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KUALA LUMPUR/CAMBRIDGE/NAIROBI, 9 February (UNEP) -- The Earth's cloud forests, vital and unique habitats for thousands of rare and endangered species, and suppliers of year-round water supplies for farmers, rural communities and many rapidly growing cities, are under increasing threat from factors, including agriculture, road-building and climate change.
New figures, the result of the first comprehensive survey of these rare, romantic and fragile worlds, indicate that cloud forests cover an area of just under 400,000 square kilometres, or less than 2.5 per cent of the globe's tropical rain forests.
One surprising finding is that, contrary to previous estimates, the majority of these moist humid forests are found in Asia rather than Latin America.
Indeed, the report, Cloud Forest Agenda, which is being launched at a meeting of the Convention on Biological Diversity in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, estimates that 60 per cent of cloud forests are found in Asia with around 25 per cent in Latin America and 15 per cent in Africa.
The findings underline the vital need for improved monitoring and conservation measures in Asia, including regeneration of damaged and degraded cloud forests, if these precious habitats are to survive the twenty-first century. Priority countries may include Indonesia and Papua New Guinea that have been found to hold considerable amounts of cloud forest.
The report makes it clear that conserving and restoring cloud forests is not only a matter of aesthetics or a love of nature, but one of crucial economic importance for millions of people in the developing world.
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The ability of cloud forests to strip and retain moisture from cloud and fogs is key to abundant, clean and predictable water supplies in many areas, especially during dry seasons. The cloud forests of La Tigra National Park in Honduras provide over 40 per cent of the water for the 850,000 people living in the capital, Tegucigalpa.
Other cities where cloud forests supply significant amounts of water include Quito, Ecuador, Mexico City and Dar es Salaam. All the water used by the Tanzanian capital in the dry season for drinking and powering hydroelectricity originates in the cloud forests of the UluguruMountains.
The forests of Mount Kenya guarantee the dry-season river flows to the semi-arid lowlands with the headwaters of the River Tana supplying water to over 5 million people. River systems in the Mount Kenya area also supply other urban centres, Kenya's blossoming international exports of flowers, as well as wildlife and tourist centres.
The study, compiled by researchers from the United Nations Environment Programme's World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) and colleagues from IUCN-the World Conservation Union and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), is the first major report of the Mountain Cloud Forest Initiative (MCFI).
Klaus Toepfer, UNEP's Executive Director, said: "If we are to achieve the UN Millennium Development Goals and the World Summit on Sustainable Development's Plan of Implementation in areas such as improved provision of drinking water supplies and reversing the rate at which biodiversity is being lost, we need sound science upon which to act."
"This new report highlights how relatively small and special areas of the Earth play a disproportionately important role in meeting these targets and timetables and that their continued loss will make realizing these international aims harder and harder. I hope this study will not only trigger improved awareness of the need to conserve cloud forests, but lead to new partnerships and initiatives to conserve and restore them. Good work in this area is already being undertaken in some countries. This report underscores how much more is needed, particularly in Africa and areas of Asia, now known to be holding significant reserves of these fragile mountain habitats", he said.
The findings will also be presented to environment ministers and experts attending the eighth special session of UNEP's Governing Council and fifth Global Ministerial Environment Forum taking place in Jeju, Republic of Korea, in late March where water will be high on the agenda.
Achim Steiner, IUCN Director General, commented: "In many ways we are behaving as if we were driving a car through the fog. We have a sense that these forests are very remote -- the vast majority of the population has never been to one – and, hence, not important or at risk. But in reality, their impact on our lives is greater than we assume. We have to take action now to retain whatever is left of these forests before we abruptly hit upon the fact they have vanished. Even if the majority of the population does not access these forests directly, they still play a pivotal role in the functioning of our economies, and in the maintenance of our ecosystems. Often it is the poorest communities -- among them indigenous peoples -- who depend on the resources of these forests. Destroying them means taking away one of their fundamental lifelines."
Mark Collins, Director of UNEP-WCMC, added: "This report gives us, for the first time, maps of cloud forest distribution, regional overviews of the threats they face and an agenda for priority actions. A key finding is that cloud forests are rarer than thought, with the true area 20 per cent less than the previous estimate of half a million square kilometres."
Climate Change Possibly Biggest Threat
Philip Bubb of UNEP-WCMC, co-author of the report, has spent many years in Mexico: "Cloud forests are fantastically beautiful and lush, with orchids, mosses and ferns growing across every surface. Each tree branch is like a garden in itself. The atmosphere is damp and cool with an eerie mist hanging over the forest for much of the day and birdcalls carry vast distances. When the sun breaks through, it filters through the leaf canopy and brings out the intense colours of the flowers and foliage."
"A unique feature of these forests is that they can capture moisture through condensation from the clouds, which also makes these habitats very sensitive to climate change. If temperatures rise one degree in the lowland, this equates to two degrees in the mountains and can result in the clouds lifting and the cloud forest drying out. The El Niño of 1987, which some researchers have suggested was more intense as a result of global warming, caused several weeks of dry weather in the Monteverde cloud forest of Costa Rica. As a result, 25 of the 50 frog and toad species disappeared and only 5 have returned", he said.
The unique conditions found in cloud forests make them ideal breeding grounds for special species often found nowhere else in the world. Species found there include the endangered spectacted bear, the mountain gorillas of Africa and the Resplendent Quetzal, a colorful bird that is the national symbol of Guatemala.
The huge concentration of unique, endemic species is underscored by the Andean cloud forests. In Peru, over 30 per cent of the 272 species of endemic mammals, birds and frogs are found in cloud forests.
Even tiny pockets of cloud forest can harbour an extraordinary variety of life forms. For example, the Centinella Ridge in western Ecuador has about 90 endemic plant species in a forest area of just 20 square kilometers.
New species are often being discovered in cloud forests. In the 1990s, the Jocotoco Antipitta, a bird, was found in about 5,000 hectares of Ecuadorian cloud forest, as was the Scarlet-banded Barbet. It was discovered in cloud forest near the headwaters of the Rio Cushabatay, Peru.
A new genus of the cow family and two new species of barking deer were discovered in the Annamite cloud forests of the Lao People's Democratic Republic and Viet Nam as recently as 1996.
Crop Improvements
Cloud forests are the natural habitats of the wild relatives of important crops and, therefore, important gene pools for crop improvements.
Recent studies have found wild living relatives of papaya, the tomato, tree tomato, passion fruit, avocado, beans, blackberry, cucumber, potato and peppers in cloud forests.
Threats in Addition to Climate Change
The report identifies nearly a dozen major threats to cloud forests, including clearance for farming and grazing land and habitat fragmentation. Indeed, loss of habitat has been a particular problem for the spectacled bear in the Andes. Deforestation has affected migration routes and there have been conflicts with farmers where bears have been eating new crops. Wildlife corridors in cloud forests are essential if man and bear are to coexist.
In Africa, 10 out of 15 countries questioned said poaching and hunting of animals such as great apes was a key threat. Fires were also highlighted as a key problem in African countries.
Seven out of 10 Asian countries, including Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines, mentioned timber extraction and logging as an issue, with seven African and four Asian nations citing collection for fuelwood and charcoal production as a possible threat.
Road construction was cited as a threat in six Latin American countries. Studies in Puerto Rico indicate that cloud forest soils can take up to 300 years to recover from such construction. Road and tourists developments, including golf courses, are threatening forests in South-East Asia, in Malaysia's Genting and CameronHighlands and Sabah's MountKinabalu.
Clearance of cloud forests for either illegal opium or coca leaf is reported in Colombia, Bolivia, Peru and Venezuela. Introduction of alien species can also be an issue. Cloud forests in Jamaica are threatened by an introduced Australian tree, and feral pigs in Hawaiian cloud forests have led to plant and bird extinctions.
Some countries are now implementing innovative schemes to save cloud forests. Costa Rica, for example, under its 1996 Forest Law, pays landowners who conserve or re-establish forests. Hydroelectric companies also pay up to $40 a hectare a year to landowners with cloud forests in recognition of their role in maintaining water supplies.
Cloud forest tourism can also be a valuable source of income for local people and thus a reason to conserve these habitats. The report cites schemes in Africa, including trips to see the mountain gorillas in the cloud forests of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and others schemes in Asia and Latin America.
Notes for editors: The Cloud Forest Agenda is a product of the Mountain Cloud Forest Initiative, which is a partnership between UNEP and its World Conservation Monitoring Centre, UNESCO and its Man and the Biosphere Programme and International Hydrological Programme, and IUCN and its Commission on Ecosystem Management.
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-- Promotion of prioritized agendas for the conservation and management of cloud forests at regional and local levels;
-- Promotion of ecosystem approaches to cloud forest management and restoration;
-- Supporting local champions for cloud forest conservation;
-- Generation and dissemination of information to decision-makers and practitioners; and
-- Development of practical tools and models for the conservation of cloud forests.
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The ex-wife of former minister Chris Huhne faces a retrial after a jury described as suffering "absolutely fundamental deficits in understanding" failed to reach a verdict in her case.
Pryce, 60, will stand trial again for perverting the course of justice as early as next week after the jury at Southwark Crown Court was discharged after saying it was "highly unlikely" it would reach even a majority verdict.
Former DPP Lord Macdonald of River Glaven told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "We perhaps ought to allow a bit more access to jury reasoning than we do.
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Former lord chief justice Lord Woolf told Today: "I wouldn't rush into doing anything, I would think about it. If there was anything that might help us to be reassured about the jury, Lord Macdonald's put his finger on it. Some very carefully organised, responsible research may be a good thing, but it would have to be treated with great care."
The jury trying Pryce submitted a series of 10 questions to the judge during their deliberations. Mr Justice Sweeney said in 30 years he had never seen a situation like it after being presented with the list of questions after jurors spent nearly 14 hours considering the case. They included: "Can a juror come to a verdict based on a reason that was not presented in court and has no facts or evidence to support it, either from the prosecution or defence?"
Discussing a possible solution, the judge said: "Quite apart from my concern as to the absolutely fundamental deficits in understanding which the questions demonstrate, I wonder, given that it is actually all there and has been there the whole time, the extent to which anything said by me is going to be capable of getting them back on track again. In well over 30 years of criminal trial I have never come across this at this stage, never."
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Taylor, reached by phone Friday morning, says he and Holcomb didn't get much chance to talk Thursday after his elimination. "There was just crying," he says. "It's crazy, because we see each other, every morning, every day, 24/7. We wake up, see each other. It's crazy, not being able to see her again. Well, I'll see her again, but not today, at least."
Taylor's raspy tone and gospel-infused approach to R&B ballads made him a favorite of the judges this season. He lost 40 pounds in one month to prepare for the competition, which he credits to "dedication and motivation."
He says he didn't change much about his lifestyle to lose so much weight so quickly. "I really didn't change my eating — I'm from the South, so I can't change what I eat. It's just a mind-over-matter thing.
"A lot of times, my grandma was like, 'You need to stop; you're getting too thin.' But I'm glad that I did it. I feel like if I hadn't been on the show, I wouldn't have done it. So I'm thankful that it allowed me to do it.
Taylor plans on getting on a treadmill as soon as he gets back home to Louisiana, because he has put back on several pounds since coming to Los Angeles.
"Not blaming L.A., but I gained 10 pounds," he says. Also, he adds, "I want to get some vocal lessons so I can be intact for the tour. That's where our fans are going to come from. That is where our platform is going to come from. And I don't want to be nothing less than my best."
During the finals, Taylor killed on the ballads, almost always earning effusive praise from the judges for his original approach to the material. But having to go uptempo with a rock song — Bon Jovi's You Give Love a Bad Name — did him in this week. Still, Taylor says, he had fun doing it.
"If anybody would have told me at the beginning of this ride that I was going to be performing a rock song in front of a live audience, I would have told them they were crazy," he says. "It wasn't perfect, but even if nobody else was proud of me, I was proud of myself, because I know what it took to overcome that situation."
Taylor had hoped to have a chance to sing other songs with more of a groove to them, though he identifies more with the ballads.
"That's the lane I want to be in as an artist," he says. "I want to stay true to myself and give my listeners stuff they've always heard me do and not have them confused.
"At the same time, I enjoyed taking on challenges. The rock theme was cool; it was so much fun. I even did a kick at the end."
Taylor says he had a feeling this week that his time on Idol was nearing its end. "The whole week I was feeling in my bones that it could be me," he says. "I feel like it was God giving me a sign so that I could be prepared when it did happen."
And, when it did happen, "it went good. It was hard saying goodbye to some of the contestants — well, all of them, really. We've been around each other a lot, so it's hard not being around them anymore.
"I took a lot from this experience. I'm so thankful for this experience, this platform, because my life will never be the same."
Taylor's ouster leave Lazaro Arbos as the only remaining guy in a field full of women. "He do what he do, and I appreciate what he do," Taylor says. "I appreciate everybody's craft as much as I appreciate my own. Whatever he's doing, I encourage him to keep doing it."
Still, Taylor says, "I would love to see a girl win this year" (and probably one girl in particular).
"Lazaro, he could win, too. It's anybody's game. At the same time, I feel like a girl winning is way overdue. There hasn't been a girl win in a long time. I would love to see one of them win, and the fact that I'm going to know the winner makes it 10 times better."


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"You see, Mr. Gittes, most people never have to face the fact that at the right time and the right place, they're capable of anything." Noah Cross
We all have archetypes that spur us individually. Our backgrounds, our struggles, our loves, loyalties and rivalries combine to create passions, positive and negative, that charge us. These are passions that energize rather than enervate. Because of these personal experiences and passions, each of us have genres that are intensely meaningful, story types to which we return again and again.
I have two. One is "The Joseph Story" which is any story that follows loosely the account of Joseph from the Old Testament. Favorites that fall under this particular archetype are Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Field of Dreams, Heaven Can Wait (1978 version)andDisney's Beauty and the Beast. Each of these four, while wildly different movies, follows a similar storyline concerning a dreamer with a vision. In the face of events that drag the character further and further from this vision ever being achieved, the vision miraculously comes to fruition in the end, albeit in an often different way than imagined. It's a wonderful archetype I'll write about at a later date.
The second story type that drives me revolves around justice.
There are a couple of therapy sessions we need not explore here that would explain why I am obsessed with justice…. not particularly for myself but for the people around me and others I encounter in the world. Consequently, movies that explore justice are some of my favorites of all time, movies I will watch again and again and again. Examples here include Erin Brockovich, In the Name of the Father and Norma Rae. (There are quite a few others I could list.) Each of the movies mentioned are splendid movies even apart from my justice obsession. Erin Brockovich is a wildly entertaining movie, more fun than any such movie has a right to be, a movie that cemented Steven Soderburgh's status as one of the best directors in Hollywood, and a film that plays out in highly original ways while still being very much a crowd-pleaser. In The Name of the Father is simply one of the best movies of the 90's and would have swept the Oscars in '93 had it not been for a juggernaut called Schindler's List. Norma Rae is a surprisingly gritty, wonderful film that holds up beautifully even today. I love these movies passionately and will show them to anyone, anytime. Yet there is one 'justice movie' I return to more than any. It's a movie that had one of the biggest influences on my life; it is also one of the top 5 movies ever made. That movie is Chinatown.
I was twelve years old the first time I saw Chinatown…


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New technology which utilizes hybrid circuitry (and switch reading for probes with switchable gain/attenuation) minimizes ringing and overshoot to provide a precise response.


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1.2 Getting Started
The first thing you will need to do - if you haven't done so already - is download your own Pharo Smalltalk system.
The easiest way to follow the examples from this book is to download the Pharo By Example One-Click App (this includes both the VM and the image with all source files, based on the Pharo 1.0 release).
When inspecting the files in the downloaded zip-file you will notice:
- VM: the VM will be in the format of Pharo.exe (Windows), Pharo.app (Mac) or Pharo.sh (Linux). The VM is also accompanied by a few other files: e.g. Splash image, copyright etc
- Sources: The sources file can be identified by its ".sources" file extension
- Image: The Image is represented by the ".image" and ".changes" files (more about this in the next section).
A Smalltalk system is basically started by launching the VM with an Image. When the VM is started it will look for an Image in the same folder and if you have just downloaded Pharo from the Pharo By Example website the System just starts ad you will see something like this:
If no Image or more than one Image is found, the VM will open a window to select the Image to start. Another way to start a Smalltalk system is to drag the ".image" file on the VM.


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Here's a modest proposal I offer free of charge to President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney:
Every American should get a mandatory minimum of three week's paid vacation a year.
Most Americans only get two weeks off right now. But many don't even take the full two weeks out of fear of losing their jobs. One in four gets no paid vacation at all, not even holidays. About 40 percent of U.S. workers, or more than 55 million Americans, don't get paid when they take vacation or sick days, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Employees in some industries do better than in others. The 8.1 million Americans working in the financial industry are twice as likely to have paid time off as the nation's 8.7 million construction workers. The worst rates are in the leisure and hospitality sectors, where fewer than 25 percent of workers are given paid vacation or sick days.
But no matter where you look or how you add it up, Americans work harder and longer. We're the only advanced economy without a national leave policy guaranteeing a break for employees.
This is absurd. A mandatory three weeks off would be good for everyone -- including employers.
Studies show that workers who take time off are more productive after their batteries are recharged. They have higher morale and are less likely to mentally check out on the job. This means greater output per worker -- enough to compensate employers for the cost of hiring additional workers to cover for everyone's three weeks of vacation time.
It's also a win for the economy, because these additional workers would bring down the level of unemployment and put more money into more people's pockets. This extra purchasing power would boost the economy overall.
Requiring paid vacations hasn't hurt other economies. Germany has one of the strongest economies in Europe, and it mandates a minimum of four weeks paid vacation per year.
More and longer vacations would also improve our health. A study by Wisconsin's Marshfield Clinic shows women who take regular vacations experience less tension and depression year round. Studies also show that men who take regular vacations have less likelihood of heart disease and fewer heart attacks.
Better health is not just good for us as individuals. It also translates into more productive workers, fewer sick days, less absenteeism and lower health-care costs.
In other words, a three-week minimum vacation is a win-win-win -- good for workers, good for employers and good for the economy.
And I guarantee it would also be a winner among voters. Messrs. Obama, Romney -- either of you listening?
Robert B. Reich, Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at the University of California and former U.S. Secretary of Labor, is the author of the newly released "Beyond Outrage: What has gone wrong with our economy and our democracy, and how to fix it," a Knopf e-book original.


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Grigore C Moisil
Born: 10 January 1906 in Tulcea, Romania
Died: 21 May 1973 in Ottawa, Canada
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Grigore Moisil's father, Constantin Moisil, was a historian and member of the Romanian Academy of Sciences. Grigore was named after his grandfather, Constantin's father, who had been a clergyman but died a few years before his grandson was born. Constantin was married to Elena who was an elementary school teacher in Tulcea, but later she became the director of the "Maidanul Dulapului" school in Bucharest. Marcus, in [14], describes what Grigore, the subject of this biography, was like as a child:-
The child Grigore enjoyed to look around, to give free expression to his curiosity and wonder, to ask questions, to read books of a large diversity from science and literature and from practical jobs to philosophy. He felt always the need to react to what he was seeing, listening and reading. His diary is an excellent mirror of this fact. His main pleasure was always of an intellectual nature, he was not attracted to play with other children or to practise various sports of games. His mother taught him to count and to make calculations and only as a second step to read and write. The most important part of the learning process took place at his home, with his parents and sometimes with his brothers and his sister, all of them becoming intellectuals.Certainly learning at home was important, but Grigore attended primary school in Bucharest, where his family had moved. He entered high school in 1916, first in Vaslui, then at the "Spiru Haret" high school in Bucharest. Mathematics was the most important subject for him during his school years but his great passion for the subject did not stop him enjoying and excelling in all the other subjects he studied at school. He graduated from high school in 1922 and in 1923 he entered the Faculty of Mathematics University of Bucharest. His parents, however, believed that someone as devoted to mathematics as Grigore was, surely must take up engineering. They pressed him to study that subject at the Polytechnic University and so in 1924 he enrolled as a student. Although he progressed well in the engineering courses, this was not a topic which he enjoyed. Mathematics, on the other hand, gave him nothing but the greatest of joy. He was greatly influenced by his lecturers at the University of Bucharest, particularly Gheorghe Țițeica and Dimitrie Pompeiu. Moisil submitted his doctoral thesis Analytical Mechanics of Continuous Systems in 1929 and the examining committee was lead by Țițeica, with Pompeiu and other mathematicians also on the committee. He never completed his engineering degree at the Polytechnic University, however, and he dropped out in 1929.
Moisil then went to Paris to study for the year 1930-31 where he worked with a number of mathematicians including Élie Cartan and Jacques Hadamard. While working there he wrote the paper On a class of systems of equations with partial derivatives from mathematical physics. He returned to Romania at the end of his studies in France and was appointed to the Mathematics Department of the University of Iasi in 1931. He left shortly after being appointed to spent another year abroad, this time in Rome, supported by a Rockefeller scholarship, where he spent 1931-32 working with Vito Volterra. After Rome he spent a short while back in Paris before returning to Iasi where he was appointed provisional associate professor on 1 November 1932.
An important event in Moisil's mathematical life was when he read Van der Waerden's famous work Moderne Algebra which had been published in 1930. Before reading this work Moisil had worked on differential equations, the theory of functions and mechanics. Van der Waerden's treatise fascinated him, however, and he published his first paper on algebra in 1934. In fact on 1 January 1935 he was appointed as Associate Professor of Algebra at the University of Iasi. His interest in algebra certainly did not mean that he stopped working on the other areas that interested him, he just simply added another to the list of topics on which he was undertaking research. He was appointed as Professor of Differential and Integral Calculus on 1 November 1936 at Iasi, then as Professor of Calculus in 1939. Algebra was not the only new research topic for Moisil during these years, for he became interested in logic after reading a paper by Jan Łukasiewicz. Marcus writes in [14]:-
Moisil spent ten years at Iasi University (1931 - 1941). It was a period in which he alternated his old interests in continuous mathematics with applications to mechanics and physics with his new interests in discrete mathematics, mainly in algebra and logic.His first paper on algebra and logic was Recherches sur l'algèbra de la logique Ⓣ (1935). However, it was in the paper Recherches sur les logiques non-chrysippiennes Ⓣ (1940) that Moisil first defined 3-valued and 4-valued Łukasiewicz algebras. These algebras are now called Łukasiewicz-Moisil algebras or L-M algebras. First we must comment on the title of this paper, in particular the term non-chrysippiennes used by Moisil in the title. By non-chrysippian logic he means multivalued logic (non-aristotelian). Moisil feels that the strictest standpoint in classical (formal) logic is represented by Chrysippus rather than Aristotle. Hence "non-chrysippian" should be more accurate than "non-aristotelian". The authors of [10] explain that, in introducing these algebras, Moisil's:-
... goal was to algebrize Łukasiewicz's logic. Boolean algebras, algebraic models of classical logic, are particular cases of the new structures.To show the breadth of Moisil's research, let us note that in 1940 he also published Sur les petits mouvements des corps élastiques Ⓣ and Sur les géodésiques des espaces de Riemann singuliers Ⓣ. In the second of these papers he investigates the properties of singular Riemann spaces.
A position of professor at Bucharest University became available in 1941 and Moisil put himself forward for the position. However, Vrănceanu, Barbilian and Miron Nicolescu also applied for the post and Moisil was the youngest of these four, very well qualified, applicants. Not surprisingly Vrănceanu was appointed but then came a quite twist. Moisil approached the ministry of education explaining what a great opportunity it would be for mathematics in Romania if all of them were to be appointed as professors in Bucharest. It looks like a long shot, but Moisil must have known what he was doing for indeed the ministry of education appointed them all to chairs. Moisil took up his new professorship at Bucharest University at the start of the 1941-42 academic year.
In 1942 he introduced n-valued L-M algebras generalising the 3-valued and 4-valued ones he had introduced two years earlier [10]:-
Moisil invented L-M algebras in order to create an algebraic structure playing the same role with respect to multiple-valued logic as Boolean algebras play with respect to classical, bivalent logic. However, as shown by the example of A Rose [1956], this only happens for the cases n = 3 and n = 4.Through the 1950 Moisil applied his ideas to the theory of switching circuits. In 1959 he published the book The algebraic theory of switching circuits (Romanian) which and an excellent summary is given by E F Moore in a review. We quote a part of that review:-
More than fifty papers by Moisil, and many additional papers by Ioanin, Nedelcu, Mariana, and others, have developed a distinctive Rumanian approach to switching circuit theory, which remains little known and rarely referred to outside of Romania, despite the fact that most of these papers have been reviewed in Mathematical Reviews. This book gives a very detailed coverage of this approach, starting on a very elementary level, not even presupposing familiarity with the integers modulo n. ...Among Moisil's other books we mention: Associated matrices of systems of partial differential equations. Introduction to the study of the investigations of I N Lopatinskii (Romanian) (1950); Introduction to algebra. I. Rings and ideals (Romanian) (1954); Time sequential operation of circuits with ideal relays (Romanian) (1960); Essays old and new on non-classical logic (Romanian) (1965); Algebraic theory of schemes with contacts and relays (Romanian) (1965); and Actual functioning of relay switching circuits. I (Romanian) (1965).
The most distinctive characteristic of this approach is the very strong use that is made of Galois fields. Tables for multiplication, addition, and exponentiation, for GF(33) and GF(52) are inserts which fold out from the book, and similar tables for GF(pn) whenever pn < 25, are printed in the text of the book. The pn states of a circuit having n relays, each of which has p positions, are represented by the elements of GF(pn). Lagrangian interpolation polynomials are used in these finite fields, to permit finding algebraic formulas for functions which take on arbitrary values at each state of the circuit. Time is usually assumed to take on only discrete values. Extensive use is also made of n-valued logic.
Moisil was also involved in the introduction of computers into Romania. In 1957 he assisted in setting up the first Romanian computer in the Institute of Atomic Physics and he encouraged mathematics students to learn computer programming, essentially setting up the first Romanian computer science course.
Eight years after his death, the Faculty of Mathematics of Bucharest University organised a conference on 10 January 1981 on the occasion of Moisil's 75th birthday. The conference was dedicated to his life and work and many spoke of their appreciation for his outstanding contributions. C Andreian Cazacu delivered the opening address in which he said:-
Prof Gr C Moisil has fought with all his energy and perseverance in order to open the way to the understanding of mathematics in our country now and in the future. He has been aware of the importance of informatics, cybernetics and automata theory. He has created centres of computation.Other speakers included P P Teodorescu who said::
Professor Moisil has cultivated with great pleasure and passion the boundary sciences and has created various schools - mechanics, automata theory, etc. He has contributed to different literary journals. He has had his column 'Science and Humanism' at the 'Contemporanul'.Moisil was elected to the Romanian Academy of Sciences in 1948, the Academy of Sciences in Bologna and to the International Institute of Philosophy. He was honoured posthumously for his contributions to computing when the IEEE Computer Society awarded him their "Computer Pioneer" prize in 1996, twenty-three years after his death. In 2002 Viorica Moisil, Grigore Moisil's widow, published her husband's diary so giving the world a deeper look into the character of this outstanding mathematician.
Article by: J J O'Connor and E F Robertson
List of References (21 books/articles)
Mathematicians born in the same country
Cross-references in MacTutor
- Romanian Academy
Other Web sites
- Mathematical Genealogy Project
- MathSciNet Author profile
- zbMATH entry
- ERAM Jahrbuch entry


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Ian Martin designs the Tamworth Big PIEVILION
MONDAY I'm delighted to announce that I have been chosen to create the inaugural Tamworth Pavilion.
It will, I hope, neither excite nor surprise the public and mark a bold new direction for pavilion design, away from the cloud-based cultural signifiers of recent years towards a bathetic paradigm of flapping, enclosed space.
TUESDAY The Tamworth Pavilion is the opposite of a prestigious landmark. A temporary structure will be erected in August on scrubland known locally as Old Cobbler's Lot, stay there for a fortnight and then be dismantled to make way for Billy Shippam's Funfair.
This tight schedule really piles on the pressure to come up with something uncontroversial.
It's a pleasure to be working with clients Tamworth Big Pie Ltd, who understand the challenges of contemporary tensile rationalism.
Unlike certain fancy-dick pavilion commissions in London, the terms of this appointment actively discourage pretension. 'No French or long words in the design statement' says the brief, faxed to me this morning. 'No blurring of boundaries, merging this and bloody that. Proper inside, proper outside, thank you very much'.
Any mention of 'spatial territory' or 'an architecture beyond architecture' will result in instant disqualification: 'We'll just find someone who knows how to do a big tent, eh?'
WEDNESDAY As part of the research process I have a Tamworth Big Pie ('We fill 'em up, they fill you up, job done') for lunch. Architecturally the pie is pretty unremarkable.
Its pastry envelope holds the contents in a perfectly adequate way. The interior is a measured narrative journey of form and texture.
But in the end mass and density are meaningless out of context, aren't they? All complex constructions must be assimilated by their surroundings, environmental or digestive. So I eat the pie.
On the one hand it's disgusting. On the other, the Tamworth Big Pie people are paying me. I get a fax at teatime: '1: How's that pavilion coming along, you need to get your arse into gear. 2: What do you think to our pies, eh?' Tempted to remind them that 1: I'm an auteur and 2: Understanding the difference between genitive and dative is surely a basic requirement, however 'regional' the English.
Of course, the design process is all about plate-spinning.
I tell them that 1. I'll have some rough ideas by the end of the week and 2. Connective tissue never tasted this good.
THURSDAY Working up pavilion ideas via a process of elimination.
The look I'm going for is hyperunderstated absence. The easiest way to do this is to imagine I'm creating a magical space for thin Londoners in sloganised clothes, sketch it, then bin it.
Accordingly I abandon the idea of doing a sort of clever nebulous mist of shimmering dematerialised steel. Likewise,
I park my 'freespace cultural windsock', made of spun bamboo pulp. And my mysterious floating laminated thought castle, which pushes at the edge of our perceptions of what a pavilion might be and is only truly 'visible' when filtered through the viewer's imagination, is also summarily crumpled up and tossed away.
Another fax. 'We will be looking to enhance the Tamworth Big Pie brand with this tent, so think on. Remember - we're bloody paying for it, we want the logo every bloody where, hope that's clear. Re toilets - get the bloody council to sort that out, we're a pie company not a charity'.
FRIDAY After a great deal of mental trial and error I have decided on my pavilion concept.
It is a massive tent made of industrial pie-coloured plastic sheeting in the shape of a pie and it will be called The Tamworth Big PIEVILION.
Inside there will be activities for all the family including pies to buy, pie-eating competitions, a short documentary called Life of Pie, someone in a Tamworth Big Pie Man costume patting children's heads and an experimental section featuring a range of pies in different shapes with exotic fillings.
SATURDAY A grudging commendation arrives by fax.
'Not bad. We like the pie theme a lot and the pie activities, etc. Reminds us a bit of that Millennium Dome they had in London a couple of years back.
The tent should be smaller so it feels fuller inside, like our pies. Otherwise OK.
SUNDAY Reflect on another busy week as an independent alchemist, turning base opportunity into epic space. Doze fitfully in the recliner.
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All land-disturbing activities involving an area greater than one acre (except mining, forestry, or agricultural activities) are required by law in the State of North Carolina to operate under an approved erosion control plan. This plan must be obtained before work begins on a site. Although tracts containing less than one acre do not require permits, adequate measures to prevent erosion and contain sediment on site are still required.
In addition, the Erosion Control Department enforces regulations pertaining to watershed and floodplain requirements by reviewing development plans and issuing grading permits for all commercial and multi-family sites over 10,000 square feet in all areas of Forsyth County (excluding Kernersville). Inspectors also monitor single-family construction sites to ensure sedimentation is controlled.
The department maintains up-to-date floodway district maps to enforce the floodway and floodway fringe regulations contained in the Unified Development Ordinance. The department also enforces watershed regulations for density and impervious surface coverage on developed properties, review survey and plan information and conduct field inspections to ensure that permitted structures comply with floodplain regulations
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Franklin Morales got a new hat in the mail last week, a dress western silver Stetson, right out of a big box. It's too wide to fit on the shelf in his locker and too nice to keep on the floor.
His pitches are similarly outsized, proper by nature but ready to go rugged and dusty.
On Tuesday in a 2-1 victory over the San Francisco Giants at Coors Field, Morales was all over the map — throwing two-seamers and four-seamers, changeups, sliders, cutters, sinkers and splitters — anything and everything, inside the strike zone and out. It was astoundingly effective.
"It's paramount," Rockies manager Walt Weiss said. "You have to pitch down and to both sides of the plate here — or you're asking for trouble."
Morales threw seven innings, allowing just one earned run over 99 pitches.
"I want to make the hitters uncomfortable," Morales said. "They need to figure out what I'm doing. But it's everything together.
"After the fourth inning, I was throwing all the pitches together."
Colorado has now won five of its past six games. At 12-10, the Rockies are two games above .500 for the first time this season — and are in second place in the National League West.
PHOTOS: Colorado Rockies vs. San Francisco Giants
On this six-game homestand, Tuesday's result was very San Franciscan. Troy Tulowitzki and Nolan Arenado hit solo home runs, in the fourth and fifth innings, respectively, and it was just enough.
"We're gonna go out and grind every pitch — and grind down teams as best we can," said Rockies outfielder Brandon Barnes after going 2-for-4 batting leadoff.
If the Rockies are to carve out a spot in the postseason — granted, still five-plus months away — they need to overtake the Giants. The Los Angeles Dodgers, with a curve-busting $238 million payroll, seem to be the purchased class of the NL West. But sneak up to the second spot, and the West's No. 2 has a chance.
That race so far has been between Colorado and San Francisco. In their past nine games, the Rockies and Giants have played eight one-run contests, with Colorado's 8-2 victory Monday the exception.
"I always know we're in a war with them," Weiss said. "It always seems to come down to the last inning."
The Rockies won in big part with defense. Tulowitzki in the fourth inning dived back and to his right to keep Joaquin Arias' grounder in the infield, then sidearmed a throw to second for an out. It was just one out among 27, but this one kept Giants baserunner Pablo Sandoval on third and saved a run.
Morales, in the next at-bat, got Ehire Adrianza to pop up and the score stayed at zeroes.
Then Tulowitzki, in the bottom half of the inning, ripped a Madison Bumgarner four-seam fastball to left-center for a tiebreaking solo homer. It was just the second home run allowed by Bumgarner this season. But it was not the last in the game.
In the next inning, after the Giants' Hunter Pence homered in the fifth off Morales, Arenado broke another tie, sky-balling Bumgarner to left field with a home run that kept carrying and gave the Rockies a 2-1 lead.
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Rousey wins historic women's debut at UFC 157
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) -- Ronda Rousey won the first women's bout in UFC history Saturday night, beating Liz Carmouche on an armbar with 11 seconds left in the first round of their bantamweight title fight at UFC 157.
Rousey (7-0) defended her belt with her signature move, forcing Carmouche to tap out after bending back her arm. Rousey raised both arms in victory while flat on the canvas after the longest fight of the mixed martial artist's ascendant career.
"Is this real life right now? I'm not sure," Rousey said.
Former UFC champion Lyoto Machida won a lackluster split decision over 42-year-old veteran Dan Henderson on the undercard at Honda Center, and bantamweight Urijah Faber beat Ivan Menjivar with an acrobatic rear naked choke late in the first round.
But the sellout crowd largely showed up to see Rousey, whose star power and athleticism ended UFC President Dana White's long-standing disinterest in women's MMA - and even put Rousey and Carmouche in the main event of a pay-per-view show.
Rousey and Carmouche didn't disappoint in their sport's pressure-packed debut. Although Rousey was heavily favored, Carmouche (7-3) actually got Rousey in trouble early, nearly landing a rear naked choke while clinging to Rousey's back in the opening two minutes.
Rousey, who had never been so seriously threatened in a bout, barely escaped the chokehold. She gradually imposed her will on the former Marine after that, finally getting her legs on top of Carmouche and patiently separating her arms to land an armbar.
Rousey has won all seven of her professional MMA bouts by armbar, a judo move that has dislocated at least two prior opponents' elbows.
"I had to learn to take my time in judo, and I was just able to keep a clear head," said Rousey, who became the first American woman to win an Olympic judo medal in Beijing.
Carmouche earned a huge ovation from the sellout crowd for giving Rousey more trouble than she had ever faced.
"I thought I had it," said Carmouche, who served three tours of duty in Iraq. "Like everything else, you make a mistake, and it turns around."
Rousey had to deal with constant attention from media and fans in recent weeks, but said the pressure was nothing she couldn't handle.
"There's no amount of press that can save these girls from me," she said.
Machida (19-3), the former light heavyweight champion, had lost three of his previous five bouts before edging Henderson (29-9) in a slow, technical fight. Machida used his typical elusiveness and unorthodox, karate-based techniques to pick away at Henderson, who had won four straight fights.
Henderson finally took down Machida in the third round, but couldn't capitalize. Both fighters raised their arms in victory after the third horn, but Machida landed 68 percent of the fight's significant strikes, with a 23-8 advantage in head strikes.
Two judges favored Machida 29-28, while the third had Henderson winning 29-28.
"He's a very great opponent for me, and I have a lot of respect for him," Machida said while fans booed. "My strategy was to keep the fight standup, and I think I got it. I think I completely dominated the first round, second round, third round."
Faber (28-6) got his career back on track with an impressive victory over Menjivar (25-11), a Salvadoran veteran fighting out of Canada. With his home-state crowd behind him, Faber took early control on the ground and then finished Menjivar by clinging to his back and wrapping both legs around his standing opponent, forcing Menjivar to tap out while on his feet with 26 seconds left in the opening round.
"Ivan is a very crafty veteran," Faber said. "I just attacked the neck. He let me hold on too long, and that was that."
Although Faber has a huge fan following after dominating the now-defunct WEC, he was just 2-2 since moving to the UFC two years ago, dropping narrow decisions to bantamweight champion Dominick Cruz and Renan Barao.
Earlier, Robbie Lawler stopped Josh Koscheck with 1:03 left in the first round with a series of strikes, and Court McGee beat Josh Neer by unanimous decision in his welterweight debut.


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The Best Science Fiction Action Movies
In space, no one can hear you scream... but everyone else in the movie theater can. If you're searching for a gasp-worthy flick for movie night, look no further. These are the best science fiction action movies, featuring humans battling each other and struggling for survival against alien forces. These top sci fi action movies include titles ranging from Blade Runner to Planet of the Apes to Waterworld.
What films will you find on this list of the best sci fi action movies? In the 1979 film Alien, the crew of the Nostromo spacecraft fights a seemingly unstoppable extraterrestrial being that is both deadly and terrifying. Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) used every resource available to survive the voyage. Mad Max: Fury Road is another acclaimed action science fiction film that focuses on earthbound monsters instead. Tom Cruise and Steven Spielberg teamed up for the 2005 remake of War of the Worlds. Other good movies featured on this list include The Matrix, The Last Man on Earth, and 12 Monkeys.
Which film deserves the top spot on this list? Give your favorites a thumbs up to move them towards number one, and please add any good action sci fi movies that are missing.


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A new system is in place for Roo Express Rentals and Special Event Parking requests.
Only fill out one form for Special Event Parking, Roo Express Rentals or both.
Special Event Parking & Roo Express Rental Request Event Form
If you require reserved parking, please fill out this form in completion at least 48 hours prior to the event start time. For events occurring in less than 48 hours please call the Parking office directly at 330-972-7213.
Reserved Parking & Shuttle Rental Pricing:
$10.00 per hour, per attendant for Attended Spaces (2 hour minimum charge)
$70.00 per service hour, per bus for Shuttle Services. Minimum of a 2 hour rental*
*An additional hour will be added to the total hours for each reservation on the Roo Express.
Group Permit Pricing:
If your special event requires more than 4 permits you can purchase groups of 50 permits for $25.00. Please fill out this form to reserve parking and to request the number of permits you need.
Special Event Information
Are you hosting an event on campus? Please contact us and let us know about any events that you are hosting on campus. This will help us to better serve your guests as well as the rest of the campus community. If the event involves busing people to campus and the buses will be staying until the event concludes, then we ask that you please contact the parking office at 330-972-8043 to arrange for parking.
General Event Information Special Event revenue indirectly helps to keep student tuition and fees lower. The revenue collected by Parking Services is used to maintain, renovate and repair the many parking areas on campus. Without this source of revenue, student tuition and fees would be higher.
Due to the limited amount of property for parking on campus our parking lots must be MULTI-PURPOSE. Parking Services is responsible for directing students, faculty and staff and other visitors to alternative parking areas as close as possible to these reserved lots. Parking Services is responsible for posting the lots to be reserved for an event a minimum of three (3) days in advance of the event. Wherever possible, based on the expected attendance for an event, Parking Services will allow students, faculty and staff to park in these reserved lots.
Since the University is a state and public institution, and therefore, supported by the taxpayers, the University also has an obligation to the "community". While providing a good education to students (customers) is the main priority of the University, there is also an obligation to provide good community relations to the taxpaying public. The community helps support the University with monetary donations, pledges and gifts which, in turn, help to keep down the cost of student tuition and fees.
Football Games On University of Akron football games Lots 2, 6, 8, 9, 9B, 10, 13, 14, 15 will close at midnight the night before. We ask that all vehicles be removed from these lots by 12:00 AM the day of the game. Any vehicles left after 12:00 AM are subject to towing at the owner's expense. Check out Zips sporting events
Basketball Games On University of Akron basketball game nights ALL lots SOUTH of Buchtel Avenue and EAST of Union Street are NOT monitored for permits by Parking Services and the University Police. These include lots 1,7,10,13,14, and 15. For Men's weeknight games Lots 2 and 8 will be controlled by Parking Services after 3:00 PM. We ask that all vehicles be removed from these lots by 5:00 PM. Any vehicles left in Lot 2 after 5:00 PM are subject to towing at the owner's expense. For weekend Men's games these lots will be similarly controlled, with the exception that Lot 2 will be closed the previous evening. Check out Zips sporting events
SRWC and ONAT Permit Holders In the occurrence that there is an event on campus (football, basketball, etc.) and lots 8 & 10 are closed, free parking will be permitted in the East Campus Parking Deck (Lot 1) on Spicer Street.
E.J. Thomas Events
The 1100 space, North Campus Parking Deck has entrances from both Buchtel Ave. and from Forge St.
Additional Thomas Hall event parking is available in Lots #34 and #43. Both of these lots are accessible from Wolf Ledges Parkway, which is a convenient parking location for those patrons exiting I-77/76 at the Wolf Ledges/Grant St. Exit.
The University and Thomas Hall will have signage, parking personnel and police officers available to assist patrons and expedite the flow of traffic.
Arrive Early - Thomas Hall opens one hour prior to show time. The EJ Café, Concession Stand and Bar are all open along with numerous lobby seating areas where patrons can relax prior to the show.
Broadway In Akron: On Fridays and Saturdays of Broadway In Akron, the Thomas Hall parking deck is reserved for our subscribers, Flying Balcony Club and handicap guests.NEW – Overflow parking is available in the North Campus Parking Deck.
Non-Subscribers: Parking is available in the North Campus Parking Deck or Lot #34 located at the corner of Wolf Ledges Parkway and Carroll St.
The University of Akron Parking Department mans the lots and collects a fee of $5 for event parking. Discounted permits of $4 are available from the Thomas Hall Ticket Office.
See more information about events at E. J. Thomas Hall.
Akron Rubber Ducks Games
The Polsky Deck (Lot 49) and Lot 66 will be used for parking for Rubber Ducks patrons on a controlled basis. On certain dates, such as exam weeks, no Rubber Ducks patrons will be permitted to use these lots.
All valid Commuter and Faculty/Staff UA parking permits including temporary permits for the specific date, will be honored FREE in these lots. Commercial Visitor permits will NOT be allowed for free parking.
The Akron Rubber Ducks schedule is available online.


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I want to do the following:
Open a web page that contains a form. After passing some data to the form and choosing from a select list on the webpage i want to parse the web page and store the data on a database. Do i need to do itby opening a browser through Java or is there another way to fill the form and then get the data from the page?
How can i do it? What is the best way?
Sorry if the question is to general but i am out in the blue here. Thank you in advance.


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