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Seminar series of the Mathematical Foundations group
Tuesdays 13.15 - 15.15 in CB 5.7
Seminars are open to all
Organisers: Willem Heijltjes and David Sherratt
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Upcoming seminars
7 February
Noam Zeilberger (University of Birmingham)
Past seminars
19 December
Thomas Strum (CNRS, France and MPI for Informatics, Germany)
Beautiful Decision Methods and Adventurous Heuristics for Solving Problems over the Reals
Effective quantifier elimination procedures for first-order theories provide a powerful tool for generically solving a wide range of problems based on logical specifications. In contrast to general first-order provers, quantifier elimination procedures are based on a fixed set of admissible logical symbols with an implicitly fixed semantics. This admits the use of subalgorithms from symbolic computation. We are going to start with traditional quantifier elimination applied to verification and simple problems from the life sciences. Beyond quantifier elimination we are going to discuss recent results on an incomplete decision procedure for the existential fragment of the reals, which has been successfully applied to the analysis of reaction systems in chemistry and in the life sciences, which scales to models currently used in systems biology. We might mention our open-source computer logic software Redlog, where our methods are implemented (www.redlog.eu).
29 November
James Brotherston (University College London)
Biabduction (and Related Problems) in Array Separation Logic
I describe array separation logic (ASL), a variant of separation logic in which the data structures are either pointers or arrays. This logic can be used, e.g., to give memory safety proofs of imperative array programs.
The key to automatically inferring specifications is the so-called "biabduction" problem, given formulas A and B, find formulas X and Y such that
(and such that A * X is also satisfiable), where * is the well-known "separating conjunction" of separation logic. We give an NP decision procedure for this problem that produces solutions of reasonable quality, and we also show that the problem of finding a consistent solution is NP-hard.
Along the way, we study satisfiability and entailment in our logic, giving decision procedures and complexity bounds for both problems.
This is joint work with Nikos Gorogiannis (Middlesex) and Max Kanovich (UCL). A paper describing the work is available at https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.01993 .
22 November
Thomas Cottrell (University of Bath)
Operads, generalised operads, and weak n-categories
Operads are tools for defining algebraic structures in terms of the operations they have. In this talk, I will describe the classical case of operads, in which each operation has a natural number of inputs, called its arity. I will then explain how to generalise this definition to allow for operads with more complex shapes of inputs. Finally, I will show how these generalised operads can be used to define weak n-categories, a very general type of higher-dimensional category.
15 November
Soichiro Fujii (The University of Tokyo)
Generalized Global States
From the outset, the global state has been among the leading examples in the algebraic approach to computational effects. Indeed, the approach itself started from the recognition that the global state admits a computationally natural presentation in terms of operations and equations.
In this talk, I attempt to shed new light on the global states by introducing a new class of computational effects which I tentatively call `generalized global states'. First, I explain that the now standard presentation of the global state monad on Set (in terms of the update and lookup operations) is a particular instance of a much more general phenomenon, whose first appearance essentially dates back to Lawvere's thesis. Second, I present a unified operational semantics for generalized global states and state a relationship to Plotkin and Power's operational semantics based on effect values.
1 November
Martín Escardó (University of Birmingham)
Continuity in type theory
The formulation in Martin-Loef type theory of a Brouwerian continuity principle, saying that all functions (N->N)->N are continuous, via the so-called Curry-Howard interpretation of logic, turns out to be inconsistent. It becomes consistent under the univalent interpretation of logic, which is similar to that of topos logic. In particular, the notion of existence is interpreted as something strictly weaker than that Martin-Loef's Sigma type, but stronger than its classical manifestation as the negation of a universal quantifier. In fact, the original paper by Howard already points out that there are two natural constructive notions of existence (a weak and a strong one).
25 October
Pedro Henrique Carrasqueira (CLE, University of Campinas, Brazil)
Some introductory remarks to paraconsistency and logics of formal inconsistency
A logic is paraconsistent if inconsistencies do not imply triviality in it. Paraconsistent logics are thus suited for reasoning in the presence of ineliminable inconsistencies, and they produce non-trivial but inconsistent theories. There are two main philosophical traditions of studies of inconsistency and paraconsistent logic. One of them advocates for the position known as dialetheism: that some contradictions are true, or, equivalently (given classical negation), that some propositions are both true and false. There is, however, another, somewhat earlier tradition, which takes a very different approach to the matter of inconsistency. This tradition assumes, instead, paraconsistency to be a common trait of logics that are in some sense appropriate for situations of imperfect rationality or imperfect information. In particular, their research focuses on logics in which the presence of disagreement or misinformation can be expressed by a formal language itself. Collectively, the various logics developed by this tradition and having such a property are known as logics of formal inconsistency. In my talk I shall briefly discuss the main differences that keep apart these two traditions of paraconsistency, with special attention to the different theoretical and practical problems they aim to solve. Then I shall focus on logics of formal inconsistency, taking the logic called mbC as my main example of the kind of behavior such logics exhibit. I shall end with some remarks on the ongoing research in this tradition of paraconsistency, as well as on its possible further developments.
4 October
David Sherratt (University of Bath)
Towards an atomic abstract machine
The atomic lambda-calculus is known for its efficiency when evaluating terms; it is naturally fully lazy. Abstract machines are used to administer evaluation strategies. In this talk, I will discuss the idea of building an atomic abstract machine, implementing the evaluation strategy for the atomic lambda-calculus, with the intent of developing a fully lazy abstract machine and proving it to be effective.
Alessio Santamaria (University of Bath)
Looking for a categorical notion of substitution of atomic flows
In this talk I present the work I have done in my first year: trying to give a categorical understanding of atomic flows in order to study their algebra - in the technical sense of the term, that is the operations we can do with them. Apart from plugging together and juxtaposing two flows, Guglielmi et al. proposed in an unpublished manuscript a notion of substitution of a flow inside a connected component of another, an operation which would generalise the usual notion of substitution of a formula inside the occurrences of an atom in another formula to that of substitution of a derivation inside the occurrences of an atom in another derivation. Categorically speaking, it seems that their idea can be formalised in terms of horizontal composition of families of morphisms, with which we interpret atomic flows. I will show how we generalised the well known definition of horizontal composition of natural transformations for a larger class of families of morphisms, namely extranatural transformations, in a meaningful way and what we have in mind to do for families of morphisms which are obtained by composing natural and extranatural transformations, but themselves are neither of them.
12 May
Giulio Manzonetto (Université Paris XIII)
New Results on Morris's Observational Theory --- The Benefits of Separating the Inseparable
We study the theory of contextual equivalence in the untyped lambda-calculus, generated by taking the normal forms as observables. Introduced by Morris in 1968, this is the original extensional lambda theory H+ of observational equivalence. On the syntactic side, we show that this lambda-theory validates the omega-rule, thus settling a long-standing open problem. On the semantic side, we provide sufficient and necessary conditions for relational graph models to be fully abstract for H+. We show that a relational graph model captures Morris's observational pre-order exactly when it is extensional and lambda-König. Intuitively, a model is lambda-König when every lambda-definable tree has an infinite path which is witnessed by some element of the model.
27 April
Pino Rosolini (University of Genoa)
Frames from topology, algebraically
We describe a connection between frames and algebras for the double exponential monad on the Sierpinski space. Instrumental for the presentation is Dana Scott's category Equ of equilogical spaces. We present a subcategory of Equ, closed under the double exponential monad, on which the category of algebras is equivalent to that of frames (and frame homomorphisms). I hope to connect this with Taylor's work on Abstract Stone Duality.
This is joint work with Giulia Frosoni and Alessio Santamaria.
20 April
Jamie Vicary (University of Oxford)
Geometrical Proofs for Linear Logic
Linear logic is a fundamental way to reason about resources that cannot be duplicated or deleted. In this talk, I will present a new approach to the proof theory of linear logic, in which proofs are represented as surfaces embedded in 3-dimensional space. Proof equivalence then has a simple definition: two proofs are logically equivalent just when their surfaces are geometrically equivalent. The technical basis for the work comes from higher category theory, and I will give a simple and accessible introduction to this.
19 April
Paul Harrenstein (University of Oxford)
Expressiveness and Nash Equilibrium in Iterated Boolean Games
We introduce and investigate a novel notion of expressiveness for temporal logics that is based on game theoretic properties of multi-agent systems. We focus on iterated Boolean games, where each player has a goal, represented using (a fragment of) Linear Temporal Logic (LTL). This goal captures the player's preferences: the models of the goal represent system behaviours that would satisfy the player. Moreover each player is assumed to act strategically, taking into account the goals of the other players, in order to bring about computations satisfying their goal. In this setting, we apply the standard game-theoretic concept of Nash equilibria: the Nash equilibria of an iterated Boolean game can be understood as a (possibly empty) set of computations, each computation representing one way the system could evolve if players chose strategies in Nash equilibrium. Such an equilibrium set of computations can be understood as expressing a temporal property—which may or may not be expressible within a particular LTL fragment. The new notion of expressiveness that we study is then as follows: what LTL properties are characterised by the Nash equilibria of games in which agent goals are expressed in fragments of LTL? We formally define and investigate this notion of expressiveness and some related issues, for a range of LTL fragments.
12 April
Harry Gunn (University of Bath, Masters Student)
Nature-based Cryptography
This is a review of several papers by G. Grigoriev and V. Shpilrain on a novel approach to public key cryptography. These authors write:
"We use various laws of classical physics to offer several solutions of Yao's millionaires' problem without using any one-way functions. We also describe several informationally secure public key encryption protocols, i.e., protocols secure against passive computationally unbounded adversary. This introduces a new paradigm of decoy-based cryptography, as opposed to "traditional" complexity-based cryptography. In particular, our protocols do not employ any one-way functions."
05 April
Sam Staton (University of Oxford)
Semantics for probabilistic programming
I'll talk about the semantics of probabilistic programming languages. This is an old subject, but recently probabilistic programming has attracted a lot of interest as a method of statistical modelling, through languages like Anglican and Church. These raise some new problems, such as how to combine continuous distributions with higher types. I'll describe our work on operational semantics and denotational semantics (based on sheaves and measurable spaces).
15 March
John Power (University of Bath)
Category theoretic semantics for theorem proving in logic programming: embracing the laxness
(joint with Ekaterina Komendantskaya)
A propositional logic program P may be identified with a PfPf-coalgebra on the set of atomic propositions in the program. The corresponding C(PfPf)-coalgebra, where C(PfPf) is the cofree comonad on PfPf describes derivations by resolution. Using lax semantics, that correspondence may be extended to a class of first-order logic programs without existential variables. The resulting extension captures proofs by term-matching resolution in logic programming. Refining the lax approach, we further extend it to arbitrary logic programs.
8 March
John Gowers (University of Bath)
Games with ordinal sequences of moves
I shall present a modification of the Abramsky-Jagadeesan games model to allow sequences of moves indexed by transfinite ordinals. The motivation for this construction is work arising from work by Laird and Churchill in [1,2] concerning the sequoid operator. In [2], the authors construct an exponential in the category of games that is a cofree commutative comonoid for the 'tensor on the left' functor and a final coalgebra for the 'sequoid on the left' functor. In the category of finite games and strategies, this exponential can be constructed from the sequoid functor as the limit of a diagram indexed by the ordinal w. If we try to extend this result to the 'sequoidal categories' introduced in [1], then we find that this construction does not always produce a final coalgebra, but that for natural categories of games a similar construction using a higher ordinal will work. If the lengths of plays in an ordinal game can be bounded by a limit ordinal k then we may construct the final coalgebra for the sequoid using a suitable diagram indexed by k. Conversely, if a game contains plays greater than an ordinal k then the limit of the natural diagram indexed by k does not have the natural structure of a coalgebra.
There is a sizeable body of research in the field of games with plays indexed by transfinite ordinals (sometimes called 'long games'). In [3], Itay Neeman presents results concerning whether or not such games are determined. More recently, Laird has applied a similar model to the study of unbounded determinism in [4]. The construction given in this talk is a straightforward extension of the games model outlined in [1,5]. A nice feature of the construction is that it includes as special cases both the 'games with winning condition on infinite plays', given in [5], and the pure finite games introduced by Blatt in [6].
After shifting focus from finite to infinite ordinals, it becomes convenient to treat plays (ordinal sequences of moves), rather than moves, as primitive, and one possible formulation is to define a game to be a sheaf of sets on some given ordinal k, where the ordinal b < k is sent to the set of legal plays of length b. In contrast to the Abramsky-Jagadeesan model, in which moves are designated as Player-moves or Opponent-moves, we have a function that designates plays as Player-plays or Opponent-plays. If a play is indexed by a limit ordinal, then it has no last move, so this distinction is important. For example, in the case of games played over the ordinal w + 1, we are free to specify whether a play of length w should belong to Player or to Opponent, and this corresponds exactly to choosing a set of infinite plays that are Player-winning, as in [5].
I shall outline the motivation and construction for games played over transfinite ordinals, and shall discuss briefly some tentative questions about links to ordinals occurring elsewhere in the theory - in particular, game-value ordinals for winning positions and consistency-strength ordinals in proof theory.
[1]: Martin Churchill, James Laird and Guy McCusker. Imperative programs as proofs via game semantics. LICS 2011: 65-74, June 2011
[2]: James Laird. A Categorical Semantics of Higher Order Store, CTCS 2002. Proceedings of CTCS '02, Elsevier, 2002
[3]: Itay Neeman. The Determinacy of Long Games. De Gruyter Series in Logic and its Applications, 1972
[4]: James Laird. Sequential Algorithms for Unbounded Nondeterminism. MFPS XXXI: 271-287, 2015
[5]: Samson Abramsky, Radha Jagadeesan. Games and full completeness for multiplicative linear logic. Journal of Symbolic Logic 59 (02): 543-574, 1994
[6]: A. Blass. A game semantics for linear logic. Annals of Pure and Applied Logic, 56(1-3): 183 - 220, 1992
1 March
Willem Heijltjes (University of Bath)
Proof Nets and Complexity
In this talk I will give an overview of some recent and some very recent developments in linear logic proof nets.
8 December
Giuseppe Primiero (Middlesex University)
SecureND: Natural Deduction for Secure Trust
Applications in computational domains complement verified knowledge with information sharing processes. From a logical viewpoint, formulating assertion operations in terms of a trust function is challenging, both conceptually and technically. In this talk we overview SecureND, a natural deduction calculus for knowledge derivation under trust. Its design is motivated by the problem of trust transitivity. We present also its implementation as the Coq protocol SecureNDC, to deal with trusted sources in software management systems. We conclude with an overview of current and future extensions of our language.
1 December
Andrea Aler Tubella (University of Bath)
A generalised cut-elimination procedure through subatomic logic
Through subatomic logic we are able to present sufficient conditions for a proof system to enjoy cut-elimination. In this talk I will present subatomic logic, how it enables us to present proof systems that have single (linear) rule scheme and a recent result: we can generalise the splitting procedure for cut-elimination to any proof system whose rules and connectives have certain properties.
17 & 24 November
John Power (University of Bath)
Lawvere Theories
I plan to give two talks about Lawvere theories. These are not for experts but rather to give the details. Lawvere introduced the notion in his PhD thesis in 1963, providing not only a category theoretic account of universal algebra but one that is also presentation-independent. Remarkably, his definition was embraced, albeit with a caveat and in different terms, by universal algebraists but not by category theorists. The latter, from 1966, generally preferred to model universal algebra owing to a little more generality but at a very considerable cost. Computer scientists were then influenced to adopt monads, but much could and has been gained by recasting some of the latter's concerns in terms of Lawvere theories. Ultimately, I think Lawvere theories are a superior approach, but benefit very much from the relationship with monads, and I duly plan to explain it.
27 October
Guillaume Munch-Maccagnoni (University of Cambridge)
Polarised realizability structures, models, and depolarisation
Polarisation describes the presence of an evaluation order, and is characterised denotationally by a non-associativity of compositions. We recently proposed a polarised, Curry-style approach to the λ-calculus with extensional sums, in correspondence with polarised intuitionistic logic. We suggested that associativity of composition in this context should not be seen as a syntactic axiom, but as an emergent property akin to termination. Traditionally, issues with sums in denotational semantics have rather been considered to be with extensionality than with the associativity. This will be explained in an introductory fashion in a first part.
In a second part, I will more formally relate the termination in the λ-calculus with sums to depolarisation, i.e. associativity of composition, or more familiarly the fact that the order of evaluation does not matter. First, a general setting of polarised realizability structures for polarised calculi with or without control operators is developed. Then, a general technique to build observational models from these structures is explained. Finally, under broad conditions, the observational models that the non-associative syntactic structure gives rise to satisfy the associativity of composition (and are therefore cartesian closed categories with binary co-products). I will sketch an analogy between intuitionistic depolarisation and parametricity.
20 October
Matthijs Vákár (University of Oxford)
Game Semantics for Dependent Types
Game semantics can act as a unifying semantic framework, providing compelling models for a strikingly wide range of programming languages, type theories and logics. A notable exception has been dependent type theory, which had so far defied a game theoretic description. We present a proposal to fill this gap in the form of a new categorical model of dependent type theory, based on a category of games and history-free winning strategies. We model dependent type theory with 1-, Sigma-, Pi- and intensional Id-types as well as finite inductive type families (which act as ground types, like calendars). We discuss the place of the Id-types in the intensionality spectrum as well as the strong completeness properties the model satisfies.
Most of the talk should be understandable without prior knowledge of game semantics and dependent type theory.
15 October
Ugo dal Lago (Universitá di Bologna)
Higher-Order Probabilistic Computation: Calculi, Observational Equivalence, and Implicit Complexity
Probabilistic models are more and more pervasive in computer science, and randomized algorithms are the ones offering the best performances in many domains. Higher-order probabilistic computation – in which a probabilistic function may be passed as a parameter and returned as a result – is on the other hand a relatively underdeveloped field, which is however receiving more and more attention. We give a survey of what is known about probabilistic lambda-calculi, later focusing on some of our recent results on implicit complexity and on inductive and coinductive techniques for program equivalence. Finally, we hint at how all this could be useful when structuring proofs of security for cryptographic primitives, but also when expressing probabilistic models in the context of machine learning.
10 June
Willem Heijltjes (University of Bath)
Complexity Bounds for Sum-Product Logic via Additive Proof Nets and Petri Nets
This is joint work with Dominic Hughes. We investigate efficient algorithms for the additive fragment of linear logic. This logic is an internal language for categories with finite sums and products, and describes concurrent two-player games of finite choice. In the context of session types, typing disciplines for communication along channels, the logic describes the communication of finite choice along a single channel.
We give a simple linear time correctness criterion for unit-free propositional additive proof nets via a natural construction on Petri nets. This is an essential ingredient to linear time complexity of the combinatorial proofs for classical logic by Dominic Hughes.
For full propositional additive linear logic, including the units, we give a proof search algorithm that is linear-time in the product of the source and target formula, and an algorithm for proof net correctness that is of the same time complexity. We prove that proof search in first-order additive linear logic is NP-complete.
2 June
Anupam Das (ENS Lyon)
A complete axiomatisation of MSOL on infinite trees.
We show that an adaptation of Peano's axioms for second-order arithmetic to the language of monadic second-order logic (MSOL) completely axiomatises the associated theory (SkS) over infinite trees. This continues a line of work begun by Büchi and Siefkes with axiomatisations of MSOL over various classes of linear orders. Our proof formalises, in the axiomatisation, a translation of MSO formulas to alternating parity tree automata. The main ingredient is the formalised proof of positional determinacy for the corresponding parity games which, as usual, allows us to complement automata and to deal with the negation of MSO formulas. The Comprehension Scheme of MSOL is used to obtain uniform winning strategies, whereas most usual proofs of positional determinacy rely on instances of the Axiom of Choice or transfinite induction. (Consequently we obtain an alternative decision procedure for MSOL over infinite trees, via proof search, that remains entirely internal to the language.)
This talk is based on joint work with Colin Riba that will be presented at LICS '15.
12 May
Georg Struth (University of Sheffield)
Completeness Theorems for Bi-Kleene Algebras and Series-Parallel Rational Pomset Languages
Pomsets form a standard model of true concurrency. In this lecture I present a completeness result for a class of pomset languages, which generalises the regular languages to the realm of concurrency. More precisely I show that the congruence on series-parallel rational pomset expressions generated by series-parallel rational pomset language identity is axiomatised by the axioms of Kleene algebra plus those of commutative Kleene algebra. A decision procedure is extracted from this proof. On the way to this result, series-parallel rational pomset languages are proved to be closed under the operations of co-Heyting algebras and homomorphisms. These results form a significant step towards a decision procedure for the equational theory of concurrent Kleene algebras, which have recently been proposed for concurrency verification (joint work with Michael Laurence).
5 May
James Brotherston (University College London)
Parametric completeness for separation theories (via hybrid logic).
In this talk, we consider the logical gap between the following two concepts:
(1) provability in a propositional axiomatisation of separation logic, which is usually given by the bunched logic BBI; and
(2) validity in an intended class of models of separation logic, as commonly considered in its program verification applications. Such intended classes are usually specified by a collection of algebraic axioms describing specific model properties, which we call a separation theory.
Here, we show first that several typical properties of separation theories are in fact not definable in BBI. Then, we show that these properties become definable in a natural hybrid extension of BBI, obtained by adding a theory of naming to BBI in the same way that hybrid logic extends normal modal logic. Finally, we show how to build an axiomatic proof system for our hybrid logic in such a way that adding any axiom of a certain form yields a sound and complete proof system with respect to the models satisfying those axioms. In particular, this yields sound and complete proof systems for any separation theory from our considered class (which, to the best of our knowledge, includes all those appearing in the literature).
This is joint work with Jules Villard, now at Facebook.
28 April
Guilhem Jaber (Queen Mary)
Reasoning on Equivalence of Stateful Programs with Operational Game Semantics
Contextual equivalence of programs written in a functional language with references (i.e. local mutable states) is a notoriously hard problem, specially with higher-order references (i.e. references which can store functions). In the last twenty years, different techniques have been introduce to that purpose: Kripke Logical Relations, Bisimulations and Algorithmic Game Semantics.
In this talk, we will see how to use operational game semantics, namely the trace semantics for a language with references introduced by Laird, to build a new technique, Kripke Open Bisimulations, to reason on equivalence of programs, taking the best of the previous methods. This technique is simple enough to be mostly automatized: it becomes possible to model-check equivalence of programs.
If time permits, we will see how to extend this technique to polymorphism.


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Topic : Using spreadsheets on ipad.
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If you find creating financial spreadsheets a task that is a little to advanced for you, do not fear. There are other options for you that can combine and even exceed all the features even the most advanced personal finance spreadsheets can offer. The other options such as personal budget software may cost more than a spreadsheet you create at first, but are also powerful enough to pay for themselves with the advanced budgeting features they provide.
So every cell has its own unique address, comprising the letter of the column and the number of the row for example (A1, A2 and so on). You can type numbers, text or formulas into these cells. The formulas make it possible to get the program to do all the time consuming arithmetic for you.
One last tip for learning how to figure out spreadsheets is when you are dealing with numbers, it pays to give some thought to how to lay out the spreadsheet. When you type in information, be as careful as possible. Also remember, it is the ability to perform complex calculations that makes spreadsheets such powerful tools. It is worth the effort to learn how to use formulas correctly.

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A Bold Backyard Wedding at a Private Residence in San Rafael, California
Carolyn Glidden (31 and a special education teacher) met Scott Worthington (33 and an MBA student) while working for the Peace Corps in Burkina Faso, in western Africa. "I was a science teacher in a rural village school, and he was a small business-development volunteer in a larger city," Carolyn says. "There are no secrets in a village, and my friends predicted this marriage years ago." The couple opted for a modern yellow-and-green backyard wedding for 95 at Scott's parents' mid-century modern home in San Rafael, California. "Scott and I are really drawn to clean, modern design. In terms of style, we wanted the day to feel elegant but not too ornate or fussy." Neutral pale woods, crisp whites and yellows further brightened the event. "We wanted the flexibility of a private venue and liked the intimate, low-key vibe of a backyard wedding," Carolyn says. Modern white Eames-style chairs were set up for the ceremony—they doubled as chairs for the reception dinner—and neutral stone vases held pale yellow king proteas and lots of greenery. "Scott's parents' house had such a beautiful backdrop that we didn't need to accessorize very much," Carolyn says. —Carolyn Meers


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Some recreation sites will be inaccessible during the work week in Ahtanum State Forest due to snow conditions and a road closure. Photo: Clay Graham
The Washington State Department of Natural Resources has extended a weekday road closure in Ahtanum State Forest through November 30.
The Middle Fork Ahtanum Road (A2000) will be closed during the week due to a timber harvest and chipping operation.
The Eagles Nest Vista, Tree Phones Campground, and Clover Flats Campground are not accessible during the week because of the closure and snow on the North Fork Road (A3000). All other recreation sites will be open and accessible by the North Fork and Sedge Ridge Roads (map).
Access on the Middle Fork Ahtanum Road will be allowed on weekends from 6 p.m. Friday through 8 p.m. on Sunday.
Dont forget to check before you recreate! Site closures and important information are listed on our recreation page.
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I'm obsessed with clothes lately. But poor as dirt. So feeding my obsession with a few of my favourite posts from jak and jil over the last few months...
The Elektra Bakery aka my new home
Do you think the owners would let me live in this bakery in Edessa, Greece? It's all my favourite things....white and black and marble and wood and those Tom Dixon pendants and a little bit of outside space and warm bread at all hours...perfect.
By Studioprototype via Yatzer
i'm jetlagged
I'm jetlagged. Or is it "I have jetlag?"
Either way I'm tired.
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glass house
I would spend days just staring out the window here (would need a furniture overhaul first, although I'd keep that slightly creepy horse art thing.)
(found on Architizer, an addiction I have, but now lost again...all I know it that it's somewhere in the Canadian shield...)
We've just moved to a new flat (with heat!) and I'm still in love with white and black and wood, as always.
We were in California over the holidays and I couldn't keep my eyes off the ocean. I miss her so much it hurts a little (ok, a lot, but I'm trying to complain less this year...) There are shells and stones in all my pockets though so I'll be placated for another few months.
(again, photos taken with my iPhone as I'm not to be trusted with a real camera)
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Hi! I erased the old page since everything was out of date and then I wrote all I know about Multilib. Please revert my edit if you believe it was unnecessary to do so.
The current content is written so a beginner with basic computer knowledge will understand the purpose of multilib. I am a beginner and I was reading the Beginner's Guide when I stumbled upon a link to this outdated article. I didn't know what multilib was, but after reading this article from redhat I understand it better. The article currently reflects my findings in the above article and this forum post where I asked what Directory Structure Multilib for Archlinux makes use of. However, this wiki does not have the Cite extension nor seems to have the References extension installed, so I don't know how to link to these articles as my source. The Help:Editing article does not make any mention on how to do footnotes or references either. Your help is greatly appreciated!
Bastian (talk) 21:53, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
- In addition I suggest renaming the page Multilib (currently redirecting to the current Multilib Project name). Also perhaps merge the stuff under Arch64 FAQ#Multilib Repository - Multilib Project. Vadmium (talk) 01:17, 18 May 2012 (UTC).
I think the inline links you made above are a good enough start. If you really want clickable footnotes you could try emulating their Wikipedia:Template:Ref family of templates, but I'd rather keep it all inline, or as a simple list at the bottom of the page. The only thing I would say is to include a bit of context in the linking; perhaps something like "64-bit computing: Co-existing in a 32-bit world" in Red Hat Magazine, or Reply by Wonder to "Archlinux Multilib Directory Structure" thread. Vadmium (talk) 01:17, 18 May 2012 (UTC).
When we install gcc-multilib, it is in conflict with the "classic" gcc, it would be greate to have a cross compil gcc like for mingw32 isn't it ?


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"Unfortunately, the State Department was irresponsible in posting an ambassador and his staff in an unstable country without requiring a U.S. Marine Corps security detachment to protect them," Coffman said. "It is equally irresponsible for Americans to intentionally attack the Islamic faith for the sole purpose of inflaming tensions while knowingly putting at risk State Department personnel as well as our troops serving us on the ground in Afghanistan."
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"Brian and I have decided to turn our romance into an amazing friendship," McCarthy reportedly told People magazine in a statement. "I will continue to be the biggest cheerleader for him. Go, Bears!"
Reports of their relationship surfaced in April. She confirmed it a month later. And in June she told the "Today's" Kathie Lee and Hoda Kotb that she was in love.
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Zimmerman was placed on the 15-day disabled list Sunday and is expected to miss between four to six weeks.
He was injured in the fifth inning of Saturday's 6-3 loss to the Atlanta Braves while getting picked off as he dove back to second base.
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Infielder Zach Walters was recalled from Triple-A Syracuse to take Zimmerman's spot on the 25-man roster. Walters hit .290 with three doubles and three RBIs in nine games at Syracuse.
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"The record amply supports the jury's determination that Marshall committed a series of larcenous acts," the appellate judges wrote.
"We are not convinced that as an aged felon Marshall should be categorically immune from incarceration," they added.
Marshall was sentenced to one to three years in prison, but he was allowed to stay free on bail during the appeal. Tuesday's decision sent the case back to the trial judge for further proceedings, but it wasn't immediately clear whether Marshall would soon have to report to prison or whether he might appeal further and remain free on bail.
Marshall lawyer John Cuti said he was exploring Marshall's legal options, including more avenues for appeals.
"We are, of course, deeply disappointed in the decision," Cuti said.
Manhattan district attorney's office spokeswoman Erin Duggan said the case "underscored the importance of prosecuting elder abuse, particularly financial fraud perpetrated by those close to the victims."
The grand dame of the city's social elite before her death in 2007, Astor gave away huge amounts of money she inherited from her third husband, Vincent Astor. He was a great-great-grandson of real estate and fur magnate John Jacob Astor, one of the United States' first multimillionaires.
Her philanthropy was recognized with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's top civilian honor, in 1998.
Her son — a former ambassador, author and Broadway producer who was awarded the Purple Heart after being wounded at Iwo Jima — was convicted of exploiting Astor's dementia to help himself to millions of dollars of her $200 million fortune, engineer changes to her will and even take artwork off her walls after she was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Astor was 105 when she died.
At a trial that featured Henry Kissinger and Barbara Walters as witnesses, Marshall said through his lawyers that he stole nothing. He had legal authority for the gifts he gave himself from her money during her lifetime, and she lucidly and intentionally changed her will to benefit her only child, they said.
The appeal raised those issues and another that caused a stir during the jury's deliberations: a juror's assertion that she felt threatened by another juror's remarks during deliberations.
The trial judge urged jurors to be civil and when the verdict was announced in court, the juror said she agreed with it. However, she later told a defense investigator she signed onto it because she felt demoralized.
Marshall's lawyers said the trial judge at least should have interviewed the jurors individually; prosecutors said he was right not to look into the deliberations. The appeals judges said interviewing jurors would have been "the more prudent course of action," but they said state Supreme Court Justice A. Kirke Bartley acted within his discretion in declining to do so.
"The problems appeared to resolve themselves, and there is no reason to believe that the ultimate unanimous verdict, confirmed by polling, was the result of coercion," the appellate court wrote.
Marshall's lawyers also asked the appeals court simply to show him mercy, under a state law provision for courts to overturn jury verdicts "in the interest of justice."
Marshall attended the appeals court arguments in a wheelchair in December and had health issues surface at his trial: a mini-stroke and a fall in a courthouse restroom. His lawyers said prison could kill him.
The appeals judges did throw out one part of Marshall's conviction, a grand larceny count involving work he had his mother's social secretary do for a theater production company he was running. But the appeals judges upheld the guilty verdicts on other charges, including one that carried a mandatory jail term.
The appellate court also upheld co-defendant Francis X. Morrissey Jr.'s conviction on charges of forging Astor's signature on a change to her will. Morrissey was a now-disbarred trusts and estates lawyer.
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Asian businesses are less optimistic today than they were in the first quarter of 2012 as concerns about the global economy and anxiety over rising costs mount, according to a quarterly survey published jointly today by INSEAD and Thomson Reuters. The Thomson Reuters/INSEAD Asia Business Sentiment Indexfell to 69 from the 74 reading in the first quarter. A reading above 50 indicates an overall positive outlook.
"The biggest concern of business leaders in the Asia-Pacific countries is global economic uncertainty," said Ilian Mihov, INSEAD's Deputy Dean, Faculty & Research and Professor of Economics. "Still, from 74 to 69 is really only a marginal decline given all the uncertainty in the global economy, slowdown in China, the European and U.S. crises."
Airlines and the food sector cited rising costs as their chief concern while other risks cited in the survey were foreign exchange volatility, regulatory changes, oil prices, government policy shifts, and in the case of Thailand, government instability.
The index surveyed sentiment at 177 top Asian companies in 11 countries between June 4-15, 2012, across a broad range of sectors including autos, financials, technology, resources and property.
Most and least positive countries
The Philippines was the most positive country with an index reading of 100 while Australia was the most negative with a reading of 42.
"If you look at the data, the Philippines is growing at 5 percent. However, in the first quarter, it grew very rapidly – at more than 10 percent on an annualised basis," says Mihov. "The Philippine peso has also been appreciating over the last few years and inflation is relatively low and controlled. So throughout the economy, it seems things are going in the right direction and that's confirmed by this survey. The business confidence index says very, very strongly, '100 percent we think things are improving in the Philippines'."
"In Australia, things are different and we hear about the two-speed economy," Mihov adds. "The mining sector is going quite well but that generates a big issue for the manufacturing sector as the Australian dollar has become very expensive. As a result, the rest of the economy is suffering and that could be a drag on the economy, and that could be the reason for their pessimism."
The survey showed that employment levels appeared relatively stable with 104 companies saying they were the same, while 15 companies reported lower employment levels and 58 saying employment levels at their companies were rising. Ninety companies in the survey said new orders or sales had risen, while 71 reported the same level as in the previous quarter.
"The survey shows very clearly that businesses here are quite optimistic," Mihov says. "The growth story is still happening in most of these countries, justified by data and not just a speculation of what might be happening. It appears that there are forces and dynamics in place driving up growth."
Please refer to the full Asia Business Sentiment Survey for more information: http://link.reuters.com/fej88s


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With The Sisters Brothers, Patrick deWitt pays homage to the classic Western, transforming it into an unforgettable comic tour de force. Filled with a remarkable cast of characters–losers, cheaters, and ne'er-do-wells from all stripes of life–and told by a complex and compelling narrator, it is a violent, lustful odyssey through the underworld of the 1850s frontier that beautifully captures the humor, melancholy, and grit of the Old West and two brothers bound by blood, violence, and love.
About The Author
Patrick deWitt was born on Vancouver Island in 1975. He has also lived in California, Washington, and Oregon, where he currently lives with his wife and son. He is the author of two novels, Ablutions and The Sisters Brothers.
"A powerfully realized work of narrative fiction... the dialogue is sharp as a whip... the novel works artfully within its formal boundaries to explore the nature of brotherhood, work, love, greed, loneliness and personal renewal." -Times Literary Supplement
"Wandering his Western landscape with the cool confidence of a practiced pistoleer, deWitt's steady hand belies a hair trigger, a poet's heart and an acute sense of gallows humor…the reader is likely to reach the adventure's end in the same shape as Eli: wounded but bettered by the ride." -Time Out New York
"Downright cinematic... deliciously original and rhapsodically funny." -Boston Globe
"If Cormac McCarthy had a sense of humor, he might have concocted a story like Patrick deWitt's bloody, darkly funny western The Sisters Brothers... It's smooth and seamless, shot through with dark humor, pared and antique without being Baroque... There is something very human in all this blood and guts... This humanness, with the humanness that Eli is growing into, give the novel a warmth and depth... DeWitt has shifted here radically, successfully... a skillfully polished voice and a penchant for gleefully looking under bloody bandages." -Los Angeles Times


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Susan S. Taylor, professor of chemistry and biochemistry, professor of pharmacology and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at the University of California, San Diego, has been named the recipient of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology 2010 Excellence in Science Award. The award recognizes women whose outstanding career achievements in biological science have contributed significantly to furthering our understanding of a particular discipline by excellence in research.
"I am honored that Dr. Susan Taylor has been selected to receive the 2010 Excellence in Science Award during my term as FASEB president," said Mark O. Lively. "Dr. Taylor is an outstanding biochemist and structural biologist whose laboratory has made fundamental contributions to the understanding of cellular regulation by protein phosphorylation. Just as the cAMP-dependent protein kinase that she studies is the prototype of this critically important family of enzymes, Dr. Taylor is an exemplar for the truly meritorious women scientists whose career achievements are celebrated by the Excellence in Science Award."
Taylor, one of more than 50 women nominated for the prestigious award, will receive an unrestricted research grant of $10,000 sponsored by Eli Lilly and Co. She will also give a talk titled "Dynamics of PKA Signaling" at 2:15 p.m. Tuesday, April 27, at the 2010 annual meeting in Anaheim, Calif.
Taylor, who received her Bachelor of Arts in chemistry from the University of Wisconsin and her doctorate in physiological chemistry from the Johns Hopkins University, is regarded by many as the world's foremost expert on cAMP-dependent protein kinase (PKA), the archetype for all the protein kinases and one of the most important regulatory molecules in a cell.
Taylor was first introduced to PKA by a colleague at UCSD, shortly after she started her own lab in 1972 after postdoctoral studies at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England (1969-1970) and UCSD (1971-1972). Taylor's extraordinary work has led to identification of functional residues important for catalysis and subunit interaction and has provided critical insight related to cAMP binding.
Annual Meeting
* ASBMB 2010 Annual Meeting
Apr. 24-28
* 2010 Annual Meeting Program
* Transcriptional Regulation by Chromatin and RNA Polymerase II
Sept. 30- Oct. 4
* Biochemistry and Cell Biology of ESCRTs in Health and Disease
Oct. 14- Oct. 17
*Post Translational Modifications: Detection and Physiological Evaluation
Oct. 21- Oct. 24
*Biochemistry of Membrane Traffic: Secretory and Endocytic Pathways
Oct. 28- Oct. 31
In 1991, Taylor and her colleagues at UCSD determined the three-dimensional structure of the catalytic subunit of protein kinase A— the first crystal structure solved for any protein kinase. Even today, the structure continues to serve as a prototype for the entire protein kinase family. In subsequent years, Taylor has solved the structures of the protein's regulatory subunits, as well as the structure of the entire multisubunit PKA complex, which provides insights into cAMP activation and PKA cooperativity.
"[Susan Taylor's] structure of protein kinase A changed the way we think about kinases," said Jack Dixon, a professor at the University of California, San Diego, and vice president and chief scientific officer of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. "These enzymes have become important drug targets for cancer and other diseases, and Susan's thoughtful insights into their structure and function have led the field for many years."
More recently, Taylor has been addressing other PKA-related topics such as identifying its subcellular location, in collaboration with Roger Y. Tsien, and examining how the scaffold proteins DAKAP-1 and -2 bring together PKA and its substrates.
Taylor has received numerous awards for her studies, including the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology's William C. Rose Award, the Wyeth Research Chemistry Award, the American Chemical Society's Garvin-Olin Medal and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers' Forefronts of Large Scale Computation Award. She was elected to the American Academy of Art and Sciences in 1992 and to both the Institute of Medicine and the National Academy of Sciences in 1997. Taylor also served as ASBMB president in 1995.
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Every so often we find ourselves collectively or individually looking into a mirror. Indeed, it may be necessary in order to move forward. That is not to say that I have the responsibility or left to create the mirror, but it will always come from somewhere, better from someone with experience I should think. Mirrors emerge in our paths all the time.
The forest working groups are made up of "EMPLOYEES" and "VOLUNTEERS". To see it any other way would be to lie to ourselves.
There are times when there are EMPLOYEES dealing with EMPLOYEES, EMPLOYEES dealing with VOLUNTEERS, and VOLUNTEERS dealing with VOLUNTEERS.
The forest is a hierarchy, you would be kidding yourself if you thought otherwise. To quote one kitchen manager in the past 'the forest is a level playing field, not a pyramid'. This is someone who may be lying to themselves.
As a volunteer, I feel that the forest, as an "arts/ cultural/ education charity, sees me as some sort of slave (crude term perhaps). As someone who only exists to be used as labour, someone with no other interests within the forest, and no other abilities, other than what I can offer the forest in terms of hard labour.
When we have EMPLOYEES who are not artists, in charge of artist volunteers then we may get this, possibly because the none artist EMPLOYEES simply don't understand the artists mind, personality, and in particular, how sensitive artists are capable of being. We are talking about ultra sensitive with some, and I don't just mean arrogant or moody. Artists in charge of artists is not guaranteed success either. And then some people are simply more insensitive in general.
The kitchen manager seems by far the most stressful role in the forest. They burn out in the way that we expect our shoe laces to break. We can ask too much of them and the role they play, and they caqn ask too much of themselves, a learning curve. It may be said that we are there to learn such things and develop from them, assuming we survive.
Being an EMPLOYEE need not mean that we have more authority than others, need it? People are paid to fulfil a certain function. They are obliged to turn up or perform the function, but it need not give them power over others automatically, or we are pandering to a twisted system. And to complain about people being paid money when we are may be to give power and respect to the making of money. Earning power means nothing in an artists community, it should not bring automatic authority in my opinion.
So, to what degree does this arts cultural educational charity respect artists? Well, of course it does, but Let us compare the forest attitude towards artists, to that of making money. The forest machine is looking at money, even when it looks at and deals with artists and the arts, the emphasis is often on money, as if, if we have more money, then we will have better art. This of course is a nonsense. The world and system impose the need for money.
One months notice and the forest could be out of that building (as far as I am aware). A sobering thought for those who are climbing ladders within the forest hierarchy. Those who may even no longer have any time and energy to pursue their art because the forest sucks all their time and energy, and inspiration with it. Of course, if you are an EMPLOYEE, then you need to meet certain demands and fulfil your contract, which is not the same as being a volunteer, is it?
So the forest is a pyramid hierarchy then. One which claims to serve artists but is capable of destroying them. The emphasis should be on art, culture, education and not on self importance or money, admin.
There has been no music rehearsal space in the forest for two months. Is this the result of none musician minds? Hello___? Sure, people are burnt out after the festival and.....
The musicians are among the bottom feeders of the forest, the kitchen volunteers get tips and the kitchen manager paid, as if it is they who bring in the money and the live music and stage are provided to musicians/ performers as some sort of gift to them from the forest. No live performance and the cafe may be quiet, but they are not important, they are better used as slaves to the forest machine, with the making of money in mind, it is why the forest exists after all, to make money, it is why artists exist also, isn't it? And for people who hold more important positions than others to exercises their role upon others and the physical space, and get paranoid about the motives and agendas of others, especially vollies who take some time out. Trust, an interesting word. We can only trust those who are paid. Hmm. 'The kitchen manager was going along well until possessive jealousy set in'. Working with your partner/ lover can bring problems to the WORK PLACE. Yet another kitchen manager burns out and is on the brink, you can tell, they start behaving in a Hitler type fashion and have a very intense look about them, though it may just be possessive jealousy because their lover is part of the set up, or they have artistic talents which are being crushed by the forest money making ethic.
Everything in this world is upside down. In the future, artists will have more say, far more, probably when they overcome the ego. We have inherited these traits from a dodgy system and our brainwashed parents, are we sure we want to do things the same way as them?
As far as I am concerned, there is not enough actual creativity going on within forest walls, and more hierarchical folly and self importance, but that is normal, if not natural. The main past time is- getting waisted. It may be more productive to get high on the art itself rather than superficial substances. I don't blame the "forest" for that, it is the individual.
I have not passed judgement here as to whether people should be paid or not, this post simply accepts that it is going on, from the viewpoint of a multiple artist and volunteer. Without volunteers, the show is over. Without artists, the show won't exist in the first place.
The forest is yet to get going with the cultural and in particular, "education" aspect proper. There is potential, but is it being realised? Can it be realised under the current ways and outlook? And is there the thought that it cannot happen unless there is money? Basic human virtues come first, this will determine the true hierarchy once we get down, or, up to it.
Just a few thoughts, they are not aimed at hurting, the forest needs feedback.
Peace and productivity, without money if need be.....
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Outlook Plug-In Xobni to Integrate Facebook Open Stream API
Xobni, the Outlook plug-in that helps organize your inbox, will be among the companies taking advantage of Facebook's new Open Stream API.
"Xobni already includes some Facebook information--profile photos, status updates and posted pictures--but the feed is obviously a great way to make your inbox even smarter about what's going on with your contacts in real time," a Xobni spokesman said. "It's actually a feature we've wanted to add for months but couldn't, so we're really excited that Facebook is updating their API to make it possible."
This functionality will go live at 9pm Eastern time Monday and will be instantly updated for any Xobni user. A screen shot is available here.
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