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Certain procedures which input one or more numbers and output a number are called numerical operations. Unary operations input a single number and output a single number. For example, the successor operation adds one to an integer: the successor of 4 is 5. More common are binary operations which input two numbers and output a single number. Examples of binary operations include addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and exponentiation. The study of numerical operations is called arithmetic.
The branch of mathematics that studies structures of number systems such as groups, rings and fields is called abstract algebra.
In the base ten number system, in almost universal use today for arithmetic operations, the symbols for natural numbers are written using ten digits: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9. In this base ten system, the rightmost digit of a natural number has a place value of one, and every other digit has a place value ten times that of the place value of the digit to its right. The symbol for the set of all natural numbers is N, also written .
In set theory, which is capable of acting as an axiomatic foundation for modern mathematics, natural numbers can be represented by classes of equivalent sets. For instance, the number 3 can be represented as the class of all sets that have exactly three elements. Alternatively, in Peano Arithmetic, the number 3 is represented as sss0, where s is the "successor" function. Many different representations are possible; all that is needed to formally represent 3 is to inscribe a certain symbol or pattern of symbols 3 times.
The real numbers include all of the measuring numbers. Real numbers are usually written using decimal numerals, in which a decimal point is placed to the right of the digit with place value one. Each digit to the right of the decimal point has a place value one-tenth of the place value of the digit to its left. Thus
Every rational number is also a real number. To write a fraction as a decimal, divide the numerator by the denominator. It is not the case, however, that every real number is rational. If a real number cannot be written as a fraction of two integers, it is called irrational. A decimal that can be written as a fraction either ends (terminates) or forever repeats, because it is the answer to a problem in division. Thus the real number 0.5 can be written as 1/2 and the real number 0.333... (forever repeating threes) can be written as 1/3. On the other hand, the real number π (pi), the ratio of the circumference of any circle to its diameter, is
Just as fractions can be written in more than one way, so too can decimals. For example, if we multiply both sides of the equation
Every real number is either rational or irrational. Every real number corresponds to a point on the number line. The real numbers also have an important but highly technical property called the least upper bound property. The symbol for the real numbers is R or .
When a real number represents a measurement, there is always a margin of error. This is often indicated by rounding or truncating a decimal, so that digits that suggest a greater accuracy than the measurement itself are removed. The remaining digits are called significant digits. For example, measurements with a ruler can seldom be made without a margin of error of at least 0.01 meters. If the sides of a rectangle are measured as 1.23 meters and 4.56 meters, then multiplication gives an area for the rectangle of 5.6088 square meters. Since only the first two digits after the decimal place are significant, this is usually rounded to 5.61. In abstract algebra, the real numbers are up to isomorphism uniquely characterized by being the only complete ordered field. They are not, however, an algebraically closed field.
In abstract algebra, the complex numbers are an example of an algebraically closed field, meaning that every polynomial with complex coefficients can be factored into linear factors. Like the real number system, the complex number system is a field and is complete, but unlike the real numbers it is not ordered. That is, there is no meaning in saying that i is greater than 1, nor is there any meaning in saying that that i is less than 1. In technical terms, the complex numbers lack the trichotomy property.
Complex numbers correspond to points on the complex plane, sometimes called the Argand plane.
Each of the number systems mentioned above is a proper subset of the next number system. Symbolically, N ⊂ Z ⊂ Q ⊂ R ⊂ C.
Moving to problems of computation, the computable numbers are determined in the set of the real numbers. The computable numbers, also known as the recursive numbers or the computable reals, are the real numbers that can be computed to within any desired precision by a finite, terminating algorithm. Equivalent definitions can be given using μ-recursive functions, Turing machines or λ-calculus as the formal representation of algorithms. The computable numbers form a real closed field and can be used in the place of real numbers for many, but not all, mathematical purposes.
Hyperreal and hypercomplex numbers are used in non-standard analysis. The hyperreals, or nonstandard reals (usually denoted as *R), denote an ordered field which is a proper extension of the ordered field of real numbers R and which satisfies the transfer principle. This principle allows true first order statements about R to be reinterpreted as true first order statements about *R.
Superreal and surreal numbers extend the real numbers by adding infinitesimally small numbers and infinitely large numbers, but still form fields.
The idea behind p-adic numbers is this: While real numbers may have infinitely long expansions to the right of the decimal point, these numbers allow for infinitely long expansions to the left. The number system which results depends on what base is used for the digits: any base is possible, but a system with the best mathematical properties is obtained when the base is a prime number.
For dealing with infinite collections, the natural numbers have been generalized to the ordinal numbers and to the cardinal numbers. The former gives the ordering of the collection, while the latter gives its size. For the finite set, the ordinal and cardinal numbers are equivalent, but they differ in the infinite case.
There are also other sets of numbers with specialized uses. Some are subsets of the complex numbers. For example, algebraic numbers are the roots of polynomials with rational coefficients. Complex numbers that are not algebraic are called transcendental numbers.
Sets of numbers that are not subsets of the complex numbers are sometimes called hypercomplex numbers. They include the quaternions H, invented by Sir William Rowan Hamilton, in which multiplication is not commutative, and the octonions, in which multiplication is not associative. Elements of function fields of non-zero characteristic behave in some ways like numbers and are often regarded as numbers by number theorists.
In addition, various specific kinds of numbers are studied in sets of natural and integer numbers.
An even number is an integer that is "evenly divisible" by 2, i.e., divisible by 2 without remainder; an odd number is an integer that is not evenly divisible by 2. (The old-fashioned term "evenly divisible" is now almost always shortened to "divisible".) A formal definition of an odd number is that it is an integer of the form n = 2k + 1, where k is an integer. An even number has the form n = 2k where k is an integer.
A perfect number is defined as a positive integer which is the sum of its proper positive divisors, that is, the sum of the positive divisors not including the number itself. Equivalently, a perfect number is a number that is half the sum of all of its positive divisors, or σ(n) = 2 n. The first perfect number is 6, because 1, 2, and 3 are its proper positive divisors and 1 + 2 + 3 = 6. The next perfect number is 28 = 1 + 2 + 4 + 7 + 14. The next perfect numbers are 496 and 8128 . These first four perfect numbers were the only ones known to early Greek mathematics.
A figurate number is a number that can be represented as a regular and discrete geometric pattern (e.g. dots). If the pattern is polytopic, the figurate is labeled a polytopic number, and may be a polygonal number or a polyhedral number. Polytopic numbers for r = 2, 3, and 4 are:
Numbers should be distinguished from numerals, the symbols used to represent numbers. Boyer showed that Egyptians created the first ciphered numeral system. Greeks followed by mapping their counting numbers onto Ionian and Doric alpabets. The number five can be represented by both the base ten numeral '5', by the Roman numeral 'V' and ciphered letters. Notations used to represent numbers are discussed in the article numeral systems. An important development in the history of numerals was the development of a positional system, like modern decimals, which can represent very large numbers. The Roman numerals require extra symbols for larger numbers.
Tallying systems have no concept of place-value (such as in the currently used decimal notation), which limit its representation of large numbers and as such is often considered that this is the first kind of abstract system that would be used, and could be considered a Numeral System.
The first known system with place-value was the Mesopotamian base 60 system (ca. 3400 BC) and the earliest known base 10 system dates to 3100 BC in Egypt.
The use of zero as a number should be distinguished from its use as a placeholder numeral in place-value systems. Many ancient texts used zero. Babylonians and Egyptian texts used it. Egyptians used the word nfr to denote zero balance in double entry accounting entries. Indian texts used a Sanskrit word Shunya to refer to the concept of void; in mathematics texts this word would often be used to refer to the number zero. In a similar vein, Pāṇini (5th century BC) used the null (zero) operator (ie a lambda production) in the Ashtadhyayi, his algebraic grammar for the Sanskrit language. (also see Pingala)
Records show that the Ancient Greeks seemed unsure about the status of zero as a number: they asked themselves "how can 'nothing' be something?" leading to interesting philosophical and, by the Medieval period, religious arguments about the nature and existence of zero and the vacuum. The paradoxes of Zeno of Elea depend in large part on the uncertain interpretation of zero. (The ancient Greeks even questioned if 1 was a number.)
The late Olmec people of south-central Mexico began to use a true zero (a shell glyph) in the New World possibly by the 4th century BC but certainly by 40 BC, which became an integral part of Maya numerals and the Maya calendar. Mayan arithmetic used base 4 and base 5 written as base 20. Sanchez in 1961 reported a base 4, base 5 'finger' abacus.
By 130, Ptolemy, influenced by Hipparchus and the Babylonians, was using a symbol for zero (a small circle with a long overbar) within a sexagesimal numeral system otherwise using alphabetic Greek numerals. Because it was used alone, not as just a placeholder, this Hellenistic zero was the first documented use of a true zero in the Old World. In later Byzantine manuscripts of his Syntaxis Mathematica (Almagest), the Hellenistic zero had morphed into the Greek letter omicron (otherwise meaning 70).
Another true zero was used in tables alongside Roman numerals by 525 (first known use by Dionysius Exiguus), but as a word, nulla meaning nothing, not as a symbol. When division produced zero as a remainder, nihil, also meaning nothing, was used. These medieval zeros were used by all future medieval computists (calculators of Easter). An isolated use of their initial, N, was used in a table of Roman numerals by Bede or a colleague about 725, a true zero symbol.
An early documented use of the zero by Brahmagupta (in the Brahmasphutasiddhanta) dates to 628. He treated zero as a number and discussed operations involving it, including division. By this time (7th century) the concept had clearly reached Cambodia, and documentation shows the idea later spreading to China and the Islamic world.
The abstract concept of negative numbers was recognised as early as 100 BC - 50 BC. The Chinese "Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art" (Jiu-zhang Suanshu) contains methods for finding the areas of figures; red rods were used to denote positive coefficients, black for negative. This is the earliest known mention of negative numbers in the East; the first reference in a western work was in the 3rd century in Greece. Diophantus referred to the equation equivalent to (the solution would be negative) in Arithmetica, saying that the equation gave an absurd result.
During the 600s, negative numbers were in use in India to represent debts. Diophantus' previous reference was discussed more explicitly by Indian mathematician Brahmagupta, in Brahma-Sphuta-Siddhanta 628, who used negative numbers to produce the general form quadratic formula that remains in use today. However, in the 12th century in India, Bhaskara gives negative roots for quadratic equations but says the negative value "is in this case not to be taken, for it is inadequate; people do not approve of negative roots."
European mathematicians, for the most part, resisted the concept of negative numbers until the 17th century, although Fibonacci allowed negative solutions in financial problems where they could be interpreted as debits (chapter 13 of Liber Abaci, 1202) and later as losses (in Flos). At the same time, the Chinese were indicating negative numbers by drawing a diagonal stroke through the right-most nonzero digit of the corresponding positive number's numeral. The first use of negative numbers in a European work was by Chuquet during the 15th century. He used them as exponents, but referred to them as "absurd numbers".
As recently as the 18th century, the Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler believed that negative numbers were greater than infinity, and it was common practice to ignore any negative results returned by equations on the assumption that they were meaningless, just as René Descartes did with negative solutions in a cartesian coordinate system.
The concept of decimal fractions is closely linked with decimal place value notation; the two seem to have developed in tandem. For example, it is common for the Jain math sutras to include calculations of decimal-fraction approximations to pi or the square root of two. Similarly, Babylonian math texts had always used sexagesimal fractions with great frequency.
The sixteenth century saw the final acceptance by Europeans of negative, integral and fractional numbers. The seventeenth century saw decimal fractions with the modern notation quite generally used by mathematicians. But it was not until the nineteenth century that the irrationals were separated into algebraic and transcendental parts, and a scientific study of theory of irrationals was taken once more. It had remained almost dormant since Euclid. The year 1872 saw the publication of the theories of Karl Weierstrass (by his pupil Kossak), Heine (Crelle, 74), Georg Cantor (Annalen, 5), and Richard Dedekind. Méray had taken in 1869 the same point of departure as Heine, but the theory is generally referred to the year 1872. Weierstrass's method has been completely set forth by Salvatore Pincherle (1880), and Dedekind's has received additional prominence through the author's later work (1888) and the recent endorsement by Paul Tannery (1894). Weierstrass, Cantor, and Heine base their theories on infinite series, while Dedekind founds his on the idea of a cut (Schnitt) in the system of real numbers, separating all rational numbers into two groups having certain characteristic properties. The subject has received later contributions at the hands of Weierstrass, Kronecker (Crelle, 101), and Méray.
Continued fractions, closely related to irrational numbers (and due to Cataldi, 1613), received attention at the hands of Euler, and at the opening of the nineteenth century were brought into prominence through the writings of Joseph Louis Lagrange. Other noteworthy contributions have been made by Druckenmüller (1837), Kunze (1857), Lemke (1870), and Günther (1872). Ramus (1855) first connected the subject with determinants, resulting, with the subsequent contributions of Heine, Möbius, and Günther, in the theory of Kettenbruchdeterminanten. Dirichlet also added to the general theory, as have numerous contributors to the applications of the subject.
Even the set of algebraic numbers was not sufficient and the full set of real number includes transcendental numbers. The existence of which was first established by Liouville (1844, 1851). Hermite proved in 1873 that e is transcendental and Lindemann proved in 1882 that π is transcendental. Finally Cantor shows that the set of all real numbers is uncountably infinite but the set of all algebraic numbers is countably infinite, so there is an uncountably infinite number of transcendental numbers.
The earliest known conception of mathematical infinity appears in the Yajur Veda - an ancient script in India, which at one point states "if you remove a part from infinity or add a part to infinity, still what remains is infinity". Infinity was a popular topic of philosophical study among the Jain mathematicians circa 400 BC. They distinguished between five types of infinity: infinite in one and two directions, infinite in area, infinite everywhere, and infinite perpetually.
In the West, the traditional notion of mathematical infinity was defined by Aristotle, who distinguished between actual infinity and potential infinity; the general consensus being that only the latter had true value. Galileo's Two New Sciences discussed the idea of one-to-one correspondences between infinite sets. But the next major advance in the theory was made by Georg Cantor; in 1895 he published a book about his new set theory, introducing, among other things, transfinite numbers and formulating the continuum hypothesis. This was the first mathematical model that represented infinity by numbers and gave rules for operating with these infinite numbers.
In the 1960s, Abraham Robinson showed how infinitely large and infinitesimal numbers can be rigorously defined and used to develop the field of nonstandard analysis. The system of hyperreal numbers represents a rigorous method of treating the ideas about infinite and infinitesimal numbers that had been used casually by mathematicians, scientists, and engineers ever since the invention of calculus by Newton and Leibniz.
A modern geometrical version of infinity is given by projective geometry, which introduces "ideal points at infinity," one for each spatial direction. Each family of parallel lines in a given direction is postulated to converge to the corresponding ideal point. This is closely related to the idea of vanishing points in perspective drawing.
The earliest fleeting reference to square roots of negative numbers occurred in the work of the mathematician and inventor Heron of Alexandria in the 1st century AD, when he considered the volume of an impossible frustum of a pyramid. They became more prominent when in the 16th century closed formulas for the roots of third and fourth degree polynomials were discovered by Italian mathematicians (see Niccolo Fontana Tartaglia, Gerolamo Cardano). It was soon realized that these formulas, even if one was only interested in real solutions, sometimes required the manipulation of square roots of negative numbers.
This was doubly unsettling since they did not even consider negative numbers to be on firm ground at the time. The term "imaginary" for these quantities was coined by René Descartes in 1637 and was meant to be derogatory (see imaginary number for a discussion of the "reality" of complex numbers). A further source of confusion was that the equation
The 18th century saw the labors of Abraham de Moivre and Leonhard Euler. To De Moivre is due (1730) the well-known formula which bears his name, de Moivre's formula:
and to Euler (1748) Euler's formula of complex analysis:
The existence of complex numbers was not completely accepted until the geometrical interpretation had been described by Caspar Wessel in 1799; it was rediscovered several years later and popularized by Carl Friedrich Gauss, and as a result the theory of complex numbers received a notable expansion. The idea of the graphic representation of complex numbers had appeared, however, as early as 1685, in Wallis's De Algebra tractatus.
Also in 1799, Gauss provided the first generally accepted proof of the fundamental theorem of algebra, showing that every polynomial over the complex numbers has a full set of solutions in that realm. The general acceptance of the theory of complex numbers is not a little due to the labors of Augustin Louis Cauchy and Niels Henrik Abel, and especially the latter, who was the first to boldly use complex numbers with a success that is well known.
Gauss studied complex numbers of the form a + bi, where a and b are integral, or rational (and i is one of the two roots of x2 + 1 = 0). His student, Ferdinand Eisenstein, studied the type a + bω, where ω is a complex root of x3 − 1 = 0. Other such classes (called cyclotomic fields) of complex numbers are derived from the roots of unity xk − 1 = 0 for higher values of k. This generalization is largely due to Ernst Kummer, who also invented ideal numbers, which were expressed as geometrical entities by Felix Klein in 1893. The general theory of fields was created by Évariste Galois, who studied the fields generated by the roots of any polynomial equation F(x) = 0.
In 1850 Victor Alexandre Puiseux took the key step of distinguishing between poles and branch points, and introduced the concept of essential singular points; this would eventually lead to the concept of the extended complex plane.
Prime numbers have been studied throughout recorded history. Euclid devoted one book of the Elements to the theory of primes; in it he proved the infinitude of the primes and the fundamental theorem of arithmetic, and presented the Euclidean algorithm for finding the greatest common divisor of two numbers.
In 240 BC, Eratosthenes used the Sieve of Eratosthenes to quickly isolate prime numbers. But most further development of the theory of primes in Europe dates to the Renaissance and later eras.
In 1796, Adrien-Marie Legendre conjectured the prime number theorem, describing the asymptotic distribution of primes. Other results concerning the distribution of the primes include Euler's proof that the sum of the reciprocals of the primes diverges, and the Goldbach conjecture which claims that any sufficiently large even number is the sum of two primes. Yet another conjecture related to the distribution of prime numbers is the Riemann hypothesis, formulated by Bernhard Riemann in 1859. The prime number theorem was finally proved by Jacques Hadamard and Charles de la Vallée-Poussin in 1896. The conjectures of Goldbach and Riemann yet remain to be proved or refuted.


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Insanely high power usage. Around 100-150 watts idle, and 300+ at load (and that's without overclocking). And those benchmarks are only based on a single test. I'd recommend looking at an all round review for deciding. From what I can remember they're still way below the Intel CPU's in gaming but about equal for number crunching.
I think those stats are for the whole system not just the CPU. Not fair to dump it all on it without a disclaimer.
@OP: Scratch the x1xx and x2xx because they're Bulldozer which is a bit slower and less efficient, unless you find an awesome deal or something. FXs are slower when it comes to performance per core, but as the game is more optimised for multi-threading the gap decreases. The # or cores should make them better for general usage too. Boards are also cheaper and the current socket should support next gen Steamroller, while Intel's 1155 will be replaced with 1150 for their next gen Haswell.


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Shang Vase
This vase is part of a pair that entered the Museum's collection in 1932, but slight differences in size and decoration indicate that they were made at different times although following the same design. This form of Bottle Vase appears in the Song Dynasty (960–1279) as an archaistic revival of ancient bronze vessels, and the design of flowers connected by a scrolling vine is an adaptation of a Ming Dynasty (1368–1644) pattern. The Qing imperial court looked back to the Song and the Ming as two of the greatest eras of ceramic production, and the combination of a Song form and Ming decorative patterns is a Qing homage to China's past as a source of artistic excellence.
- Medium: Porcelain with cobalt underglaze decoration
- Place Made: Jiangxi, China
- Dates: 1736-1795
- Dynasty: Qing Dynasty
- Period: Qianlong Period
- Dimensions: 14 1/4 x 8 7/8 in. (36.2 x 22.5 cm) (show scale)
- Collections:Asian Art
- Museum Location: This item is not on view
- Accession Number: 32.1032.2
- Credit Line: Gift of the executors of the Estate of Colonel Michael Friedsam
- Rights Statement: Creative Commons-BY
- Caption: Shang Vase, 1736-1795. Porcelain with cobalt underglaze decoration, 14 1/4 x 8 7/8 in. (36.2 x 22.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the executors of the Estate of Colonel Michael Friedsam, 32.1032.2. Creative Commons-BY
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- Catalogue Description: Curved mouth that flares out; long neck; oval body; slightly flaring circular foot. Cobalt-blue underglaze design, consisting of ocean wave patterns, similar to ruyi, banana leaf pattern, fret-scroll (huiwen), interlocking lotus flowers. Lotus flowers mean "qingbai lianjie," or "pure and honest." 6-character inscription: "Made during the Qianlong reign of the Great Qing." Unglazed base of foot-ring. Clear glaze covers rest of vase. Object for bestowing reward. Condition: Intact. Old Accession Card for 32.1032: Large bottle shaped vases with spreading feet of medium height, globular bodies with three raised ridges, a double one on the lower part of the shoulder, a single one in the middle of the shoulder, and another one at the base of the neck, and a tall neck, broad at the base, then tapering inwards and finally swelling again somewhat at the mouth. White glazed porcelain decorated on the foot with a leaf scroll border, just above that on the body with a border of false gadroons, then a broad band of peonies and leaf scrolls, and above that, between the raised ridges, ju i heads and more peonies and leaf scrolls. At the base of the neck is a fret border, with tall stiff leaves above. Beneath the mouth rim is a second ju i head border and a broad wave pattern. All these designs are painted in a dark rather dull underglaze blue, rather mottled and speckled. The inside and the base are glazed white, and on the base is a six character Ch'ien Lung seal mark in a rather misty underglaze blue.
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The SLU community has received another phishing email, this time with the subject line: "Upgrade Alert." The email appears to come from a homboldt.edu account. It tells you to follow a link to upgrade your account, which they say has exceeded the storage limit. Clicking on that link would take you to an unsafe site and could compromise your account.
Hackers have become very skilled at imitating real emails, but there are ways to spot a phishing scam. In this case, it is sent from a strange email address. Second, the email is written with poor grammar. A third, very important way to tell this email is fake is that it asks you to click on a strange link, embedded in the email. SLU will never try to confirm your information this way and will never ask for your password or personal information in an email.
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Institutes for Biological Research, Dresden University, Germany
Competition: 2001 - 1st Prize
Construction period: 2003 - 2005
Design: Eckhard Gerber
Project director/Project manager: Jens Haake, Michael Halbeisen
Project team: Tobias Haverbeck, Ivonne Kauß, Gerd Gröschl, Susanne Kreimeyer, Juana Grunwald et al.
Client: Freistaat Sachsen vertr. durch SIB Dresden II
Gross area: 11.192 m²
Volume: 45.352 m³
The institute building extends the university's existing main circulation axis westward, past the new library designed by Ortner and Ortner, and is incorporated into the comb-like structure of the existing university buildings. Two parallel building volumes house the four departments of botany, genetics, microbiology and zoology in the first and second upper floors.
A glazed communication and activities hall connects the two building volumes and opens up onto the pedestrian circulation axis to the north via the main entrance and also to the elevated open landscape to the south. The topography and vegetation extend into the unheated hall, as landscaped terraces, functioning as flowing visual and spatial connections, lending the new institute building a pleasant, open atmosphere in which to learn and conduct research. The ground floor provides access to student areas, such as lab and common rooms, the dean's office and the cafeteria. As a centre of communication, it invites both students and professors to meet and exchange thoughts and ideas, helping to give new impetus to the research conducted there.
In a solitary wood panelled structure located in the hall, two lab rooms are on each floor of the two-storey structure, situated over the main entrance. Because lab work is an important component of scientific studies, these rooms function as »spaces within a space«, at once incorporated into the large hall and yet directly associated with the individual departments, without, however, any disruption caused to ongoing research.
Anthracite-coloured cement fibreboards make up the façades of the two lateral structures. The fixed glazing of the post and rail construction window front is interrupted at regular intervals by the narrow wooden tilt-turn window frames. Mounted on the façade's exterior is a flexible horizontal sunscreen made of flat aluminium lamellae that are mounted on to the building-high pilaster strips.


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EGLIN AFB — The state has purchased a 20,850-acre buffer zone to help fend off any development that could interfere with the base's mission.
A conservation easement for the property located on the eastern side of Eglin Air Force Base in Walton County was purchased from M.C. Davis for $12.5 million. Davis will continue to own and manage the land, but it will not be developed.
In addition to preserving the ecosystem, the buffer will help prevent development from getting too close to the base.
"This is avoiding any incompatible development before it happens so there's not a problem in the future," said an Air Force official who declined to be identified before the official announcement of the acquisition.
The buffer was purchased through a partnership of state and federal governments and agencies. Florida committed $10.2 million, the federal government chipped in $1.75 million and Eglin is providing $550,000.
Military bases across the country grapple with how to fend off development that could impact their missions. When commercial or residential developments are built close to military bases, they can potentially restrict the type of training or testing that can be accomplished.
"We do this so we don't have problems like what has occurred in California and everywhere else, where a base was put in 50 or 60 years ago and over time people develop right up to the edge of the runway," said David Goetsh, a local economist who chairs the Florida Defense Support Task Force.
Eglin, the Air Force's largest installation, spans 474,000 acres, but its footprint in the air is much larger.
It includes extensive special use airspace to accommodate the wide range of testing, evaluation and training missions conducted out of Eglin, Hurlburt Field and Duke Field. That includes flights of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, the military's newest fighter jet.
The airspace over the 20,850-acre buffer is primarily used for low-level flying operations, the Air Force official said.
If neighborhoods or commercial businesses were built in that area, it would likely require limitations on the type of missions that could be flown there or spur residents' complaints about noise.
Officials have been pursuing buffer zones around Eglin for years, but the Davis property is the largest single acquisition in some time, the Air Force official said.
The effort to acquire the easement began in 2007 with the inception of the Department of Defense's Readiness and Environmental Protection Initiative, which works to establish buffers at bases across the country.
Some smaller parcels adjacent to the latest buffer have been purchased since the program began, the official said.
Goetsch said the buffer could help protect the area's largest economic generator from being relocated.
The federal government's next Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) process could occur in 2017, he said.
"One of the most important things they look at is whether there is a sufficient buffer around the base to allow it to do its mission uninterrupted and without the mission adversely affecting the community," he said.
Goetsch said the area already is at a disadvantage because of lawsuits filed by Valparaiso regarding noise from the F-35, which started flying at Eglin last year.
Some of those issues have been resolved, but Goetsch pointed out that the buffer zone will prevent that from occurring in the first place.
When Eglin was built, there were no houses anywhere near the base.
"Valparaiso over the years grew towards the base, the base didn't grow towards Valparaiso," he said.
Geotsch said the economic impact of keeping the military in the area far outweighs that of commercial or residential developments.
"They are our economic engine, the heart of our economy," he said.
Davis, who runs the Nokuse Plantation, a land conservation organization, sold the easement for $7 million less than its appraised value, the Air Force official said.
As part of the agreement, Davis and Nokuse Plantation will preserve the longleaf pine ecosystem there. It is home to several endangered and threatened species, including the red-cockaded woodpecker.
"We're confident of their land stewardship based on past performance and what their mission is," the Air Force official said.
The Nokuse Plantation also will rescue and relocate gopher tortoises from other properties that are being developed.
Officials heralded the acquisition of the buffer zone, dubbed the Seven Runs Creek Project, for its benefits to the local area, the state and the military.
"This helps not only the military, but also our environment, community, quality of life and business development," U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson said in an email. "The Seven Runs Creek Project is an excellent example of various stakeholders coming together to benefit Northwest Florida."
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May 10, 2007
Coach needs community's help
I'll email Carlos and ask him to watch this blog post - if you have questions for him, feel free to post a comment. I'll also encourage him to visit the repository at nxtasy. I'm certain Carlos will appreciate any assistance we can provide.
We probably won't be able to do this type of thing very often... maybe just this once. But I'm sure Carlos' students will be very thankful and they'll have some fun on Saturday!
5 comments:
- Myles said...
Maybe some randomness? The US sensor wouldnt work reliably because your opponet may use it. (still keep it connected to interfere with the opponets US sensor)
Maybe something that makes it spin around a random amount of times and then goes forward until it reaches the edge of the ring.
Just an idea. . .
- May 10, 2007, 10:35:00 AM
"(still keep it connected to interfere with the opponets US sensor) "
What, no gracious professionalism? :)
- May 10, 2007, 11:23:00 PM
- Brian Davis said...
Hah! This is *Sumo*... in this context, within the ring, "gracious professionalism" means not disassembling your opponent intentionally.
Brian Davis
- May 11, 2007, 12:57:00 AM
- David Levy said...
Carlos should have a look at the following Sumo videos for some ideas. There may be contacts on that site that can send some sample code.
- May 11, 2007, 1:19:00 AM
- Alex said...
I had to deal with Sumo once, on the insistence of some 4th graders. Won't repeat the experience, too distastefull. But what I had them do as introduction to programming was build a remote control and drive by wire (literally, as we were using the old RCX). Programming the remote is relatively simple, so they get to have their fun and learn some too.
With the NXT one can try remote by bluetooth, like Philo's and others.
Autonomous chase in 2d could be difficult. A group in my college robotics class tried to do this and kind of made it work, but not too well. The robot would lock on anything too close and approach, other robot or wall or person. Can't tell them apart :-)
Now phonotaxis would be interesting. Approach by sound, each robot beeps and tries to locate the other's beep. But still difficult with the NXT sound sensors...
- May 11, 2007, 1:43:00 AM


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The World's 20 Most Impressive University Special Collections
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Easily one of the neatest perks of campus life for the particularly inquisitive, studious, or proudly nerdy involves perusing the school's special collections. Most tend to involve some combination of rare books and manuscripts as well as information about the school itself, local history, and maybe state history. Even smaller collections tend to harbor some amazing gems. But some schools score big time, with archives bursting with veritable treasures and groundbreaking finds. This doesn't invalidate the inherent worth of the more modest special collections out there, obviously. All the same, though ... some of the university special collections out there can only be...


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August 12, 2013
Cape Town's Spectre Spectacles: Legends and Ghost Tours
Tammy White
Tammy is a born and bred Capetonian.
She absolutely loves the Mother City and its stunning views, spending time with family and friends, being around animals and gardening.
The way to her heart is through a nice strong cup of coffee and samoosas (yes, more than one).
Besides writing various content for Cape Town Tourism over the past few years, she has also been published in The Property Magazine.
We've shared our top haunted places in Cape Town with you but there are loads more spooky tales and ghostly wails to come out of the Mother City, including one of the ghost of Verlatenbosch ("Bush of the Forsaken").
It's an intriguing Table Mountain tale ... a distant governor of Cape Town made enemies of a citizen who proceeded to offer a fine-looking flute to the governor's son as a gift. The flute was once used by a leper and so the boy contracted leprosy. He was forced to live in exile in a lonely hut in the forests of Table Mountain and to this day the gloomy sounds of his flute can sometimes be heard on the slopes of Table Mountain.
But it's not all grey ladies and distant whistles. Visitors to the Cape could find the southern coastline very creepy with around 300 – 400 shipwrecks dotted around the Peninsula dating as far back as the 1500's. The Shipwreck Trail can be followed from Cape Point Nature Reserve starting at Olifantsbos Bay, and includes the most famous wreck of all, the Flying Dutchman. Legend has it that the Dutch ship was making its way around a stormy Cape under instruction from a drunken Captain. A fight ensued and the captain killed the crew leader and threw his body overboard. As his body hit the sea, a shadowy figure appeared on board, cursing the captain to sail the seas for eternity, never reaching port or having a moment's peace. Today, it is believed that the Flying Dutchman appears out of the mist and then suddenly disappears again.
A number of tour companies in and around Cape Town also offer guided wreck-diving tours. The Blue Monkey Tours offers a scenic Peninsula tour called "Shipwrecks of the Cape of Storms".
* Don't miss the very last Mystery Ghost Bus Tour for Cape Town on 28 September 2013. It begins at 19h00 with a quick meal and introduction at a pub then visits a plethora of eerie places around Cape Town before a late night visit to a cemetery. Book at Computicket.


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An older woman who is past her prime & who is attracted to younger men, often as an act of desperation or as a last resort.
That woman's a typical cougar, unable to score with men of her own age so she's out chasing younger men.
Uncle Walter esquire... tarafından 17 Şubat 2010, Çarşamba
Women who are over the age of 40 and pursue sexual relations/commitment with men in their twenties or thirties. However, they are successfully established and does not need a man to provide for them. They seek a partner who can keep up with their stamina.
Sandra Bullock (38) who dated Ryan Gosling (22) is considered a Cougar.
cheyenne pearlheart tarafından 11 Haziran 2014, Çarşamba
An attractive middle-aged woman who is fit, active, confident, independent, somewhat bohemian and not yet brain dead who is attracted to younger men because most of the available men her age are opinionated lazy slugs with beer guts.
Girlfriend #1 to Girlfriend #2: "Why can't you find someone older? What's up with you and these younger guys? "
Girlfriend #2 to Girlfriend #1: "Have you seen what's out there?!"
Girlfriend #1 to Girlfriend #2: "You're getting the reputation for being a COUGAR."
Girlfriend #2 to Girlfriend #1: "Yeah. So. And your point is?"
Girlfriend #2 to Girlfriend #1: "Have you seen what's out there?!"
Girlfriend #1 to Girlfriend #2: "You're getting the reputation for being a COUGAR."
Girlfriend #2 to Girlfriend #1: "Yeah. So. And your point is?"
Ruthie Again tarafından 14 Eylül 2008, Pazar
A hot older woman. Older woman must be hot to be a cougar.
Matt spent the entire night hitting on the divorced cougars in the corner last Saturday.
rschipdaddy tarafından 19 Ekim 2013, Cumartesi
Cougar: N. 1. An older woman that is still totally hot and may or may not be down for the cause.
2. A milf but more seasoned.
2. A milf but more seasoned.
That fucking fifty year old from those Bowflex commercials is a super cougar.
Dr. Phill Good tarafından 9 Şubat 2007, Cuma
An older woman (35+) who preys upon young sexual toys. While most cougars prefer their victims under 25 years of age, some rare types will stalk those as old as ten years their junior. Cougars frequently wear push-up bras and glitter, prowling about karaoke bars and jello wrestling pits for firm, youthful flesh. Not uncommonly, a real cougar would say they aren't one. That way their target would be falsely reassured before the fatal pounce.
"Ellen is a cougar. She is flat-out lying, and she is looking to hurt us, store our bodies up some tree and quietly and contentedly much on our carcasses at her leisure."
PROWL'er tarafından 6 Eylül 2011, Salı
Puma concolor. A large feline that is closely related to small cats.
That was a cougar.
Ysbrydion tarafından 9 Temmuz 2011, Cumartesi


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First-time buyer numbers up nearly a quarter
Latest figures suggest the largest annual increase since 2001
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Alex Johnson has been part of The Independent's online team since 2007 and writes The Home Front property column. He has been writing about microarchitecture on his internationally-acclaimed website Shedworking since 2006 and is the author of three books, Shedworking: The Alternative Workplace Revolution, Bookshelf, and Improbable Libraries.
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The number of first-time buyers rose by 22 per cent in 2013, according to a new report from Halifax, following a 13 per cent rise in 2012.
It represents the largest annual rise since 2001, with an estimated 265,000 first time buyers in the last 12 months, though nearly 30 per cent lower than the annual average between 2003 and 2007
Around 45 per cent of all first time buyer purchases in 2013 were under the £125,000 Stamp Duty threshold.
Martin Ellis, housing economist at Halifax, said: "Low interest rates, improvements in consumer confidence and Government schemes, such as Help to Buy, all appear to have contributed to the rise in the number of first time buyers.
"However, many potential first-time buyers continue to find raising the necessary deposit a problem. The Help to Buy mortgage guarantee scheme should enable more buyers to get on to the property ladder with smaller deposits. Continuing pressure on household finances during the next 12 months will no doubt remain a constraint."
The Halifax report also showed that:
* the average first time buyer deposit in 2013 was £30,943, 11 per cent higher than in 2012
* first time buyers in Greater London put down the largest average deposit, at £56,183, while those in the North East put down the smallest, at £15,862.
* the average price paid by a first time buyer is highest in Greater London (£280,915), almost two and a half times that in the North East where the average price paid is the lowest
* the average age of a first time buyer is 30
The figures follow research from LSL Property Services last month reporting that the number of UK first-time buyers rose 28 per cent year-on-year in November.
David Newnes, director of LSL Property Services, said: "There has been a revival in the first-time buyer market over the past 12 months. However there is a flipside to the coin. Prices are rising and there is simply not enough housing stock to match continued demand, meaning this will continue well into 2014. If demand is not satisfied by supply, then sustainable growth will be hampered and future first-time buyers will once again be left out in the cold. We need far more homes, particularly at the lower end of the spectrum if we are to sustain a healthy property market."
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This six-bedroom home is set amongst three acres of grounds. Currently a large family home, Clift Hill has potential to make a B&B or countryside retreat, subject to change of use permissions.
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This four-bedroom home offers a vaulted ceiling in a breakfast room that's ideal for summer entertaining with doors that open to the patio and garden.
Redruth, Truro
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Located near Harrogate town centre, this five-bedroom Victorian terrace is arranged over three storeys while a current study serves as an optional sixth bedroom.
Sway, Lymington
A ground-floor flat in a country house, located a mile from Sway; this two-bedroom home would make an ideal weekend retreat on the edge of the New Forest.
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On a popular residential lane in Caterham on the Hill, this four-bedroom family home offers a secluded garden and a convenient location for local schools and public transport.
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Just a short walk from Westerham green, this three-bedroom cottage has a light kitchen with exposed brickwork and double doors that lead to a south-facing garden.
Mortlake, SW14
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Llanwrda, Llandeilo
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Lymington, Southampton
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Wokingham, Reading
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Marlow, Buckinghamshire
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Kings Stanley, Gloucestershire
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Stoke, Plymouth
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Nine Elms, SW8
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Ambleside, South Lakeland
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Dorchester, Dorset
This four-bedroom detached home comes with a double carport, useful workshop, garden and two walkways that offer views of the adjacent countryside.
Stamford, Lincolnshire
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Shepherd's Bush, W12
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Cowes, Isle of Wight
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Knighton, Llandrindod Wells
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Selby, North Yorkshire
This four-bedroom home comes with a two-bedroom cottage and commercial office, with planning to extend, in a stunning courtyard setting.
Norwich, Norfolk
In a pretty Norfolk village, this four-bedroom family home is surrounded by landscaped gardens, with even a self-contained annex for guests.
Truro, Cornwall
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What Are Slips, Trips and Falls?
Slips, trips and falls (STFs) occur when there is a lack of traction on a stepping surface or when the walking or working space is impeded by other physical objects that ultimately cause a loss of balance.
A loss of balance can result in two types of falls.
- Fall at same level results in falling into the same walking or working surface area
- Fall to lower level results in falling below the walking or working surface
How Do Slips and Trips Occur?
Slips can occur due a build up of water, mud, grease, or ice if not properly addressed with clean-up materials like absorbents, slip resistant tapes and general awareness signs and identification.
Similarly, trips are generally caused by a lack of awareness to cables, wires, uneven surfaces or stairs.
Slips, Trips and Falls Stats and Significance Slips, trips and falls account for about 20% of workplace injuries. They result in an average of 11 days from work and $40,000 cost per incident. The State Office of Risk Management reported that STF's "mishaps cause about 15 percent of all accidental death and is second only to motor vehicles as a cause of fatalities."
OSHA Regulations
OSHA's walking/working surfaces standard includes a regulatory agenda, directives and standard interpretations related to the regulation of walking and working surfaces.
Preventing Slips, Trips and Falls
We have identified 10 steps to STF's in the workplace:
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4. Improve Safety on Stairs
5. Mark Emergency Evacuation Routes
6. Post Safety Signage and Labeling
7. Warn of Temporary Hazards
8. Inspect Scaffolds and Ladders
9. Control and Clean Oil and Spills
10. Train Your Employees
For more information, download our 10 Steps to Preventing Slips, Trips and Falls Guide.
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Virginia Western's Spring Fling 2014
Relax and enjoy Virginia Western's Annual Spring Event!
Friday, April 18 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Court of Four Seasons (in front of Brown Library) Everything is Free!
Wax Hands
Frisbee Spin Art
Caricature Artist
Make Your Own Bracelet
Pucker Power –Candy Sand Art
"Big Red Chair" for Group Photos!
Origami Demonstrations
Picnic Lunch and Homestead Creamery Ice Cream
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Businesses/Community Organizations Special giveaways and promotions for students!
Spring Fling Art Show Juried Student Art Show on the Pedestrian Bridge from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Opportunity to win cash prizes! Pick up an entry form in the Art Gallery or from H213E!
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