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The Animal Whisperer
Matthew Blaine
There once was a boy named Little John who lived in the Mystical Woods. Little John lived in the woods with his mother and younger brother. Now Little John was a very strong and smart young boy, he could do anything if he tried hard enough. His friends and family always thought something was different about Little John, but they could never figure out what exactly it was. All of the people of Little John's hometown knew that he and his family did not belong there, but no one ever said anything to him or his family, they just gave him weird looks and gossiped about him daily.
Little John could run faster than the white-tailed deer and he could fight and kill a bear with his bare hands. All of the townspeople knew of the miraculous things that this young boy was capable of and there weren't any secrets kept from them, except the question of why and how he could do these things.
When Little John was newly born the king's men took his father. The king did this because he wanted all of the power of the kingdom to himself. Little John's father was Richard, the Lord of the Mystical Woods. Now the King demanded for Lord Richard to surrender himself numerous times, but Richard denied the King's demands numerous times. The King wanted Lord Richard so badly because he knew he was blessed by the Gods.
Lord Richard could turn those things that he laid his hands on into gold, not only could he do that, but he had the knowledge to build and rule a kingdom greater than anyone that has ever existed. Richard also knew what it took to destroy the greatest kingdom ever also. Richard also possessed immortal life and so did both of his sons.
One day the King was at his castle and a traveler passed by and needed a place to stay for the night, so the King let him stay but he made the traveling man stay in the barn with the animals. Little did the King know that this traveler was the Great White Wizard that was sent as a messenger from the Gods, disguised as a homeless looking man. The next day the King woke the traveler up, not knowing of his true identity, the King questioned him about why he was traveling about his land. The Wizard told the King that he bears a very important message that must be delivered to the Lord of the Mystical Woods. The King knew where this man lived but also knew not to interfere because Lord Richard was blessed by the Gods and he knew that the Gods kept careful watch over him. Before the King directed the traveler on his way he asked the man if he could hear what this message was, but the Wizard explained to him that if anything interfered with the message from being delivered the Gods will cast a plague throughout the land for forty years. So the King sent the traveler on his way and had one of his own spies follow the traveler to the Mystical Woods to retrieve the message.
When the Wizard reached the home of Lord Richard he was welcomed in by Richard and his wife and their newly born son Little John. Richard's wife, the Lady of the Mystical Woods got the Wizard a fresh change of clothes and had her maidens bathe him. After this was all finished the Lady of the Woods prepared a feast and the four of them, including the baby Little John, sat and feasted and drank all day and night. As the night was winding down, the Wizard took Lord Richard aside and thanked him for the wonderful meal and hospitality. The Wizard explained to Lord Richard that when the King took him in he was forced to sleep in a pile of manure in the barn and was not given any food or a change of clothes. But when he came to the Mystical Woods to Richard's home he was welcomed, fed, bathed and given new clothes and a warm bed to sleep in. The Wizard went on to say that because of this, the Gods have chosen you to be the new King of the land and that your older brother who is the current King will be forced to step down or exiled from the land. Lord Richard was very shocked by this news and didn't know how to respond to the Wizard.
Meanwhile the spy that the King had sent to follow the Wizard was in the next room at Richard's home eavesdropping on the conversation between the two. The Gods were very aware of this spy who was listening to the conversation between Richard and the Wizard. So in response to this disobedience of the Wizard's words from the King, the Gods sent out a plague throughout the King's land but not throughout the Mystical Woods and the land of Lord Richard. The King's spy returned to the castle and told his King of the news and the King was so distraught he did not know what to do.
Back in the Mystical Woods, the Wizard was on his way and Lord Richard was telling his wife of this news. They were both very confused of this all of a sudden happening and also scared of what the King will do if he finds out.
The King back at his castle paced and pondered for days of what he could do to make sure that his younger brother, the Lord of the Woods, would not become the King of the Land. After days of thought the King came up with a solution and he had decided that the only way to make the plague go away and to ensure that his younger brother doesn't take the crown, was to kidnap Richard.
The King was so happy and thought that this plan was a very smart plan. The King sent an army of soldiers to the Mystical Woods to kidnap Lord Richard. The King instructed his army of a specific way to ensure that Lord Richard will be powerless. The King explained that the only way to kidnap his younger brother was to sneak up on him when he is bathing in the lagoon during the night. He went on to tell his men that if they do this and take his sword when it is not on him, Lord Richard will be defenseless and powerless. So the army was sent off to carry out this task requested by the King.
When the army reached the lagoon in the Mystical woods they snuck up on Lord Richard and confiscated his sword and took him captive. They brought Lord Richard back to the castle to live with his older brother, the King. The Gods were livid by this but they couldn't do anything to help because Lord Richard was without his sword and he was held captive in the castle where no one could get to him except for the King. The mighty king did not know this and he angered the God's greatly by kidnapping Richard. The God's decided to have a meeting concerning the kidnapping of their favorite and most important human on earth. They thought and they thought and thought, and tried to come up with a plan to save Richard and punish the King. Years passed and Lord Richard remained captive under the King. As the years went on Little John grew bigger and bigger, and he grew stronger and more intelligent each day.
The Gods watched their favorite son of Lord Richard became a man and they finally decided that it was time for Little John to be granted the powers and gifts that his father had once possessed. One day Little John was bathing in the lagoon in the Mystical Woods where his father was kidnapped years ago. The Gods kept careful and watchful eyes and Little John and they knew his whereabouts on a day-to-day basis. On this particular day they sent one of their daughters disguised as a beautiful princess to give Little John his powers. As Little John was bathing in the lagoon the beautiful princess approached him and gave him a golden bow and told him that with this golden bow he will have great powers and he will now be called the Great Animal Whisperer, the Lord of the Woods. The princess explained to him that he must go rescue his dad and if Little John does so, when he returns, she will be waiting to be his bride.
Little John was surprised by all this new information and the golden bow that he was given. With this gift from the Gods, he could now do anything he wanted to. The powers that John was given allowed him to turn into whatever creature he desired.
The next day Little John set out on his new mission to rescue his father from the King's castle. He was very excited to finally meet his father and use his new powers given to him from the Gods. Before Little John reached the castle he turned himself into an eagle so he could fly around the castle to get a view of everything and to hopefully find out where they were keeping his father. After he flew around in the form of an eagle he landed out of sight outside the castle and then decided to turn into a wild stallion. John approached the castle gates as a wild stallion, the King saw this and being a very arrogant man he ordered to take the wild stallion in and for it to be trained for his personal horse. Little John being the intelligent man that he is knew that the King would do exactly that, so everything was going as planned for Little John.
When the Kings' men put Little John as a wild stallion into the stable in the castle walls he waited until dark, then he then turned into a mouse. John did this because he knew that if he turned back into human form as himself, everyone would recognize him and make a big deal out of his presence in the castle. So Little John climbed walls and stairs and squeezed through little cracks in the wall searching for his father. After countless hours of searching through the night he found his father in the King's secret bedroom. Little John entered the room and turned into human form and approached the bed where his father was sleeping. He woke his father as quietly as possible without waking anyone. Little John and his father were so happy to see each other that they stood there in each other's arms for quite some time and embraced each other. Finally Little John spoke up and told his father that they must escape tonight, so he turned both himself and his father into mice and Little John led the way as they ran under door cracks and down walls leaving the castle as fast as they could. They finally made it to the stable where Little John turned himself into an eagle and his father a fish. Little John took off escaping the castle with his father in his talons in the form of a fish, when they returned to the lagoon Little John turned them both back into human form.
When they changed back into humans the beautiful princess appeared to Little John with tears of joy rolling down her face. Little John embraced the beautiful princess and they kissed on the shores of the lagoon under the moonlight. As they kissed they both disappeared into the sky and were never seen again in human form. Some people of the Mystical Woods say that on every full moon each month you can see two wild stallions running together across the night sky. Others say that they have seen two eagles nesting together in a tree overlooking the Mystical Woods. Richard returned to his home where he remained the Lord of the Mystical woods and raised his other son with his wife.

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Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD) are those with a significant probability of transmission by means of sexual contact. There are many different types that range from severe (life-threatening) to minor (curable with antibiotics). The five most common sexually transmitted diseases are: Chlamydia, Gonorrhea, Syphilis, Mycoplasma Genetalium, and Trochomoniasis. The other common sexually transmitted diseases are crabs/pub-lice, which are lice that live on the hair in the genital area and sometimes on other coarse-haired areas of the body like the the armpits and the eyebrows, scabies which is a contagious skin disease that is not only sexually transmitted, human papillomavirus (or HPV) which is commonly considered the most common of all the sexually transmitted diseases, HIV/Aids, and herpes, which are cold sores and genital sores. [1]
Any sexually active person is susceptible to getting sexually transmitted diseases. They are spread through vaginal, oral, or anal sex without the use of contraceptives. Even with the use of contraceptives, you can still contract sexually transmitted diseases. The more sexual partners you have, the higher risk there is for you to attract an disease or infection. [2]
There are many different types of sexually transmitted diseases. They range from severe (life threatening) to minor (curable with antibiotics). Five of the most common sexually transmitted diseases are: Chlamydia, Gonorrhea, Syphilis, Mycoplasma Genetalium, and Trochomoniasis. [3]
- Chlamydia- Chlamydia is known as a "silent" STD because in many cases (about one third of infected women and about half of infected men) people do not show any symptoms. The symptoms occur as the infection spreads. When it spreads to the urethra and cervix, a woman may experience abnormal discharge or a burning sensation when urinating. When it spreads to the fallopian tubes, woman may experience lower back and abdomen pain, nausea, fever, or bleeding between menstrual periods. [4] Men may experience: pain or burning when urinating, a possible increase in the frequency of urination, and a white or green discharge. [5]
- Gonorrhea- The symptoms of Gonorrhea appear in stages as the infection develops and spreads. In women the symptoms include: burning or itchiness when urinating, a yellow discharge, burning or itching of the vaginal area, and inflammation of the genitals. Gonorrhea can also lead to PID, Pelvic Inflammatory Disease. This happens in ten to forty percent of women infected with Gonorrhea. [6]
- Syphilis- The symptoms of syphilis appear in three stages as the infection progresses.The first stage of syphilis is identified by the presence of an ulcer. When this ulcer is present, the infection is extremely contagious. [7]The symptoms for syphilis do not differ between men and women.In the primary stage, ulcers will show up on the vulva or cervix, on the penis, or on the mouth. In the second stage more side effects appear. They can include: flu-like symptoms (fatigue, loss of appetite, and swollen glands), a rash, flat bumps resembling warts around the mouth and vulva anus, white patches around the tongue or roof of the mouth, and hair loss. In the final stage (also called the latent or tertiary stage) of the infection, if untreated, the symptoms will disappear and the infection will only be able to be detected by blood tests. [8]
Prevention and Treatment
The best way to prevent any sexually transmitted disease is to stay abstinent and always practice safe sex. If you are cautious, you can easily avoid being infected.
- Chlamydia- The most successful way to prevent Chlamydia, like any STD, is make sure you use a latex condom. You can also get yearly testing. This is recommended for women twenty-five years of age or younger that are sexually active, women who are pregnant, and woman with new or multiple sex partners. To prevent the STD from spreading, if you experience any symptoms wait to continue any sexual activity until you have been examined by a doctor. [9]
- Gonorrhea- In many cases Gonorrhea is associated with Chlamydia, so the treatment is the same for both. Always make sure that your partner is checked and or treated at the same time as you are, this prevents any further infections. There are many drugs that treat the infection, they include: ceftriaxone, cefixime, ciprofloxacin, or ofloxacin for gonorrhea along with azithromycin, doxycycline. [10]
- Syphilis- The best way to fight the infection is with penicillin by injection. They have other hypoallergenic antibiotics for patients who can't take penicillin. If the penicillin injections do not effect the infection, blood tests can be used to fight the bacteria causing the infections. Antibiotics and blood tests can be used to fight the infection, but in the latent stages of syphilis damage done to organs is not reversible. [11]
You will find that with any sexually transmitted disease, it can cause bodily complications and complications during pregnancy.
- Chlamydia- 40 percent of infected women let the disease go untreated and the infection turn into PID- Pelvic Inflammatory Disorder. This can cause damage to the fallopian tubes, uterus, and other tissues, leading to pain in the pelvic area, infertility, and pregnancy outside the uterus. They are also five more times likely to become infected with the HIV virus. [12]
- Gonorrhea- Complications during pregnancy can include: transmission during pregnancy, infant eye infections (as a result of transmission during pregnancy), neonatal conjunctivitis and neonatal throat infection, and Opthalmia neonatorum, which is conjunctivitis in newborn acquired during the mother giving birth to the child. Aside from pregnancy complications, the complications include: PID, Gonococcal PID (another form of Pelvic Inflammatory Disease), Endocarditis, Blood Poisoning, and Conjunctivitis. Peritonitis and Gonococcal arthritis (when gonorrhea spreads through the blood to the joints) are rare but serious complications resulting from Gonorrhea. [13]
- Syphilis- Three to seven percent of all people with untreated syphilis develop a condition called neurosyphilis. This is when the bacteria from the syphilis infection migrate to the nervous system which can cause: stiff neck, fever, seizures, or stroke-like symptoms, numbness, weakness, and decrease in vision. The other complications include heart abnormalities, mental disorders, blindness, neurological complications, tabes dorsalis, artery disease, aneurysms, and even death. There are also many complications that affect pregnant women and their babies: stillbirth, neonatal death, and birth defects. [14] In some cases, a baby may develop a condition called congenital syphilis. This causes the child to get skin sores, rashes, a fever, weakened crying, hoarse crying, swollen liver, swollen spleen, jaundice, yellow skin, yellow eyes, anemia, and various deformities. [15]
- [16] by Centers For Disease Control And Prevention
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My piece up at Cleveland Magazine called "Maker's Mark". Excerpt:
When Clevelanders think about a revitalized city, they often picture West 25th Street in Ohio City. There, farm-to-table restaurants, microbreweries and the West Side Market anchor a nationally respected food scene.
Ohio City has become an "it" neighborhood, not only a place to play, but also to live. Much of the near West Side, including Tremont and Detroit Shoreway, is going through a similar transformation. So is downtown.
These developments are welcome, but they are not really enough to sustain a resurgence in an entire city's economy. Much of the activity in those neighborhoods is related to what some economists call the "consumer city": places where money is spent consuming local goods, be it a Great Lakes Brewing Co. beer or an Ohio City loft.
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Were you surprised to see the smaller size Addison Independent on newsstands Thursday? We sure were.
Unfortunately the press that normally prints the Addison Independent has been having mechanical problems off and on for the past two weeks. We had the newspaper printed at a different shop this week and, despite our best efforts, it was printed on the wrong size paper — and the normal 21-inch page was shrunk to fit. Good grief.
BRANDON — As a result of recent raids on Brandon residences, police have seized more than two pounds of marijuana and busted a Brandon man for alleged illegal tattooing.
On Sept. 12 officers executed a search warrant at 41 Carver St., Brandon, which Police Chief Christopher Brickell identified as the apartment of 23-year-old Adam Collis and another occupant. As a result of the warrant Collis is facing two criminal charges of possession of marijuana and practicing tattooing without a license. Police also seized tattooing equipment from the residence.
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These are some notes I made to try to help me understand Noam's focused presentation of classical logic in Polarity and the Logic of Delimited Continuations. I hope these notes coud be useful to others.
Sequent presentations of classical logic
I write, inevitably, from the perspective of an intuitionistic proof theorist, so let's start there. In intuitionistic logics, sequents have the form \(\Gamma \vdash A~\mathit{true}\), where the hypothetical context \(\Gamma\) has the form \(A_1~\mathit{true}, \ldots, A_n~\mathit{true}\). The whole sequent \(\Gamma \vdash A~\mathit{true}\) is read as "assuming the truth of all the things in \(\Gamma\), we know \(A~\mathit{true}\)." Let's look at a couple of ways of presenting sequent calculi for classical logic.
Two-sided judgmental classical sequent calculi
One way of presenting a classical sequent calculus is to give a two-sided sequent, \(\Gamma \vdash \Delta\). As before, \(\Gamma\) has the form \(A_1~\mathit{true}, \ldots, A_n~\mathit{true}\), but \(\Delta\) has the form \(B_1~\mathit{false}, \ldots, A_m~\mathit{false}\), and the whole sequent is read as "taken together, if all the things judged true in \(\Gamma\) are true and all the things judged false in \(\Delta\) are false, then there is a contradiction."
The language of propositions is \(A ::= P \mid \neg A \mid A \wedge B \mid A \vee B\) - uninterpreted atomic propositions \(P\), negation, conjunction ("and"), and disjunction ("or"). I'm leaving out truth \(\top\) and falsehood \(\bot\) because they're boring. The rules for these two-sided classical sequent calculi look like this:\[ \infer {\Gamma, ~ P~\mathit{true} \vdash \Delta, ~ P~\mathit{false}} {} \] \[ \infer {\Gamma \vdash \Delta, ~ \neg A~\mathit{false}} {\Gamma, ~ A~\mathit{true} \vdash \Delta} \qquad \infer {\Gamma, ~ \neg A~\mathit{true} \vdash \Delta} {\Gamma \vdash \Delta, ~ A~\mathit{false}} \] \[ \infer {\Gamma \vdash \Delta, ~ A \wedge B~\mathit{false}} {\Gamma \vdash \Delta, ~ A~\mathit{false} &\Gamma \vdash \Delta, ~ B~\mathit{false}} \qquad \infer {\Gamma, ~ A \wedge B~\mathit{true} \vdash \Delta} {\Gamma, ~ A~\mathit{true}, ~ B~\mathit{true} \vdash \Delta} \] \[ \infer {\Gamma \vdash \Delta, ~ A \vee B~\mathit{false}} {\Gamma \vdash \Delta, ~ A~\mathit{false}, ~ B~\mathit{false}} \qquad \infer {\Gamma, ~ A \vee B~\mathit{true} \vdash \Delta} {\Gamma, ~ A~\mathit{true} \vdash \Delta &\Gamma, ~ B~\mathit{true} \vdash \Delta} \]
Two asides. First, in presentations that do not emphasize the fact that \(A_i~\mathit{false}\) and \(B_j~\mathit{true}\) are judgments and not propositions, there is another reading of the two-sided sequent \[A_1,\ldots,A_n \vdash B_1,\ldots,B_m\] This interpretation is that the truth of all of the \(A_i\) implies the truth of one of the \(B_j\) - this reading suggests a reading of any intuitionistic sequent proof as a classical sequent proof with one conclusion. You should convince yourself that this interpretation is equivalent to the interpretation above (hint: it's just a mode of use of De Morgan's laws).
Second aside: your rules may differ. I'm using a style of presentation where every connective is broken down by a unique connective and, from the perspective of bottom-up proof search, it's never a mistake to apply any rule, because the conclusion implies all of the premises (a property called invertibility). The "true" (or left) rule for conjunction (that is, "and" or \(\wedge\)) and the "false" (or right) rule for disjunction (that is, "or" or \(\vee\)) both have a different, non-invertible presentation. In the case of conjunction, it's this pair of rules: \[ \infer {\Gamma, ~ A \wedge B~\mathit{true} \vdash \Delta} {\Gamma, ~ A~\mathit{true} \vdash \Delta} \qquad \infer {\Gamma, ~ A \wedge B~\mathit{true} \vdash \Delta} {\Gamma, ~ B~\mathit{true} \vdash \Delta} \] You could "make a mistake" applying these rules in bottom-up proof search: just because there is a proof of \(\Gamma, ~ A \wedge B~\mathit{true} \vdash \Delta\) does not mean that there is a proof of \(\Gamma, ~ A~\mathit{true} \vdash \Delta\).
One-sided judgmental sequent sequent calculi
Of course, hypotheses are just hypotheses, there's no a priori reason why we need to separate the true ones and the false ones into separate contexts. Let's use a unified context and call it \(\Psi\). \[\Psi ::= \cdot \mid \Psi, A~\mathit{true} \mid \Psi, A~\mathit{false}\] Then, we can have the sequent form \(\Psi \vdash \#\), which we read as "all the assumptions in \(\Psi\) together imply a contradiction" - we pronounce \(\#\) as "contradiction." We'll need rewrite all of our rules:\[ \infer {\Psi, ~ P~\mathit{true}, ~ P~\mathit{false} \vdash \#} {} \] \[ \infer {\Psi, ~ \neg A~\mathit{false} \vdash \#} {\Psi, ~ A~\mathit{true} \vdash \#} \qquad \infer {\Psi, ~ \neg A~\mathit{true} \vdash \#} {\Psi, ~ A~\mathit{false} \vdash \#} \] \[ \infer {\Psi, ~ A \wedge B~\mathit{false} \vdash \#} {\Psi, ~ A~\mathit{false} \vdash \# &\Psi, ~ B~\mathit{false} \vdash \#} \qquad \infer {\Psi, ~ A \wedge B~\mathit{true} \vdash \#} {\Psi, ~ A~\mathit{true}, ~ B~\mathit{true} \vdash \#} \] \[ \infer {\Psi, ~ A \vee B~\mathit{false} \vdash \#} {\Psi, ~ A~\mathit{false}, ~ B~\mathit{false} \vdash \#} \qquad \infer {\Psi, ~ A \vee B~\mathit{true} \vdash \#} {\Psi, ~ A~\mathit{true} \vdash \# &\Psi, ~ B~\mathit{true} \vdash \#} \]
Hopefully you'll agree that this is "obviously the same" as the first presentation.
One-sided, truth-oriented sequent calculi
But wait! The "false" rule for conjunction looks just like the "true" rule for disjunction, and the "true" rule for conjunction looks just like the "false" rules for disjunction. Can we simplify these rules?
The usual answer is that you can, indeed, do with fewer rules and without a false judgment at all. However, we need two twists to deal with the rules that involved both the true and false judgments. First, we need to let every atomic proposition come in two flavors, the "regular" flavor \(P\) and the "negated" flavor \(\overline{P}\). Then, the rule dealing with atomic propositions looks like this: \[ \infer {\Gamma, ~ P~\mathit{true}, ~ \overline{P}~\mathit{true} \vdash \#} {} \] Second, instead of negation being a proposition \(\neg A\), we define a negation function, which I will write as \((A)^\bot\) to distinguish it from the propositional negation \(\neg A\). W. The negation function is defined as follows: \[ \begin{align} {(P)^\bot} = & \overline{P}\\ {(\overline{P})^\bot} = & P\\ {(A \wedge B)^\bot} = & {(A)^\bot} \vee {(B)^\bot}\\ {(A \vee B)^\bot} = & {(A)^\bot} \wedge {(B)^\bot}\\ \end{align} \] With this definition, we can eliminate the negation proposition altogether - the negation function just applies De Morgan laws all the way down to atomic propositions. We now get our sequent calculus for "half off" - there's no more official negation, and we don't need the false judgment at all anymore. We only need two more rules (for a total of three)!\[ \infer {\Psi, ~ A \wedge B~\mathit{true} \vdash \#} {\Psi, ~ A~\mathit{true}, ~ B~\mathit{true} \vdash \#} \qquad \infer {\Psi, ~ A \vee B~\mathit{true} \vdash \#} {\Psi, ~ A~\mathit{true} \vdash \# &\Psi, ~ B~\mathit{true} \vdash \#} \]
It would also be possible to play this game the other way around: gather everything on the right-hand side, bias the whole thing towards the "false" judgment, and basically get the "other half" of the two-sided sequent calculi. This ability to play the game equally well either way is part of what people mean when they say that classical logic is "very symmetric."
However, given that it's all the same, why not reason about truth and not falsehood? I've never understand why classical linear logic (in particular) always seems to bias itself towards one-sided sequent calculi on the right. There are important differences in what it means to think like a classical linear logician and what it means to think like an intuitionistic linear logician, but I really think that it unnecessarily exacerbates this divide when we have to turn all of our \(\oplus\)es to \(\&\)s and \(\otimes\)es to pars in order to talk to one another.
Polarized presentations of classical logic
Now for the real purpose of this note: writing out the review of classical logic that Noam gives in "Polarity and the Logic of Delimited Continuations." This discussion is a synthesis of that presentation and a little bit of "On the unity of duality."
Two for the price of two
Fundamentally, the observation Noam is making is that the one-sided truth-oriented sequent calculus goes too far - really, there are two kinds of disjunction, and two kinds of conjunction, which is why it seemed like the original calculus seemed to have redundancies. The third system above (the one-sided, truth-oriented sequent calculus) made it look like we were getting our logic for "half-off" - but really that's because the first two judgmental presentations were defining twice as many connectives as appeared to the naked eye. (As an aside, if you study classical linear logic, you're forced into the same conclusion for different reasons.)
Jason Reed taught me that, if you have two different judgments in a logic, it's worth seeing what happens if you syntactically differentiate the things you judge to be true and the things you judge to be false. Let's go ahead and "guess the right answer" - I'm going to call the things we judge to be true positive, and that the things we judge to be false negative. There's more than one of everything! \[ \begin{align} A^- = & \neg^- A^+ \mid P^- \mid A^- \wedge^- B^- \mid A^- \vee^- B^-\\ A^+ = & \neg^+ A^- \mid P^+ \mid A^+ \wedge^+ B^+ \mid A^+ \vee^+ B^+ \end{align} \] Here are a bunch of rules: note that the fact that the two negations change the polarity of the propositions; the rules make it evident that this is the right thing to do, because we have (for example) \(\neg^+ A^- ~\mathit{true}\) but \(A^- ~\mathit{false}\):\[ \infer {\Psi, ~ \neg^- A^+~\mathit{false} \vdash \#} {\Psi, ~ A^+~\mathit{true} \vdash \#} \qquad \infer {\Psi, ~ \neg^+ A^-~\mathit{true} \vdash \#} {\Psi, ~ A^-~\mathit{false} \vdash \#} \] \[ \infer {\Psi, ~ A^- \wedge^- B^-~\mathit{false} \vdash \#} {\Psi, ~ A^-~\mathit{false} \vdash \# &\Psi, ~ B^-~\mathit{false} \vdash \#} \qquad \infer {\Psi, ~ A^+ \wedge^+ B^+~\mathit{true} \vdash \#} {\Psi, ~ A^+~\mathit{true}, ~ B^+~\mathit{true} \vdash \#} \] \[ \infer {\Psi, ~ A^- \vee^- B^-~\mathit{false} \vdash \#} {\Psi, ~ A^-~\mathit{false}, ~ B^-~\mathit{false} \vdash \#} \qquad \infer {\Psi, ~ A^+ \vee^+ B^+~\mathit{true} \vdash \#} {\Psi, ~ A^+~\mathit{true} \vdash \# &\Psi, ~ B^+~\mathit{true} \vdash \#} \]
So, are we good? Well, no, not really. The problem is that the "+" or "-" stuck to an atomic proposition isn't an annotation or modifier the way the overbar was in the one-sided, truth-oriented sequent calculus above. \(P^+\) and \(P^-\) are different atomic propositions, and it wouldn't be right to given an inference rule that had, as its conclusion, \(\Psi, ~ P^+~\mathit{true}, ~ P^-\mathit{false}\). Why? Well, for now let's go with "because I said so." The argument I have for this point isn't bulletproof, and it has to do with the role of atomic propositions as stand-ins for other propositions.
However, if you accept my argument from authority, we are left no way to prove, or even to state, anything equivalent to the classical \(P \vee \neg P\) into polarized logic, since any way we try to polarize this formula will lead to \(P\) needing to be both positive and negative. We're going to need some way, different from negation, of including positive propositions in negative ones.
These inclusions of positive propositions into negative ones (and vice versa) are called shifts - \({\downarrow}A^-\) is a positive proposition and \({\uparrow}A^+\) is a negative proposition. We could just add these two rules and call it a day... \[ \infer {\Psi, ~ P^+~\mathit{true}, ~ {\uparrow}P^+~\mathit{false} \vdash \#} {} \qquad \infer {\Psi, ~ P^-~\mathit{false}, ~ {\downarrow}P^-~\mathit{true} \vdash \#} {} \] ...but this is hardly general: the rules above should be derivable; this rule should be derivable as well: \[ \infer {\Psi, ~ P^+~\mathit{true}, ~{\uparrow}(P^+ \vee^+ Q^+)~\mathit{false} \vdash \#} {} \] All three of these derivable rules share a common property: in an on-paper proof, we would say that the contradiction is "trivial." The hypothesis \({\uparrow}P^+~\mathit{false}\) is trivial due to the fact that \(P^+\) is true by a different hypothesis, and because the truth of \(P^+\) allows us to trivially conclude that \(P^+ \vee^+ Q^+\) is true, \(P^+ \vee^+ Q^+\) is trivially contradictory as well.
This idea is encoded in two rules which capture proof-by-contradiction. One way we establish a contradiction is by showing that \(A^+\) is both false (by assumption) and trivial (by direct proof). The other way we establish a contradiction is by showing that \(A^-\) is both true (by assumption) and false (by direct proof of absurdity). These are embodied in the following two rules:\[ \infer {\Psi \vdash \#} {{\uparrow}A^+~\mathit{false} \in \Psi &\Psi \vdash A^+~\mathit{trivial}} \qquad \infer {\Psi \vdash \#} {{\downarrow}A^-~\mathit{true} \in \Psi &\Psi \vdash A^-~\mathit{absurd}} \]
Now, of course, we need to give a bunch more rules to describe how to prove positive propositions trivial and negative propositions absurd.\[ \infer {\Psi, ~ P^+~\mathit{true} \vdash P^+~\mathit{trivial}} {} \qquad \infer {\Psi, ~ P^-~\mathit{false} \vdash P^-~\mathit{absurd}} {} \] \[ \infer {\Psi \vdash \neg^+ A^-~\mathit{trivial}} {\Psi \vdash A^-~\mathit{absurd}} \qquad \infer {\Psi \vdash \neg^- A^+~\mathit{absurd}} {\Psi \vdash A^+~\mathit{trivial}} \] \[ \infer {\Psi \vdash A^+ \wedge^+ B^+~\mathit{trivial}} {\Psi \vdash A^+~\mathit{trivial} &\Psi \vdash B^+~\mathit{trivial}} \qquad \infer {\Psi \vdash A^+ \vee^+ B^+~\mathit{trivial}} {\Psi \vdash A^+~\mathit{trivial}} \qquad \infer {\Psi \vdash A^+ \vee^+ B^+~\mathit{trivial}} {\Psi \vdash B^+~\mathit{trivial}} \] \[ \infer {\Psi \vdash A^- \wedge^- B^-~\mathit{absurd}} {\Psi \vdash A^-~\mathit{absurd}} \qquad \infer {\Psi \vdash A^- \wedge^- B^-~\mathit{absurd}} {\Psi \vdash B^-~\mathit{absurd}} \qquad \infer {\Psi \vdash A^- \vee^- B^-~\mathit{absurd}} {\Psi \vdash A^-~\mathit{absurd} &\Psi \vdash B^-~\mathit{absurd}} \]
Even yet, we are not done! We need to deal with the shifts, which embody another form of proof-by-contradiction: to prove that \(A^-\) holds trivially, assume it's false and derive a contradiction.\[ \infer {\Psi \vdash {\downarrow}A^-~\mathit{trivial}} {\Psi, A^-~\mathit{false} \vdash \#} \qquad \infer {\Psi \vdash {\uparrow}A^+~\mathit{absurd}} {\Psi, A^+~\mathit{true} \vdash \#} \]
The thing that we've come up with by this process is what I've been calling a "weakly focused" version of classical logic. If we wanted to turn it into a "fully focused" presentation of classical logic, we'd only need to make one change: the first "proof by contradiction" rules, which we call "focusing" rules, would need to require that the context \(\Psi\) includes only judgments of the form \(P^+~\mathit{true}\), \({\downarrow}A^-~\mathit{true}\), \(P^-~\mathit{false}\), and \({\uparrow}A^+~\mathit{false}\). A context including only judgments of these four forms is called stable. To get full focusing, we would modify the "trivial focus" rule like this (a similar modification would be made to the "absurd focus" rule):\[ \infer {\Psi \vdash \#} {{\uparrow}A^+~\mathit{false} \in \Psi &\Psi \vdash A^+~\mathit{trivial} &\Psi~\mathit{stable}} \]
Thinking about the sequent calculus as a bottom-up proof search procedure, if we are looking for a proof of a non-stable sequent, we can use our original, invertible rules to break down the connectives in the contexts until we have only stable sequents, at which point we can apply a focusing rule.
Until next time...
I haven't quite had time to do the thing I originally set out to do, which was to work through the notation in "Polarity and the logic of delimited continuations" better. But I will save that for another time. The motivation is the same as the one from before: it seems like we're almost certainly duplicating work. Is it possible to give the presentation of polarized classical logic from the previous section using about half as many rules?


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House Porn: George Clooney edition
Maybe it's because we have our own house now, but I've never been as into House Porn as I am now. Also, I have no eye for interiors. It's weird because when it comes to clothing, I know exactly what I want. When it comes to where I live and what that could look like…no idea.
Anyway, yesterday's Mystery House Porn, allegedly, belongs to Keira Knightley. Most of you thought it might be Sienna Miller. Others guesses ranged from Kate Winslet to Emma Watson to Emma Thompson.
Today there's no mystery. Today it's George Clooney. Because he and his best friends Rande Gerber and Cindy Crawford have allowed Architectural Digest to shoot their joint homes in Mexico. They built them side by side – two villas that pretty much function as one. And that's where they hang out on holidays and when they're not in Lake Como. They call the joint property Casamigos. I've attached 3 photos below: the courtyard on Clooney's side, which is magnificent; his living room, boring; and his bedroom which seems…almost like a hotel. And I suppose that makes sense. He likes to party. He's not spending a lot of time in there. As for where he gets down to his other business, you didn't think he'd be conventional, like in a bed, did you? The bed is for sleeping, only. The rest? Well, everywhere else. And probably multiples too.
Click here to see more – thanks Menna!
Right now, George's side of the plot is missing an official female companion. It used to be Stacy who doubled with G, Rande, and Cindy. Too bad it'll never be Sandy.
Sandy and George were in New York together for the Gravity premiere last night once again making us hope for the impossible. Gravity opens this weekend and, so far, on Rotten Tomatoes, it's rating at 97%. You know what else is opening this weekend? Justin Timberlake's Runner, Runner. HAHAHAHAHHAHAAHAHAHHA.


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While a single young woman, Katherine Harrison worked as a servant to
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fortunes concerning whom one of the servants would marry came true.
Later in life Katherine married John Harrison, the Wethersfield town crier, and had three daughters. Her husband died in August of 1666, and she was left to raise her children and farm the land. She was not well liked by her neighbors and suffered various forms of harassment by them.
On October 12, 1669 she was brought before a jury and found guilty of witchcraft. Despite the guilty finding the court was hesitant to have her executed. It called on a panel of ministers for advice on establishing rules of evidence and to formulate procedures that made it much more difficult to convict someone of witchcraft.
In the end Katherine was released with the understanding that she leave Wethersfield for her own safety and to appease her neighbors. Katherine went on to live in Westchester, New York.
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On Monday, FirstMerit Bank will suddenly increase its publicity in downtown Detroit, with the unveiling of five huge murals on the sides of buildings, each of which promotes a prominent local nonprofit as well as the bank.The buildings are on Washington Boulevard and Adams, Bagley, Broadway and Monroe streets. Each will bear the same slogan: "Dedication to Detroit Merits Recognition." And each will have a photo of a volunteer or employee of each organization — Deandra Moss, a coach with the Detroit Police Athletic League; Kevin Farmer with the Michigan Science Center; Vinnie Massimino of the Detroit Institute of Arts; Ethan Vinson of the Belle Isle Conservancy, and Stepha'N Quicksey of The Skillman Foundation.
FirstMerit to dress Detroit in blue shirts for mural campaign
Each of the five people is pictured in a plain blue shirt, with each mural bearing the bank's logo and the link firstmerit.com/blueshirt, which will provide visitors with information about each of the nonprofits.In April 2013, the shareholders of Flint-based Citizens Republic Bancorp Inc. and Akron-based FirstMerit Bancorp (Nasdaq: FMER) approved the purchase of Citizens for $912 million in stock by one of the country's healthiest banks, one of a handful in the U.S. that showed a profit for each quarter of the recent recession. Tom Henderson: (313) 446-0337, [email protected] Twitter: @tomhenderson2
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History always has these little screwballs it pitches at you unawares: the exceptions to the generally believed facts.
History always has these little screwballs it pitches at you unawares: the exceptions to the generally believed facts.
For instance, when I first came south back in �95, I had no idea that the Outer Banks was a serious battleground early in World War II. I was quite frankly amazed to find that a black man � indeed, a former slave � was one of the biggest slave holders in North Carolina.
That guy was John Carruthers Stanly, by the way, known in the day as Barber John. And to this day, we have loads of people trying frantically to explain this curious anomaly away. Usually it�s, �Stanly was such a nice man. He bought slaves only to teach them a trade and then he set them free.�
To this statement, we can politely point to steaming piles in the fields where bulls roam free.
But this week, I want to steer clear of U-boats, John C. Stanly and the steaming piles in order to mention another fact that might surprise at least a few locals: Namely, that North Carolina had four regiments of Union soldiers in the Civil War.
You might say, �Well, sure, there were those four �African� regiments.�
Well, yes, there were. But there were four white ones as well. �Buffalo soldiers� is how they were locally known.
Two of these were mounted units that served in Tennessee, but the First and Second were housed and recruited right here in Eastern North Carolina. Those regiments were made up of some 1,300 men who served the Union cause in such towns as Beaufort, little Washington and New Bern itself. Some were famously captured on the outskirts of New Bern and hanged as deserters in Kinston by Gen. George Pickett, the same guy who led that disastrous Gettysburg charge.
Like it or not, North Carolina was not jam-packed with screaming anti-Unionists. Like other Southern states, our mountainous regions had serious numbers of Unionists. The economy in those regions was not as slave-based as in the plantation-rich flatlands and Piedmont.
Even New Bern had its pro-Union moments before the war. J. L. Pennington, editor of the New Bern Daily Progress, had some pretty unkind stuff to say about secession. It wasn�t until the fall of Fort Sumter and Lincoln�s call for troops that he became an unapologetic Confederate.
When New Bern fell in March of 1862, he fled to Raleigh and became an editor there. It is interesting to note that this reformed Unionist reformed again and was calling for the hanging of secessionists not long after the war�s end.
North Carolina was the last state to secede and only did that in May of 1861 after an earlier secession vote failed.
Some of the poor saw the Civil War as a battle waged by the aristocracy as well. They resented the power of the plantation owners and the quagmire of their own social positions. They believed the Confederate government was despotic and were happy to see them taken down a peg or two. They were equally happy to see the end of slavery. Whether they liked the black race or not, they saw the peculiar institution as a way to deny them rights and work.
As the historian Donald E. Collins wrote, �these unionists were less anti-slavery than pro-white labor. They wished to end slavery as the first step toward deporting blacks from the country � to the benefit of the white working man.�
Then of course there were the abolitionists. The countryside wasn�t exactly crawling with them, but they were here. There would have been no Underground Railroad without them.
In a countryside ravaged by war, there were plenty of farmers and others left destitute, both within and without Union lines. Armies of both sides were famous for scraping the farms clean of crops and animals and, sometimes, eligible men who were put in chains or behind a gun.
Union service offered a regular paycheck and a bounty of $100 in 1862, and increased to $300 in 1863.
The threat of Confederate retaliation was always there, from locals as well as raiding soldiers. Lincoln�s government promised protection and, to keep them safer and loyal, the First and Second were primarily assigned to garrison duty. That is, they played a defensive role, manning forts around New Bern and little Washington, usually within a day-pass of home.
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SCARBOROUGH — After more than a year of presentations and revisions, McDonald's restaurant owners got their break Monday night when the Planning Board approved a new restaurant at 221 U.S. Route 1.
The unanimous vote came after Kerry Corthell, serving as a nonvoting board alternate, criticized the revised exterior plan for the new 3,900-square-foot restaurant.
"I appreciate the effort," Corthell said. "I still have a little issue with it not having a more traditional New England roof line."
McDonald's construction manager Adam Guilmette said the design is "our attempt at New England architecture."
The new restaurant, to be built on the footprint of the existing 30-year-old McDonald's, will be "state-of-the-art" in its interior seating and kitchen design, Guilmette said.
Board members Ronald Mazer and Jeffrey Thomas offered strong support for the plan.
"I think you have done a good job and it is time to approve this," Thomas said, who said he wanted to avoid perceptions town government is anti-business.
Mazer dismissed questions about the vibrant yellow awnings planned for the exterior by complimenting planners from Southboro, Mass.-based Bohler Engineering on their work.
"I'm all for this. You have done as good a job as possible with what you have to work with," he said. "It is much better than that atrocity that's down the street now."
Plan approval came with conditions, including Planning Department approval of the materials to be used in windows on a faux second floor, outdoor sign designs, and proof of the easement needed to build a sidewalk on privately owned Plaza Drive.
The new restaurant will continue a trend of redevelopment in the Oak Hill area near the intersection of Routes 1 and Route 114. Revisions to the final plan were drawn to resemble standards applied to the construction of Walgreens in 2010.
That included the building height and windows, but also for stamped instead of painted crosswalks.
If restaurant owners do not get the easement for the sidewalk, restaurant reconstruction will continue. Documenting the easement is needed to show they have permission to go forward, Assistant Town Planner Jay Chace said.


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Onion-Curry-Cheese Bread from The Cheese Board Collective Works
At the risk of sneers from the lean dough purists, one of my fondest bread memories is of the Onion-Curry-Cheese Bread from The Cheese Board Collective in Berkeley. When I was a gradual student in the late '70s, walking through what has since become known as "The Gourmet Ghetto" (Cheese Board, Chez Panisse, Pig-by-the-Tail charcuterie, Lenny's Butcher and a great fishmonger whose name escapes me, all within two blocks), I would know from a hundred yards away that this delectable savory bread had just come out of the oven. And I would make a bee-line. The warm loaf in the grease-spotted bag made a satisfying lunch for a hungry carbotarian.
So when I came into possession of a glob of David's sourdough starter, and decided to try bread-baking, it didn't take me long to decide I had to find the recipe. It didn't hurt that my Cheese-loving East-Bay-native wife encouraged the quest.
So I searched the web for the recipe, and found that The Cheese Board has published a cookbook, which--by pure coincidence--my wife gave me for my birthday. And, yes, the Onion-Curry-Cheese Bread is right there. They say it's the first bread they ever made.
It's a yeast leavened bread with a very low hydration dough (to account for the moisture in the one full pound of cheese that goes into three smallish loaves). The whole process only takes about 4 hours from start to finish.
Here's a picture of the dough (fresh yellow onions, curry powder, salt, black pepper, bread flour, water, yeast and a mix of cheeses).
And formed (sorta) into boules.
And the finished product.
Now, I admit, this is not a "nice looking" bread, but it's inspirational if you are a vulcanologist. Its chaotic explosiveness makes the perfect contrast to Brot Backer immaculately formed and perfectly baked challah, posted this evening (http://www.thefreshloaf.com/blog/brot-backer). But the smell of the curry, onions and cheese as it bakes, and the moist spicy bread with gooey bits of melted cheese and crispy bits of carbonized cheese makes one close one's eyes in ecstasy anyway. Warning: we do not recommend toasting this bread in a toaster.
This is the first non-sourdough I've tried, and it successfully captured the remembered flavor and texture of happy days past. One of the three loaves is pretty well gone already.
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Sometime late last fall, as I was walking from the cattle shed back to the house, I noticed something odd on the roof of my house. It was one of the attic vent covers hanging loose. We had experienced a bit of wind recently, so I figured it may have been knocked loose.
A contractor came out a couple days later and took a look at the situation. He had a replacement vent that would fit, so he put it on and went on his way. A day or two later, the other vent came loose. I called the roofer again, and he made another appearance to check things out.
That's when we made a startling discovery. The damage was not wind-related. It was VARMINT-related! Raccoons, to be exact.
Ranger Rick and I have had an ongoing relationship for years. It has rarely been a friendly one (see "Ranger Rick and his posse"). This time, though, the Rickster was making it a bit more personal. Crawl up on my bales in the shed, my equipment and even my buggy all you want, Ranger Rick, but do not mess with my house! That's a line I won't allow you to cross without major retaliation.
Roofus the Roofer took a look around while he was on the roof. He could see tracks where Ranger Rick & Co. had been. The tracks showed that they were gaining access to the two-story-high roof without doing any gold-medal-worthy high-jump work. There were no trees anywhere nearby, so we knew they weren't climbing branches to get access to the penthouse suite. There was no equipment parked anywhere close to the house, so we knew they weren't using it as a launching pad. What we discovered was that there were lots and lots of muddy footprints on the old tower that originally held the TV antenna. It sits right next to the northwest corner of the house and pretty much screamed JUNGLE GYM! to Ranger Rick & Co.
Climbing up the tower was probably much easier than scaling a pile of bales. Since the introduction of satellite TV years ago, and the recent conversion to digital TV, a TV antenna wasn't exactly top-of-mind anymore. So after one of our many windstorms the past few years, when the antenna blew off, it was not replaced. The heavy-duty tower stayed in place, though, and serves as the mounting location for my high-speed Internet satellite receiver.
Roofus the Roofer said he needed to take a look around in my attic to see if Ranger Rick & Co. had done any damage while they were up there. Right off hand, I had to stop and think about how to get to the attic, because I'd never been up there before. It's not like the attics you see in movies with a drawbridge-style staircase. It's more like a two-foot by two-foot access door in the ceiling. Roofus and his assistant ended up getting a stepladder and lifting the lid off the tiny access hole in the upstairs ceiling to have a look while I was working on something outside. Ignorance is bliss for me.
Their report a bit later was surprising. Ranger Rick & Co. had definitely been in the attic. They had also moved a lot of insulation around while they were up there. Roofus wanted to talk over the situation with his superior to get some suggestions about how to keep this from happening again.
The solution was multi-pronged. First, we'd take a sheet of thin steel and wrap it around all three sides of the tower. Roofus suggested a sheet that was three feet wide. He felt that would keep the raccoons from climbing up the tower, because they'd have to scale a solid steel wall three feet high. I thought back to my experience in the bunker silo with Ranger Rick, and how he and his cohorts could climb corn silage in a pile with relative ease. A band of steel three feet high seemed pretty good, but if we went four feet high, I thought that would pretty well keep even the raccoon-equivalent of Carl Lewis from scaling the tower.
The four-foot-high band of steel was placed around the tower. A box trap was also hauled up to the attic to catch any remaining raccoons who may have hung around. Bait was placed in the trap to attract the vermin. Our delicacy of choice was giant marshmallows. They seem to work quite well when setting box traps outside.
Around 10:30 that night, as I was fast asleep, I suddenly woke up to a loud ruckus upstairs. It wasn't coming from the floor above me. It was coming from the attic. Sounded to me like a raccoon had maybe stumbled into a box trap and tipped it over!
I shut my bedroom door that night, fully expecting to see Ranger Rick at my breakfast table the next morning, eating my last crème horn from the bakery. Deep sleep did not come easily that night.
Roofus showed up the next day. Sadly, we did not find anything upstairs, but we did find another clue. This time, there were dirty footprints on the tower again, but they were on the inside of the band of steel. Gymnasts that they are, the coons had obviously climbed down the inside of the tower when they got to the band of steel, because they could still get their grimy little claws onto the rungs of the tower from the inside.
By coincidence, Roofus had more steel with him, because his supervisor had apparently asked him if he capped the tower, too, in addition to wrapping it. We got a couple strips of steel and put them across the top of the band of steel that wrapped around the tower. Now it was pretty much an impenetrable fortress!
The box trap was monitored for some time after that. We switched to more heavy-duty bait than marshmallows, just to make sure we could lure any raccoon that may not get a whiff of Sta-Puff across the attic. This time, we went with sardines. I discovered that when I went to make supper that night and opened up my refrigerator door. Right there on the bottom shelf was the other half of the can that Roofus didn't use.
"I figured we could just leave 'em here in your fridge so I didn't have to remember to bring 'em out when I check the trap each day," he told me the next day.
Sure. I mean, obviously, why not keep them in my fridge? And why not leave them open, too?
Not to get all Modern Marvels on ya here, Roofus, but let me run a high-tech concept past ya.
Ziploc. Look into it.
Sadly, for the next week or two, we never caught anything in the box trap for me to exact any revenge upon. We did make one serious home improvement discovery, though. Roofus has been in a few attics over the course of his career. He thought he'd pretty much seen it all. "I mean, I've seen Cool-Whip containers, and ice cream pails that catch leaks in the roof, and maybe a five-gallon pail once in a great while, but yours blows 'em all away. You've got a (multiple expletives) COW TANK up there!"
(I'll skip all of the expletives from the description given to me, because you'll get lost trying to read it with all the #@%^& in the next couple of lines.)
"I'm serious! It's a cow tank! And it's a big one. Not some little 50-gallon job. I mean, this thing is probably 250 to 500 gallons! I don't know how they ever got it up there."
That's when I remembered one of my all-time favorite landlords and the stories he used to tell me when I'd stop by to visit him. He'd be about 103 or so today, and has only been gone for about five years. According to my landlord/historian, the place where I live was originally built by moonshiners. He said they did an excellent job of building the house, and didn't scrimp on anything, but most of their revenue for the project did not come from the farm. It came from a still.
And how would you build a halfway decent-sized house back then if you were just an average farmer? With the proceeds from a big still, of course! And a big still takes a big tank to run it! Ask any banker. They will tell you that you need a revenue stream for success, not a revenue trickle. So as you and your crew begin building your house-of-questionable-repute, you may just fashion a way to get a giant horse tank up in the attic as the structure of the house goes up around it, thereby keeping the cash flow coming in from your industrial-sized enterprise while still keeping it secret from the neighbors. It takes tiny containers for a revenue trickle. A revenue stream takes a 500-gallon tank.
Speaking of streams, one night recently there was a knock at my door. I went to the front door and found a guy of about 25, dressed in camouflage, with what looked like a flashlight strapped to his head.
Interesting. The Avon Militia, perhaps?
"Uh, hi. Our dogs have been trailing a coon from Cardinal Marsh and they've got it cornered in your shed. Would it be okay if we went after it?" the visitor inquired.
Hmmmmm . . . philosophical story problem time. A well-equipped, heavily armed, warrior type wants to inflict serious personal harm upon Ranger Rick within the confines of my personal corner of the world, but he needs an okay from me or else Ranger Rick walks away totally unharmed.
In my best Montgomery Burns impersonation, I told him to "unleash the hounds!" and have at it. Then I pointed at the barn and suggested once they finished in the shed, they could feel free to climb up in the haymow and go nuts in there, too.
A short time later, I stuck my head out the door to see how things were going. It wasn't exactly crickets that I heard. It was more like Hill Street Blues with a special guest appearance by Ted Nugent.
Twenty minutes later, there was another knock at my door. This time I was greeted by three guys in camo with headgear illumination. The one closest to the door, who looked to be in his 50s, did the talking as soon as I asked how it went.
"We got three of 'em! Ya know, we trailed 'em from the marsh. They crossed the river and they came up here and figured they could hide in your shed, but the dogs stayed on 'em. There's one really big one. I mean, REALLY big, and we shot him several times, but he just didn't seem to want to drop. I mean, he just, well, he kinda crawled up on top of your chopper and, and . . . well, there's probably gonna be a lot of blood out there tomorrow, I just want you to know that."
Ranger Rick goes down gangland-style?
I don't have any grisly crime scene photos to add to the story. Let's just say that the ledger between me and Ranger Rick has a few more offsets to it now than it had before. The balance is headed in the right direction. Feel free to push your luck on the balance again, Rick. I now have anonymous assassin goons who will swoop in out of nowhere and walk several miles in the dead of winter, Special Forces-style, to hunt you down for an Accounting 101 refresher.
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The first seeds we broadcast on November 29th were Sonora, a soft white winter wheat, provided by Anson Mills of South Carolina.
The emerging plants, along with the plots of Red Fife and Glenn, seemed to prosper, right up through January 22nd.
On that day, most plants were more than a foot in height, had 3 full leaves and showed more than half of the 4th leaf emerging.
Three weeks later, large swaths of the Sonora had collapsed.
The condition seemed to get worse over the next two weeks.
with some portions of the Red Fife also lying down on the job.
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Lodging was considered, but that kind of bowing down usually takes places when seed heads are well developed.
There is hope that some of the downed wheat will recover. So far, our plantings of Spelt do not have this problem, and much of the Glenn is standing up. Several rows of newer cultivars in our test plot seem to be doing well.
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|Sonora 2nd Planting Inflorescence Just Starting
This jointing phase -- also known as stem elongation -- is when the plants gain most of their height. Perhaps this phase will increase the likelihood that Sonora #2 will stand up straight, and deliver the goods.
We'll just have to wait and see what we can make of it all, as we maneuver this steep learning curve.
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Senior Editor John Katsilometes spoke with Priscilla Presley ahead of her Woman of the Year
Award dinner and fundraiser by Nevada Ballet Theater next Saturday at Aria. In the fascinating
Q&A, Presley speaks about Elvis, Viva Elvis, Elvis tribute artists and the importance of supporting
the arts.
Priscilla Presley is calling from her home in Beverly Hills, and something loud and unwelcome is
happening outside her windows.
"I'm sorry if I seem distracted during this, but if I pause, it's because there is a lot of construction
going on around me," she says.
"Construction?" I ask "On your house?"
"No," she says. "There is this unbelievable, monument-to-excess home going up. I'm beside
"Beside yourself, and beside the construction," I say.
"Yes," she says, with a laugh. "I've been here, in Los Angeles, in Beverly Hills, for 30 some-odd
years. I like it quiet."
And you imagine that those construction workers operating loud, heavy machinery nearby
probably have no idea the nature of the disruption they are causing the only woman who was ever
married to Elvis Presley. But she coasts along for 20 or so minutes, talking about Elvis' life and
impenetrable legacy.
Priscilla Presley still holds an active role as a consultant with Elvis Presley Enterprises, which has partnered with Cirque du Soleil in "Viva Elvis" at Aria. She
visits Las Vegas frequently to check in and take notes on the show, which opened nearly a year ago.
On Jan. 29, Priscilla will be honored as Nevada Ballet Theater's 2011 Woman of the Year during a gala dinner and fundraiser at Aria. This is the reason for
the rare chance to interview the woman who first visited the city in 1962, was married at the Aladdin in 1967 and continues to keep an eye on the show that
finally brought Elvis back to Vegas:
The Kats Report: How was it that you made the connection with Nevada Ballet Theater? We've had a wide variety of women honored over the years. Who
contacted whom about you receiving this award as Woman of the Year?
Priscilla: I actually was contacted by them. I … Wow, I was so honored and very flattered by the company calling me. No (laughs), I would never call them.
That's funny.
TKR: I didn't mean to imply that you were making calls, seeking to be named Woman of the Year by various organizations.
Priscilla: (Laughs) Hello! I want to be your Woman of the Year! No, I didn't do that (laughs). They actually contacted me quite a few months ago and asked if
I would accept, and I was very flattered.
TKR: This was connected to some degree to the opening of "Viva Elvis" at Aria, right?
Priscilla: Probably so, because of my involvement in the show. I got there, gosh, a few times a month to check in to see how it has evolved. Of course, the
show is very important to me because it continues Elvis' legacy of performing there, in Las Vegas, which is a place he loved very much. Plus, I've been a
frequent visitor to Las Vegas, I have a lot of friends there, and I'm sure it came about that way, someone submitting my name.
TKR: You're still very active in the production of "Viva Elvis," aren't you?
Priscilla: I'm active, yes. It's Cirque du Soliel's celebration of Elvis Presley, it's in honor of him, it's a celebration of his life.
TKR: What sort of changes have you suggested or enacted since the show opened?
Priscilla: Well, I've definitely voiced my opinion.
TKR: How so?
Priscilla: I've made a little list of things that I've felt needed to be elaborated on. Of course, the show is tighter now. It's a little more fun. … You know, any
time you put a show on, you have to tweak it to see what works and doesn't work. We're working on something right now that I am hoping will happen, a
couple of song choices I felt needed to be, you know, changed.
TKR: Which songs were you looking to change?
Priscilla: What I wanted, I would like to see more gospel, more gospel songs in the show, because gospel was his roots. They've been very accommodating
in it.
TKR: I've heard you just want more of Elvis in the show, what was true to his music and personality.
Priscilla: Yeah, we're trying to get more Elvis, even though it's a Cirque celebration of his life, some of the song choices and being tighter, a couple of the
acts will be a little bit different. It's the same show, but oh my God, it's got so much life and energy, and Elvis is more in it, and everyone agrees that's what it
needed. It's about Elvis, we all know all of his songs, and we can hear the songs, but we need to know why everyone was so enthralled by him and
captivated by him. And that's all happening, and that's good.
TKR: How are people when they approach you today? I'm talking about the fans, especially those who remember him when he was alive. Are they still as
passionate about him as they were when he was performing?
Priscilla: Absolutely. Absolutely. You know, Elvis had an incredible gift, and Elvis was very genuine, that's been felt by fans from the inception. I was just
over in England. Oh my gosh, we had a show over in England in September of last year, a tribute to him by top entertainers throughout Europe. And there
were 25,000 people in Hyde Park. It was unbelievable, so magical. It could not have been more beautiful, just an ocean of people singing and holding
candles, waving cell phones and lighters. It was if he was onstage himself. It was unbelievable.
TKR: It's a shame he didn't have a chance to perform overseas, isn't it?
Priscilla: Well, that's why I went over there. I wanted to represent him and thank all of the fans who have been a constant force of his life. He was huge in
Europe, and especially in England, people who have been supporting him and going back and forth to Graceland every year. It's unbelievable how many
fans he has over there. I wanted to thank everyone, and let them know that he definitely wanted to go over there and perform for them, and that was always
in his mind. They have given back so much.
TKR: This reminds me of something George Harrison said about Elvis, something he said during The Beatles "Anthology" series. There was a lot of talk
about Elvis and how he was an inspiration in the development of the band, and as they became famous, George Harrison said he always felt sorry for Elvis
because there was only one Elvis. Where there were four guys who could absorb the energy of that type of fame, Elvis was a singular figure. There was
only one man who knew what it was like to be Elvis.
Priscilla: Oh my God, there could never have been more than one Elvis. There couldn't have been two or three Elvises. I mean, Elvis Presley loved being
Elvis Presley. He was born to be who he was. He was destined. He loved it, and I don't think I ever knew any other entertainer or any celebrity who
appreciated their fans as much as Elvis Presley did. He just always appreciated them for bringing him to the level he was.
TKR: As you're very well aware, a lot of entertainers here in Las Vegas try to make a living capturing some version of that phenomenon. What do you think
of impressionists, those who depict Elvis onstage and perform as him?
Priscilla: I think it's keeping his name alive. It's a huge compliment. I have no problem with that. You know, I think the ones who go a little bit overboard and
make more of a character out of him, I'm taken a little aback by. But we have tribute artists out there -- we don't call them impressionists -- who do a
wonderful job keeping his name alive and image alive. Some of them do very well.
TKR: Every once in a while, I see an Elvis at the grocery store or walking through McCarran Airport. I've seen them on the streets hawking stuff. We've had
a guy called Colonic Elvis, advertising that service, on the street. It's amazing how many variations of Elvis we still see around Las Vegas.
Priscilla: (Laughs) It's true. He'd probably get a kick out of it, actually. He had a great sense of humor. Someone had said that, as a real book reader, said,
"I can't tell you how many books that I read that have somehow Elvis' name in it, how he's attributed in someone's life. Over 800 or some-odd books have
been written about him.
TKR: And you've read them all, I'm sure.
Priscilla: Right (laughs). Well, everyone has a story. I can't even read any of them. Oh my gosh, if someone ever met Elvis, or was associated with someone
who knew Elvis, that makes them an expert. I can't read any more books. This is heartbreaking to me, to see this. I very seldom go there, and I very seldom
believe what I read.
Someone once said to me, "If I read one more story about someone playing football with Elvis here in Beverly Hills, I'm going crazy." If he played football with
as many people who say they played football with Elvis, he wouldn't have had time to do any movies or make any music (laughs).
TKR: In that "Anthology" series, they actually joke about Ringo playing football with Elvis.
Priscilla: (Laughs) Well, there you go. I swear to God, I was there, and he did not play that much football.
TKR: You've said how fond you are of Las Vegas. Do you remember your first visit here?
Priscilla: Very well. Elvis took me, invited me to come to Los Angeles first, it was our first meeting after he left Germany (following military service) in 1960.
He had me come in 1962, to stay for two nights, and he wanted to take me to Las Vegas. I'd never heard of Las Vegas, I'd just turned 17, it was in June --
my birthday was in May -- and that's when he took me to Las Vegas, so I would be a little bit older (laughs).
We went on his bus, and we went to Vegas, and I'd never seen anything like it. The Rat Pack was there, the Tropicana was there, and as a young girl
watching the Folies and these beautiful Tropicana girls coming down the stairs onstage, oh my gosh, in feathers and everything all over the place. The Ike
and Tina Turner Review was in town, Red Skelton, George Burns, Fats Domino. It was when Vegas was so small, everybody knew each other.
TKR: It's funny, in those days that you describe, the entertainment scene was really about star power and headliners. As successful as Cirque has been,
that's the one complaint that they've received, that they have taken the place of the types of headliners you described from that era. Have you seen this,
that the stars have had to share the stage with Cirque?
Priscilla: Yes, absolutely they have, and Cirque is a phenomenon in itself. But it's like Elvis said, there's room for everyone. Everyone has their ride, and the
city has to adjust a little bit. … Hopefully it's a phase, and we'll bring those types of entertainers back and people will appreciate them, because Vegas is full
of talented artists. We can't forget that. It is the Entertainment Capital of the World, and we cannot turn our backs on that, on the artists who are touring or
the artists who have talent to share with us in the big showrooms.
TKR: I have to ask, how is Lisa Marie idoing?
Priscilla: She doing great, thank you. She's the proud mother of twin girls and is being a great mom. She's actually recording her third album, and I'm
ecstatic about it. She's doing very well. We're in for a big treat on this album.
TKR: Who are you still close to among Elvis' inner circle?
Priscilla: Mostly Jerry (Shilling) and Joe (Esposito). Gosh, we've lost Charlie Hodge, which was an unbelievable loss (Hodge was a longtime friend,
confidante and backing musician for Elvis who died in 2006). He was such a great friend.
TKR: We're looking forward to seeing you at the event. You will stay around and say hello to a few of us?
Priscilla: Oh, absolutely. I'm thrilled by it, honestly, what the Nevada Ballet Theater means to Las Vegas, from 1972 to where they are today. It's a very
special company, and we need to support them. Yes, there are lots of star entertainers there, but we need to support the arts.


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Epic Students Provide Mural for Discovery Field Trips Classroom
Students from the GATE (Gifted and Talented Enrichment) Program at Epic made this mural for the Adventure Classroom at The Gardens. The students are just a few of the many Birmingham City Schoolchildren that The Gardens provides a free, curriculum based education to all year long through its Discovery Field Trips program. Discovery Field Trips is the flagship of The Gardens educational programs, and just last fall, celebrated the 85,000th student to participate. Discovery Field Trips is one of many educational programs at The Gardens reliant on donations from the Birmingham community. With that help, The Gardens has been fortunate to educate some of Birmingham's brightest. For a full photo gallery from Wednesday's Birmingham News shoot, visit al.com.


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Nick Bonino gets early OT goal, Ducks move to brink of 2nd round with 3-2 win over WingsNHL.com @NHLdotcom
ANAHEIM, Calif. - Nick Bonino scored 1:54 into overtime, and the Anaheim Ducks moved to the brink of the second round with a 3-2 victory over the Detroit Red Wings in Game 5 on Wednesday night.
Defenceman Ben Lovejoy took the puck behind the Detroit net and fed it in front. Bonino scored for the Ducks, who took a 3-2 series lead.
Game 6 is Friday night at Joe Louis Arena, where the Ducks will attempt to close out just their second playoff series victory since winning the Stanley Cup in 2007.
Johan Franzen and Mikael Samuelsson scored for the Red Wings, who had two brief leads. Jimmy Howard stopped 31 shots.
Captain Ryan Getzlaf tied it, Kyle Palmieri also scored, and Jonas Hiller made 29 saves in Anaheim's first victory in three overtime games in the series.


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Earlier we broke down a new Credit Suisse report arguing for the end of the gold era.
There are two halves to the argument.
One is that the economy is improving, and that interest rates will enter a period of normalization.
The other half is that the existential fears about the end of western capitalism are finally coming to an end.
In the report, analysts Tom Kendall and Ric Deverell point out this chart, which suggests that the run is already over. For the first time in years, gold has dropped below a 3-standard deviation band around the core trend line.
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I love this card. So sweet. So normal. SO my mother.
"Happy Valentine's Day"..."Constant Inspiration"..."Love you more than"...yeah...yeah...yeah...whatever. It's the word, "OVER" that kicks off the true JOAN EXPERIENCE.
I just want to know if it's ok to be called, "Poppy Seed" after the age of five...
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1 small head cauliflower (about 1 pound)
Cut the florets in half so that each floret has a flat side that will sit well in the skillet....
Garden Bounty
When I bring home a harvest like this (and compared to the gardens of people who actually know what they're doing, this is pretty puny), I get a little giddy. A sack full of basil?! If you translate that into food put up for winter, that's a lot of frozen pesto and basil butter, plus all the fresh basil I can possibly use right now. That means something. I'm not nearly at the self-sufficiency level yet, but homegrown basil pesto is a start. It'll be a bright, fresh, green taste of high summer when I start to think that winter will never end.
And jalapeños. Jalapeños in everything, including my eyes when I forgot to wash my hands.
Don't forget to wash your hands after seeding a jalapeño unless you like being maced. It's such an unprofessional thing to do. I'm supposed to be a food authority, and I rubbed my eyes after seeding a jalapeño.
High five.
But I ate through the tears, and those jalapeños are delicious—spicier than grocery store peppers, I think. I could just be romanticizing the heat, but I swear those peppers tasted hotter.
Fresh leeks. They're smaller than the ones at the supermarket, but these are so tender that you can actually eat the greens rather than just throwing them on the compost pile (or saving them indefinitely to "make stock" when you know full well that you don't make stock very often, and they'll probably just wind up, yep, on the compost pile).
I sliced the leek greens extra thin and added them to the base for a pasta sauce I made this weekend. I gave them a little extra time to sweat in the oil, and they were perfect. Full of flavor and so tender.
Crookneck squash. This is such a maligned vegetable. You'll notice that almost no one really talks about them on food blogs. A truly humble vegetable—they don't have much texture when cooked, they're pretty bland, the color is nice but not extra nice, and if you grow squash there's just too much of it. I don't have a squash panacea to offer you, but I can tell you that squash is great lightly sautéed in butter with onions. Sprinkle on some salt, pepper, and chipotle or cayenne and that's really all you need.
Did I mention that I'm loving the garden thing? It does my soul good to see all those plants standing tall (or lopsided, or falling down…).
Even if the heat is starting to be too much for them.
Even if I didn't have enough tomatoes to put up this year.
It's still the bee's knees.
I grow my basil in 3-lb
I grow my basil in 3-lb fabric pots on the deck. When they start to get full before putting out seed, cut them back every 3-4 weeks. You can preserve the basil by making pesto, buy the pine nuts, walnuts or almonds in bulk and keep in the freezer or fridge; they're best in pesto if they're roasted; I leave out the cheese until serving. Freeze the pesto in half-cup containers. I use two of them for a pound of pasta, thaw in the fridge, or defrost carefully in the microwave, a little bit at a time. You can thin it out with some of the leftover pasta water if needed. Pesto actually keeps a long time in the freezer.


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I noticed today that the Beauty World and Beauty World Nails, located at the corner of Nostrand Ave and St. John's Place, storefronts have been emptied and are now sporting "For Lease" signs. The two salons, combined, would create a fairly big retail space for something new on Nostrand. Has anyone heard any rumors for what the storefront might become? I'm hoping for a nice sit-down restaurant or an upscale small market like Bob and Betty's/Pine Tree over on Franklin!
753 Nostrand and 755 Nostrand have changed several times. Here is a photo of it from a while ago, from the corner:
Here's a more recent photo, from the side:
I remember when it was a really cool accessories store (hats, gloves, scarves etc...)..they also had really nice luggage...
If one clicks on this link and then looks to the bottom left, one can see an ad for when it was used by Real Estate Broker, Chas L Gilbert, in 1919:
Interesting little snippet about this corner, and how it has changed over time...much like the way most commercial strips change... And there is little lament over the changes.
"expect to see more new developments nearby that will not compete with this new store."
"It's been exactly two weeks. I'm impatient!"I have put in a request to Mike D for info.
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