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MIDDLEBURY — Richard Romagnoli, a theater professor at Middlebury College, has dreamed of doing a production of the Peter Barnes play "The Bewitched� since he saw the original Royal Shakespeare Company production in London in 1974.
The satire, set in 16th century Spain, features 50 roles and Romagnoli felt he never had the right mix of actors and technical expertise.
"I had to settle for teaching a class in Contemporary British Theater, until last year, when it became clear that I would have the actors and the means to finally put on this production,� explained Romagnoli.
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MIDDLEBURY — In what amounted to a Middlebury business community town meeting, about 75 local business men and women, area professionals and community leaders listened to a presentation Tuesday night concerning Middlebury's economic future. The meeting was hosted by the Middlebury Business Association and held at the Middlebury College Kirk Alumni Center.
National Bank President Ken Perine framed the evening's focus with a challenge to community leaders to help the town position itself for the new economic paradigm that will rise out of today's service economy.
"Let's face it,� Perine told the crowd, "just as agriculture will likely never be the dominant industry in our area again, manufacturing on the scale we saw it in the past 30 years will likely never be seen again in our town. We are morphing into a service economy, more sooner than later, and this has tremendous ramifications for our economy and the organizations charged with keeping it vibrant.�
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STARKSBORO — Lori Russell is renting the former Starksboro town clerk's office and will be opening a general store in the space.
The Starksboro resident thinks the store, to be called the Starksboro Country Store, will be ready for business some time in May.
Starksboro has been without a store like this for about four years since the previous one closed, and Russell thinks that needs to be fixed. "I really think our town has missed it,� she said. "We're a very tight community here in Starksboro, and I think we need something like this.�
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ADDISON COUNTY — The final appearance of the Vermont Electric Power Co.'s 115-kilovolt line between New Haven and South Burlington is now being decided in negotiations before the Public Service Board (PSB) that include VELCO, towns, individual residents and the Addison County Regional Planning Commission (ACRPC).
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When the state's congressional delegation, joined by Gov. James Douglas, files a protest to a private company for dismissing a long-time employee, the average reader should be interested. We can't recall another time in Vermont's history that it's happened, which makes the outrage and disappointment expressed by Gov. Douglas and Sens. Patrick Leahy, James Jeffords, and Rep. Bernie Sanders, all the more poignant.
The protest is over the sudden dismissal of Chris Graff. A familiar face on Vermont Public Television's "Vermont This Week,� Graff not only worked as the Associated Press' bureau chief for the past 27 years, but he has been one of the state's most prominent and well-respected journalists — as the managing editor of a staff of fine reporters, as a keen observer of state politics and history, and as a moderator of numerous political debates and public forums. He has become, as one editor recently wrote, an institution in Vermont.
Good news came Friday in Montpelier when Gov. James Douglas agreed to consider an increase in taxes to help pay for changes in the state's health care system. Though he conceded that it took him out of his "comfort zone� on taxation, Douglas approved the notion of adding a 60-cent tax on a pack of cigarettes — driving state taxes from $1.19 to roughly $1.79.
Good for the governor. Just the notion of raising taxes to accomplish a public good was a needed concession to move things forward and offer an element of hope in future legislative discussions.
The governor, however, still insists that the final draft on the health care plan must include his employer-sponsored insurance plan, which requires employees who qualify for their company's health insurance plan to opt for that plan rather than the state's plan. While such a requirement would drive up costs to businesses, it's a fair point and one that Democrats can easily support.
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Choosing the Right Project
DDJ: Let's say I'm a developer with some experience and I'm interested in contributing to one of the Apache projects. How do I get started?
BB: What's your motive?
DDJ: To get more experience, working with bright folks who are doing stuff in an area that interests me.
BB: That's not the most usual path. More often, it's a developer who wants help to solve a specific technical problem. After some Google searching, he's found some packages that claims to do x. And, if there's one that's free, that's the one that's going to get evaluated first. And he starts pulling it down and playing with it.
DDJ: Yes. And then what does he do?
BB: Let me talk about a sequence of events that's more likely to happen. The first step is generally to determine whether the software is any good.
When I look at a piece of open source software before I download code, I'm looking to see whether a lot of people are complaining about broken installations, or if there are questions that suggest poor programming practices. And are people getting answers quickly?
Every good open source project has a public discussion forum, email or forum-based, and has developers who have a stewardship mentality about it and care about happy customers, even if they're not paying customers. So, before even touching the code, I would evaluate the community because there is an awful lot of code that has no community behind it, such as somebody open sourcing something they worked on at their last job, or an overnight hack, with no intention of making it usable.
Evaluate the community, look for activity, look for a release every couple of months, people who've used it and said good things or even bad things.
DDJ: So, if you determine the project fits your criteria, then what?
BB: You read some docs, you watch some people talking. Then you download the code, compile it, install it, and give it a dry run. If it's running and doing some cool things for you, you might show it to your boss. You then deploy it to your production and you're running. Then you discover there's a bug.
Now, what do you do with it? You probably dive in to figure out what's really going on in there, and in the course of that, you go rooting through the discussion lists and the developer lists. Most projects have a differentiation between the users list and the developers list, and that's so that the developers can stay focused on building new stuff and those who want to help the community and the community themselves can support each other with a basic Q&A somewhere else.
DDJ: Yes.
Start By Contributing Defect Data
BB: In the course of doing this, you probably looked in the issue tracker to see if anyone else has reported a "foo-bar not-found" sort of thing. In the course of narrowing it down, you've either realized that it was a mistake on your part or that you've found a bug.
The bug [might be] a pre-existing, pre-known defect and maybe you can actually add some data to it so the next person can find it more easily than you did. In which case, you want to get an account on the issue tracker and post a comment on that issue, saying, "Hey, this is happening to me, too," and try to contribute, add to the conversation that's there.
This helps because bugs take a long time to get from first being noticed to being resolved. Developers often ignore data from users, trying to recreate the conditions under which things happen. The vast majority of the work in fixing a bug is something that even users who don't understand the code can actually help with. They can actually try to replicate the bug, write a test case, etc.
And that is all extremely valuable. A programmer who is familiar with the code may be able to dive in and fix it. But that's such tedious work and it's high value because it's tedious and no one really wants to do it. So, to start, try looking for the outstanding defects and see whether they need further triage.
BB: Karl Fogel talks about this in his book, Producing Open Source Software, [a book, which without a doubt is the best guide available for running an OSS project. Ed.] namely, the benefit of marking certain issues as bite-sized tasks things that developers could take on to understand the layout of the code, how different systems call each other, etc. Because there are often bugs that aren't big architectural defects but off-by-one errors or edge-case kind of things that benefit from a lot of triage.
DDJ: An excellent idea.
BB: Throughout all this, there is the conversation on the users' or developers' list. These messages are the lifeblood of the community. It's the banter across the dinner table that drives the process. Join either the users' or developers' list. Let that simmer in the background. Don't pretend you have to understand every word, just get an ear for the music of the discussions. Eventually, you'll see comments that map to some of the situations that you see. Some of these lists have100 messages a day. You can't read all of them but you can get a feel for the gestalt of the project.
Contributing to Documentation
DDJ: That's a great sequence to start with. I notice that on many projects that are trying to solicit participation, they recommend working on documentation, which always seems to be in short supply. How does that work?
BB: It's amazing to me how people think of documentation as easy or an afterthought, but there's a huge difference between documentation written by someone coming up the learning curve and documentation written by someone who really knows it. I'd say well designed and engineered documentation is more important than well designed and engineered source code. Because that's the ladder people climb up to go from casual first-time user to core user and core developer. And that has to be a solid ladder. A lot of projects try to encourage the developers, when they commit a source code change, to concurrently commit documentation changes. That's a high bar though, because many developers are not English-as-a-first-language, or are not proficient writers.
I'd say the other caveat is I think having new users come in and contribute to training materials is more appropriate. I think the format of training (especially screen capture and video, because it's a form of performance art), really forces you to learn the material: "Here's why Drupal is a kick-ass CMS, and here's how to build your first site with it." There's a saying: People remember 10 percent of what they're told and 90 percent of what they teach.
Working Your Way Up Through the Meritocracy
DDJ: Developers who are contributing out of ambition rather than because they have a specific problem to be solved may believe that the meritocracy provides a certain type of reward. Being a contributor is a feather in the cap if it's an esteemed project. So what typically moves somebody in the community's eyes from being just an occasional contributor into one of the leads, or a formal position on a project?
BB: Some projects, like Apache, have more formal recognition of a developer as a committer granted certain privileges on the repository. Even though commits can always be backed out, it is generally considered a mark of honor that other developers trust you enough to give you the keys. Other projects give out commit privileges like candy apparently Gnome and the premise behind that is it should be easy for everybody to throw their patches into the pool and we'll filter and sort through them later.
That's partly a tool question; Git is easier [for] managing a lot of users who aren't core committers. But being a committer on Apache is a big deal. The decision is made by one committer proposing to other committers on an individual project, "This person has contributed lots of valuable patches in the past, and has been helpful to new users."
There's always some work on a project that goes beyond self-interest. There's talk about aggregated self-interest, but it's actually enlightened self-interest, in that you've got to write code that can be understood by others, and when somebody has a newbie question, helping them find the answer to that question will pay off tremendously. There's always going to be many more users than developers, so it's incumbent on developers to give a little user support, and help new developers over the hurdles in getting their environment running and understanding the code layout. Someone who shows that level of altruism it doesn't have to be full time but there are a lot of people.
At Apache, it's a recognition not just for a few good patches, but for a commitment, a communication style, and an understanding of this thing called the Apache Way, which is not clearly defined but generally is do unto others as you'd have them do unto you: Have high quality code, be clear in your communication, and have a team-oriented spirit. That's the criteria on Apache to be awarded commit privileges. And just be human, be on the mailing list, be helpful, help get the bug queue down. No active open source project has no bugs open. There's always something to do there.
DDJ: Jeff Fredrick, who headed up the CruiseControl project for a long time, told me that one of the things that happens is that the people who should become committers generally stand out by the nature of commitment and contributions. There's not a lot of discussion, it's generally pretty clear. Would you agree?
BB: Hmm, I can think of frequent examples of significant private conversations among committers over whether someone should have commit privileges, although that's less controversial because committer privileges can always be revoked.
DDJ: What about not granting privileges?
BB: I think there are some projects that err too much on the side of not granting commit privileges. It can seed various conspiracy theories as to whether it's justified or not. Sun, for example, with Open Office, really never gave a lot of commit privileges outside the Sun developers, because their working style was focused on a small cluster of developers in one physical location, having worked together for 20 years, and they found it hard to trust other developers. So that's a case where they probably erred too much on the side of holding commit privileges too close to the vest.
DDJ: What about using branches and forks?
BB: I do think both Subversion and Git have made it easier for people to maintain branches and forks of code than it used to be, so there tend to be fewer fights over commit privileges. Instead, what you see is people just working. And they'll say, "You've got a good code base, I've got an extra patch, here's my tree, you can pull that patch from my tree, or someone else can build a derivative from that." In some ways, I think this has actually hurt the ability for communities to gel around a single code base. For instance, the Linux kernels that ship with all the different distros out there, it's pretty much a different kernel per distro. Different combinations of patches and settings. I think the Linux foundation does a good job of driving the Linux standard base, and we have much more conformance than we might otherwise have. It's still tough.
Every Apache project has a single code base. It has development branches and current branches and stable branches and all that, but the pool of developers are still focused on building one thing and building it iteratively.

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Just a thought, if the contestants haven't been spotted in Bali, they may have headed over to one of the Gili Islands?Gili Trawangan, Gili Meno or Gili Air.
Oh good job!! Is that a generic horse/cart photo, or is that a racer pic? And could you send me the link please or post it if not private?
I just got back from Bali and I didn't see any TAR Australia around Kuta & Legian , so sorry for that
saw 2 teams of participants in lcct 2day, which is on 8 nov 2010 at around 5am.They were at the air asia ticketing booth. when i was there at about 4.50am, there were already there waiting for the counters to open. There was a long queue, but both teams are standing at the most front of the queue.one of the team is formed by 2 girls, and the other team is a couple. There was a camera man with them and another asian guy, which i am not sure whether he is a malaysian.the girl team: both are blonds, and one of the girls is very tall. The shorter gal wearing red sweater, with her hair braided and was very anxious, while the taller girl was wearing a green sweater (if i remember correctly), with her hair tied. Both of them looked younger than the other team.for the couple, i dont quite remember about them, but the female was wearing a pink jacket if i am not mistaken.and when the counters open at about 5.10am, both teams purchase tickets to Ho Chi Minh, and the flight was at 10.35am. LCCT is an airport specially for Air Asia, and it is an Air Asia ticketing booth, so both team should be using Air Asia.
while the taller girl was wearing a green sweater (if i remember correctly), with her hair tied.
I have just heard back from someone who saw the teams on the way to Bali...she has descriptions for "most" and pics and will share when she gets back from her trip!
Tweet 1 hour ago (must be talking about last night (10 November):"I walked through the set of Australia's Amazing Race tonight in the casino. The task was baccarat. Pretty cool to see it live! #Macau"
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Our resident trans-atlantic style guru CeCe chooses only designs she knows would look great on a mutt, and we're excited to present a regularly updated selection of the coolest hound gear we can find.
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Open Music Sessions at the Clachaig Inn
- Starts
- Sun 27th Jan 19 , 9:00 pm
- Ends
- Sun 27th Jan 19
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Impromptu live music sessions harnessing the local and visiting talent.
Willing musicians so don't be shy, a handful of folk can magically transform into a multitude so bring along your Bodhrán, guitar or violin and join in.
All musicians, twangers, strummers & part time whistlers – and everyone else for that matter – are very welcome.


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A 44-year-old man who got into an argument over a coffee at Starbucks in Burbank on Saturday ended up with a black eye, police said.
The Huntington Park man was confronted at around 11:30 a.m. after he reportedly grabbed the wrong beverage at the pick-up counter, said Burbank Police Lt. Eddie Ruiz.
The man who approached him insisted the coffee was his, Ruiz said.
After a brief verbal exchange, the suspect left the North San Fernando Boulevard coffee shop and returned moments later with another man.
The men then shoved and punched the Huntington Park man and fled the scene, leaving the victim with a black eye.
"There was a misunderstanding whose coffee it was," Ruiz said. "[The victim] thought it belonged to him."
The suspects were described as Armenian, roughly 27 years old and with black hair. One of them was about 5 feet, 4 inches tall and 250 pounds. The other was roughly 5 feet, 8 inches tall and 185 pounds, Ruiz said.
-- Alene Tchekmedyian, Times Community News
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Initiative Founded by Former Football Player Vedant Seeam
MAURITIUS, Africa – Former Yale football defensive lineman Vedant Seeam has taken his game to a larger playing field since he last donned a uniform more than two years ago. Seeam, a native of Mauritius, Africa, is the Founder and President of the international non-profit ELI (Experiential Learning Initiative) Africa, which aims to empower underprivileged youth in Africa and to promote sustainable development through educational initiatives.
Seeam's unusual road to Yale has everything to do with the creation of ELI Africa. He grew up in the quaint farming village of Plaine des Roches, Mauritius. After performing well in his village's primary school, he was granted admission to a school two hours away by public transportation, where he became Chairman of the Student Council. There, he witnessed badminton being played the first time he set foot in a gymnasium. He began playing and soon made the Mauritian National Team. In 2005, Seeam achieved the Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award. After he graduated from high school, he ran for political office and became the youngest-elected politician in Mauritius when he served as the Vice-Chairman of Finance of his district. In his free time he completed training and certifications to work as a policeman, fire-fighter and coast guard personnel. When Seeam arrived at Yale, he tried out for the football team, having never seen the sport played before, and earned a letter in 2007.
At Yale, Seeam found himself blown away by the opportunities and quality of education he was receiving. While grateful for such a wonderful experience, he was bothered by the fact that many of his friends at home did not have access to such an opportunity. He realized that he got his chance through education, but that a lack of a "proper" education should not define someone nor play such a determining role in someone's life course.
"I do not believe that education is a 'one-size fits all' scripture," Seeam said. "Some people are brilliant in ways that standardized education cannot account for."
Seeam set out to do something about it. During his junior year he began to conduct research and fundraise, and soon thereafter, started HOPE Inc. (Helping Orphans Prosper through Education). HOPE later turned into ELI Africa, and Seeam's dream of helping disadvantaged African youth through education took a large step towards reality. ELI Africa is currently running its first summer pilot program in Mauritius, having hired six Yale undergraduates as Summer Fellows to work with four schools from June through August. The 2010 Fellows include several Yale athletes, including rising senior Jordan Forney of the football team, rising senior Victoria Perez of the women's basketball team, rising senior Emily Standish of the women's track and field team and women's hockey captain Caroline Murphy '10. Rising senior Sarah Solomon and rising sophomore Michael Rose are also fellows working with ELI Africa this summer.
The fellows work at four different schools in Mauritius, for several hours each week. They have incorporated English language teaching into engaging educational projects, but what has been most rewarding is the work outside and beyond the classroom. Environmental initiatives include the creation of a garden at Etoile de Mer, and ELI Africa has been working with the surrounding community to implement a mangrove resurrection project (mangroves have been disappearing from Mauritius at an alarming rate due to ignorance and neglect, and they are vital to the local ecosystems and fishing communities). Health and sport initiatives include after-school sport programs, including a sport program to empower females through athletics, and health classes. The fellows have also been hard at work teaching a theater class in preparation for a community-wide show at the end of the summer with two of the schools. You can follow their work this summer on the ELI Africa website at www.eli-africa.org.
If you would like more information about ELI-Africa or would like to support the cause, please visit www.eli-africa.org for more information. Donations are welcome. ELI Africa is also currently competing in the Chase Community Giving competition, where charities garner votes for a chance to win grant money. Please take the time to cast your vote for ELI Africa here: http://apps.facebook.com/chasecommunitygiving/charities/264356255-helping-orphans-prosper-through-education-hope-inc?admin_application_submitted=true


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Robo copy to root or find files from your computer and then copy it to shared folder on network.
net use n: \\server\backup
echo %computername%
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SET Log="n:\%computername%.log"
robocopy c:\ %SourceDir% *.doc* *.ppt* *.xls* *.pst* *.pdf /s /LOG:%Log%
The addition of * on either side of the office documents is to ensure that you copy all versions from Office-2k3 and above. I have also included the PST files.
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Tracheal Reconstruction, When Surgery Meets Bioengineering
University Hospital and Oncologic Center Gustave Roussy, Paris
Tracheal Reconstruction, When Surgery Meets Bioengineering
Tracheal replacement has been and still remains a surgical challenge. Today, partial resection, up to half of tracheal length, is a well-codified surgery and can be repaired by mobilization of the remaining tracheal stumps and direct suture. However, despite numerous proposed solutions, no valid technic have been described to allow the replacement of more than 1/2 of the trachea.
Recently, several breakthroughs have brought new hopes and may help us to consider that a definitive solution is at hand. Three main solutions drive a special attention because of their promising character. The first one, presented by Deleare and al, uses a tracheal allograph. The second relies on a complete bioengineered decellularized, recellularized trachea. Finally, our team proposed an autologous solution based on a buttressed forearm free flap.
Despite the hope brought by these advances, none is ideal and matches all 5 Grillo's requirements. Our solution fulfills 3 of them but fails to bring a ciliary epithelium, and lack reproducibility. We started a program of research, which goal is to correct these 2 weaknesses through the use of bioengineering and to obtain a chimeric construct combining autologous tissues with bioengineered ciliary epithelium and cartilage rings. We considerer this solution as an intermediary but obligatory step before a complete bioengineered trachea can be created.
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ONTARIO >> Chaffey High School coach Chris Brown was concerned, with good reason, about covering Yucaipa's Nevada-bound wide receiver, Brandon Scott.
But Yucaipa also has plenty of other weapons. Billy Gustason completed 11 of 17 passes for 139 yards and a touchdown, Erik Abrams had 118 yards of total offense and Dakota Smith rushed for 84 yards and two touchdowns as the Thunderbirds opened the season with a 30-6 victory at Chaffey on Thursday night,
"I thought there was some good and some bad," Yucaipa coach Justin Price said. "We had too many penalties on offense, but we scored on four of five possessions with our first team in there, so that was pretty good."
There was some reason for concern for Yucaipa, however.
Scott, who caught two passes for 50 yards in the first half, did not return for the second half after he sustained a possible concussion.
"We're hoping he's OK. We're just trying to be really safe," Price said.
Scott suffered the potential injury just before halftime on a 27-yard reception. He came back to the sideline after halftime, but then walked off to be examined.
"They had a guy in front of him and a guy behind him. They made it tough on him," Price said.
Yucaipa scored touchdowns on its first two possessions, a Gustason sneak on the opening drive and a Smith 4-yard run and a 14-0 second-quarter lead.
The Tigers had some success moving the ball, but needed a lot of plays to do it. Chaffey converted three of four fourth downs in the first half, but turned the ball over on downs once on the Yucaipa 16, then missed a 38-yard field goal 19 seconds before the half.
Chaffey also benefitted when they intercepted a Gustason pass
"We were able to move the ball, but just couldn't score," Brown said. "Then their up-tempo offense wore us down."
The shifty Abrhams turned a short pass from Gustason into a 33-yard touchdown on Yucaipa's opening drive of the third quarter, Yucaipa recorded a safety on a poor punt snap and Smith scampered 22 yards for a 30-0 lead early in the fourth.
Gustason also rushed for 37 yards.
"He did a good job running, moving around and scrambling," Price said. "We're going to do more of that this year,"
Chaffey scored on a touchdown pass from Jesse Ramirez to Miguel Contreras with four seconds remaining.
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Major Section: TUTORIAL-EXAMPLES
This example was written almost entirely by Bill Young of Computational Logic, Inc.
This simple example was brought to our attention as one that Paul Jackson has solved using the NuPrl system. The challenge is to prove the theorem:
In ACL2, we could phrase this theorem using quantification. However we will start with a constructive approach, i.e., we will show that values of
for all n > 7, there exist naturals i and j such that: n = 3i + 5j.
i and
j exist by writing a function that will
construct such values for given
n. Suppose we had a function
(split n) that returns an appropriate pair
(i . j). Our
theorem would be as follows:
That is, assuming that
(defthm split-splits (let ((i (car (split n))) (j (cdr (split n)))) (implies (and (integerp n) (< 7 n)) (and (integerp i) (<= 0 i) (integerp j) (<= 0 j) (equal (+ (* 3 i) (* 5 j)) n)))))
n is a natural number greater than 7,
(split n) returns values
i and
j that are in the
appropriate relation to
Let's look at a few cases:
Maybe you will have observed a pattern here; any natural number larger than 10 can be obtained by adding some multiple of 3 to 8, 9, or 10. This gives us the clue to constructing a proof. It is clear that we can write split as follows:
8 = 3x1 + 5x1; 11 = 3x2 + 5x1; 14 = 3x3 + 5x1; ... 9 = 3x3 + 5x0; 12 = 3x4 + 5x0; 15 = 3x5 + 5x0; ... 10 = 3x0 + 5x2; 13 = 3x1 + 5x2; 16 = 3x2 + 5x2; ...
Notice that we explicitly compute the values of
(defun bump-i (x) ;; Bump the i component of the pair ;; (i . j) by 1. (cons (1+ (car x)) (cdr x)))
(defun split (n) ;; Find a pair (i . j) such that ;; n = 3i + 5j. (if (or (zp n) (< n 8)) nil ;; any value is really reasonable here (if (equal n 8) (cons 1 1) (if (equal n 9) (cons 3 0) (if (equal n 10) (cons 0 2) (bump-i (split (- n 3))))))))
i and
j for
the cases of 8, 9, and 10, and for the degenerate case when
n is
not a natural or is less than 8. For all naturals greater than
n, we decrement
n by 3 and bump the number of 3's (the value
of i) by 1. We know that the recursion must terminate because any
integer value greater than 10 can eventually be reduced to 8, 9, or
10 by successively subtracting 3.
Let's try it on some examples:
Finally, we submit our theorem
ACL2 !>(split 28) (6 . 2)
ACL2 !>(split 45) (15 . 0)
ACL2 !>(split 335) (110 . 1)
split-splits, and the proof
succeeds. In this case, the prover is ``smart'' enough to induct
according to the pattern indicated by the function split.
For completeness, we'll note that we can state and prove a quantified
version of this theorem. We introduce the notion
split-able to mean
that appropriate
i and
j exist for
Then our theorem is given below. Notice that we prove it by observing that our previous function
(defun-sk split-able (n) (exists (i j) (equal n (+ (* 3 i) (* 5 j)))))
split delivers just such an
i and
j (as we proved above).
Unfortunately, understanding the mechanics of the proof requires knowing something about the way
(defthm split-splits2 (implies (and (integerp n) (< 7 n)) (split-able n)) :hints (("Goal" :use (:instance split-able-suff (i (car (split n))) (j (cdr (split n)))))))
defun-sk works.
See defun-sk or see Tutorial4-Defun-Sk-Example for more on
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Selective RF pulses yield imperfect slice profiles, whose edges are not clearly cut. In multislice technique and with contiguous slices, a selective RF pulse can thus partially excite the adjacent slices. Likewise, if several interlacing slice stacks cross, the zone of intersection will be partially excited. This will cause a modification in contrast and/or a loss of signal through partial saturation in the slice or zone of intersection. These phenomena are even more pronounced with pulses of 180° (inversion recovery, fast spin echo).
The solution consists in spacing the slices by adding an interval between them: the slices are no longer contiguous. It is also possible to interlace multislice acquisition to avoid imaging the adjacent slices with the same repetition. Where it is vital to visualize the whole volume with no wasted time, it is preferable to use 3D imaging.


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When assessing the consequences of the gamble the Ravens lost (by winning the Super Bowl), it's important to remember one thing.
By not signing a new deal prior to the 2012 season, quarterback Joe Flacco played last year for $6.76 million.
If, hypothetically (wink . . . nod . . . fart), the Ravens had offered Flacco in August 2012 a five-year deal that would have replaced the final season of his five-year rookie contract and if, hypothetically (wink . . . nod . . . shart), the five-year package had an average of $16 million per year, the Ravens came out of this not with a five-year, $80 million dollar deal but a seven-year, $127.3 million arrangement.
The average over the seven years is $18.19 million. By the last few seasons of the deal, there's a chance that 10 or more quarterbacks will be making as much or more per year.
Even if the Ravens had been offering $18 million per year last August, they would have had Flacco under contract through 2016. He's now under contract through 2018, at roughly the same average.
So while Flacco indeed took a chance and won, the Ravens didn't lose quite as badly as they could have — especially if the two sides hadn't agreed to a deal by Monday, at which time the Ravens most likely would have applied the non-exclusive franchise tag and other teams would have accelerated their plans to make a run at getting Flacco to sign a front-loaded offer sheet.
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The story of Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o has gone from fascinating to sad to better left alone in the span of a week. We will try to limit our coverage of Te'o to truly newsworthy developments moving forward; his first on-camera interview since the scandal erupted certainly is newsworthy.
Te'o's interview with Katie Couric, which aired Thursday, was surreal. This is the last time I'll ever watch the show, much less for work. Here's a recap of what Te'o said:
1. Te'o on embellishing his love for girlfriend Lennay Kekua, who turned out to be fake: "What I went through was real. The feelings, the pain, the sorrow. That was all real."
2. Te'o confirmed he talked to the admitted hoax perpetrator Ronaiah Tuiasosopo after Deadspin.com broke the story.
"He didn't say why, he just explained he wanted to help people," Te'o said. "It was his way of helping people. ... Obviously it didn't really help me out. I really didn't say anything. I was still speechless. What I believed to be my reality wasn't reality at all."
3. "The biggest lie I'm sorry for is the lie that I told my dad," Te'o said. He told his father he had met Kekua.
4. The interview was at its strongest when Couric pressed Te'o on why he had not visited the love of his life in the hospital when he was nearby in California on the way home to Hawaii last year. Te'o said it was a long drive and then his layover for his flight wasn't long enough. Couric expressed incredulity.
"It doesn't make sense to me either at this point," Te'o said. "It was a conversation that I didn't want to have with my parents."
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5. Te'o was asked if he was gay. "No. Far from it," he said. "Faarrrrr from it."
The sad reality: Being a pathological liar or the most gullible man in the world probably is more acceptable in the NFL than an openly gay man.
6. On Kekua's voice actually being that of a man, at least according to the lawyer for Tuiasosopo:
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Monday, October 31, 2011
We're not happy until you're not happy
There's only one problem. Another revolution of sorts came along. the revolution this time was carbon fiber. One by one the big bike manufacturers began sourcing molded carbon bikes from Taiwan and elsewhere and there were good reasons for this. # 1, once the molds for the frames were engineered and made, thousands of identical frames could be produced with little skilled labor ( such as welders and machinists ) and the frames were very light and had a smooth ride. # 2, Since the molds were costly to make , the manufacturer simplified the whole concept of sizing-it used to be that you could buy 5-6 different sizes of a frame in 2-3 c.m. increments. Now you had a choice of three: Small , Medium and Large-maybe an XL if you were lucky. This allowed retailers and bike companies to not have to carry as many sizes, further cutting costs.
#3, The molded carbon frames were not as durable to side impacts and required more frequent replacement making for more frequent sales.#4, Having the frames made overseas allowed the bike companies to not have to deal with the various regulations and high labor costs over here.
Where am I going with this ? Maybe you have guessed. Now that the big companies have gone to carbon, who will buy these wonderfully engineered and precision manufactured aluminum and scandium tubes ? the answer is almost nobody........except for the few folks like me. Without the market to sell the tubes to the big companies there is no economic reason for the company I dealt with to continue making the tubing. They have told me recently that after twenty years of doing so,they are ceasing all tubing manufacturing . I guess I could get really mad at the company except for the fact that they had little choice in the matter. I think they really wanted to keep making the tubing that pretty much put their company on the map-they had invested a tremendous amount of energy and money into making this tubing , but in 2011 that means nothing. Market share and economic viability are what ensures survival in these troubled and competitive times.
For me, this means the eventual death of about 55% of what I build-that is, unless I can find another source of material. The problem for me is that the tubes I was buying up until a few years ago were manufactured right here in the USA. The quality was unassailable and I knew what I was buying. Metallurgists and engineers will tell you that it doesn't matter who makes a 7005 aluminum tube-the metal is the same and should have identical characteristics. The folks that engineered the tubing I was buying have a different view. They were at the forefront of the advent of this particular material and figured out the best way to form and heat treat it , right down to the finish on the surface of the tubes. Tubing from other factories and countries is visually not the same and I can personally attest to seeing more failures with other tubes.
I am angry not merely for the problems I will encounter now that my main source of tubing is gone-I am mostly upset that things got this way......that everything had to be made elsewhere so that the profit margin grew and that the product was to a degree, disposable-just as disposable as the domestic jobs that evaporated when the whole carbon revolution started. The irony is that by the time these carbon bikes get over here, they really aren't that good a deal for the consumer. A frame that costs $ 150 to the company that imports it will become a bike that sells for nearly the same amount as a domestically produced bike with the same equipment. The big difference is that when you pay a framebuilder $ 3,600 for an Ultegra equipped road bike you are paying a large proportion of your money to the actual builder of the bike. When you buy a carbon 'whatever' road bike with the same equipment you'll be paying mostly for marketing-advertisement and the many hands the bike goes through before getting to you. It isn't the same on any level except maybe the price.
The company that no longer makes my tubing didn't want it to end up this way. The folks that lost their jobs certainly didn't want things to end up this way, either. I definitely didn't want it to end up this way. I still believe strongly in the material I can no longer get. my customers still believe in the material as well. I just saw an article on a world-class racer who is still on an aluminum bike, as if it is now a novelty in a sea of molded carbon bikes . I am now faced with having a set of skills and a market that have possibly outlived their usefulness in today's bike market. To quote another builder, maybe I should have been a plumber.
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This situation really sucks. I think it's a real shame, and unfortunately it doesn't seem to be something that can be avoided at this point.ReplyDelete
One interesting point to consider though: you point out that the carbon "revolution" has cost jobs in the US manufacturing sector, and no doubt you are right.
However as you also point out, much of the money that is saved on manufacture is now spent on advertising and marketing instead. Advertising and marketing are big growth industries in the US which employ a lot of people, and the jobs that are being lost in the manufacturing sector may well be outweighed by the new jobs that are being created in another industry. Hence this situation does not necessarily result in a net decrease in US jobs.
I'm not saying that's a good thing or that i like it, but it may well be true.
Sounds like the Plight of all Small Builders - Here comes www.sopwamtos.com - Check it out and find what SOPWAMTOS means.ReplyDelete
We will soon have a store online where you can buy the stuff made by SOPWAMTOS kind of people.
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If it were truw I don't think we would see so much downsizing in the industry. The trend is for companies to design and resell goods they no longer manufacture. The design sector of the industry has always been there and I really doubt that few if any new jobs have popped up as a result of carbon or any revolution. A friend of mine was one of the major innovators in the carbon bike boom until his company got sold. He works in the aeronautical industry now as his job in bikes has been moved out of state. I guess he could have kept it if he was willing to move to Philadelphia and take a substantial pay cut. The new owners of the company are essentially a 'brand name' and unlike the original company do not make anything domestically. The lost jobs are not being replaced in the bike industry , at least not here.ReplyDelete
I for one give anyone on a carbon bike the Stink Eye. I call carbon bikes 'Temporary Bicycles'. The carbon people will eventually respond to ridicule. If not with their third replacement frame then probably after the forth. In this case it might be a good idea to support the draconian rules of the UCI. They dont seem to like molded tubes and uber mods.ReplyDelete
That is truely bad news and a sad commentary. I think, at times, with the advance of technology, we are losing more than we are gaining. If it is any consolation, everything old is at once new again in time especially in the bike industry. The only problem with that is we probably won't live long enough to see aluminum tubing as the replacement for carbon. Like Biopace chainrings, Rotor is making a killing over this oh so thirty years old technology. Let's have a beer.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 8, 2011 at 5:10 AM
Miken is producing aluminum tubes for framebuilders. True Temper is even considering getting into 7000 series aluminum tubes...ReplyDelete
The volume needs of the factory [to justify set ups, etc] are sometimes at odds with the actual production numbers of small framebuilders.Hopefully they can find a way to do it that will actually serve the needs of small builders and make it viable for them as well.
I knew I should have ordered a Team Scandium when I had the chance!
One great thing about steel bicycle frames is that they never become obsolete!ReplyDelete


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During the first half of 2004/2005, IGE+XAO continued its expansion with a € 9,251 K turnover compared to a € 8,315 K turnover in 2003/2004, that is, a growth of 11%.
The period is characterized by the good level of the operating income that increased by 9% compared to 2003/2004, as well as the control over costs enabling the Group to lessen the impact of the reinforcement of its resources. Actually, the average headcount was 332 employees at January 31st, 2005 compared to 266 one year ago, that is a 25% increase. This strong evolution, which mainly affects the R&D and Solutions activities, clearly reflects the strategy of the Group, aiming at speeding up the launch of innovating offers that will bring IGE+XAO a decisive competitive advantage.
On January 31st, 2005, the Group net income amounted to € 665 K, a 7% increase when compared to 2003/2004. This performance is all the more noticeable since, on the one hand, the 2003/2004 first half period had been exceptional with a net income amounted to € 620 K compared to € 462 K one year earlier and, on the other hand, the USD exchange rate strongly impacts the financial loss.
At the same time, the Group is able to consolidate its financial situation with a shareholder's equity of € 9,472 K (+15%), financial debts of € 201 K and a strong cash flow over € 9,400 K.
During the fiscal, IGE+XAO reassure that their budget plan is correct and expect an increase in turnover and profitability over 8%.
2004/2005 half-year consolidated accounts
During the first half of 2004/2005, IGE+XAO continued its expansion with a € 9,251 K turnover compared to a € 8,315 K turnover in 2003/2004, that is, a growth of 11%.


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Off-Season Update #1
I'd like to pretend that this season didn't happen and that our rivals didn't win the World Series… *closes eyes* ….Okay, I guess that didn't work as well as I hoped. *cough* Congrats *cough* to the World Champs *mumble mumble, cough, sniff* yeah!
Enough of that! It is now officially the off-season and we're all very sad that there is no baseball to watch! I'm counting down the days until spring training to visit Camelback and watch my boys do what they do best, which is play some ball! However, the Dodgers concern isn't with spring training just yet. What is of biggest concern to our ball club is the roster. We have a lot of players who are eligible for free agency this year, some players who are up for raises through arbitration, player options and freed up salary for next year. I will break down the Dodgers' options. A lot of moves need to be made if we're looking to win a World Series in the next decade (which we should be!)
Already Signed
Ted Lilly- After his stellar performance last year since moving to the club that he's dreamed of playing for since childhood, it was only proper to re-sign the California native. He's signed to a 3-year $33 million dollar deal. Along with Kershaw & Billingsley, he is the only certainty we have in our rotation.
Jay Gibbons- Signed a 1-year contract for $650,000. Provides middle of the line-up run support and possible left-fielder position.
Not Returning
Scott Podsednik- Declined his 2011 option, which would have landed him $2 million.
Possible Free Agents
Hiroki Kuroda- Was struggling in the beginning, but came into his own during the second-half. Possibly the veteran pitcher Ned will sign.
Vicente Padilla- Pitched a hell of a season before getting injured before the playoff push. Possible veteran pitcher to be signed, but being prone to injuries may make it unlikely. I would like to see him come back. I mean, if he could keep up with CC in the NYY series, why not?
Rod Barajas- Insurance behind the plate seeing as Russell Martin finds himself on the injury list. Ned mentioned he wanted to sign him before the club lost exclusive negotiation rights.
Reed Johnson, Jeff Weaver- Doesn't seem like Dodgers are yes or no about these two. Don't add or take away from the team. I say let them go and get better pitchers!
Trade Possibilities
Loney- Had a second half slump. Overall, he has a general lack of power. Defensively, he's a gem, but we desperately need the offense!
Kuroda vs Padilla
Kuroda will cost us $15 mil and Padilla will cost us $5 mil
Defensive/Offensive Needs
Left fielder- Can be filled by Gibbons or another player to have 4 OF
Infielders- 1st base power, 2nd base is locked down by Carroll since Theriot hit a slump, 3rd base power. Casey Blake isn't cutting it. I'm not fearing the beard here.
Catching- Rod City seems to be working, we'll see how he does in training if he's signed.
Pitching- Veteran starter and veteran reliever needed to round out the bullpen. Broxton needs major work.
Money Available
$10 million is freed up from last year's payroll
Names Being Mentioned (Pulled these from other blogs, articles, and even fan comments)
- Prince Fielder
- Adrian Gonzalez
- Dan Uggla
- Ivan De Jesus
- Adam Dunn
Personally, I think we need all need to take one for the team and develop our farm system. LA is NOT going to win a world series with short-term fixes. Look at what the Giants have done. They are all Farm Boys! Sorry to say it, but we're not buying our way to a World Series. We are not the Yankees. Way too much money has already been spent and it hasn't gotten us anywhere, but I'd like to hear some of your thoughts.
Figured I'd bring back the "Wait 'til next year" motto that Dem Brooklyn Bums adopted. However, for us, it may be YEARS from now. We need to re-build this franchise. It means building from the bottom up. Strong foundation. Working with our prospects (instead of trading them away). We're going to be ridiculed for having crappy everything regardless. So, I say we take another 3 or 4 crappy years and come back with a team that rivals this year's Giants and last year's Yankees. What do you say?
Also, don't forget to vote for Kuo, Belliard, & Dodgers Ballboy in the TYIB awards!
Until next time, think blue!


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30 Doradus in Ultraviolet, Visible, and Red Light
30 Doradus, 30 Dor
170,000 light-years (52,000 parsecs)
The image was created from Hubble data from proposal 11360: R. O'Connell (University of Virginia), B. Balick (University of Washington), H. Bond (STScI), D. Calzetti (University of Massachusetts), M. Carollo (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich), M. Disney (University of Wales, College of Cardiff), M. Dopita (Australian National University), J. Frogel (Ohio State University Research Foundation), D. Hall (University of Hawaii), J. Holtzman (New Mexico State University), P. McCarthy (Carnegie Institution of Washington), F. Paresce (European Southern Observatory, Germany), A. Saha (NOAO/AURA), J. Silk (University of Oxford), A. Walker (NOAO/CTIO), B. Whitmore (STScI), R. Windhorst (Arizona State University), and E. Young (University of Arizona).
F336W (U), F438W (B), F555W (V), F656N (H-alpha), and F814W (I)
The image is a composite of separate exposures made by the WFC3 instrument on the Hubble Space Telescope. Five filters were used to sample broad and narrow wavelength ranges for the UVIS image. Two filters were used to sample broad wavelength ranges from the IR image. The colors result from assigning different hues (colors) to each monochromatic image. In this case, the assigned colors are:
Blue: F336W (U) + F438W (B)
Green: F555W (V)
Red: F814W (I)
Orange/red: F656N (H-alpha)
NASA, ESA, F. Paresce (INAF-IASF, Bologna, Italy), R. O'Connell (University of Virginia, Charlottesville), and the Wide Field Camera 3 Science Oversight Committee


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