit tricky to navigate, as you can imagine. How did Michael Ward extricate himself from it, when he was ready to end the affair? The old fashioned way: he "sent his mistress an email from a fictitious person named Bob in July, posing as a co-worker and saying that Ward had died unexpectedly."
The woman learned that Ward was still alive when she turned up at Ward's former residence in Burke, Va., to offer condolences. The new owner told her that Ward had moved to Connecticut to take command of a submarine.
"She was very surprised," Jon Boyle, the new owner, said in a telephone interview.
Always remember to erase the new owner's mind with a top secret "Men In Black"-style mind erasing device before leaving town. Amateur hour, in the Navy these days.


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I have Quicken Home Inventory Manager and it seems that is no longer supported by Intuit, i.e. it does not run on newer Windows versions (like Windows 7 64-bit for example). Since I also use Linux, I'd like to try to use it on Linux if possible. Of course, I could install another inventory program, but there is no option to export data from QHIM and I have over 2 thousand items in the database, so I really have to keep using this proprietary software.
I tried running it under Wine but it's very slow to the point when it's completely unusable. It was very slow on Windows as well when I got more than a couple of hundreds of items, but under Wine the screen flickers all the time and I really cannot use it. I'm looking for some way to either tweak Wine settings or find some way to export data from QHIM's database.