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Babylon - Cultural Landscape and Achaeological City
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The Sacred Complex of Babylon, comprising the Esagila temple dedicated to the God of Marduk and the ziggurat Etemenanki (the legendary Tower of Babylon), constituted the spiritual and political hearth of Babylon, capital of the Old Kingdom of Babylonia. With an extension of ca. 180x125 meters of the major temple Esagila (the "House of the Headraising"), and ca. 460x410 meters of the tower complex Etemenanki, meaning "the foundation of heaven and earth", this was the most massive walled-in space within the city. Out of the substructure of approximately 90 x 90 meters, the height of which was in the original of about 15 meters, the tower developed in all together five more levels, one smaller than the other. Both of these Mesopotamian architectural components formed one unit, so that the low temple Esagila, is neither in its construction nor in its content to be separated from Etemenanki. Their cultic connection was established by the procession street Aj-ibur-shapu running between them, which allowed equal access to both sanctuaries. The ruins of Esagila have been partially excavated. On the other hand, for the tower archaeologists discovered a core consisting of the ruins of previous ziggurats, which had been levelled and enlarged several times, before Nebuchadnezzar added a casing of burnt brick 15m thick. Of this structure, the ground plan and traces of the three stairs leading up to the upper levels have been preserved. The above structures were at the core of the city of Babylon, mentioned in documents of the late third millennium BC and which became important early in the 2nd millennium under the kings of the First Dynasty. The sixth king of this dynasty was Hammurabi (1792-1750 BCE) who made Babylon the capital of a vast empire and is best remembered for his code of laws. Sacked by the Hittites in 1595 BCE, during the Second Dynasty of Isin (1157-1026 BCE), Babylon became the capital of southern Mesopotamia and its patron deity Marduk became the national god. In the Neo-Babylonian period (7th-6th century BC), the city once again achieved pre-eminence. Nebuchadnezzar II (605-562 BCE) rebuilt Babylon, which became the largest ancient settlement in Mesopotamia. There were two sets of fortified walls and massive palaces and religious buildings, including the central ziggurat tower. According to the tradition, several attempts were made to build the Tower, lastly by Nebuchadnezzar II. The bulk of the tower was built with unbaked bricks made by mixing chopped straw with clay and pouring the results into moulds. The bricks were joined in the construction by using bitumen, material imported from the Iranian plateau and used widely as a binding and coating material throughout the Mesopotamian plain. Following the fall of Babylon to Cyrus the Great of Persia in 539 BCE, the Tower of Babylon was probably gravely damaged, and left in a state of neglect and abandonment until 331 BCE, when the city was taken by Alexander the Great, who planned to rebuild the tower. At that time, most of the debris were removed in preparation for the reconstruction of the Tower, never actually implemented due to the sudden death of Alexander in Babylon. Babylon was excavated by Robert Koldeway between 1899 and 1917 on behalf of the Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft. Excavations uncovered substantial remains of the time of the Neo-Babylonian Period including the Esagila and the Tower of Babylon.


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Posted by paddlinboy in Salt Spring Island Kayaking, The Hungry Kayaker, Wet Bellies on June 26, 2013
As a Wet Belly I have a hard time justifying my boss's need to send me to school for a day. However, she wanted me to have my basic food safe certificate, the restaurant would pay for the one-day 8-hour course for food handling and serving as well as bribing me out of a precious day off by paying me for the day as well. So I walked into the conference room reserved for the course with the kitchen I work at out of sight and sound on the other side of the wall. Only the occasional quiet moment did I hear a distant clatter of dishes. There I was, reluctantly and without a cup of coffee, back in school if only for one day. Anywhere else would have been preferable even on that rainy day in June.
Over the years I have toyed on occasion to sit once more in a classroom but I would refuse to take anything useful that would send me hurtling down the path of a quote, career. Why start now after all, I did get a degree in Fine and Visual Arts with an emphasis on art history way back in the 80's when all my graphic design homework was done by hand, with a pen or brush and not with a point of a mouse. If I were to wander wayward back into a classroom it would be to take such wayward rewarding and real-day useless subjects like comparative religion studies, or folklore of ancient Celtics, or English.
Alas, there I sat in a stuffy, close humid room with strangers save the young woman who serves at the restaurant and another person I know from the island. I sat in the back row with the bad kids talking in class and asking, nay debating the course at every turn if only the aid in staying awake. Did I mention the humidity? The close heavy room and a full meal at the short lunch break had the entire room near snoring levels by 2pm. The circa 1970's era styled tutorial videos supplied on VHS no less didn't help matters in the staying alert department. Then around 4pm with our heads filled with kill temperatures and too much information about pathogens and micro-organisms that live on us and all over everything on the plate we had the exam. I fared pretty well, only dropping the ball on a couple of the multiple choice questions. Perhaps I should have just chosen C because if in doubt that is usually a best guess.
I walked out and met my wife waiting for me in the restaurant and I ordered my staff beer. I needed it. It was the carrot on the stick (which I am sure is not food safe) to get me through the last hours of boredom. She asked about the day and I had to say, proudly so that I was one of the few not completely 'grossed out' after the first hours of information about flies vomiting on lettuce and how fast microbes multiply on a hamburger bun at room temperature. In fact, the course only had me dreaming of dangerous foods. As Anthony Bourdain would describe as the Nasty Bits. I wanted something that may or may not live forever in my lower intestine. I wanted to eat from a street vendor in Vietnam. Drink the snake blood poured into moonshine. Anything to purge the constant dripping from the instructor that food is risky stuff. I agree, but I did get there to the class in a car. I survived my childhood without wearing a helmet and I eat for pleasure and with no fear. If I pay later on with an uncomfortable night on the can, so be it.


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It's hour 1 for the 24 hour readathon! Here's my introductory post:
1) What fine part of the world are you reading from today?
Pittsburgh, PA. Hopefully the sun will come out and it'll get warm enough for me to read outside for part of the day :)
2) Which book in your stack are you most looking forward to?
I actually haven't picked any books out yet- I'm in the middle of several books right now but they're all long books and I've noticed that I tend to feel more successful about the readathon if I pick short books so that I feel like I'm getting through them.
3) Which snack are you most looking forward to?
I actually just had it- last night I prepped a crock-pot Apple and steel cut oats breakfast. It was my first time making it so it was actually in the crockpot too long and burnt a little- but still good!
4) Tell us a little something about yourself!
This is the first time I've participated in the readathon while being pregnant- my husband and I currently pregnant with our first child, a little baby girl!
5) If you participated in the last read-a-thon, what's one thing you'll do different today? If this is your first read-a-thon, what are you most looking forward to?
I'm going to try to start off at least with short books so I can read different things throughout the day and feel like I'm getting through a lot.
Saturday, April 27, 2013
Dewey's 24 Hour Readathon!
Posted by KC at 4/27/2013 08:19:00 AM
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Hi KCReplyDelete
Sounds like you got off to a good start. Keep on reading!
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Congratulations on your pregnancy!ReplyDelete
I've been wanting to try crock pot oatmeal for years now, and never gotten around to it. I just have a hard time thinking about breakfast the night before, I guess.
Happy reading!
Congrats on the news of a baby girl! So sweet!ReplyDelete
I didn't prep anything in advance, I just figured I'd find some snacks around the apartment later. Will probably send the hubby out for something yummy later.
Hope you get a lot read this readathon!
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This evening we embark from that same waterfront — the heat of the long, cloudless afternoon now moderated by a southwest breeze blowing across Shallowbag Bay at 10 knots, gusting higher. Skipper Charlie Parker steers us away from the dock aboard the Spirit of Roanoke Island, a 25-foot shad boat replica of the design perfected by George Washington Creef.
Designed and built in North Carolina, from local wood, by a native, the shad boat sailed the sounds well into the 20th century, as durable as the fishermen it carried. And in 1987 the boat became, by an act of the legislature, the state historical boat.
The Spirit was completed by volunteers in 2000, working with maritime history professionals to ensure authenticity and using the same hand tools that old "Uncle Wash" would have used at his boat shed behind his daughter's house in Wanchese.
The Spirit is bright white with a black-and-green-over-yellow trunk stripe banding the hull just below the narrow side decks that follow the curving contours of the hull, broadening to eight feet at its widest amidships. The interior of the craft is undecked, a spacious open locker to carry fish and gear.
Besides the skipper and two crew members, seven passengers and a small white dog are aboard. The high bow is built to take on the steep, choppy waves of the wind-whipped shallow sounds, and it cuts through the placid bay easily. The boat slips along with a musical rush, powered by a sprit mainsail — shaped by a 22-foot-long sprit rising at a sharp angle from the shorter, thicker mast. There's no boom to worry about — it would just interfere dangerously with the work of fishing. A jib set on a stay between masthead and stem post provides handy steering.
After only a little while, Capt. Parker gives me the tiller. It feels thick and solid in my hand, and just a touch either way brings a ready response from the hull. I can feel the power of the hull in the stiff tiller, a slight muscular pressure amplified into a heavy rush of forward momentum. The centerboard is down, holding us windward as we skate along in the freshening breeze.
I jibe the stern through the wind and gather headway for a moment before steering her back onto a close reach, the most exciting point of sailing. The boat cocks over and the centerboard bites like it's locking into gear and we accelerate in a sudden rush, bow wave racing down the length of the hull. Sailing without engine noise is like being in free fall — the giddy sensation of speed multiplied many times over.
We slip along with a sea-kindly motion, no jerkiness or pounding, only occasional slaps of spray wetting the passengers on the low side rail.
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It's also the boat that helped North Carolina recover from the devastation of the Civil War. Markets were clamoring for fish, one thing that war-wasted North Carolina had plenty of. The traditional local craft, a split-log dugout canoe known as a "kunner," just couldn't carry enough fish to be profitable.
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Uncle Wash built his boats in pairs, keeled from the same log. When his wife grew ill, he crafted twin white cedar coffins. He buried her in one, and 21 years later, in 1917, he followed her into the Cudworth Cemetery, snug in his final "boat."
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Another long reach brings us back, and I give over the helm to Capt. Parker. We ghost into the harbor and kiss the dock with the sun setting fat and gold on the treetops. I can imagine what those fishermen felt back in the old days when they coasted into port, bearing another day's haul, patting the broadside deck of the good boat that brought them home safe and sound.


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It looks like the endless winter of 2014 with its contorted jet stream is making spring seem like a drunkard's dream. So forget patio lantern fantasies and let's keep our focus on General List wines (on all shelves all the time) with a special focus on winter reds.
This Thursday column reviews the best of dozens of GL wines tasted, with a special spotlight on newcomers to all shelves. We have two this time that survived my cruel judging curtain to emerge victorious.
The two making a solid debut are Bellingham Big Oak Red from South Africa, which is already flying off shelves despite being released only four weeks ago, and a Tuscan seducer, Caparzo Sangiovese, which so far remains a sleeper and relatively undiscovered. Both are inexpensive heart warmers, very mellow and suffusive overall.
I like including an Ontario wine among my winners, but it's a real chore to find a fine red under $20. We finally did, with the Peninsula Ridge Merlot, under $15, but dishing up plenty of flavour and character.
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In mathematics, the factorial of a non-negative integer n, denoted by n!, is the product of all positive integers less than or equal to n. For example,
The value of 0! is 1, according to the convention for an empty product.[1]
The factorial operation is encountered in many areas of mathematics, notably in combinatorics, algebra, and mathematical analysis. Its most basic occurrence is the fact that there are n! ways to arrange n distinct objects into a sequence. These arrangements are called the permutations of the set of objects.
The definition of the factorial function can also be extended to non-integer arguments, while retaining its most important properties; this involves more advanced mathematics, notably techniques from mathematical analysis.
Factorials were used to count permutations at least as early as the 12th century, by Indian scholars.[2] Fabian Stedman, in 1677, described factorials as applied to change ringing.[3] After describing a recursive approach, Stedman gives a statement of a factorial (using the language of the original):
Now the nature of these methods is such, that the changes on one number comprehends [includes] the changes on all lesser numbers, ... insomuch that a compleat Peal of changes on one number seemeth to be formed by uniting of the compleat Peals on all lesser numbers into one entire body;[4]
The notation n! was introduced by the French mathematician Christian Kramp in 1808.[5]
The factorial function is formally defined by the product
initially for integer n ≥ 1, and resulting in this fundamental recurrence relation:
- .
For example, one has
In order for this recurrence relation to be extended to n=0, it is necessary to define
so that
Other consequences that indicate defining and the convention that the product of no numbers at all is 1 are:
- There is exactly one permutation of zero objects (with nothing to permute, "everything" is left in place).
- It makes many identities in combinatorics valid for all applicable sizes. The number of ways to choose 0 elements from the empty set is
- .
- More generally, the number of ways to choose (all) n elements among a set of n is
- .
- It allows for the compact expression of many formulae, such as the exponential function, as a power series:
Factorial of a non-integer
The factorial function can also be defined for non-integer values using more advanced mathematics (the gamma function ), detailed in the section below. This more generalized definition is used by advanced calculators and mathematical software such as Maple or Mathematica.
Although the factorial function has its roots in combinatorics, formulas involving factorials occur in many areas of mathematics.
- There are n! different ways of arranging n distinct objects into a sequence, the permutations of those objects.[6][7]
- Often factorials appear in the denominator of a formula to account for the fact that ordering is to be ignored. A classical example is counting k-combinations (subsets of k elements) from a set with n elements. One can obtain such a combination by choosing a k-permutation: successively selecting and removing an element of the set, k times, for a total of
- possibilities. This however produces the k-combinations in a particular order that one wishes to ignore; since each k-combination is obtained in k! different ways, the correct number of k-combinations is
- This number is known[8] as the binomial coefficient , because it is also the coefficient of Xk in (1 + X)n.
- Factorials occur in algebra for various reasons, such as via the already mentioned coefficients of the binomial formula, or through averaging over permutations for symmetrization of certain operations.
- Factorials also turn up in calculus; for example, they occur in the denominators of the terms of Taylor's formula,[9] where they are used as compensation terms due to the n-th derivative of xn being equivalent to n!.
- Factorials are also used extensively in probability theory.[10]
- Factorials can be useful to facilitate expression manipulation. For instance the number of k-permutations of n can be written as
- while this is inefficient as a means to compute that number, it may serve to prove a symmetry property[7][8] of binomial coefficients:
- The factorial function can be shown, using the power rule, to be
- where is the Euler's notation for the nth derivative of [11]
Rate of growth and approximations for large n
As n grows, the factorial n! increases faster than all polynomials and exponential functions (but slower than double exponential functions) in n.
Most approximations for n! are based on approximating its natural logarithm
The graph of the function f(n) = ln n! is shown in the figure on the right. It looks approximately linear for all reasonable values of n, but this intuition is false. We get one of the simplest approximations for ln n! by bounding the sum with an integral from above and below as follows:
which gives us the estimate
Hence (see Big O notation). This result plays a key role in the analysis of the computational complexity of sorting algorithms (see comparison sort). From the bounds on ln n! deduced above we get that
It is sometimes practical to use weaker but simpler estimates. Using the above formula it is easily shown that for all n we have , and for all n ≥ 6 we have .
For large n we get a better estimate for the number n! using Stirling's approximation:
This in fact comes from an asymptotic series for the logarithm, and n factorial lies between this and the next approximation:
Another approximation for ln n! is given by Srinivasa Ramanujan (Ramanujan 1988)
Both this and give a relative error on the order of 1/n3, but Ramanujan's is about four times more accurate. However, if we use two correction terms (as in Ramanujan's approximation) the relative error will be of order 1/n5:
If efficiency is not a concern, computing factorials is trivial from an algorithmic point of view: successively multiplying a variable initialized to 1 by the integers up to n (if any) will compute n!, provided the result fits in the variable. In functional languages, the recursive definition is often implemented directly to illustrate recursive functions.
The main practical difficulty in computing factorials is the size of the result. To assure that the exact result will fit for all legal values of even the smallest commonly used integral type (8-bit signed integers) would require more than 700 bits, so no reasonable specification of a factorial function using fixed-size types can avoid questions of overflow. The values 12! and 20! are the largest factorials that can be stored in, respectively, the 32-bit and 64-bit integers commonly used in personal computers, however many languages support variable length integer types capable of calculating very large values.[12] Floating-point representation of an approximated result allows going a bit further, but this also remains quite limited by possible overflow. Most calculators use scientific notation with 2-digit decimal exponents, and the largest factorial that fits is then 69!, because 69! < 10100 < 70!. Other implementations (e.g., computer software such as spreadsheet programs) can often handle larger values.
Most software applications will compute small factorials by direct multiplication or table lookup. Larger factorial values can be approximated using Stirling's formula. Wolfram Alpha can calculate exact results for the ceiling function and floor function applied to the binary, natural and common logarithm of n! for values of n up to 249999, and up to 20,000,000! for the integers.
If the exact values of large factorials are needed, they can be computed using arbitrary-precision arithmetic. Instead of doing the sequential multiplications , a program can partition the sequence into two parts, whose products are roughly the same size, and multiply them using a divide-and-conquer method. This is often more efficient.[13]
The asymptotically best efficiency is obtained by computing n! from its prime factorization. As documented by Peter Borwein, prime factorization allows n! to be computed in time O(n(log n log log n)2), provided that a fast multiplication algorithm is used (for example, the Schönhage–Strassen algorithm).[14] Peter Luschny presents source code and benchmarks for several efficient factorial algorithms, with or without the use of a prime sieve.[15]
Number theory
Factorials have many applications in number theory. In particular, n! is necessarily divisible by all prime numbers up to and including n. As a consequence, n > 5 is a composite number if and only if
A stronger result is Wilson's theorem, which states that
if and only if p is prime.[16][17]
Legendre's formula gives the multiplicity of the prime p occurring in the prime factorization of as
or, equivalently,
where denotes the sum of the standard base-p digits of n.
Adding 1 to a factorial n! yields a number that is divisible by a prime larger than n. This fact can be used to prove Euclid's theorem that the number of primes is infinite.[18] Primes of the form n! ± 1 are called factorial primes.
Series of reciprocals
The reciprocals of factorials produce a convergent series whose sum is Euler's number e:
Although the sum of this series is an irrational number, it is possible to multiply the factorials by positive integers to produce a convergent series with a rational sum:
The convergence of this series to 1 can be seen from the fact that its partial sums are less than one by an inverse factorial. Therefore, the factorials do not form an irrationality sequence.[19]
Extension of factorial to non-integer values of argument
The Gamma and Pi functions
Besides nonnegative integers, the factorial function can also be defined for non-integer values, but this requires more advanced tools from mathematical analysis. One function that "fills in" the values of the factorial (but with a shift of 1 in the argument) is called the Gamma function, denoted Γ(z), defined for all complex numbers z except the non-positive integers, and given when the real part of z is positive by
Its relation to the factorials is that for any natural number n
Euler's original formula for the Gamma function was
An alternative notation, originally introduced by Gauss, is sometimes used. The Pi function, denoted Π(z) for real numbers z no less than 0, is defined by
In terms of the Gamma function it is
It truly extends the factorial in that
In addition to this, the Pi function satisfies the same recurrence as factorials do, but at every complex value z where it is defined
In fact, this is no longer a recurrence relation but a functional equation. Expressed in terms of the Gamma function this functional equation takes the form
Since the factorial is extended by the Pi function, for every complex value z where it is defined, we can write:
The values of these functions at half-integer values is therefore determined by a single one of them; one has
from which it follows that for n ∈ N,
For example,
It also follows that for n ∈ N,
For example,
The Pi function is certainly not the only way to extend factorials to a function defined at almost all complex values, and not even the only one that is analytic wherever it is defined. Nonetheless it is usually considered the most natural way to extend the values of the factorials to a complex function. For instance, the Bohr–Mollerup theorem states that the Gamma function is the only function that takes the value 1 at 1, satisfies the functional equation Γ(n + 1) = nΓ(n), is meromorphic on the complex numbers, and is log-convex on the positive real axis. A similar statement holds for the Pi function as well, using the Π(n) = nΠ(n − 1) functional equation.
However, there exist complex functions that are probably simpler in the sense of analytic function theory and which interpolate the factorial values. For example, Hadamard's 'Gamma'-function (Hadamard 1894) which, unlike the Gamma function, is an entire function.[20]
Euler also developed a convergent product approximation for the non-integer factorials, which can be seen to be equivalent to the formula for the Gamma function above:
However, this formula does not provide a practical means of computing the Pi or Gamma function, as its rate of convergence is slow.
Applications of the Gamma function
The volume of an n-dimensional hypersphere of radius R is
Factorial at the complex plane
Representation through the Gamma-function allows evaluation of factorial of complex argument. Equilines of amplitude and phase of factorial are shown in figure. Let . Several levels of constant modulus (amplitude) and constant phase are shown. The grid covers range , with unit step. The scratched line shows the level .
Thin lines show intermediate levels of constant modulus and constant phase. At poles , phase and amplitude are not defined. Equilines are dense in vicinity of singularities along negative integer values of the argument.
For , the Taylor expansions can be used:
The first coefficients of this expansion are
where is the Euler constant and is the Riemann zeta function. Computer algebra systems such as SageMath can generate many terms of this expansion.
Approximations of factorial
For the large values of the argument, factorial can be approximated through the integral of the digamma function, using the continued fraction representation. This approach is due to T. J. Stieltjes (1894). Writing z! = exp(P(z)) where P(z) is
Stieltjes gave a continued fraction for p(z)
The first few coefficients an are[21]
|1 / 12
|1 / 30
|53 / 210
|195 / 371
|22999 / 22737
|29944523 / 19733142
|109535241009 / 48264275462
There is a misconception that or for any complex z ≠ 0. Indeed, the relation through the logarithm is valid only for a specific range of values of z in the vicinity of the real axis, where . The larger is the real part of the argument, the smaller should be the imaginary part. However, the inverse relation, z! = exp(P(z)), is valid for the whole complex plane apart from zero. The convergence is poor in the vicinity of the negative part of the real axis. (It is difficult to have good convergence of any approximation in the vicinity of the singularities). When or , the 6 coefficients above are sufficient for the evaluation of the factorial with complex<double> precision. For higher precision more coefficients can be computed by a rational QD-scheme (H. Rutishauser's QD algorithm).[22]
Non-extendability to negative integers
The relation n! = n × (n − 1)! allows one to compute the factorial for an integer given the factorial for a smaller integer. The relation can be inverted so that one can compute the factorial for an integer given the factorial for a larger integer:
Note, however, that this recursion does not permit us to compute the factorial of a negative integer; use of the formula to compute (−1)! would require a division by zero, and thus blocks us from computing a factorial value for every negative integer. (Similarly, the Gamma function is not defined for non-positive integers, though it is defined for all other complex numbers.)
Factorial-like products and functions
There are several other integer sequences similar to the factorial that are used in mathematics:
Double factorial
The product of all the odd integers up to some odd positive integer n is called the double factorial of n, and denoted by n!!.[23] That is,
For example, 9!! = 1 × 3 × 5 × 7 × 9 = 945.
The sequence of double factorials for n = 1, 3, 5, 7, ... starts as
Double factorial notation may be used to simplify the expression of certain trigonometric integrals,[24] to provide an expression for the values of the Gamma function at half-integer arguments and the volume of hyperspheres,[25] and to solve many counting problems in combinatorics including counting binary trees with labeled leaves and perfect matchings in complete graphs.[23][26]
A common related notation is to use multiple exclamation points to denote a multifactorial, the product of integers in steps of two ( ), three ( ), or more (see generalizations of the double factorial). The double factorial is the most commonly used variant, but one can similarly define the triple factorial ( ) and so on. One can define the k-th factorial, denoted by , recursively for positive integers as
though see the alternative definition below. In addition, similarly to 0! = 1!/1 = 1, one can define:
For sufficiently large , the ordinary single factorial function is expanded through the multifactorial functions as follows:
Some mathematicians have suggested an alternative notation of for the double factorial and similarly for other multifactorials, but this has not come into general use. Another common notation is to place the parameter as a subscript as to denote the multifactorials defined above.
In the same way that is not defined for negative integers, and is not defined for negative even integers, is not defined for negative integers divisible by .
We can also define the k-th factorial, or k-torial, denoted by , recursively for nonnegative integers as
where is the hyperoperation.
The definition of hyperoperation (denoted by ) is
Thus we have , and .
If , then .
The k-th factorial of n is .
The 0th factorial of a nonnegative integer n is just n, the 1st factorial of n is the triangular number , and the 2nd factorial of n is the original factorial of n.
The sequence of the 3rd factorial of n starts with
The sequence of the 4th factorial of n starts with
- 1, 1, 2, 27, ...
The sequence of the 5th factorial of n starts with
For k ≥ 6, the sequence of the kth factorial grows too quickly, thus only the same first 3 terms (0[k]! = 1, 1[k]! = 1 and 2[k]! = 2) are visible.
The primorial (sequence A002110 in the OEIS) is similar to the factorial, but with the product taken only over the prime numbers.
Neil Sloane and Simon Plouffe defined a superfactorial in The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (Academic Press, 1995) to be the product of the first factorials. So the superfactorial of 4 is
In general
Equivalently, the superfactorial is given by the formula
which is the determinant of a Vandermonde matrix.
The sequence of superfactorials starts (from ) as
By this definition, we can define the k-superfactorial of n (denoted by ) as:
The 2-superfactorial of n are
- 1, 1, 2, 24, 6912, 238878720, 5944066965504000, 745453331864786829312000000, ... (sequence A055462 in the OEIS)
The 0-superfactorial of n is just n.
Alternative definition
Clifford Pickover in his 1995 book Keys to Infinity used a new notation, n$, to define the superfactorial
or as,
where the [4] notation denotes the hyper4 operator, or using Knuth's up-arrow notation,
This sequence of superfactorials starts:
Here, as is usual for compound exponentiation, the grouping is understood to be from right to left:
By this definition, we can define the k-superfactorial of n as , denoted by . (where is the hyperoperation)
The 0-superfactorial of n are
- 2, 2, 3, 7, 25, 121, 721, 5041, 40321, 362881, 3628801, 39916801, 479001601, 6227020801, ... (sequence A038507 in the OEIS)
The 1-superfactorial of n are
- 2, 2, 4, 12, 48, 240, 1440, 10080, 80640, 725760, 7257600, 79833600, 958003200, 12454041600, ...
The 2-superfactorial of n are
- 1, 1, 4, 36, 576, 14400, 518400, 25401600, 1625702400, 131681894400, 13168189440000, ... (sequence A001044 in the OEIS)
The 3-superfactorial of n are
The 4-superfactorial of n is the original superfactorial of n.
Occasionally the hyperfactorial of n is considered. It is written as H(n) and defined by
For n = 1, 2, 3, 4, ... the values H(n) are 1, 4, 108, 27648,... (sequence A002109 in the OEIS).
By this definition, we can define the r-hyperfactorial of n as , denoted by . (where is the hyperoperation)
The asymptotic growth rate is
where A = 1.2824... is the Glaisher–Kinkelin constant.[27] H(14) = 1.8474...×1099 is already almost equal to a googol, and H(15) = 8.0896...×10116 is almost of the same magnitude as the Shannon number, the theoretical number of possible chess games. Compared to the Pickover definition of the superfactorial, the hyperfactorial grows relatively slowly.
The hyperfactorial function can be generalized to complex numbers in a similar way as the factorial function. The resulting function is called the K-function.
See also
- Alternating factorial
- Bhargava factorial
- Digamma function
- Exponential factorial
- Factorial number system
- Factorial prime
- Factorion
- List of factorial and binomial topics
- Pochhammer symbol, which gives the falling or rising factorial
- Subfactorial
- Trailing zeros of factorial
- Triangular number, the additive analogue of factorial
- ↑ Ronald L. Graham, Donald E. Knuth, Oren Patashnik (1988) Concrete Mathematics, Addison-Wesley, Reading MA. ISBN 0-201-14236-8, p. 111
- ↑ N. L. Biggs, The roots of combinatorics, Historia Math. 6 (1979) 109−136
- ↑ Stedman, Fabian (1677), Campanalogia, London, pp. 6–9 The publisher is given as "W.S." who may have been William Smith, possibly acting as agent for the Society of College Youths, to which society the "Dedicatory" is addressed.
- ↑ Stedman 1677, p. 8.
- ↑ Higgins, Peter (2008), Number Story: From Counting to Cryptography, New York: Copernicus, p. 12, ISBN 978-1-84800-000-1 says Krempe though.
- ↑ Cheng, Eugenia (2017-03-09). Beyond Infinity: An expedition to the outer limits of the mathematical universe. Profile Books. ISBN 9781782830818.
- 1 2 Conway, John H.; Guy, Richard (1998-03-16). The Book of Numbers. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 9780387979939.
- 1 2 Knuth, Donald E. (1997-07-04). The Art of Computer Programming: Volume 1: Fundamental Algorithms. Addison-Wesley Professional. ISBN 9780321635747.
- ↑ "18.01 Single Variable Calculus, Lecture 37: Taylor Series". MIT OpenCourseWare. Fall 2006. Archived from the original on 2018-04-26. Retrieved 2017-05-03.
- ↑ Kardar, Mehran (2007-06-25). "Chapter 2: Probability". Statistical Physics of Particles. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521873420.
- ↑ "18.01 Single Variable Calculus, Lecture 4: Chain rule, higher derivatives". MIT OpenCourseWare. Fall 2006. Archived from the original on 2018-04-26. Retrieved 2017-05-03.
- ↑ "wesselbosman/nFactorial". GitHub. Archived from the original on 26 April 2018. Retrieved 26 April 2018.
- ↑ GNU MP software manual, "Factorial Algorithm" Archived 2013-03-14 at the Wayback Machine. (retrieved 22 January 2013).
- ↑ Peter Borwein. "On the Complexity of Calculating Factorials". Journal of Algorithms 6, 376–380 (1985)
- ↑ Peter Luschny, Fast-Factorial-Functions: The Homepage of Factorial Algorithms Archived 2005-03-05 at the Wayback Machine..
- ↑ O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Abu Ali al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews .
- ↑ W., Weisstein, Eric. "Wilson's Theorem". mathworld.wolfram.com. Archived from the original on 2017-06-30. Retrieved 2017-05-17.
- ↑ Bostock, Linda; Chandler, Suzanne; Rourke, C. (2014-11-01). Further Pure Mathematics. Nelson Thornes. p. 168. ISBN 9780859501033.
- ↑ Guy, Richard K. (2004), "E24 Irrationality sequences", Unsolved problems in number theory (3rd ed.), Springer-Verlag, p. 346, ISBN 0-387-20860-7, Zbl 1058.11001 .
- ↑ Peter Luschny, Hadamard versus Euler – Who found the better Gamma function? Archived 2009-08-18 at the Wayback Machine..
- ↑ Digital Library of Mathematical Functions, "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-05-29. Retrieved 2010-10-17.
- ↑ Peter Luschny, On Stieltjes' Continued Fraction for the Gamma Function. Archived 2011-05-14 at the Wayback Machine..
- 1 2 Callan, David (2009), A combinatorial survey of identities for the double factorial, arXiv:0906.1317, Bibcode:2009arXiv0906.1317C .
- ↑ Meserve, B. E. (1948), "Classroom Notes: Double Factorials", The American Mathematical Monthly, 55 (7): 425–426, doi:10.2307/2306136, MR 1527019
- ↑ Mezey, Paul G. (2009), "Some dimension problems in molecular databases", Journal of Mathematical Chemistry, 45 (1): 1–6, doi:10.1007/s10910-008-9365-8 .
- ↑ Dale, M. R. T.; Moon, J. W. (1993), "The permuted analogues of three Catalan sets", Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 34 (1): 75–87, doi:10.1016/0378-3758(93)90035-5, MR 1209991 .
- ↑ Weisstein, Eric W. "Glaisher–Kinkelin Constant". MathWorld.
- Hadamard, M. J. (1894), Sur L'Expression Du Produit 1·2·3· · · · ·(n−1) Par Une Fonction Entière (PDF) (in French), OEuvres de Jacques Hadamard, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifiques, Paris, 1968
- Ramanujan, Srinivasa (1988), The lost notebook and other unpublished papers, Springer Berlin, p. 339, ISBN 3-540-18726-X
External links
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Factorial (function).
- Hazewinkel, Michiel, ed. (2001) [1994], "Factorial", Encyclopedia of Mathematics, Springer Science+Business Media B.V. / Kluwer Academic Publishers, ISBN 978-1-55608-010-4
- Weisstein, Eric W. "Factorial". MathWorld.
- Factorial at PlanetMath.org.


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Here's Tyler Cowen writing about areas where the UN is successful:
I don't hold the extreme view that the UN always fails. It is possibly good when there is a general consensus for action (UNESCO World Heritage sites), or when a well-targeted military action has a defined purpose. The UN is very bad at developing and enforcing open-ended commitments, and very bad at constructing well-run institutions.
The wider topic is the Law of the Sea Treaty, which isn't really all that interesting unless you are more intrigued than the average person by international conventions and regulatory bodies. What is interesting to me is that his description of the strengths and weaknesses of the UN is that I think they apply to technology standards bodies as well.
The least effective standards tend to be those that are created by consortia to attempt to map out the future direction of new developments. In fact, I'd go so far as to say those standards are often unsuccessful. They tend to be overly complex, difficult to implement, and tend to map poorly to the real problem space they were aimed at. In the end, they can be hinder innovation. The most successful standards are usually those that formalize conventions that are being applied.


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But later generations of Shireburnes were less fortunate. Recusancy was the state of those who refused to attend Anglican services, so although the family was rich, they still faced the possibility of fines and property confiscation. Or worse. The Last of the Shireburnes: the art of death and life in Recusant Lancashire, 1660-1754 tells that, somehow, successive Shireburne lords of Stonyhurst grew in self-confidence and created substantial networks of kinship, power and patronage from their Northern stronghold.
The family dominated the landscape and local politics of N.E Lancashire for more than a century, through their lavish building projects and increasing adherence to Catholicism. Defying notions of Catholic reticence and poverty, by the early 1680s the family already achieved an impressive local accumulation of estates in Lancashire, Northumberland, Yorkshire, Isle of Man, Bloomsbury and Preston. Sir Nicholas Shireburne (1658-1717) imported paintings, furniture and carvings from South and East Asia, and amassed a large personal library.
Tragedy didn't strike until 1702 when the last male child in the family died and the direct male blood line of the Shireburne family ended. How important was it therefore that Sir Nicholas Shireburne of Stonyhurst succeeded in propelling his family into the top rung of the English aristocracy with the marriage of his now-ONLY child and daughter Maria Shireburne, to the Duke of Norfolk. A dynastic coup!
But look what he got for his £702: "A toilet of gilt plate consisting of two large comb boxes, one looking glass with a plate frame, one square box with a pincushion on the top, two glass bottles with muzells and bottoms of plate, two oval porringers with covers, two round powder boxes, two round patch boxes, two oval brushes, two comb brushes, two pomatum potts, two little cupps with covers and salvers, pair of large candlesticks, pair of hand candlesticks, pair of snuffers with snuff pan and extinguisher, a bason and ewer, a plummet, a bell." 34 pieces of Queen Anne silver in stunning, understated English taste!
With the separation of the Duke and Duchess in 1729, it was agreed that the Duchess was to have the use of the said jewels and toilet set for her natural life, and that the set be returned to the Norfolks on her death. This stipulation was complied with, in 1754. The set remained with the Dukes of Norfolk until sold to Rundell Bridge and Rundell in 1818 who sold the service to Lord Lonsdale. The service was sold by the Lonsdale family in 1947 at Christie's in London, and resold in 1982 to another family.
In 2012 Hawkins and Hawkins of Tasmania and Scotland sold the 32-piece toilet service by Benjamin Pyne for £1.5 million. The service went to a private overseas buyer, and although I think the price was totally insane, I still wish it was me.


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Generations ago, violence was banned on New Earth. Society is governed and conflicts are resolved in the arena of a fantasy computer game, Epic. Everyone plays. If you win, you have the chance to go to university, get more supplies for your community, and fulfill your dreams; if you lose, your life both in and out of the game is worth nothing.
When Erik, seeking revenge for the unjust treatment of his parents, dares to subvert the rules of Epic, he and his friends find themselves up against with the ultimate masters of the game: the Committee. If Erik and his friends win, they may have the key to destroying Epic's tyranny over New Earth. But if they lose . .
Just wanted to bring this up to anyone that likes VR novels because i just found out they released a audio book version for this series. This book is somewhat similar to Ready Player One and if you liked that book, you will definitely like this series.


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Support for Parents
There are a number of different groups available to parents in the community:
- Parents for Children's Mental Health
Parent led group, with the goal to support, educate and empower parents.
Groups for Parents and/or Children available in the community without referrals:
- Lynwood Charlton Centre Community Groups
These include the Mom and Kids Group, Mom's Group, Recreation Group Program and Temper Tamers program
- Community Education Service
Helps connect parents to high-quality information and courses about common childhood problems.
- City of Hamilton
The City offers a number of groups for parents of children up to the age of six.


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Hackers likely caused a Dec. 23 electricity outage in Ukraine by remotely switching breakers to cut power, after installing malware to prevent technicians from detecting the attack, according to a report analyzing how the incident unfolded.
The report from Washington-based SANS ICS was released late on Saturday, providing the first detailed analysis of what caused a six-hour outage for some 80,000 customers of Western Ukraine's Prykarpattyaoblenergo utility.
SANS ICS, which advises infrastructure operators on combating cyber attacks, also said the attackers crippled the utility's customer-service center by flooding it with phone calls to prevent customers from alerting the utility that power was down.
"This was a multi-pronged attack against multiple facilities. It was highly coordinated with very professional logistics," said Robert Lee, a former U.S. Air Force cyber warfare operations officer who helped compile the report for SANS ICS. "They sort of blinded them in every way possible."
Experts widely describe the incident as the first known power outage caused by a cyber attack. Ukraine's SBU state security service blamed Russia, and U.S. cyber firm iSight Partners identified the perpetrator as a Russian hacking group known as "Sandworm."


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Raw indigo denim is not just a colorway: it's an institution. The culture of dogging your jeans for months before washing them so they whisker according to body movement is as old as time and to be respected. The aptly-named Hope Street by Williamsburg Garment Company is exactly what you want in a pair of jeans: a clean, blank canvas for you to make your very own. With uniquely subtle details like their one-of-a-kind coin pocket and American flag print on the inner front pockets, I advise you to seek these and similar pairs out in order to refresh your year-round essentials.


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So last week's "Book Club" was a celebration of the new additions that will be coming to our neighborhood soon. We've got two ladies who are expecting and we decided to go bonkers for babies in April. Mary asked me to make cupcakes to celebrate, but I was in the mood for a cake. And I think it turned out darling, if I do say so myself!
This cake is a two tier stacked cake construction – here's the nitty gritty for those cake nerds out there:
Tier One
- Two 9″ layer devil's food chocolate cake
- Basic buttercream tinted with Wilton's Royal Blue
- I used a 104 petal tip to create the ruffles
Tier Two
- Two 6″ layer white cake
- Basic buttercream tinted with Wilton's Pink
- I used a 103 petal tip to create the ruffles
This cake came together really quickly and I was super pleased with the ruffles! The pennants add that cute little bunting touch. I simply created them in Photoshop, cut them out and taped them to a piece of butcher's twine. I then tied the twine to two wooden skewers and stuck them in the top tier.
Here's a little pennant printable for you to try on your next cake!


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The city of Toledo, Ohio, has a fascinating railroading history, of which I know almost nothing. Trains run through between the East Coast and Chicago, and between Columbus and Detroit, and any possible combination. In the early days of railroading, in the late 19th century, cooperation between railroads basically did not exist. As a result, instead of trying to share tracks and other facilities, many different railroads built tracks to or through Toledo. Even today, Google Maps shows an amazing collection of tracks going every which way.
A central passenger railroad station was built in Toledo in 1886, but by 1930 it was so decrepit that when it caught fire, watching citizens cheered. They were sad later, when the structure was repaired instead of replaced. A couple of decades later, in 1950, they got their wish, and the new Toledo Union Station was opened.
That was still in the glory days of passenger rail transportation, and its many tracks and platforms would have been constantly busy. But, as time went on, we all know the fate of passenger rail. Today, the station houses a nice waiting room for Amtrak's four trains per day. That's all the passenger traffic it sees. Freight trains pass on the main Norfolk Southern line, frequently stopping for crew changes.
During the Christmas holiday of 2013, I had a day to spend exploring northwest Ohio and visiting Fostoria, a favorite location. One of my stops was Toledo Union Station. It is still an impressive building, but I think the station must feel sad to be used so far below its potential. I wandered its empty platforms, wondering what they would have looked like when they were crowded with passengers, and porters, and train crews, and trains everywhere. They're not there any more.
Rob Richardson – Photographs and text Copyright 2016
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I'm a fidgeter, particularly when I'm anxious. I like to keep my hands busy. I used to tear up strips of paper before graduating to pens and fidget toys. On the go, I usually fidget with my phone. Fun, but distracting, and even more socially disruptive than clicking a pen over and over and-
So Vignettes really made my week when it landed on iOS. Calling it a toy would be a disservice — it's a great discovery game — but it's ever so satisfying to fidget with.
Here's a taste:
That's how Vignettes plays. You start with an object. Rotate it into the right new perspective and it becomes another object. A lamp into a lightbulb, for example.
It's impossible to fail. There are few distracting UI elements. You can just twist and turn objects around, tap them to interact, and work your way through a whole list of items back and forth. It's immensely satisfying for my particular fidgetting requirements.
There are other games that almost fit, like The Room series or Monument Valley. Those games have the tactility of Vignettes, but for me, they require a bit too much attention for this purpose.
There are two others I can think of that work similarly, though. Metamorphabet is an educational game for iOS, Android, Windows and Mac that lets you play with the alphabet. It's gorgeous, and it can be poked for ages without running out of satisfying interactions. And going a bit further back, there's Windosill. It's a discovery puzzle game that's available in browser, and on iOS, Windows, Linux and Mac.
It takes a bit more active attention to advance through the game, but each room is a delightful mix of strange, tactile interactions.
So how about you? Are there any games that particularly soothe your urge to fidget? Let us know on Twitter so we fidgeters can share our secrets.


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Can we take a moment to appreciate An Post, pin particular to appreciate Celcius who managed to deliver this card to Nicole Lally! Her friend Amanda sent her a Christmas card with the following written on the front:
Ya know yer wan, her mother's Hogan from Castleblakeney, but the daughter's an ex townie. Grew up in Athlone and moved to Ballymacward (between Ballinasloe and Galway) when she got married. Lives next door to her in-laws now, she has a rake of children and 7 dogs and 4 cats and about 30 hens + ducks and some rabbits and fish & I think she has a hamster as well. She has a shrine to the virgin mary in the left corner of her garden.
The inside of the card reads "…sure aren't An Post great"… indeed they are . Legends


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Find Out What You Can Expect Before You Call Customer Service
The website Customer Service Scorecard ranks the CSR experience for all sorts of companies, from hotels to appliances to telecoms. They've rated 128 so far, and here's their top five. Do you agree?
- ING Direct
- TomTom
- Canon
- Southwest Airlines
- Comcast
And what about the bottom five?
- Skype
- Gateway Computers
- Craigslist
- D-Link
We think the inclusion of Craigslist is interesting, since so far as we know their "customer service" is basically nonexistent. Maybe that's what gets people riled up enough to give them such a low rating.
Want more consumer news? Visit our parent organization, Consumer Reports, for the latest on scams, recalls, and other consumer issues.


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So you want to know how to score points with that beautiful girl you married or are in a relationship with? The Secrets that follow will lead to a more loving wife who will appreciate you even more.
What are the Secrets?
1) When you know your wife is going somewhere without you like to the beach with her girlfriends, Leave a surprise in her bag or car. Go out and get the most recent edition of her favorite magazine, or a book by her favorite author.
2) If your wife is going away, the week before she does, call her. Call her everyday during the day while you or she or both of you are at work. Tell her that you will miss her.
3) If she is going away, have dinner ready for her when she is due to return. Make her favorite food. Do everything. Cook, Clean up, don't let her do anything.
4) When she returns from being away, go out and unload her stuff. Going away is great, but coming back and unloading all the stuff stinks. She is probably going to be tired from a fun filled trip. Everyone needs a day off to recover from being off.
By following the four steps outlined above, I can almost guarantee your wife, girlfriend or partner will love you for it. The reward you get from doing this will be well worth it. She will be in a good mood. You just might like her reaction to your actions too.


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Date of Birth: 1950 in Dargan-Ata district of Chardjou area of Ashgabat
Citizenship: Russian and Turkmen
Residence when arrested: Ashgabat
Position when arrested: Businessman
Arrest: He was arrested on 25 November, 2002.
Charges: Participation in the alleged assassination attempt on President Niyazov. He was convicted on 18 January 2003 by the Supreme Court of Turkmenistan in violating Art.14 -101 , part 2 , paragraph "a", "b", "f", "g", "h", "i", "l" 129 Part 3, Part 1 169, 2 174, part 2, 176 part 1, part 2, 214, 218 Part 1, 2.3, 231 Part 4, paragraph "a", "b" 235, part 2, paragraph "a", "b", 254 part 4, paragraph "a", "b", 271 Part 3, Part 2, 273, 275, Part 1, Part 3 287 of the Criminal Code of Turkmenistan.[1]
Sentence: He was sentenced to 19 years imprisonment: 5 years in prison, the rest in a penal colony with confiscation of property followed by living in a prescribed place for 5 years, and the prohibition to hold substantive and responsible management positions within 3 years.[2]
Biography: Businessman, brother of Amanmukhammet and Yklym Yklymov. He graduated from the Economics Faculty of the Turkmen State University. In Soviet times, he lived in the Smolensk region of Russia, where he worked in the field of trade, including as Deputy Director General of the Pochinkovskoe interdistrict trading base, and then at Consumers Union in the district center Glinka. During perestroika, he returned to Turkmenistan and worked in the Ministry of Commerce. His last position was as Head of the State Trade Inspection. He later engaged in business.
Relatives Arrested/ harassed/detained: On November 25, 2002, at 11 AM, all members of the Yklymov family were taken from their houses by KNB and MIF officials, and brought to the house of Yklym Yklymov's mother, Edzhebai. Armed soldiers were posted inside and outside the house. Then they took Orazmammet away in handcuffs. The same day they took all of the males in the family, including those under age. The adolescents were abused and harshly beaten in prison. On November 28, 2002, at 2 am, all the women and children were woken up, and the courtyard of the house was filled with KNB and MNS officials. Everyone was ordered to leave the house, without the chance to get dressed or get belongings, and was evicted into the streets. At this time approximately 50 women and children total were among those arrested, detained, imprisoned or harassed as part of collective punishment inflicted upon the Yklymov family.
- Yklymov, Amanmukhammet ( See above);
- Yklymov, Yklym (See p. 39);
- Niyazdurdyev, Davlet ( See p. 48).
Current Situation: Unknown. Relatives do not have any information about his location or fate.
[1] Memorial. "Vragi naroda (Tyrkmenskogo) na stranitsah Ashgabatskovo Ejedelnika 'Adolat'" Translation." 04.02.2003. Accessed on 10 January 2014.
[2] Ibid.


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Safety Basics
How To Sense Danger
While propane is naturally odorless, a 'rotten egg' odor is added so you and your family can easily detect even the smallest leak. Teach everyone in your home or business to recognize this 'rotten egg' smell and take the following steps should someone suspect a leak:
- Clear your home or business immediately.
- Once safely outside, call 800.427.7712 to report a leak. (Or dial 911 once safely outside if you sense a more serious emergency)
- Use a cell phone or telephone until securely outside the location
- Smoke, light a match or do anything else that may cause a spark, which could result in an explosion or fire
- Turn on or off any electric switches
- Ring the doorbell or open any garage doors
- Turn off the gas supply at the tank, but only if you can do so safely
Visual and audible signs may also indicate that a gas leak has occurred. If you notice any of the following, please take the steps outlined above.
- Blowing dirt, bubbling creeks/ponds or dead vegetation in an otherwise green area. Natural gas is lighter than air whereas propane gas is heavier and settles
- Hissing sounds near a gas appliance or line
If You Run Out Of Gas
If you run out of propane, be sure and take the following steps:
- Turn off all the control valves on all of your gas appliances
- Call FPU at your local propane office to arrange for a delivery and to inform us that you are out of gas
- Make sure that you are present at the time of the delivery so an FPU Representative can relight your pilot lights and inspect your appliances before double-checking the needed safety controls and piping system
Please Note: FPU is required to perform a leak test before refilling an empty tank to ensure the integrity of your propane piping system. Do not attempt to turn the gas back on yourself; FPU will do so for you.
Important Notice About Your Fuel Lines
FPU maintains the buried gas piping from the main to the meter but does not maintain the customer's buried gas piping after the meter. Buried piping that you do not properly maintain may be subject to the potential hazards of corrosion and leakage. Buried gas piping should be:
- Periodically inspected for leaks
- Periodically inspected for corrosion if the piping is metallic
- Repaired if any unsafe condition is discovered
Also, when excavating near buried gas piping, the piping needs to be located in advance, and the excavation should be done by hand. Call 811 before you dig and we will be there within a few business days to locate your lines at no charge to you.
Energy Theft
Energy theft is the tampering of natural gas or propane meters with the intent to avoid paying for energy. It is a dangerous and illegal act that can result in:
- Fire and numerous other threats to public safety
- Severe bodily injury, including burns
- Severe legal ramifications, including large fines and possible imprisonment
If you suspect someone is tampering with a natural gas or propane meter, please contact FPU immediately. Your call can be confidential.
Water Damage
If flooding is predicted for your area, turn off the gas valve at the cylinder or tank before the water rises. Do not turn the gas back on until the gas system and all appliances have been checked by a qualified service technician.
Visual Damage
If your tank has shifted position, gas lines are bent, broken, or damaged, or you see something unusual about your system or appliance, turn off the main gas supply valve on your propane tank if it is safe to do so. Contact your propane retailer or a qualified service technician to have your gas system checked immediately.


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The Harry Potter series had got me back to reading again after a long time. But it also caused me to stop. After Harry Potter, I tried two more books, but they just didn't capture me as much as Hogwarts's world did. Harry Potter made me spoiled.
But there were still sixteen books left to read for me to complete my reading goal. I had to find something that would make me read again. And I did. I joined a book club.
One of my pen pals in our pen pal Facebook group suggested to start a book club, since a lot of us enjoy reading. This was perfect! Just the push I needed to finish some books again. So I didn't hesitate and joined the book club immediately. They even happened to start with my favorite genre: fantasy.
Well, I call this my favorite genre, but besides Harry Potter and some Narnia books I hadn't read any fantasy yet. It was about time, don't you think? I love fantasy! I was also a bit afraid though. I'd read some pretty great fantasy books. What if this one just couldn't live up to it? I wouldn't know unless I read the thing, right? And I must say, I was pleasantly surprised.
SPLINTERED – A.G. Howard
Genre: Fantasy, Young Adult
Alyssa Gardner, one if the descendants of Alice Liddell (yes, the one from Wonderland) can hear insects talk. It's driving her crazy and she's afraid she might end up just like her mom, who spends her life heavily sedated in a mental asylum. Until one day she realizes her and her mom are not crazy, but cursed. Wonderland is a place that really exists and the only way to free her family from the curse is to travel there and fix Alice's mistakes. But Wonderland turns out to be a much more twisted land than Lewis Carroll ever described…
I love the fact that A.G. Howard used a fantasy world from a well-known story and gave it a really wicked twist. She has done a very remarkable job there! The Wonderland Lewis Carroll described was still completely intact, it just had a much darker side. The land was more dangerous, the characters more creepy.
But before I got to be endured in this Wonderland, I had to read a good amount of chapters with Alyssa in the real world. I was a bit disappointed by that. I had hoped to step into the fantasy world much sooner. Or at least let Alyssa embrace the bits of Wonderland that were present in the human world. But she didn't. Instead, she killed it and fought hard to keep it away. I understand her choice as a human, but as a reader I had wanted to see her accept her fantasy quest much sooner.
Once I was in a Wonderland though, the book was hard to lay down. Everything was described so vividly. I could easily imagine all the things surrounding Alyssa, even though she was in a world so much different from our own. Her character started to grow on me as well. In the beginning I found her a bit whiny, but she developed into a very brave young woman.
All the dangers she encounters were described so realistically, it was as if I was there. But the book wasn't only about action. It was also about Alyssa's inner struggle. A struggle of who she really is, of who she wants to be and of whom she loves. She was literally torn between two worlds. Her inner struggle was written so well, I really could relate to her.
But what was even greater than all of the above, was the character Morpheus. He was someone I loved and hated at the same time. I could feel drawn to him the one second and despise him the next. I was wondering if he was good or evil, until the very end. It takes a really good writer to create a character so contradictory.
This book was mysterious, creepy and unpredictable. I loved to be tossed back and forth between different truths and wondering which truth was real. I loved all the wicked manners and how the author managed to make them all seem plausible. She had perfect explanations for the weirdest things going on there. I loved to be torn between love and hate for Morpheus. I loved to be torn between love for one man and another. I loved the sacrifices being made. I loved it all. Okay, I may have found the beginning a bit dreading, but in the end it was all worth it.
And you know what's the best part? This book has sequels! Three sequels and one in the making. I need to read them all now! I secretly hope they will make a movie out of it in the future. I would so love to see everything in this book 'for real'.
If you haven't read this book yet and you like fantasy and a bit of creepiness, I would definitely recommend you to read this.


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June 25, 2014
June Garden
9 comments:
- AnonymousJune 25, 2014 at 8:56 AM
Your garden is just beautiful, thank you for sharing!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 25, 2014 at 1:19 PM
Wow - clipping 40 guinea wings - 80 wings total! What a task! When we had an adventurous flock of ladies, we had to do about 10 chickens and that was always a taxing experience. I was always sure the neighbors were going to report us to the police, with all of the racket that they made.ReplyDelete
It all looks wonderful. Ours is very neglected no vegetables. Interesting about your Brussels sprout and squash combination. I look forward to seeing the results. I think all our fruit trees and bushes are going to be very fruitful this year especially the mulberry tree. It will be just in time for the new owners to enjoy the harvest. A happy welcome for them.ReplyDelete
Whoops. I didn't even finish my sentence. That should have said that our garden is sadly neglected this year and I didn't plant any vegetables at all. Next year it will be a cottage garden and I would like to plant vegetables amongst the flowers in true English cottage garden style. Apparently the soil is amazing so nothing like our heavy clay here that's very difficult to work.ReplyDelete
That sounds a bit better.
Your garden is wonderful so much going on :). My garden is very green and rather overgrown I have neglected it if late really must find the time to tend it...........ReplyDelete
Looking beautiful and very productive. Love your idea of sprouts and squash together, hope it works!ReplyDelete
Your garden is looking fantastic, so organised and productive. Ours is tiny, so not much is growing - a few tomatoes and strawberries, that's about it. xReplyDelete
It's all looking fabulous! What mulches and fertilisers do you use Emily?ReplyDeleteReplies
I'm so sorry, Annie, that I didn't answer your question sooner. We mainly use manure (from our cows and chickens) as fertilizer. For mulch in our new beds, I laid newspapers down then covered with straw. I also used straw around my blueberries, but last year we used saw dust that Hubby collected when he planed all the wood for our addition. The wood mulch adds acid to the soil that blueberries love.Delete


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Fuck yeah. Very little details are out because I can't find a translation of the announcement on Oyashirosama.com. Ryukishi07 has also said that Umineko will have 7-8 games in total with the first 4 being question arcs. Honestly, this has beena great week for announcements. Touhou and now Umineko? AWESOME.
Old theory is taken down. Seems plausible but has no connection to the mysteries on Rokkenjima. Plus, the ending of said theory contradicts the Bern we see now.
Crazy plot twist was crazy.