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I will repeat the important part for clarity: "lookup" is not a verb. It's simply not.
This site is dedicated to educating people about the common misuses of words
"lookup." It is meant for both non-native speakers who may not know any better, and for
native speakers who should know better but don't. It is in no way
a substitute for a real education. Poor grammar is an excellent way to
make any presentation sound stupid --or program look sloppy-- so if you
intend to use this language much then it behooves you to learn it properly.
It is possible to conjugate verbs. They can change tense and mood. They can
change number and person. You will see how even basic conjugation fails for
Here are some examples with the verb "conjugate." If you doubt that
"conjugate" is a verb (or need to look up what it means), definitions from
agree. Note that, as with many verbs, noun forms exist. Here we're using
the verb form.
Conjgate is a regular verb, so the present tense is simple. Consider the past tense:
The past tense is easy to form with a weak verb like "conjugate." This is normal behavior for a verb. English has more complicated verbs, like irregular and strong verbs, but those are generally the oldest verbs in the language. New verbs are regular and weak.
As a new verb,
"lookup" should follow the regular, weak model that "conjugate"
exemplifies. Unfortunately, it does not:
Notice the problem with the third person singular. However, let's choose to ignore this problem for now. After all, we can't let one little conjugation problem make thousands of programmers and technical writers look like fools. Plowing right ahead, we'll look at the past tense:
Unfortunately, not a single one of those sounds right. It seems that
"lookup" can't change tense or conjugate like a normal verb.
A Strong Verb?
Many older verbs are strong verbs, meaning they change tense by modifying
an internal vowel or diphthong. As you will see, it doesn't behave like
a strong verb, either. Compare the above behavior to the strong verb "sing:"
|I sing||I sang|
|I run||I ran|
|I meet||I met|
A Separate Verb?
Some grammarians will call this a "phrasal" or "two-part" verb, but this is
mostly because some grammarians are seeking tenure at their university posts
and must publish anything they can to get or keep that coveted teaching spot.
Similar motivation has created definitions for "compound verbs" and "stretched
verbs" --all different kinds of verbs, supposedly. Essentially, though, a
two-part verb must have two parts and lookup only has one. The following
list of lookup's component parts demonstrates this fact.
|1st||I||look up||we||look up|
|2nd||you||look up||you [all]||look up|
|3rd||he/she/it||looks up||they||look up|
The past tense is also predictable:
|1st||I||looked up||we||looked up|
|2nd||you||looked up||you [all]||looked up|
|3rd||he/she/it||looked up||they||looked up|
|Owned||I have a book.|
|Modified||I have a secret book.|
I own the book, then make it a secret book. Truly, that is grand. Now I will do the same for "lookup."
|Owned||I have a lookup.|
|Modified||I have a secret lookup.|
"Lookup," it seems, works as a noun.
"lookup" is not a verb. It's simply not. If it is any part of speech
at all, it is a noun. While we did not explore every possible part of
speech, we saw with certainty that
"lookup" is not a verb. It's simply not.
If you take only one thing away from this page, take that one fact:
"lookup" is not a verb. Educate others. Correct manuals, software, and web pages as
you find them. Tell everyone you know that
"lookup" is not a verb. You
will make a pedant (me) happy. You will earn the respect of grammar nazis.
Most importantly, you will know the truth.
Magnanimousness demands that I offer solutions, or correct forms of some of
the common abuses of
"lookup" Here are some suggestions, assuming you prefer
"lookup" as a word rather than take a more conservative approach and insist the
proper form is
"look up" or "look-up."
|Can you lookup?||Can you look up?|
|I tried to lookup....||I tried to look up....|
|Enter your name at the lookup prompt.||(This is acceptable)|
|Please lookup again.||Please look up again.|
You can also continue your education by learning about other words that are not verbs.
For entertainment you can read a sarcastic rebuttal to the argument that lookup really is a verb and the language simply has evolved.
Thanks to Mark Pettit for the corrections to the "checkout" page.
Thanks to Nathanial Jones for the observation of phrasal verbs.
Thanks to someone whose email I deleted before I could record his name for his suggestion to add a note on prepositions.
Thanks to John Goodman for the correction on "carryout" in the index.


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The IEA has started a new regional technology study that helps determine the best way to make the Nordic region carbon-neutral by 2050. According to the research, around 3,000 offshore wind turbines will need to be in use in the region in order for success.
It is possible for the Nordic region to be completely carbon-neutral, but big changes in its energy sector will need to take place first. The International Energy Agency (IEA) has reported in the first regional edition of its flagship technology publication, Energy Technology Perspectives, that these changes include a ten-fold increase in wind generation and an end to all use of coal and significant electrification of transport.
The new report expands on the Energy Technology Perspectives 2012 global scenarios for energy policies that would limit average global temperature increase to 2°C. Nordic Energy Technology Perspectives outlines the opportunities and challenges for the Nordic countries of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway – a major fossil fuel exporter – and Sweden to use their rich renewable energy resources to transform their landscape and economy, with 10,000 onshore and 3,000 offshore wind turbines and the region exporting 75% of its new power generation.
In order to become carbon-neutral, emissions from transportation must fall by nearly 90% from current levels, with nine in ten new light vehicles in 2050 being pure electric or hybrid and most freight transport going by rail or running on biofuels. The transportation sector will be the hardest to decarbonize due to the sparse population of the trade-intensive Nordic countries, but transportation costs should not rise significantly as reduced demand and higher efficiency will lower fuel bills.

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The new, interactive map was recently developed by the soy checkoff to make information about this critical issue more accessible as well as more specific to local areas.
That information was compiled recently in soy-checkoff-funded research that shows the importance of the U.S. inland waterway system to U.S. soybean farmers. According to the checkoff's most recent study, U.S. waterways make a staggering impact on U.S. farmers' bottom lines as well as on the price U.S. consumers pay for food. The new, interactive map shows the effect a failure at each of five locks on the Ohio, Mississippi and Illinois rivers would have on U.S. soybean and corn prices.


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Being a kid—or at least a playground designer—was a lot more fun in the 1970s, before the advent of telephone-book-thick ASTM standards, not to mention things like critical fall heights, head-entrapment guidelines, and the virtual outlawing of sand. "It's almost like a police state, what you can and cannot do in a playground," said Paul Friedberg, the landscape architect who created some of New York's most innovative play spaces. "The freedom that we once had is just completely gone."
But vestiges of that freewheeling age can be found in Central Park, where the spirit of adventure thrives thanks to restorations this summer of two pioneering playgrounds. In overhauling these spaces to meet modern safety and accessibility needs, the Central Park Conservancy has shown that safety and rambunctiousness can still coexist.
Designed by Richard Dattner in 1972, Ancient Playground was one of 21 Robert Moses–era playgrounds installed around the park's perimeter. In the late 1960s, these spaces began to be remade in the style of postwar Europe's adventure playgrounds, where children molded their environments out of bricks, timber, and tires. Dattner themed his space on the Egyptian collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, just across a transverse road at West 84th Street. "I thought it would be wonderful to teach kids something of ancient construction—the pyramids, obelisks, mastabas, and so forth—and relate in a kids' scale to what was across the street," Dattner said.
The central challenge of the renovation—the fourth of Dattner's playgrounds to be reconstructed in the park—was to create a required clear space around the main playground elements. Among other changes, the conservancy's designers created a regulation tire swing that mimics the original design, while increasing the size of Dattner's tunnels for better visibility. Since sand is not considered an accessible surface material, designers used safety surfacing that matched the spirit of the original.
The second playground, at West 100th Street, took its adventure-style form in 1972 to designs by Ross, Ryan, Jacquette Architects. The curving bridge, climbing cone, and water-spray feature have been restored, with the addition of complementary new equipment and resilient carpeting. A tree house was built around several mature trees, which were sadly removed after suffering damage during the August 18 storm. (The tree house remains.)
These respectful restorations are the latest sign that, 40 years later, adventure play is back. "In the 1970s, adventure playgrounds pushed the limits of demanding, physical play," said Christopher Nolan, the conservancy's vice president for capital projects. "We've been able to preserve the innovations that those playgrounds represented." The two spaces join other playgrounds of this style, like the Rockwell Group's Imagination Playground in Lower Manhattan, due to open next year, with a kit of loose parts that kids can use under the supervision of "play associates."
Dattner, who consulted pro bono on his playground's redesign, regards this latest generation of play spaces with a certain bemusement. "Much of my knowledge of the value of play has really been from the observation of kids playing with junk in the gutter," he said. "The two major materials are sand and water. The rest is extra."
A version of this article appeared in AN 18_11.04.2009.


Perfecting the Vehicle Presentation
Written by Darin George. Posted in Sales Training
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The saying "Presentation is Everything" must have started in the restaurant industry. Good food is important, but how it's presented distinguishes a great dining experience from being just another meal.
The presenters at the major auto shows are well rehearsed and trained so they can deliver top-notch product presentations to the crowds. Manufacturers want and need these presentations to be outstanding. If you take the same approach at your dealership, you will see a consistent increase in demonstration drives, sales, and overall gross profit.
After or during your contact questions and when you have chosen a vehicle to present, where do you start your vehicle presentation?
A vehicle presentation should always start at the front of the vehicle, because your end result has to be the customer sitting in the driver's seat. I've heard others say suggest starting at the point of interest to the customer. This is OK, but remember you are giving the customer control of your presentation. The bottom line is you have to get the customer into the driver's seat.
Determining what type of customer you have will affect the time you spend with them. Visual person = less time; Auditory person = more time; Kinesthetic person = both, depending on your initial rapport established.
The average presentation should be 10 minutes. Your product knowledge is critical during your walk around. Professionals know every detail of their product and the competition's.
No one is perfect, but your credibility is at risk if the customer asks a question you can't answer. Be sure to acknowledge when the customer raises a point you are not familiar with. Say something like, "This is an excellent question and would it be OK if I find out the correct answer for you a bit later?"
It is important not to avoid the question; write it down and answer it later.
Do not interrupt the flow of your presentation to look for the answer unless it is of critical concern that influences the selection.
Six Position Vehicle Walk Around
1. Explain the front of vehicle, styling and aerodynamics of the vehicle.
2. Explain everything about the engine.
3. Explain the passenger side of the vehicle and open doors.
4. Explain the trunk and rear of the vehicle.
5. Open driver's side door and go over the interior features.
6. Seat the customer in driver's seat and explain gauges etc.
what to point out when selling a car
When you can, you should always show a vehicle feature and explain any benefits that are related to it.
At the end of the walk around, with the customer sitting in the driver's seat say to them: "Let me show you the vehicle properly. I'll be right back."
Do not hesitate; just go and get a dealer plate and come back to the vehicle and put it on the car. When you are back to the vehicle ask/tell the customer: "Mr. Customer, for safety reasons could you please sit in the passenger seat while I drive the vehicle out of the dealership?
Never ask the customer if they would like to go on a test drive, because if you do; statistics show you have a 50/50 chance of actual going on the test drive. If you just assume the demo drive your chances climb to a 70/30 that you will be going on the demonstration drive. More demonstration drives, always results in more sales.
It's all about presentation. Your goal of a vehicle presentation is to get the customer to the next step, the demo drive. The proper amount of professional quality time spent during your vehicle presentation, combined with your contact question and a demo drive, will separate the great sales people from the average.
Darin George is the founder of the Automotive Sales College. For information on recruiting new sales staff and in dealership sales training, contact Darin by email at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. ASC company websites: and


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This is an unproven proposition I've come across in multiple places.
Suppose $A$ is a commutative Noetherian ring, and $S$ a multiplicative subset of $A$. Then $S^{-1}A$ is Noetherian.
Why is this? I thought about taking some chain of submodules $$ S^{-1}M_1\subset S^{-1}M_2\subset\cdots $$ and pulling back to a chain $$ M_1\subset M_2\subset\cdots $$ of submodules of $A$ which must eventually stablize. Is there more to it than this? I kind of wary of assuming all submodules of $S^{-1}A$ have form $S^{-1}M$ for $M\leq A$.
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This is a standard property of localizations:
Theorem. Let $R$ be a commutative ring, and let $S\neq\emptyset$ be a multiplicative subset. Let $M$ be an $R$-module. Let $\varphi\colon R\to S^{-1}R$ be the canonical map ($\varphi(r) = \frac{rs}{s}$), and likewise, by abuse of notation, let $\varphi\colon M\to S^{-1}M$ be the natural map $(\varphi(m) = \frac{sm}{s}$ with $s\in S$).
 1. For every submodule $N$ of $M$, $S^{-1}N = \{\frac{a}{s}\mid a\in N\}$ is a submodule of $S^{-1}M$.
 2. If $L$ is a submodule of $S^{-1}M$, then $\varphi^{-1}(L) = \{m\in M\mid \varphi(m)\in L\}$ is a submodule of $M$.
 3. If $N$ is a submodule of $M$, then $N\subseteq \varphi^{-1}(S^{-1}N)$. Moreover, if $N=\varphi^{-1}(L)$ for some submodule $L$ of $M$, then $L=S^{-1}N$.
Proof. $S^{-1}N$ is nonempty, as it contains $\frac{0}{s}$; it is closed under differences, since $\frac{a}{s}-\frac{b}{t} = \frac{ta-sb}{st}\in S^{-1}N$ if $a,b\in N$. And it is closed under scalar multiplication, since $a\in N$ implies $ra\in N$ for all $r\in R$, so $\frac{r}{t}(\frac{a}{s}) = \frac{ra}{ts}\in S^{-1}N$ if $a\in N$.
Now let $L$ be a submodule of $S^{-1}M$; since $\varphi$ is a module homomorphism, the pullback of a submodule is a submodule, so 2 is immediate.
Again, let $N$ be a submodule of $M$. Then for every $a\in N$ we have $\varphi(a) = \frac{sa}{s}\in S^{-1}N$, since $sa\in N$, hence $a\in \varphi^{-1}(S^{-1}N)$. Now assume that $N=\varphi^{-1}(L)$. If $a\in N$ and $s\in S$, then $\frac{a}{s} = \frac{ssa}{sss} = \frac{s}{ss}\frac{sa}{s} =\frac{s}{ss}\varphi(a)\in L$ (since $\varphi(a)\in L$), hence $S^{-1}N\subseteq L$. Conversely, let $\frac{m}{t}\in L$. Then $\frac{tt}{t}\frac{m}{t} = \frac{(tt)m}{tt}=\varphi(m)\in L$, hence $m\in \varphi^{-1}(L) = N$; thus, $\frac{m}{t}\in S^{-1}N$, proving that $L\subseteq S^{-1}N$. Therefore, $L=S^{-1}N$, as claimed. $\Box$
Corollary. Every submodule of $S^{-1}M$ is of the form $S^{-1}N$ for some submodule $N$ of $M$.
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Thanks, these properties and the detail are very helpful. – Buble Feb 18 '12 at 23:28
_USER_ I swear to god I've learned so much from your posts on Math.SE :D – user38268 Feb 19 '12 at 1:00
Let $f\colon A \to S^{-1}A$ be the canonical homomorphism. It is true that every ideal $\mathfrak b$ of $S^{-1}A$ is of the form $S^{-1}\mathfrak a = f(\mathfrak a)(S^{-1}A)$ for some ideal $\mathfrak a$ of $A$. We can even take $\mathfrak a = f^{-1}(\mathfrak b)$, and this should help you prove that $S^{-1}A$ is Noetherian using increasing chains.
You can find related facts in and around Proposition 6.4 of Milne.
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Thanks for your help again, Dylan. btw, should it say some ideal $\mathfrak{a}$ of $A$? in the second line, not $S^{-1}A$? – Buble Feb 18 '12 at 23:27
_USER_ Yes indeed. I was toying with the wording and this mixup, inevitably, happened. – Dylan Moreland Feb 18 '12 at 23:47
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The significant investment that goes into buying an aircraft makes picking the ideal hangar for it imperative. Whether you have a single airplane, helicopter, glider or a fleet of aircraft, then the buildings that are right to ensure its protection. What factors do you need to focus on to find appropriate aircraft hangars? Here are.
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"If you're going to get young people to overcome those instincts, you have to work pretty hard to create a culture that makes it not only acceptable, but desirable," she said.
By studying children's literature and culture in the pre-war years, "we'll gain insights into how children were enculturated," she said. "If we're ever going to stop war, we have to understand what encourages people to fight."
The conferences, part of the international research project Approaching War, will take place in Australia, Canada and England in 2011, 2012 and 2013. The Australian conference, located at the University of Technology Sydney, will be in November or early December of this year. A three-day conference is being tentatively constructed for May 9 to 12, 2012, in Canada, starting at Brock and moving to McCrae House in Guelph, birthplace of In Flanders Fields author John McCrae. The third conference will be in Newcastle, UK. Newcastle University, the University of Technology Sydney and the Toronto Public Library (through its Osborne collection) are part of the research project.
Paul, who has been at Brock since 2005, has a long-time interest in children's literature. Her new book, The Children's Book Business: Lessons from the Long Eighteenth Century, was published Dec. 14 by Routledge. She is an associate general editor of The Norton Anthology of Children's Literature (Norton 2005),authored Reading Otherways (Thimble 1998) and was the content editor of Growing with Books: Children's Literature in the Formative Years and Beyond (Ontario Ministry of Education 1988).
When it comes to relationships between children's culture and war, the First World War is particularly interesting, she said. Its iconography, from Snoopy's Red Baron to imagery in war games, endures even now.
"Through the First World War, boys especially were encouraged to believe that war was an exciting adventure, a noble thing in which people should engage," she said. "What were the conditions that allowed that war to take place? What were boys seeing that made them say 'This is what I'm going to do: kill or be killed?'"


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This nighttime photo represents some of the world's first ever visual evidence of the spotted deer species found on the island of Negros in the Philippines. Despite its size, the island's unimaginably dense forests have kept it invisible until now.
Admittedly, the spotted deer was hardly undocumented, as there are a few examples of the species in captivity. But nobody had ever photographed one in the wild before a recent expedition deep into the island's brutal jungle. The researchers were also able to get the first wild photographs of the warty pig, another larger mammal species native to the dense forests that had until now evaded detection.
The team set 20 camera traps, which were able to photograph the animals without disturbing them. Part of what has kept these species so isolated is that the forest "interior" is located on a narrow plateau nearly a mile above sea level, and there are no permanent access points to the area. In an interview, team leader Dr. Neil D'Cruze compared the region to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Lost World, detailing the ridiculous lengths they had to go to just for a few photographs:
"The traps allowed us to see animals we knew were there, but never laid eyes on during our time in the forest. After spending 12 very hard days camped in some of the worst field conditions I have experienced (with) lashing rain and just impenetrable forest … we did not actually see the animals with our own eyes. The only way we could find access was through a tree that had fallen, which we walked across. Once that tree goes, who knows how access will be gained."
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- 1 What is the best way to preserve pears?
- 2 Do you need to peel pears for jam?
- 3 What to do with lots of fresh pears?
- 4 How do you preserve pears without canning them?
- 5 What can I do with a can of pears?
- 6 How ripe should Pears be for preserves?
- 7 Can you Recook pear preserves?
- 8 Can you use unripe pears for jam?
- 9 Do pear skins have pectin?
- 10 Do pears have pectin?
- 11 Should pears be kept in the fridge?
- 12 Do pears freeze well?
- 13 Can I freeze whole fresh pears?
What is the best way to preserve pears?
If properly sealed, pear preserves can be stored in a cool, dark place for up to one year. A simple storage option for pear jam, butter, and chutney. Storing halved or whole preserved pears in the freezer is not recommended due to their fragile texture. Preserves can be stored in the freezer for up to six months.
Do you need to peel pears for jam?
The fine quality and great taste of USA Pears will shine through in every batch of this delightful homemade jam! If preferred, peel pears. Cut pears lengthwise into quarters and remove cores and stem ends. Chop pears into chunks, bigger for chunky jam, smaller for a smooth batch.
What to do with lots of fresh pears?
A pear bumper harvest doesn't have to be overwhelming. These simple preservation techniques will allow you to enjoy these fruits this season and throughout the year.
- Canned Pears.
- Pear Juice.
- Frozen Pears.
- Pear Pie.
- Pear Butter.
- Pickled Pears.
- Refrigerate Pears.
- Pear Salads.
How do you preserve pears without canning them?
Blanch pears in fruit juice (apple or white grape) or water for 2 minutes. Let cool. Then, pack the pears in jars or other freezer-safe containers and fill in the empty space with the juice or water, being sure to leave the proper headspace. Use a piece of crumbled up wax paper to keep the pears submerged.
What can I do with a can of pears?
Five Ways to Turn Canned Pears into Sweet and Delicious Meals
- Produce-Packed Goodness: Pear Salad. Need to eat more fruits and veggies? (Who doesn't?)
- A Twist on a Classic: Pear Quesadilla.
- The Sweet and Savory: Cobb Salad with Pears.
- Mix, Scoop and Enjoy: Pear Party Salsa.
- A Pear-y Delicious Dessert: Frozen Pear Pops.
How ripe should Pears be for preserves?
Clean the rims of the jars with a clean, damp towel and tightly secure the lids. Using tongs, place the jars on the rack in the canner. The water should cover the jars by at least 1 inch. Cover the canner.
Can you Recook pear preserves?
It can be fixed! Here's how! If the jam is too thick, before you put it in the jars, just heat 1 or 2 cups of grape juice (or any other fruit juice of similar or neutral taste, like apple or white grape) to boiling. Then, gradually pour and stir it in until you reach the desired consistency, then continue canning!
Can you use unripe pears for jam?
If you want to get jam with pear pieces, use hard, slightly unripe pear varieties. Soft and ripe pears make a great pear puree. Be sure to add lemon juice.
Do pear skins have pectin?
Since they're related to apples, they also have higher-than-average pectin levels. Pears break down quite a bit when cooked, however. Mix pears with other fruits if you want to make a jam or spread out of them to counteract their mushiness. Alternatively, just use their skins to create pectin for other recipes.
Do pears have pectin?
Sources and production. Pears, apples, guavas, quince, plums, gooseberries, and oranges and other citrus fruits contain large amounts of pectin, while soft fruits, like cherries, grapes, and strawberries, contain small amounts of pectin.
Should pears be kept in the fridge?
Leave firm, unripe pears at room temperature so that they can ripen. Once the pear is ripe, it can be refrigerated to slow the ripening process and saved for use up to five days later.
Do pears freeze well?
Any variety of pear can be frozen, but stick with pears that are ripe. Test for ripeness by pressing gently near the top of the "neck." If it gives, it's ready for freezing—or eating!
Can I freeze whole fresh pears?
Rinse and drain small quantities of whole, fresh pears through several changes of cold water. Lift fruit out of the water; do not let it soak. Peel, halve, and core pears, then cut into slices or wedges. Place the sheet and pears in the freezer and allow to freeze solid.

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I am trying to prove something that has essentially boiled down to proving that $9 + 2^x$ will only ever be a perfect square for the unique value of x=4, and that no other value will produce a perfect square. First, I am not sure if this always holds true, but it is valid for a few small values I checked.
I need to prove that $9 + 2^x = k^2$ only when $x=4$, and where $k$ is an integer. I tried reducing $\text{mod } 9$ to get
$$2^x \equiv k^2 \text{ (mod 9)}$$ and I know that squares modulo 9 will be 0, 1, 4, or 7. However, after this I am stuck and do not know how to proceed.
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An approach modulo $m$ is likely not to work, or at least not simply. For there is a solution. Thus we cannot expect to reach a contradiction using modular considerations. – André Nicolas Jun 3 '14 at 4:52
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Hint: $2^x+9=k^2$ if and only if $2^x = k^2-9 = (k-3)(k+3)$. Thus $k-3$ and $k+3$ must be powers of $2$.
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Do you then show that beyond a certain value for x, the two powers will always differ by more than 6: $2^n-2^{n-1}>6 \text{ for } n\geq 4$? However, how do you relate $n$ back in terms of $x$ and $k$? – _PHONE_ Jun 3 '14 at 4:56
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Aerospace manufacturers face a lot of pressure to lower cost but increase performance and follow stringent safety standards. Thus they seek materials in commercial airlines that are not only robust but also reliable meeting high specialized applications in the industry. This paper will detail about advance ceramic use in aerospace discussing the growing use of advanced ceramics in manufacture of aerospace components.
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The use of advanced ceramics like alumina, aluminum nitride and silicon nitride are used to manufacture critical aerospace components especially aerospace engines. This is mainly because they have good physical advantages like ability to retain their dimensional stability through a range of high temperatures, ability to exhibit high mechanical strength, excellent chemical resistance and a stiffness-to-weight ratio. This provides manufacturers the ability to design components that offer optimal performance for their intended purposes like improving fuel efficiency, increase performance and satisfy safety standards (Ceramic industry).
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Electro-ceramic materials like dielectric and piezoelectric are especially used in developments in manufacturing techniques in material science that have led to development of advanced ceramics serving in critical functions in aircraft instrumentation. They are used in missile guiding, satellite positioning and fire detection. Some of them include gyroscopes used for measuring aircraft acceleration and accelerometers used in measuring vibration. The Boeing 777 uses piezo ceramics within the aircraft's fuel probe tank. Ultrasonic transducers are installed in each fuel tank and a pulsed electric field is then applied to the piezo ceramic material which responds by oscillating. A digital processor is then able to interpret time of flight measurement of sound waves to continue indicating the amount of fuel present. They are especially liked because of their ability to provide accurate readings the reason why the probes are also used in ultrasonic fuel probes in fighter crafts (Advanced Ceramics in Aerospace).
Advanced ceramics are also used in developing highly & efficient and cost-effective new technologies for space travel. Instead of the traditional chemical propulsion, a lightweight alternative is being looked into because ion engines have the ability to push spacecraft 10 times faster with same fuel consumption. This has the potential of reducing size of the vehicle but increasing travel distance. Ion technology that used quartz earlier has seen the use of alumina instead. This is because alumina has higher structural stability hence easier to fabricate and also offers good thermal shock resistance ensuring that the material can withstand extreme temperatures. Alumina is way lighter than quartz.
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Brazing materials that are ideal for aero engine component repair like pre-sintered performs (PSP) can perform for very high temperature applications. The PSP are customized in a way to fit the shape of a component thus have the ability to providing a range of almost the same thickness. This eliminates the need for post-braze but able to extend the life of the engine by up-to 300 percent (Advanced Ceramics in Aerospace). An example is the ceramic core developed by MTC-Certech that has greater dimensional accuracy and able to maintain tight tolerances without any form of distortion. They are very stable at high temperatures (Ceramic industry).
Due to the aerospace industry's demand for higher performance and lower cost, scientists and ceramic manufacturers have continued developing new materials that take advantage of electrical properties and high thermal capabilities that form advanced ceramics (The AZo Journal of Materials Online).
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Rexis® (500 μg/10 mL in vial) is an injectable drug product that provides the essential trace element, selenium, for the human body. Several early clinical studies have demonstrated that the administration of selenium via intravenous injection can reduce the mortality in patients with severe disease such as sepsis. In addition, it has been reported that selenium can increase the body's anti-oxidant activity via GPx enzyme, and modulate humoral and cell-mediated immunity to maintain balanced immune function, thereby reducing the possibility of hospital-acquired infections.
The globally high mortality rate of sepsis is still not under effective control. Sepsis is particularly prevalent in immunocompromised patients, especially the elderly with declining immune system. Currently, most of the developed and developing countries are showing trends of population ageing, of which sepsis might cause a significant health threat. The phase III clinical trial (CARE-SEPS study) of Rexis® as an add-on therapy for sepsis patients, which was simultaneously conducted in seven medical centers in Taiwan, had been completed. Clinical data showed that the Rexis® injection was with good safety and tolerability. Although the primary endpoint of mortality was not met with statistical significance, there was evidence of selenium deficiency in most of the sepsis patients, and the patients could rapidly recover from the low selenium status and shorten hospitalization days after the administration of Rexis®. Our first marketed product, Zelnite®, is a low-dose selenium injection solution (100 μg/2 mL in ampoule). The phase III clinical data will be used for the application of post-approval changes in dosage and primary packaging component for Zelnite®, marketing a high-dose selenium injection solution (500 μg/10 mL in vial) is expected to expand clinical applications of patient population and meet the medical needs of the higher dosage.


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Sense About Science and NIHR launch new practical guide for Public Engagement
7 November 2017
Public Engagement - case study Public Engagement - report
Sense About Science, work with researchers on many of the most sensitive subjects - some fraught with misunderstanding - to improve the communication of their research findings. They only undertake such partnerships where there are high stakes for the public and communication is difficult. Communicating the survival statistics of children's heart surgery at different treatment centres in 2016 was among the toughest of these, with potentially major consequences for all involved. It is a using this experience as a case study, funded by the National Institute for Health Research, that has been used as the basis of this new practical guide.
The guide sets out a five-step guide to involve the public in communicating research, so co-designing research communications:
It doesn't cover how to involve publics in the shaping of research itself, but points to resources if that's what you're looking for.
Each chapter is dedicated to looking at each of the five steps in turn and provides an overview of the sorts of questions or steps to help you contextualise the steps within your own area of interest, whilst also providing annotated examples of how these were done for different projects, but significantly through looking through the lens of Dr Christina Pagel, a mathematician at UCL, from writing her grant to update the formula used to take into account the complexity of surgical cases in monitoring hospitals that carry out children's heart surgery through to developing a website to communicate the research and its significance.
Worth a read-through for anyone thinking of doing user-testing and audience consultations - especially if communicating tricky or complicated topics is at the heart of your work.


Maharashtra, UP gets Tough Solar Targets for 2022
Maharashtra Solar Targets
The MNRE has recently handed over red-letters to solar-friendly states underlining targets and deadline for renewable energy generation and absorption. The letter pronounces Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh into the challenging solar energy targets by 2022, asserting Maharashtra to increase 30 times solar capacity to its existing
378.7 MW generating 11,926 MW.
UP also has a good start to its solar capacity generation of 140 MW and with this recommendation the state has to convince to raise its solar capacity to more than 75 times generating 10,697 MW.
MNRE Secretary Upendra Tripathy wrote to the chief secretaries of all states and Union Territories, setting out each of their targets so as to achieve the goals of 100,000 MW of solar power, 60,000 MW of wind power and a total of 175,000 MW of renewable energy (the rest coming from biomass and small hydro projects) by 2022.
With the stipulation that 8% of the power consumed by a state should come from solar sources by 2022, Maharashtra's target rises to 12,611 MW and UP's to 13,248 MW, though the shortfall could be drawn from other states.
The secretary further writes in his letter that the states have to respond with an action plan, breaking up their cumulative goals into yearly targets. "I propose to convene a meeting in the second week of March 2016 to discuss the State Action Plan 2022, a copy of which may be sent to me in advance.
Tarun Kapoor, Joint Secretary in the MNRE, has written to Power Secretary Pradeep Kumar Pujari to ensure that all state electricity regulatory commissions cooperate in meeting the states' obligation of drawing 17% of their total power from renewable sources by 2022, including a minimum of 8% from solar sources. He has also written similarly to the principal secretaries (power) in all states and Union Territories.
Rajasthan and Gujarat are best suited regions for solar energy making the states to easily achieve the given targets.
Rajasthan already has solar capacity of 1,264.35 MW installed and needs to raise it less than five times to 5,762 MW by 2022. Gujarat, with a solar capacity of 1,024.15 MW, has to increase it to 8,020 MW.


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February 20, 2012
Canadian Black History
Season of Rage: Hugh Burnett and the Struggle for Civil Rights
by John Cooper
The small Ontario town of Dresden was one of the end points of the Underground Railroad. The escaped slaves who settled there built many of the area's schools and churches. Yet racial discrimination persisted. Dresden's barbershops, beauty parlor, pool halls, and two of its restaurants, refused to serve black customers.
Hugh Burnett, a successful furniture maker, decided to take a stand. He and others formed the National Unity Association to forge better race and group relations. With the backing of the Joint Labour Committee for Human Rights, they worked diligently to enforce the new laws of the Ontario government, which made discrimination based on race or religion a statutory offence.
With writing that simmers with a quiet, palpable anger, author John Cooper sheds light on an important moment in Canadian history.


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An experimental 3 month long artistic research residency and exhibition project examining the connection between Earth and computation with the work of Berlin-based artist Martin Howse, curated by Peter Flemming in collaboration with OBORO and Perte de Signal in Montréal with support from the Goethe Institut.
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Dissolutions examines the connection between Earth and computation. This artistic research residency and experimental exhibition project intervenes within cycles of earth-extraction-earth-return in which the minerals which form the material basis of digital technology are pulled from the ground using large-scale industrial processes, eventually to be re-absorbed in the form of e-waste and pollution.
Dissolutions aims to construct a series of playfully experimental situations (open labs, workshops, talks, collective field trips) exploring the material-basis of contemporary and future cultures, focusing on the transition from largescale industrial technologies, particularly those of extraction and mining, to the seemingly invisible realm of the digital.


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Hildegard Brauns, Markus Gangl, Stefani Scherer
Education and Unemployment Risks among Market Entrants: A Comparison of France, the United Kingdom and West Germany
In empirical education and labour market research, different approaches for measuring education have been pursued; they reach from 'number of years of schooling' and educational scoring as continuous measures to typologies as the ISCED (International Standard Classification of Education) and CASMIN (Comparative Analysis of Social Mobility in Industrial Nations) classification as categorical approaches. The value of the CASMIN educational classification has been demonstrated in many studies in comparative social mobility and labour market research.
In this paper we present an updated and partly revised version of the CASMIN scheme, that is able to capture also the institutional changes that took place in the course of the educational reforms that affected most European societies following World War II. We also provide the reader with examples for implementation of the schema for France, Italy, West-Germany, and the United Kingdom.


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This article accompanies the fable
The Whore's Revenge
Chaucer and Chaumpaigne
One of the most celebrated cases of literary rape ("raptus") involved Geoffrey Chaucer. In 1380 charges were dropped by one Cecily Chaumpaigne. The document on which the charges were based - "concerning my rape" ("de raptu meo") - came to light in 1873. Chaucer apparently paid 10 pounds to Cecily, which was a huge amount for the time. So why did he pay?
The pessimists have indicted Chaucer in academia as a forcible rapist. Did Chaucer indeed rape her and does the evil deed "haunt" his works and change forever how we feel about his Canterbury Tales? The optimists have argued that the evidence simply isn't there, because we don't have enough information about what happened and the terminology is vague about whether a rape actually occurred. Perhaps Cecily used it as leverage to get what she wanted?
The cynic might say it's likely that sex occurred, perhaps on a regular basis. Some see Cecily as Chaucer's mistress and she may have become pregnant. Did Chaucer, who was married, break off the relationship and she got back at him? Was Cecily a first class manipulator and she fabricated the charge to blackmail him? Some believe Cecily's stepmother was Alice Perrers, a famous courtesan and businesswoman and perhaps Cecily indulged in the family practice? Who's to say? The agnostic notes that the controversy continues unabated in universities and what's really interesting is why academics and students take the self-serving positions that they do.
Whatever one's predilection, it's ironic that the story of Chaucer and Chaumpaigne is so similar to Casanova and Charpillon. As a master of irony himself, Chaucer might have enjoyed that.
The image below shows Chaucer as a pilgrim in the Ellesmere Manuscript of The Canterbury Tales. Many think of this version as the most beautiful manuscript we have. It dates from the early 1400's, not long after his death.


A Conversation with Sir Nigel Shadbolt, Co-Founder of the Open Data Institute
Nigel Shadbolt
Sir Nigel Shadbolt is chairman of the Open Data Institute which he co-founded with Sir Tim Berners-Lee. Nigel is one of the UK's foremost computer scientists. He is a leading researcher in artificial intelligence and was one of the originators of the interdisciplinary field of web science. He is Principal of Jesus College Oxford, a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Oxford and a visiting Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Southampton.
In 2009 the Prime Minister appointed him and Sir Tim Berners-Lee as Information Advisors to transform access to Public Sector Information. This work led to the highly acclaimed data.gov.uk site that now provides a portal to tens of thousands of datasets. In 2010, he joined the UK government's Public Sector Transparency Board — overseeing Open Data releases across the public sector. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, the Royal Academy of Engineering, a Fellow and former President of the British Computer Society. He was knighted in 2013 for 'services to science and engineering'
In this exclusive interview, I spoke to Sir Nigel about open data and artificial intelligence are transforming humanity.
Q: How did you find your passion for computing & Artificial Intelligence?
[Sir Nigel Shadbolt]: I grew up in the age of space exploration, reading Asimov, Le Guin and Clarke, getting lost in the worlds they had created which were littered with aliens, robots and AI. At quite an early age I started thinking about whether there was extra-terrestrial intelligence, what intelligence is, and whether we could make it. I went through school and university, took my first degrees in philosophy and psychology and then went on to do a PhD at the department of artificial intelligence at the University of Edinburgh. It was a field whichat the timewas deeply out of favour, but which was saved by the huge efforts of a few researchers and academics. It was in the 80's and 90's where AI started to gain popularity again; and since thenas an area of studyit has gone from strength to strength. For me, I think it was a combination of Star Trek, far too much Asimov and the niggling question of understanding ourselves better through computing technologies.
Q: What is driving the growth of AI and ML technology today?
[Sir Nigel Shadbolt]: The field of Artificial Intelligence was given its name in '56 by John McCarthy though Turing and others had been thinking of AI for years before that. To understand where we are today, you need to go back to think of the early internet. It had always been doubling in numbers year to year, but that doubling starts from a small number and requires the right conditions for growth. When it comes to AI, there a number of driving forces. Firstly, the underlying growth in the power of computer hardware (we often use density of transistors on a circuit as an approximation of this) shows that computing power per unit of currency doubles every 15 months and has done for 4 decades (Moore's Law).
This spills over into communication infrastructure, memory and all those areas. We mustn't forget that we owe a huge amount of our success to electrical engineers who have built the hardware on which our programs run. We are also in an era where data is becoming more available, with the tools and methods we have getting more complex, available and capable. Many of the methods we use in AI today are not dissimilar from those we used 4 decades ago, but they have been supplanted with new tools and extraordinary computing power. The latest generation of machine learning is an intersection of brute force (huge computing power), huge amounts of data and deep insights into how machine learning can happen efficiently, at scale.
Q: As a society, do we understand our relationship with data?
[Sir Nigel Shadbolt]: Practically everything we do has a relationship with data, and we're generating data constantly which is often held on large corporate or government platforms. People rightly worry about getting the balance right in terms of our data, but we are being overwhelmed by the volume of data – it's a tsunami – there's huge amounts of it about, it's becoming easier to capture, and vanishingly inexpensive to capture through the amount of low cost sensors in our environment. How do we put regulations, checks and balances around this? How do we put adequate controls on the generation and use of data whilst still retaining the huge benefits from this extraordinary ability we now have? The pace of change we have experienced recently has meant that individually, and as a society, we're still catching-up as we better understand the role that data plays in the decisions that affect our day to day lives.
We have to have a conversation about how data can empower or oppress uswe have the opportunity to re-imagine this, it's not a deal that's been done, and it's not too late to imagine a different way of organising, regulating, collecting, contributing and benefiting. Right now, it's a bit like the early stages of the universe. Lots of hot plasma gas everywhere, but structure takes time to emerge…
Q: Are technologies such as Ai shaping what it means to be human?
[Sir Nigel Shadbolt]: Roger Hampson and I wrote a book called The Digital Ape, which is all about how we could live in peace with smart machines, but it was literally about the fact that this device here is the hand-axe of the modern era. Tools and technologies augment us, and amplify our capability, they always have done. Early human species have been found to have shaped and made tools. That tool making shaped our neurology and musculature. We didn't' just make technology, it made us. In the modern context, this phenomenon terrifies some people and excites othersbut it's going to happen. We have to understand how humans and their tools and technologies blend at scale – it's going to be an absolutely fascinating journey.
Q: How do researchers deal with the ethical challenges of AI?
[Sir Nigel Shadbolt]: My fear has never been the machines waking up and deciding to do away with us, but rather that wein our own bone headed waydeploy systems inappropriately, or without thinking through the unintended consequences that may occur.
There have been successful conversations around bio-ethics for example. Take a look at what happened in the UK with the human fertilization and embryology authority; before the science was resolved they were imagining where artificial insemination and embryology were going, the ethical issues that would be raised, and how we could deal with them.
In a similar way, we're seeing a debate around the ethics of AI. Key questions are being asked such as when (and when not) to use certain technologies…. How algorithms can be held accountable…. How explicable should algorithms be… what happens when algorithms appear biased against a particular demographic… and also the fundamental question of what happens if AI is available to some parts of the population, and not to others. The nature of AI means that these ethical questions will also bleed into areas such as medical ethics (such as how AI is enabling precision genomics, personalised medicine and therapeutics).
We have to have these conversations, and we have to come up with viable frameworks, otherwise people will continue with dystopian claims about how the future may end-up impoverished with these technologies. I remain a technical optimist… the problem is not artificial intelligence, it's natural stupidity. Through treaties, regimes and pressure (not always applied brilliantly or perfectly) we have at least stopped ourselves from the worst excesses in chemical, biological and nuclear science.
Q: How can we build societal resilience to AI?
[Sir Nigel Shadbolt]: Societal resilience is not about having a defensive posture, nor about laws and regulations, it's also about the norms and what is and is not accepted as reasonable behaviour.
People often talk about the 'Turing test' and whether or not you can tell if it's a machine at the end of the phone in a call centre. We're already well beyond that and we know there are systems that sound and behave like people, and rather than trying to get us (as people) to be able to distinguish between the human and the digital, surely it's more sensible that we should expect that systems say what they are. Notwithstanding that, there is nothing behind that algorithm at the call centre… nothing equivalent to human intuition, human responsibility, human sensibility….
As you go all the way from individual call centres, you get to the place where you find state actors who are trying to take down civilian cyber infrastructure. With armed context you can see this clearly with tanks and soldiers, but what people can't see is that there is a 24/7 set offensive and defensive operations happening between state actors, every single day. The digital is invisible, pervasive, ubiquitous, it's difficult to pin down and make clear rules. That's where our multilateral organisations need to be… to help us come to a better settlement between our nation states… And that's at least one place we should start.
Q: What is the difference between data and information?
[Sir Nigel Shadbolt]: When people talk about data, they're invariably talking about information. If I say to you 41, it's data. If I tell you 41 is the temperature in centigrade, that's information. If I tell you 41 is the temperature, in centigrade, of a human patient, that really is information – in fact, it's in danger of becoming knowledge because of the contextualisation it gives you.
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The International Network of PsySR (INPsySR) is a newly formed international network of organizations that use psychology to understand and address pressing social issues. Our purpose in linking such groups is:
- To unite the efforts of psychological organizations around the world in which psychologists are currently involved in peace, conflict resolution and social justice activities.
- To promote communication and cooperation between psychologists and their organizations in the area of social responsibility.
- To support member organizations in developing their work in their own countries.
- To facilitate contacts with international bodies of psychology and related disciplines and to be an important source of advice to institutions, government departments and to political and social organizations.
- To promote social responsibility in the practice of psychology.
PsySR and similar groups in Finland and Germany are founding members of the network, but we hope that during 2018 it will grow to include large and small organizations from every continent. To apply for membership, please complete and submit our Membership Form.


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Airport Maintenance Hangar Construction
1. Project Overview
The project is divided into three phases with a total construction land area of 81,384.1 square meters. The construction land is about 336 meters long from east to west and about 227 meters wide from north to south (partially 108 meters). The new structures of the hangar project include the maintenance and painting of hangars and annexes, power stations, dangerous goods warehouses, waste warehouses, gatehouses, and outdoor works.
Rendering of the north side of the maintenance airplane hangar
BIM comprehensive model of the maintenance hangar
Air nodes above the aircraft painting hall in the maintenance hangar
2. International airport BIM model
In the picture above the aircraft painting hall of the maintenance aircraft hangar of the international airport, since the building span here is 123 meters, the roof adopts a two-layer oblique quadrangular pyramid space frame. The resulting problem is: there are relatively dense and large-sized air ducts in the air above the aircraft painting hall. How to ensure that the space frame will not collide with the ventilation system after the overall hoisting has become the problem that this project needs to solve. important question.
In the establishment of the BIM model, follow the principle of avoiding the large by using the small, making full use of the gaps in the space frame, and arranging the system with a large size first, and then arranging the system with a small size. Fully communicate and coordinate with structural designers and HVAC designers, integrate and eliminate unnecessary components as much as possible under the conditions allowed by the regulations, and finally achieve zero collision between the space frame and the ventilation system, and reduce the construction cost by 8%.


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It's almost encoded in your Jewish DNA: How you make your stuffed cabbage all depends on where your grandmother came from.
For many, the delicacy is served on the holiday of Simchat Torah much the same way that latkes are associated with Chanukah, hamentaschen tag along with Purim and Shavuot comes with a plethora of dairy dishes.
So how did the overcooked, gelatinous, rolled-up dish become associated with the last festival of the High Holidays season?
"Most of the traditional foods we eat on Jewish holidays start out with a seasonal reason as to why we eat them, and later a religious significance is tacked on," says Gil Marks, a Jewish food historian and author of the "Encyclopedia of Jewish Food." "Vegetables like cabbage were in season during the fall and very cheap, so stuffed cabbage became one of the most popular traditional foods eaten. Cabbage was the odor of the shtetl."
Travel back some 500 years to the 16th century, when Jews first started living in shtetls. The Jews mostly kept to themselves, but the food they ate often was a kosher adaptation of what their non-Jewish neighbors were eating, Marks says.
Stuffed cabbage was a staple dish for peasants during the cold season in places such as Turkey and Persia, and it arrived to the Jews of Europe from the south and the east, according to Marks. Jews living in places like Russia and Poland learned the dish from the Tatars, a Turkish group that ruled the area in the 16th century, while Jews living in southern European countries such as Hungary and the Balkans learned it from their Turkish neighbors, who then were under the control of the Ottoman Empire.
Eastern European Jews adapted the dish with cabbage and kosher meat, naming it after a dove because the rolled up item resembled a bird in a nest. So in Russian it was called golub, in Ukraine holub and in Yiddish teibel—all words for dove.
Those living in the Ottoman Empire made the dish using local grape leaves. They gave the dish a more literal name in Turkish, like sarma, which means wrap, yaprak for leaf, or dolma for stuffed.
From here, Jewish communities added their variations. Many Hungarian Jews use a dash of marjoram, Syrians add cinnamon, Persians throw in some dill and mint, and Romanians toss in lots of garlic and paprika.
As meat was expensive, many Jews in the Middle East and Romania would add rice to reduce the share of meat needed, while Eastern European Jews would add bread, barley or kasha. Some Middle Eastern varieties use only rice for the stuffing.
"They didn't always have money to buy meat, but when they did, they saved it for special occasions and served their best dish on Simchas Torah," Marks said, using the Ashkenazic pronunciation for the holiday.
When Jews began to immigrate to America in the 19th and 20th century, the dish took on new variations, like cooking it in a tomato stew or a sweet-and-sour sauce.
"I've met so many people over the years that like to make their own little variation of the dish, adding a little sour cream or parmesan cheese," Joan Nathan, a Jewish cuisine author and television producer, told JTA. "But honestly, why change a recipe that has been through so many generations and is perfect the way it is? We use the same recipe, year after year, and that's what makes it so special."
With the dish appearing at the end of Sukkot year after year—Simchat Torah comes the day after Sukkot ends, and some American Jews spend the holiday's first day, called Shemini Atzeret, eating in the sukkah—Jews began ascribing new meanings to stuffed cabbage. (Or, perhaps, those points of significance were hidden in the folds of the cabbage all along.)
"Some believe stuffing a food represents the time of harvesting, since Sukkot marks the fall harvest. More importantly, it was easily transferable in and out of the sukkah," Marks said. "It also has an interesting visual. One stuffed cabbage on a plate noticeably resembles a rolled up Torah scroll—and two, side by side, also looks like a Torah, rolled up halfway."
Tori Avey, a Jewish convert who writes the culinary blog Shiksa in the Kitchen, says readers from all over the world have sent recipes to her. Some were identical.
"For a sweet and sour flavor, readers wrote to add sour salt, although some opt for lemon juice or apple cider vinegar," Avey told JTA via email. "One reader with Russian ancestors uses lemon peels. Some readers said they use sauerkraut for the sauce, and others use convenience ingredients like cranberry juice, V-8, and even grape jelly."
Whether you stew it, boil it, saute it or steam it, there's no right or wrong when it comes to preparing stuffed cabbage. The important thing, Marks says, is to remember your roots.
"People remember the different variations of stuffed cabbage based on their mothers and grandmothers," he said. "It's not just about food. Eating something as traditional as this is a cultural experience, one that is spiritual and nostalgic. It manages to transcend time, its food for the soul."
Stuffed recipes: cabbage with meat and vegetarian grape leaves
By Chavie Lieber
Below are recipes for Sweet and Sour Stuffed Cabbage and Vegetarian Stuffed Grape Leaves:
Joan Nathan's Sweet and Sour Stuffed Cabbage
1 head of cabbage, frozen (2 pounds)
2 pounds ground beef
1 medium onion, grated
1 clove garlic, minced (about 1 teaspoon)
Salt and freshly ground pepper to taste
2 tablespoons canola or vegetable oil
1 medium onion, peeled and diced (about 1 cup)
1/2 cup brown sugar
Juice of one lemon
1/2 cup raisins
1/2 cup chili sauce
Salt and pinch of freshly ground black pepper
Defrost cabbage the night before cooking. When completely defrosted, separate leaves. Preheat oven to 350. Mix ground beef, grated onion, garlic with salt and pepper in large bowl. Place 1 heaping tablespoon of meat mixture on each cabbage leaf. Tuck ends in and roll up. Arrange cabbage rolls seam side down in a 6-quart, ovenproof casserole. Heat oil in a small frying pan and saute the diced onion for 10 minutes. Stir in brown sugar, lemon juice, raisins, chili sauce and simmer for a few minutes. Pour over cabbage and bake, covered, for an hour. Place stuffed cabbage pieces onto serving platter, spoon sauce over and serve.
Tori Avey's Vegetarian Stuffed Grape Leaves
1/2 cup pine nuts
1 1/2 cups long grain white rice
1 medium onion, minced
1/2 cup fresh minced dill
1/4 cup fresh minced mint
6 tablespoons freshly squeezed lemon juice, divided
1 tablespoon lemon zest
1 3/4 cups vegetable broth, divided
50 large grape leaves (fresh or jarred)
Salt and pepper
1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil, divided
Fresh mint leaves, lemon slices, and olives (for garnish, optional)
Lightly toast pine nuts in medium skillet until brown; reserve. In medium pot, saute onion in 1/4 cup olive oil until brown. Add rice and 3/4 cup vegetable broth, simmer for 10 minutes or until rice is cooked al dente and liquid is absorbed. Do not cook rice completely to avoid mushy grape leaves. Remove pot, add dill, mint, pine nuts, 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice and lemon zest. Season with salt and pepper, let mixture cool to room temperature. Boil second pot of salted water, trim grape leaves by cutting stems and trimming any large veins. Place leaves in boiling water for 3-5 minutes until they soften. Drain, cover leaves with cold water. Drain and pat leaves dry. Place shiny side of grape leaf down on flat surface. Place 2 tablespoons of rice filling at base of leaf and fold up like a cigar. Do not roll too tightly. Place any damaged leaves at bottom of saute pan to create bed of stuffed leaves. Place stuffed leaves in saute pan in layers. Pour 1 cup of broth, 1/4 cup of extra virgin olive oil, and 1/4 cup of fresh lemon juice. Invert heat-safe plate on top of leaves, cover pot. Simmer gently, covered, for 30-40 minutes. Serve warm or cold.


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Chemicals found in apples, oranges and onions could prevent blood clots, claim scientists.
believe that rutin - also present in black and green tea - could be
used in future treatments to protect against heart attacks and strokes. Harvard
researchers found that the chemical helped block a potentially
dangerous enzyme involved in the formation of blood clots.This enzyme - called protein disulfide isomerase - is released very quickly when blood clots form in the arteries and veins.
researchers tested the ability of 500 different chemicals -including
rutinto block PDI using scientific models on computers. They found that rutin was by far the most effective. The
scientists - whose paper is published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation - discovered that it could protect blood clots that occur
in both the arteries and veins.
Source - Daily Mail


{A^{-1}} of the minor {A}? Trying to recover this directly from (2) looks somewhat messy. However, one can proceed as follows. Let {U} denote the {n \times k} matrix
\displaystyle U := \begin{pmatrix} 0 \\ I_k \end{pmatrix}
(with {I_k} the {k \times k} identity matrix), and let {V} be its transpose:
\displaystyle V := \begin{pmatrix} 0 & I_k \end{pmatrix}.
Then for any scalar {t} (which we identify with {t} times the identity matrix), one has
\displaystyle M + UtV = \begin{pmatrix} A & B \\ C & D+t \end{pmatrix},
and hence by (2)
\displaystyle (M+UtV)^{-1} =
\displaystyle \begin{pmatrix} A^{-1} + A^{-1} B (D + t - CA^{-1} B)^{-1} C A^{-1} & - A^{-1} B (D + t- CA^{-1} B)^{-1} \\ - (D + t - CA^{-1} B)^{-1} CA^{-1} & (D + t - CA^{-1} B)^{-1} \end{pmatrix}.
noting that the inverses here will exist for {t} large enough. Taking limits as {t \rightarrow \infty}, we conclude that
\displaystyle \lim_{t \rightarrow \infty} (M+UtV)^{-1} = \begin{pmatrix} A^{-1} & 0 \\ 0 & 0 \end{pmatrix}.
On the other hand, by the Woodbury matrix identity (discussed in this previous blog post), we have
\displaystyle (M+UtV)^{-1} = M^{-1} - M^{-1} U (t^{-1} + V M^{-1} U)^{-1} V M^{-1}
and hence on taking limits and comparing with the preceding identity, one has
\displaystyle \begin{pmatrix} A^{-1} & 0 \\ 0 & 0 \end{pmatrix} = M^{-1} - M^{-1} U (V M^{-1} U)^{-1} V M^{-1}.
This achieves the aim of expressing the inverse {A^{-1}} of the minor in terms of the inverse of the full matrix. Taking traces and rearranging, we conclude in particular that
\displaystyle \mathrm{tr} A^{-1} = \mathrm{tr} M^{-1} - \mathrm{tr} (V M^{-2} U) (V M^{-1} U)^{-1}. \ \ \ \ \ (3)
In the {k=1} case, this can be simplified to
\displaystyle \mathrm{tr} A^{-1} = \mathrm{tr} M^{-1} - \frac{e_n^T M^{-2} e_n}{e_n^T M^{-1} e_n} \ \ \ \ \ (4)
where {e_n} is the {n^{th}} basis column vector.
We can apply this identity to understand how the spectrum of an {n \times n} random matrix {M} relates to that of its top left {n-1 \times n-1} minor {A}. Subtracting any complex multiple {z} of the identity from {M} (and hence from {A}), we can relate the Stieltjes transform {s_M(z) := \frac{1}{n} \mathrm{tr}(M-z)^{-1}} of {M} with the Stieltjes transform {s_A(z) := \frac{1}{n-1} \mathrm{tr}(A-z)^{-1}} of {A}:
\displaystyle s_A(z) = \frac{n}{n-1} s_M(z) - \frac{1}{n-1} \frac{e_n^T (M-z)^{-2} e_n}{e_n^T (M-z)^{-1} e_n} \ \ \ \ \ (5)
At this point we begin to proceed informally. Assume for sake of argument that the random matrix {M} is Hermitian, with distribution that is invariant under conjugation by the unitary group {U(n)}; for instance, {M} could be drawn from the Gaussian Unitary Ensemble (GUE), or alternatively {M} could be of the form {M = U D U^*} for some real diagonal matrix {D} and {U} a unitary matrix drawn randomly from {U(n)} using Haar measure. To fix normalisations we will assume that the eigenvalues of {M} are typically of size {O(1)}. Then {A} is also Hermitian and {U(n)}-invariant. Furthermore, the law of {e_n^T (M-z)^{-1} e_n} will be the same as the law of {u^* (M-z)^{-1} u}, where {u} is now drawn uniformly from the unit sphere (independently of {M}). Diagonalising {M} into eigenvalues {\lambda_j} and eigenvectors {v_j}, we have
\displaystyle u^* (M-z)^{-1} u = \sum_{j=1}^n \frac{|u^* v_j|^2}{\lambda_j - z}.
One can think of {u} as a random (complex) Gaussian vector, divided by the magnitude of that vector (which, by the Chernoff inequality, will concentrate to {\sqrt{n}}). Thus the coefficients {u^* v_j} with respect to the orthonormal basis {v_1,\dots,v_j} can be thought of as independent (complex) Gaussian vectors, divided by that magnitude. Using this and the Chernoff inequality again, we see (for {z} distance {\sim 1} away from the real axis at least) that one has the concentration of measure
\displaystyle u^* (M-z)^{-1} u \approx \frac{1}{n} \sum_{j=1}^n \frac{1}{\lambda_j - z}
and thus
\displaystyle e_n^T (M-z)^{-1} e_n \approx \frac{1}{n} \mathrm{tr} (M-z)^{-1} = s_M(z)
(that is to say, the diagonal entries of {(M-z)^{-1}} are roughly constant). Similarly we have
\displaystyle e_n^T (M-z)^{-2} e_n \approx \frac{1}{n} \mathrm{tr} (M-z)^{-2} = \frac{d}{dz} s_M(z).
Inserting this into (5) and discarding terms of size {O(1/n^2)}, we thus conclude the approximate relationship
\displaystyle s_A(z) \approx s_M(z) + \frac{1}{n} ( s_M(z) - s_M(z)^{-1} \frac{d}{dz} s_M(z) ).
This can be viewed as a difference equation for the Stieltjes transform of top left minors of {M}. Iterating this equation, and formally replacing the difference equation by a differential equation in the large {n} limit, we see that when {n} is large and {k \approx e^{-t} n} for some {t \geq 0}, one expects the top left {k \times k} minor {A_k} of {M} to have Stieltjes transform
\displaystyle s_{A_k}(z) \approx s( t, z ) \ \ \ \ \ (6)
where {s(t,z)} solves the Burgers-type equation
\displaystyle \partial_t s(t,z) = s(t,z) - s(t,z)^{-1


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Using jQuery to Implement Animations in ASP.NET [con't]
Implementing Animations Using jQuery
You can use jQuery to animate a
 element easily by using the
.animate() method and passing the necessary parameters to it. In this example, we'll use the
.animate() method in jQuery to demonstrate text animation. To implement a demo application for this example, follow these steps:
- Create a new ASP.NET project in Visual Studio 2008 or Visual Studio 2010.
- Save it with a name.
- Open the
- Drag and drop the jQuery library file onto your WebForm.
This will create the following reference:
- Take two Button controls: one for starting animation and the other for resetting it. Here is what the markup code for the Button controls would look like:
- Create a
and place some text inside it as shown below:
- In the
document.ready()function, write code as shown below to animate the text inside the
you just created:
And, you are done! When you execute the application, you'll see two button controls and the text "Welcome to jQuery!" displayed in the browser. When you click on the Animate button, the text is enlarged and animated. On click of the Reset button, the same text is reset to its original size and style.
The Complete Source Code
Here is the complete source (markup code) of the
In this article, I discussed animations using jQuery. In the future articles, I will take a look at the other powerful features of the jQuery library.
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An electro-Thermal co-design study has been performed on vertical GaN transistors (oxide, GaN interlayer based vertical trench MOSFETs; OG-FETs). Vertical (GaN-on-GaN) and quasi vertical (GaN-on-sapphire) devices were investigated. Vertical devices showed a 60% lower device peak temperature rise as compared to the quasi-vertical OG-FETs. Using electro-Thermal device simulation, the internal electric field and heat generation distributions within the OG-FETs were analyzed. The temperature rise of a hexagonal honeycomb structured scaled array of OG-FETs was characterized using thermoreflectance thermal imaging and infrared thermography. A 3D thermal model was used to evaluate the impact of design variables including the number of cells, the pitch between individual cells, and the aspect ratio of the array configuration on the self-heating behavior of multi-cell arrays of OG-FETs.
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering


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- Antiguan racer
- Antigua and Barbuda ()
The rarest snake is the Antiguan racer (Alsophis antiguae) of which fewer than 150 are now believed to exist, including those in captivity. The snake was once common in Antigua, but disappeared from the island following the introduction of non-indigenous predators, black and brown rats (Rattus rattus and Rattus norvegicus) and then the Asian mongoose (Herpestes javanicus). The racer was thought to be extinct, but in 1989 was rediscovered only on Great Bird Island off the northeast coast of Antigua. Following intense conservation programmes, the species is slowly recovering, although remains classified as Critically Endangered on the IUCN (World Conservation Union) Red List 2004.


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Repository description (extant): The Delaware Public Archives is one of the oldest public archives programs in the country. Created by the General Assembly in 1905, the Archives cut the ribbon on its current home on December 7, 2000.
The mission of the Delaware Public Archives is three-fold:
1. To identify, collect, and preserve public records of enduring historical and evidential value;
2. To ensure access to public records for present and future generations of Delawareans; and
3. To advise and educate in the creation, management, use, and preservation of public records
The Archives holds more than 95,000 cubic feet of government records and historical documents.
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