Second-year swimmer Jonathan Liu has developed a love for poker since coming to campus. He has also taught himself how to play piano in his free time.
Jonathan Liu is a second-year swimmer who swims the breast and butterfly strokes. He loves swimming for the friendships he has formed through the sport and the time management it requires, which keeps him more organized. Although he was an avid video game player in high school, he has found a new hobby since he began at Case Western Reserve University. His favorite quote is a well-known meme that carries more significance to him than it may for other people.
What is your favorite part(s) of being on the swimming team? Why? Also, where did you get your passion for swimming? Any good stories?
I enjoy being on the swim team because it builds strong bonds between swimmers. Competitive swimming is an extremely rigorous sport, and all the long hours and early morning practices forge a special connection between everyone who gets through. I've made many friends from swimming, all of whom share the same competitive spirit and determination to achieve their goals.
Also, swimming is a great full-body exercise and is something I wish to continue throughout my life. Many people think that committing to a varsity sports team is too much of a time commitment. However, if anything, swimming team makes me more efficient. During the offseason, I often find myself just wasting many hours mindlessly watching YouTube videos, constantly distracting myself while studying and playing games for too long. Daily swimming practices force me to manage my time more wisely.
Last but certainly not least, swimming allows me to eat so much food. Food is good.
In high school, I spent many hours playing various video games, arguably too much. Once I got to college, I decided that I should quit video games and [pursue] more meaningful hobbies. I found a new interest at Casino Night in August 2017 when I lost all my starting money in poker pretty quickly. [As] a competitive guy, I never wanted that to happen again, so I started playing online for play money and learning the various strategies in poker. I joined [the] poker club and met some new friends. The club is fairly small, so our goal is to popularize poker club at CWRU by hosting events and teaching the intricacies of poker. After about a year of playing for play money, I started playing for real money online and have been able to make a profit.
My other major free time activity is that I "play" piano. I put that in quotes because I never really had lessons, and I am very slow at reading sheet music; when I find a song that I really like, I look up a Synthesia (where the notes from above fall onto the piano) and tediously memorize the song using muscle memory. Though this method is extremely time consuming, I now know how to play some nice songs and am happy I learned them.
In a way, I am inspired by fear. Not fear of failure, but fear of regret. I never want to finish something and have doubts about whether I could have done better. I like to commit full effort in anything I do so that regardless of the result, I can feel satisfied knowing that I did everything in my power to succeed.


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A: You can use on() : http://api.jquery.com/on/
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We usually associate the Headless Horseman with nighttime, since the darkness enhances his intimidating and ominous persona. In the daytime... well, he's not quite as threatening, but seeing a horseman with no head in all that full detail is still pretty unnerving. In fact, it may be even more so. A headless horseman might be ashamed of his lack of head and prefer to creep around by night, where people are less apt to notice him. By day? There's no hiding there. Everyone sees his headless condition, and if this terrifying equestrian wants to strut that around, well, he must be especially sinister and vain!
The Headless Horseman in Carthay Circle as the sun sets.


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Daptone Records é uma gravadora independente de funk e soul criada por Gabriel Roth e Neal Sugarman e sediada no Brooklyn, Nova Iorque. Além de Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, a Daptone lançou artistas como Antibalas, The Sugarman 3, The Budos Band, The Poets of Rhythm, The Daktaris, The Mighty Imperials, Lee Fields, Charles Bradley, Binky Griptite, e Naomi Davis.

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John Escreet
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English keyboardist John Escreet has a lot of ideas, and the talent to channel them to tape (OK, more likely hard drive). None of his albums—there have been six to date—feels like a rote gesture or a simple sequel to its predecessor; every time he enters the studio, he's got a concept in mind, and executes it with focus and precision. He's well-respected by his peers, too, regularly bringing in high-quality collaborators including alto saxophonist David Binney, trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire, and drummer Tyshawn Sorey.
Escreet's debut album, 2008's Consequences, released on Posi-Tone (buy it from Amazon), featured the aforementioned three players along with bassist Matt Brewer; a mixed bag, it kicked off with a three-part, 30-minute avant-garde suite before shifting to more conventional, melodic post-bop material, including a version of Andrew Hill's "No Doubt." His next album, 2010's Don't Fight the Inevitable (buy it from Amazon), was made for the Mythology label and saw Nasheet Waits take over the drum chair, and was in some ways a moodier and more intense album, its compositions balancing rumbling, jagged melodies with passages of quite abstract soloing. Electronic sounds also began to creep into the music, mostly at the margins. In 2011, he released two albums—The Age We Live In, and Exception to the Rule. The former, on Mythology again, was made with an expanded ensemble including Binney, trumpeter Brad Mason, trombonist Max Seigel, guitarist Wayne Krantz, bassist Tim Lefebvre, drummer Marcus Gilmore, and strings from Christian Howe. It's easily the most electronic album Escreet's recorded to date, somewhere between Return To Forever and '90s jazz-funk; he played electric keyboards almost exclusively throughout, particularly Fender Rhodes, and consequently it might be the easiest entry point for a newcomer to his music. (Buy it from Amazon.)
Exception to the Rule, released on Criss Cross Jazz (buy it from Amazon), could have been expected to be more conservative than Age, but it was actually a somewhat more challenging listen. With the band down to a quartet—himself, Binney, Waits, and bassist Eivind Opsvik—the music was arranged in a typical modern jazz style, with Escreet back on piano, but Binney contributed haunted-house electronics as well as saxophone, and Opsvik was a dark, rumbling presence. It's Escreet's darkest album overall, from the blue-tinted cover photo of him staring glassy-eyed at the listener to track titles like "Redeye," "Electrotherapy," "Collapse," "The Water is Tasting Worse," "They Can See" and "Escape Hatch"; it's an ominous, creeping disc, but well worth exploring at length. He followed it up with 2013's Sabotage and Celebration (buy it from Amazon) for the Whirlwind label, on which he was joined by some frequent collaborators (Binney, Brewer) but a slew of new faces as well: tenor saxophonist Chris Potter, trumpeter Shane Endsley, trombonist Josh Roseman, guitarist Adam Rogers, a string quartet, and on the album's final track, vocalists Genevieve Artadi, Louis Cole and Nina Geiger. The broad sonic canvas allows for everything from a romantic string intro to a dual-sax eruption (on the nearly 12-minute title track) that's by far the most ferocious thing I've ever heard Binney or Potter play.
Escreet's latest album, Sound, Space and Structures (buy it from Amazon), is his debut for the Sunnyside label, and marks the studio debut of a trio he's been playing live with for some time: bassist John Hébert and Sorey on drums. They're joined by saxophonist Evan Parker, with whom they performed in New York last September, entering the studio a week after the gig. Though Parker came to the project at Escreet's invitation, it's clearly the older man's personality dominating the music. Instead of discrete compositions, as on every previous album the pianist has recorded, Sound, Space and Structures offers a nine-part suite with tracks labeled simply "Part I" through "Part IX," and all indications are that the music was fully improvised, as is Parker's wont.
He doesn't appear until "Part II"; the album opens with a trio convulsion in Matthew Shipp/Cecil Taylor mode, Escreet pounding the piano into submission as Hébert and Sorey jackhammer the ground behind him. When Parker shows up, he's first heard on soprano sax, and listeners familiar with his work will know what that means: circular breathing, and lots of it. He's an absolute master of his own lungs, extending his ribbons of notes long past the point that you might cease to believe you're hearing a wind-powered instrument. The pianist, who clearly idolizes Parker, provides able and complementary accompaniment, matching him in terms of speed and intensity.
When Parker's heard on tenor, later in the album, the entire shape of the music changes. He takes more pauses on the bigger horn, chopping the notes into phrases with beginnings and ends—on "Part VII," things get positively swinging (in a still-free manner); he sounds almost like Wayne Shorter at times. At nearly nine minutes, it's the album's longest section, and its high point. Afterward, there's a comedown, as "Part VIII" is so restrained it's almost silent; the players seem like they're polishing their instruments rather than playing them. But the album's final track finds Parker picking up the soprano for one final, epic outburst lasting nearly two and a half minutes. When Escreet takes a solo, it's almost maniacally repetitive, working a flurry of notes over and over again as Sorey delicately taps the hi-hat in order to slowly bring the music back down to earth. And then it's over.
While Sound, Space and Structures is unique in John Escreet's catalog to date, and to a large degree dominated by Evan Parker, it's clearly still the product of a focused musical mind. It shouldn't be the first Escreet album anyone hears, but it should absolutely be heard outside the beard-and-fuzzy-sweater improv-with-a-capital-I crowd.
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Tiny Houses vs. Climate Change with Michael Bartz – #198
Michael Bartz talks to me about all things tiny houses, environmentalism, and climate change. When Michael hand-built his own tiny house on wheels, it set him on the path to thinking more about how what we do and how we live impacts climate change and inspired him to start his podcast, In Over My Head, to discuss that with others. In this interview, we talk about his show, his tiny house and its special features, and more.
Tiny house, big impact
From trailer to hinges, Michael's tiny home is truly custom
How they found parking (It starts with relationships)
Tips to lower your environmental impact
Is off-grid really more environmentally friendly?
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Telus STORYHIVE
Environment Lethbridge
Michael Bartz
Michael is an actor, filmmaker, and environmentalist. In 2017 he took a big step towards lowering his environmental footprint by building his own off-grid Tiny Home. He crafted everything from the trailer to the reclaimed oak countertops, and after four years he had his dream home. But when it came to his goal of "saving the planet", downsizing and minimizing weren't enough. So in 2021 with funding from Telus STORYHIVE, he launched the In Over My Head podcast, an interview-style show where Michael talks to experts from a variety of backgrounds and disciplines about how we can all make small changes that add up to a big environmental impact.
www.inovermyheadpodcast.com
PrecisionTemp is making one product to solve two issues that I know everyone deals with in a tiny house: running out of hot water and heating your tiny house. PrecisionTemp has made the amazing TwinTemp Junior propane tankless water heater, which provides unlimited hot water for your tiny house and hydronic heating. This means you get warm heated floors, so there are no cold spots. It's designed specifically for tiny houses and features whisper-quiet operation as well as high efficiency. If you want more information on how PrecisionTemp can help make living tiny easier and more comfortable visit precisiontemp.com. While you're there, use the coupon code THLP for $100 off any PrecisionTemp unit plus free shipping.
Michael's off-grid tiny home is parked on a farm, where he trades labor for rent
The cat door sits in a space in the bathroom wall
Almost every bit of his house is custom made
Off-grid is best where Michael lives – but the same may not be true for everyone!
The bathroom is elevated to allow for storage below
Some parts of the house run on propane, but may be swapped out for electric later on
The living room doubles as an office
More custom storage in the staircase up to the loft
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As you talked about where a tiny house, the entire inside is a cabinet job, right? So everything has to be custom. Everything has to be mounted to the walls. You can't just go to Ikea necessarily and just pick out this and I'm going to just add that. Very custom. At least that's the way that I built mine.
Welcome to the Tiny House Lifestyle Podcast, the show where you learn how to plan, build, and live the tiny lifestyle. I'm your host, Ethan Waldman, and this is episode 198 with Michael Bartz. We will be talking with Michael today, all things tiny houses, environmentalism, climate change, and more. Michel actually built, hand built, his own tiny house on wheels. And it really set him on the path to think more about what we do, how what we do and how we live impacts climate change. And he's actually launched a podcast called In Over My Head to explore that. And so in this interview, we will talk about the show we'll talk about his specific tiny house and what its special features are, and more. I hope you stick around.
I'd like to tell you about the sponsor of today's episode PrecisionTemp. PrecisionTemp is making one product to solve two issues that I know everyone deals with in a tiny house, running out of hot water and heating your tiny house or skoolie. PrecisionTemp has made the amazing TwinTemp Junior propane tankless water heater, which provides unlimited hot water for your tiny house and hydronic heating. This means you get warm heated floors, so there are no cold spots. It's designed specifically for tiny houses and features whisper quiet operation as well as high efficiency. If you want more information on how PrecisionTemp can help make tiny living easier and more comfortable, visit precisiontemp.com. While you're there, use the coupon code THLP for $100 off any PrecisionTemp unit plus free shipping. That website again is precision temp.com coupon code T H LP for $100 off any PrecisionTemp unit plus free shipping. Thank you so much to PrecisionTemp for sponsoring our show.
Alright, I am here with Michael Bartz. Michael is an actor, filmmaker and environmentalist. In 2017, he took a big step towards lowering his environmental footprint by building his own off grid tiny home. He crafted everything from the trailer to the reclaimed oak countertops. And after four years he had his dream home. When it came to his goal of saving the planet, downsizing and minimizing weren't enough, though. In 2021. With funding from Telus STORYHIVE, he launched the In Over My Head podcast, an interview style show where Michael talks to experts from a variety of backgrounds and disciplines about how we can all make small changes that add up to a big environmental impact. Michael Bartz, welcome to the show.
Thanks, Ethan. You're very welcome.
So I guess I'm just coming right off the bio. Does - and this is probably a loaded question with a long answer -but does living in a tiny home make a big environmental impact?
It absolutely does. Yes. Yeah. So the the fewer resources you're using as far as building materials, and as well as eating the space, electricity, all of those things, in a smaller space, you're using less of those things. So it does lower your environmental impact.
Okay. And I, I wondered about that, when it came to the idea of building, you know, building a tiny house with new materials versus, you know, buying a house or living in an apartment somewhere that has already been built where those materials have already been kind of used used up?
Yes. In that case, it would, from an environmental perspective, it would be better to use the house that already exists rather than building a new house per se.
Right. But but in terms of building a new house, I guess it makes sense that that building and living tiny would be the least impact.
Yeah. And then ideally, again, from an environmental perspective, even finding a used tiny house and buying that. That would be the best of both worlds because you could live training and you wouldn't be new any new resources.
Yep. Exactly. So maybe tell tell us about and expand on your story a little bit. You know, going back to 2017, what, why were you thinking about going tiny and and how did that take shape for you?
For sure. So yeah, 2017 is when I actually I started the build and so about a year prior to that I I went through a life change and I was looking at doing something differently, wanting to maybe go back to school, maybe buy a house, I wanted to maybe do some traveling. And I couldn't quite decide and the idea of tiny living came up because perhaps that could satisfy all of those things potentially that could be learning. I could be living in that space, perhaps traveling in that space.
So eventually, I decided, yes, I'm going to build this off grid tiny house. Actually, I remember the time where I saw I saved for a year I saved $25,000. And I did as much research as I could, I went to the National Tiny House Jamboree in 2016. And the point where I said, "Okay, I'm actually going to do this thing, I could use that money to get to go back to school to put a down payment on a regular house, which is the least exciting part. I could travel with that money. But no, I've decided to do this thing. And I'm going to do it." Even though at the time, I thought, you know, there's no guarantees, because it's not a legal way to live. There's zoning issues sometimes. So it could be a risk. I could spend a lot of money and a lot of time and someone could show up and say I can't live here, right. But I decided that anything I do is a risk, right? There's no guarantees in life. So I'm just gonna do it. So I ordered the trailer parts, the axles, the metal, and I and I got to it.
Wow. So you, you actually built your own trailer?
I did. Yeah. I would not recommend that for most people. I've been welding since I was a teenager. My dad's a Journeyman welder. So even that was a big project for me and him and I tackled it together. And he was very much going through with me checking my weld, so that it was more of that. I want to do as much as I can on this build, and why not build the trailer too?
Yeah, I was gonna I was gonna ask about that. Because from I don't know that I've ever spoken to somebody who either built or refurbished a trailer who who recommends it or do it again.
Yeah, definitely not for the average builder for sure.
Yeah. How? How long did it take to build the trailer?
That was actually pretty quick. We went pretty hard. It was the spring of 2017. And it only took a few weeks actually to build it.
Nice. Well, that's not so bad.
Mm hmm.
But that assumed that you kind of knew how to build the trailer. Like did you have a set of plans? Did you have a design on paper? Like how did that all work?
Yeah, we had to set a plan. I knew what type of steel I wanted to use. I knew everything that was going into it. I have to 7000 pound axles dually gooseneck trailer so yeah, I knew that. So it was pretty straightforward as far as building the actual structure.
A lot of it was actually, as you know, probably with like the Eagle trailers and such?
Having a designated trailer that's built for a tiny house saves a lot of time when you're putting the house on top of it. So that was yeah, it was a pretty easy transition.
One thing I did differently, which was nice about building my own, because I have that skill, was that I actually so I put the bathroom on the front of the trailer and actually built the bathroom two feet high and built that out of steel as well. And that way I have my maintenance rooms underneath so I could put my water heater, my tanks, my batteries, all that stuff under there but I didn't really know the order or how I want to do that. So building it in steel allowed me to leave that space kind of open and I could tweak that a bit and I ended up doing access doors on the north and south side. And so I could just open that up in there and one doors the whole the whole width of that space.
Nice nice. So now is that conditioned space in there? Is it is it heated?
Yeah, it is heated slightly. Yeah, it's insulated and then the furnaces in there. So it just heat the space.
Nice. Nice. What are some other, well actually so how long did it take you to do your build?
Yeah, so that that the trailer was quick. The the rest took a while so it was four years in total. And that was three years part time so I was still doing a nine to five job. And so it was evenings weekends whenever I could fit it in. And then 2020 That spring I decided it was I was done with with building I wanted to just get it done so I took that entire year and around other projects mostly was building so then another upgrade I put in over 1000 hours in that last year.
Just in building but I like I mentioned aside from the trailer. I made everything I made all the furniture I made my own hinges for the for the cabinet doors.
Wow,
Yeah, doing the countertop that even that kitchen countertop probably took me two weeks of gluing the wood, sanding it everything else so it was a labor of love. But it took took a while.
Yeah. And did you set out to kind of build everything yourself in that way or did that kind of happen along the way and then you know?
Yeah, I definitely going into I thought I want to build as much as I can. And part of it was just also, out of necessity, as you talked about where a tiny house, the entire inside is a cabinet job, right? So everything has to be custom, everything has to be mounted to the walls, you can't just go to Ikea, necessarily and just pick out this. And I'm going to just add that. It's very custom at least that's the way that I built mine. So I thought, I want it to look a certain way. I want it to be beautiful. And I have to make these certain sizes and dimensions. So why not just do it all myself?
Yeah. So how, how is it insulated? And how do you heat it?
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So I've got spray foam insulation, and then I heat it with just a forced air propane furnace.
And it works pretty good.
Yeah. And you're, you're completely off grid.
Mm hmm. Yeah, we have to top up the batteries once in a while, we're noticing, but in the winter, especially right now, but yet we run off of propane, and then solar as well. Everything is 12 volt. And then the propane powered. And I really tried in my design to limit how many electronic pieces that I'm using. Yeah, so we use a gas range. And then I have got a stovetop, popcorn popper, I've got a stovetop, toaster, I try to use as much at least in the kitchen, the stovetop as much as possible, whereas as opposed to using electric toaster and things like that. So trying to lower our electronic use, right. And hopefully our electricity and power use.
Right, right. There's always that push and pull, environmentally but between, you know, using propane to allow yourself to be off grid, but then also not wanting to use propane. Or at least that's that's how I've always felt about it.
Oh, definitely. Yeah.
Do you have any plans to like increase your solar capacity over time? And then, you know, replace propane things with electric things?
Yeah, we definitely want to increase the solar part of this this journey, is that, you know, there's there's thousands of decisions you need to make when you're building your tiny house.
Even if you're, it's partly made, it's just it's just it can be overwhelming, you can feel in over your head about that. But that was like a non electrician, I did have help with the electrical, I did pull the wire, we hooked it all together. But I had a journeyman electrician helped me with that a friend of mine. And even he wasn't really an expert in solar. So I was I was trying to figure out as much as I could, as far as how much power am I going to need. And it's yeah, it's a little light. We could add more, I guess the one thing I wasn't aware of, I got a kit,
And I wasn't aware that there was a limit to how many panels I could add, because of my charge controller because of the gauge of wire I had. So if I'd known that, I probably would have gotten a bigger system. In order to eat more easily at it, we can do it. And it's going to be a little bit of figuring but it would have been a lot easier from the get go to do that. So we'll probably ideally, probably double our solar and that's gonna make a big difference in the winter. Summertime. No problem at all winters a little bit. We got to top it up a little bit.
Yeah, yeah, it gets. Unfortunately, cloudy in the winter and the days are shorter to boot.
Right. And super, super cool. It's yeah, it's very cold right now.
Yeah. Yeah. So Where where are you located? Exactly.
We're in in Canada in Southern Alberta.
Okay. Okay. So pretty far north, even though it's Southern Alberta.
Yeah, yeah, we're like right now, I don't know Fahrenheit. But in Celsius, it was minus 39. Yesterday, I believe. So it's, it's a bit cold. But actually, like with the spray foam things been quite nice inside. Yes, the furnace is running more but that's every house ever. And I think I tried as much as I could to build the house to be upgraded in four seasons in Canada in winter. So it's just the reality that we're going to use a little bit more utilities but compared to a big house far, far fewer.
Yeah, absolutely. In terms of those those the building envelope what, what thickness are your walls and floors and ceilings?
Yeah, so I've got three and a half inches on the walls just a two by four.
In the trailer I into that with insulated that with rigid foam insulation, that's probably 5 1/2 inches. And then the ceilings are 2x6s. I've got 5 1/2 and I I did hire out the spray foam. But I had them just go right to the roof. So there's a bit more in the roof.
And have you been happy with how it's performed in the winter? Is this your first winter in it?
It is yeah, so we I finished the build this spring and then this is our our first winter in the house. But so far, so good. Because I insulated that maintenance room. Got lots of you know, the houses well insulated, so, yes, the furnace has been running more, but it's been cozy and it's been nice and no issues.
That's, that's great to hear. Congratulations.
Yeah, we'll see. The one challenge is we haul our water from from the farm that we're living on.
Okay,
So I put the water from one tank outside into the tank in the house. So that's where I could see a problem like I was it was about minus 15 degrees Celsius, and I was still able to fill the tank just fine.
We'll see if it's minus 30 if things start to freeze up, but cross that bridge when we get there.
Yeah, yeah, absolutely. that, that get water is a big challenge in the cold.
So in terms of your parking, is this, you mentioned that you're living on a farm? Is this the kind of like we're out of view of, of the road and other houses? So nobody's gonna find us? Or what's the legal status of your parking?
Yeah, so we are tucked away in a farm in southern Alberta. And, yeah, the partly the reason that we ended up going out there as was was the zoning issues, of course, because although we built it in the city, I just, I didn't want to park it in the city, because that's where it's my thought of like, someone knocks on the door and says, I can't live here would be more likely to happen. So we ended up looking for a place out of town, partly to avoid that. And because we just we enjoyed the country, we enjoy that kind of quieter life.
But finding the place was was quite interesting. It's a fun story in that. So my, I'll start with my dad's a musician. And he's in his 60s. And most of his, his groupies are in their 60s as well or so are older. And I was at one of his concerts. And he asked, "Who still gets the newspaper?" And everyone's hands went up. And I looked at that, and I thought, hmm, because I always wanted to live on someone's property where I could give back to whoever I was living with. So so maybe like a senior citizen where they need their walk shoveled, they need help with a few tasks where they just can't do it themselves. So I thought, "I'd like to build that community and relationship instead of just paying money. Here you go, let's, let's get to know each other, I can help you, you can, you know, put give me a place to park." So that was my thinking.
So I one day just decided to put an ad in the in the local paper. And I was actually quite overwhelmed by responses. Because, essentially, because let me start again, in that. I said, I didn't say Tiny House, I said trailer. And I said, "I'd like to park our trailer on your property, and I'll do our jobs to pay for the spot." So essentially, they're getting free help, and I'm getting a place to park. So I had so many responses. And a couple responded. And we went and saw them and we liked them and they liked us. And so we moved out there.
That's fantastic. And so when what kind of jobs have you ended up doing?
Oh, yeah, I've everything under the sun be it's a it's a crop farm. And boy, I because I'm a welder, I was learned to weld. I've done some welding fixed things. I made a fuel tank stand. I helped with harvest, but lots of like, little jobs mowing the lawn kind of whatever comes up fixing odd things. Alright, so just jack of all trades, I would say.
Cool. And yeah, it's fun. And in return, you receive a free parking spot.
Yeah. So we don't have any we don't pay rent, we have no mortgage, the house is paid off. And they just give us a spot and we park and it's a great relationship.
That's fantastic. And you keep saying we so I'm assuming that you live in the house for somebody else.
Yeah. So my partner Sarah and I live in the house.
Nice. And did have you known each other from before you you built the tiny house?
No. So I actually met her in 2017. I probably I think I'd done the framing when we met so I started the project. And that's when we met to became friends and then became more than friends but she's always been a she's a traveler. She's from Spain, and she moved here to to work in research. She's a scientist, and she finished her PhD on their orchard in Spain and she was living there lighting the fire heating it things like that. So she was used to living kind of off grid.
Yeah,
Not showering every day, things like that. So she was she was on board definitely with the project and was excited.
That's awesome,
about our life together.
Hmm, that's great.
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How did having her involved in the building change change the house at all?
Not a lot. I think in some ways, I almost wish we could have designed it together. Because I already had a plan in mind and this is where things were going to be and there will at that point there wasn't a lot of changing it right. We did get some cats. And I had to add a few little things for the cats and tried to make it as Cat friendly as possible. But it was all kind of after the fact one fun thing is she wanted to put a cat door in the main door so the cat could get in and out. Yeah. And I said, No, thank you because that's just gonna let all sorts of air in and his I'm not putting a hole in this like my fiberglass brand new three quarter inch glass quarter glass door, right? No, sorry, not happening. So we started Googling and looking around. And they make cat doors for apartments to go into unlike a porch. And I thought that's interesting. And so I built a cat door into our bathroom window. Oh, and so she jumps on to the countertop in the bathroom. And then she jumps out. And I put a ladder outside and she goes down the ladder. So she has her little cat door. Yeah, we can open and close it. So a winter like right now it's very cold. We just close it and she can't get out. And that doesn't let any cold air out. But in summer, she's free to come and go as she pleases, which works really well.
That's really cool. So is there a screen built into that somehow to prevent bugs from coming in? Or
Not really. No, it's a regular door has a bit of a gap. But it's just swings open and closed. So okay. It's not not really an issue. Yeah, it's just I built I took an existing cat door that swings. And then I just built a frame fourth and a stand on the outside that that fits inside that windows. I just had to custom build that. Okay, once we were on the farm, I figured that out. So now it works really well.
Awesome. Yeah, I love I love hearing about those little customizations and things that people do to make their tiny houses unique to them.
Yeah, and things you wouldn't maybe have thought of normally, that's we've made a few little adjustments like that, that just making the space work a little bit better for us without making any major changes.
Yeah, like what's a can you share another one?
Oh, I would say I'm thinking of in the kitchen, I actually originally put our recycling bins under in a drawer under the countertop. Okay, because I wanted to have everything in the house. But we said, we soon realized that we needed more pantry space. So those came out and those go outside now. And then we filled that with various pantry things. So that's one small example of, of how we slightly modify without making any major changes to suit our lifestyle.
Nice. Nice. So can you little, I want to kind of shift gears now and talk about about your podcasts in over my head. You know, How long had you been thinking about a project like that? Is that something that happened during the tiny house build or after?
Yeah, it was it was during, in some ways in that I, when I was building, I always thought I want to do a documentary project around the tiny house and potentially take it on the road. And so I tried to build it as light and mobile as possible. As much as a tiny house can be
Since then, I've realized that moving it to the farm. I was on pins and needles. And I thought I don't want to move this again, if we can help it. So I'd much rather not move the house. And even if I did that project, I'd probably go around on a bicycle or hitchhike or something. Because again, looking at the environmental impact me taking one term dually truck and pulling my house across the country probably not a good idea.
But I always had that idea of yeah, I'd like to talk about tiny houses, I want to talk about environmentalism. How can I get that story across. And that was that was percolating and, and then in 2020, Telus STORYHIVE. For your listeners who aren't aware it's a it's a media company in Canada. And they primarily fund documentary work is how I knew them. But in 2020, they did a podcast edition. So they offered a grant of $10,000 and mentorship to produce season of your podcast. So you pitch it to us and, and out of 700 applications. I was one of 16 spots that was chosen. So fantastic.
Yeah. And then, with that show, I didn't want to just be about tiny houses. Because as much as that's a big part of my life, it's not a part of everyone's life. And that maybe wouldn't translate to everyone. And in order to make an impact in saving the planet. They say environmentalism, we need everyone on board. And while I was building I was also involved with a group called environment Lethbridge from where I'm from. And so I was doing environmental work. And I thought, yeah, maybe I can talk about some of these stories and some of the things that people are doing because, as I talked about, in my show, feeling in over my head, the name comes from that, when thinking about saving the planet, I've downsized and minimized.
But then I thought I need to do these other things. And I need to grow my own food and make my own clothes and hitchhike and dumpster dive and all these things. But in the end, you just do end up feeling overwhelmed because you're one person trying to make a huge change.
And so I started talking with these experts, and the more I learned, the more inspired and the better I felt and I thought, yeah, that's That's what the show should be about. That's the show. And I pitch it to tell us and they agreed.
Nice. So what what are some of the small changes and things that you've learned about through through during the season?
Yeah. So season one, I talked with the local experts in Lethbridge, from Kathleen, which is the the very first episode she talked about. We talked about downsizing and tiny houses. And from or even just a small thing, I learned that yes, turning down your thermostat that does make a difference. Even boiling a kettle, instead of filling in all the way up if you just need one cup just just well, as much as you need. Right? Things like that. Just those little changes can add up for sure. With Bryce, we talked about solar power. And he talked about not using more than you need. So instead of getting this huge solar system, figure out what you need, try to use less and then have a system that works for that. What else did I learn? With Mandy from Lethbridge, sustainable living, we talked about permaculture. And she really one thing I didn't think about in not just the house design, but where we were living was how do how do we relate to nature and the environment? And what is our impact on that? Especially on the farm? Where are trees? And where are we getting our water from? And things like that? So thinking about that, and using the land and less technology can lower your environmental impact. And I know not everyone can live in the in the country. So we do talk about what people can do in the city as far as permaculture and and reducing their impact that way.
Fantastic. Do you think you'll do a second season of the show?
Yeah. So actually, season two is out already.
Oh, nice.
That's all about transportation, I decided instead of doing the show, like like yours, I love your show. It's very great. You're doing a weekly show with different guests. And for me, I wanted to focus on a specific topic and do more of a deep dive. So I'm doing each season on a different topic, and talking with a variety of guests within that topic. So season two is about transportation. So I I broaden my scope, and I end up talking with people from across the country. So some from the University of Toronto, some from the university British Columbia, I had the climate change and policy analysts from the David Suzuki Foundation. And so I talked to these folks about how we get around. We talked about electric cars, we talk about public transportation, active transportation, trains, things like that, and lowering our environmental input, and lowering our environmental impact when it comes to transportation. So that's what season two is about.
Fantastic. And how is it is it's how many episodes of season two,
I decided to go with with six episodes. I feel like that's a nice round numbers. The first season was six. So let's do another half a dozen conversations. And we can't obviously exhaust that topic in 6, 30 minute talks. But it's it gets us talking about it at least.
Sure. Sure. And so plans for season three?
Yeah, season three. So in season two, I noticed that people were talking a lot about where we get our power from as far as electric cars and public transportation. And so I think, I think I'm going to look into the grid and electricity and where we get our power from is, is where I'm leaning. That'll be probably starting in January.
Okay. And do you, you know, do you record the episodes and produce them and release them one at a time? Or is it kind of like the Netflix style? Like you you release all the whole season at once?
Yeah, Netflix style? Yeah, I just I just thought why not? Instead of releasing it all in over a month or over a period of time? Just do it all at once. So it's like an album or something? Yeah, just we make it a curated, I get to choose which episodes come in what order? Yeah. And then just put it out there and people can take it at their leisure.
Yeah. How has living tiny affected, you know, your thinking about sustainability? Or environmentalism? Has it changed? At all?
Yeah, no, for sure. I think it has been met, living in the house, especially a house that I built and that it's off grid. It's tiny. I'm always thinking about it. Because it's not just a regular house, and I'm doing my thing. It's like that's so much of my life. And especially with the show, I think about a lot all the time, basically too much, too much. But it's good. I like it, it's fine.
Do you think that that you'll ever do a season about tiny houses or alternative housing?
Potentially I do want to cover cities and how they're designed and that we could definitely talk about housing. Yeah, I've got a lot of different topics in mind, but maybe not necessarily tiny houses specifically, but that that could come up potentially very nice.
Very nice. Back to your tiny house. Is there anything major that you change about it if you ever built another tiny house? And do you have any plans to build another tiny house.
But for this first question, the only thing I think I might change or have reconsidered is that because I planned on moving it, I built it within the RV specs where it's 8 1/2 feet wide, 13 feet tall, I built it to move. And now knowing that we probably won't move it that much, I may have considered making it wider. I mean, we're fine in the space, it's great. But we had two friends over and they had suitcases. And we put that in kind of the mudroom area, which is really the kitchen. And that just took up so much space. And so with Sarah and I it's fine. But then we start adding a few people and their stuff and it gets a little cramped. So knowing that
and I just didn't want to get a wide load permits and go through all that, if we're only going to move it a few times a wide load permits, not a big deal, right. And that I've when I was in Colorado for the tiny house Jamboree, I was inside some houses that were 10-12 feet wide. And it really makes a difference in how the space feels. And and the usable space you have. So potentially, maybe I might look at making a little bit wider. Also, when I started building it, the idea was that we don't have everything that we need in our house, you know, you don't have a gym, you don't have an office, you go to those places you go to maybe other people's houses that if you want to get together. And since then that has changed a little bit and that Sarah and I both have our office in the tiny house now.
So yeah, so now we're both working from home where we weren't before because she was at the Research Station. And, and I was working in post secondary, but now that I'm not doing a 9-5, I'm just doing these other projects, and she's having to work a lot from home. That's something that we weren't really planning for. So potentially, I would have planned for more of an office space that was a designated space. Right now we have our kind of living room that that converts into our office, which it works. It's fine.
But I wouldn't want to record an episode and have her there. And it would be quite tight.
Yeah. So are you recording this now from the tiny house or you have a different place you can go to do?
I've got a studio in town that I'm using today. Because only because actually, you wanted a a good Wi Fi connection. And that's something we don't have on the farm. And right now I'm recording my podcast just through the phone, which works well. Which is nice, because I don't have to rely on the internet.
But I thought if we want a nice internet connection, I'll come to the studio in town. But normally Yeah, I do all the recording in the tiny house, which is which is very fun.
Nice. Yeah. Well, I appreciate the quest for better Wi Fi. Mm hmm. It's always good when the guests are in the listeners in here what the guest is saying.
Yes, it will be the best sounding podcast episode you've had.
Yes, yes. And I appreciate that. If that, you know, not many people get to actually see the video. But Michael has a sweet microphone setup. And his voice is sounding very sweet.
Very rich. Yes. And if you want to geek out about podcasts, I've got a it's a local recording. So I'm recording it here. And I will send it to Ethan. And it will sound amazing.
Very, very, very nice. Michael, is there anything else that you were hoping to talk about today?
Yeah, one thing I thought about in our chat about environmentalism and tiny living was considering being off grid because a lot of people think that, okay, I want to build a tiny house, I'm going to save the planet reduce my environmental impact, I have to be off grid. And off grid is great. And it's very convenient. If you need to move around, or you don't know where you're going to be, we enjoy the sustainability aspect of it in that the sun is shining, we are powering everything. And it feels really great to do that.
But if you're someone who is on a limited budget, and you say that I want to live, tiny and reduce my impact, but I just I can't afford to live off grid, there's something you need to consider in in that, you need to ask yourself a very simple question, and everyone can answer it, it's where do you live. And depending on where you live in what state that's actually gonna depend on how your power is created. So Ethan, you're in Vermont. And actually, the power is made by hydro, biomass, some solar, so you guys are actually making renewable power, and then giving that onto the grid. Whereas if you're in some other states, West Virginia, for example, so much of their power comes from coal, and that's the same here in Alberta, a lot of our power is coming from coal. So if that's the case, then then potentially being off grid, we'll be more environmentally friendly.
But if you're in a state, where your power is made by renewable energy, plugging into the grid isn't the end of the world, it's actually potentially possibly more environmentally friendly than you buying a whole bunch of solar panels and extra things that had to be made in China and shipped and all those things. Just plug into the grid. So potentially, if you had a tiny house that either you made yourself or like we talked about You bought a used tiny house, you plug it into the grid, you're still doing okay. So don't be too hard on yourself. If you can't be 100% Off Grid, and you want to save the planet there, there are other things you need to consider. And really, anyone who goes tiny, is already doing so much more for the environment than living in a big house.
So perfect is the enemy of good in that you can't be perfect. There's, like I said, there's thousands of decisions you have to make. And you're not gonna always make the right decision. But if you feel overwhelmed about saving the planet, know that you don't have to be perfect. Live in a small house do that, I highly recommend that. But because you're lowering your emissions, how much energy you're using, and also just living in the house for 10, 20, 30, 40 years, that's a lot less of that that you're going to be using. So don't necessarily think you have to go off grid, look at where your power sources coming from would be my my one tip our listeners.
Fantastic. Thank you. That's that's a great tip. Thanks, either. So one thing that I like to ask all my guests is, you know, what are two or three resources that helped you in the building or design of your tiny house that you'd like to share with our listeners?
For sure. No, I did a lot of my own research. I a lot of books that I purchased a lot of online YouTube channels about building tiny houses. Yeah, I think for me, the biggest thing was actually going to the National Tiny House Jamboree, meeting other people who had done what I what I was about to do, and actually seeing the houses because it's one thing to watch some videos and read some books. But if if you can, if possible, try to go and see a tiny house, even Airbnb, you can stay in a tiny house. Yeah, try to go and see them and spend some time in some of them. For me, that was probably the biggest learning that I could have done.
Nice, but that is good advice going and seeing them and meeting other people.
Awesome. Well, Michael Bart's thank you so much for being a guest on the show today.
Yeah. Thanks for having me, Ethan.
Thank you so much to Michael Bartz, for being a guest on the show today. You can find the show notes, including links to In Over My Head and photos of Michael's tiny house. And as always a complete transcript at the thetinyhouse.net/198. Again, that's thetinyhouse.net/198. Well, that's all for this week. I'm your host, Ethan Waldman. And I'll be back next week with another episode of the Tiny House Lifestyle Podcast.
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Published: 10th February 2013
DOI: 10.4204/EPTCS.107
EPTCS 107
Proceedings 14th International Workshop on
Verification of Infinite-State Systems
Paris, France, 27th August 2012
Edited by: Mohamed Faouzi Atig and Ahmed Rezine
Mohamed Faouzi Atig and Ahmed Rezine 1
Invited Presentation: Formal Correctness Methods at the Million CPU Scale
Ganesh Gopalakrishnan 3
Invited Presentation: On the complexity of automatic structures
Peter Habermehl 7
Invited Tutorial: Petri Nets with Time and Cost
Parosh Aziz Abdulla and Richard Mayr 9
Invited Tutorial: Constraint-based reachability
Arnaud Gotlieb, Tristan Denmat and Nadjib Lazaar 25
On Consistency of Operational Transformation Approach
Aurel Randolph, Hanifa Boucheneb, Abdessamad Imine and Alejandro Quintero 45
Effective Marking Equivalence Checking in Systems with Dynamic Process Creation
Łukasz Fronc 61
This volume contains the proceedings of the 14th International Workshop on Verification of Infinite-State Systems (Infinity 2012). The workshop was held in Paris as a satellite event of the the 18th International Symposium on Formal Methods - FM 2012 on August 27th, 2012.
The aim of the INFINITY workshop is to provide a forum for researchers interested in the development of formal methods and algorithmic techniques for the analysis of systems with infinitely many states, and their application in automated verification of complex software and hardware systems.
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
Infinite-state models of software/hardware systems
Abstraction techniques for infinite-state systems
Symbolic analysis techniques and data structures for representing infinite state spaces
Model-checking, static analysis, abstract interpretation, preorder/equivalence-checking, and control synthesis for infinite-state systems
Parameterized networks of parallel processes, dynamic networks, mobile systems
Systems with unbounded dynamic data and control structures
(recursion, dynamic instantiation of processes, dynamic linked data structures, unbounded communication channels, web services, infinite data domains)
Probabilistic and timed systems
Games in modeling and verification of infinite-state systems
Verification techniques for systems biology
This volume contains five contributions: two regular papers and three invited tutorials. Each regular paper was reviewed by three different reviewers. The program of INFINITY 2012 was further enriched by four invited tutorials given by Parosh Aziz Abudlla, Ganesh Gopalakrishnan, Arnaud Gotlieb and Peter Habermehl. Each invited tutorial was reviewed by the editors before acceptance. Moreover, the program committee of INFINITY 2012 has selected the two following presentations:
Gilles Geeraerts, Alexander Heußner and Jean-François Raskin: Queue-Dispatch Asynchronous Systems.
Anjelika Votintseva, Andreas Ulrich and Stefanie Goetzfried: Overcoming Overall Analysis Complexity via Integration.
We thank the authors for their contributions, the programme committee members for reviewing and selecting the papers and the invited talks, and the FM 2012 Organizing Committee Kamel Barkaoui, Béatrice Bérard, Nihal Pekergin, Laure Petrucci, and Tayssir Touili for their support.
Final proceedings will appear in the Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS) series. We thank Rob Van Glabbeek for his support and Rajeev Alur for providing this opportunity.
Linköping and Uppsala, January 2013 Mohamed Faouzi Atig and Ahmed Rezine
Organizers and Program Chairs
Mohamed Faouzi Atig Uppsala University Sweden
Ahmed Rezine Linköping University Sweden
Nathalie Bertrand INRIA Rennes Bretagne Atlantique France
Yu-Fang Chen Academia Sinica Taiwan
Pierre Ganty Imdea Software Spain
Lukáš Holík Uppsala University Sweden
Axel Legay IRISA/INRIA Rennes France
Roland Meyer University of Kaiserslautern Germany
Ruzica Piskac Max Planck Institue for Software Systems (MPI-SWS) Germany
Noam Rinetzky Queen Mary University of London United Kingdom
Martin Vechev Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Switzerland
Fang Yu National Chengchi University Taiwan
Formal Correctness Methods at the Million CPU Scale
Ganesh Gopalakrishnan (School of Computing, University of Utah, USA)
Million-core computing systems will be commonplace in the arena of high-performance computing. This paper explores ongoing work that examines the organization of a problem solving environment called Uintah [7, 2, 3, 11] developed by the University of Utah School of Computing and the SCI Institute. Uintah is well on its way to reaching (and soon exceeding) the million core mark while simulating real-world problems. This brief paper examines formal and semi-formal methods that are being investigated to sustain this growth—a role that these methods are expected to play in all future designs.
Given that computing is inexorably marching toward (and beyond) the million core regime, it is quite timely for the research community to explore formal methods that are likely to provide value at that scale. We have embarked on such a project wherein our ideas are being driven by (and are being tested on) a large-scale case study: the Uintah [7, 2, 3, 11] problem solving environment developed by the University of Utah School of Computing and the SCI Institute. Uintah is well on its way to reaching (and soon exceeding) the million core mark while simulating real-world problems. This brief paper examines formal and semi-formal methods that are being investigated to sustain this growth—a role that these methods are expected to play in all future designs.
The set of concurrency models that an HPC system designer grapples with can be roughly divided into three classes (see Figure 1). At the lowest level, concurrency in various computing devices (CPUs, GPUs, other accelerators, etc.) is exploited to gain speed advantages in terms of single instruction multiple data (SIMD) concurrency and hardware features such as direct support for hardware transactional memory primitives being added to upcoming processors. At the next level, one finds several components including highly optimized Message Passing Interface (MPI, [9]) and thread libraries. In this layer, a prominent trend is the use of non-blocking data structures to implement various critical components, for instance the MPI library, high performance thread libraries, and lock-free data structures. Still higher, one finds more classical "textbook" [10] MPI routines organized around various master/worker patterns. A clear trend in this area is the increasing prevalence of higher-level work organization principles such as task graphs—the central organizational principle in Uintah. The use of these task graphs relegates the use of MPI to a much simpler form—meaning, handling communication, collective operations, and synchronization at the system level in a portable way, using fewer combinations of MPI primitives in the process (and often using only simpler forms of MPI communication). The task graph formalism itself defines the necessary causal dependencies. The Uintah scheduler (Figure 2) orchestrates work in a more explicit and tractable manner. This leads to a much more elegant and robust software architecture when compared to MPI programming practiced in earlier decades where many applications suffered from (1) MPI calls stewn all over a user application, and (2) code corresponding to cross-cutting concerns (such as load balancing) mixed up with mainline computing code.
Figure 1: Three Layers of Large-Scale HPC Systems
The Uintah formal methods work is still in its infancy. The Infinity conference in 2012 provided an excellent opportunity to air our future plans. The important things we want to keep in mind going forward are now briefly summarized:
Unstructured admixtures of concurrency primitives will be very rare in well-designed and well-architected systems. Each designer is solving a concurrency problem in a domain-specific way and the higher level concurrency organization is almost entirely dictated by this domain specificity. Therefore, all formal methods must take advantage of design patterns already established in mature code. Our plans in this regard are to employ a two-pronged approach:
Develop an active tester [4, 12, 8] for the Uintah scheduler.
Employ runtime verification methods [1, 6] within the Uintah scheduler.
Domain-specific verifiers are essential to obtain better coverage for critical components such as the MPI library and non-blocking data structures [5].
We plan to update the community on the ongoing status of the Uintah project on our webpage http://www.cs.utah.edu/fv/URV.
The author thanks Martin Berzins, Zvonimir Rakamarić, Alan Humphrey, Diego Caminha B. de Oliveira and Brandon Gibson for their collaboration and feedback. He also gratefully acknowledges funding from NSF CCF 241849 (EAGER: Formal Reliability Enhancement Methods for Million Core Computational Frameworks).
Figure 2: Scheduler Used in the Uintah Problem Solving Environment.
Howard Barringer, Yliès Falcone, Bernd Finkbeiner, Klaus Havelund, Insup Lee, Gordon J. Pace, Grigore Rosu, Oleg Sokolsky & Nikolai Tillmann (2010): Runtime Verification - First International Conference, RV 2010, St. Julians, Malta, November 1-4, 2010. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6418. Springer, doi:10.1007/978-3-642-16612-9.
M. Berzins, J. Schmidt, Q. Meng & A. Humphrey (2013): Past, Present, and Future Scalability of the Uintah Software. In: Proceedings of the Blue Waters Workshop 2012, pp. (to appear). Available at http://www.sci.utah.edu/publications/berzins12/BerzinsBWW2012.pdf.
Martin Berzins, Justin Luitjens, Qingyu Meng, Todd Harman, Charles A. Wight & Joseph R. Peterson (2010): Uintah: a scalable framework for hazard analysis. In: Proceedings of the 2010 TeraGrid Conference, TG '10. ACM, New York, NY, USA, pp. 3:1–3:8, doi:10.1145/1838574.1838577.
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Tobias Hilbrich, Martin Schulz, Bronis R. de Supinski & Matthias S. Müller (2009): MUST: A Scalable Approach to Runtime Error Detection in MPI Programs. In: Matthias S. Müller, Michael M. Resch, Alexander Schulz & Wolfgang E. Nagel: Parallel Tools Workshop. Springer, pp. 53–66, doi:10.1007/978-3-642-11261-4_5.
Alan Humphrey, Qingyu Meng, Martin Berzins & Todd Harman (2012): Radiation modeling using the Uintah heterogeneous CPU/GPU runtime system. In: Proceedings of the 1st Conference of the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment: Bridging from the eXtreme to the campus and beyond, XSEDE '12. ACM, New York, NY, USA, pp. 4:1–4:8, doi:10.1145/2335755.2335791.
Pallavi Joshi, Mayur Naik, Chang-Seo Park & Koushik Sen (2009): CalFuzzer: An Extensible Active Testing Framework for Concurrent Programs. In: Ahmed Bouajjani & Oded Maler: CAV, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5643. Springer, pp. 675–681, doi:10.1007/978-3-642-02658-4_54.
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On the complexity of automatic structures
Peter Habermehl (LIAFA, University Paris Diderot (Paris 7))
Automatic structures are relational structures over some domain where the domain and the basic relations can be defined by finite-state automata. To show that satisfiability of first-order logic formulae over an automatic structure is decidable it is enough to observe that logical conjunction corresponds to intersection of automata, negation to negation and existential quantification to projection. Therefore, it is possible to construct for a first-order formula with free variables a representation of all its solutions as an automaton. One of the best known examples of an automatic structure is Presburger arithmetic, the first-order logic over integers with addition. A naive analysis of the complexity of the automata based decision procedure yields a non-elementary upper bound since each quantifier alternation necessitates a determinisation which might be exponential (so in total a tower of exponentials). However, there are several automatic structures where the known complexities are elementary (like Presburger arithmetic or structures of bounded degree). We will give a survey of these results as well as explain an approach to obtain complexity bounds of the automata based decision procedures from the ones of the other decision procedures. This approach is based on the use of Ehrenfeucht-Fraisse relations and their transposition to the automata setting.
Part of this talk is based on joint work with Antoine Durand-Gasselin.


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Man Utd ready to pay £255,000 a week, lead to seal signing – Report
January 8, 2023 Farjad Atletico Madrid, First Team, NewsNow, Transfers & Rumours 1
Manchester United must act fast to secure the signing of Joao Felix or they might end up losing him to Arsenal.
Earlier in the day, we covered a story (via The Star) stating the Gunners are ready to go all in to hire the services of the Atletico Madrid attacker.
Read – Man Utd have submitted offer to sign £101,000 a week star – Report
According to an exclusive story published by The Sunday People (press image provided below), the Old Trafford club lead to seal the signing of the Portuguese international.
The media outlet have mentioned that Man Utd are ready to pay the salary of Felix, who earns around £255,000 a week, but are only prepared to offer a loan fee of £3million.
On the other hand, the Rojiblancos are looking to get a loan fee worth £9.5million and a mandatory option to make the move permanent for £70.5million at the end of the campaign.
It is reported that United have the first option to buy him but they have 48 hours to match any offer forwarded by another club.
Joao Felix was a superstar at Benfica but he has failed to regularly score and create goals in the ultra-defensive system of Diego Simeone.
The relationship between the manager and the playmaker has broken down this season, which is why, Felix has rarely started in the current campaign.
Ten Hag has revealed that he trusts Anthony Martial but the Frenchman cannot be forced to play for 90 minutes every three days, therefore, the Dutch manager is looking to lure a new forward this month.
In your opinion, should Man Utd meet Atletico Madrid's demands to sign Joao Felix?
Excellent Larry A says:
For losing Gakpo to Liverpool, I'm not too keen on any particular player we are looking at. I know we're not always serious when it comes to bringing players to Old Trafford.
We lost Nunez and Gakpo to Liverpool due to our lukewarm attitude in the transfer business, which will eventually result to panic buy and clubs hiking their players values.


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Elkanah Billings (* 5. Mai 1820 in Gloucester (Ontario), heute Teil von Ottawa; † 14. Juni 1876 in Montreal) war ein kanadischer Paläontologe, der von Haus aus Anwalt und Journalist war.

Billings kam aus einer Familie von Landwirten und studierte ab 1839 Jura. 1844 wurde er als Anwalt zugelassen. Daneben war er Amateur-Geologe und -Paläontologe. Er arbeitete auch als Journalist. 1852 bis 1856 war er Herausgeber des Ottawa Citizen. 1854 erfolgte seine erste wissenschaftliche Veröffentlichung in der Paläontologie in der Zeitschrift des Canadian Institute in Toronto, dessen Mitglied er im selben Jahr wurde.  1856 gründete er die Zeitschrift Canadian Naturalist and Geologist, in der er auch zwanzig Jahre lang seine Arbeiten veröffentlichte (neben anderen wissenschaftlichen Zeitschriften wie dem American Journal of Science and Arts in New Haven und dem Geological Magazine in London). 1856 wandte sich dann ganz der Paläontologie zu als erster Paläontologe, der beim Geological Survey of Canada angestellt war. Dessen Direktor William Edmond Logan war durch dessen Aufsätze auf Billings aufmerksam geworden und holte ihn an den Geological Survey, der in Montreal saß.

Billings publizierte über 200 wissenschaftliche Arbeiten, auch zur Zoologie. In der Paläontologie publizierte er insbesondere zum Paläozoikum, und hier über alle bekannten Tierstämme. Er veröffentlichte aber auch über Fossilien aus der ganzen Erdgeschichte bis hin zum Mammut.

Er identifizierte über 1000 neue Arten und 61 Gattungen von Fossilien, darunter viele Trilobiten und zum Beispiel 1872 das erste dokumentierte Fossil der präkambrischen Ediacara-Fauna, Aspidella (Aspidella terranovica), gefunden von Alexander Murray (der es für ein mechanisches Relikt hielt wie der Bildung von Gasblasen) im Sandstein in St. John's auf Neufundland und etwa 570 Millionen Jahre alt.

1858 wurde er Mitglied der Geological Society of London. Er erhielt Medaillen auf der Weltausstellung in London 1862 und in Paris 1867 und eine Auszeichnung der Natural History Society of Montreal.

Schriften
Abschnitte zur Paläontologie im Report des Geological Survey of Canada 1863, herausgegeben von William Edmond Logan (Geology of Canada)
Palaeozoic Fossils, Band 1 (Containing descriptions and figures of new or little known species of organic remains from the Silurian rocks, 1861–1865). Dawson Brothers, Montreal. Geological Survey of Canada, Separate Report, 1865, Band 2, 1874
Catalogues of the Silurian fossils of the Island of Anticosti, with descriptions of some new genera and species, Geological Survey of Canada, Montreal, London, New York, and Paris, 1866
Sein vollständiges Publikationsverzeichnis ist in D. B. Dowling General index to the reports of progress, 1863 to 1884, Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa, 1900

Weblinks
Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Artikel von Andre Desilets, Yvonne Pageau
Randy Boswell Near forgotten Canadian Scientist discovered new era of Life on earth, Calgary Herald

Paläontologe
Kanadier
Geboren 1820
Gestorben 1876
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December 5, 2021 by Kim Abbott
Where Does The Best Italian Pasta Come From?
There are a lot of people who are looking for the best pasta in the world, and many people have fallen in love with the pasta that comes from Italy. Italy is a region of the world that is known for its food, with pasta being at the top of the list. Even within this pasta haven, different parts of Italy are known for different types of pasta. Therefore, travelers need to be familiar with regional differences in pasta, so they can find the best meals for them.
Campania Is Known For Penne Pasta
When people think about pasta, they usually envision penne. This is a classic pasta shape and is commonly produced in Campania. This part of Italy is home to the Amalfi Coast, Mount Vesuvius (near Pompeii), and Naples itself. Located in southern Italy, Campania is known for penne pasta that comes out perfectly shaped every time. Penne means "pen" in Italian, which is an accurate description of the delicious pasta that comes from this part of Italy.
Sicily Is Known For Its Ziti
Sicily is located at the boot of Italy and is known for its gorgeous architecture, Greek ruins, and the largest opera house in Italy. Of course, Sicily is also known for its delicious pasta. Ziti is penne pasta that comes from Sicily, and they make their pasta slightly differently. Travelers might notice that ziti pasta has ridges, while penne pasta does not. The ridges in ziti make this type of pasta perfect for grabbing the delicious sauces in Italian pasta. Consider using ziti to create dishes that are filled with a delicious sauce.
Abruzzo Is Known For Spaghetti Alla Chitarra
Another popular tourist destination in Italy is Abruzzo. This is a mountainous part of Italy that is located in the center of the country. This area is known for its striking red garlic and its delicious saffron. The pasta from this region is spaghetti that has a square shape instead of a cylindrical shape. Chitarra means guitar and is used to describe this type of pasta because the dough is passed through fine strings resembling those of a guitar. This is pasta that is commonly served with cream and oil sauces.
Find The Best Pasta In Italy
Of course, there is no single "best" pasta in Italy. Instead, everyone has to find the best pasta for their preferences.
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What Makes Italian Pasta Different From Other Types of Pasta?
It is difficult to beat the pasta dishes that come from Italy. When people think about this boot-shaped country, they usually think about delicious wine, bread, and pasta. What makes Italian pasta better than pasta from other countries? There are several important points everyone should keep in mind.
Italian Pasta Is Made Differently
First, Italian pasta usually tastes better because it is made differently. Italian pasta has to adhere to strict standards that have been set by the government. Usually, Italian pasta is made from 100 percent durum wheat, which is usually called semolina flour. Therefore, Italian pasta is higher in protein. Semolina flour also stands up to the rigors of the cooking process much better than other types of flour. What Italian pasta has been dried slowly, it retains some of the flavor and texture of the semolina flour, contributing to its unique flavor.
The Water Plays A Major Role In The Cooking Process
Even though flour is important when making pasta, water is also important. Some people believe that water is only there to make the pasta softer, but the ingredients in the water also play a role. For example, there are a lot of countries that add certain chemicals to the water to make it safer. Even though this may be helpful in some situations, this is not necessarily great for cooking. For example, a lot of the water that Italians use in their cooking comes straight from the Alps. It doesn't get much cleaner than that. This water improves the cooking process when making Italian pasta.
Italian Pasta Dishes Are Properly Balanced
Finally, Italians have a lot of experience cooking pasta. As a culture, they have a significant amount of experience balancing their dishes. Usually, Italian sauce is relatively simple, showing respect for the quality of the pasta. For example, in Italian pasta sauce could be as simple as adding chopped garlic, chili, and olive oil. This allows the unique texture and flavor of the pasta to shine through.
Get The Best Pasta From Italy
These are a few of the most important reasons why Italian pasta is simply better. Anyone who is looking for a delicious pasta dish should head over to L'Amore Restaurant for the best pasta.
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The History of the Kalamata Olive
Kalamata olives have emerged as the most popular of all olives. From olive hummus to olive tapenades, olive bruschettas, and beyond, the kalamata olive is featured in all sorts of tasty concoctions, most of which have Italian or Greek roots. These flavorful olives have also made their way into pasta sauces, salads, and other appetizers and entrees.
The olive tree dates back thousands of years. Culinary historians insist olive trees first grew in the Eastern Mediterranean region. In fact, the olive tree was even provided as a prize for Olympic winners. However, most people don't know much about the nuanced history of the kalamata olive. Revered far and wide for their delicious taste and nutritional properties, kalamata olives are harvested in Messinia Peloponnese and Laconia. These delicate olives are hand-picked to prevent bruising. Kalamata olives are quite bitter when first plucked from trees so it takes some time for them to develop their amazing flavor. Most olive experts place kalamata olives in a brine solution for an extended period of time so they can ferment that much more quickly and thoroughly. It takes upwards of several months for the fermentation process to complete.
Also known as Greek olives, kalamata olives are named after the town of Kalamata where they grow between the glorious Taygetos' hillsides and the Messinian Gulf. Taygetos is Peloponnese's highest mountain in all of southern Greece. This is the perfect place to grown kalamata olives as the area has warm temperatures, plenty of sunshine, and water springs. This region is also highlighted by additional amazing natural features such as vast gorges, tall mountains, and beautiful sandy beaches. The land in and near the town of Kalamata has been extensively developed throughout the years, serving as a bountiful region for kalamata olives as well as other fruits and vegetables. In fact, some culinary specialists and historians have grown fond of referring to the town of Kalamata as Peloponnese's Marseille.
Now that you know the background of kalamata olives, it is time to taste these flavorful olives in the form of an appetizer or entrée. Some even choose to eat kalamata olives one by one with their hands, enjoying a flavor infusion that pleases the palate and lifts the spirit. Whether you prefer kalamata olives in salads, pasta entrees, as a pizza topping, in bruschetta, tapenades, or on their own, we compliment you on your good taste.
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June 4, 2021 by Kim Abbott
The Story Of The Tomato And Why It Is Essential For Delicious Italian Food
Chances are the dish you order tonight will feature the tomato. From tomato sauce used in pasta entrées to tomato sauce specific to pizza, diced tomatoes, chopped tomatoes, and beyond, tomatoes serve a wide variety of purposes in Italian food. However, most people don't know much about the tomato's origin.
The Tomato's Roots
Most people are surprised to learn tomatoes have been available to Italians for only a couple hundred years. In fact, no one in Italy knew about the tomato prior to the Columbian Exchange. The tomato was first cultivated in South America and Central America. It is here where the Aztec culture used tomatoes for all sorts of delicious dishes. In fact, the Aztecs enjoyed tomatoes for several centuries. The etymology of the word "tomato" stems all the way back to the Nahuatl word "tomatl" which means fruit.
Once the Spanish conquered Central and South America, they brought the tomato back home to Europe. The Spanish also brought all sorts of other veggies, fruits, and even some animals back to their European homeland. There is some debate as to when the tomato made its way to Italy. Historians believe tomatoes reached Italy in the early to mid-16th century as this is the time when tomatoes were first featured in the writing of Italian authors such as Pietro Matthioli.
It is particularly interesting to note Matthioli and other Italians believed the tomato was poisonous. As a result, Italians originally used tomatoes as decorative plants. Tomatoes were gradually implemented in Italian cooking in the years to follow. The Spanish taught Italians how to cook tomatoes in pans, typically mixing them in with onions, eggplant, and squash. Tomatoes quickly took off in popularity as they infused delicious flavor into all sorts of Italian dishes.
Fast forward to the 18th century and tomatoes were popular with Italian chefs and everyday people. In fact, some Italians during this time period boiled tomatoes and sealed them in airtight containers to preserve their flavor throughout the entirety of the year.
By the time the 19th century started, Italians were using tomatoes in everything from pasta dishes to Margherita pizza and beyond. Italians soon traveled to Argentina, Brazil, and United States in large numbers, spreading their culinary methods across the globe, ultimately putting the focus squarely on the many different creative uses of tomatoes.
Now that you know the story of tomatoes, it is time to dig into your entrée and taste the magic of this flavorful fruit.
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