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By Kenneth J. Souza, Anchor Staff
WEST BARNSTABLE, Mass. — The New Testament Letter to the Hebrews (6:19) describes hope in the Risen Christ as "an anchor for the soul."
The maritime metaphor is appropriate, given that many of Christ's early disciples were fishermen and could easily grasp how the lack of a reliable anchor could send an otherwise secured vessel aimlessly adrift and lost at sea.
It's similarly appropriate then that one of the historic chapels on Cape Cod is adorned with a unique anchor-shaped cross atop its domed steeple. While that distinctive landmark had been missing from the historic Our Lady of Hope Chapel of late, it was recently restored and rededicated on May 17 in preparation for this summer's even-bigger centennial celebration.
A special 100th anniversary Mass will be celebrated by Bishop Edgar M. da Cunha, S.D.V., at Our Lady of Hope Chapel on Sunday, July 19 at noon. Refreshments will be served immediately following the Mass and all are welcome.
Located at the intersection of Route 6A and Parker Road in West Barnstable, the small but charming Our Lady of Hope Chapel — a mission of Our Lady of Victory Parish in Centerville — is sometimes referred to as being in the "Spanish Monastic" style of architecture, or "the type of architecture that the monasteries would use, that best fitted their customs, needs, and materials available, when they moved into Spain and neighboring countrysides" in the 1300s, according to parishioner G. Margaret Rourke in her 1990 brochure, "A Work of Love," detailing the history of the structure.
Rourke also noted the important symbolism of this unique anchor-cross hybrid topping the chapel's tower.
"The anchor is the ecclesiastical symbol of hope and a universal insignia for things nautical, so befitting our area with its fishermen," she wrote. "The round dome on the square base is classical Byzantine, and directly under it is a pier and arch 'belfry' that is typically Romanesque. This merging of architectural forms took place around the third century when the early Church had to move east from Rome to Byzantium, which was renamed Constantinople. The whole tower is an integral part of the church construction, and the stock and shank of the anchor serve as the usual cross seen on Catholic churches."
The maritime motif is continued with the statue of Our Lady of Hope holding an anchor just above the main entrance and depictions of anchors on all of the stained-glass windows within. "The anchor appears in all of the stained glass windows of the church, which also contain the devotional Latin phrases and titles of the woman to whom the chapel is dedicated," wrote parishioner Edward W. Kirk in his 2011 book "Faith of Our Fathers and Mothers: A Look Back at 50 Years in the Life of a Parish."
Kirk explained how the majority of the founding parishioners in this area of Cape Cod were Portuguese immigrants — a group that also had close ties to the sea.
"Thus, the chapel would serve not only as a conveniently located place of worship, but also as a tangible reminder of the 'old country' for the Portuguese community in the area," Kirk wrote. "It combined perfectly the ecclesiastical significance of the anchor with the heritage of the mariner, and placed those 'in peril on the sea' under the care and protection of (Mary,) Star of the Sea."
The exterior statue of Our Lady of Hope was sculpted by artist John Kirshmeyer, a friend of Father Mortimer Downing, pastor of St. Francis Xavier Parish in Hyannis at the time.
While the parish already claimed two mission chapels — Sacred Heart in Yarmouthport and Our Lady of the Assumption in Osterville — the growing Portuguese community in West Barnstable was in need of a place of worship to call their own.
Our Lady of Hope is the name given to an apparition of the Blessed Mother who was said to have appeared to a group of children on Jan. 17, 1871 in the small town of Pontmain during the height of the Franco-Prussian War when it looked like France was going to lose. After Our Lady appeared, it's reported that the Germans started to retreat, and just 11 days later a peace treaty was signed.
An identical plaster version of Our Lady of Hope is located inside the Sanctuary. Both statues depict the Virgin Mary as described by the children.
The 12 windows in the nave also contain a symbol of each of the Twelve Apostles, lilies to represent the Blessed Mother, and a Latin word from the first two verses of the song, "Ave Maris Stella," the hymn the townspeople in France sang when she appeared.
Designed by Father Downing in collaboration with renowned architect Mathew Sullivan of the Boston-based Maginnis and Walsh firm (which also designed many of the churches for the Archdiocese of Boston), the chapel's solid structure owes a lot to the founding Portuguese parishioners — many of whom helped build the church, brick-by-brick, with their own hands.
"By the 1900s, there were a goodly number of Portuguese people settled in West Barnstable," Rourke wrote. "Many were fishermen, others farmers, and still others worked in the flourishing local brick works.
"The then-flourishing West Barnstable Brick Company contributed the bricks at cost. The company foreman, Emilio Silva, handpicked the bricks to go into the chapel and was overseer for much of the bricklaying. The bricks used in the construction of the building show through to the inside. No wonder Silva hand-picked them."
Silva was meticulous in selecting the bricks that would be used for the chapel, noting it was important not only for durability but also because the bricks would be visible inside and outside the structure.
"The men in the parish all pitched in and helped out wherever they could as a labor of love," Rourke wrote. "By 1914 the T-shaped foundation hole had been dug and included a partial basement or 'undercroft' as it was then called, constructed of fieldstone of which West Barnstable has plenty, to accommodate a wood-burning stove."
A year later, the Our Lady of Hope Chapel would be dedicated and on March 16, 1916 Father Downing installed and blessed the Stations of the Cross inside, putting the finishing touches on "the first tangible presence of what is now Our Lady of Victory Parish on Old King's Highway," according to Kirk.
In 1928, at the direction of Bishop Daniel Feehan, Our Lady of the Assumption in Osterville became a new parish, separate from St. Francis Xavier, and Our Lady of Hope became a mission of Our Lady of the Assumption.
Years later, with further pastoral planning changes in the diocese, Our Lady of Hope would fall under care of Our Lady of Victory Parish.
The 100th anniversary of Our Lady of Hope Chapel will be celebrated with a Mass at noon on July 19. Those wishing to volunteer or contribute ideas to enhance the celebration are invited to visit the parish website at www.olvparish.org. This link also provides an opportunity for parishioners and friends to share ideas, documents and photos that are being collected to capture the chapel's history.
Monthly planning meetings are held at the Hope House, adjacent to the chapel, at 10 a.m. on the first Saturday of each month. For more information, you can also email firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Anchorman 2 Rumor: A Little Taste Before The Dictator?by Micah J Gordon at . Comments
Ever since Will Ferrell came out in character as Ron Burgundy on Conan to announce that Anchor Man 2 is a go, fans have been hoping to catch any info they can on the sequel of the 2004 comedy.
Well, a tweet by Adam McKay, director and co-writer of both the original and the sequel, hints that there may be a short Anchorman 2 teaser before screenings of The Dictator, which comes out next week.
Rumors circulating on the internet suggest that the teaser will feature some of your favorite Anchorman cast members talking, in character, about how excited they are for the new film. A release year of 2013 is also rumored.
Will Ferrell, who co-wrote the original and is co-writing the sequel, can be seen this summer alongside Zach Galifianakis (maybe Galifianakis will make an appearance in Anchorman 2?) in The Campaign. Watch the first Campaign trailer, which just came out this morning, for a closer look.
McKay has previously hinted that the plot of Anchorman 2 will involve a custody battle, but apart from that, not much is known about the film that as of last month was still being written.
Let's hear your predictions for what'll go down in the Anchorman sequel.

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Dante Koryu, also known as Drum Koryu (虹龍ドラム, Kōryū Doramu) in Japan, is the main protagonist of the anime/manga series, Beyblade Burst Rise.
Dante is a young boy of average height. He has green eyes, blonde hair with a blue, horn-shaped highlight on each side of his temple, and bronze colored, short eyebrows. Dante also has a red and yellow marking on both cheeks under his eyes.
For his attire, Dante sports a white collared shirt with a red tie, a red fingerless glove for his left hand, teal baggy pants with light-blue suspenders hanging on the sides, white dress shoes, and a blue jacket with three lime stripes on each side, yellow sections on the sleeves and wrist collar, and a red "D" on the left jacket flap.
Dante is an optimistic, passionate, easy-going and earnest Blader. When Dante first saw Sword Valtryek defeat him with its golden aura, he was surprised and excited and it inspired him to make his own GaTinko bey.
As shown several times throughout the season, Dante has a habit of making scary faces when nervous. He also has a bad habit of accidentally revealing his strategies to his opponents.
Dante is very resilient and will keep on battling the same opponent until he takes them down.
And just like Valt, Aiger, Lui and Phi, and Delta, Dante has a habit of talking to his bey, and has shown to have some form of resonance with his bey.
Once a member of the Spanish team BC Sol, the same same team as Valt Aoi, he becomes inspired by the strength of Valt's new bey, Sword Valtryek, and decides to get a Gatinko bey of his own. Dante moves to Japan and joins Victories, a team manged by his uncle.
Beyblade Burst Rise
- Air Knight K4 Vertical Volcanic: Dante's Bey in Beyblade Burst Rise before he got Ace Dragon Sting Charge Zan.
- Ace Dragon Sting Charge Zan: Dante's primary Beyblade in Attack Mode in Beyblade Burst Rise.
- Grand Dragon Sting Charge Zan: Dante's primary Beyblade in Stamina Mode in Beyblade Burst Rise.
- Rock Dragon Sting Charge Zan: Dante's primary Beyblade in Defense Mode in Beyblade Burst Rise.
Special Moves
- Dragon Shoot: Ace Dragon starts building up power by using the stadium slope, and then rushes at the opponent, similar to Valt Aoi's Rush Launch and Aiger Akabane's Z Launch.
- Bound Stinger: Ace Dragon hits the wall, and uses its Sting Disc to bounce off and gain even more speed.
- Grand Beat: Like his Dragon Shoot, Grand Dragon attacks all over the place and sends the opponent up in the air.
- Rock Crash:
|Beyblade Burst Rise
|Valt Aoi
|Lose (0-2)
|Amane Kusaba
|Lose (1-2)
|Amane Kusaba
|Win (2-0)
|Fumiya Kindo
|Lose (0-1)
|Amane Kusaba
|Win (2-0)
|Fumiya Kindo
|Win (2-1)
|Valt Aoi
|Lose (0-2)
|Ken Urame
|Win (2-0)
|Unnamed Blader
|Win (2-0)
|Joe Rurikawa
|Win (3-1)
|Lodin Haijima
|Win (3-2)
|Delta Zakuro
|Lose (0-2)
|Delta Zakuro
Anime Appearances
Beyblade Burst Rise
- Episode 01 - Time to Get Serious! Ace Dragon!
- Episode 02 - Keep on Going! Bushin Ashura!
- Episode 03 - Seer-iously!? Wizard Fafnir!
- Episode 04 - The Fiery Grand Dragon!
- Episode 05 - Dragon Vs. Fafnir!
- Episode 06 - Explosive Speed! Grand Beat!
- Episode 07 - Valt, I Challenge You!
- Episode 08 - The Exciting Bey Carnival!
- Episode 09 - All-In! Judgement Joker!
- Episode 10 - It's a Gatinko Battle in The Best Four
- Episode 11 - Serious Vs. Tricks!
- Episode 12 - Heavy Steel! Zwei Longinus!
- Episode 13 - I've Got This! Go, Shoot!
- Episode 14 - Serious Burst! Gold Turbo!
- Episode 15 - Drum vs. Delta!
Amane Kusaba
Tango Koryu
Tango is Dante's uncle.
- "Time to get serious!"
For a full gallery of images of Dante, see Dante Koryu/Gallery.
- Dante is the second Beyblade protagonist after Tyson Granger to use a Beyblade with a dragon motif.
- Dante is the third main Beyblade protagonist whose name was changed in the English episodes, the first being Tyson Granger from the first Beyblade generation and the second being Aiger Akabane from Beyblade Burst Turbo.
- Dante is the sixth blader in Burst to use a ripcord launcher instead of a string launcher, the first five being Hoji and Koji Konda, Haruto Aota, Hae-jin Oh, and Phi. If one counts the Sword Launcher and Digital Sword Launcher as ripcord launchers, that would make Dante the seventh blader to use a ripcord launcher; the sixth Blader being Xander.
- He is also the first Burst protagonist to use a ripcord launcher.
- Dante shares the same appearance with his mother since they both have blonde and blue hair and green eyes.
- Dante is the first main protagonist to not be the age of 11.
- He also the first main protagonist that is an otaku, as revealed on Hiro Morita's Twitter account, thus makes him the youngest otaku character in anime, at just 10 years old.
- Dante's last name, Koryu, is a reference to Kohryu, a dragon in Chinese lore who represents the element of Earth, one of the five elements of the Wu Xing.
- Kohryu also means "Yellow Dragon", which is enforced by Dante's blonde hair and the use of yellow in both his attire.
- He has the same hair color as his mother.
- Dante is the first main Burst protagonist to not have any siblings.


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A review of the EP released today by the New Orleans rock band.
Bantam Foxes (Friday, noon, Carnival) display a classic love of big, fuzzy, riffy electric guitars. On the band's new four-song Loser EP, guitars are everything, from the Nirvana boogie of "(I Wanna Move to) Texas" to the big, chorded chorus in "Left for Dead," which gets out of the way for a full-blown, squeal it out, distortion-laden solo. Sam McCabe's inner Jack White got a work out, and in a time when guitar-driven, heavy rock 'n' roll is hard to find, that's something.
Surprisingly, what has come to seem like an old idea doesn't sound old when Bantam Foxes play it. The dynamics of "(I Wanna Move to) Texas" are a little grungy, but the songs have some nice curves, such as McCabe's two-note picking pattern for much of "Left for Dead." It evokes country music without sounding like it, and the band moved the emphasis in the phrase so that it is clearly their own thing.
Those songs bookend the EP, and in between is perhaps the band's poppiest song, "Secondhand Smoke"—complete with a cheery "ba pa baba baaa" melody—and "Rip," which features a riff fueled by so much distortion that the guitar's texture is its own reward. Throughout, McCabe, his brother Colin (a former My Spilt Milk intern), and drummer Jared Marcell have become a solid unit, so the songs have the impact that the guitar sound promises.
On Loser, the vocals are the most idiosyncratic element, slightly processed (I think) or mixed so that they're of a piece with the guitar sounds. Both McCabes sing, and neither's vocals stand out in a traditional way, sitting instead like another instrument in the mix. The songs have melody, but the melodies are often downplayed by their phrasing and sing/spoken deliveries. The band clearly pays a lot of attention to its sound, here adding an acoustic 12-string guitar on one song, a toy piano on another, and those efforts pay off. It would be interesting to hear what a more forthright vocal delivery would do for Bantam Foxes' songs.


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The teenager playing for Surrey atm. From what I've heard he has some pace and some batting ability and seems to be causing waves with the management at Surrey as an exciting prospect. Has anyone seen much of him? Does he appear a player to keep an eye on?
I ask because he's Bajan by birth, although he can play for England if he chooses. According to CricInfo, he favours playing for West Indies in future.


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I have been pretty busy getting my new menu done and ready to be rolled out, and I've been focusing my energy on getting back into the swing of working every day that I've neglected this blog for a bit. I'm back in the kitchen with the Spring menu in place, so now I can get back to writing down some of my feeble thoughts.
When you put the order in as a sea bass and a haddock, we cook a sea bass and a haddock. When the person who gets the haddock really ordered a steak, do you clear both dishes so both diners can eat together? I think so, but it would be best to ask them what they would like to do. Either way, their experience was not what they had hoped for. The names (of the fish) have been changed to protect the guilty.
I recently looked up the lists of Rising Star Chefs from the past few years' Food and Wine Festival for the Arts in Albany. Some have risen beautifully, some have fallen. This chef business is not an easy job, no matter what your potential. It has taken me many years to find myself in this business.
Please wait to be seated.
I do not put cream in my risotto.
Jack's Oyster House just got a 1½ star review. That's sad. I guess if you're making money, who cares, it's a business before all else. I've heard grumbling that Jack's received special treatment by reviewer Susie Davidson Powell by making two visits, and Senior Editor Steve Barnes making several trips to justify the tone of the review. You stay open for over 100 years and you'll get well deserved special treatment too.
I've been doing some consulting work, which I'm really enjoying. If there's one thing I have, it's an opinion, generally based on 18 years of experience in this business.
It got a little busy on Saturday night, I was happy to be doing what I do. I'm looking forward to doing more of it in the future.
I swore off bourbon a while ago, and was sticking to it until someone gave me a bottle two months ago, I just finished it last night. While I have not fully quit, the pace has slowed down from a bottle per week to a bottle in two months. I have plan or desire to buy another bottle.
I have some irons in the fire. Not everyone has irons, and some people have no fire. It's nice to have both.
I'm happy, the foie gras tortelloni is selling well.
Thank you to The Wine Bar for supporting me in many ways through my foot surgery.
When you're in the process of buying a house, the credit card offers come in the mail at an alarming rate.
Thank you to my kitchen staff for pulling some extra weight in my absence. We will all be better as a result.
I understand that Eric Ripert was in Saratoga yesterday.
"Looking for a chef that can multi task must be. Able. To cook breakfast and knowledge of all gravy's ,soups making daily specials cooking comfort foods." This a job description from a Craigslist ad. Who do you think they'll attract?
As Spring gets into full swing in Saratoga, and the patios are being finished, some restaurants are getting their chalkboard out. Not everyone is complying with the new regulations that say you cannot just stick it in the middle of the sidewalk.
Every snippet has a specific purpose.
Don't believe everything you read.
The Red Sox have a horrible pitching staff so far. That, you can believe.


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Your task in this assignment is to implement a complete (if
simplistic) compiler for
the extended version of the calculator language, again with
if and
do/check statements.
Your compiler (hereinafter referred to as the
"translator") will be written in OCaml and will generate
We are providing you with a parser generator and
driver that build an explicit parse tree.
The provided code also includes the skeleton of a possible solution
that converts the parse tree to a syntax tree and then recursively
"walks" that tree to effect the translation.
You are of course welcome to adopt a different skeleton if you
Since this one has been excised from a complete working solution,
however, you may find it a good place to start.
The provided code has two main entry points:
get_parse_table : grammar -> parse_table = ... parse : parse_table -> string -> parse_tree = ...The first of these routines returns a parse table, in the format expected as the first argument of the second routine. The second returns a parse tree. (You'll want to print some of these trees to see what they look like.) If the program has syntax errors (according to the grammar),
parse will print an error message (as a side effect)
and return a
PT_error value (it does not do error
If the input grammar you provide is malformed, you may get unhelpful
run-time errors from the parser generator—it isn't very
The grammar takes the form of a list of production sets, each of which
is a pair containing the LHS symbol and k right-hand sides,
each of which is itself a list of symbols.
get_parse_table builds the parse table, the grammar is
augmented with a start production that mentions an explicit end of file
$$. Later,
parse will remove this production
from the resulting parse tree.
The extended calculator language looks like this:
let ecg : grammar = [ ("P", [["SL"; "$$"]]) ; ("SL", [["S"; "SL"]; []]) ; ("S", [ ["id"; ":="; "E"]; ["read"; "id"]; ["write"; "E"] ; ["if"; "R"; "SL"; "fi"]; ["do"; "SL"; "od"]; ["check"; "R"] ]) ; ("R", [["E"; "ET"]]) ; ("E", [["T"; "TT"]]) ; ("T", [["F"; "FT"]]) ; ("F", [["id"]; ["num"]; ["("; "E"; ")"]]) ; ("ET", [["ro"; "E"]; []]) ; ("TT", [["ao"; "T"; "TT"]; []]) ; ("FT", [["mo"; "F"; "FT"]; []]) ; ("ro", [["=="]; ["<>"]; ["<"]; [">"]; ["<="]; [">="]]) ; ("ao", [["+"]; ["-"]]) ; ("mo", [["*"]; ["/"]]) ];;
A program is just a string:
let sum_ave_prog = "read a read b sum := a + b write sum write sum / 2";;
Your work will proceed in two steps:
let rec ast_ize_P (p:parse_tree) : ast_sl = ...where the single argument is a parse tree generated by function
We have provided a complete description of the
type, though you are free to modify this if you prefer a different
let rec translate (ast:ast_sl) : string * string = ...where the argument is a syntax tree, as generated by function
and the return value is a tuple containing a pair of strings.
The first string, which will usually be empty, indicates (as a
nicely-formatted, human-readable error message) the names
of any variables that are assigned to (or
read) but
never used in the program. (For extra credit, indicate the
lines on which the assignment(s)/read(s) occur.) This is as
close as we get to static semantic error checking in this very
tiny language.
let ecg_parse_table = get_parse_table ecg;; let (my_warnings, my_C_prog) = translate (ast_ize_P (parse ecg_parse_table my_prog));;
Note: your OCaml program should not take advantage of any
imperative language features. You may create testing code that uses
print_string and related functions, and you may keep the
code that prints an error message if the input program in the extended
calculator language contains a syntax
error, but the main logic of your syntax tree construction and
translation should be purely functional.
As noted in the previous assignment, the addition of
do/check to the calculator language gives it
significant computing power. If we let
be a string containing the primes-generating program from that
assignment (also included in the starter
code) and then type
print_string (snd (translate (ast_ize_P (parse ecg_parse_table primes_prog))));;you should see, on standard output, a C program which, when compiled, run, and fed the input 10, prints
2 3 5 7 11 13 17 19 23 29
For the sake of convenience, we recommend that your output program always begin with definitions of two helper functions:
#include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> int getint() { ... // returns an integer from standard input or // prints an appropriate error message and dies. } void putint(int n) { ... // prints an integer and a linefeed to standard output. }
As noted above, your translator is required to print a warning if the input program assigns to any variable that is never used. (You do not have to notice if the program contains a use that will never be executed—only the lack of any use at all.)
The C program you generate is required to catch the following dynamic errors, any of which will cause it to terminate early (with a helpful error message). Note that some of these errors are not caught by default in C. Your program will have to include extra code to catch them.
read-ing counts as assignment).
The initial source code is about 635 lines of OCaml. You should read most of it carefully to understand how it works (you can skip the details of parse table construction if you like, though I think it's kind of cool :-).
For most of the assignment, it will probably be easiest to use the
ocaml interpreter or its
utop wrapper.
You'll want to keep
reloading your source code (
#use "translator.ml") as you
go along, so you catch syntax and type errors early.
On occasion, you may also want to try compiling your program with
ocamlc, to create a stand-alone executable.
Note that the code we have given you uses functions (
split) from the
Str library.
This library is not visible to either the interpreter or the compiler by
ocaml, you will need to say
#load "str.cma";;before you
#use your source code.
(Once is enough; you don't have to re-
#load in order
to re-
ocamlc, type the following at a shell prompt:
ocamlc str.cma translator.ml
We have provided code for the sum-and-average and primes-generating calculator programs. You will undoubtedly want to write more for purposes of debugging.
We will be grading your assignment using the OCaml
interpreter in
/usr/bin/ocaml. You can
download your own
copy for Windows, MacOS, or Linux, but please be
sure to allow ample time to check that your code works
correctly on the
csug installation.
As a rough guess, you should be able to write a complete implementation
translate, and everything they
call in less than 150 lines of code.
You may find the following helpful.
As in most assignments this semester, you may work alone or in teams of
two. If you choose to work in pairs, I strongly encourage
you to read each others' code, to make sure you have a full
understanding of semantic analysis.
The most obvious division of labor is for one team member to write
ast_ize_P and the other to write
but other divisions are fine as well.
Be sure to follow all the rules on the Grading page. As with all assignments,
use the turn-in script:
~cs254/bin/TURN_IN. Put your write-up in a
README.txt or
README.pdf file in the directory in
which you run the script (only one
README required per
team). Be sure to describe any features
of your code that the TAs might not immediately notice.
for loops,
nested scopes,
or functions.
Several of these are likely to introduce rules that you will want to
check statically.
By the end of the day on Wednesday, October 4, each student should complete the T3 trivia assignment found on Blackboard. Students attending the Grace Hopper Celebration get an automatic extension to Sunday October 8.


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By Josh Cook
The Louisville Bats started the second half of the season with a bang. Juan Francisco's big bang to be exact.
Francisco's two-run home run in the bottom of the ninth capped an incredible comeback, as the Bats beat Lehigh Valley 8-7 on Thursday night in front of 7,412 fans at Louisville Slugger Field.
Louisville (45-48) trailed the Iron Pigs 7-0 after an inning and a half, but rallied for its ninth win in its last 12 games thanks in large part to Francisco. The third baseman homered twice and finished with five RBIs.
Lehigh Valley (37-54) scored five runs in the top of the first inning and two in the second, but that was all the runs the Iron Pigs would score.
It was a stinker of a start of Bats starter Matt Klinker, who allowed the first five Lehigh Valley batters to reach base. He gave up a double, two singles, a walk and another single, as the Iron Pigs batted around in the top of the first. How bad did things get? Even Lehigh Valley pitcher J.A. Happ got in on the action with an RBI-single.
The Iron Pigs added two more runs in the second on solo home runs by Ozzie Chavez and Andy Tracy.
But then the Bats began their comeback.
Wladimir Balentien led off the bottom of the second with a solo home run, his 13th of the year, to left field. After Chris Valaika flew out Chris Denove walked, then moved to second on Klinker's sacrifice bunt. Denove advanced to third on Gary Matthews Jr.'s single, then scored on Zack Cozart's single. Matthews, who moved to third on Cozart's single, scored on Yonder Alonso's single that made it 7-3.
Louisville added another three-spot in the seventh inning.
Cozart led off with a single off new pitcher Mike Zagurski, then advanced to second when Todd Frazier reached on a fielding error. A wild pitch by Zagurski moved Cozart to third and Frazier to second before Francisco's ninth homer of the season scored all three.
Then in the bottom of the ninth Daniel Dorn led off with a double off new Lehigh Valley pitcher Scott Mathieson (3-3). Frazier then lined out to left before Francisco's second big fly of the game.
Francisco, Matthews and Cozart led Louisville's 11-hit attack with two apiece.
Daniel Ray Herrera (1-0) picked up the win with one inning of relief. He was one of three Louisville relievers who held the Iron Pigs to only three hits over the final five innings.
Klinker gave up 10 hits and seven earned runs, while walking one and striking out three in four inning. Enerio Del Rosario provided two innings of hitless relief, then Phillippe Valiquette gave up two hits over two innings before Herrera came on in the ninth.
The same two teams meet at 7:05 p.m. Friday night. It is Bats Gym Bag Giveaway night, the first 2,000 in attendance will receive them. As usual there will also be post-game fireworks.
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TUCSON, Ariz.(Nov. 15, 2017) – Southern Arizona's military installations saw significant growth in economic output and an increasingly significant role in Arizona's economy, according to a new study released today by Gov. Doug Ducey. The report, "Economic Impact of Arizona's Principal Military Operations 2017," found that the US Army's Fort Huachuca and Davis-Monthan Air Force Base led all others in the state for economic contributions.
With a combined economic output of more than $7.99 billion, Southern Arizona's six military operations comprise 70 percent of the statewide total military economic impact of $11.46 billion. That total makes the military the state's second-highest sector behind distribution and electronic commerce. Arizona's military installations employ 76,714 people, according to the extensive report, which was prepared using data from fiscal year 2014 by The Maguire Company, a highly respected Phoenix consulting firm.
While those directly employed by the military across Arizona rose slightly at 1 percent from the 2008 Maguire study that used data from fiscal year 2005, total employment in the sector dropped more than 20 percent in the 2017 report. Despite that, statewide economic output showed a significant increase of almost 26 percent between the two reports. Using their direct employment workforces, Fort Huachuca ranked eighth if compared with the state's largest private employers, and Davis-Monthan came in at ninth.
"These exceptional numbers underscore the vital importance of our military assets to our area's – and state's – economy, as well as to our national security," said Amber Smith, president of the Southern Arizona Defense Alliance (SADA). "We're proud to see Southern Arizona leading this sector that, even with its total employment down, has a total economic impact that is up considerably since the last study. The private sector investment in Southern Arizona due to our military assets far exceeds expectations."
Ron Shoopman, retired Air Force Brigadier General, former wing commander of the 162nd Fighter Wing and current CEO of the Southern Arizona Leadership Council, added, "There is no place in the country that can compete with Arizona for military training and readiness," he explained. "The diversity and breadth of military operations based in Arizona, coupled with the tremendous airspace, ranges, installations, great weather, and exceptional support from our communities, offer the American warfighter the best of all worlds for training."
Ft. Huachuca led the state with the highest economic output of $2.86 billion, followed by Davis-Monthan at $2.6 billion. Glendale's Luke Air Force Base was third with $2.4 billion. Other southern Arizona installations' economic impact and statewide ranking were: Yuma Army Proving Ground $1.12 billion, ranked fourth; the Marine Corps Air Station in Yuma, $877.6 million, fifth; the 162nd Air National Guard Fighter Wing, $383.6 million, seventh; and Western Army National Guard Aviation Training Site in Marana, $147.4 million, eighth.
Rounding out the list were the 161st Air National Guard Refueling Wing in Phoenix with $121.9 million, ninth; and US Naval Observatory in Flagstaff, $8.7 million, tenth.
"This report shows the tremendous impact Reserve and especially National Guard units have on Arizona's economy. These citizen soldiers and airmen of Arizona are woven into the fabric of our state and we should do all we can to support them," said Robert Medler, president of the 162nd Air Guardians.
Kevin Peterson, president of the Fort Huachuca 50, commented, "Fort Huachuca continues to be the economic engine for Cochise County with its huge impact on our local and Tucson economies. Statewide these impacts show the strategic importance of the military installations to not only Arizona, but also the nation. Fort Huachuca's unique missions – intelligence training, communications, Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) training, electronic testing and certification – will continue to be the driving force to Arizona's economy."
"In addition to being a vital economic driver for metro Tucson, southern Arizona and the state as a whole, Davis-Monthan is one of the most important Air Combat Command installations in the Air Force," said Bryan Foulk, president of the DM50. "The Air Force recognizes the strengths of DM naming it the Air Combat Command base of the year in 2012, 15 and 17. Furthermore, DMAFB was named overall base of the year in 2012 and is a finalist again this year. The economic impact only provides a dollar amount to how much the base supports Tucson. What is not referenced are the 68,000 volunteer hours contributed by the Airmen and their families. The level of volunteerism and community partnership between DMAFB and the metro Tucson area is just as profound as its economic impact. DMAFB is truly Tucson's treasure and America's asset."
Julie Engel, president of the Yuma 50, commented, "Yuma is very fortunate to have two military installations with the Army Proving Ground and Marine Corps Air Station. We're proud to see them ranking in the top five statewide and as key components of the state's economy. Across southern Arizona we join together to support all of our exceptional military operations."
The Maguire study was commissioned by the State of Arizona to update 2002 and 2008 reports and used the IMPLAN Pro economic impact model, to assess activity from direct, indirect (vendors and suppliers) and induced (resulting from spending of wages paid to direct and indirect employees) sources.
Southern Arizona community surveys commissioned by SADA and the DM50 in 2014 and 2016 show overwhelming support for local military installations by more than 90 percent of respondents.
The full economic impact report is available at http://aemaguire.com/militarystudy/.


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Can America Turn It Around?
Pessimism is permeating our national atmosphere. Newsweek may as well publish an article titled "We Are All Declinists Now," for if there is one thing the left and the right, from Occupy Wall Street to the Tea Party, seem to agree on, it is that things are not going well in this country and appear to be getting worse.
This crisis of confidence is not unique to America, of course -- across what was once quaintly referred to as "Western Civilization," economies of entire nations are either suffering in stagnation or teetering near total collapse. Falling or stagnating living standards and birthrates portend a considerably older and poorer West in the not-so-distant future.
The reasons for this unfortunate state of affairs are many and varied, and not yet fully understood. But let us put aside the question of causation for a moment and ask instead: Can we in the West -- and in the United States in particular -- turn this boat around? Must we accept decline as inevitable?
Two phenomena in particular give cause for hope. One is applicable specifically to the United States: the presidency of Ronald Reagan. The other applies to the West as a whole -- the Renaissance.
The decade from 1970-1979 was certainly a bad time for America: A president resigned in disgrace, a war was lost, an economy was bruised and bloodied; life was already miserable when Jimmy Carter arrived and made things worse.
But then Ronald Reagan came along, and something remarkable happened. Reagan was able to tap into the deep reservoir of optimism in the American psyche, a reservoir many feared had long since dried up. You don't have to accept this, Reagan said. Americans believed him, and rewarded him for his faith with a landslide victory. Then they proved him right when his pro-growth, low-tax policies unleashed their pent-up productive might. By the end of the 1980s, the American economy was once again the envy of humanity, and the Free World's existential adversary the Soviet Union was on its knees.


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I have dual aluminum gas tanks in my Eliminator Sport, One of them has a pinhole leak in the bottom. The other tank has some corrosion on the bottom that looks like it could start leaking soon. Is there any way to stop this corrosion? Is there and any sealer I can use on inside of the tank. Do you think it would be safer to have somebody replace the entire bottom of the tank then seal it? Just checking my options here?
I have another question too. The tanks do not have any type of vent. I thought the fuel fills were vented but they are not. I'm surprised the boat even ran without going into vapor lock. What is the correct way of venting the fuel system if I have an enclosed engine compartment?


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Probably the two most common and popular choices in floor surface covering—hardwood and carpet—each has a variety of characteristics that make them favorable in specific environments to match specific needs. Understanding the nature of the materials will allow you to make an informed choice about how best to use and apply them in various locations.
Hardwood Flooring Virtues
- Prestige: Hardwood flooring commands more respect than carpeting as a design choice in residential applications. It is seen as being "high end" and "luxurious," both because it is a natural material and because it is normally more expensive than carpeting. Depending on the type of wood chosen and how it is finished, hardwood can create a sense of luxury and even prestige when used in certain locations.
- Easy to keep clean: Some people feel that it is impossible to clean carpet, because stains soak in and settle permanently, and because dust and micro-bacteria are easily trapped in the fibers. In great contrast, hardwood has a smooth, solid surface that can be easily wiped clean. It does not allow dust or dirt to hide making it much, much easier to maintain than carpet.
- Low-allergy surface: The fact that carpet can attract and hold dust and microorganisms can also affect anyone working or living in the space—especially if they suffer from allergies. Every time you walk across a carpet, millions of tiny particles are cast into the air. With hardwood, though, all you have to do is wipe or sweep the surface clean, and you are instantly free of those same potentially harmful particles.
- Long-lasting: Properly maintained, hardwood flooring can last for decades, and some of the higher-end materials can last for generations. Carpet, on the other hand, usually needs to be replaced every few years. This means that hardwood may even be the more economical flooring since your initial investment pays off over time.
- Can be refinished: When a hardwood floor is damaged, either by a stain or through some physical trauma, in most instances it can be refinished to look like new. This involves sanding down the surface past any defects and then re-applying the stain and or finish products to make the floor look completely revitalized. Depending on the thickness of the material, you may be able to do this several times over the life of the floor.
- Versatility: Hardwood can be left exposed for its sheer drama, but if you want to soften the look and get some of the benefits of carpeting in a room, you can lay down an area rug to cover as much of the space as you wish. Installed carpeting does not have that benefit.
- Timeless appeal: Hardwood flooring has been used in homes for hundreds of years, and despite constant shifts in style and trend, it has never stopped being popular. It always matches whatever colors and accessories happen to be in vogue and can easily handle numerous different decorative choices.
- Natural and ecologically friendly: Carpeting is made largely from petroleum, which is a very limited resource and one that is not natural in any way. Hardwood is a natural material made from trees that can be replanted and renewed. However, when buying hardwood materials, you do want to do a little research and make sure that they are being harvested by an ecologically sound company in an environmentally friendly way.
Virtues of Carpeting
- Softness: The biggest appeal to carpeting is that it is soft and feels great beneath bare feet This is particularly soothing in bedrooms, children's rooms, and some family and living room areas, where you want to promote an atmosphere of comfort and relaxation.
- Warmth: Carpet is going to be much warmer than hardwood floors, especially on a chilly winter morning. It acts not only like a blanket for your feet, but it also helps to insulate the room, ensuring that warmth remains indoors and doesn't slip through more porous flooring materials. Dense carpeting with a quality bonded polyurethane padding beneath can create an R-value of 4 or more, meaning that the warmth carpeting lends to a room is very real.
- Physical comfort: The fact that it is soft and warm makes carpet just about the most comfortable flooring material you can stand on. This can be especially important when standing for long periods, where harder wood floors can cause pain in feet, ankles, and knees. Good carpeting with a dense foam underlayment is much more comfortable floor than hardwood.
- Economical: Most carpet is considerably less expensive than most hardwood materials. And although carpeting does need to be replaced every few years, perfectly acceptable carpeting may be available for less than $1.00 per square foot. Solid hardwoods, on the other hand, start at around $4.00 per square foot and go up from there.
- Safety: The fact that it is so soft makes carpet a particularly safe flooring choice. With hardwood, a trip or fall can result in injuries and broken objects. With carpet, though, you have a cushion running across the entire room, making damage from an accident much less likely. This can be a strong consideration in homes with small children or elderly residents.
- Sound-deadening: A major complaint about hardwood floors is that they are loud. When installed on upper levels, people below often complain that they can hear every footstep. An old installation may also squeak in certain spots. With carpeting, though, the surface of the entire floor is padded and insulated so that noise won't easily pass up or down.
- Friendly to children: Carpeting is great if you have kids because the surface provides a comfortable, safe cushioned surface on which to play. Falls on carpeting are much less traumatic than on hardwood.


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AgilOne focuses exclusively on enterprise B2C brands. Such brands have a lot of unique requirements, and it's important that they are able to configure their customer data platform to precisely meet these requirements. These configurations extend through all layers within AgilOne, from integration, to analysis, to engagement, end-to-end across the platform, allowing brands to fully use AgilOne to reflect their business and engage with their customers at every step.
Here are five real-life examples of configurability in action:
Example 1: Configurable appended attributes. An athletic apparel company has very specific definitions for shopping behavior and customer segments, and in addition to leveraging AgilOne's standard attributes, this brand has configured its own attributes into the AgilOne platform. Here are they ways this plays out in AgilOne:
- Scope: The scope of custom attributes configured into the system for this brand includes 90 appended attributes across shopping behavior segments, and nearly 600 custom attributes in all. This breadth of customization would not be possible without a configurable platform.
- Marketer-friendliness: AgilOne has configurable integrations with many data append providers (e.g., Acxiom, Experian, DataLogix, etc.). All of the attributes have user-friendly names in the UI, which can be mapped from the "codes" provided by data append providers, making it easy for marketers to understand their customers in business terminology.
- Leveraging custom attributes in multiple places: The business impact for configurable attributes is in how these attributes show up across the entire platform. For example, they appear in the AgilOne 360 Profile, showing marketers the exact customer details they care about. The attributes are used as criteria for analysis, in both summary reports and in models for analysis themselves. The attributes also serve as criteria for segmentation and targeting through their ESP.
- Value from AgilOne: This brand leverages custom attributes in every way they need to, without compromise, and across every layer of marketing. Being able to customize their business to this degree boosts customer lifetime value and return on marketing spend.
Example 2: Configurable data feeds supporting custom entities, attributes, and events. It is important for enterprise brands to control exactly what data goes into their system without relying on agency work or building extra in-house tools. Here are some examples of retailers with custom configured data feeds:
- Support for a business's exact needs: AgilOne customers have defined their own custom data feeds based on the attributes, entities, and events that are important to each business. For the athletic apparel company, some of these feeds include their own custom-defined color and pattern combinations, custom geo-mapping, and custom segments based on in-store event attendance. Another AgilOne customer, a premium luggage brand, has configured its own feed based on custom product names, price, availability at different warehouses, and description depending on customer-preferred language and country. These retailers also uses their own customer segments along with these custom feeds.
- Value from AgilOne: When you can configure all of these things together into your customer data platform, the possibilities for marketing are endless. You can leverage all the fields for every use case, across every point of engagement, analysis, and anywhere else.
Example 3: Configurable single view of the customer. Every brand seeks to have a "single view" of the customer, but what exactly that view should include is different from brand to brand. AgilOne lets you configure exactly what you want to know about your customers into the profile. Here are some examples of how customers are using this important feature.
- Many ways to leverage a 360 Profile: The AgilOne 360 Profile is like a configurable lens through which a brand views what's important about its own customers. The 360 Profile can be viewed directly in the AgilOne UI or leveraged in an external system via the AgilOne API. A high-end clothing retailer gives store sales associates access to the 360 Profile UI; a different retailer uses the 360 API to send 360 Profile data to their call center.
- Visibility into customers on each brand's terms: A premium luggage brand includes their own custom criteria in the 360 Profile, such as email source, newsletter frequency, whether customers are subscribed to SMS, country shipping preferences, and preferred language and store. A different retailer has configured their 360 Profile to show preferred product color combinations and recent in-store event attendance.
- Value from AgilOne: Each company is different, and AgilOne lets each brand configure these differences into their own single view of the customer.
Example 4: Configurable scores, triggers, and calculations. Enterprise marketers also need to be very granular with how they calculate criteria for analysis and personalization. Not only are configurable data attributes important, but being able to configure the way the system scores customers and personalizes against those scores is equally important. Here are some examples of how this can vary from brand to brand:
- Defining engagement on a brand's own terms: The athletic apparel retailer we've been discussing calculates several KPIs based on in-store event attendance, which is then leveraged via scripting and surfaced in AgilOne Actions and Metrics—meaning scores based on criteria like "specific type of events attended in the last six months" can be used to trigger targeted email, recommendations, and any other personalization, and it can also be used for analysis in reporting. The athletic apparel retailer sends personalized welcome emails based on the when the customer signed up, but excludes pop-up stores and other events from the "closest store" calculations. With AgilOne, this retailer can easily configure both the calculations and the exceptions to those calculations.
- Leveraging social interest data: An enterprise fabric and craft company uses AgilOne to personalize based on customer social interests collected from their social log-in platform.
- Value from AgilOne: Because every brand is unique and the way they calculate and score segments is inherently different, AgilOne lets brands customize not just their definitions, but the calculations on their definitions too.
Example 5: Configurable deduping. Another significant difference across brands is how they prefer to dedupe across multiple data sets into a single customer ID. A core differentiator for AgilOne is our Data Quality Engine (DQE), which continuously cleanses, dedupes, and enriches data from all sources. In addition to the standard deduping rules and AgilOne's own "secret sauce" of fuzzy deduping, we can add additional deduping rules leveraging client-specific attributes. Here are two examples:
- Deduping to align with business needs: Typically within the DQE, a phone number is an exact match. One enterprise retailer includes phone numbers in four different attributes, and they wanted the deduping process to match across all four. With AgilOne, the retailer could configure the DQE to accommodate this requirement.
- Deduping by loyalty ID: For another retailer, it is important to dedupe against the loyalty ID number. While this isn't AgilOne's standard deduping process, the retailer was easily able to configure this requirement into the system.
- Value from AgilOne: Even the way we reconcile data to create single customer IDs is configurable. Enterprise brands who have their own way of deduping records into a single ID can configure this right into the platform.
As brands prioritize digital marketing investments that are future-proofed, agile, and able to meet unique needs at a very granular level, we will see a shift away from the old methods of long custom engagements and internally developed supplemental software tools, and a move toward investing in solutions that provide enterprise flexibility right out of the box. And the world's top retailers are leading the way with AgilOne.
To learn about lululemon's comprehensive and forward-looking omni-channel strategy, check out this recent article from Retail Touchpoints.
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