text:
import logging
from functools import partial

import sublime
import sublime_plugin

from ..anaconda_lib.worker import Worker
from ..anaconda_lib.tooltips import Tooltip
from ..anaconda_lib.kite import Integration
from ..anaconda_lib.typing import Dict, Tuple, Any
from ..anaconda_lib.helpers import prepare_send_data, is_python, get_settings

class AnacondaSignaturesEventListener(sublime_plugin.EventListener):
    """Signatures on status bar event listener class
    """

    doc = None  # type: str
    signature = None
    exclude = (
        'None', 'NoneType', 'str', 'int', 'float', 'True',
        'False', 'in', 'or', 'and', 'bool'
    )

    def on_modified(self, view: sublime.View) -> None:
        """Called after changes has been made to a view
        """

        if view.command_history(0)[0] in ("expand_tabs", "unexpand_tabs"):
            return

        if not is_python(view) or not get_settings(view, 'display_signatures'):
            return

        if Integration.enabled():
            return

        try:
            location = view.rowcol(view.sel()[0].begin())
            if view.substr(view.sel()[0].begin()) in ['(', ')']:
                location = (location[0], location[1] - 1)

            data = prepare_send_data(location, 'doc', 'jedi')
            use_tooltips = get_settings(
                view, 'enable_signatures_tooltip', True
            )
            st_version = int(sublime.version())
            if st_version >= 3070:
                data['html'] = use_tooltips

            currying = partial(self.prepare_data_status, view)
            if use_tooltips and st_version >= 3070:
                currying = partial(self.prepare_data_tooltip, view)
            Worker().execute(currying, **data)
        except Exception as error:
            logging.error(error)

    def prepare_data_tooltip(
            self, view: sublime.View, data: Dict[str, Any]) -> Any:
        """Prepare the returned data for tooltips
        """

        merge_doc = get_settings(view, 'merge_signatures_and_doc')
        if (data['success'] and 'No docstring' not
                in data['doc'] and data['doc'] != 'list\n'):
            try:
                i = data['doc'].split('
').index("")
            except ValueError:
                self.signature = data['doc']
                self.doc = ''
                if self._signature_excluded(self.signature):
                    return
                return self._show_popup(view)

            if merge_doc:
                self.doc = '
'.join(data['doc'].split('
')[i:]).replace(
                    "  ", "  ")

            self.signature = '
    '.join(
                data['doc'].split('
')[0:i])
            if self.signature is not None and self.signature != "":
                if not self._signature_excluded(self.signature):
                    return self._show_popup(view)

        if view.is_popup_visible():
                view.hide_popup()
        view.erase_status('anaconda_doc')

    def prepare_data_status(
            self, view: sublime.View, data: Dict[str, Any]) -> Any:
        """Prepare the returned data for status
        """

        if (data['success'] and 'No docstring' not
                in data['doc'] and data['doc'] != 'list\n'):
            self.signature = data['doc']
            if self._signature_excluded(self.signature):
                return
            try:
                self.signature = self.signature.splitlines()[2]
            except KeyError:
                return

            return self._show_status(view)

    def _show_popup(self, view: sublime.View) -> None:
        """Show message in a popup if sublime text version is >= 3070
        """

        show_doc = get_settings(view, 'merge_signatures_and_doc', True)
        content = {'content': self.signature}
        display_tooltip = 'signature'
        if show_doc:
            content = {'signature': self.signature, 'doc': self.doc}
            display_tooltip = 'signature_doc'

        css = get_settings(view, 'anaconda_tooltip_theme', 'popup')
        Tooltip(css).show_tooltip(
            view, display_tooltip, content, partial(self._show_status, view))

    def _show_status(self, view: sublime.View) -> None:
        """Show message in the view status bar
        """

        view.set_status(
            'anaconda_doc', 'Anaconda: {}'.format(self.signature)
        )

    def _signature_excluded(self, signature: str) -> Tuple[str]:
        """Whether to supress displaying information for the given signature.
        """

        # Check for the empty string first so the indexing in the next tests
        # can't hit an exception, and we don't want to show an empty signature.
        return ((signature == "") or
                (signature.split('(', 1)[0].strip() in self.exclude) or
                (signature.lstrip().split(None, 1)[0] in self.exclude))


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package com.boozallen.cognition.ingest.accumulo.utils;

import org.apache.commons.configuration.Configuration;

/**
 * Utility for extracting accumulo configuration from {@link Configuration}
 */
public class AccumuloConnectionUtils {
  private static final String INSTANCE = "accumuloConfig.instanceName";
  private static final String ZOO_SERVERS = "accumuloConfig.zooServers";
  private static final String USER = "accumuloConfig.user";
  private static final String KEY = "accumuloConfig.key";
  private static final String MAX_MEM = "maxMem";
  private static final String MAX_LATENCY = "maxLatency";
  private static final String MAX_WRITE_THREADS = "maxWriteThreads";
  protected static final long MAX_MEM_DEFAULT = 10_000_000L;
  protected static final long MAX_LATENCY_DEFAULT = 1_000L;
  protected static final int MAX_WRITE_THREADS_DEFAULT = 20;

  public static AccumuloConnectionConfig extractConnectionConfiguration(Configuration conf) {
    AccumuloConnectionConfig config = new AccumuloConnectionConfig();
    config.instance = conf.getString(INSTANCE);
    config.zooServers = conf.getString(ZOO_SERVERS);
    config.user = conf.getString(USER);
    config.key = conf.getString(KEY);
    config.maxMem = conf.getLong(MAX_MEM, MAX_MEM_DEFAULT);
    config.maxLatency = conf.getLong(MAX_LATENCY, MAX_LATENCY_DEFAULT);
    config.maxWriteThreads = conf.getInt(MAX_WRITE_THREADS, MAX_WRITE_THREADS_DEFAULT);
    return config;
  }
}

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So the multicultural/slang translation thread gets moved to offtopic but the ToR bashing thread stays in general? Before I say anything bad about the moderation I would like to see what you guys constitute as off topic? Because it sure doesnt fit my definition.
off topic, anything not related to rift.
Go to any video streaming site (break, Ebaumsworld, YouTube) and you'll see your answer. Acting like a member of the *** seems to be the new troll now days.


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Immerse Delaware lab coming to UD
Through a partnership with the University of Delaware, the Waters Corporation will sponsor Immerse Delaware, a new research and innovation lab to be established in early 2022 in the Ammon Pinizzotto Biopharmaceutical Innovation Center on UD's Science, Technology and Advanced Research (STAR) Campus.
Article by Tracey Bryant Photo by Evan Krape October 20, 2021
Partnership with Waters Corporation to focus on biopharma manufacturing needs
The University of Delaware is a growing powerhouse in research, education and workforce development focusing on biopharmaceuticals. These complex medicines produced from living cells — from insulin to COVID-19 vaccines — are highly effective in targeting diseases, but they also are extremely challenging to make.
UD and Waters Corporation, a pioneer in scientific measurement, have announced a five-year research partnership to advance analytical solutions in biopharmaceutical manufacturing. The company, headquartered in Milford, Massachusetts, has operations in 35 countries and more than 7,400 employees worldwide.
Through the partnership, Waters will sponsor Immerse Delaware, an innovation and research lab, to be established in early 2022 at the Ammon Pinizzotto Biopharmaceutical Innovation Center on UD's Science, Technology and Advanced Research (STAR) Campus.
"We are thrilled that an industry-leading innovator like Waters Corporation and the University of Delaware are forming this collaborative partnership to advance novel solutions to biopharmaceutical process development and manufacturing," said Dennis Assanis, president of the University of Delaware. "This is a true testimony to UD's recognition as a national hub for innovation and talent development that feeds cutting-edge progress across industries — including engineering, biopharmaceuticals, life sciences, and so much more. The Waters-UD groundbreaking initiative will help accelerate development of life-saving medicines, while simultaneously developing the workforce of the future."
Waters Corporation scientists will partner with UD students and faculty in the Immerse Delaware lab to identify and address some of the most significant challenges facing the biopharmaceutical industry. The success of biotherapeutics such as monoclonal antibodies, cell and gene therapies and vaccines has transformed the life sciences industry. However, the optimization of the manufacturing process of these complex molecules has been limited by the lack of robust analytical methods that clearly decouple the critical quality attributes of the product from the process parameters.
Waters is partnering with UD because of its leadership in chemical and biological manufacturing research as well its active support and close proximity to the National Institute for Innovation in Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals (NIIMBL), a collaborative effort among industry, academia and regulators.
"We strongly believe that the most difficult challenges can only be solved through collaboration across academia and industry. The Immerse Delaware lab follows from our highly successful launch of Immerse Cambridge, a Waters innovation and research lab," said Udit Batra, CEO and president of Waters Corporation. "Through this collaboration, researchers from both Waters and University of Delaware will identify and develop solutions that can better characterize biological manufacturing processes and drive improvements in quality, yields, efficiency and process control. Our partnership eventually aspires to decouple the product from the process, which can significantly accelerate the delivery of higher quality medicines to patients."
Levi Thompson, dean of UD's College of Engineering, and faculty in the College of Engineering collaborated with Batra to develop the partnership. Batra received his bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from UD in 1991.
"It's been wonderful working with Udit Batra, one of our college's most accomplished alumni, to develop this exciting research partnership with Waters Corporation," Thompson said. "This collaboration will not only drive solutions to major industry challenges, it will allow us to bring additional real-world issues into the classroom and advance business development in the region."
Earlier this year, UD launched a new master's degree program in biopharmaceutical sciences with industry support. In addition to traditional class and laboratory work, the program includes a 15-month internship with industry partners.
Immerse Delaware will be the second innovation hub of its kind that Waters is investing in creating, after Immerse Cambridge, which opened in September 2020 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The new Delaware lab will feature a purpose-built research test bed, with a focus on leveraging liquid chromatography, mass spectrometry and adjacent technologies to support bioprocess engineers' empirical data in the areas of process and informatics. Through these analytical solutions and data- and process-based approach, researchers will be able to better characterize bioprocesses, accelerate and enhance biologic selections and improve process control to ultimately improve product quality, yield and process efficiency.
Initial projects at Immerse Delaware will focus on gaining a deeper understanding of novel methods for quantifying and ultimately minimizing process-related impurities from uncontrolled glycosylation, which negatively impacts drug efficacy. These will be paired with informatic solutions to predict the evolution of biotherapeutic products.
In addition to investing in Immerse Delaware, Waters has furthered its commitment to biopharmaceutical innovation by joining the National Institute for Innovation in Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals. Located on UD's STAR Campus, NIIMBL is a public-private partnership with the mission to accelerate biopharmaceutical innovation, support the development of standards that enable more efficient and rapid manufacturing capabilities, and educate and train a world-leading biopharmaceutical manufacturing workforce to fundamentally advance U.S. competitiveness in this industry.
About Waters Corporation
Waters Corporation, the world's leading specialty measurement company, has pioneered chromatography, mass spectrometry, and thermal analysis innovations serving the life, materials, food and environmental sciences for more than 60 years. With more than 7,400 employees worldwide, Waters operates directly in 35 countries, including 14 manufacturing facilities, and with products available in more than 100 countries.

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Queer Eye season three is officially on its way, after a trailer for the Netflix show was unveiled featuring a brand new song from Carly Rae Jepsen.
The hit show was renewed for a third season by Netflix last year. The new series will be eight episodes long and will be based in Kansas City, Missouri. The first two seasons saw the group of gurus based in Atlanta, Georgia.
'Now That I Found You' follows Jepsen's euphoric break-up banger 'Party For One', released back in November.
Queer Eye picked up a whopping four Emmy nominations for its first season. Season 2, which was released in June 2018, unfortunately missed the cut-off but will be eligible next year.
According to the streaming platform, "the Fab Five will work with local tastemakers to make-better a new group of heroes, while they learn and experience Japanese cuisine, fashion, design, grooming and culture firsthand in a four-episode special." The episodes will air separately from the main series.


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[S102] Annie Haven Thwing, Inhabitants of the Town of Boston, 27052.
[S83] NEHGR, Vol. 44 p. 57 c.f. which gives an incorrect date.
[S205] Newspaper, Independent Chronicle, 16 January1809.
[S205] Newspaper, New-England Palladium, 17 January 1809.
Rev. Samuel Cooper D.D. was born on 28 March 1725 in Boston, Massachusetts.2 He was the son of Rev. William Cooper D.D. and Judith Sewall.1 Rev. Samuel Cooper D.D. was baptised on 4 April 1725.2 He graduated in 1743 from Harvard having prepared for college at the Boston Latin School, 1732-39.3 He then studied theology and in 1744 became a colleague of the Rev. Dr. Benjamin Colman, being made assistant pastor of the Brattle Street Church, Boston, Mass., May 21, 1846. He was a member of the Harvard corporation 1767-83, and was elected president of the College in 1774 but declined the position.
He was a vigorous writer in the public press in behalf of the patriot cause and the most positive articles in the Boston Gazette on the Stamp Act and subsequent political usurpations on the part of Great Britain were from his pen.
[S8] John Langdon Sibley, Biographical Sketches, 1659-1677., p. 359.
[S205] Newspaper, Continental Journal, 1 January 1784.
[S83] NEHGR, Vol. 44 p. 53.


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Gmina Mordy is an urban-rural gmina (administrative district) in Siedlce County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. Its seat is the town of Mordy, which lies approximately  east of Siedlce and  east of Warsaw.

The gmina covers an area of , and as of 2006 its total population is 6,284 (out of which the population of Mordy amounts to 1,840, and the population of the rural part of the gmina is 4,444).

Villages
Apart from the town of Mordy, Gmina Mordy contains the villages and settlements of Czepielin, Czepielin-Kolonia, Czołomyje, Doliwo, Głuchów, Klimonty, Kolonia Mordy, Krzymosze, Leśniczówka, Ogrodniki, Olędy, Ostoje, Pieńki, Pióry Wielkie, Pióry-Pytki, Płosodrza, Ptaszki, Radzików Wielki, Radzików-Kornica, Radzików-Oczki, Radzików-Stopki, Rogóziec, Sosenki-Jajki, Stara Wieś, Stok Ruski, Suchodół Wielki, Suchodołek, Wielgorz, Wojnów, Wólka Soseńska, Wólka-Biernaty and Wyczółki.

Neighbouring gminas
Gmina Mordy is bordered by the city of Siedlce and by the gminas of Łosice, Olszanka, Paprotnia, Przesmyki, Siedlce, Suchożebry and Zbuczyn.

References

Polish official population figures 2006

Mordy
Siedlce County

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Just starting my journey into Houdini after years doing Processing, Cinder, oF, trying to learn the basics and figure out certain things I was doing via code, but in Houdini.
First thing I thought I'd try is instancing and I'm already off to a bit of a bad start ha.
I have instances of my geometry all set up with and instance node and I'm trying to pass per-instance attributes to each instance.
However, whenever I call `instancepoint` in an attribute wrangle, Houdini errors out and tells me `instancepoint` is undefined.
Can someone point me in the right direction? As far as I can tell the function hasn't been deprecated or anything like that.
Hi and welcome on odforce planet!
1) pointinstance() is a hscript expression function, not VEX one, so you can't use it in an attribute wrangler.
2) You can't also use it in any parameter in SOP level, as stipulated in docs. It is meant to be used on /obj level to vary instance parameters (mostly xfrom.
3) It's an oldish method dealing with instancing (described here), good for things like planting trees or houses with limited variations and in moderate number. If you want to explore instancing using geometry (points) attributes you might try to play with packet primitives. Here's link with general explanation and here are details about using point attributes to transform packet prims.
4) Strictly speaking the attributes described in last link should work also with the Instance Object (instances will be oriented according to point attributes), but it's less interactive than using CopytoPointSOP and packet prims. Technically instances generated by InstanceOBJ are evaluated in soho prior to render phase, and support for them in the viewport is limited. Bottom line is: packet prims == more fun.
ps setting transformation attribute in VEX can be done "manually" as described in last link or more in common with CopytoPointSOP with new instance() method.
AH.. gotcha, that unfortunately wasn't immediately clear.
Thanks for taking the time to explain things!


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Beth Anthony left Cleveland, Ohio in 2004 to work a ski season in Vail and never looked back. She was the worst ski bum in the whole town until 2009, when she made her move to enchanting Santa Fe after losing an aggravating upscale retail job. She's currently working on a collection of poems about her adventures in Kent, Ohio, where she collaborated in dance and performance art groups and made films.
Kelby Lee Bailey is a New Jersey native specializing in acrylic abstract portraiture. He is heavily influenced by Andy Warhol and Amedeo Modigliani. When not busy, he volunteers at local organizations, including The Contemporary Austin and Dress for Success. Kelby's 'XXXL' and 'Twisted' explore themes such as disease, mortality, and the claustrophobic nature of codependency.
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Brittney Beauregard is a student at the Santa Fe Community College. She has a passion for photography, especially capturing the beauty of the macro world and her two very photogenic cats.
Connor Bjotvedt is a Graduate MFA student at Spalding University. He was awarded the Charles E. Bull Creative Writing Scholarship for Poetry in 2015 by Northern Arizona University, where he received a BA in English Literature and Creative Writing. His work has appeared in Rain Taxi, Three Line Poetry, Haiku Journal, 50 Haiku, and The Wayfarer.
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Arianna Borgeson is a graduate of California Institute of the Arts and a recent transplant to New Mexico. She has edited photos for sets of films, TV shows, and commercials such as Jason Bourne, Krystal, Geostorm, and more. Her own films and writings stretch across genres, and her videos have been exhibited at Digital Arts Expo, Chicago ArtBash, and LACDA. When she's not working on films, Borgeson enjoys playing roller derby.
John Davis is the author of Gigs and The Reservist. His work has appeared in DMQ Review, Iron Horse Literary Review, One and Poetry Northwest. He teaches high school and performs in rock and roll and blue bands.
Behzad Dayeny is a Poetic Chef from Iran. The director of Food Services at Santa Fe Community College, he has been living in Santa Fe since 1984.
Micah Espina is an art history student, aspiring novelist, and story enthusiast who grew up partly in Santa Fe and partly in New England. This will be his first published work; more to come, eventually. Some of Micah's writing can be found online at corvidscribe.deviantart.com.
David Feela has authored a prize-winning chapbook, Thought Experiments, and a full length poetry collection, The Home Atlas. His book of essays, How Delicate These Arches, was chosen as a finalist for the Colorado Book Award. He lives in Cortez, Colorado, and works as a columnist for the Durango Telegraph and the Four Corners Free Press.
Paula Goldman's book, The Great Canopy, won the Gival Poetry award, and was a semifinalist for the Independent Booksellers' Award. Her work has appeared in Oyez Review, Slant, Passager, Ekphrasis, Rattle, Prairie Schooner, Manhattanville Review, Cream City Review, Comstock Review, Harvard Review, The North American Review, Poet Lore, Poet Miscellany, and other magazines. Her poems have appeared in Boomer Girls, published by the University of Iowa Press; The Party Train: A Collection of North American Prose Poetry, published by New Rivers Press; and most recently, Conversation Pieces, published by Knopf.
Gabe Gomez has two published books of poetry, The Outer Bands, winner of the Andres Montoya Poetry Prize (University of Notre Dame Press), and The Seed Bank. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
James Gould is a long-time resident of New Mexico, where he explores several art forms and shares his creative spark through teaching woodcarving in the School of Art and Design at the Santa Fe Community College.


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Notable rereleases
by Arsenio Orteza
Posted 4/25/19, 03:12 pm
The Sweet Primeroses
Shirley Collins
The universal emotions at their core are why the songs on this 1967 recording are called "folk" songs. Her voice and the way that she used it are why Shirley Collins is called a "folk" singer: Unafflicted by vibrato or exemplary breath control, she sounds as common as a miller's daughter, albeit one whose sister has mastered the rudiments of the pipe organ. The tacked-on four-song EP that brings this reissue's track total to 20 proves that Collins used her voice the same way in 1963.
A unique tilt
Music | Scott Walker made songs like nobody else
On April 1, The New York Times published a story titled "'Blurred Lines' on Their Minds, Songwriters Create Nervously." It detailed the anxiety besetting pop composers in the wake of recent plagiarism lawsuits in which courts have sided with the plaintiffs and thereby lowered the burden of proof to the point that almost any song might be actionable.
And, despite its publication date, the story was no joke.
Coherent complexity
Music | Passion oratorio assumes and rewards an intelligent and patient audience
Gabriel Jackson's The Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ is not by any means an "easy" work. Irregular rhythms jostle with mercurial dynamics. Orchestral instruments respond to the calls of operatic soloists who soar and dip amid or atop choral vocals. Sounds begin in mimesis and end in abstraction. Form yields to content, adapts, then yields again, creating phantasmagoric effects.
Arsenio Orteza | 4/11/19, 03:22 pm
Here's the Steeple
Recent Christian albums
Jeff Koch | 4/11/19, 03:10 pm
Holy One
Michael & Becci Ball
Songs for the people
Arts | The New York Philharmonic hosts a night for nonprofit workers, complete with an 11-year-old composer
Emily Belz | 4/09/19, 12:37 pm
A New York moment:
The New York Philharmonic unbuttoned its top button last Friday and hosted a very blue-collar night at the symphony, offering $5 tickets to those who worked in nonprofits across the city. I got to join the party, where instead of martini-drenched season ticket holders, the concert hall filled with symphony neophytes taking selfies and clapping uproariously after every movement. It was pure fun.
Songs From Robin Hood Lane
Alex Chilton
Words with jazz
Music | Ken Nordine spoke to "that muscle in the mind"
Ken Nordine, the possessor of one of the greatest speaking voices ever committed to tape, died in February. He was 98.
Nordine first went public in the late 1950s and early 1960s with a series of spoken-word recordings for Dot Records. The titles of three of them—Word Jazz, Son of Word Jazz, and Word Jazz Vol. II—minted the catchphrase with which he would henceforth be identified.
New or recent albums
FYAH
Theon Cross
The busy rhythms established by the drummer Moses Boyd justify the references on Cross' Bandcamp page to "modern grime and trap" as surely as the tightly coiled honking of the saxophonists Nubya Garcia and Wayne Francis justify the references to "stretching and re-shaping the boundaries" of jazz. But what's really doing the stretching and reshaping is Cross' tuba. Usurping the role normally assigned to the bass, it fattens the music's bottom with meaningful oompahs and blats. On the skittering "Candace of Meroe," it beggars description.
Somber portents
Music | The Mask in the Mirror explores a tragic historical romance
Insofar as contemporary drama and Black History Month coincided this year, the films Black KkKlansman and Black Panther sucked much of the air out of the room.
But a richer, more challenging, and more universal "black history" story can be found in the Sanaa Opera Project's just-released recording of The Mask in the Mirror (Navona), a three-act opera by the Scottish-born third-stream composer and jazz pianist Richard Thompson.
Making it up
Music | The Boss fails to convince in his Western Stars personae
Notable new releases
Music When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? Billie Ei
Bolden and beyond
Music Albums by Wynton and Branford Marsalis evocatively trace the evolution of jazz
Notable new CDs
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Many questioned whether it would work, but Maple Leaf Foods says open housing is a superior way to raise sows — and will have that system in all of its barns years before it becomes mandatory.
"This is part of our vision to be the most sustainable protein company on Earth — part of that is better care for animals," said Greg Douglas, a veterinarian who is the company's vice-president of animal care.
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Under the National Code of Practice for the Care and Handling of Pigs, open housing has been mandatory for all new sow barns in the country since 2014. Existing ones were given until 2024 to convert to open housing, but Maple Leaf Foods is already using the system for 40,000 of its 70,000-pig herd. Retrofitting barns has cost the company about $55 million, with most using 'static' systems, in which sows enter a barn in groups of 40 to 60, are bred at the same time, and farrow together. Since they are kept together all the time, the animals get to know each other — and so do their handlers.
"I know it might sound soft, but they get to develop relationships with the animals, see how they are doing, and follow their progress," said Douglas. "They can see them without being inside crates and up against bars and the like. They can see their faces and their eyes. It's the better way to provide care. I think people want to operate in these systems and appreciate it."
Its workers like open sow housing and are better able to care for the animals, says Maple Leaf Foods VP Greg Douglas.
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The company regularly conducts employee surveys, and no one says they would want to go back to gestation stalls, he said.
Maple Leaf began researching various open sow housing systems used around the world a decade ago, and started transitioning five years ago.
Skeptics predicted there would be a big jump in aggression in loose housing systems, but Douglas said he has seen very little of that.
"If you have aggression or too much aggression, then you have a density issue," he said. "Our barns are very quiet. We don't see much aggression past an odd squeal. It is no more than we would see in a variety of scenarios."
Rather, open housing has improved outcomes because workers know the pigs better, he said.
"They get to spend more time with the animals and see how they're doing from an animal health standpoint in terms of disease, lameness and give them better care," said Douglas. "It's had all kinds of benefits from our standpoint."
In Maple Leaf's open housing system, there is little confinement for the sow. Some of that is because of new technologies, such as mobile ultrasound for detecting pregnancies.
"It gives us an opportunity to not house them inside crates while we can still manage them and follow their gestation along," said Douglas. "Sometimes we made these things more complex with what we thought were highly managed systems with the animals all in crates, when in fact we can be more precise with other systems."
All Maple Leaf sows in open housing reside in Manitoba, which is also home to one of its processing plants. But the company also has a plant in Lethbridge and company officials regularly meet with contract producers in Alberta to talk about transportation, responsible antibiotic use, and animal care.
"And as we have those chats, they start to understand that the future is in higher welfare, sow-friendly systems and more of them are looking to projects like the national sow housing project," said Douglas.
Maple Leaf Foods has rebuilt 31 barns so far. Animals are sent to a training facility during the rebuild to acclimate both pigs and staff to the new system and individual electronic feeders. (The feeders prevent a competitive feeding environment while giving control over each pig's ration.)
"We can monitor whether one animal picks up on the new system right away or if another animal takes a lot longer to learn the system," Douglas said. "We will monitor that with computers, where we can tell which animals go through the system, and then if an animal needs more time or if it needs human help to show it the way, then we do that."
Some barns have been retrofitted twice. A year and a half into the conversions, the company opted for what it describes as an "advanced open sow housing system," which it says has cut down breeding stall time to seven to nine days (from more than a month previously). The company returned to refit the already converted barns.
It is also using high welfare trailers, which is essentially a truck with an elevator. The whole floor is an elevator that moves up by cables.
"As soon as (one floor) is full, the hydraulics take it up to the third level," said Douglas. "It happens again on the second level. And then we load the lower level, and then when we get to the destination or the plant, the reverse happens."
This means handlers no longer need to push animals up ramps, the pigs are no longer slipping or sliding on ramps, and there's less stress on workers loading or unloading them.
The company's new approach to animal welfare "takes a completely different mindset," said Douglas.
"This is a journey really. We'll be trying all kinds of new technology in the future."
– With files from Glacier FarmMedia reporter Alexis Stockford
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Srimad Bhagavatam: Canto 06, Chapter 14 – King Citraketu's Lamentation
02. King Citraketu had ________ wives
c) 1 million
d) 10 million
01. Vrtrasura although being a demon, attained such exalted love for the Supreme Personality of Godhead _______
a) Because Vrtrasura was the son of Tvasta who was a great devotee
b) Because Vrtrasura was the brother of Vishvarup
c) Because Vrtrasura was King Citraketu in his previous birth who was then a great devotee
05. The sage Angira was pleased with King Citraketu because the King ________
a) Exhibited quality of humility
b) Exhibited the quality of hospitality
c) Exhibited the quality of sense control
03. Reason for King Citraketu's anxiety and lamentation was ________
a) He was deformed
b) He did not have any children
c) None of his queens were beautiful
d) He always wanted more wealth and fame and prestige
04. A powerful sage _________ visited the palace of King Citraketu
a) Agastya
b) Vasista
c) Angira
d) Jamadagni
06. King Citraketu was desperate to have a son because _______
a) He loved male children
b) He wanted a son who could deliver himself and his forefathers from the darkness of hell
c) He wanted to conquer other neighboring kingdoms
d) Having a son was a sign of prestige
07. The remnants of the food offered in the Yajna were given by the great sage Angira to ________
a) The first most perfect queen Krtadyuti
b) All of Citraketu's queens
c) To the first 10 principal queens
d) To a cow
08. The other wives seeing Krtadyuti's son were ________
a) Agitated
b) Envious
c) Unhappy
09. Unable to tolerate the King Citraketu's neglect and Krtadyuti's happiness, the other queens ________
a) Left the palace
b) Administered poison to the son
c) Killed the King
d) Killed Krtadyuti
10. King Citraketu and his wife when were doomed in great grief and were thus lamenting, approached ________
a) Angira Muni
b) Narada Muni
c) Both a and b
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\section{Introduction}
\label{sect-introduction}

In~\cite{BT07a}, meadows are proposed as alternatives for fields with a
purely equational specification.
A meadow is a commutative ring with identity and a total multiplicative
inverse operation satisfying two equations which imply that the
multiplicative inverse of zero is zero.
Thus, meadows are total algebras.
Recently, we found in~\cite{Ono83a} that meadows were already introduced
by Komori~\cite{Kom75a} in a report from 1975, where they go by the name
of \emph{desirable pseudo-fields}.
This finding induced us to propose the name \emph{Komori field} for a
meadow satisfying $0 \neq 1$ and $x \neq 0 \Implies x \mmul x\minv = 1$
(see~\cite{BM09h}).
The prime example of Komori fields is the field of rational numbers with
the multiplicative inverse operation made total by imposing that the
multiplicative inverse of zero is zero.

In~\cite{BM09g}, we renamed meadows to inversive meadows and introduced
divisive meadows as inversive meadows with the multiplicative inverse
operation replaced by a division operation.
We also introduced simple constructions of variants of inversive and
divisive meadows with a partial multiplicative or division operation.
Moreover, we took a survey of logics of partial functions, but did not
succeed in determining their adequacy for reasoning about the partial
variants of meadows.
This made us reflect on the way in which mathematicians deal with
$1 \mdiv 0$ and how that way relates to the viewpoint, reflected in the
partial variants of meadows, that $1 \mdiv 0$ is undefined.

In the current paper, we give a simple account of how mathematicians
deal with $1 \mdiv 0$ in mathematical works.
Dominating in this account is the concept of an imperative Komori field,
a concept in which a customary convention among mathematicians plays a
prominent part.
We also make plausible that a convincing account, starting from the
usual viewpoint of theoretical computer scientists that $1 \mdiv 0$ is
undefined, by means of some logic of partial functions is not
\linebreak[2] attainable.

It is quite usual that neither the division operator nor the
multiplicative inverse operator is included in the signature of number
systems such as the field of rational numbers and the field of real
numbers.
However, the abundant use of the division operator in mathematical
practice makes it very reasonable to include the division operator, or
alternatively the multiplicative inverse operator, in the signature.
It appears that excluding both of them creates more difficulties than
that it solves.
At the least, the problem of division by zero cannot be avoided by
excluding $1 \mdiv 0$ from being written.

This paper is organized as follows.
First, we discuss the main prevailing viewpoints on the status of $1
\mdiv 0$ in mathematics and theoretical computer science
(Section~\ref{sect-viewpoints-div-by-zero}).
Next, we give a brief summary of meadows and Komori fields
(Section~\ref{sect-KF}).
After that, we introduce partial Komori fields and imperative Komori
fields (Section~\ref{sect-PKF-IKF}) and discuss the convention that is
involved in imperative Komori fields (Section~\ref{sect-RDC-discussed}).
Then, we make plausible the inadequacy of logics of partial functions
for a convincing account of how mathematicians deal with $1 \mdiv 0$
(Section~\ref{sect-inadequacy-LPF}).
Finally, we make some concluding remarks
(Section~\ref{sect-conclusions}).

\section{Viewpoints on the Status of $1 \mdiv 0$}
\label{sect-viewpoints-div-by-zero}

In this section, we shortly discuss two prevailing viewpoints on the
status of $1 \mdiv 0$ in mathematics and one prevailing viewpoint on
the status of $1 \mdiv 0$ in theoretical computer science.
To our knowledge, the viewpoints in question are the main prevailing
viewpoints.
We take the case of the rational numbers, the case of the real numbers
being essentially the same.

One prevailing viewpoint in mathematics is that $1 \mdiv 0$ has no
meaning because $1$ cannot be divided by $0$.
The argumentation for this viewpoint rests on the fact that there is no
rational number $z$ such that $0 \mmul z = 1$.
Moreover, in mathematics, syntax is not prior to semantics and posing
the question ``what is $1 \mdiv 0$'' is not justified by the mere
existence of $1 \mdiv 0$ as a syntactic object.
Given the fact that there is no rational number that mathematicians
intend to denote by $1 \mdiv 0$, this means that there is no need to
assign a meaning to $1 \mdiv 0$.

Another prevailing viewpoint in mathematics is that the use of
$1 \mdiv 0$ is simply disallowed because the intention to divide $1$ by
$0$ is non-existent in mathematical practice.
This viewpoint can be regarded as a liberal form of the previous one:
the rejection of the possibility that $1 \mdiv 0$ has a meaning is
circumvented by disallowing the use of $1 \mdiv 0$.
Admitting that $1 \mdiv 0$ has a meaning, such as $0$ or ``undefined'',
is consistent with this viewpoint.

The prevailing viewpoint in theoretical computer science is that the
meaning of $1 \mdiv 0$ is ``undefined'' because division is a partial
function.
Division is identified as a partial function because there is no
rational number $z$ such that $0 \mmul z = 1$.
This viewpoint presupposes that the use of $1 \mdiv 0$ should be
allowed, for otherwise assigning a meaning to $1 \mdiv 0$ does not make
sense.
Although this viewpoint is more liberal than the previous one, it is
remote from ordinary mathematical practice.
This will be illustrated in Section~\ref{sect-inadequacy-LPF}.

The first of the two prevailing viewpoints in mathematics discussed
above only leaves room for very informal concepts of expression,
calculation, proof, substitution, etc.
For that reason, we refrain from considering that viewpoint any further.

The prevailing viewpoint in theoretical computer science corresponds to
two of the partial meadows of rational numbers obtained from the
inversive and divisive meadows of rational numbers by a simple
construction in~\cite{BM09g}.
Because $0 \neq 1$ and $x \neq 0 \Implies x \mmul x\minv = 1$ are
satisfied, the latter are also called Komori fields of rational numbers
and the former are also called partial Komori fields of rational
numbers.

The prevailing viewpoint in mathematics considered further in this paper
corresponds to the inversive and divisive meadows of rational numbers
together with an imperative about the use of the multiplicative inverse
operator and division operator, respectively.
These combinations are called imperative Komori fields.

\section{Meadows and Komori Fields}
\label{sect-KF}

In this section, we give a brief summary of meadows and Komori fields.

The signature of inversive meadows consists of the following constants
and operators:
\begin{itemize}
\item
the constants $0$ and $1$;
\item
the binary \emph{addition} operator ${} +$ {};
\item
the binary \emph{multiplication} operator ${} \mmul {}$;
\item
the unary \emph{additive inverse} operator $- {}$;
\item
the unary \emph{multiplicative inverse} operator ${}\minv$.
\end{itemize}
We use infix notation for the binary operators, prefix notation for the
unary operator $- {}$, and postfix notation for the unary operator
${}\minv$.
Moreover, we use the usual precedence convention to reduce the need for
parentheses.

The set of all terms over the signature of inversive meadows constitutes
the \emph{inversive meadow notation}.

An inversive meadow is an algebra over the signature of inversive
meadows that satisfies the equations given in
Tables~\ref{eqns-commutative-ring} and~\ref{eqns-add-inversive-meadow}.%
\begin{table}[!t]
\caption{Axioms of a commutative ring with identity}
\label{eqns-commutative-ring}
\begin{eqntbl}
\begin{eqncol}
(x + y) + z = x + (y + z)                                             \\
x + y = y + x                                                         \\
x + 0 = x                                                             \\
x + (-x) = 0
\end{eqncol}
\qquad\quad
\begin{eqncol}
(x \mmul y) \mmul z = x \mmul (y \mmul z)                             \\
x \mmul y = y \mmul x                                                 \\
x \mmul 1 = x                                                         \\
x \mmul (y + z) = x \mmul y + x \mmul z
\end{eqncol}
\end{eqntbl}
\end{table}
\begin{table}[!t]
\caption{Additional axioms for an inversive meadow}
\label{eqns-add-inversive-meadow}
\begin{eqntbl}
\begin{eqncol}
(x\minv)\minv = x                                                   \\
x \mmul (x \mmul x\minv) = x
\end{eqncol}
\end{eqntbl}
\end{table}
The equations given in Table~\ref{eqns-commutative-ring} are the axioms
of a commutative ring with identity.
From the equations given in Tables~\ref{eqns-commutative-ring}
and~\ref{eqns-add-inversive-meadow}, the equation $0\minv = 0$ is
derivable.

Henceforth, we will write $\sigimd$ for the signature of inversive
meadows and $\eqnsimd$ for the set of axioms for inversive meadows.

A \emph{inversive Komori field} is an inversive meadow that satisfies
the \emph{separation axiom} $0 \neq 1$ and
the \emph{general inverse law} $x \neq 0 \Implies x \mmul x\minv = 1$.

The inversive Komori field that we are most interested in is $\Ratzi$,
the inversive Komori field of rational numbers:%
\footnote
{We write $I(\Sigma,E)$ for the initial algebra among the algebras
 over the signature $\Sigma$ that satisfy the equations $E$
 (see e.g.~\cite{BT87a}).}
\pagebreak[2]
\begin{ldispl}
\Ratzi =
I(\sigimd,\eqnsimd \union
  \set{(1 + x^2 + y^2) \mmul (1 + x^2 + y^2)\minv = 1})\;.
\end{ldispl}
$\Ratzi$ differs from the field of rational numbers only in that the
multiplicative inverse of zero is zero.

The signature of divisive meadows is the signature of inversive meadows
with the unary multiplicative inverse operator ${}\minv$ replaced by:
\begin{itemize}
\item
the binary \emph{division} operator ${} \mdiv {}$.
\end{itemize}

The set of all terms over the signature of divisive meadows constitutes
the \emph{divisive meadow notation}.

A divisive meadow is an algebra over the signature of divisive
meadows that satisfies the equations given in
Tables~\ref{eqns-commutative-ring} and~\ref{eqns-add-divisive-meadow}.%
\begin{table}[!t]
\caption{Additional axioms for a divisive meadow}
\label{eqns-add-divisive-meadow}
\begin{eqntbl}
\begin{eqncol}
1 \mdiv (1 \mdiv x) = x                                               \\
(x \mmul x) \mdiv x = x                                               \\
x \mdiv y = x \mmul (1 \mdiv y)
\end{eqncol}
\end{eqntbl}
\end{table}

Henceforth, we will write $\sigdmd$ for the signature of divisive
meadows and $\eqnsdmd$ for the set of axioms for divisive meadows.

A \emph{divisive Komori field} is an divisive meadow that satisfies
the \emph{separation axiom} $0 \neq 1$ and
the \emph{general division law} $x \neq 0 \Implies x \mdiv x = 1$.

The divisive Komori field that we are most interested in is $\Ratzd$,
the divisive Komori field of rational numbers:
\begin{ldispl}
\Ratzd =
I(\sigdmd,\eqnsdmd \union
  \set{(1 + x^2 + y^2) \mdiv (1 + x^2 + y^2) = 1})\;.
\end{ldispl}
$\Ratzd$ differs from $\Ratzi$ only in that the multiplicative inverse
operation is replaced by a division operation such that
$x \mdiv y = x \mmul y\minv$.

\section{Partial Komori Fields and Imperative Komori Fields}
\label{sect-PKF-IKF}

In this section, we introduce partial inversive and divisive Komori
fields and imperative inversive and divisive Komori fields.

Let $\cK_i$ be an inversive Komori field.
Then it make sense to construct one partial inversive Komori field from
$\cK_i$:
\begin{itemize}
\item
$0\minv \punch \cK_i$ is the partial algebra that is obtained from
$\cK_i$ by making $0\minv$ undefined.
\end{itemize}
Let $\cK_d$ be a divisive Komori field.
Then it make sense to construct two partial divisive Komori fields from
$\cK_d$:
\begin{itemize}
\item
$\Quant \mdiv 0 \punch \cK_d$ is the partial algebra that is obtained
from $\cK_d$ by making\linebreak[2] $q \mdiv 0$ undefined for all $q$ in
the domain of $\cK_d$;
\item
$(\Quant \diff \set{0}) \mdiv 0 \punch \cK_d$ is the partial algebra
that is obtained from $\cK_d$ by\linebreak[2] making $q \mdiv 0$
undefined for all $q$ in the domain of $\cK_d$ different from $0$.
\end{itemize}
$(\Quant \diff \set{0}) \mdiv 0 \punch \cK_d$ expresses a view on the
partiality of division by zero that cannot be expressed if only
multiplicative inverse is available.

The partial Komori field constructions are special cases of a
more general partial algebra construction for which we have coined the
term \emph{punching} in~\cite{BM09g}.
Presenting the details of the general construction is outside the scope
of the current paper.

The partial Komori fields that we are most interested in are the ones
that can be obtained from $\Ratzi$ and $\Ratzd$ by means of the partial
Komori field constructions introduced above.
It yields three partial Komori fields of rational numbers:
\begin{ldispl}
\begin{eqncol}
0\minv \punch \Ratzi\;,
\qquad
\Quant \mdiv 0 \punch \Ratzd\;,
\qquad
(\Quant \diff \set{0}) \mdiv 0 \punch \Ratzd\;.
\end{eqncol}
\end{ldispl}

Notice that these partial algebras have been obtained by means of the
well-known initial algebra construction and a straightforward partial
algebra construction.
This implies that only equational logic for total algebras has been used
as a logical tool for their construction.

The first two of the partial Komori fields of rational numbers
introduced above correspond most closely to the prevailing viewpoint on
the status of $1 \mdiv 0$ in theoretical computer science that is
mentioned in Section~\ref{sect-viewpoints-div-by-zero}.
In the sequel, we will focus on $\Quant \mdiv 0 \punch \Ratzd$ because
the divisive notation is used more often than the inversive notation.

An imperative Komori field of rational numbers is a Komori field of
rational numbers together with an imperative to comply with a very
strong convention with regard to the use of the multiplicative inverse
or division operator.

Like with the partial Komori field of rational numbers, we introduce
three imperative Komori fields of rational numbers:
\begin{itemize}
\item
$0\minv \imper \Ratzi$ is $\Ratzi$ together with the imperative to
comply with the convention that $q\minv$ is not used with $q = 0$;
\item
$\Quant \mdiv 0 \imper \Ratzd$ is $\Ratzd$ together with the
imperative to comply with the convention that $p \mdiv q$ is not used
with $q = 0$;
\item
$(\Quant \diff \set{0}) \mdiv 0 \imper \Ratzd$ is $\Ratzd$ together
with the imperative to comply with the convention that $p \mdiv q$ is
not used with $q = 0$ if $p \neq 0$.
\end{itemize}
The conventions are called the \emph{relevant inversive convention},
the \emph{relevant division convention} and
the \emph{liberal relevant division convention}, respectively.

The conventions are very strong in the settings in which they must be
complied with.
For example, the relevant division convention is not complied with if
the question ``what is $1 \mdiv 0$'' is posed.
Using $1 \mdiv 0$ is disallowed, although we know that $1 \mdiv 0 = 0$
in~$\Ratzd$.

The first two of the imperative Komori fields of rational numbers
introduced above correspond most closely to the second of the two
prevailing viewpoints on the status of $1 \mdiv 0$ in mathematics
that are mentioned in Section~\ref{sect-viewpoints-div-by-zero}.
In the sequel, we will focus on $\Quant \mdiv 0 \imper \Ratzd$ because
the divisive notation is used more often than the inversive notation.

Komori fields go by the name of non-trivial cancellation meadows in
previous work (see e.g.~\cite{BM09g}).
Therefore, we take the names partial non-trivial cancellation meadow
and imperative non-trivial cancellation meadow as alternatives for
partial Komori field and imperative Komori field, respectively.

\section{Discussion on the Relevant Division Convention}
\label{sect-RDC-discussed}

In this section, we discuss the relevant division convention, i.e.\ the
convention that plays a prominent part in imperative Komori fields.

The existence of the relevant division convention can be explained by
assuming a context in which two phases are distinguished: a definition
phase and a working phase.
A mathematician experiences these phases in this order.
In the definition phase, the status of $1 \mdiv 0$ is dealt with
thoroughly so as to do away with the necessity of reflection upon it
later on.
As a result, $\Ratzd$ and the relevant division convention come up.
In the working phase, $\Ratzd$ is simply used in compliance with the
relevant division convention when producing mathematical texts.
Questions relating to $1 \mdiv 0$ are understood as being part of the
definition phase, and thus taken out of mathematical practice.
This corresponds to a large extent with how mathematicians work.

In the two phase context outlined above, the definition phase can be
made formal and logical whereas the results of this can be kept out of
the working phase.
Indeed, in mathematical practice, we find a world where logic does not
apply and where validity of work is not determined by the intricate
details of a very specific formal definition but rather by the consensus
obtained by a group of readers and writers.

Whether a mathematical text, including definitions, questions, answers,
conjectures and proofs, complies with the relevant division convention
is a judgement that depends on the mathematical knowledge of the reader
and writer.
For example, $\Forall{x}{(x^2 + 1) \mdiv (x^2 + 1) = 1}$ complies with
the relevant division convention because the reader and writer of it
both know that $\Forall{x}{x^2 + 1 \neq 0}$.

Whether a mathematical text complies with the relevant division
convention may be judged differently even with sufficient mathematical
knowledge.
This is illustrated by the following mathematical text, where $>$ is the
usual ordering on the set of rational numbers:
\begin{quote}
\textbf{Theorem.}\,\,
If $p \mdiv q = 7$ then
$\displaystyle \frac{q^2 + p \mdiv q - 7}{q^4 + 1} > 0$.

\textit{Proof.}\,\,
Because $q^4 + 1 > 0$, it is sufficient to show that
$q^2 + p \mdiv q - 7 > 0$.
It follows from $p \mdiv q = 7$ that $q^2 + p \mdiv q - 7 = q^2$,
and $q^2 > 0$ because $q \neq 0$ (as $p \mdiv q = 7$). \qed
\end{quote}
Reading from left to right, it cannot be that first $p \mdiv q$ is used
while knowing that $q \neq 0$ and that later on $q \neq 0$ is inferred
from the earlier use of $p \mdiv q$.
However, it might be said that the first occurrence of the text fragment
$p \mdiv q = 7$ introduces the knowledge
that $q \neq 0$ at the right time, i.e.\ only after it has been entirely
read.

The possibility of different judgements with sufficient mathematical
knowledge looks to be attributable to the lack of a structure theory of
mathematical text.
However, with a formal structure theory of mathematical text, we still
have to deal with the fact that compliance with the relevant division
convention is undecidable.

The imperative to comply with the relevant division conventions boils
down to the disallowance of the use of $1 \mdiv 0$,
$1 \mdiv (1 + (-1))$, etcetera in mathematical text.
The usual explanation for this is the non-existence of a $z$ such that
$0 \mmul z = 1$.
This makes the legality of $1 \mdiv 0$ comparable to the legality of
$\sum_{m = 1}^\infty 1 \mdiv m$, because of the non-existence of the
limit of $\tup{\sum_{m = 1}^{n+1} 1 \mdiv m}_{n \in \Nat}$.
However, a mathematical text may contain the statement
``$\sum_{m = 1}^\infty 1 \mdiv m$ is divergent''.
That is, the use of $\sum_{m = 1}^\infty 1 \mdiv m$ is not disallowed.
So the fact that there is no rational number that mathematicians intend
to denote by an expression does not always lead to the disallowance of
its use.

In the case of $1 \mdiv 0$, there is no rational number that
mathematicians intend to denote by $1 \mdiv 0$, there is no real number
that mathematicians intend to denote by $1 \mdiv 0$, there is no complex
number that mathematicians intend to denote by $1 \mdiv 0$, etcetera.
A slightly different situation arises with $\sqrt{2}$: there is no
rational number that mathematicians intend to denote by $\sqrt{2}$, but
there is a real number that mathematicians intend to denote by
$\sqrt{2}$.
It is plausible that the relevant division convention has emerged
because there is no well-known extension of the field of rational
numbers with a number that mathematicians intend to denote by
$1 \mdiv 0$.

\section{Partial Komori Fields and Logics of Partial Functions}
\label{sect-inadequacy-LPF}

In this section, we adduce arguments in support of the statement that
partial Komori fields together with logics of partial functions do not
quite explain how mathematicians deal with $1 \mdiv 0$ in mathematical
works.
It needs no explaining that a real proof of this statement is out of the
question.
However, we do not preclude the possibility that more solid arguments
exist.
Moreover, as it stands, it is possible that our argumentation leaves
room for controversy.

In the setting of a logic of partial functions, there may be terms whose
value is undefined.
Such terms are called non-denoting terms.
Moreover, often three truth values, corresponding to true, false and
neither-true-nor-false, are considered.
These truth values are denoted by $\True$, $\False$, and $\Undef$,
respectively.

In logics of partial functions, three different kinds of equality are
found (see e.g.~\cite{MR91a,BM09g}).
They only differ in their treatment of non-denoting terms:
\begin{itemize}
\item
\emph{weak equality}: if either $t$ or $t'$ is non-denoting, then the
truth value of $t = t'$ is $\Undef$;
\item
\emph{strong equality}: if either $t$ or $t'$ is non-denoting, then the
truth value of $t = t'$ is $\True$ whenever both $t$ and $t'$ are
non-denoting and $\False$ otherwise;
\item
\emph{existential equality}: if either $t$ or $t'$ is non-denoting, then
the truth value of $t = t'$ is $\False$.
\end{itemize}

With strong equality, the truth value of $1 \mdiv 0 = 1 \mdiv 0 + 1$ is
$\True$.
This does not at all fit in with mathematical practice.
With existential equality, the truth value of $1 \mdiv 0 = 1 \mdiv 0$ is
$\False$.
This does not at all fit in with mathematical practice as well.
Weak equality is close to mathematical practice: the truth value of an
equation is neither $\True$ nor $\False$ if a term of the form
$p \mdiv q$ with $q = 0$ occurs in it.

This means that the classical logical connectives and quantifiers must
be extended to the three-valued case.
Many ways of extending them must be considered uninteresting for a logic
of partial functions because they lack an interpretation of the third
truth value that fits in with its origin: dealing with non-denoting
terms.
If those ways are excluded, only four ways to extend the classical
logical connectives to the three-valued case remain
(see e.g.~\cite{BBR95a}).
Three of them are well-known: they lead to Bochvar's strict
connectives~\cite{Boc39a}, McCarthy's sequential
connectives~\cite{McC63a}, and Kleene's monotonic
connectives~\cite{Kle38a}.
The fourth way leads to McCarthy's sequential connectives with the role
of the operands of the binary connectives reversed.

In mathematical practice, the truth value of
$\Forall{x}{x \neq 0 \Implies x \mdiv x = 1}$ is considered $\True$.
Therefore, the truth value of $0 \neq 0 \Implies 0 \mdiv 0 = 1$ is
$\True$ as well.
With Bochvar's connectives, the truth value of this formula is $\Undef$.
With McCarthy's or Kleene's connectives the truth value of this formula
is $\True$.
However, unlike with Kleene's connectives, the truth value of the
seemingly equivalent $0 \mdiv 0 = 1 \Or 0 = 0$ is $\Undef$ with
McCarthy's connectives.
Because this agrees with mathematical practice, McCarthy's connectives
are closest to mathematical practice.

The conjunction and disjunction connectives of Bochvar and the
conjunction and disjunction connectives of Kleene have natural
generalizations to quantifiers, which are called Bochvar's quantifiers
and Kleene's quantifiers, respectively.
Both Bochvar's quantifiers and Kleene's quantifiers can be considered
generalizations of the conjunction and disjunction connectives of
McCarthy.%
\footnote
{In~\cite{KTB91a}, Bochvar's quantifiers are called McCarthy's
 quantifiers, but McCarthy combines his connectives with Kleene's
 quantifiers (see e.g.~\cite{Kle38a}).}

With Kleene's quantifiers, the truth value of
$\Forall{x}{x \mdiv x = 1}$ is $\Undef$ and the truth value of
$\Exists{x}{x \mdiv x = 1}$ is $\True$.
The latter does not at all fit in with mathematical practice.
Bochvar's quantifiers are close to mathematical practice: the truth
value of a quantified formula is neither $\True$ nor $\False$ if a term
of the form $p \mdiv q$ with $q = 0$ occurs in it.

What precedes suggest that mathematical practice is best approximated by
a logic of partial functions with weak equality, McCarthy's connectives
and Bochvar's quantifiers.
We call this logic the \emph{logic of partial meadows}, abbreviated
$\LPMd$.

In order to explain how mathematicians deal with $1 \mdiv 0$ in
mathematical works, we still need the convention that a sentence is not
used if its truth value is neither $\True$ nor $\False$.
We call this convention the \emph{two-valued logic convention}.

$\LPMd$ together with the imperative to comply with the two-valued logic
convention gets us quite far in explaining how mathematicians deal with
$1 \mdiv 0$ in mathematical works.
However, in this setting, not only the truth value of
$0 \neq 0 \Implies 0 \mdiv 0 = 1$ is $\True$, but also the truth value
of $0 = 0 \Or 0 \mdiv 0 = 1$ is $\True$.\linebreak[2]
In our view, the latter does not fit in with how mathematicians deal
with $1 \mdiv 0$ in mathematical works.
Hence, we conclude that $\LPMd$, even together with the imperative to
comply with the two-valued logic convention, fails to provide a
convincing account of how mathematicians deal with $1 \mdiv 0$ in
mathematical works.

\section{Conclusions}
\label{sect-conclusions}

We have given a simple account of how mathematicians deal with
$1 \mdiv 0$ in mathematical works.
Dominating in this account is the concept of an imperative Komori field.
The concept of an imperative Komori field is a special case of the more
general concept of an \emph{imperative algebra}, i.e.\ an algebra
together with the imperative to comply with some convention about its
use.
An example of an imperative algebra is imperative stack algebra: stack
algebra, whose signature consists of $\nm{empty}$, $\nm{push}$,
$\nm{pop}$ and $\nm{top}$, together with the imperative to comply with
the convention that $\nm{top}(s)$ is not used with $s = \nm{empty}$.

Moreover, we have argued that a logic of partial functions with weak
equality, McCarthy's connectives and Bochvar's quantifiers, together
with the imperative to comply with the convention that sentences whose
truth value is neither $\True$ nor $\False$ are not used, approximates
mathematical practice best, but after all fails to provide a convincing
account of how mathematicians deal with $1 \mdiv 0$ in math\-ematical
works.

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Schulze-Makuch's research interests and publications range from life beyond Earth, including planetary protection, hydrobiology, archeology, to cancer. To the viewer he may be best known for his work in astrobiology
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Patents
Removal of Biological Pathogens Using Surfactant Modified Zeolite. Patent No. US 7,311,839 B2. Date of patent: dec. 25, 2007.

Awards
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Academic books
 Life in the Universe: Expectations and Constraints (with L.N. Irwin) (3rd ed.) (2018)
 Life in the Universe: Expectations and Constraints (with L.N. Irwin) (2nd ed.) (2008)
 Life in the Universe: Expectations and Constraints (with L.N. Irwin) (2004)

Popular science books
 The Cosmic Zoo  (2017)
 The Extraterrestrial Encyclopedia  (2nd edition, 2016) (with D. Darling)
 How To Develop The Solar System and Beyond: A Roadmap to Interstellar Space (with A. Sinclair and six more authors) (2012) ASIN B009KWNO02
 Megacatastrophes! Nine Strange Ways the World Could End (with D. Darling) (2012)
 A One Way Mission to Mars: Colonizing the Red Planet (with P. Davies and ten more authors; J.S. Levine, editor) (2011)
 We Are Not Alone: Why We Have Already Found Extraterrestrial Life (with D. Darling) (2010)
 Cosmic Biology: How Life Could Evolve on Other Worlds (with L.N. Irwin) (2010)

Science fiction novel
 Alien Encounter: A Scientific Novel (2nd ed.) (2013)
 Voids of Eternity: Alien Encounter (2009)

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WALLS, GATEPIERS AND STEPS DEFINING THE NORTH AND EAST SIDES OF THE TERRACED GARDENS SOUTH EAST OF THE CONSERVATORY
Copyright IoE Mr Clive Shenton. Source Historic England Archive
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SK 07611 43344
SK 0643-0743 FARLEY C.P. ALTON PARK
12/113 Walls, gatepiers and steps 3/1/67 defining the north and east sides of the terraced gardens south-east of The Conservatory. (Formerly listed as "Garden wall") GV II Walls, gatepiers and steps. Early C19. Ashlar with edged herringbone tooling and smooth faced ashlar coping and piers. Wall lengths of approximately 50 yards to the north and 30 yards to the east with gate piers situated to the north-east at the junction of the 2 walls and the steps to the west end of the north wall. The north wall has a lobed top with a pedestal for a former statue between each lobe. The gatepiers are of square section with panelled sides and are each surmounted by a statuette of a crouching lion. The east wall is ramped down the hillside from the southern gate pier and incorporates an oval openwork motif with tracery in the form of radiating spokes. This item forms part of the important garden layout at Alton Towers (q.v.) which is included at Grade I on the HBMC Gardens Register.
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Updated Sunday, Aug 22 - See details at bottom.
So today, there was another Orlando Sentinel article HERE about Lake County School District candidate JoAnn Jones and her not listing overdue property taxes of $65,000 on several properties on her candidate financial disclosure forms, and she has not made property tax payments on their $700k house since 2008. Her husband told them he would pay the fees today. Jones is a very nice lady and teacher who has consistently claimed she had sound business experience, but this doesn't sound good, especially one week before elections.
I had been getting emails with links to "proof" on this issue for the last week, but it appears the Sentinel verified the information.
Update Aug. 22: The Orlando Sentinel said that Mr. Jones paid $195,000 in overdue back taxes to the County tax collector, leaving only $4200 due on "seven parcels in a sub-division."
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Candidate didn't list $180K in back taxes
By Denise-Marie Balona - Orlando Sentinel
TAVARES — School Board candidate JoAnn Jones and her husband owe about $180,000 in back taxes on several properties they own in Lake, records show.
Jones, a teacher at East Ridge Middle School who's seeking the seat from District 3 in Tuesday's primary election, said on the financial-disclosure form she filed with the local elections office that she owes a combined $2.6 million to several banks.
The form doesn't include $65,000 in property taxes — some as far back as 2003 — that are owed on about a dozen properties owned by the candidate and her husband, Jon D. Jones. They haven't paid taxes since 2008 on their six-bedroom home on a lake in Clermont that's valued at nearly $700,000, according to records from the Lake tax collector and property appraiser's offices.
Jon Jones, who is or was a real-estate developer, also owes at least $113,000 in additional real-estate taxes on numerous other properties in the area, records show.
JoAnn Jones did not return phone calls and e-mails requesting an interview for this story. But her husband left a voice-mail message for the Orlando Sentinel saying he intends to pay their outstanding tax debt today.
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JoAnn Jones didn't include the debts on her financial-disclosure form, a notarized document political candidates must file that includes information about their income, assets, liabilities and other financial interests.
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Unless one of the candidates collects more than half the votes, the top two vote-getters will enter a runoff in the November general election.
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The only thing that is a bit tricky is the way your laptop is partitioned. Let me point you into a direction where you can read more about partitioning.
Never erase a recovery partition as it will help you to put a working windows system back in no time. Unless you do need the space.
I would suggest to install windows 10 where the previous windows was being it 7, 8 or 8.1.
Follow the steps in the movie… see some more movies on youtube and you will be just fine. But as allways BACKUP.
We also go into some settings regarding the privacy during the installation. You can always change them later if you skipped this bit. Read all about the privacy settings in Windows 10 here.
I came across a program that let's you change your privacy settings automatically. This might interest you too? Shutup10 from O&O Software!
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package com.configx.client.listener;

import com.configx.client.item.ConfigItemList;
import com.configx.client.env.VersionPropertySource;
import com.configx.client.item.ConfigItem;
import org.springframework.context.ApplicationEvent;
import org.springframework.core.env.EnumerablePropertySource;

import java.util.List;

public class ConfigItemChangeEvent extends ApplicationEvent {

    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

    private long version;

    private List<ConfigItem> itemList;

    public ConfigItemChangeEvent(Object source, VersionPropertySource<ConfigItemList> versionPropertySource) {
        super(source);
        this.version = versionPropertySource.getVersion();

        EnumerablePropertySource<ConfigItemList> enumerablePropertySource = versionPropertySource.getSource();
        if (enumerablePropertySource != null) {
            ConfigItemList configItemList = enumerablePropertySource.getSource();
            if (configItemList != null) {
                this.itemList = configItemList.getItems();
            }
        }
    }

    public ConfigItemChangeEvent(Object source, long version, List<ConfigItem> itemList) {
        super(source);
        this.version = version;
        this.itemList = itemList;
    }

    public long getVersion() {
        return version;
    }

    public List<ConfigItem> getItemList() {
        return itemList;
    }
}