A data transmission method for classifying network connections and transmitting multimedia data is described. After distinguishing multimedia connections from non-multimedia connects, multimedia packets are classified and consolidated into packet groups and then the packet groups are transmitted. The method for transmitting multimedia data comprises the following steps. First, determine whether a connection is used for transmitting multimedia data or not. If it does, the packets are consolidated into a packet group. Finally, forward the packet group according to a predetermined order after the packet group is assembled.
This application claims the priority benefit of Taiwan application serial no. 94110440, filed on Apr. 1, 2005. All disclosure of the Taiwan application is incorporated herein by reference.
The present invention relates to a method of transmitting data through a classification of network connections. More particularly, the present invention relates to a multimedia data transmission method for saving transmission bandwidth. The method includes classifying the network connections and consolidating packets into packet groups and transmitting the package groups if the network connection is a multimedia connection.
The conventional method of transmitting the data within a file includes cutting up the file into a plurality of manageable packets and transmitting them in a time sequence. Hence, when a server transmits a multimedia file such as the one shown in FIG. 1, the server will cut up the multimedia file into a plurality of image packets (V1-1, V1-2, V1-3 . . . ), a plurality of sound packets (A1-1, A1-2, A1-3 . . . ) and a plurality of parameter packets (P1-1, P1-2, P1-3, . . . ). Thereafter, the packets are transmitted one after the other in a time ordered sequence as shown in FIG. 2. As shown in FIG. 2, the first transmitted packet is the image packet V1-1. After that, the sound packet A1-1, the general data packet P1-1, the image packet V1-2, the sound packet A1-2 and so on is transmitted out one by one.
One major disadvantages for this arrangement is that the server needs to wait for a brief period after completing the transmission of the first image packet V1-1 but before transmitting the first sound packet A1-1. Similarly, there is a waiting gap in the transmission of all subsequent packets. The accumulation of a vast number of time gaps can lead to a considerable waste of transmission bandwidth and a slow down of file reception at client's terminal.
A data transmission control system and method is provided in Taiwan Pat. No. 589837. The method includes separating out and transmitting the control packets of Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) as soon as possible to increase the transmission efficiency. However, this method does not address the waste in bandwidth transmission due to the presence of inter-packet gaps and does not provide any additional processing for multimedia data.
Accordingly, at least one objective of the present invention is to provide a data transmission method that utilizes a classification of network connections to distinguish multimedia connections from non-multimedia connection and then consolidates the multimedia packets into packet groups before transmitting the packet groups. In this way, some transmission bandwidth is saved and the transmission efficiency is increased.
At leas a second objective of the present invention is to provide a data transmission method that utilizes a classification of network connections to reduce inter-packet time gap during packet transmission so that some transmission bandwidth is saved and the transmission efficiency is increased.
To achieve these and other advantages and in accordance with the purpose of the invention, as embodied and broadly described herein, the invention provides a data transmission method that utilizes a classification of network connections. The method in the present invention includes performing a classification of the network connections. The classification of network connections includes the following steps. First, the network connections of the packets are inspected. If the transmission port at the source terminal or the destination terminal of a network connection is a transmission port for standard non-multimedia transmission protocol, then the network connection is classified as a non-multimedia network connection. On the other hand, if the transmission port at the source terminal or the destination terminal of a network connection is a transmission port for standard multimedia transmission protocol, then the network connection is classified as a multimedia network connection. Finally, if the transmission port at the source terminal or the destination terminal of a network connection is neither a transmission port for standard non-multimedia transmission protocol nor a transmission port for standard non-multimedia transmission protocol, then the network connection is classified as either a multimedia network connector or a non-multimedia network connection according to the transmission history of the application program that opened the network connection.
In one embodiment in the aforementioned method of classifying network connections, the method of classifying network connections according to the transmission history further includes the following steps. First, the network connection is used to renew the transmission history. If the transmission history conforms to the characteristics of the multimedia transmission protocol, then the network connection is classified as a multimedia network connection. If the transmission history does not conform to the characteristics of the multimedia protocol, and furthermore, the number of packets analyzed through the application program according to the present method reaches a preset value, then the network connection is classified as a non-multimedia network connection. Finally, if the transmission history does not conform to the characteristics of the multimedia transmission protocol, and furthermore, the number of packets analyzed through the application program according to the present method has not yet reached the preset value, then the classification of the network connection is suspended and the analysis of the packets is continued.
From another perspective, the present invention provides a multimedia data transmission method comprising the following steps. First, determine whether the network connection of the packets is a multimedia network connection or not. If the network connection is a multimedia network connection, then the packets are added to a packet group until the packet group is consolidated. Thereafter, the packet group is transmitted.
In one embodiment of the aforementioned multimedia data transmission method, the method of determining whether the network connection is a multimedia network connection further includes the following steps. First, determine whether the transmission protocol of the network connection is a Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) or not. If the transmission protocol of the network connection is a Transmission Control Protocol, then determine whether the network connection is a multimedia network connection according to the source IP address (IP represents Internet protocol), the source transmission port, the destination address and the destination transmission port of the network connection.
In one embodiment of the aforementioned multimedia data transmission method, the method of determining whether the network connection is a multimedia network connection according to the source IP address and so on parameters further includes the following steps. First, determine whether the network connection has already been registered in a connection table according to the source IP, the source transmission port, the destination address and the destination transmission port of the network connection. If the network connection has not yet been registered in the connection table, the network connection is added to the connection table but registered as being unclassified. Thereafter, the network connection is classified into either a multimedia network connection or a non-multimedia connection. If the network connection has already been registered in the connection table but remains unclassified, then the network connection is classified into either a multimedia network connection or a non-multimedia network connection. Finally, if the network connection has already been registered in the connection table and classified as a multimedia network connection or a non-multimedia network connection, the network connection is determined to be a multimedia network connection or not according to the classification in the connection table.
From another perspective, the present invention also provides a multimedia data transmission method having technical aspects similar to the aforementioned multimedia data transmission method. Furthermore, the aforementioned network connection classification method is used to classify the network connections.
The first principle behind the present invention is to find the network connection for transmitting multimedia data. Then, the packets for transmitting via a multimedia network are classified into groups and the packets containing similar type of data are consolidated into packet groups. Thereafter, according to a pre-determined order based on the data type or degree of importance, the packet groups are sequentially transmitted. Thus, inter-packet time gaps during packet transmission is reduced, thereby leading to some saving in the network bandwidth and an increase in the transmission efficiency.
FIG. 1 shows a collection of different types of multimedia network data packets.
FIG. 2 shows the conventional method of transmitting multimedia data.
FIG. 3 shows a method for transmitting multimedia data according to one embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 4 is a flow diagram showing the steps for classifying network connections according to one embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 5 is a flow diagram showing the steps for transmitting multimedia data according to one embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 3 shows a method for transmitting multimedia data according to one embodiment of the present invention. In the present embodiment, the packets for transmitting multimedia data are first classified into image packets, sound packets and general data packets. Thereafter, packets belonging to the same type are consolidated into packet groups and then the data are transmitted in packet group units. For example, in FIG. 3, the first transmitted packet group G1 comprises three image packets V1-1 through V1-3 and the second transmitted packet group G2 comprises three sound packets A1-1 through A1-3. In this way, the inter-packet time gap during packet transmission is minimized and the waste in network bandwidth is reduced.
Before classifying the packets into different types and processing the packets accordingly, a classification of the network connections must be carried out so that the networks transmitting multimedia data are known. FIG. 4 is a flow diagram showing the steps for classifying network connections according to one embodiment of the present invention. Typically, the data is transmitted through the network using a single packet as a unit. When a packet needs to be transmitted to a destination terminal, the flow begins from step 401.
First, in step 401, a network connection is inspected for transmitting data. The data include a plurality of packets and the network connection includes a source transmission port and a destination transmission port. In step 402, the network connection is compared with the transmission port data table of a non-multimedia transmission protocol to determine if the transmission port at the source terminal (for example, a server) or the destination terminal (for example, the personal computer at a client's end) of the network connection is the transmission port of a standard non-multimedia transmission protocol, for example, the transmission port 80 of a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP). If it is, the network connection is classified as a non-multimedia network connection in step 408. In other words, it is not a network connection for transmitting multimedia data.
If the outcome of the determination in step 402 is negative, the source transmission port and the destination transmission port of the network connection is compared with the transmission port data table of a standard multimedia transmission protocol in step 403 to determine if the source transmission port or the destination transmission port of the network connection is the transmission port for transmitting multimedia transmission protocol. If it is, the network connection is classified as a multimedia network connection in step 409. In other words, the network connection transmits multimedia data.
If the outcome of the determination in step 403 is negative, the information related to the current network connection is used for updating the transmission history of the application program that opened the network connection in step 404. The so-called transmission history refers to the accumulated records of related information of the network connections opened through the same application program, for example, the order of usage of the transmission port. Thereafter, in step 405, the transmission history is checked to determine if it conforms to the characteristics of the multimedia transmission protocol, for example, according to the order of usage of the transmission port as registered by the transmission history or observing the content of the packet as registered by the transmission history or some other methods. If the outcome of the determination in step 405 is positive, the network connection is classified as a multimedia network connection in step 409.
On the contrary, if the outcome of the determination in step 405 is negative, the number of packets analyzed through the application program based on the present method is checked to determine if it reaches a pre-determined value. If the number of packets has reached the pre-determined value, the network connection is classified as a non-multimedia network connection in step 408. Otherwise, the classification is temporarily suspended and step 404 is carried out to analyze the subsequent packets until the number of analyzed packets reaches the pre-determined value.
After explaining the method of classifying the network connections, the following is a detailed description of the method of transmitting multimedia data. FIG. 5 is a flow diagram showing the steps for transmitting multimedia data according to one embodiment of the present invention. When data need to be transmitted through a network, that is, packets need to be transmitted somewhere through the network, the flow begins from step 501.
First, the transmission protocol of the network connection used for transmitting packets is checked in step 501 to determine if it is the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) or not. If it is not, then the present method for transmitting packets is inapplicable and the packets are directly transmitted in step 514.
Conversely, if the transmission protocol is determined to be TCP in step 501, the network connection is checked in step 503 to determine if it has already been registered by the connection table through four parameters of the network connection. The four parameters are the source address, source transmission port, the destination address and the destination transmission port of the network connection.
If the network connection is found to be unregistered in step 503, the network connection is added to the connection table in step 512 and registered as unclassified. Thereafter, in step 513, the network connection is classified as a multimedia network connection or a non-multimedia network connection. The method of classifying the network connection in step 513 in the present embodiment is the network classification method shown in FIG. 4, but the present invention is not limited as such. After classifying the network connection, if the network connection is verified to be a non-multimedia network connection, packets are transmitted in step 514. On the other hand, if the network connection is verified to be a multimedia network connection, the packets are added to the packet groups in step 507.
If the outcome of the inspection in step 503 shows that the network connection has already been registered, the network connections are checked to determined if they are classified in step 504. If the network connection is unclassified, the network connection is classified to be a multimedia network connection or a non-multimedia network connection in step 513. Thereafter, packets are transmitted in step 514 or packets are added to the packet groups in step 507.
On the contrary, if the outcome of the inspection in step 504 shows that the network connection has already been classified, the network connection is checked to determined if it is a multimedia network connection according to the registered classification in the connection table in step 506. If the network connection is not a multimedia network connection, the present method of transmitting packets is inapplicable and the packets are directly transmitted in step 514.
On the other hand, if the outcome of the inspection in step 506 is affirmative, the packets are added to packet groups in step 509 and the time needed to add the packets into the packet groups is computed. In the present embodiment, the packets for transmitting multimedia data are classified into three major categories, namely, image packets, sound packets and general data packets. Furthermore, each packet group comprises a plurality of packets in the same category.
Because the batch of data that needs to be transmitted comprises a plurality of packets, the number of packets increases with the quantity of data. When the size of the batch of data reaches a certain degree, if all the packets constituting this batch of data need to be added to the packet groups before transmitting, there will be a delay in the transmission of this batch of data. Therefore, the packets in a batch of data must be added to the packet groups in clusters and transmitted in clusters. In step 508, the packet groups are checked to determine if they are fully consolidated within a predetermined time period. In general, the consolidation period depends on the need of the user. If the packet groups have been consolidated, all the packet groups are transmitted according to the pre-determined order in step 510. The ordering is based on the type of packet groups, for example, the one shown in FIG. 3 with the image packet groups G1 transmitted first and then followed by the sound packet groups G2. Alternatively, the order of transmission can be set according to the degree of importance or other ordering methods.
On the other hand, if the outcome of the determination in step 508 shows that the packet groups is still not consolidated within a predetermined time period, this indicates the possibility of having a timeout error in the network connection when the packet groups are being consolidated. Hence, the already consolidated packet groups are directly transmitted in step 509. Thereafter, the packets still not added to the packet groups are added to the packet groups until all the remaining packets of the data are completely transmitted. According to product or the need of the user, the present invention can dispense with the time limiting parameter and introduce a preset value representing the number of packets in a packet group instead. When the number of packets inside any one of the packet groups reaches a consolidation level equal to the preset value, the already consolidated packet groups will transmit according to a pre-determined order so that the packets containing the data are transmitted in batches. Thus, timeout error during the transmission of data on the network is prevented. However, the present invention is not limited as such.
According to the aforementioned embodiment, the first principle behind the present invention is to find the network connection for transmitting multimedia data through a comparison between the transmission ports and analyzing the transmission history of the application program. Then, the packets for transmitting via a multimedia network are classified into groups and the packets containing similar type of data are consolidated into packet groups. Thereafter, according to a pre-determined order based on the data type or degree of importance, the packet groups are sequentially transmitted. Thus, inter-packet time gap during packet transmission is reduced, thereby leading to some saving in the network bandwidth and an increase in the transmission efficiency.
wherein steps (A) through (F) are executed in the order as they appear.
(F6) determining the network connection to be a non-multimedia network connection when the packet quantity is greater than the pre-determined value.
3. The network connection classification method of claim 2, wherein the characteristics of the multimedia transmission protocol includes the content of the plurality of packets.
if the source transmission port or the destination transmission port of the network connection is neither a transmission port of a non-multimedia transmission protocol nor a transmission port of a multimedia transmission protocol, classifying the network connection to be a multimedia network connection or a non-multimedia network connection according to a transmission history of an application program that opened the network connection.
if the transmission history does not conform to the characteristic of the multimedia transmission protocol and the number of packets analyzed through the application program using the multimedia data transmission method has not reached the pre-determined value, temporarily suspending the classification of the network connection.
6. The multimedia data transmission method of claim 5, wherein the multimedia data transmission method uses the content of the packets registered by the transmission history to determine if the transmission history conforms to the characteristic of a multimedia transmission protocol.
7. The multimedia data transmission method of claim 4, wherein the packet is classified into three different types including image packets, sound packets and general data packets and each packet group comprises a plurality of packets of the same type.
directly transmitting the already consolidated packet group when the packets cannot be fully consolidated within a predetermined time period.
(K) transmitting the packet group through the network connection.
(L6) determining if the network connection is a multimedia network connection according to the transmission history of an application program that opened the network connection when any one of the source transmission port and destination transmission port does not fall into the transmission port data table of the multimedia transmission protocol.
(M6) determining the network connection to be a non-multimedia network connection when the packet quantity is greater than the pre-determined value.
12. The data transmission method of claim 11, wherein the characteristics of the multimedia transmission protocol includes the content of the second packets.
13. The data transmission method of claim 9, wherein the first packets are classified into three different types including image packets, sound packets and general data packets and each packet group comprises a plurality of packets of the same type.
directly transmitting the already consolidated packet groups when the first packets cannot be fully consolidated within a predetermined time period and continuing with the consolidation of unconsolidated first packets.
directly transmitting the already consolidated packet groups when the packet quantity within any one of the packet groups reaches a pre-determined value and continuing with the consolidation of unconsolidated first packets.


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Microsoft has yet to release the Spring Creators Update to Windows 10. We've been sitting here waiting with a story about the launch ready to go, and nothing. Now people are starting to talk.
Rumored to arrive on April 10 alongside Patch Tuesday, the Spring Creators Update, aka version 1803 aka Red Stone 4, is due to deliver new code including a revamped interface, enhanced privacy and security features, and beefed up Cortana search capabilities.
Now if only they could just get the damn thing out the door. With that suggested deadline having come and gone, it's worth asking just what is going on. Could it be that everyone was preoccupied with Mark Zuckerberg appearing before US Congress, and any operating system launch would be lost in the headlines? Surely not.
We're excited to release the next update to Windows 10 and we'll share more when we're ready.
That's not much help. Windows watcher Zac Bowden reported that a show-stopping bug was holding up the release of SCU. There's no word on exactly what the fault is, but it's nice to know Microsoft isn't just knowingly shipping broken code.
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'Mountain Princess' Selena Khawaja scales 5,000-metre peak in Hunza
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A 9-year-old girl has become the youngest to scale the 5,765-metre-high Quz Sar Peak in Hunza, Gilgit Baltistan.
The peak is located in the scenic Shimshal Valley in the north of the country.
Selena Khawaja told Gulf News in her first detailed interview that she has in her heart a special love for peaks as she is a resident of the mountain city of Abbottabad.
On climbing the peak on February 21, 2018, Selena said she felt "great". "The view from the top of mountain is very beautiful," she expressed.
"At 5,000 metres, I felt slight altitude sickness but my training and the support of my father helped me overcome it soon," Selena shared her experience. The endeavour took more than 10 days, 7 of which were completely dedicated to the expedition.
And the little climber is not going to stop at that, as she has set her eyes on scaling Mingling Sar (6,050 metres), before heading towards Spantik Peak (7,027 metres) and Broad Peak (8,051 metres). The Broad Peak is the world's 12th highest mountain.
"I aim to climb all these peaks this year," said a determined Selena. According to her, she began physical training just last year in the Miranjani and Makra mountains.
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"I have scaled Miranjani at least 45 times and it is nearly 3,000 metres high," she recalled. "And summited the 4,000-metre Makra Peak around 3 times."
Yousaf Khawaja, Selena's father who accompanied her during her latest triumph, said, "when she started climbing at the age of 8, I sensed improvement in her activity within a month."
"In less than one year, she was able to do Miranjani round trip in half the time," he added.
Khawaja said, "Mount Everest was an impossible dream for an 8-year-old kid, but now we are on our way to achieve the goal within two years and will attempt it in 2019."
Meanwhile, Pakistan's mountaineers appreciated the girl's efforts, giving her the title of "Mountain Princess."
"This young kid has made Pakistan so proud. We should appreciate and support her as she aims to climb Mount Everest and bring the title home," a climber Umar Hassan said.
Some others were a bit skeptical on sending kids to scale such heights. One said, "high altitude climbing in winter season can be dangerous for young kids. We should ensure the kids' safety first."
Selena's father disagreed, saying, "at the age 9, she is way more fit than a casual 20-year-old."
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 Сонда 1 е двустепенна ракета с максимален полет на височина до 65 km, тяга 27 kN, тегло 100 kg и дължина 5,5 m. Изстрелвана е 9 пъти в периода 1965-1966 г.
 Сонда 3 е двустепенна ракета в две версии: Сонда 3 и Сонда 3М1. И двете ракети могат да достигнат до 600 km височина, имат тяга 102,00 kN и дължина 8 m. Сонда 3 тежи 1500 k, а Сонда 3М1 тежи 1400 kg. Изстрелвани са 27 пъти в периода между 1976 и 2002 г.
 Сонда 4 е двустепенна ракета с максимална височина 800 km, тяга 203,00 kN, маса 7200 kg, диаметър 1,01 m и дължина 11,00 m. Изстрелвана е 7 пъти в периода 1984-1990 г.
 Сонда 2 е едностепенна ракета с максимална височина 180 km, тяга 36,00 kN, маса 400 kg, диаметър 0,30 m и дължина 5,6 m. Изстрелвана е 7 пъти в периода 1990-1996 г.

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  Сонда 2 в Енциклопедия Астронавтика.
  Сонда 3 в Енциклопедия Астронавтика.
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The average humidity levels in November are listed below for cities and islands throughout Greece.
You can jump to a separate table for each section of the country: Aegean Islands, Crete, Peloponnese, as well as Western, Central and Northern Greece.
Relative humidity measures the actual amount of moisture in the air as a percentage of the maximum amount of moisture the air can hold. The numbers here are based on weather data collected over several decades.
These weather data are for places in the Ionian Islands and Western Hellas peripheries.
The cities listed here are in the Attica, Epirus, Sterea Hellas and Thessaly peripheries.
This section covers the peripheries of West, East Macedonia and Thrace.
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As the Calallen Education Foundation (CEF) finished out the last school year, a goal was set to incorporate insight to the Board of Directors by identifying an educator willing to join the leadership team and provide perspective from the teacher point of view.
Sue Wishard was welcomed to the CEF Board of Directors. Wishard has a BA in Culinary Arts that she achieved at Culinary School in Germany. She has a BA in Education and an MA in Occupational Training and Development.
Before working at Calallen ISD, she taught Culinary Arts for eight years at Mathis High School. She has been with Calallen ISD for 15 years, initially teaching Resource English at Calallen High School and now Adaptive Education.
As the Adaptive Education Instructor, Wishard works with students starting at age 14 until they turn 22. While in 9th and 10th grades she provides them Occupational Preparation and in 11th and 12th grades through the age of 22 she coordinates their Job Training.
Wishard said, "I love my kids. I have them for eight years and we are a family. They are like my own children!"
For the past seven years, in addition to teaching, Wishard has been the Head Coach of the Special Olympics Team. She has a son, Hunter, who attends Calallen High School.
Mia Taylor, President of the Calallen Education Foundation, stated, "We are so glad to have Sue on the Board of Directors. She has touched many lives in the Calallen community in the past 15 years and her ongoing experience with the students and teaching team, will bring a great viewpoint to the Calallen Education Foundation."
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Santa Fe may be one of the smaller state capitals in the USA, but it's a city that nonetheless comes formidably and famously stacked with world-class arts and culture. One of the treasures of that arts-and-culture scene is most certainly the Santa Fe Opera, a beloved institution whose 2018 season you've got easy access to as a guest of ours here at La Posada de Santa Fe Resort & Spa.
Introducing the Santa Fe Opera
John O. Crosby established the Santa Fe Opera on a 76-acre guest ranch north of the city back in 1956. The story goes that Crosby and Jack Purcell fired guns—some say a yacht cannon—to identify the most auspicious spot on the grounds from an acoustics perspective.
Since its launch, the Santa Fe Opera has presented 164 operas by some 80 composers, spread across on 2,000-odd performances that've included an impressive share of world and American premieres. Given the caliber of the productions and the open-air Crosby Theatre and the singular beauty of the high-desert surrounds, it's no surprise the company has such a stellar national reputation.
The 2018 Season at Santa Fe Opera
The operas on offer this season cover some marvelous territory. There's the Los Alamos saga Doctor Atomic (through August 16th), evoking the lead-up to the first atomic bomb being detonated in 1945 based on a diverse array of source material, including declassified government archives. There's Gioachino Rossini's comedic The Italian Girl in Algiers (through August 17th), Voltaire's iconic Candide(through August 25th), and Puccini's Madame Butterfly (through August 24th), which anchored the Santa Fe Opera's inaugural 1957 season. From July 28th through August 23rd, meanwhile, the Opera presents Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos in a brand-new production by Tim Albery.
The Santa Fe Opera also runs a Summer Concert Series at multiple venues. Upcoming performances include a concert at Santa Fe's Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi at 7 PM on Thursday, July 19th, and "Cabaret: The Multi-verses of Bernstein," a celebration of legendary composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein's 100th birthday at Meow Wolf at 8:30 PM on Thursday, July 26th, which will feature soprano Amy Owens and pianist James Lesniak.
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From its 2018 season productions at the Crosby Theatre to the Summer Concert Series shows in and around New Mexico's capital city, enjoy the onstage sublimity of the Santa Fe Opera this summer as guests of ours here at La Posada de Santa Fe Resort & Spa!


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The desk was tiny, wooden, and had no legs—it was meant to be screwed into a corner. When I was done using it, I could fold it flat against my bedroom wall and hide it behind my full-length mirror. In my ecstatic state buying it online, I may have even called it beautiful.
It was only the end of March and, a few weeks in, the pandemic already felt interminable. My partner and I were both working from the one-bedroom apartment we rent in Vancouver—I as a graduate student and teaching assistant, he as a journalist. I hadn't opened a book or touched my thesis in weeks. I needed the proverbial room of one's own, one with a door silencing my partner's eating sounds and diaphragmatic work voice. I thought the desk would be my ticket back to normalcy via productivity.
I was wrong. I used the desk twice before deciding I hated it. If I wanted to work standing up for more than fifteen minutes without my feet hurting, I had to use a yoga mat. During virtual office hours with students, I realized my bed—covered in unfolded laundry—was in full view behind me. I'd planned to be efficient but was accidentally feeding into what I'd feared all along: that I'm a mess and that, if someone discovers this about me, I'll have lost control of their perception.
As the pandemic spilled from weeks to months, I had ample time to analyze the other parts of my home that reminded me of my failings: my haphazard IKEA Stuk organizer, my bathroom cabinet overflowing with expired skin-serum samples and crusty lotion bottles, my credenza full of candle dregs and empty weed containers I don't know if I can recycle.
I'd never thought about my home this much save for the days when we had friends over and I'd fastidiously organize every surface to project that I'm a tidy, functioning adult. But, now, I'm in a hamster wheel of panic as I try to make my home fit all of its new roles: an office and a gym, a classroom and a happy-hour cocktail lounge, a sanitary and comforting place to hide from the outside world.
I feel this anxiety in the panoptic way our workplaces now peer into our homes. I feel it in the Room Rater Twitter account, which playfully rates the decor behind those who video-call into TV interviews, or as I tinker with my so-called Credibility Bookcase. (I remember throwing my copy of The Ethical Slut out of view seconds before joining a work meeting.) Meanwhile, postsecondary students are subjected to online exam proctoring, which requires them to have extremely quiet, distraction-free rooms—unexpected noises or eye movements can cause them to be accused of cheating. The conditions of our work and education have changed, and our homes have to bend to fit them.
On top of that, the internet makes a hyperefficient home feel like an accessible fantasy. Sunny Instagram and TikTok posts are replete with home makeover #goals, each a reminder that the key to a more livable pandemic is an easy DIY renovation away. Apartment Therapy's website offers an endless scroll of efficiency-making inspiration while conspicuously dodging mention of the situation—a pandemic in which our productivity is being valued over our well-being—that makes it all necessary: "A 550-Square-Foot Apartment Masterfully Fits a Ton of Function in a Small Space"; "Before and After: A Closet-Turned-Office Makes Use of Every Inch—for Under $1000"; "10 Small-Space Dining Tables That Can Double as Work Desks." The best space, it seems, is a utilized one.
It's true that the way we arrange our homes can be a balm to the mass disorder of the world outside. A 2011 Princeton University study found that clutter prevents our brains from processing information efficiently (to which I say, "No kidding"). Organizing your fridge into oblivion is comforting in the same way it can soothe you to see your to-do list written on a piece of paper—it makes the task of living feel approachable. The drive to functionalize our homes is also routinely magnified by the uber-visual media we consume. But this drive does nothing to improve our experiences of actually being in the world during a deeply stressful time. At best, a well-organized home is a sign of the times, an idealized cure for the anxieties that ail us. At worst, it's a bad cure for a bad world.
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In August, Boston Magazine published an interview with architect Stephen Chung about the two-storey glass-walled structure he built on his property, complete with his home office on one floor and a space for his kids' virtual school on another—a project, the magazine writes, that "may symbolize the COVID-inspired ingenuity we'll see in the months and years to come." Chung's home is one of many optimistic examples of COVID-considerate architecture, designs for a world in which people spend more time at home. Australian architecture firm Woods Bagot, for example, has designed an apartment with a modular system of walls so residents can change the configuration of their home on the fly—an open-concept living room can be compartmentalized into a chic, Zoom-friendly office just by pushing some dividers around. Other building experts predict a future of more courtyards and balconies. When Boston asks Chung what he foresees, his answer is "mud rooms"—more designated places for people to take off their shoes and wash their hands. As I listen to a garbage truck squeal in the alley below my bedroom window for the fourth time this morning, the idea of having a mud room—any extra room, really—sounds quite nice.
Naturally, home renos are having a moment during the pandemic. Canadians are spending more on optimizing their living spaces than they were last year, such as converting unfinished basements into home gyms and offices or installing sound-proofing insulation to make working from home easier. To stimulate a lagging economy, the Newfoundland and Labrador government launched a $30 million residential-construction rebate program in June, allowing homeowners to claim 25 percent of the cost of renovations to their principal residences. But such projects are accessible only to those who own homes and have ample disposable income.
On one hand, I am very privileged. I make my living working from home, unlike many of my family and friends, who work riskier gigs in hospitals, clinics, and schools. On the other hand, people's wealth—and their ability to use it to improve their situations—feels more vibrant and more dizzyingly taunting than ever.
If I could ask Marie Kondo any question, it would probably be: "Why do I still feel like shit?"
The answer, I think, requires a deeper understanding of the way homes function as guidelines for how we should live. Home design doesn't just reflect the troubles and values of the times we're in, like how the modern Bauhaus aesthetic of shiny, sanitary surfaces, open rooms, and large windows emerged in the aftermath of the Spanish flu. Home design also scripts how we, as humans, should embody these values.
This idea is central to Deborah Chambers's Cultural Ideals of Home: The Social Dynamics of Domestic Space. Take nineteenth-century drawing rooms, where newly middle-class women flouted their emerging social mobility by repurposing household items as decor: turning drain pipes into vases or disembowelled pianos into tables. Male artists at the time lambasted what they saw as poor taste driving this creative use of space and resources. As Chambers points out, these men weren't just saying that lower-class women shouldn't be tastemakers—they were dog-whistling the century's broader anxiety around upward mobility, issuing thinly veiled calls for the less affluent to stay in their lanes.
Or think of the sparkly optimism of "home of the future" displays from midcentury world fairs: model homes alongside installations often sponsored by companies' futuristic technologies, like televisions and dishwashers. Events like the first New York World's Fair, in 1939, were aimed at stimulating commerce and nationalism during the Great Depression. At the cusp of World War II, right before things fell apart, these fairs touted consumerism as a building block of a stable, democratic America.
A future historian may read the hyperorganized, hyperefficient home triumphs of COVID-19 in a similar way: that clean, aspirational images of the hyperfunctional home were a futile panacea for the chaos surrounding us.
The way home improvement is marketed to us, though, definitely makes it seem like we're in control. It feels appropriate to admit something here: I'm really obsessed with IKEA. I'm addicted to the optimism of walking through the warehouse, giddy about all the things I am buying or will buy next time. Every time I visit, I dream about the person I'm on the precipice of becoming.
Several researchers, including Rania Magdi Fawzy, Per Ledin, and David Machin, have argued that this is exactly how IKEA is supposed to make me feel. According to these scholars, IKEA sees its customers as busy, self-enterprising people to whom its products offer a welcome respite. IKEA-catalogue quips like "In this kitchen, cooking is about slowing down, not stressing out" and "With floor-to-ceiling curtains, you decide when to let the world in" communicate not only that we are responsible for making our lives better but that we can buy and build "better" with our own hands. This ethos puts the burden of improvement on us instead of encouraging us to demand it from entities with more power and capital, like our governments and employers.
IKEA's branding is distinct, yet the broader phenomenon is all around us. Capitalist ideals of maximizing value and pursuing independence have become the unassuming backdrops to the most intimate parts of our daily lives. I would even go as far as saying, as Lisa Duggan has, that this neoliberal language makes us a lot more game to participate in a system that helps the rich grow their wealth and power. We can chill out about the wealthy and happy getting wealthier and happier because we're all potentially wealthy and happy—as long as we pull up our bootstraps and build the lives of our dreams, Allen keys in hand.
The catch: this constant project of bettering our homes in the shadow of global catastrophe feels, well, bad. And this seems to be the whole point. In order to work better, I spend more time tidying. I realize I need to buy more things to tidy better and work harder. I buy more things from IKEA, then become disappointed that the things from IKEA didn't fix everything. I return to IKEA.
Making our homes work for us gives us a sense of control while we're plagued by the capitalist grind (and by the actual plague of COVID-19). Both things have heightened my sense of guilt, even obsolescence. Witnessing my friends on the front lines break down under pressure, I wish I had more crucial skills beyond writing marketing copy and teaching creative writing.
So I take up home projects to imbue myself with a sense of purpose—the idea that, if I just buy the folding desk and drill it into my wall, I will finally have that big It (my life, my future) under control. I know I'm going to keep trying to find ways to optimize my home space because I don't want to be left behind, perceived as lazy or unproductive. But there will always be something else outside of my control.
While I don't want to cut myself too much slack, I will say that this is yet another script I've internalized. It's more palatable to think we can eradicate COVID-19 by washing our hands (perhaps in a newly built mud room) and, relatedly, eliminate our pandemic ennui by diving into self- and home-improvement projects. But this does little to reckon with the deeper political and structural problems that have exacerbated the pandemic—like how discrimination has made it disproportionately difficult for racialized people to meet their financial obligations and needs, or how the Alberta government threatened to lay off up to 11,000 hospital cleaning and laboratory workers in October.
But, just because something feels normal, that doesn't mean it's the way it's always been—or the way it always has to be. Imagine what could happen if we shifted the neoliberal targets off our backs, if only during the pandemic. Employers could compensate workers for using our homes as free corporate real estate. Governments could reject austerity in favour of more radical action to circuit-break the spread of the virus. We could provide better mutual aid by sharing excess resources with our neighbours instead of driving said resources into the next home reno (and the next, and the next).
Right now, though, it makes sense to feel like the plays we can manage with the hand we were dealt kind of suck.
I got a new desk, and the chair I'm sitting in to use it kind of sucks too: an IKEA one I found on Craigslist. It's too low to sit comfortably at the new workspace. I'm trying not to resent it as much as I did the last one—although the desk, I'm pretty sure, was never really the problem.
Kate Black is a Vancouver-based writer from Saint Albert, Alberta. In 2020, she won the National Magazine Award for Best Emerging Writer and was selected as one of Canada's top new voices in nonfiction by the RBC Taylor Prize.
Janet Mac
Janet Mac is a 3D artist, illustrator, and animator from Toronto.
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Paul Duncan, former Notre Dame lineman dead at 35
Justin Frommer
The Notre Dame football program is mourning the death of former offensive lineman Paul Duncan, who died on July 15 when he went into cardiac arrest on a run in his neighborhood, according to an Instagram message posted by his wife, Ellen Duncan. Paul Duncan was 35.
Ellen Duncan said Paul's body will be "donated to people in need of organs and to medical research".
Paul Duncan was an offensive lineman for the Irish from 2005-09. After graduating, Duncan briefly spent time in the NFL with the Denver Broncos as an undrafted free agent.
Duncan is survived by his wife and two daughters.


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Study: UK economy likely to suffer post-Brexit
By Zoran Radosavljevic | EURACTIV.com
Of all the scenarios analysed, only one replicated or even bettered the financial benefits of EU membership for the UK. [lazyllama/Shutterstock]
The UK economy is likely to suffer for a decade after leaving the EU under the most probable post-Brexit trade scenarios, according to a new study from the RAND Corporation, made available to EURACTIV.com before publication.
Only one of the eight presented options would see the UK economy better off than it is now: a trilateral UK-EU-US free trade agreement, which does not seem very likely.
Leaving the EU with no deal, which would mean reverting to basic World Trade Organisation (WTO) rules, would cause the greatest economic loss for the UK, the study said. The result would be a loss in GDP of nearly 5%, or $140 billion, in the ten years after Brexit, compared with the UK's economic performance inside the EU.
Researchers at RAND have measured likely monetary changes in GDP growth, GDP per capita, trade and foreign direct investment for the UK, EU and US across the eight trade scenarios.
The scenarios include five 'hard Brexit' options: WTO rules, a free-trade UK-EU deal, a free trade UK-US-EU deal, a UK-US deal, and an extended transition period during which EU and UK tariffs do not change, but other non-tariff barriers emerge.
Three 'soft Brexit' scenarios include the Norwegian model (membership in the European Economic Area), the Swiss model (series of bilateral agreements), and a full customs union. UK Prime Minister Theresa May has ruled out the option of remaining in the EU customs union after Brexit.
UK Brexit Minister David Davis said on 6 December that the British government itself has not yet conducted formal sector-by-sector analyses of the impact that leaving the EU would have on the economy. He argued they are not necessary yet.
Davis: Britain has not formally assessed impact of Brexit on economy
Britain has not conducted formal sector-by-sector analyses of the impact that leaving the European Union will have on the economy, Brexit minister David Davis said on Wednesday (6 December), arguing they were not necessary yet.
EU leaders are expected to approve at a summit on 14-15 December that Brexit talks should progress to a second phase, the post-Brexit trade relations, after reaching a deal last week on the three key issues – Northern Ireland, the rights of citizens and the Brexit bill.
If negotiations result in WTO trade arrangements, the UK would likely move further from EU standards, the study said. Over time, it would significantly increase non-tariff barriers, harming the ability of UK businesses to sell goods and services to EU countries.
The services sector, which includes the financial and banking sectors, is particularly important as it dominates the UK economy, contributing to around 80% of GDP.
The EU would also lose out under the WTO scenario, but the effect is relatively minor – a 0.7% drop in GDP in the ten years following Brexit.
Of the eight scenarios analysed, the most beneficial to the UK economy would be a trilateral UK-EU-US agreement, under which UK GDP would be 2.2% higher, or 7.1% better than under the WTO rules scenario.
This is even slightly better than continued EU membership. The EU and US are also forecast to make significant economic gains under this trade scenario. However, a TTIP-like arrangement is seen as very unlikely in the current political environment on both sides of the Atlantic, the study said.
Other trade scenarios could be better for the UK than WTO rules but would still lead to economic losses compared with continued EU membership.
These include 'hard Brexit' scenarios, such as a UK-EU free trade agreement (net UK GDP decline of 1.9% ten years after Brexit), UK-US free trade agreement (2.5% decline) or UK-EU transitional zero-tariff agreement (2.1% decline).
The 'soft Brexit' scenarios would also result in economic decline, albeit smaller: the Norway option (1.7% decline), the Switzerland option (2.4% decline) or staying in the customs union (1.8% decline).
Brexit set to dominate UK politics for years ahead
In March, Michel Barnier told me he had offered the UK a two-year transition period after April 2019 in which Britain could trade freely without tariffs or duties, provided London accepted existing EU rules and laws on social protection, environment and rights of EU citizens. Denis MacShane explains.
"The analysis clearly shows that the UK will be economically worse-off outside of the EU under most trade scenarios. The key question for the UK is how much worse-off," said Charles Ries, vice president at RAND International and lead author of the report.
"It is in the best interests of the UK, and to a lesser extent the EU, to achieve some sort of open trading and investment relationship post-Brexit."
A UK strategy of trying to pick apart European unity would be unlikely to work since it is in the best interests of all EU member states to work together, RAND said.
The EU, for its part, may see a benefit in adopting a 'zero sum game' approach, and its top political priority is to discourage other member states from withdrawing.
Ries explained: "Based on our insights, it is in the best interests of the UK to cooperate with its EU partners to find a new relationship with Europe. This would preserve economic benefits for both sides, but also give the UK the freedom from EU rules which it seeks.
However, "the EU is likely to want to ensure that it does not give too much away to the UK during negotiations, and may seek to adopt a 'zero sum game' approach to preserve the union," Ries wrote in the report.
For the US, the study found, political and security effects are likely to be more important than the economic impact. The potential economic gains/losses for the US after Brexit are relatively small except in case of a TTIP-like arrangement, which would result in substantial economic gains for the US.
"The US will greatly miss the influence and global perspective that the UK brings to EU decision-making, particularly around security and defence. In fact, the UK's EU membership often ensured that EU measures did not undermine NATO and the strong transatlantic partnership. The economic impact from Brexit is very much a secondary concern for the US," Ries said.
Transport disruptions loom as UK, EU face Brexit 'cliff edge'
Unless Brexit negotiators reach a transitional deal by September next year, both the UK and the EU face a "cliff edge" scenario with serious disruptions in air, railway and maritime traffic, industry sources have told EURACTIV.com.
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\section{Introduction}

The integration of subsymbolic and symbolic methods in artificial
intelligence, known as neural-symbolic integration, has been studied
for three decades now
\cite{DBLP:journals/ml/TowellS93,DBLP:books/daglib/0007534,DBLP:series/sci/2007-77,DBLP:series/cogtech/GarcezLG2009},
with a recently growing interest
\cite{HitzlerSarker22,DBLP:journals/ai/BadreddineGSS22,DBLP:journals/ml/ChenHJHAH21,DBLP:journals/corr/abs-2006-13155}.
While a solid theoretical basis is mostly lacking
\cite{vanHarmelen2022}, hundreds of specific methods and architectures
have been engineered and proven to be superior to purely symbolic or
purely subsymbolic methods. A certain structure has been brought into
this plethora of methods by developing classification schemas
\cite{VonRueden.ea:2021,DBLP:conf/ijcai/RaedtDMM20,DBLP:journals/apin/BekkumBHMT21}

We here follow neural-symbolic \emph{design patterns} developed in
\cite{DBLP:journals/apin/BekkumBHMT21}. They allow the description of
neural-symbolic systems using small building blocks like instances,
models, processes and actors in a modular way, and provide a useful
visualisation of the architecture of such systems. However, the design
patterns remain informal in \cite{DBLP:journals/apin/BekkumBHMT21}.
The goal of the present work is to formalise some aspects
of the design patterns, such that we can define notions of
\emph{refinement} of patterns, as well as modular \emph{combination}
of larger patterns from smaller building blocks.

\section{Neural-symbolic design patterns}

The language for design patterns describing neural-symbolic systems
developed in \cite{DBLP:journals/apin/BekkumBHMT21} is based on a taxonomy
of pattern elements that has been introduced in the appendix of
\cite{DBLP:journals/apin/BekkumBHMT21}, and that is shown
in Fig.~\ref{fig:onto}. (An extended version with more focus
on actors is presented in
\cite{DBLP:journals/corr/abs-2109-09331}.)
The classes just below the top class are the follwoing:
\begin{description}
\item[instances] symbols or data that comprise the input or output
  of neural symbol systems.
\item[models] models can be hand-crafted or trained from instances
  (the latter is learning by induction). Existing models can be applied
  to instances (deduction).
\item[processes] like training or deduction.
\item[actors] e.g.\ human beings that handcraft a model; \cite{DBLP:journals/corr/abs-2109-09331} provides a more fine-grained discussion of actors.
\end{description}
Fig.~\ref{fig:sample-patterns} shows a simple pattern that generates a
statistical model (like a neural network) from data, as well as a more
complex truly neural-symbolic pattern integrating a statistical and a
semantic model.  Both patterns stem from
\cite{DBLP:journals/apin/BekkumBHMT21}.

\begin{figure}
\hspace{-1cm}  \includegraphics[width=1.1\textwidth]{onto.pdf}
  \caption{Ontology of pattern elements} \label{fig:onto}
\end{figure}

\begin{figure}
  \includegraphics[scale=0.5]{Pattern-stat.png}\qquad
  \includegraphics[scale=0.4]{Pattern-nesy.png}
  \caption{Two sample patterns} \label{fig:sample-patterns}
\end{figure}

\section{Formalisation}

We now formalise the pattern language of
\cite{DBLP:journals/apin/BekkumBHMT21}. Patterns are some form of directed
graphs. At a first glance, it seems that these graphs are bipartite,
such that only edges between process nodes and non-process nodes are
possible. However, examples \cite{DBLP:journals/corr/abs-2109-09331}
show that this would be overly restrictive. Hence, we arrive at:

\begin{definition}
Fix an ontology (class hierarchy) of pattern elements.  A
\emph{neural-symbolic design pattern} (NeSy pattern) is a simple directed graph,
where nodes $n$ are labeled with classes $lab(n)$ from the ontology.
\end{definition}

Refinements map patterns using a graph homomorphism.
Labels can become more specific, i.e.\ move downwards in
the class hierarchy of the ontology.

\begin{definition}
Given NeSy patterns $P_1$ and $P_2$ over the same ontology, a
\emph{refinement} $\varphi:P_1\to P_2$ is a homomorphism of unlabled
graphs $\varphi:P_1\to P_2$, such that for each node $n\in P_1$,
$lab(\varphi(n)) \leq lab(n)$ in the class hierarchy of the ontology.
\end{definition}

Fig.\ref{fig:refinement} shows an abstract pattern about generating
a model from instances, which is then refined in two ways:
first, into a pattern where a statistical model is generated
from data, and second, into a pattern where a semantic model is generated
from symbols.

\begin{figure}
  \includegraphics[scale=0.5]{Pattern-refinement.png}
  \caption{Two refinements of patterns} \label{fig:refinement}
\end{figure}

Patterns and refinements can be combined into \emph{networks}.
Fig.~\ref{fig:network} shows such a network. The graph homomorphisms
of the refinement map the single model element of the upper pattern
to the model elements of the left and the right pattern, resp.
The importance of networks is that each network specifies a specific
way to glue together the patterns of the network into a combined
pattern.

\begin{figure}
  \includegraphics[scale=0.5]{Pattern-network.png}
  \caption{A network of three patterns and two refinements} \label{fig:network}
\end{figure}

Combination of patterns can be formally defined very succinctly
as \emph{colimits} in the sense of category theory \cite{AHS}:
\begin{definition}\label{def:combination}
Given a network of NeSy patterns and refinements, its
\emph{combination} (if existing) is the colimit in the category of
NeSy patterns and refinements.
\end{definition}

For readers not familiar with category theory, we will explain
this construction in more detail in a minute. But let us first
look at some example. Fig.~\ref{fig:combination} shows a combination of two patterns. The
left pattern about generating a model is combined with the right
pattern about inferencing using a semantic model. The two patterns
are glued together at their model parts, using a very simple pattern
at the top, consisting just of a model. The combination (shown at
the bottom) glues together the two input patterns. Note that the
model is a semantic model here, because the infimum of \texttt{Model}
and \texttt{Semantic model} in the ontology is \texttt{Semantic model}
\footnote{In Fig.~\ref{fig:combination}, annotations \texttt{model}
  and \texttt{model:semantic} are used instead of the proper ontology
  terms. In the future, this should be unified, either by providing
  additional class labels in the ontology, or by adapting the
  figures.}.

\bigskip
Now as promised, we give the explanation of the colimit construction in
Def.~\ref{def:combination} in elementary terms. The construction
is basically a glueing of all patterns of the network
at hand, realised by a disjoint union of node sets, which is
then quotiented as specified by the refinements in the network:

\begin{proposition}
The colimit as specified in Def.~\ref{def:combination} can be built as
follows. Given a network, let $(P_i)_{i\in I}$ the family of patterns
of the network, and $(\varphi_k)_{k\in K}$ the family of refinements
of the network (each coming with a source and target pattern).
Let $N(P_i)$ the set of nodes of pattern $P_i$.
Let
$$N = \biguplus_{i\in I}N(P_i)$$ be the disjoint union of all node
sets, and $\nu_i:N_i\to N$ (for $i\in I$) be the injections into the
disjoint union. Let $\sim$ be the equivalence relation over $N$ generated by
$$\nu_i(n) \sim \nu_j(\varphi_k(n))$$
for all $\varphi_k:P_i\to P_j$ in the network. Let
$$q:N\to N/\sim$$
be the factorisation of $N$ by $\sim$

The colimit pattern $P$ has node set $N(P)=N/\sim$.
Let $\mu_i:N(P_i)\to N(P)$, defined
as $\mu_i= q \circ \nu_i$, be the injection of the $i$-th pattern
into the colimt (the so-called colimit injections).
Edges in $P$ are all pairs $$(\mu_i(n_1),\mu_i(n_2))$$ for
$(n_1,n_2)$ an edge in pattern $P_i$. That is, $P$ contains
exactly those edges that are required to turn the colimit injections
into graph homomorphisms.

Finally, for a node $n \in N(P)$, let $N_n = \bigcup_{i\in
  I}\mu_i^{-1}(n)$.  Then
$$lab(n) = \inf_{m\in N_n} lab(m)$$

Now the colimit exists if all of the above infima
$\inf_{m\in N} lab(m)$ exist --- otherwise, the colimit is not defined.
\qed
\end{proposition}
Undefinedness of the colimit can arise for example if a node annotated
with \texttt{Model} is refined to (a) a node annotated with
\texttt{Semantic model} and (b) a node annotated with
\texttt{Statistical model}. Since there is no common subclass of
\texttt{Semantic model} and \texttt{Statistical model} in the
ontology, the above infimum does not exist. Note that this situation
can change if we change the ontology, i.e.\ by adding a term
\texttt{Hybrid model} as a subclass of both \texttt{Semantic
  model} and \texttt{Statistical model}. Indeed, such a term will
be very useful for specifying a pattern for logical neural networks
\cite{DBLP:journals/corr/abs-2006-13155}.

\begin{figure}
  \includegraphics[scale=0.5]{Pattern-combination.png}
  \caption{Combination of the network of Fig.~\ref{fig:network}.} \label{fig:combination}
\end{figure}

\section{Implementation}

The formal notions of patterns and refinements are being implemented
in the heterogeneous tool set (Hets)
\cite{DBLP:conf/tacas/MossakowskiML07}.\footnote{Hets is freely
  available under a GPL licence at
  \url{https://github.com/spechub/Hets}.} Using the structuring meta
lanaguage DOL \cite{mossakowski2015distributed}, patterns and
refinements can be written down as shown in Fig.~\ref{fig:dol}.  Using
the declaration \texttt{data ontohub:NeSyPatterns},\footnote{The use
  of the \textbf{data} keyword is not related to the term
  \texttt{Data} of the ontology. It has historical reasons, because it
  is also used for linking process logics with logics for data in
  Hets.} each pattern refers to some ontology of pattern
elements. Here, \texttt{ontohub:NeSyPatterns} is a CURIE that
abbreviates the URL \url{https://ontohub.org/meta/NeSyPatterns} (using
a prefix declaration). Instead, the ontology could also be specified directly by a URL,
or an OWL2 ontology can be specified inline.

In the patterns, terms of the ontology have to be used exactly as they are,
while in the visualised patterns, often abbreviations and/or
annotations with superclasses are used. Also note that optional node
identifiers can be written in square brackets. This is important for
distinguishing nodes that are annotated with the same pattern element,
and for referencing nodes that have been declared earlier, see
Fig.~\ref{fig:dol} for an example.  The example also shows how the DOL
language allows the definition of networks of patterns and
refinements. Such networks can then be combined into a new pattern,
in the sense of Def.~\ref{def:combination}.

Hets will check these patterns, networks and combinations for
well-formedness, and the result of the combination can be
computed.\footnote{For details, see
  \url{https://github.com/spechub/Hets/wiki/Patterns-for-neural-symbolic-systems}.}

\begin{figure}
  \begin{lstlisting}
prefix ontohub <https://ontohub.org/meta/>
logic NeSyPatterns
pattern Model = data ontohub:NeSyPatterns
  Model
end
pattern Train = data ontohub:NeSyPatterns
  Symbol -> Training -> Model
end
pattern SemanticDeduction = data ontohub:NeSyPatterns
  Symbol -> Deduction[A] -> Symbol;
  Semantic_Model -> A;
end
refinement R1 = Model refined to Train
end
refinement R2 = Model refined to SemanticDeduction
end
network N =
  Train, SemanticDeduction, R1, R2
end
pattern SemanticGenerateAndTrain =
  combine N
end
\end{lstlisting}
  \caption{The combination of Fig.~\ref{fig:combination}, formally specified in DOL} \label{fig:dol}
\end{figure}

\section{Conclusion}

The formalisation of neural-symbolic patterns paves the way for
several usuful developments. First, the use of a formal syntax for
patterns and of a formal ontology for pattern elements leads to
precision and standardisation. It would be useful to develop the
ontology of pattern elements as a joint community effort, such that it
can be referenced in patterns. Note that the DOL language allows the
local extension of the ontology, which (as we expect) will often be
needed. Moreover, DOL also allows the parallel refinement of a pattern
and its ontology, such that patterns written over different ontologies
can be refined and combined, too.  Of course, for the sake of
unification, such local ontology extensions could and should be later
integrated into the ontology, if found useful by the community.

As noted in \cite{DBLP:journals/apin/BekkumBHMT21}, patterns could be
also used to specific and build real neural-symbolic systems in a
modular way. A step towards this goal would be to equip pattern
elements with signatures. For symbols, this would be a first-order
signature, such that symbols could be represented as terms over that
signature. For data tensors, one would specify their dimensions.  Such
signatures could then be combined into more complex signatures for the
specification of models and processes. Once such signatures have been
provided, the next step will be to use logical languages like the
Hoare-style logic of \cite{DBLP:journals/corr/abs-2203-00938} for the
axiomatic specification and verification of neural-symbolic systems.

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Q: MySQL: Package 'mysql-server' has no installation candidate This error is being shown whenever I want to install any software via command line.
Even if i try to install softwares which I know are present at the source from where I am downloading.
Below is the full error message i am getting :
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package mysql-server is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'mysql-server' has no installation candidate

A: You can install mysql by
sudo apt install default-mysql-server

--------
sudo service mysql status
● mariadb.service - MariaDB 10.3.31 database server
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/mariadb.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Wed 2022-02-09 13:19:33 +08; 33s ago
     Docs: man:mysqld(8)
           https://mariadb.com/kb/en/library/systemd/
 Main PID: 18537 (mysqld)
   Status: "Taking your SQL requests now..."
    Tasks: 31 (limit: 4915)
   Memory: 73.1M
   CGroup: /system.slice/mariadb.service
           └─18537 /usr/sbin/mysqld

A: It worked for me.
If you have followed all the previous steps successfully and after running sudo apt-get install mysql-server you are getting an error then try this
    sudo apt-get install mariadb-server

A: I experienced this issue when trying to install MySQL Server on Debian 10.
Here's how I fixed it:
The issue is caused by the MySQL server apt repository not being included in your system's software repository list. In Debian 10 for example, MariaDB, a community fork of the MySQL project, is packaged as the default MySQL variant.
So to fix this first, add the MySQL server apt repository to your system's software repository list. Follow these steps:
Go to the download page for the MySQL APT repository at:
https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/repo/apt/

Select and download the release package for your Linux distribution. You can use:
sudo wget https://the-download-link

In my case it was:
sudo wget https://dev.mysql.com/get/mysql-apt-config_0.8.15-1_all.deb

Install the downloaded release package with the following command, replacing version-specific-package-name with the name of the downloaded package (preceded by its path, if you are not running the command inside the folder where the package is):
sudo dpkg -i version-specific-package-name.deb

In my case it was:
sudo dpkg -i mysql-apt-config_0.8.15-1_all.deb

Note: dpkg is used to install, remove, and inspect .deb software packages. The -i flag indicates that we'd like to install from the specified file.
During the installation, you'll be presented with a configuration screen where you can specify which version of MySQL you'd prefer, along with an option to install repositories for other MySQL-related tools. The defaults will add the repository information for the latest stable version of MySQL and nothing else. This is what we want, so use the down arrow to navigate to the Ok menu option and hit ENTER.
You'll also be asked to select a repository to add. Choose 'debian buster' which has the package 'mysql-server' in it. After the adding this repository you can update the repository and use the below command to install MySQL.
sudo apt-get install mysql-server
The package will now finish adding the repository. Refresh your apt package cache to make the new software packages available:
sudo apt update

Note: If you ever need to update the configuration of these repositories, just run sudo dpkg-reconfigure mysql-apt-config, select new options, and then sudo apt-get update to refresh your package cache.
Install MySQL by the following command:
sudo apt-get install mysql-server mysql-client libmysqlclient-dev

Note: This installs the package for the MySQL server, as well as the packages for the client and for the database common files. During the installation, you are asked to supply a password for the root user for your MySQL installation.
The MySQL server is started automatically after installation. You can check the status of the MySQLserver with the following command:
sudo service mysql status

Stop the MySQL server with the following command:
sudo service mysql stop

To restart the MySQL server, use the following command:
sudo service mysql start

MySQL creates a default user called root. You can change the password to any password of your choice by logging in to MySQL console using socket authentication:
sudo mysql -u root

Then run the command below to change the password
ALTER USER 'root'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED WITH mysql_native_password BY 'your-preferred-password';

Reference:
A Quick Guide to Using the MySQL APT Repository
How To Install the Latest MySQL on Debian 10
That's all.
I hope this helps

A: run:
apt install default-mysql-server
which installs MariaDB unfortunately, but still responds to service mysql status

A: Most likely you are running on ubuntu. It is important to run apt-get update first.

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Monday News Brief - August 6
Three items of interest to PG readers this morning: Randy Bachman''s latest jazz collaboration, Brian May''s Ph.D, and the music lineup at Sturgis
Taking Care of Jazz
Randy Bachman of BTO and The Guess Who fame shows more of his jazz instincts on his latest release, Jazzthing II, a collaboration with the renowned New Guitar Summit. The release is a sequel to Bachman's 2004 CD Jazzthing.
Bachman's chops are incredibly tasty on their own, but alongside those of New Guitar Summit players Jay Geils, Duke Robillard and Gerry Beaudoin, the disc is practically a buffet for the ears. Guitar quartets are rare but this release promises to change that. The foursome tackles standards and original Bachman material. The disc features a particularly creative rendition of the BTO classic, "Takin' Care of Business."
Geils, Duke and Robillard are scheduled to appear at the upcoming Premier Guitar Festival in Boston, September 15-16.
RandyBachman.com PremierGuitarFestivals.com
Dr. May... Well, almost
In addition to rocking stadiums and making hit records, legendary Queen guitarist Brian May knows a thing or two about science. In fact, he recently submitted his doctoral thesis in astronomy. The 60-year old studied at Imperial College in London before leaving academia to write and perform rock 'n roll licks. His return to scholarly endeavors marks the longest gap in doctoral studies in the school's history.
His thesis, "Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal Dust Cloud," is 48,000 words long. His defense is scheduled for August 23rd.
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Sturgis Rocks
The world''s biggest biker rally is also one of the biggest musical events in the country. Sturgis Motorcycle Rally 2007 kicked off Sunday with the typical expectation of drawing 500,000 people. As usual, a packed lineup of musical acts at official events and local bars/clubs will play a big role in making the week a success.
The biggest names on the event''s official lineup play what is called Rock''n the Rally, a gig considered to be the world''s largest amphitheater performance. Appearing this year are Tanya Tucker, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, 38 Special, The Outlaws, Godsmack, Ted Nugent, Fuel, Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, Smashmouth, Eddie Money and Zwarte. Many other stages in the area feature familiar names. For example, the Boneyard Saloon is featuring Seven Mary Three, Vince Neil, Quiet Riot, LA Guns, Firehouse, Warrant, The Georgia Satellites, Blue Oyster Cult, the Marshall Tucker Band, and John Kay & Steppenwolf among others. Downtread, featuring Premier Guitar staffer Brett Petrusek, will play the Boneyard''s out door stage Thursday at 8pm.
The 67th annual gathering in South Dakota has official events scheduled through Sunday, August 12th.
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Deep 6: A Brief History of the Tragically Underused Electric Baritone Guitar
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Barrie and Dave Knights from a late 60s French import. I often wonder how BJ felt about the different PH bass-players he worked with: Knights, Copping, Cartwright and Dee Murray in 1977. Since bass-player and drummer are integrated more than other band members, I would have liked to hear BJ's slant on the various configurations over the years.
The short-haired BJ Wilson or 'Ravious Wislon' as Brooker once called him. Here the year is 1972, the place, Central Park in New York City.
I recall BJ talking about that haircut, saying that he started to trim his beard and well ... it just ended up going further than expected. Who knows though ... being in Procol, that 'befuddlement' is contagious!
BJ in 1970 from an import album. Still using the grey Ludwig 'Ringo' set, BJ was just beginning to develop that 'octopus in the bathtub' style by now. Mick Grabham noted, 'any other drummer, you would have told to shut up' if they attempted to play as involved a part as BJ, complementing the music. His work on Fires (Which Burnt Brightly) is one of the best-constructed, intelligent approaches to drumming that I have ever heard. The way he leads us out of the organ solo is nothing short of inspired.
With all tentacles in play, the octopus unleashes a ubiquitous, flailing attack during a mid-70s concert.
Never at a loss to add something unexpected, BJ was continually a source of inspiration. His repetition of notational phrases played by other band members, as in Fires and Bacon, is jazz-like in conception. The drummer's drummer ... always in our hearts.
In a brief bearded period, BJ is seen here in a Creem magazine advertisement from 1971, promoting Broken Barricades.
'Got any merry-wanna?' read the caption below beloved BJ. If only we had known. Then again, with addictions, it doesn't matter if a trend is noted or not. Interventions are known to work from time to time, but are by and large unsuccessful. Though not at the juncture which tragically ended his life so prematurely, BJ was a textbook alcoholic. Harsh words for some perhaps, but the truth. I miss him most of all ... like the scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz. That really hurt to write.
BJ from Procol Harum – A Band of Changes. The article itself said Nothing That We Didn't Know already. Simply, that the drummer and guitarist were 'mainstays'.
I also feel that BJ's drumming underwent a massive metamorphosis between 1969 and 1971. Though he developed even further in his technique, it was around 1970 – 71 that he started to sit on his stool only about fifteen inches above the floor. Take a look at the later pictures of BJ: he is practically on the floor.
Such interpretatively skilled drummers are extremely rare. His drumming was as sensitive as his soul seemed to be.


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