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Q:
Key rotation with a secure element
I have a basic question about key rotation for IoT devices.
We are planning on using a secure element (example) to generate the key pairs. The key pairs are therefore generated on the chip, on the IoT device.
After the public key is initially uploaded to Google IoT, how can key rotation be performed?
Using an existing private key, the device can sign a JWT and authenticate itself to Google IoT. After generating a new key pair in the device, can the JWT also be used to authenticate uploading the new public key to the registry?
Please share any examples of key rotation for this type of platform. Thanks!
A:
From Google Cloud IoT Core + ATECC608 documentation:
For example, the private key is generated by the secure element
itself, not an external party (CA). The chip uses a random number
generator to create the key, making it virtually impossible to derive.
The private key never leaves the chip, ever. Using the private key,
the chip will be able to generate a public key that can be signed by
the chosen CA of the company.
Microchip performs this signature in a dedicated secure facility in
the US, where an isolated plant will store the customer’s intermediate
CA keys in a highly secure server plugged into the manufacturing line.
The key pairs and certificates are all generated in this line in a
regulatory environment which allows auditing and a high level of
encryption.
Once the secure elements have each generated their key pairs, the
corresponding public keys are sent to the customer’s Google Cloud
account and stored securely in the Cloud IoT Core device manager.
So the key-pair is fixed for a given secure element chip. While GCP IoT Core allows for up to 3 public keys per IoT device, you would have to physically replace the secure element chip to get a new key pair to rotate keys.
The idea of the secure element is that the private key can't be compromised so doesn't need rotating (read: can't rotate). While rotating keys is commonly recommended, the ability to rotate keys inherently introduces a vulnerability-- a bad actor could theoretically rotate in a new key of their choosing to gain control of the system, since the mechanism exists to replace the key. If no mechanism exists, then that is not a vector for hacking. There is a review of this behavior which you can read for further info.
The most common use case for this, in my experience, is where you have a device in the field, and you replace the "main board" that includes the secure element. You could add the public key of the new secure element that was shipped as a replacement into IoT Core so that when the "main board" is replaced, the new key pair is already registered and the device can automatically pull state and config information from IoT core. As long as the device was syncing config and state information with IoT Core, the new "main board" can then become the same device, but with a new "brain" and new key pair.
The JWT is generated based on the keys, but by design, the JWT has a short life (default 1 hour with a maximum of 24 hours). So new JWTs will be generated based on the same keys.
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This is Aluminum Length U Type Servo Bracket without screws and fitting.It is high quality and useful for making your own robot arms and legs. Its size is 51mm(L) X 24mm(W) X 57mm (H) . It fits standard size servo motors. |
Why do five-membered heterocyclic compounds sometimes not participate in polar Diels-Alder reactions?
The reactions of bicyclic enone (BCE, 1) with cyclopentadiene (Cp, 2) and the five-membered heterocyclic compounds (FHCs) furan 3 and N-methyl pyrrole 4 for the construction of polycyclic heterocyclic compounds have been studied at the B3LYP/6-31G* level. No reaction takes place in the absence of Lewis acid (LA) catalysts as a consequence of the high activation energy associated with these reactions. Electrophilic activation of BCE 1 by formation of a complex with the BF3 LA, 1-BF3, and solvent effects favor the reactions. However, a different reactivity is manifested by Cp 2 and FHCs 3 and 4. Thus, while the reaction of 1-BF3 with Cp 2 yields the expected exo [4 + 2] cycloadduct, the reactions of these FHCs yield Michael adducts. In any case, the reactions are characterized by the nucleophilic/electrophilic interaction between the most nucleophilic centers of these dienes and the most electrophilic center of complex 1-BF3. The greater ability of FHCs 3 and 4 to stabilize positive charges opposed to Cp 2 favors a stepwise mechanism with formation of a zwitterionic intermediate. Although in most stepwise Diels-Alder reactions, the subsequent ring closure has unappreciable barriers, in these FHCs the abstraction of a proton with regeneration of the aromatic ring becomes competitive. Thermodynamic calculations suggest that the exergonic character of the formation of the Michael adducts could be the driving force for the reactions involving FHCs. |
Efficient inhibition of foot-and-mouth disease virus replication in vitro by artificial microRNA targeting 3D polymerase.
Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is a devastating acute viral disease of livestock with cloven hooves. Among various therapeutic control measures, RNA interference (RNAi) is one of the methods being explored to inhibit FMD virus replication and spread. The RNAi is achieved by short hairpin RNAs or artificial microRNAs (amiRNAs). Utility of amiRNAs as antiviral, targeting conserved regions of the viral genome is gaining importance. However, delivery of miRNA in vivo is still a challenge. In this study, the efficacy of amiRNAs in preventing FMD virus replication in a permissive cell culture system was investigated, by generating stable cell lines expressing amiRNAs targeting three functional regions of the FMD virus (FMDV) genome (IRES, 3B3 and 3D). The results showed that amiRNA targeting 3D polymerase is relatively more efficient. However, expression of multiple microRNAs targeting the three regions did not exhibit additive effect. The data suggest that 3D specific miRNA is a potential valid strategy in developing novel antiviral measures against FMDV infection. Keywords: artificial microRNA; foot-and-mouth disease virus; virus inhibition. |
The "normal" adult human has 32 teeth. An adult should have 32 teeth with 8 incisors, 4 canines, 8 premolars, and 12 molars which include the four wisdom teeth. Humans develope 2 sets of teeth in their lives. the first set known as baby teeth began to come though at about age 6 months. They eventually have about 20 teeth as children before they began to lose ...
Doctors say to wait 12 days after a missed period to take a test but if you no your regular with your period then you can take a test a day after you miss your period. The best time to confirm pregnancy is 3 to 4 days after you miss your regular period. If you test too early your pregnancy test may show negative result even if you are pregnant, therefore wai ...
There are 14 systems that make up the human body. The Circulatory or Cardiovascular System (Heart, Blood Vessels (Arteries, Capillaries, Veins).) The Digestive or Gastrointestinal System (Mouth, Esophagus, Stomach, Small intestine, Large intestine) The Endocrine or Glandular or Hormonal System (Hypothalamus, Pituitary, Thyroid, Parathyroids, Adrenals, Pineal ...
Protein is one of the basic building blocks of the human body, making up about 16 percent of our total body weight. Muscle, hair, skin, and connective tissue are mainly made up of protein. However, protein plays a major role in all of the cells and most of the fluids in our bodies. In addition, many of our bodies' important chemicals enzymes, hormones, neuro ...
Approximately 21.5 million American adults, or about 9.5 percent of the U.S. population age 18 and older in a given year, have a depressive disorder. Nearly twice as many women (12.0 percent) as men (6.6 percent) are affected by a depressive disorder each year. These figures translate to 13.7 million women and 7.8 million men in the U.S. Pre-schoolers repres ... |
From abea92958b073dfbf0c78bcb31ce9cfc709c20ca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2017 22:33:55 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add an option to disable readline module
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
[Peter: update for 2.7.16]
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
---
configure.ac | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index ddccc79c2c..dae266326e 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -2875,6 +2875,12 @@ AC_ARG_ENABLE(hashlib,
DISABLED_EXTENSIONS="${DISABLED_EXTENSIONS} _hashlib"
fi])
+AC_ARG_ENABLE(readline,
+ AS_HELP_STRING([--disable-readline], [disable readline]),
+ [ if test "$enableval" = "no"; then
+ DISABLED_EXTENSIONS="${DISABLED_EXTENSIONS} readline"
+ fi])
+
AC_ARG_ENABLE(bz2,
AS_HELP_STRING([--disable-bz2], [disable BZIP2]),
[ if test "$enableval" = "no"; then
--
2.11.0
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Yūzō Tashiro
is a former Japanese football player. He played for Japan national team.
Playing career
He was educated at and played for Fukuoka University Ohori High School and Fukuoka University. When he was at the university, he was a member of the Japan team that won the 22nd Universiade football competition hosted by Daegu, South Korea.
He was chosen as one of the Designated Players for Development by J1 League and JFA in 2003 and 2004. Because of this status, he was able to register as an Oita Trinita player (2003) and a Sagan Tosu player (2004) while he was still eligible to play for his university club. He played one game for Oita and 10 games for Tosu.
After the graduation in 2005, he joined Kasima Antlers. He became a regular in the 2006 season for the club. He earned his first international cap on February 17, 2008 against in an East Asian Cup match against China. After being released by Vissel Kobe in the end of 2014 season, he signed in March 2015 with Cerezo Osaka.
Club statistics
National team statistics
Team honors
J1 League - 2007, 2008, 2009
Emperor's Cup - 2007
Japanese Super Cup - 2009
References
External links
Japan National Football Team Database
Category:1982 births
Category:Living people
Category:Fukuoka University alumni
Category:Association football people from Fukuoka Prefecture
Category:Japanese footballers
Category:Japan international footballers
Category:J1 League players
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Category:Montedio Yamagata players
Category:Vissel Kobe players
Category:Cerezo Osaka players
Category:Cerezo Osaka U-23 players
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Category:Japanese expatriate footballers
Category:Expatriate soccer players in Australia
Category:Universiade medalists in football
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LONDON (AP) — Sarah Ferguson, the former wife of Prince Andrew; British singer-songwriter James Blunt; and Israeli television psychic Uri Geller are among the latest to strike a deal with Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. over phone hacking.
The three were among 17 hacking victims who settled Friday with News Corp. subsidiary News Group Newspapers over its campaign of illegal espionage, which set off a massive scandal when it was revealed in July 2011.
Others on the list include actor Hugh Grant — whose settlement was first announced in December — as well as "Doctor Who" actor Christopher Ecclestone, former government minister Geoffrey Robinson, TV presenter Jeff Brazier and singer Kerry Katona.
Murdoch's News of the World tabloid was at the center of the scandal. Prosecutors say the paper's senior management conspired to hack hundreds of victims' phones, including senior government ministers, sports stars, Hollywood royalty, and even crime victims in a bid to win scoops and boost sales.
The scandal first broke in 2006, when two reporters were arrested for hacking into voicemails belonging to members of the royal family. But the paper engaged in an ambitious coverup effort, arranging secret payoffs and repeatedly lying to the press, the public, and parliament in a bid to bury the scandal.
The implicated executives — including Andy Coulson and Rebekah Brooks, former confidants of Prime Minister David Cameron — deny any wrongdoing.
A lawyer for Ferguson, whose split from Andrew in 1992 often made her a tabloid target, said the duchess did not believe the settlement resolved all her concerns regarding snooping into her personal affairs.
Paul Tweed said in a statement that his client "remains extremely concerned that questions beyond the scope of these legal proceedings still need to be answered in relation to other instances of inappropriate and extreme intrusion into her private life."
The size of the various settlements was not immediately disclosed, although previous deals have typically ranged from tens of thousands up to hundreds of thousands of pounds (dollars). On Thursday News Corp. revealed that costs associated with the settlements, official inquiries, and myriad police investigations spawned by the scandal had taken another $56 million bite out of the New York-based company's bottom line.
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Shawn Pogatchnik in Dublin contributed to this report. |
Beating Addiction In The Industry
As a transplant to Los Angeles, it took some time to understand “The Industry” and the life associated with it. It looks glamorous to many but it is a very hard world, with lots of pressures, expectations, very high stress, and often drugs and alcohol. The amount of people struggling with depression, anxiety, and substance abuse in our entertainment industry is concerning and explains why there are hundreds of inpatient and outpatient treatment facilities.
Intensive treatment can be necessary at first and help in getting clean/sober; however, the long-term involvement in AA or a non-spiritual program in conjunction with therapy is ultimately what keeps people clean. Therapy is an essential part in recovery. It provides a place to explore one’s drug, prescription drug and alcohol use, one’s resistance to giving it up, and managing sobriety. It is so hard to accept a drug problem and it is even harder to address it. Recovery takes time, is a very difficult process and often very painful.
Working with a therapist or a psychologist helps you manage the stress of the industry, anxiety of having to perform at such a high level, insecurities, and ways to socialize in the same circle of importance without needing to use.
Please feel free to call with questions or for support, (310) 709-4582! For information on how to find your Los Angeles Addiction Psychologist, please explore this website to see if I am a good fit for you. |
Creating a Buzz: Café Paloma
Part of the spirit of the season is adding festive tweaks to existing traditions. The classic Paloma recipe is a tequila favorite with its thirst quenching flavor and ease of preparation. Make this fashionable favorite an eye popping, eye opener with the addition of espresso vodka. Choose either Van Gogh Espresso or Double Espresso* in equal measure to the tequila of your choice and soon the Café Paloma will be your buzz worthy drink of choice.
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Q:
Index out of range exception when using Parallel for loop
I am trying to execute the following code and I keep getting an Index out of range exception when trying to assign array values to the list:-
int[] array = new int[1000000];
for (int i = 0; i < array.Length; i++)
{
array[i] = i;
}
List<int> list = new List<int>();
Parallel.For(0, array.Length, i => list.Add(array[i]));
Am I doing something wrong here ? I understand that the process is unordered/asynchronous, but why does "i" get values that are higher than the value of "array.Length" ?
A:
The problem is that you cannot call List.Add() concurrently on multiple threads. If you need thread-safe collections, see the System.Collections.Concurrent namespace.
If you break into the debugger when you get an exception, you'll see that i is not greater than array.Length, but is instead a power of 2 that is substantially less than array.Length. What happens is that the List starts out with an empty array of something like 4 elements. Whenever you add an element to a list whose array is full, it creates an array of twice the length of the old array, copies the old elements to it, and stores the new array.
Now let's say that your list is up to 31 elements (meaning it has space for one more) and two threads try to add a 32nd element. They will both execute code like this:
if (_size == _items.Length)
{
EnsureCapacity(_size + 1);
}
_items[_size++] = item;
First they will both see that _size (31) is not _items.Length (32), so they both execute _size++. The first thread will get 31 (the correct index of the 32nd element) and change _size to 32. The second thread will get 32 and try to index _items[32], which gives you your exception because it's trying to access the 33rd element of a 32-element array.
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Northern Kuki-Chin languages
Northern Kuki-Chin (or Northeastern Kuki-Chin) is a branch of Kuki-Chin languages. It is called Northeastern Kuki-Chin by Peterson (2017) to distinguish it from the Northwestern Kuki-Chin languages. VanBik (2009:31) also calls the branch Northern Chin or Zo.
Except for Thado speakers, most Northern Kuki-Chin speakers self-identify as part of a wider Zomi ethnic group.
Lingua francas
Tedim is the local lingua franca of northern Chin State, Myanmar, while Thado (also known as Kuki) is the local lingua franca of much of southern Manipur State, India.
Languages
VanBik (2009) includes the following languages as Northern Kuki-Chin languages. The positions of Ngawn and Ralte are not addressed by VanBik (2009), but they are classified as Northern Kuki-Chin in Glottolog.
Thado (Kuki)
Tedim
Paite
Gangte
Simte
Chiru
Sizang
Vaiphei
Zo
Ngawn
Ralte
Classification
VanBik (2009:31) divides the Northern Kuki-Chin branch into two major language clusters, namely the Thado cluster and Sizang cluster.
Thado cluster: Thado/Kuki, Tedim, Khuangsai, Paite, Vuite, Chiru, Zou
Sizang cluster: Sizang/Siyin, Guite/Nguite, Vaiphei, Zo
Sound changes
VanBik (2009) lists the following sound changes from Proto-Kuki-Chin to Proto-Northern Chin.
Proto-Kuki-Chin *-r > Proto-Northern Chin *-k
Proto-Kuki-Chin * θ- > Proto-Northern Chin *ts-
Proto-Kuki-Chin *kl- > Proto-Northern Chin *tl-
Further reading
S. Dal Sian Pau. 2014. The comparative study of Proto-Zomi (Kuki-Chin) languages. Lamka, Manipur, India: Zomi Language & Literature Society (ZOLLS). [Comparative word list of Paite, Simte, Thangkhal, Zou, Kom, Tedim, and Vaiphei]
References
Button, Christopher. 2011. Proto Northern Chin. STEDT Monograph 10. .
Peterson, David. 2017. "On Kuki-Chin subgrouping." In Picus Sizhi Ding and Jamin Pelkey, eds. Sociohistorical linguistics in Southeast Asia: New horizons for Tibeto-Burman studies in honor of David Bradley, 189-209. Leiden: Brill.
VanBik, Kenneth. 2009. Proto-Kuki-Chin: A Reconstructed Ancestor of the Kuki-Chin Languages. STEDT Monograph 8. .
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Saturday, 12 February 2011
Five Outfits From The 70's..
Five outfits my mum chose for me in the 70's. And then she made me wear them.
A fetching towelling shorts and top set sewn from a pair of bathroom curtains (no photos)
Outgrown trousers altered with bigger hems in a contrasting colour and cunning apple shaped patches over the holes in the knees (no photos)
One of her old swimsuits. To a school swimming class. All I'm going to say is that we aren't, and never have been, anywhere near the same shape or size (definitely no photos)
Identical sister outfits. If she made one for me, she made one for my sister (possible photos but need to check with my sister first)
Blue fleece dressing gown hand decorated with tartan fur in a little Bay City Rollers homage. Alright, that one was my idea. made to my own personal specifications. (actually do wish I had a photo of this one)
25 comments:
I think the pictures you have planted in my mind are probably even better than photos!Matching sister outfits are better than matching 'little girl and her doll' outfits. My Nan always made my dolls a matching jumper from leftover wool when she knitted anything for me.
what a wonderful memory trigger. I too had trousers with an added hem to make them longer - also cuffs on a jacket to make the sleeves longer. And several outfits where the same pattern was used for me and my sister, but different colours. My Grandmother usually gave Mum 2 pieces of fabric at christmas for 2 dresses - my sister's was in blue and mine in yellow or green.
This reminds me so much of my own childhood...my mum made nearly all our clothes....some were just perfect....others worn with gritted teeth!! At least with having brothers....we were never dressed identically!!
They all sounded amazing! Making clothes back then was much more common place, and there wasn't a huge choice in the shops anyway. I had a series of dresses made from very scratchy woollen suit material - the thought of them still makes me itch now!
lol!! it was the same for me, towelling shorts and top - i never asked what they were made from!!! and being the eldest of three sisters we all had matching dresses. The only time i actually liked my mum mking my clothes was when rar-rar skirts came into fashion. I had all versions and remember hagling with mum about the length - the shorter the better!! oh happy memories! great to read yours Sian xx
I also had the pants with lengthened hems and patches! But I am grateful I was the oldest because we handed everything down to younger children! We had some striped tee tops from Sears that were worn by both the girls and boys in our family and went through four kids before they were retired!
haha...what a fun little list. My sister and I had the same situation in the early days when my mom sewed all of our clothes. We matched all the time. Love this little walk down memory lane. Thanks, Sian! xo
hee hee Loved this post! I can so vividly see these outfits in my mind! Gotta love those 70's fashions! I was a major Bay City Rollers fan and I'm sure I would have been quite envious of your snazzy dressing gown! :)
Snap - not the exact outfits, but definitely the home-made clothes: initially made by my Mum and from the age of about 13/14 made by me. At least I had some control over the material and fit then! I had great plans to make clothes for my toddlers, but somehow this only lasted a couple of years with my first and only extended to fancy dress for the last!
Oh me too! My mum made me a pale yellow skirt with a detachable bib (which I liked), a Pink dress, with contrasting section in the bodice and lace trim (ikkkk, I hated pink!), a hand-knitted Fair Isle patterned cardigan (which I also loved). My sister and I had matching clothes too - jeans with applique design at the ankle, striped sweaters - hers red, mine blue - and yes, there are photos somewhere... My auntie sent me some clothes she had made - a brown and white gingham dress with a ruffle cap-sleeve (loved it), a bright green polyester/crimplene trouser and dress suit (which I loved and my mother hated - I was not allowed to keep it!), I think she also sent the striped sweaters - she had two older daughters and was very trendy (my mum was Not trendy - when I was a teen, I had to beg for fashionable clothes and even then she bought the "posh shop" versions, which would "wear" and could be passed down to my long-suffering younger sister!!) I also made myself some clothes, in school sewing lessons. My mum bought me the school-recommended pattern, but the fabric was a violent, bright, day-glo yellow!!! She also bought pink checked flannelette for a night dress!!! I made sure I went with her after that, to supervise. We made our own blouses or dresses for summer, in 5th form - light blue poplin and mid-blue poplin... I made one dress and then wore my white winter shirts, so I could keep the darker blue for a trendy gypsy skirt, with ribbons stitched to each flounce!
My mum went through a phase of buying brightly patterned (70s most definitely) TABLECLOTHS - both round and square - and cutting the middles out to make kaftan tops for me. I HATED them but boy I wish I had one now :)
Funny how there isn't any photographic evidence eh Sian? I'm just glad that I wasn't old enough to get married in the 70's, imagine the photos! The 80's was bad enough, My dress wa ok as I went traditional but oh the poor bridesmaids....Bo Peep and peach satin come into the equation.
I love the way you describe your memories - no need for photos when your words are so great! My sister and I were also dressed in the same clothes, although normally I would be in blue and she would be in pink!
Oh my, does this make me shiver! I don't like to think of the outfits I had to wear: from the nylon trousers with an elastic strap under the foot when everyone else was in jeans, to the liberty print dresses with the frilly collars she was still making for me in my thirties. Lots of love, some inability to let go, but arrrgh! |
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Join us in the worship of the Lord through his Word and Spirit. We sing the great hymns of the Christian faith from the original Trinity Hymnal of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church. Our Scripture Readings are from the New International Version of the Bible. This video includes our offertory, doxology, Psalter Reading (Psalm 135), confession of sin, and assurance of pardon. This worship service took place at First Presbyterian Church (Orthodox Presbyterian) in Perkasie, PA. The pastor is Rev. Richard Scott MacLaren. To learn more about the church, go to our website at www.firstchurchopc.com.
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Join us in the worship of the Lord through his Word and Spirit. We sing the great hymns of the Christian faith from the original Trinity Hymnal of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church. Our Scripture Readings are from the New International Version of the Bible. This video includes our offertory, doxology, Psalter Reading (Psalm 135), confession of sin, and assurance of pardon. This worship service took place at First Presbyterian Church (Orthodox Presbyterian) in Perkasie, PA. The pastor is Rev. Richard Scott MacLaren. To learn more about the church, go to our website at www.firstchurchopc.com. |
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ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT
LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS
INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR
TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF
ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
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#include <errno.h>
#include <time.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <wchar.h>
#include <locale.h>
#include "libp.h"
using namespace System;
using namespace System::IO;
int __llAllocateHandle(__string name, FileStream file, FileAccess access, FileShare share);
void __SetFileErrno(Exception e);
int __ll_creat(char *name, int flags, int shflags)
{
int rv = 0;
__try
{
FileStream strm = File::Open(name, FileMode::Create, (FileAccess)flags, (FileShare)shflags);
rv = __llAllocateHandle(name, strm, (FileAccess)flags, (FileShare)shflags);
if (rv < 0)
{
strm.Dispose();
errno = ENOMEM;
rv = 0;
}
}
__catch(Exception e)
{
__SetFileErrno(e);
}
return rv;
}
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628 F.Supp. 1013 (1985)
Mikel SHONKWILER, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated,
James L. Shonkwiler, by and through his next friend, Brenda Shonkwiler,
Juan Spurlin, by and through his next friend Donna Morris,
Angela Hammond and
Daniel Perry, by and through their next friend Joyce Perry
All on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated
v.
Margaret HECKLER, in her official capacity as Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services and
Donald L. Blinzinger, in his official capacity as Administrator of the Indiana State Department of Public Welfare.
No. IP 84-1612-C.
United States District Court, S.D. Indiana, Indianapolis Division.
January 31, 1985.
*1014 David J. Dreyer, of Legal Services Organization of Indiana, Inc., Indianapolis, Ind., for plaintiffs.
Ann Weismann, of Civ. Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., and Carolyn Small, Asst. U.S. Atty., Indianapolis, Ind., for federal defendant.
Gary Shaw, Deputy Atty. Gen., Indianapolis, Ind., for state defendant.
FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW
STECKLER, District Judge.
This matter comes before the Court on plaintiffs' application for preliminary injunction. The Court having considered plaintiffs' motion and the briefs of the parties, having heard additional evidence at a hearing conducted on January 15, 1985, and being duly advised in the premises makes the following findings of fact and conclusions of law.
Findings of Fact
1. Margaret Heckler is the Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, and as such is responsible for the implementation of the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 601, et seq.
2. Donald L. Blinzinger is the Administrator of the Indiana State Department of Public Welfare and as such is responsible for policy and the implementation of the Aid to Families with Children (hereinafter referred to as AFDC) program pursuant to Ind.Code §§ 12-1-2-12 and 12-1-2-17.
3. Under 42 U.S.C. § 602(a)(26)(A), all rights to support for eligible children receiving benefits under the AFDC program must be assigned to the State for collection, with the first fifty dollars ($50.00) returned to the AFDC family unit.
4. Under prior law, any child could choose whether to receive AFDC benefits regardless of the eligibility of their siblings and half-siblings.
5. Section 2640(a) of the Deficit Reduction Act of 1984 was passed by Congress on July 18, 1984 and implemented in Indiana on November 1, 1984.
6. Section 2640(a) provides as follows:
"[T]hat in making the determination under paragraph (7) with respect to a dependent child and applying paragraph (8), the State agency shall (except as otherwise provided in this part) include
(A) any parent of such child, and (B) any brother or sister of such child, if such brother or sister meets the conditions described in clauses (1) and (2) of section 406(a), if such parent, brother, or sister is living in the same home as the dependent child, and any income of or available for such parent, brother, or sister shall be included in making such determination and applying such paragraph with respect to the family (notwithstanding section 205(j), in the *1015 case of benefits provided under Title II)."
7. Section 2640(b)(1) provides as follows:
"[T]he first $50 of such amounts as are collected periodically which represent monthly support payments shall be paid to the family without affecting its eligibility for assistance or decreasing any amount otherwise payable as assistance to such family during such month."
8. Pursuant to Section 2640(a), defendants are not required to exclude those children who are receiving Social Security benefits.
9. Defendant Heckler issued interim regulations on September 10, 1984 to amend 45 C.F.R. § 206.10 by adding the following:
"For AFDC only, in order for the family to be eligible, an application with respect to a dependent child must also include, if living in the same household and otherwise eligible for assistance:
* * * * * *
"(B) Any blood-related or adoptive brother or sister."
10. Defendant Blinzinger implemented the Secretary's regulation through issuance of Section 2581 of the Indiana AFDC Manual:
"AFDC may only be awarded to an eligible dependent child(ren) under age 18 for whom an application must include if living in the same household and otherwise eligible for assistance:
* * * * * *
"(b) Any natural or adoptive brother or sister.
"This includes an half-brother or half-sister who would be categorically eligible."
11. Mikel Shonkwiler and Brenda Shonkwiler were married in Indianapolis, Indiana, on November 17, 1979.
12. At the time of Brenda Shonkwiler's marriage to Mikel Shonkwiler she had, and currently has, custody of two minor children by a former marriage, namely, Jason Adams and Jessica Adams.
13. James L. Shonkwiler was born of the marriage of Mikel Shonkwiler and Brenda Shonkwiler on April 28, 1982.
14. Mikel Shonkwiler and Brenda Shonkwiler were granted a dissolution of marriage on June 11, 1984.
15. James L. Shonkwiler is presently two years old and resides with his mother, Brenda Shonkwiler.
16. Mikel Shonkwiler pays to Brenda Shonkwiler for support of James L. Shonkwiler the sum of Three Hundred Sixty Dollars ($360.00) per month pursuant to The Agreement Regarding Child Custody, Support, Education and Property Settlement incorporated in the Decree of Dissolution, dated June 11, 1984, filed in the Superior Court of Marion County, Room No. 5, Cause No. S583-1517.
17. James L. Shonkwiler is currently covered by his father's group health insurance, Policy No. 11051, with Golden Rule Insurance. Due to recurring ear infections, James L. Shonkwiler visits a physician approximately one time per month for the prescription of antibiotics. The insurance covers these costs and James L. Shonkwiler's father, Mikel Shonkwiler, pays all medical expenses for his son not covered by the insurance, in addition to the support payments. The costs for such medical treatment, including the physician and prescriptions, average approximately Fifty Dollars ($50.00) per month.
18. Effective November 1, 1984 Brenda Shonkwiler's AFDC grant was increased from One Hundred Ninety-two Dollars ($192.00) to Two Hundred Fifty-six Dollars ($256.00) per month due to the inclusion of rent payments in the calculation of AFDC. This constitutes the assistance for Brenda Shonkwiler and the two half-siblings of James L. Shonkwiler, Jason Adams, and Jessica Adams.
19. In November of 1984 Brenda Shonkwiler received a letter from the Marion County Department of Public Welfare stating that James L. Shonkwiler would be added to the AFDC assistance unit and that an appointment should be arranged *1016 with her caseworker in order to discuss the effect of the addition of James L. Shonkwiler.
20. In a telephone conversation with Catherine Brewer, a caseworker, Brenda Shonkwiler stated that she would not keep the scheduled appointment because she had no intention of adding James L. Shonkwiler to the AFDC assistance unit.
21. Although the Shonkwiler household AFDC benefits were terminated because Brenda Shonkwiler did not keep her appointment, if James L. Shonkwiler had been added to the assistance unit, the entire household would have been financially ineligible for AFDC benefits.
22. In December of 1984 the Brenda Shonkwiler household was eligible for One Hundred Fifty-one Dollars ($151.00) in food stamp benefits but did not participate in the program. In January 1985 the Brenda Shonkwiler household is eligible for One Hundred Fifty-one Dollars ($151.00) in food stamp benefits and can acquire the coupons on or after January 16, 1985.
23. In December of 1984 Brenda Shonkwiler received Seventy-six Dollars and Sixty Cents ($76.60) in support from Lester Adams for Jessica and Jason Adams and will receive Seventy-six Dollars and Sixty Cents ($76.60) in January 1985.
24. Brenda Shonkwiler does not maintain separate bank accounts for the two support amounts she receives from Lester Adams and Mikel Shonkwiler.
25. Brenda Shonkwiler is employed by the North Central School System in Indianapolis and received her first check in December 1984 in the gross amount of One Hundred Fifty-six Dollars ($156.00) representing the first seven days of employment in November 1984.
26. After the probationary period Brenda Shonkwiler will be eligible for group medical insurance through the North Central School System.
27. Beginning in October 1984, Brenda Shonkwiler paid Two Hundred Fifty Dollars ($250.00) per month in rent to Mikel Shonkwiler, the father of James L. Shonkwiler.
28. Brenda Shonkwiler has appealed through the administrative hearing process the action to add James L. Shonkwiler to the household and to discontinue AFDC benefits, and an administrative hearing is set for January 17, 1985.
29. Gloria Thomas is the natural mother of Jeremy and Adam Thomas and Antonio Bartlett residing at 5905 Devington Road, Apartment 1, Indianapolis, Indiana 46226.
30. Prior to December 1, 1984 Gloria Thomas received an FDC award of One Hundred Ninety-six Dollars ($196.00) for herself and her son Antonio Bartlett.
31. Gloria Thomas was informed in November of 1984 that Jeremy and Adam Thomas must be added to the AFDC filing unit.
32. In October 1984 Jeremy and Adam Thomas received Two Hundred Eighty Dollars ($280.00) in support from their father.
33. Gloria Thomas was informed that the addition of the Thomas support amount would reduce her AFDC award to One Hundred Seven Dollars ($107.00).
34. Gloria Thomas has appealed through the administrative hearing process the action to add Jeremy and Adam Thomas to the AFDC filing unit.
35. As part of the AFDC household, Jeremy and Adam Thomas will be eligible for Medicaid benefits.
36. The Gloria Thomas household received Two Hundred Twenty-one Dollars ($221.00) in food stamps in December 1984. The household is eligible for Two Hundred Sixty-two Dollars ($262.00) in food stamps in January 1985 and can acquire those coupons on or after January 16, 1985.
37. Gloria Thomas is a nursing student and has received One Thousand Eight Hundred Dollars ($1,800.00) in grant assistance.
38. Donna M. Morris is the natural mother of Juan K. Spurlin.
39. Donna Morris resides at 1265 West 34th Street, Indianapolis, Indiana 46208 with Juan K. Spurlin, Dorren K. Morris, *1017 Devon R. Morris, Dione T. Morris, Donna M. Morris, and DeJuan L. Gholston.
40. Effective November 1, 1984 Juan K. Spurlin was added to the household for AFDC eligibility purposes and a grant award of One Hundred Forty Dollars ($140.00) issued.
41. Effective December 1, 1984 the grant award was increased to Three Hundred Ninety Dollars ($390.00) due to a reduction in child support.
42. Juan K. Spurlin receives Three Hundred Dollars ($300.00) per month from his natural father by military allotment.
43. Once this allotment is verified it will be considered income of the AFDC household and will cause a reduction in AFDC benefits.
44. Donna Morris has appealed through the administrative hearing process the addition of Juan K. Spurlin to the AFDC household by the County Department of Public Welfare.
45. Donna Morris and the children were entitled to Two Hundred Seventy-three Dollars ($273.00) in food stamp assistance for December 1984 and are eligible for Two Hundred Eighty-seven Dollars ($287.00) in food stamps in January 1985.
46. Juan K. Spurlin, as a part of an eligible AFDC household, will receive Medicaid benefits.
47. Joyce Elizabeth Perry is the natural mother of Angela Sue Hammond.
48. Joyce Elizabeth Perry resides in subsidized housing at 258 A Peachtree Court, Greenwood, Indiana 46142 with Angela Sue Hammond and Daniel James Perry.
49. Joyce Elizabeth Perry and Angela Sue Hammond each began receiving Ninety-nine Dollars ($99.00) per month from the Social Security Administration and effective November 1, 1984 the Johnson County Department of Public Welfare took action to discontinue the AFDC grant award in the amount of Thirty-seven Dollars ($37.00).
50. Joyce Elizabeth Perry appealed the discontinuance through the administrative hearing process. A hearing was held on November 30, 1984 and the parties are awaiting a decision.
51. Joyce Elizabeth Perry and her children are entitled to One Hundred Sixty-six Dollars ($166.00) per month in food stamp assistance for December 1984 and are eligible for One Hundred Forty-four Dollars ($144.00) in food stamps for January 1985.
Conclusions of Law
1. In 1981 Congress enacted changes in the AFDC program that were intended to reduce or eliminate welfare benefits because of the availability of other sources of income for those considered by Congress to be less needy than those completely without resources. See, Philadelphia Citizens in Action v. Schweiker, 669 F.2d 877, 879 (3d Cir.1982).
2. Consistent with this new philosophy regarding AFDC benefits, Congress further amended Title IV-A of the Social Security Act by adding 42 U.S.C. § 602(a)(38) (Deficit Reduction Act § 2640(a)).
3. This new provision requires all parents, brothers, and sisters living in the same household with an eligible AFDC recipient to be added, along with any income or resources available to them, to the household so that a determination can be made regarding the eligibility of the household for AFDC benefits.
4. The Secretary has issued interim regulations requiring that all income resources of the individuals required to be included in the assistance unit must be considered in determining eligibility and payment for the assistance unit. See, 49 Fed.Reg. 35588.
5. The Secretary's regulations and interpretations of those regulations are binding on the State and its agency, the Indiana State Department of Public Welfare. See, Grubb v. Sterrett, 315 F.Supp. 990 (N.D. Ind.1970), aff'd, 400 U.S. 922, 91 S.Ct. 187, 27 L.Ed.2d 182; Bond v. Stanton, 655 F.2d 766 (7th Cir.1981), cert. denied sub nom. Blinzinger v. Bond, 454 U.S. 1063, 102 S.Ct. 614, 70 L.Ed.2d 601.
*1018 6. This matter is certified as a class action containing the following class groups:
a. All children in the State of Indiana who have been, or will be, included in an assistance grant under the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program pursuant to the Deficit Reduction Act of 1984, P.L. 98-369, Sec. 2640(a), and Indiana AFDC Manual Section 2581, or whose AFDC assistance will be reduced or terminated by such inclusion.
b. All natural or adoptive, non-custodial parents in the State of Indiana whose parental support to their children has been or will be assigned to the Indiana Department of Public Welfare for all class members in subparagraph (a) above who have been, or will be, included in an assistance grant under the AFDC program, pursuant to the Deficit Reduction Act of 1984, P.L. 98-369, Sec. 2640(a) and Indiana AFDC Manual Section 2581.
7. Plaintiffs have failed to establish the essential elements necessary for the issuance of a preliminary injunction against the State and Federal defendants. See, Libertarian Party of Indiana v. Packard, 741 F.2d 981 (7th Cir.1984).
8. Section 2640(a) of the Deficit Reduction Act and the Secretary's regulation implementing the statutory provision are not constitutionally infirm.
9. Mikel Shonkwiler, the natural father of James L. Shonkwiler, is not irreparably harmed because his obligation to pay support is not affected by treating all siblings and half-siblings as one household for the purpose of determining AFDC eligibility.
10. The named plaintiffs and the class are not irreparably harmed inasmuch as the treatment of all family members residing in one household as a unit reflects Congress' intent, that is, if all members of the household live together it is presumed that the family shares household expenses.
11. The harm to the defendants of issuing a preliminary injunction outweighs any potential harm to the plaintiffs and class members in that Congress has clearly mandated that all siblings living in the same household be considered as one household and their incomes be combined for purposes of determining AFDC eligibility.
12. The public interest demands that Congress' and the Secretary's intent to reduce the AFDC rolls be implemented; furthermore, this congressional intent is consistent with the new public assistance philosophy, represented by the 1981 Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act, which mandates that those states which participate in the AFDC program reduce or eliminate welfare benefits for households that have other sources of income or resources available to support themselves. See, Philadelphia Citizens in Action v. Schweiker, supra, 669 F.2d at 879.
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Q:
Java String import java.lang.String
When I use String in Java do I need to import java.lang.String?
Or I can simply use it?
Is String imported by default?
I am using Eclipse and as I know they use another compiler that Java does.
What is the standard way?
A:
No, java.lang.* is imported by default.
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Keeping the cast of her new show waiting costs Dance Captain Alison Miller a severe spanking with a rubber-soled slipper. Frank Reed has Alison touch her toes for 63 teeth-clenching, cheek jiggling smacks. Slo-mo replays show the dramatic impact of rubber against a bare bottom from Firm Hand Spanking! |
1. Technical Field
The inventions relate to optical communication systems.
2. Discussion of the Related Art
This section introduces aspects that may be helpful to facilitating a better understanding of the inventions. Accordingly, the statements of this section are to be read in this light and are not to be understood as admissions about what is in the prior art or what is not in the prior art.
Some current communications systems propose the use of pulse position modulation (PPM) to achieve high sensitivity at a receiver. In PPM, a signal is transmitted during a single time slot of the M time slots within each symbol period. In each symbol period, the receiver examines each of the M time slots to identify the time slot in which the signal wits transmitted. Unfortunately, increasing the number of time slots per symbol interval causes the PPM pulses to become temporally narrow and to have correspondingly larger bandwidths. For that reason, PPM may not provide a high spectral efficiency. |
Ewing's sarcoma: an approach to radiological diagnosis.
All the pertinent radiographs of 83 patients with histologically proven Ewing's sarcoma were reviewed. Forty-nine patients were in the pediatric age group, and 34 were adults. The mean age, the symptoms and time from symptoms to diagnosis were evaluated in the 2 groups. The site of primary involvement was in 54% the long bones, 35% the flat bones, 8% the small bones and 3% extraosseous. For the primary site we considered the diagnostic results of the standard radiographic investigations and in some cases the usefulness of angiography, xeroradiography and telethermography. At presentation we also evaluated the possible diffusion of the disease with standard radiographic surveys (chest and skeletal, including limbs) and with foot lymphography in selected cases. In this way, 57 patients (69%) were considered to have localized disease. In this group, we also considered the value of the periodic radiographic follow-up, which enabled us to disclose the appearance of metastases (chest 64%, bone 54%, lymph nodes 11%) in 28 cases (49%). Finally, we made a comparison of the different radiologic and epidemiologic findings between children and adults. |
Outcome of off-pump coronary artery bypass in renal dialysis patients.
Renal dialysis patients are a subgroup at major operative risk when undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). Even though CABG without cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) has decreased the surgical risk and provided good short-term results, the long-term survival seems uncertain. We report here on the long-term outcome of CABG without CPB in renal dialysis patients. From 1998 to 2002, 44 renal dialysis patients underwent elective CABG without CPB, including 17 minimally invasive direct coronary artery bypass (MIDCAB) and 27 off-pump CABG (OPCAB) procedures. There were 5 one-vessel, 12 two-vessel and 27 multi-vessel coronary artery disease patients, who mainly had left internal thoracic artery (LITA) to left anterior descending coronary artery (LAD) grafting with an additional saphenous vein graft to non-LAD coronaries. All 44 patients were followed up for 44.4 +/- 31.2 months. Three (6.8 %) surgical deaths within 30 days occurred and 25 late mortalities happened over a period of 2 - 79 months. The 5-year cumulative rate of total survival is 38.2 % and the freedom from cardiac death is 70.9 %. Using hazard analysis, old age (> 60 years) and incomplete coronary revascularization was found to significantly affect the total survival. CABG without CPB provided an acceptable surgical mortality and morbidity. The high incidence of non-cardiac death associated with dialysis complications had an adverse impact on the overall outcome. The LITA bypass operation method combined with intensive care for dialysis complications would hopefully fulfill the goal to improve the short- and long-term results in this subgroup. |
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** Meta object code from reading C++ file 'qtbuttonpropertybrowser.h'
**
** Created by: The Qt Meta Object Compiler version 67 (Qt 5.3.1)
**
** WARNING! All changes made in this file will be lost!
*****************************************************************************/
#include "../../src/qtbuttonpropertybrowser.h"
#include <QtCore/qbytearray.h>
#include <QtCore/qmetatype.h>
#if !defined(Q_MOC_OUTPUT_REVISION)
#error "The header file 'qtbuttonpropertybrowser.h' doesn't include <QObject>."
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#error "cannot be used with the include files from this version of Qt."
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QT_BEGIN_MOC_NAMESPACE
struct qt_meta_stringdata_QtButtonPropertyBrowser_t {
QByteArrayData data[9];
char stringdata[107];
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#define QT_MOC_LITERAL(idx, ofs, len) \
Q_STATIC_BYTE_ARRAY_DATA_HEADER_INITIALIZER_WITH_OFFSET(len, \
qptrdiff(offsetof(qt_meta_stringdata_QtButtonPropertyBrowser_t, stringdata) + ofs \
- idx * sizeof(QByteArrayData)) \
)
static const qt_meta_stringdata_QtButtonPropertyBrowser_t qt_meta_stringdata_QtButtonPropertyBrowser = {
{
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QT_MOC_LITERAL(3, 35, 14),
QT_MOC_LITERAL(4, 50, 4),
QT_MOC_LITERAL(5, 55, 8),
QT_MOC_LITERAL(6, 64, 10),
QT_MOC_LITERAL(7, 75, 19),
QT_MOC_LITERAL(8, 95, 11)
},
"QtButtonPropertyBrowser\0collapsed\0\0"
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"slotEditorDestroyed\0slotToggled"
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0, 0, // constructors
0, // flags
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// slots: name, argc, parameters, tag, flags
6, 0, 45, 2, 0x08 /* Private */,
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QMetaType::Void, 0x80000000 | 3, 4,
QMetaType::Void, 0x80000000 | 3, 4,
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QMetaType::Void,
QMetaType::Void,
QMetaType::Void, QMetaType::Bool, 2,
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void QtButtonPropertyBrowser::qt_static_metacall(QObject *_o, QMetaObject::Call _c, int _id, void **_a)
{
if (_c == QMetaObject::InvokeMetaMethod) {
QtButtonPropertyBrowser *_t = static_cast<QtButtonPropertyBrowser *>(_o);
switch (_id) {
case 0: _t->collapsed((*reinterpret_cast< QtBrowserItem*(*)>(_a[1]))); break;
case 1: _t->expanded((*reinterpret_cast< QtBrowserItem*(*)>(_a[1]))); break;
case 2: _t->d_func()->slotUpdate(); break;
case 3: _t->d_func()->slotEditorDestroyed(); break;
case 4: _t->d_func()->slotToggled((*reinterpret_cast< bool(*)>(_a[1]))); break;
default: ;
}
} else if (_c == QMetaObject::IndexOfMethod) {
int *result = reinterpret_cast<int *>(_a[0]);
void **func = reinterpret_cast<void **>(_a[1]);
{
typedef void (QtButtonPropertyBrowser::*_t)(QtBrowserItem * );
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*result = 1;
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{ &QtAbstractPropertyBrowser::staticMetaObject, qt_meta_stringdata_QtButtonPropertyBrowser.data,
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{
return QObject::d_ptr->metaObject ? QObject::d_ptr->dynamicMetaObject() : &staticMetaObject;
}
void *QtButtonPropertyBrowser::qt_metacast(const char *_clname)
{
if (!_clname) return 0;
if (!strcmp(_clname, qt_meta_stringdata_QtButtonPropertyBrowser.stringdata))
return static_cast<void*>(const_cast< QtButtonPropertyBrowser*>(this));
return QtAbstractPropertyBrowser::qt_metacast(_clname);
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{
_id = QtAbstractPropertyBrowser::qt_metacall(_c, _id, _a);
if (_id < 0)
return _id;
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if (_id < 5)
qt_static_metacall(this, _c, _id, _a);
_id -= 5;
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if (_id < 5)
*reinterpret_cast<int*>(_a[0]) = -1;
_id -= 5;
}
return _id;
}
// SIGNAL 0
void QtButtonPropertyBrowser::collapsed(QtBrowserItem * _t1)
{
void *_a[] = { 0, const_cast<void*>(reinterpret_cast<const void*>(&_t1)) };
QMetaObject::activate(this, &staticMetaObject, 0, _a);
}
// SIGNAL 1
void QtButtonPropertyBrowser::expanded(QtBrowserItem * _t1)
{
void *_a[] = { 0, const_cast<void*>(reinterpret_cast<const void*>(&_t1)) };
QMetaObject::activate(this, &staticMetaObject, 1, _a);
}
QT_END_MOC_NAMESPACE
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"That's all you got?" "That's all I got that you can use." "I should've peed before we left." "[CHARLIE SIGHS]" "You've just got a nervous bladder." "Wait till you turn 40." "You'll feel like you have to pee while you're still peeing." " You ready to do this?" " No." "Oh, come on, what's the worst that could happen?" "She laughs at me?" "Oh, that is so sweet." "No, the worst thing that could happen is she falls in love with you, you get married, 10, 12 years later she leaves you, takes all your stuff, and you have to go live in your car." " Whoa." " Yeah." "[DOORBELL RINGS]" "What kind of car do you think I'll have?" " Hello." " Hi." "I'm Charlie Harper." "This is Jake." "We live next door, right, Jake?" " I'm Jake." " Hi." "I'm Celeste." "I'm Jake." "JEROME:" "Honey, is that the cable guy?" " No, Dad." "It's our neighbors." "Jerome Burnett." "Hi." "Charlie Harper." "This is my nephew." "We just came by to welcome you to the neighborhood." " Well, that was very nice of you." " Yeah." "Welcome to the neighborhood." "Bye." "Hang on, hang on." " Do you know who this man is?" " Yeah, her dad." "Bye." "This is Jerome Burnett, one of the great NFL players of all time." "You're very kind." "Thank you." " You know what his nickname was, Jake?" " No." "Tell him." "[JEROME CHUCKLES]" "Mad Dog." "That's great." "Can I use your bathroom?" " Honey, show him where it is." " Come on, Jake." "Lady in the house, Jake." "Put the seat back down." " What have you been up to?" " Oh, still working for the Chargers." " You know, mostly front-office stuff." " Really?" "So you probably have access to tickets and such." " I do." "Do you want me to hook you up?" " Oh, jeez." "I don't want to impose." "I just came by to say hello." "Can you get me a skybox?" " I'll see what I can do." " That'd be great." "And I'm guessing if a player got injured, you'd probably be one of the first to know." "You know, even before the, uh..." "What do you call them?" " Bookies?" "Don't push it, Charlie." "Hey, Dad, would it be all right if Jake and I take a walk on the beach?" " Well, sure." "Why not?" " Thanks." "See you later." "Isn't that nice?" "That boy touches my daughter, I'm gonna be touching you." "Understood." "Ahem." "Can I use your bathroom?" " Here you go, Mr. Harper." " Oh." "Oh, thank you." "Mm." "Cappuccino." "Wonder what they're serving at the domestic dealerships." "They do take good care of you here." "Of course, they ought to, considering what we paid for our cars." " Oh, yeah." "They are expensive." " Is that your CL65 outside?" "Uh, yes, it is mine." "How do you like it?" "Pfft, what's not to like?" "Does everything but trim your toenails." "[BOTH CHUCKLE]" "Or maybe it does and I just haven't found the button yet." "[CHUCKLES]" "Not that I need to trim my toenails." "Did them last night." "Over the tub." "Clip, ping." "Clip, ping." "Diane." "Oh, Alan." "[BOTH LAUGH]" " So you live around here, Alan?" " Uh, no, I live, uh, by the beach." " Santa Monica?" " Uh, Malibu." "Ooh, Malibu." "[ALAN CHUCKLES]" "Yep." "Malibu." "Yeah, uh, we just call it the Boo." "You know, like, "Hey, how are things down at the Boo?"" " Mr. Harper, your car is ready." " Oh, uh, thank you." "I'll, uh, be right there." "Well, uh, looks like I'm all done here." "Guess I'll, uh, head back to the Boo." "Don't rub it in." "They told me I'd be here all day." " Oh, that's terrible." " And I'm starving." "Oh, well, they have, uh, little croissants and the, uh, chocolate-chip cookies." "Or, uh maybe I could take you out for a nice lunch." " That would be lovely, Alan." "Thank you." " Oh, terrific." "Let's go." "[BOTH CHUCKLE]" "This never happened with the Volvo." "[DOORBELL RINGS]" "It's 5:00." "Thanks." "I almost slept through happy hour." "Where's my little girl?" " They're not back yet?" " Why else would I be here?" "Honestly, I was thinking happy hour." "Let me give Jake a call, see what's keeping them." "Yeah, you do that." " Did you try calling your daughter?" " She left her cell phone at the house." "[SCOFFS]" "Kids, huh?" "It's ringing." "[CELL PHONE RINGING] Yo, bitch, I'm gonna slap you up" "Yo, bitch, I'll slap you up" "Yo, bitch, I'm gonna slap you up" "Oh, that's unfortunate on so many levels." "[CELL PHONE RINGING] The way you do to everything" "Put my gun inside your mouth" "Got a.45 Magnum Wanna do it..." "Yo, bitch, I'm gonna slap you up" "Yo, bitch, I'll slap you up" "Yo, bitch, I'm gonna slap you up" "Yo, bitch, I'll slap you up" "I'm talking to you, bitch" "Check it You my dream, like chocolate cream" "Girl next door make you hornier..." "Last all night It's better than the fight" "Yo, bitch, I'm gonna slap you up" "Yo, bitch, I'll slap you up" "Yo, bitch, I'm gonna slap you up" "Yo, bitch, I'll slap you up" "Yo, bitch, I'm gonna slap you up" "Yo, bitch, I'll slap you up" "Yo, bitch, I'm gonna slap you up" "Yo, bitch, I'll slap you up" "Yo, bitch, I'm gonna slap you up" "Yo, bitch, I'll slap you up" "ALAN:" "This is just my pied-á-terre." "DIANE:" "Oh." "I spend most of my time out at the beach house." "Looks like you haven't been here in a while." "ALAN:" "Oh, just two weeks." "Don't you have someone to come in and water your plants?" "Uh, I do, but he's incredibly unreliable." " My brother." " Oh." "Bit of a mooch." "So now that we're here, what do you wanna do?" "[STAMMERING] Uh, gee, I don't know, uh..." "Oh." "Well, that's an option." "[BOTH CHUCKLE]" "[PHONE RINGING THE 5TH DIMENSION'S "UP, UP AND AWAY"]" "Oh." "Oh, excuse me." "Uh, Alan Harper speaking." "[WHISPERING] I know who's speaking, you dillweed." "We got a problem here." "Oh, really?" "Heh, heh." "It's the mooch at the Boo." "[ALAN CHUCKLES]" "So, uh, what's the problem?" "Not the wine cellar again, is it?" "What the hell are you talking about, you gibbering moron?" "Oh, good, good." "Listen to me, your idiot son's about to get me killed." "Oh, so he's okay?" "He's great." "Probably having the time of his life." "I'm the one in trouble." "[STAMMERING] Uh, well, uh, I trust you to take care of it." "Thanks for the update." "Take a bottle of Pinot for yourself." "Alan." "Oh." "[SIGHS]" "God." "I thought there was an eclipse." "Excuse me, I need to go to the bathroom again." "[BOTH MO ANING]" "[BOTH YELP AND LAUGH]" "Oh, I knew it." "You're married." "Oh, no, no, no." "I'm not married." "This is, uh, this is just, uh, a..." "A silk evening gown." "Actually, I think it's chiffon." " Men are all the same." " No, no, no." "Wait." "Diane, Diane." "Uh..." "[SIGHS]" "You've got the wrong idea." "There's something you don't know." " You're gay?" " No." " You're a cross-dresser?" " No, uh..." "Because, you know, I could really get into that." "Yes." "I am a big old cross-dresser." "Sorry it took so long." "Had a little accident." "Ahem." "Come on, you and me are gonna go find those kids." "Jerome." "Jerome, hang on." " What?" " Oh." "Still pretty nimble." "Let's sit down, take a deep breath and talk this through for a minute." "Come on, big fella." "Please?" "Make it quick." "Okay, here's the deal." "Jake is harmless." "You don't have a thing to worry about." "Unless your daughter is made out of doughnuts." "[CHARLIE CHUCKLES]" "Which I'm assuming she's not." "Look, Celeste is all I've got." "You don't know what it's like being a single father." "You're right, I don't." "But I do know what it's like to exploit women with daddy issues." "What the hell are you talking about?" "Believe me, if you don't trust your daughter to make her own decisions if you try to control her life, she's gonna grow up to resent you." "And the next thing you know, she'll be trying to punish you by going out with some weaselly little con artist like, well, me." "And you can't kill us all." "I can try." "Okay, let me start again." "ALAN:" "Are you sure this is what you want?" "Yeah, baby." "It's always been one of my fantasies." "ALAN:" "Okay." "Just a little heads-up I'm wearing the panties, but I'm not bikini-safe." "Ugh, my ass looks huge in this." "Diane?" "[CAR ENGINE REVS]" "[TIRES SQUEAL]" "Oh, no." "Oh, no." "Oh, no." "Oh, no." "Oh, no." "Oh, no." "Oh, no." "Oh, no." "Oh, no." "Not bad." "Oh, no." "Oh, no." "Oh, no." "Yes." "Yes." "My car has been stolen." "Yes, just now." "If you hurry, you can ca..." "Sure, I'll hold." "EVELYN:" "Why am I not surprised?" "Did it have to be my red chiffon?" "[SOBBING] Then, after I blew out my knee my wife left me." "Oh, man." "I'm sorry." "For a place kicker." " Ooh, insult to injury." " A little tiny dude from Serbia." "Not a single vowel in his entire name." "Oh, yeah, Grl Zrbnck." "That guy could sure split the uprights." "In a football manner of speaking." "[SNIFFS]" "And ever since then, it's just been me and Celeste." "Sure, sure." "I don't know what I'd do if anything ever happened to her, Charlie." "I'd go crazy." "I'd go crazy just thinking about it." "Well, then, for God's sake, don't think about it." "Come on." "Come on." "Let's get you home." " Thanks, Charlie." "You're okay." " No problem." "You just kick back and relax." "And when Celeste walks through that door all you gotta do is act like nothing's happened." " You think something happened?" " No, no, no." "Nothing happened." "Which is why it's not really acting." "And it'll show your daughter that you trust her." " Okay, I'll give it a shot." " You won't be sorry, I promise." "Okay." "Hey, come over to the house." "I got a couple of tickets for Sunday's game I wanna lay on you." "Oh, you don't have to do that." "I'll just grab my keys." "Okay, let's go." "What ever happened to the guy you tackled in the Tampa Bay game?" "Uh, Robinson." "He's walking again." "JEROME:" "Celeste?" "Oh." "Hi, Dad." "[STAMMERS] Hey, Mr. Mad Dog." "Am I gonna be walking again?" "Listen, Jake." "I'm real proud that you stepped up and got a little action tonight but I gotta ask you something." " What?" "Are you out of your freaking mind?" "I'm sorry." "We just lost track of time." "Yeah, well, thanks to you, I gotta change my shorts for the second time today." "There's my phone." " Who are you calling?" " Celeste." "No, no, no." "Cool it with Celeste." "And change your ringtone." "[KNOCKING ON DOOR]" "Ah, now what?" "I'll be with you in a minute." "Jake, go to your room." "No matter what you hear, do not come out." " What?" " Just go." "[SIGHS]" "Look, I spoke to the kid." "He's not gonna bother your daughter anymore." "So whatever you gotta do, do it to me." "JEROME:" "I'm sorry, buddy." " I overreacted." " Okay." "Celeste told me everything." "She told me your boy was a gentleman and that she wanted to kiss him." "She wanted to kiss him?" "You may have bigger problems than you thought." "Hey, here's two tickets for the game." "You take Jake, I'll bring Celeste." "We'll make a day of it." "Thanks." "That's great." " Excuse me." " Sorry." "Okay." "Well, see you Sunday." "[SIGHS]" "Alan, where's my car?" "Why are you wearing a dress?" "Alan?" "[KNOCKING ON DOOR]" "Why aren't you in Mexico?" |
using System;
using System.Collections.Concurrent;
using System.Threading;
namespace Alex.Utils
{
public class ObjectPool
{
private readonly ConcurrentBag<object> _objects;
private readonly Func<object> _objectGenerator;
private AutoResetEvent _resetEvent = new AutoResetEvent(true);
private int _poolSize = 0;
public ObjectPool(int poolSize, Func<object> objectGenerator)
{
_objectGenerator = objectGenerator ?? throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(objectGenerator));
_objects = new ConcurrentBag<object>();
for (int i = 0; i < poolSize; i++)
{
_objects.Add(_objectGenerator());
}
}
public virtual object GetPooled()
{
object o;
while (!_objects.TryTake(out o))
{
_resetEvent.WaitOne();
}
return o;
}
public virtual void ReturnToPool(object item)
{
_objects.Add(item);
_resetEvent.Set();
}
}
public class ObjectPool<T> : ObjectPool where T : PooledObject
{
public ObjectPool(int poolSize, Func<T> objectGenerator) : base(poolSize, objectGenerator)
{
}
public T Get()
{
var result = (T) base.GetPooled();
result.Parent = this;
return result;
}
}
public abstract class PooledObject : IDisposable
{
public ObjectPool Parent { get; set; }
protected abstract void Reset();
/// <inheritdoc />
public void Dispose()
{
Reset();
Parent?.ReturnToPool(this);
Parent = null;
}
}
} |
Interventions for prevention and treatment of herpes simplex virus in cancer patients.
Relevant data was sourced using the Cochrane Oral Health Group Trials Register, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Medline, Embase, CINAHL, CANCERLIT, SIGLE and LILACS. Searching by hand was also carried out, reference lists checked for further trials, and authors and known specialists in the field contacted to try to identify any additional published or unpublished trials. Randomised controlled trials that concerned treatment or prophylaxis of orofacial lesions [caused by herpes simplex virus (HSV)] in adults, children (or both) who were immunocompromised because of cancer were eligible for inclusion. Outcomes of interest were presence/ absence of clinical/ culture-positive HSV infections (prevention), time to complete healing of lesions (treatment), duration of viral shedding, recurrence of lesions, relief of pain, amount of analgesia, duration of hospital stay, cost of oral care, patient quality of life, and adverse effects. The reports obtained from the electronic and other forms of searches were assessed independently by the review authors. Disagreements were resolved by discussion and reasons recorded. Authors were contacted for details of randomisation, blindness and sample demographics. Quality assessment was carried out on randomisation, blindness, withdrawals and selective reporting. The Cochrane Collaborations statistical guidelines were followed and risk ratio values were calculated using random effects models. In the 17 trials, three interventions were studied: use of aciclovir, valaciclovir and prostaglandin E. No trials reported on duration of hospital stay, amount of analgesia or patient quality of life. In the placebo-controlled trials, aciclovir was found to be effective for prevention and treatment. In comparisons of active interventions, there is no evidence of a significant difference in efficacy between valaciclovir and aciclovir, or higher doses of valaciclovir and lower doses. In the single study assessing the effectiveness of prostaglandin E for prevention, this intervention was less effective than placebo. No adverse effects were reported. There is evidence that aciclovir is effective at preventing and treating HSV infections. There is no evidence that valaciclovir is more efficacious than aciclovir, or that a high dose of valaciclovir is better than a low dose of valaciclovir. There is evidence that, as a prophylaxis, placebo is more efficacious than prostaglandin E. In all included trials the risk of bias was unclear. |
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The Congregation of Our Lady of the Missions, also known as Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions (and as RNDM from the French name Religieuses de Notre Dame des Missions), is a Roman Catholic religious congregation of women. They were founded in Lyon, France in 1861 by Adèle Euphrasie Barbier (1829 - 1893). The Congregation's presence is felt worldwide. Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions reside in Italy, Australia, Bangladesh, British Isles, Canada, France, India, Kenya, countries in Latin America, Myanmar, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Samoa, Senegal and Vietnam.
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The present invention relates to semiconductor integrated circuits containing memory arrays, and particularly those arrays incorporating array lines having extremely small pitch, and more particularly those having a three-dimensional memory array.
Semiconductor integrated circuits have progressively reduced their feature linewidths into the deep sub-micron regime. Moreover, recent developments in certain memory cell technologies have resulted in word lines and bit line having an extremely small pitch. For example, certain passive element memory cell arrays may be fabricated having word lines approaching the minimum feature size (F) and minimum feature spacing for the particular word line interconnect layer, and also having bit lines approaching the minimum feature width and minimum feature spacing for the particular bit line interconnect layer. Moreover, three-dimensional memory arrays having more than one plane of memory cells have been fabricated implanting such so-called 4F2 memory cells on each memory plane. Exemplary three-dimensional memory arrays are described in U.S. Pat. No. 6,034,882 to Johnson, entitled “Vertically Stacked Field Programmable Nonvolatile Memory and Method of Fabrication.”
However, the area required for implementing decoder circuits for word lines and bit lines has not achieved such dramatic reductions. Consequently, interfacing the word line decoders and bit line decoders to such tightly spaced word lines and bit lines within such very dense arrays has become extremely difficult, and limits the density of memory arrays otherwise achievable. There remains a continued need for improved decoder structures capable of interfacing with large numbers of array lines having a very small pitch, and particularly if such array lines exist on more than one layer, as in a three-dimensional memory array having more than one plane of memory cells. |
package sample;
/*
Simple Java Hashtable example
This simple Java Example shows how to use Java Hashtable. It also describes how to
add something to Hashtable and how to retrieve the value added from Hashtable.
*/
import java.util.Hashtable;
public class SimpleHashtableExample {
public static void main(String[] args) {
//create object of Hashtable
Hashtable ht = new Hashtable();
/*
Add key value pair to Hashtable using
Object put(Object key, Object value) method of Java Hashtable class,
where key and value both are objects
and can not be null.
put method returns Object which is either the value previously tied
to the key or null if no value mapped to the key.
*/
ht.put("One", new Integer(1));
ht.put("Two", new Integer(2));
/*
Please note that put method accepts Objects. Java Primitive values CAN NOT
be added directly to Hashtable. It must be converted to corrosponding
wrapper class first.
*/
//retrieve value using Object get(Object key) method of Java Hashtable class
Object obj = ht.get("One");
System.out.println(obj);
/*
Please note that the return type of get method is Object. The value must
be casted to the original class.
*/
}
}
/*
Output of the program would be
1
*/
|
535 F.2d 1255
U. S.v.Carter
No. 75-2215
United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit
4/28/76
1
E.D.Mich.
AFFIRMED
|
import { List } from 'immutable';
import { ADD_TODO, SET_VISIBILITY_FILTER, TOGGLE_TODO, VISIBILITY_FILTER_OPTIONS } from '../constants';
import reducer, { getTodosStateRecord } from '../reducer';
import { IActionAddTodo, IActionSetVisibilityFilter, IActionToggleTodo, ITodo } from '../types';
describe('[Reducers] todos test', () => {
const initialState = getTodosStateRecord({
todos: List<ITodo>([
{
id: 'initial_id',
text: 'initial_text',
completed: false,
},
]),
visibilityFilter: VISIBILITY_FILTER_OPTIONS.SHOW_ALL,
});
const actionAddTodo: IActionAddTodo = {
type: ADD_TODO,
id: 'test_id',
text: 'test_text',
completed: false,
};
const actionToggleTodo: IActionToggleTodo = {
type: TOGGLE_TODO,
id: 'initial_id',
};
const actionToggleTodoInvalid: IActionToggleTodo = {
type: TOGGLE_TODO,
id: 'invalid_id',
};
const actionShowAll: IActionSetVisibilityFilter = {
type: SET_VISIBILITY_FILTER,
filter: VISIBILITY_FILTER_OPTIONS.SHOW_ALL,
};
const actionShowActive: IActionSetVisibilityFilter = {
type: SET_VISIBILITY_FILTER,
filter: VISIBILITY_FILTER_OPTIONS.SHOW_ACTIVE,
};
const actionShowCompleted: IActionSetVisibilityFilter = {
type: SET_VISIBILITY_FILTER,
filter: VISIBILITY_FILTER_OPTIONS.SHOW_COMPLETED,
};
beforeEach(() => {
expect(initialState.todos.count()).toBe(1);
expect(initialState.visibilityFilter).toBe(VISIBILITY_FILTER_OPTIONS.SHOW_ALL);
});
it('[ADD_TODO] should return state with new todo added', () => {
const stateAddTodo = reducer(initialState, actionAddTodo);
expect(stateAddTodo.visibilityFilter).toEqual(initialState.visibilityFilter);
expect(stateAddTodo.todos).toEqual(List([
{
id: 'initial_id',
text: 'initial_text',
completed: false,
},
{
id: 'test_id',
text: 'test_text',
completed: false,
},
]));
});
it('[TOGGLE_TODO] should return state with one todo completed toggled', () => {
const stateToggleTodo = reducer(initialState, actionToggleTodo);
expect(stateToggleTodo.visibilityFilter).toEqual(initialState.visibilityFilter);
expect(stateToggleTodo.todos).toEqual(List([
{
id: 'initial_id',
text: 'initial_text',
completed: true,
},
]));
});
it('[TOGGLE_TODO] should return previous state if id is not found', () => {
const stateToggleTodoInvalid = reducer(initialState, actionToggleTodoInvalid);
expect(stateToggleTodoInvalid.visibilityFilter).toEqual(initialState.visibilityFilter);
expect(stateToggleTodoInvalid.todos).toEqual(initialState.todos);
});
it('[SET_VISIBILITY_FILTER] should return state with corresponding filter', () => {
const stateShowCompleted = reducer(initialState, actionShowCompleted);
expect(stateShowCompleted.visibilityFilter).toBe(VISIBILITY_FILTER_OPTIONS.SHOW_COMPLETED);
expect(stateShowCompleted.todos).toEqual(initialState.todos);
const stateShowActive = reducer(stateShowCompleted, actionShowActive);
expect(stateShowActive.visibilityFilter).toBe(VISIBILITY_FILTER_OPTIONS.SHOW_ACTIVE);
expect(stateShowActive.todos).toEqual(initialState.todos);
const stateShowAll = reducer(stateShowActive, actionShowAll);
expect(stateShowAll.visibilityFilter).toBe(VISIBILITY_FILTER_OPTIONS.SHOW_ALL);
expect(stateShowAll.todos).toEqual(initialState.todos);
});
it('[DEFAULT_ACTION] should return previous state if action is not found', () => {
const stateTestDefault = reducer(initialState, {} as any);
expect(stateTestDefault.visibilityFilter).toEqual(initialState.visibilityFilter);
expect(stateTestDefault.todos).toEqual(initialState.todos);
});
it('[UNDEFINED_STATE] should use default state if state is not defined', () => {
const stateTestUndefined = reducer(undefined, {} as any);
expect(stateTestUndefined.visibilityFilter).toEqual(initialState.visibilityFilter);
expect(stateTestUndefined.todos).toEqual(List([
{
id: 'fake_id',
text: 'Add your own todo task above, click to mark each todo as completed',
completed: false,
},
]));
});
});
|
/*
MIT License http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
Author Tobias Koppers @sokra
*/
"use strict";
class OccurrenceOrderPlugin {
constructor(preferEntry) {
if(preferEntry !== undefined && typeof preferEntry !== "boolean") {
throw new Error("Argument should be a boolean.\nFor more info on this plugin, see https://webpack.js.org/plugins/");
}
this.preferEntry = preferEntry;
}
apply(compiler) {
const preferEntry = this.preferEntry;
compiler.plugin("compilation", (compilation) => {
compilation.plugin("optimize-module-order", (modules) => {
const occursInInitialChunksMap = new Map();
const occursInAllChunksMap = new Map();
const initialChunkChunkMap = new Map();
const entryCountMap = new Map();
modules.forEach(m => {
let initial = 0;
let entry = 0;
m.forEachChunk(c => {
if(c.isInitial()) initial++;
if(c.entryModule === m) entry++;
});
initialChunkChunkMap.set(m, initial);
entryCountMap.set(m, entry);
});
const countOccursInEntry = (sum, r) => {
if(!r.module) return sum;
return sum + initialChunkChunkMap.get(r.module);
};
const countOccurs = (sum, r) => {
if(!r.module) return sum;
return sum + r.module.getNumberOfChunks();
};
if(preferEntry) {
modules.forEach(m => {
const result = m.reasons.reduce(countOccursInEntry, 0) + initialChunkChunkMap.get(m) + entryCountMap.get(m);
occursInInitialChunksMap.set(m, result);
});
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(Photo by Philip Clements/Facebook)
A retired gay vicar who was left homeless after his young husband left him has found a new lover.
Reverand Philip Clements, 79, defied the Catholic Church to marry his former husband, Florin Marin.
Marin, 24, and Clements tied the in April and the Reverend sold off his life in Britain and moved to Bucharest to be with him.
Once there, Clements signed over ownership of the €100,000 flat he bought in the Romanian capital using money from selling his home in Kent.
However, Marin left Clements and the reverend has since admitted that he “lost everything” in the marriage.
He was left homeless, relying on friends to put a roof over his head.
Related: Police called in after vicar handed life savings to husband 55 years his junior
His toy boy lover revealed that he left the retired vicar to date businessman Jeronimo Jesus de Vega.
Florin admitted he “likes the money” de Vega can provide, boasting: “He is more wealthy than Philip”.
Speaking to local media in Romania, he said: “Philip knows, I told him I found someone. He said that he would not want to keep in touch with me.”
He explained: “He has some business, he is more wealthy than Philip.
“He knows very well that I like the money. I told him all about my husband.”
Related: Male model flogs wedding ring while vicar husband, 79, left homeless
Despite the heartbreak, Clements has found himself a new lover, and they are even younger than Marin.
Clements reportedly met his 22-year-old lover, who is a biology student in Romania, after he reached out to the reverend to offer his condolences after his split from his husband.
He explained: “There was something about him that I liked –we got into texting each other and it went from there.”
Talking about the 57 year age gap, Rev Clements explained that age “doesn’t matter” to him.
“He’s learning from me about life and I’m learning from him – he preserves my youth.”
Clements has flown to Lasi, the Romanian city where his new partner lives, but he hopes that the 22-year-old will be able to join him in England.
“I’m optimistic that there is a future beyond this terrible, devastating situation.
“I’ve got my church, my friends and family.
“I’ve got this new partnership and hopefully he’ll be able to come over here and we can be together,” he said. |
Marjorie Dannenfelser http://www.pfaw.org/
Fri, 27 Feb 2015 18:05:36 -0500Sat, 28 Feb 2015 12:51:45 -0500At CPAC, Anti-Choice Groups Declare 'Abortion-Centered Feminism Is Dead'http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/cpac-anti-choice-groups-declare-abortion-centered-feminism-dead
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<p><span style="line-height: 20.3999996185303px;">An anti-abortion panel at CPAC this afternoon was clearly gunning for a spot on the main stage next year. Americans United for Life President Charmaine Yoest, Susan B. Anthony List President Marjorie Dannenfelser, and Darla St. Martin, co-executive director of the National Right to Life Committee, made the case that their movement is winning and that they can fill a room with activists.</span></p>
<p>Dannenfelser started the discussion by declaring that "abortion-centered feminism is dead."</p>
<p>The three credited their carefully formulated, incremental strategy that has brought them a slew of state-level victories cutting back on abortion access and pushing narrowly-tailored abortion bans meant to push back on Roe v. Wade in the courts while winning public opinion to their side.</p>
<p>Dannenfelser put her hope in so called <a href="http://www.pewforum.org/2013/01/16/a-history-of-key-abortion-rulings-of-the-us-supreme-court/#fetal">"pain-capable" abortion bans </a>which, based on questionable science, ban abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy, a <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/01/republican-abortion-ban-20-weeks">calculated attack on Roe</a>. Since Nebraska passed such a ban in 2010, <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/01/republican-abortion-ban-20-weeks">11 other states</a> have followed suit. The House <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/national-right-life-targeting-gop-congresswomen-who-objected-abortion-ban-s-rape-provision"> postponed a vote </a> on a national version of the ban after Republican women and moderates protested language in a rape exception. (SBA List had <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/anti-choice-womens-groups-reportedly-pushed-rape-reporting-requirement-abortion-ban">reportedly worked</a> to insert the problematic reporting requirement language into the bill's rape exception.)</p>
<p>Dannenfelser, acknowledging that the 2003 "partial-birth" abortion ban -- which was upheld by the Supreme Court in 2007 -- barred a specific procedure rather than curtailing any actual abortions, said that the national passage of a 20-week ban would be "the most important moment in the pro-life movement since 1973."</p>
<p>Yoest focused on her group's strategy of regulating abortion providers out of existence, pointing to Texas's harsh anti-choice law, which <a href="http://www.bloombergview.com/quicktake/abortion-and-the-decline-of-clinics">could close nearly half</a> the abortion providers in the state, as a success story. Yoest framed it differently: "The reason clinics are closing is because they refuse to provide decent services to women."</p>
<p>All three groups — in contrast to the <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/topics/personhood-series">all-or-nothing "personhood" movement </a> — sing the praises of incremental victories. St. Martin, in a barely veiled dig at the personhood movement, repeatedly said that "the perfect is the enemy of the good." Yoest used a football analogy to describe her group's strategy in advancing "yard by yard by yard" to the total criminalization of abortion.</p>
<p>"Be encouraged, guys, we are making progress," she said. "We are marching down the field."</p>
<p><em>Correction: This post has been edited to correct the date that the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act was passed. It was signed into law in 2003 and upheld by the Supreme Court in 2007.</em></p>
Miranda BlueAnti-AbortionC4Charmaine YoestMarjorie Dannenfelser National Right to Life Committee Susan B. Anthony List Americans United for LifeFighting the Right51256Fri, 27 Feb 2015 19:05:36 -0400Marjorie Dannenfelser Right Wing Bonus Tracks - 10/22/14http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/right-wing-bonus-tracks-102214
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<ul> <li> The American Family Association's Patrick Vaughn <a href="http://www.afa.net/the-stand/the-culture-war/is-afa-a-hate-group/">assures us</a> that the AFA is not an anti-gay hate group.</li> <p> <li> Meanwhile, the AFA's Bryan Fischer <a href="http://barbwire.com/2014/10/22/pastor-will-take-mark-beast-will-go-jail/">declares</a> that "the homosexual agenda is the greatest threat to religious liberty we have ever faced in American history."</li> <p> <li> David Barton and George Barna <a href="http://www.charismanews.com/us/45848-barna-and-barton-america-is-doomed-if-we-don-t-do-this">warn that</a> "unless we invite God to be at the center of our process and operate in strict accordance with His principles, we are doomed to continue our downward slide."</li> <p> <li> The New Yorker <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/27/intensity-gap">profiles</a> Marjorie Dannenfelser, the president of the Susan B. Anthony List.</li> <p> <li> Tony Perkins, Mike Huckabee, The Benham Brothers, Todd Starnes, Rick Scarborough, Phill Robertson and others will all gather in Houston, Texas next weekend for "<a href="http://www.istandsunday.com/">I Stand Sunday</a>."</li> <p> <li> Finally, Bill Muehlenberg is <a href="http://barbwire.com/2014/10/22/haters-honour-roll/">quite pleased</a> that he is occasionally mentioned here at Right Wing Watch, which he calls "a leading U.S. leftist hate site."</li></ul>
Kyle MantylaBill MuehlenbergBryan FischerLeftoversMarjorie Dannenfelser Susan B. Anthony List 48752Wed, 22 Oct 2014 17:30:11 -0400Marjorie Dannenfelser Cuccinelli Backers: We Were Betrayed; Expel Bollinghttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/cuccinelli-backers-we-were-betrayed-expel-bolling
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<p>With Ken Cuccinelli’s conservative backers already crying foul about their failed candidate’s supposed mistreatment, the GOP’s Civil War continues.</p>
<p>Matt Barber of Liberty Counsel is <a href="http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2013/11/timeline-matt-barbers-virginia-sadz.html">fantasizing about voter fraud</a> despite offering absolutely no proof, and Tea Party Nation head Judson Phillips wants Virginia’s Republican Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling — who refused to endorse Cuccinelli — <a href="http://www.teapartynation.com/forum/topic/show?id=3355873%3ATopic%3A2700332&xgs=1&xg_source=msg_share_topic">expelled from the GOP</a>:</p>
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The Republican Party of Virginia has bylaws that call for the automatic expulsion of members who support Democrats in contested elections. Bill Bolling’s support of Terry McAuliffe has been well documents [sic].<br />
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Had the Republican establishment not worked against Cuccinelli, he would be governor today. Conservatives need to make an example of Bolling. He should be persona non grata at any Republican function in Virginia. His name should be synonymous with being a sell out [sic].<br />
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And if the Republican Party of Virginia does not publicly expel Bolling, then conservatives need to find a new political party in Virginia.</blockquote>
<p>Just to add some perspective, Phillips hailed Cuccinelli’s running mate E.W. Jackson as the “<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/tea-party-nation-ew-jackson-represents-future-conservative-movement">future of the conservative movement</a>.” Jackson was soundly defeated <a href="http://www.wjla.com/articles/2013/11/virginia-elections-2013-results-of-the-2013-elections-96380.html">55-44%</a>.</p>
<p>John Nolte of Breitbart News <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2013/11/06/Report-christie-refused-to-campaign-for-cuccinelli">attacked</a> Chris Christie for not helping Cuccinelli in Virginia and said that Cuccinelli’s defeat actually <em>helped</em> the Tea Party:</p>
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Tuesday night and again Wednesday morning, NBC's Chuck Todd reported that New Jersey Republican Governor Chris Christie refused to campaign for Ken Cuccinelli, the Virginia Republican who narrowly lost his own governor's race to Democrat Terry McAuliffe. "They begged Christie, and you can make an argument," Todd said on Morning Joe. "That to bring a Chris Christie to Northern Virginia might have helped. But Chris Christie is worried about his own brand."<br />
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Part of Christie's brand problem, though, is his behavior during the closing days of last year's presidential campaign. After running one of the most divisive administrations and re-election campaigns in recent memory; in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, Barack Obama went to New Jersey seeking bipartisan credibility. And in the eyes of many, Christie went above and beyond to give it to him.<br />
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<br />
Had Christie taken just a half-day to stump for Cuccinelli, not only would that have helped wash the Sandy stain away, it might have actually made him a hero to the base for both defying the Morning Joe crowd and helping to drag Cuccinelli over the finish line.<br />
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If Christie wins the 2016 Republican nomination but loses Virginia, and with it the general election, last night should be remembered as the most short-sighted and spiteful cutting off of the nose to spite the Tea Party in years.<br />
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The GOP Establishment and Morning Joe crowd keep lecturing the Tea Party about how it is all about winning elections. In Virginia last night that talking point was laid bare as nothing more than a lie.</blockquote>
<p>Longtime conservative activist Richard Viguerie <a href="http://www.conservativehq.com/node/15386">maintained</a> that Cuccinelli’s loss has nothing to do with his <a href="http://www.pfaw.org/rww-in-focus/ken-cuccinelli-attorney-general-tea-party">radical views</a>. Viguerie even compared Cuccinelli to Goldwater, who lost the 1964 presidential election in a landslide:</p>
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What is clear is that Cuccinelli’s ideas weren’t rejected so much as he was drowned in the sea of money that flowed in to Terry McAuliffe’s campaign to keep Virginia government growing, taxes rising, to roll back the progress social conservatives have made in the state, and most importantly, to keep cronyism as the governing principle at the Virginia state Capitol building.<br />
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The betrayal of Ken Cuccinelli by Bolling and other nominal Republicans, such as political consultant Boyd Marcus, mirrors the betrayal of Barry Goldwater by the Republican establishment and their nominal allies in the business community.<br />
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<br />
George Will once wrote that Barry Goldwater didn't lose in 1964, it just took 16 years, until the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980, to count the votes. We expect that the same will be said of Ken Cuccinelli and we believe he will be vindicated in the future.<br />
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Ken Cuccinelli did not lose last night because he is a principled limited government constitutional conservative. Cuccinelli lost because he was drowned in a sea of money and undercut by a Republican establishment that would rather see a Democrat in the Governor’s mansion than end the good ole boy politics in Richmond and allow a real conservative anywhere near the levers of power that he might use to make good on Republican promises to govern as limited government constitutional conservatives.</blockquote>
<p>Anti-choice activist Marjorie Dannenfelser <a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2013/11/05/pro-abortion-terry-mcauliffe-defeats-pro-life-ken-cuccinelli-in-virginia/">said</a> that Cuccinelli was hamstrung by the Star Scientific scandal and “misleading attack ads,” but insisted that the “Republican establishment” is to blame “for abandoning this race.”</p>
<p>Somehow, Dannenfelser thinks that Cuccinelli’s loss shows the need for candidates to emphasize their opposition to abortion rights, even though 61% of Virginia voters [<a href="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2013/images/11/05/va.gov.exit.polls.1120p.110513.v2.final%5b1%5d.copy.pdf">PDF</a>] said they are pro-choice.</p>
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In response to Ken Cuccinelli’s close defeat in the Virginia gubernatorial election tonight, Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the national pro-life group Susan B. Anthony List (SBA List), told LifeNews that the race shows the pro-life movement needs to spend more time exposing how extreme candidates like McAuliffe are on abortion.<br />
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“Despite being woefully outspent and compromised both by the government shutdown and the ethics scandal faced by Governor Bob McDonnell, Cuccinelli came within inches of victory. The political prognosticators that can often drive election results by their predictions ought not to have given up on him. The results make clear that more support from outside groups in the final weeks could have changed the outcome. Shame on the Republican establishment for abandoning this race and failing to push Ken over the finish line.<br />
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“Terry McAuliffe spent well over $5 million on misleading attack ads about Ken Cuccinelli and the fictitious ‘war on women,’ including running more than 5,600 spots on the abortion issue alone. Attacks on Cuccinelli were left unanswered, or answered too late, and the negative message stuck.<br />
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“This election shows that it is imperative for pro-lifers to be on offense in 2014 against the distortions and extremism of the Left. The Democrat strategy for 2014 is set: demonize pro-life candidates and spend big on ‘war on women’ advertising. The party, candidates, and movement must aggressively expose the other side’s extremism and penchant for putting women and children at risk through their abortion policies.”<br />
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Women Speak Out – Virginia, the state PAC of the SBA List, raised and spent $870,000 in support of Ken Cuccinelli’s candidacy, working to turn out the pro-life base. The organization canvassed the homes of 69,700 voters, engaged in volunteer calls reaching 255,000 identified pro-life inconsistent voters, and had get out the vote calls reaching as many as 1 million homes.</blockquote>
<p><strong>UPDATE:</strong> Brian Brown of the National Organization for Marriage <a href="http://www.nomblog.com/38510/">accused</a> the Republican Party of abandoning Cuccinelli over his opposition to same-sex marriage:</p>
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"Too many leaders of the Republican Party have drunk the Kool-Aid of the consulting class that they should abandon conservatives like Ken Cuccinelli because they have taken principled stances on social issues such as preserving marriage and protecting life," said Brown. "How many elections do they need to lose before they realize they are implementing a disastrous election strategy and ruining their chances of success?"<br />
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Brown noted that when the marriage issue has been on the ballot, it has outpolled the Republican ticket by a significant margin. Support for traditional marriage polled an average of seven points higher than Mitt Romney did in the four states it was on the ballot in 2012.<br />
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"The GOP elite wants candidates to be silent about their views on marriage and other social issues, but election results show that is exactly the wrong thing to do," Brown said. "Election after election has shown that voters across America, including in deep blue states, support traditional marriage by a significantly higher margin than they support the GOP. For the second election in a row, Republican leaders and consultants have pursued a flawed strategy of urging silence on social issues that has cost their candidates. If they don’t wake up, they could face disaster next year."</blockquote>
Brian TashmanBrian BrownC4E.W. JacksonJohn NolteJudson PhillipsKen CuccinelliLiberty Counsel Marjorie Dannenfelser National Organization for MarriageRichard Viguerie Susan B. Anthony List Tea Party NationVirginia Fighting the Right44813Wed, 06 Nov 2013 14:10:05 -0400Marjorie Dannenfelser Ken Cuccinelli Calls In The Religious Right Reinforcementshttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/ken-cuccinelli-calls-religious-right-reinforcements
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<p>While Virginia Republican gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli has been trying to <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jun/30/virginia-gop-governor-candidate-kenneth-cuccinelli/?page=all">dodge</a> <a href="http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2013/06/the-evolution-of-ken-cuccinelli.php">social</a> <a href="http://wamu.org/news/13/05/30/cuccinelli_opponents_want_to_focus_on_controversial_social_issues">issues</a> such as abortion rights and marriage equality — likely because his <a href="http://www.pfaw.org/rww-in-focus/ken-cuccinelli-attorney-general-tea-party">actual views and record</a> are far out of the mainstream — <a href="http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/08/21/time-to-panic-for-the-virginia-gop/">sagging poll numbers</a> and <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2013/09/ken-cuccinelli-virginia-governors-mcauliffe-96834.html">increasing divisions among Republicans</a> have led the candidate to rely on his traditional far-right backers. After <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/ken-cuccinelli-and-ew-jackson-tell-crowd-theyre-running-together-at-top-of-virginia-ticket/2013/09/15/4f256930-1e08-11e3-b7d1-7153ad47b549_story.html">campaigning alongside</a> his <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/virginia-gop-lt-governor-nominee-ew-jacksons-long-history-attacking-gays-berating-democrats">ultraconservative and homophobic running mate E.W. Jackson</a>, Cuccinelli tonight will attend a fundraiser cosponsored by the Family Research Council’s political arm and the head of a major anti-choice organization.</p>
<p>Tonight’s <a href="http://www.eventbrite.com/event/7653246065/eorg">fundraiser</a> featuring Jeb Bush and a whole host of former GOP politicians-turned-lobbyists is sponsored by FRC Action PAC and Marjorie Dannenfelser, who leads the Susan B. Anthony List.</p>
<p>Cuccinelli has partnered with FRC in the past, addressing at their Values Voter Summit and appearing on the group’s <em>Washington Watch</em> radio program. Dannenfelser’s group, meanwhile, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/susan-b-anthony-list-inaugurates-pro-cuccinelli-campaign-blatant-lie">committed at least $1.5 million to boost Cuccinelli</a>.</p>
<p>Dannenfelser and FRC Action hope that Cuccinelli will continue his efforts to <a href="http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2012-09-20/opinions/35494762_1_abortion-clinics-annual-abortions-hallways-and-doorways">close the majority of the state’s abortion clinics</a>. As the <em>Washington Post</em> editorial board <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/virginias-next-governor-will-determine-whether-most-abortion-clinics-close/2013/09/16/20aad99a-1cc4-11e3-8685-5021e0c41964_story.html">noted</a> yesterday, “If Mr. Cuccinelli is elected governor in November, most of the remaining 18 clinics are likely to shut their doors within months.” </p>
<p>The FRC — whose leaders have referred to gays as <a href="http://www.pfaw.org/rww-in-focus/ken-cuccinelli-attorney-general-tea-party#gay">pawns of Satan</a>, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/perkins-gay-teens-are-suicidal-because-they-know-they-are-abnormal">abnormal </a>and <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/perkins-gays-and-lesbians-will-never-have-fulfillment-until-they-leave-destructive-path-they">destructive </a>while also <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/frc-obfuscate-uganda-anti-homosexuality-bill">calling for their</a> <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/frc-pray-criminalization-homosexuality">criminalization</a> <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/frcs-sprigg-wants-see-homosexuality-criminalized">and</a> <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/frc%E2%80%99s-sprigg-wants-export-gays">exportation</a> — can also <a href="https://twitter.com/tperkins/status/380043758370574336">take pride</a> in <a href="http://www.pfaw.org/rww-in-focus/ken-cuccinelli-attorney-general-tea-party#gay">Cuccinelli’s anti-gay rhetoric and activism</a>.</p>
<p>The upcoming fundraiser with two of the country’s foremost social conservative groups shows that as much as Cuccinelli would like Virginia voters to forget about his extreme stances, he is, first and foremost, a Religious Right ideologue.</p>
Brian TashmanC4Ken CuccinelliMarjorie Dannenfelser Susan B. Anthony List Tony Perkins Virginia Family Research CouncilFRCActionFighting the Right44281Tue, 17 Sep 2013 17:05:54 -0400Marjorie Dannenfelser Marjorie Dannenfelser says Obama is trying to 'Exploit Women' and do 'Exactly What the Early Suffragists Warned Against'http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/dannenfelser-obama-exploit-women-doing-what-suffragists-warned-against
<p>Marjorie Dannenfelser of the <a href="http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/guestvoices/2010/05/sarah_palin_is_no_susan_b_anthony.html">ironically named</a> Susan B. Anthony List has dedicated her group to inserting their anti-choice agenda into the presidential and congressional races. But now as the Obama campaign is stressing the President’s pro-choice views while Mitt Romney and Republicans across the country run away from the abortion debate, Dannenfelser is singing a new tune, saying that voters don’t want to hear about abortion after all.</p>
<p>She spoke to <a href="http://www.janetmefferdpremium.com/2012/10/31/janet-mefferd-radio-show-20121031-hr-3/">Janet Mefferd</a> yesterday to criticize Lena Denham’s web ad for the Obama campaign (where she made a joke similar to one <a href="http://blog.sfgate.com/nov05election/2012/10/26/lena-dunham-is-not-the-first-one-to-compare-voting-to-sex-just-ask-ronald-reagan/">told by Ronald Reagan</a>) as a “very smart” campaign tactic that will backfire. Dannenfelser compared it to the Tom Wolfe novel “I Am Charlotte Simmons,” which she said is “all about the equalization of on-campus sex and how women now are the new predators and it is an unbelievable appeal to young women who are at that place and who may be confused but they want that.” “This whole ‘women’s vote’ thing is truly a way to exploit young women and any woman in childbearing years and we need to see it as that,” Dannenfelser lamented.</p>
<p>Mefferd chastised the Obama campaign for “treating women like they are idiots” or “brain-dead” while telling them “lies like that Planned Parenthood needs to be supported to help women’s health.” Dannenfelser even said that Obama’s outreach to women and support for reproductive rights are “exactly what the early suffragists warned against: the exploitation of women.”</p>
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<p>Later, Dannenfelser argued that voters consistently back candidates who favor the criminalization of abortion. However, a recent CNN poll [<a href="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2012/images/08/24/rel8a.pdf">PDF</a>] show that just 15 percent believe it should be illegal in all cases, and a <em>USA Today</em> <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/politics-elections/262125-poll-female-voters-give-obama-big-edge-on-contraception-abortion">survey</a> found that female voters who list abortion and birth control as among their top election priorities are <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/politics-elections/262125-poll-female-voters-give-obama-big-edge-on-contraception-abortion">disproportionately backing Obama</a>. If Dannenfelser is so sure that voters are ready to abandon Obama over his support for reproductive rights and Planned Parenthood, then why is the Romney campaign now running <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXQL9WLKXMo&feature=player_embedded">ads</a> in swing states <a href="http://blog.pfaw.org/content/romney-campaign-plays-dumb-about-roe-vwade">moderating his position on abortion</a> in order to appeal to pro-choice voters?</p>
<p>She goes on to charge that Obama “underestimates the courage and confidence and intellectual power and decision-making that women actually have” by trying to have them “be bought out with a packet of pills,” while Mefferd said Obama views women as “little sexual machines that need the government to take care of us.”</p>
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<strong>Dannenfelser</strong>: When they understand the difference in opinion they will always vote on our side. In fact every election that we have tracked since 2002 shows that when voters are—when the abortion issue is top-of-mind for them, when it is something very important for them, no matter how outspent we are they give the margin of victory to the pro-life candidate. This president is the main ally of Planned Parenthood, I mean you can’t find a better ally of Planned Parenthood than this president. They put in a billion dollars into this and the president of Planned Parenthood is on the stump in Ohio, Pennsylvania, every battleground state, they know what’s at stake, they understand that their funding is going. There is only one thing that they can’t lose at Planned Parenthood and that is the abortion business, if they lose that they’ll go under. They are not about women’s health, they know that when this is taken out of the calculation they will go under so when people understand that, they get it.<br />
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<strong>Dannenfelser</strong>: I think your point at the beginning is how much he underestimates the courage and confidence and intellectual power and decision-making that women actually have, that we could be bought out with a packet of pills, a packet of contraception, like ‘we’ll pay for your contraception, that’s the price for your vote.’ That’s actually what he’s doing right now.<br />
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<strong>Mefferd</strong>: Right as if all we are is little sexual machines that need the government to take care of us.</blockquote>
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<ul> <li>Colin Powell has again <a href="http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/25/powell-gives-obama-his-endorsement-for-a-second-time/">endorsed</a> Barack Obama which, of course, <a href="http://spectator.org/blog/2012/10/25/the-dishonorable-colin-powell">means</a> he "is a man without honor."</li> <p> <li>Well, <a href="http://blogs.cbn.com/thebrodyfile/archive/2012/10/25/only-on-brody-file-barack-obama-against-prayer-in-school.aspx">this</a> is quite the "scoop" from CBN's David Brody! </li> <p> <li>FRC <a href="http://www.frc.org/prayerteam/prayer-targets-dr-billy-graham-doma-stricken-marriage-ballots-leo-johnson-honored-election">prays</a> that "the U.S. Supreme Court will rule DOMA constitutional, affirming the authority of the states and the U.S. Congress to hold fast the historic definition of marriage."</li> <p> <li>On a related note, what is the deal with <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPgZ2Mq1Ugw">this video</a> FRC posted that compares gay marriage to drug abuse and pedophilia? The National Organization for Marriage posted the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cQCi4ehXkg">exact same video</a>.</li> <p> <li>Peter LaBarbera <a href="http://www.onenewsnow.com/culture/2012/10/25/homosexual-church-leader-has-no-business-in-ministry">says</a> Ted Haggard is "wrong to call himself a Christian and a bisexual, and he should step aside from public ministry."</li> <p> <li>Finally, the fact that Marjorie Dannenfelser, Penny Nance, and Phyllis Schlafly have all come <a href="http://www.sba-list.org/newsroom/press-releases/national-women-leaders-support-richard-mourdock">to Richard Mourdock's defense</a> just about tells you everything you need to know about the Religious Right groups that claim to represent women. </li></ul>Kyle MantylaLeftoversMarjorie Dannenfelser Penny NancePeter LaBarbera Phyllis SchlaflyRichard MourdockFamily Research Council41361Thu, 25 Oct 2012 17:29:32 -0400Marjorie Dannenfelser Another Romney Abortion Flip-Flop: No Exceptions for Health of the Motherhttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/another-romney-abortion-flip-flop-no-exceptions-health-mother
<p>In an interview with <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57501172/romney-my-views-on-abortion-rights-are-clear/"><em>CBS News</em></a> on Monday, Mitt Romney said he disagreed with his own party’s support for criminalizing abortion without exceptions: “My position has been clear throughout this campaign; I’m in favor of abortion being legal in the case of rape and incest, and the health and life of the mother.”</p>
<div>Of course, Romney’s position on the legality of abortion has been <a href="http://www.salon.com/2011/08/08/mitt_romney_abortion_ann_keenan/">anything</a> <a href="http://www.tnr.com/blog/plank/106739/romney-says-abortion-isn%E2%80%99t-important-factor-in-election">but</a> <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/the_conversion/2012/02/mitt_romney_s_abortion_record_flip_flop_or_conversion_.html">clear</a>. Now his campaign denies that he supports allowing abortion when a woman’s health is in jeopardy, as he told reporter Scott Pelley. Instead, they say he only supports allowing abortion when a woman would die without one.</div>
<p>Marjorie Dannenfelser of Susan B. Anthony List, a major anti-choice group, in an <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azl_S20FNsA&feature=youtu.be">interview</a> with Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association insisted that the Romney campaign told her that Romney does not in fact believe in exceptions for the health of the mother, contradicting what he said in the Monday interview. If he did, Dannenfelser said, he would not have received the <a href="http://www.sba-list.org/newsroom/press-releases/sba-list-endorses-mitt-romney">endorsement</a> of her anti-choice organization.</p>
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<p>A number of Religious Right organizations are coming together for an election season coalition to attack President Obama in swing states. The Family Research Council, National Organization for Marriage, The Family Leader, Concerned Women for America, American Principles Project, the Susan B. Anthony List and Common Sense Issues have joined the “<a href="http://www.lifeandmarriagecoalition.com/">Life and Marriage Coalition</a>,” which FRC head Tony Perkins said is needed to defeat Obama’s “anti-marriage and anti-life policies.”</p>
<blockquote> A coalition of the nation’s most prominent conservative social issue groups (<a href="http://www.lifeandmarriagecoalition.com" title="www.lifeandmarriagecoalition.com">www.lifeandmarriagecoalition.com</a>) today announced that they are coordinating efforts in Ohio, Iowa and North Carolina to talk about the importance of preserving marriage as the union of one man and one woman, and supporting the sanctity of human life. The groups hope to influence voters in key swing states that Barack Obama carried in 2008.<br />
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“This is a historic coming together of premiere social conservative groups to coordinate efforts in three swing states most likely to determine the outcome of this fall’s presidential election,” said Tony Perkins, president of FRC Action, the legislative action arm of the Family Research Council. “Many supporters of life and marriage do not realize that their votes could determine the outcome of the election, which in turn could determine the future of marriage and life in this country. We’re working together to ensure they understand that President Obama is anti-marriage and anti-life.”<br />
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The Life and Marriage Coalition includes FRC Action, Susan B. Anthony List, National Organization for Marriage, American Principles in Action, Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee and Common Sense Issues. Combined efforts will include independent expenditures for radio advertisements, billboards, phone and bus tour events designed to educate and mobilize socially conservative voters in the three targeted states. <br />
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“For millions of Americans, this election is about more than the economy, it’s about the direction our nation takes on foundational principles, like what constitutes marriage, and whether unborn children have a right to life,” said Brian Brown, president of the National Organization for Marriage. Marjorie Dannenfelser of the Susan B. Anthony List added, “We will work together as national groups and partner with local pro-family organizations to make sure that voters know that if we value marriage and want to stop government funding of abortion groups, we must defeat Barack Obama.”<br />
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State groups that are part of the effort are the North Carolina Values Coalition, and The Family Leader in Iowa.<br />
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“Fiscal and social issues are not separate issues and it is our goal to educate voters of this indisputable truth,” said Patrick Davis of Common Sense Issues. “In fact and in practice they are inseparable principles fortifying and empowering each other much like the fiscal, spiritual and emotional union of a man and woman in marriage or the life-long relationship between a mother and father and their child. All fiscal issues have a social element to them.”<br />
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The coalition also said its efforts this year are just the beginning. “Our coalition members are determined to defend American values on marriage and life for the long haul, said Davis. “The 2012 election is critical, but it is also important to lengthen the horizon to make sure that we have marriage and life champions running in critical races over the next several election cycles. We’re beginning to talk to prospective candidates now.” </blockquote>Brian TashmanC4Election 2012Life and Marriage CoalitionMarjorie Dannenfelser National Organization for MarriageSusan B. Anthony List The Family LeaderTony Perkins American Principles ProjectConcerned Women for AmericaFamily Research CouncilFighting the Right40859Tue, 28 Aug 2012 14:05:56 -0400Marjorie Dannenfelser Religious Right Groups Laud Paul Ryan, Highlight Anti-Choice and Anti-Gay Voting Recordhttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/religious-right-groups-laud-paul-ryan-highlight-anti-choice-and-anti-gay-voting-record
<p>Conservative leaders hailed<a href="http://www.pfaw.org/press-releases/2012/08/mitt-romney-capitulates-right-yet-again"> Mitt Romney’s choice</a> of Paul Ryan,<a href="http://politicalwire.com/archives/2012/08/11/as_conservative_as_michele_bachmann.html"> the far-right congressman</a>, to be his running mate, emphasizing his opposition to <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2012/08/13/681111/paul-ryan-has-acted-on-every-anti-gay-belief-mitt-romney-has/">LGBT</a> and <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2012/8/13/the_paul_ryan_vision_of_america">reproductive rights</a>.</p>
<p>Concerned Women for America’s Penny Nance said that besides his one-time vote for the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, she is <a href="http://blogs.cbn.com/thebrodyfile/archive/2012/08/11/paul-ryan-as-vp-teavangelical-base-will-be-excited.aspx">excited</a> “to pull back out my t-shirt from 2008 that says ‘Our VP is hotter than your VP!’”</p>
<blockquote> Paul Ryan is a great choice. He has one little blip in that he voted for ENDA (Employment Non-Discrimination Act) a long time ago but voted right on the marriage amendment and supports the unborn. Plus, I get to pull back out my t-shirt from 2008 that says ‘Our VP is hotter than your VP!’ Bonus.</blockquote>
<p>Ralph Reed of the Faith and Freedom Coalition <a href="http://blogs.cbn.com/thebrodyfile/archive/2012/08/11/paul-ryan-as-vp-teavangelical-base-will-be-excited.aspx">commended</a> Ryan’s “100 percent pro-life and pro-family voting record.”</p>
<blockquote> Mitt Romney choosing Paul Ryan as his vice presidential nominee is an inspired, outstanding selection. Paul Ryan is a rare and exceptional public servant who combines the courage of his convictions with a sharp intellect and a winsome personality. I have known him since he worked for Jack Kemp at Empower America in the early 1990s, worked with him in passing sound budgets in the House, and am proud to count him as a friend. He is a person of devout Christian faith who has a 100 percent pro-life and pro-family voting record in his 14 years in Congress. He will excite and energize social conservatives, who will play a critical role in the outcome of the elections.</blockquote>
<p>Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council is <a href="http://www.frc.org/pressrelease/frcs-tony-perkins-statement-on-mitt-romneys-selection-of-paul-ryan">proud</a> that Ryan “believes that social, fiscal and national security conservatism is indivisible.”</p>
<blockquote> Mitt Romney's selection of Paul Ryan shows that he is serious about getting America's fiscal house in order. Paul Ryan's voting record also suggests that he believes that social, fiscal and national security conservatism is indivisible. Paul Ryan's philosophy clearly includes the understanding that America's financial greatness is tied directly to its moral and cultural wholeness. <br />
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As a member of the Congressional Prayer Caucus, he has been a defender of religious expression in the public square. Paul Ryan has spoken out strongly against President Obama's abortion drug and contraception mandates as an affront to religious liberty. He has articulately described how the President's government takeover of health care has pushed aside our First Amendment right of religious freedom. <br />
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We look forward to hearing Governor Romney and Congressman Ryan speak at the upcoming Values Voter Summit so that the conservative grassroots will have an opportunity to hear more about their agenda on the critical issues facing our country including religious liberty, marriage, the sanctity of human life as well as fiscal responsibility and national security.</blockquote>
<p>The Susan B. Anthony List’s Marjore Dannenfelser <a href="http://www.sba-list.org/newsroom/press-releases/sba-list-praises-pro-life-paul-ryan-romney-vp-pick">hailed</a> Ryan’s rejection of a “culture war truce.”</p>
<blockquote> “By selecting Congressman Ryan as his vice presidential running mate, Governor Romney demonstrates his commitment to protecting American women and unborn children,” said Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of SBA List. “A longtime pro-life advocate and a strong fiscal conservative, Congressman Ryan has insisted that there can be no ‘truce’ when it comes to advancing the rights of the unborn and achieving fiscal responsibility. He has a pristine pro-life voting record and will be an asset to Governor Romney’s campaign.<br />
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“Pro-life voters are a key demographic and help secure victory in critical elections,” continued Dannenfelser. “The addition of a second strong pro-life leader to the ticket energizes the pro-life base – we are thrilled with this pick.”</blockquote>
<p>The Catholic Association called Ryan an “<a href="http://www.thecatholicassociation.org/22-home-page/127-tca-on-romney-s-selection-of-paul-ryan-as-running-mate">excellent choice</a>” since “he has been thoughtful and articulate in applying Catholic principles to the other challenges facing America.”</p>
<blockquote> We believe Governor Romney has made an excellent choice. As a smart, serious Catholic, Congressman Ryan has been steadfast on issues of fundamental principle – defending religious liberty, life, and traditional marriage.<br />
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In addition, he has been thoughtful and articulate in applying Catholic principles to the other challenges facing America.</blockquote>
<p>The American Center for Law and Justice’s David French <a href="http://aclj.org/pro-life/paul-ryan-solid-pro-life-record">noted</a> Ryan’s opposition to reproductive rights.</p>
<blockquote> In the next days and weeks, there will be a lot of attention on Paul Ryan’s economic expertise and experience with fiscal reform. He became famous in political circles for the “Ryan budget” and for his fearlessness and effectiveness in challenging President Obama in the midst of the Obamacare debate. But what many may not know is that Paul Ryan is a man completely committed to the cause of life.</blockquote>
<p>Gary Bauer of the Campaign for Working Families is <a href="http://www.cwfpac.com/eod/saturday-august-11-2012">glad</a> this “youthful, forward-looking ticket [is] reminding us that with the right choices America's best days are still ahead of us.”</p>
<blockquote> Just moments ago, Governor Mitt Romney formally announced his selection of House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan to be his vice presidential running mate. He made the announcement at a naval museum in Norfolk, Virginia, with the USS Wisconsin as his backdrop. This is a bold choice, and I am very excited about this pick!<br />
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The selection of Paul Ryan shows Governor Romney is serious about confronting the fiscal challenges facing our country. It shows the kind of talented and experienced team Governor Romney will put together that will work for American exceptionalism.<br />
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Ryan is a strong conservative. He is pro-life and believes in traditional marriage. Of course, what he is most known for is entitlement reform and stopping the growth of government. He's 42 with a young family. <br />
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So this will be a youthful, forward-looking ticket, reminding us that with the right choices America's best days are still ahead of us. It will be a stark contrast to Obama's failed tax and spend policies that are taking us down the dead-end road of European-style socialism. It's clear which presidential ticket is serious about making real change!</blockquote>Brian TashmanAmerican Center for Law and Justice C4David FrenchGary BauerMarjorie Dannenfelser Mitt RomneyPaul RyanPenny NanceRalph Reed Susan B. Anthony List Tony Perkins Values Voter Summit Campaign for Working Families Concerned Women for AmericaFaith and Freedom CoalitionFamily Research CouncilFighting the Right40722Mon, 13 Aug 2012 11:25:46 -0400Marjorie Dannenfelser Anti-Choice Groups Get Behind Romney to Stop Obama's 'Radical Pro-Abortion Agenda'http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/anti-choice-groups-romney-obama-abortion
<p>Today, the National Right to Life Committee <a href="http://www.nrlc.org/press_releases_new/Release041212.html">endorsed Mitt Romney</a>, who last week <a href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/burns-haberman/2012/04/romney-huddled-with-conservative-leaders-in-dc-this-119865.html">met with NRLC executive director Darla St. Martin</a> along with other conservative activists including Jay Sekulow, Ed Meese and David Keene. In a press release, NRLC said it is time “for time for pro-life Americans to unite behind Mitt Romney.”</p>
<blockquote> Determined to secure a pro-life victory in the November election, which will decide the fate of unborn children for decades to come, the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC), the federation of 50 state right-to-life affiliates and more than 3,000 local chapters, today endorsed Mitt Romney for President of the United States.<br />
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“On pro-life issues, Mitt Romney and Barack Obama provide a stark contrast. As the country's most pro-abortion president, Barack Obama has pursued a radical pro-abortion agenda,” said Carol Tobias, president of National Right to Life. “It is now time for pro-life Americans to unite behind Mitt Romney. For the sake of unborn children, the disabled, and the elderly, we must win.”<br />
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“We are extremely gratified that every candidate who has run for the Republican nomination for president took a pro-life position and kept the life issues at the forefront of the race,” Tobias added. “We look forward to Mitt Romney's election as our next pro-life president on November 6th.” </blockquote>
<p>Concerned Women for America CEO and past Santorum supporter Penny Young Nance <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/daveweigel/status/190466677643804672">appeared on a Romney campaign conference call</a> today, and Marjorie Dannenfelser’s Susan B. Anthony List also decided to back Romney, who <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0611/57256.html">refused to sign the group’s candidate pledge</a>.</p>
<p>Dannenfelser was a <a href="http://www.sba-list.org/rickbus">major Santorum booster</a>, and in February <a href="http://www.janetmefferdpremium.com/2012/02/24/janet-mefferd-radio-show-20120224-hr-1/">told Janet Mefferd</a> that Romney’s <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/the_conversion/2012/02/mitt_romney_s_abortion_record_flip_flop_or_conversion_a_timeline_.html">erratic anti-choice record</a> is “devastating.” Referring to a <em>Slate</em> <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/the_conversion/2012/02/mitt_romney_s_abortion_record_flip_flop_or_conversion_.single.html">article chronicling Romney’s multiple inconsistencies</a>, Dannenfelser said that she remains unconvinced that Romney is a genuine opponent of abortion rights, “I really don’t know”:</p>
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<p>But now <a href="http://www.sba-list.org/newsroom/press-releases/sba-list-endorses-mitt-romney">says</a> that she is “proud to endorse Governor Romney”:</p>
<blockquote>“Now is the time to unite behind Governor Romney in order to defeat the most ideologically pro-abortion president in our nation’s history,” said Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of SBA List. “The SBA List is proud to endorse Governor Romney and plans to spend $10 to $12 million in senate and presidential battleground states mobilizing pro-life voters to ensure victory.”<br />
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“Women deserve a president who truly respects our views on an issue so central to womanhood,” continued Dannenfelser. “A President Romney will be that man. If there was murkiness during the last election over Barack Obama's extreme abortion position, absolute clarity exists now – and his abortion position is rejected by women young and old.”<br />
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"The difference between Governor Romney and President Obama couldn’t be clearer, which is why our Board of Directors voted unanimously to get behind him," said Jane Abraham, Chairman of the SBA List Board of Directors. “It is the responsibility of all pro-life voters to now unite behind Governor Romney. Together we can put a pro-life leader in the White House.”</blockquote>Brian TashmanAnti-AbortionElection 2012Marjorie Dannenfelser National Right to Life Committee Penny NancePenny Young NanceReproductive HealthSusan B. Anthony List Concerned Women for America39622Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:30:57 -0400Marjorie Dannenfelser Religious Right Reacts to Rick Santorum Exiting the Racehttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/religious-right-reacts-rick-santorum-exiting-race
<p>With Rick Santorum suspending his presidential campaign, far-right activists lauded Santorum for pushing his fellow Republicans to the right, particularly on social issues.</p>
<p>Family Research Council president Tony Perkins, who did not officially endorse Santorum but <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/perkins-and-santorum-star-crossed-supporters">clearly favored his candidacy</a>, applauded Santorum’s “message of faith, family and freedom”:</p>
<blockquote> "Rick Santorum's historic run for president achieved remarkable success because his campaign was based not on money spent but on the message of faith, family and freedom that he carried. I commend his courage, boldness and tenacity in fighting for the values that made America great, and are fundamental to returning America to greatness. <br />
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"Millions of voters flocked to Rick not because he was a Republican, but because he passionately articulated the connection between America 's financial greatness and its moral and cultural wholeness. He realizes that real problem-solving starts with an understanding that the economy and the family are indivisible. <br />
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"This values message generated enthusiasm and drew many new voters into the process. If the Republican establishment hopes to generate this same voter intensity in the fall elections, Santorum voters must see it demonstrate a genuine and solid commitment to the core values issues," concluded Perkins.</blockquote>
<p>Marjorie Dannenfelser of Susan B. Anthony List, who organized a bus tour on Santorum’s behalf, <a href="http://www.sba-list.org/newsroom/press-releases/sba-list-santorum-bid-has-energized-critical-pro-life-voting-bloc">said</a>:</p>
<blockquote> “With great vision and passion, Rick Santorum reached the hearts of pro-life voters and allowed them to show the strength of their voting bloc,” said Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of SBA List. “The Susan B. Anthony List is proud to have mobilized those key voters.”<br />
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“Pro-life voters are a consistent and growing constituency, who proved invaluable to Senator Santorum in state after state throughout the primary elections. We will continue to reach out and mobilize those voters and millions more like them across the country. The political muscle of the pro-life movement will be critical to defeating President Obama in November.” Others were more plain in their disappointment.</blockquote>
<p>Right-wing radio host Steve Deace <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/SteveDeaceShow/status/189781840788336640">tweeted</a> that it is “time for a slate of new blood after Obamney loses in November,” and anti-gay activist Peter LaBarbera <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/PeterLaBarbera/status/189783160073105408">lamented</a> that the Republican Party is “stuck” with the “pro-homosexual” Mitt Romney.</p>
<p>Conservative luminary Richard Viguerie, who yesterday made clear that he will <a href="http://www.conservativehq.com/article/7489-confusing-gop-and-conservatives">never consider Romney a bona fide conservative</a>, today urged Romney to pick a conservative running mate, but is <a href="http://www.conservativehq.com/article/7504-tossing-conservatives-vp-bone">disappointed in the current crop of potential candidates</a>:</p>
<blockquote> The demand that there must be some conservative vs. moderate balance on the Republican ticket is already starting to lead the media to engage in some comical contortions as various establishment commentators try to bend their favorite Republican elected official’s record and views to be conservative enough to place a Romney led ticket in the conservative camp if their favored candidate is picked. <br />
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The problem with this exercise is that by-and-large the names offered are either not movement conservatives or they are not yet power players in national politics with a strong movement conservative constituency of their own. <br />
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Chris Christie, Paul Ryan, Bob McDonnell, Nikki Haley, Susana Martinez and the rest of the names floated by the inside-the-Beltway pundits all have their good qualities – but none has established their conservative bona fides by being tested on the national scene and none brings a strong base in the conservative movement to add real grassroots conservative credibility to a Romney led ticket.</blockquote>
<p>Viguerie also <a href="http://www.conservativehq.com/article/7508-santorum-makes-gracious-exit-romney-must-still-convince-conservatives">warned</a> that Romney’s attacks on Santorum may hurt him with the conservative base:</p>
<blockquote> To date Mitt Romney has spent some $100 million to drive the conservative candidates from the field, in some case through vicious personal attacks. However, he has spent little effort making the case for his own candidacy to grassroots movement conservatives. <br />
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The first great challenge facing Republicans is whether or not Mitt Romney can heal the wounds created by his negative campaigning. <br />
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The grassroots movement conservative voters who powered the Santorum campaign can not be taken for granted. During the 2006 congressional elections some 4 million conservative voters stayed home, producing one of the biggest defeats for the Republican Party in the modern era. <br />
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The next step is up to Mitt Romney. Romney is seriously behind with committed conservative voters, to catch up he must make the case that he merits the support of movement conservatives and that a Romney administration, if elected, can and will produce conservative government. </blockquote>
<p><strong>UPDATE</strong>: Gary Bauer of the Campaign for Working Families and a prominent Santorum supporter <a href="http://www.sys-con.com/node/2241070">said</a> his candidacy “will contribute to the end of the Obama Administration this November,” and Richard Land of the Southern Baptist Convention <a href="http://www.christianpost.com/news/evangelicals-react-to-santorums-decision-to-suspend-presidential-bid-72992/">claimed</a> Santorum successfully “resurrected himself once again as a major political figure in our nation” through his role “in the most important election in our nation since 1860.”</p>
<p>Another Santorum booster, Concerned Women for America CEO Penny Nance, <a href="http://www.christianpost.com/news/evangelicals-react-to-santorums-decision-to-suspend-presidential-bid-72992/">urged</a> Romney to “reach out to conservative women since they are the ones who get on the phones and do tons of volunteer work,” and on a similar note Liberty Counsel chairman Mathew Staver, who backed Newt Gingrich, <a href="http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/04/10/with-santorum-suspending-campaign-some-religious-conservatives-wonder-how-to-proceed/">said</a> Romney has “to make some intentional steps to reach out to evangelicals and religious conservatives,” adding that “it would be a mistake to assume he has every vote from evangelicals and religious conservatives locked up.”</p>
<p>However, Michael Farris of the Home School Legal Defense Association and Patrick Henry College, who signed a <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/religious-right-activists-warn-gop-not-nominate-mitt-romney">letter</a> of far-right leaders who described a Romney nomination as a “<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/religious-right-activists-warn-gop-not-nominate-mitt-romney">disastrous mistake</a>,” <a href="http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/04/10/with-santorum-suspending-campaign-some-religious-conservatives-wonder-how-to-proceed/">told CNN</a> that he may not back Romney in the general election:</p>
<blockquote> Evangelical activist Michael Farris was not exactly surprised that Rick Santorum suspended his campaign on Tuesday. But that doesn’t mean that Farris, a longtime political organizer, knows what he’s supposed to do now. <br />
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“Right now my choice is to sit on my hands and do nothing or to actively try to find some alternative” to Mitt Romney, Farris said in an interview shortly after Santorum's announcement. <br />
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“Some of us just have a hard time supporting a person who said he was going to be more liberal on gay rights than Ted Kennedy,” said Farris, chairman of the Home School Legal Defense Association, referring to remarks Romney made in a 1994 letter. <br />
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Farris’ reaction is a stark emblem of the disappointment among religious conservatives over Santorum's announcement, and a reminder that Romney’s enthusiasm deficit among the conservative evangelicals who form the GOP’s base hasn’t gone away.</blockquote>Brian TashmanC4Election 2012Marjorie Dannenfelser Peter LaBarbera Richard Viguerie Rick Santorum Steve DeaceSusan B. Anthony List Tony Perkins Family Research CouncilFighting the Right39599Tue, 10 Apr 2012 17:05:22 -0400Marjorie Dannenfelser JCN's Wendy Long Resurfaces in Run for Senatehttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/jcns-wendy-long-resurfaces-run-senate
<p>Once upon a time, there was a right-wing group called The Judicial Confirmation Network that was <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/amazing-transformation-judicial-confirmation-network">created</a> "to ensure that the confirmation process for all judicial nominees is fair and that every nominee sent to the full Senate receives an up or down vote." </p>
<p>Such a mission made sense back during the George W. Bush administration, when the group was founded ... but didn't work so well when Barack Obama was elected and suddenly the organization was <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/single-question-has-been-asked-jcn-renders-its-verdict">fighting</a> to ensure that his nominees didn't get confirmed.</p>
<p>Eventually, the JCN realized that it couldn't keep calling itself the Judicial <em>Confirmation</em> Network if it was actively working to prevent the confirmation of judges, so the <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/rebirth-judicial-confirmation-network">name was changed</a> to the Judicial Crisis Network and the group likewise wrote up <a href="http://judicialnetwork.com/?q=about">a new mission statement</a>.</p>
<p>Eventually, the original founders left, with Executive Director Gary Marx <a href="http://ffcoalition.com/leadership-team/">signing on</a> with Ralph Reed's Faith and Freedom Coalition and Chief Counsel Wendy Long <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/more-changes-underway-judicial-confirmation-network">stepping down</a> in order to "devote her time to her family and other causes."</p>
<p>Among those "other causes" to which Long is dedicating herself is a run for the Republican nomination to challenge Democratic Senator Kirsten Gillibrand in November.</p>
<p>Last month, Long <a href="http://www.cpnys.org/posts/wendy-long-receives-conservative-party-endorsement">won the endorsement</a> of the Conservative Party of New York State and today <a href="http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/politics/2012/04/5616454/susan-b-anthony-list-endorses-longtime-pro-life-leader-wendy-long-a">secured the endorsement</a> of the anti-abortion zealots over at the Susan B. Anthony List:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>The Susan B. Anthony List, the influential pro-life organization, offered an early and enthusiastic endorsement for Republican Senate candidate Wendy Long this morning.</p>
<p>“There could not be a more clear contrast between longtime pro-life leader Wendy Long and EMILY’s List poster child Senator [Kirsten] Gillibrand,” said Marjorie Dannenfelser, the group's president, in a statement ... “From her days as a Hill staffer to her time at Americans United for Life and her work on behalf of Supreme Court Justices who practice judicial restraint, Wendy has constantly been engaged in the fight for adherence to the Constitution and the right to Life laid out in the Declaration of Independence,” Dannenfelser said in the statement. “We look forward to having her back on Capitol Hill and adding to the number of pro-life women in the Senate.”</p>
<p>...</p>
<p>In her statement, Dannenfelser echoed Long's earlier criticism of Gillibrand for accusing Republicans of waging a "war on women."</p>
<p>“Wendy understands that the only ‘war on women’ is the one being waged against women of faith and conscience by the Obama administration and their allies in Congress and the abortion lobby. She has boldly called on Senator Gillibrand to end the assault on Life, conscience, and religious liberty.”</p>
</blockquote>Kyle MantylaJudicial Confirmation Network Judicial Crisis NetworkMarjorie Dannenfelser New YorkReproductive HealthSusan B. Anthony List Wendy Long C3Fighting the Right39538Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:23:03 -0400Marjorie Dannenfelser |
Jojoba Oil Virgin Australian
Virgin Jojoba oil is a clear golden liquid with a slightly nutty odor. With no fillers or additives, Jojoba oil closely resembles human sebum, which is responsible for naturally lubricating the skin. This is what makes Jojoba such a valuable skin and hair moisturizer.
Jojoba oil is a liquid wax extracted from the nut of an indigenous Australian shrub that goes by the scientific name Simmondsia chinensis, a misnomer as the plant has nothing to do with China. The shrubby tree still grows wild in the United States, mainly in the arid regions of the Southwestern states.
Benefits:
To control oily skin:
Oily skin is the result of overactive sebaceous glands in the skin, found more often on the face and the scalp. Oily skin can quickly gather dust from the environment and make frequent washing necessary. Not only does it look unsightly and make you feel uncomfortable, it can be the starting point of many skin problems such as seborrheic dermatitis, acne, and dandruff.
Skin moisturizer:
Soaps and most other skin cleaning agents strip the skin of the sebum that skin glands produce to lubricate the skin and protect it from drying out. Every time we wash our face and hands, even with plain water, we're removing a protective layer of sebum along with dust and grime. The cold and dry air in winter and air-conditioned interiors dry out our skin at a faster rate than our skin glands replenish the oil supply.
Dehydrated skin is vulnerable to irritants that cause dermatitis and germs that are constantly looking for entry points into the skin. Keeping your skin hydrated by locking in the moisture and protecting it from the drying effects of the environment constitute basic skin care.
For acne control:
Jojoba oil works in several ways to counteract acne formation. First, it acts as a deep cleanser. Being a liquid, it can penetrate deep into the hair follicle; it can dissolve the sebum deposits and help dislodge the comedone, thus clearing out the blockage.
Caution:
Contraindications: Although absolute contraindications have not been identified, jojoba should not be ingested by humans due to potential toxicity.
Pregnancy/nursing: Information regarding safety and efficacy in pregnancy and lactation is lacking. Adverse effects in rodents and birds have been noted. |
Bicyclic anti-VZV nucleosides: Thieno analogues retain full antiviral activity.
Thieno analogues of the potent and selective furo-pyrimidine anti-VZV nucleoside family are herein reported. The compounds retain full antiviral potency in comparison to the furo parent. |
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Marquette Website
The fictional brand Spice Marquette Co. is a spice merchant whose goal is to offer the freshest spices and dried herbs. This class project was to create three different webpages for the business website. The business is 50/50 in-store and online revenue. Customers are 28-55 years of age, interested in cooking and committed to using great ingredients. They are typically upper middle class, but sensible in what they purchase and focused on good quality items. |
KUALA LUMPUR: The stamp duty waiver on the instrument of transfer for first time home buyers announced in Budget 2019 will provide a boost to the current slow housing market, said Knight Frank Malaysia managing director Sarkunan Subramaniam. “The exemptions and...
We used to mostly see strata projects as high-rise residences but these days, strata landed homes have been introduced as well. Many landed housing projects within new townships today are built as strata developments. But do Malaysians truly understand what it means...
Scenario 1 : If you are renting Say you and your spouse are in your late 20’s. You have two beautiful children. You earn just over RM5,000 a month – barely enough to cover your car loan, groceries, utilities and other expenses. You’ve delayed buying a house and are...
KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 12): Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng today explained that the new homesownership platform initiative provides Malaysians with another option towards owning a home. “This is another alternative and we want to give people the choice — it is... |
Connor O'Brien, 3rd Earl of Thomond
Connor O'Brien, 3rd Earl of Thomond (; 1534?–1581), called Groibleach (or Long-nailed), grandson of Conor O'Brien (d. 1539); succeeded to the earldom, 1553; his right to the lordship of Thomond was disputed by his uncle, Donnell; confirmed in his possessions by Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex in 1558, who proclaimed his uncles traitors, though peace was not established until 1565. He intrigued with Fitzgerald in 1569, and fled to France; returned to Ireland and received pardon, 1571, with the restoration of his lands, 1573.
Life
O'Brien, was, called Groibleach, or the "long-nailed", was the eldest son of Donough O'Brien, 2nd Earl of Thomond, and Helen Butler, youngest daughter of Piers Butler, 8th Earl of Ormond. He succeeded to the earldom on the death of his father in April 1553. His right was challenged by his uncle Donnell, who was formally inaugurated O'Brien and chief of the Dal Cais. Obliged to surrender Clonroad, the usual residence of the O'Briens, Conor retired to the castle of Doonmulvihill, on the borders of Galway, where he was besieged by Donnell, but relieved by his kinsman Thomas Butler, 10th Earl of Ormond.
Subsequently, Donnell petitioned for official recognition as chief of Thomond, and St. Leger, though unable to grant his request, promised to write to Queen Mary in his favour. Matters continued in this uncertain state till the summer of 1558, when the Earl of Sussex, having marched to Limerick with a large army, caused Donnell and Teige and Donough, sons of Murrough, 1st Earl of Thomond, to be proclaimed traitors, and Conor to be reinstated in his possessions. Donnell took refuge with Maguire in Fermanagh, and Teige and Donough found a powerful protector in Gerald FitzGerald, 15th Earl of Desmond.
Peace prevailed for a brief season, and Conor won Sussex's approbation for his good execution of justice. But in 1559 Teige and Donough returned to Inchiquin, and not merely defied Conor's efforts to oust them, but, with the assistance of the Earl of Desmond, actually inflicted a sharp defeat on him and his ally, the Earl of Clanricarde, at the Battle of Spancel Hill. Teige was shortly afterwards arrested by Lord-justice William FitzWilliam, and confined in Dublin Castle ; but early in 1562 he managed to escape, and, being joined by Donnell, they opposed a formidable army to the Earl of Thomond. With the help of some ordnance lent him by Sussex, Thomond succeeded in wresting Ballyally and Ballycarhy from them; and eventually, in April 1565, after reducing the country to a wilderness, Donnell consented to surrender his claim to the lordship of Thomond on condition of receiving Corcomroe. War broke out again in the following year ; but the resources of the combatants were exhausted, and Sidney, when he visited Limerick in April 1567, described it as utterly impoverished owing to the Earl of Thomond's "insufficiency to govern".
The suspicion with which he was regarded made him discontented, and on 8 July 1569 he entered into league with the "arch-rebel" James Fitzmaurice Fitzgerald (d. 1579). In February 1570 he attacked the President of Connaught, Sir Edward Fitton, at Ennis, and compelled him to seek refuge in Galway. A strong force under the Earl of Ormond was immediately despatched against him, and a few weeks later he submitted unconditionally. But being "seized with sorrow and regret for having surrendered his towns and prisoners", and determined never to "submit himself to the law, or to the mercy of the council of Ireland", he fled in the beginning of June to France.
There he introduced himself on 18 July to Sir Henry Norris, 1st Baron Norreys, the English ambassador, and, after protesting his loyalty, begged him to intercede with the Queen Elizabeth for his pardon. Norris, who thought him a "barbarous man", wanting "neither vainglory or deceitfulness, and yet in his talk very simple", soon became aware that he was intriguing with the French court, and urged Elizabeth to coax him home at any price. Elizabeth, though she spoke of him as a "person of small value" and declined to pardon him beforehand, was sufficiently alive to his power to do mischief, and promised if he returned to give his grievances a favourable hearing. But Thomond showed no disposition to leave Paris, and Norris was forced to lend him a hundred crowns and make endless promises before he would consent to take his departure.
He returned to Ireland in December, and, having made public confession of his treason to Sir Henry Sidney, he was pardoned. Subsequently, in April 1571, he made surrender of all his lands to the queen. He obtained permission to go to England to solicit their restoration, but, owing to the rebellion of the Earl of Clanricarde's sons, his presence was required in Ireland. He won the approval of the lord-deputy and council, and warrant was apparently given in June 1573 for the restoration of his lands. In December 1575 he went to Cork to show his respect to the lord-deputy, Sir Henry Sidney, whom he attended to Limerick and Galway, whither the principal men of Thomond repaired to him. "And finding that the mutuall Hurtes and Revenges donne betwixt the Earle and Teige MacMurrough Avas one great Cawse of the Ruyne of the Country", Sidney "bounde theim by Bondes, in great sommes", to surrender their lands, and to submit to the appointment of Donnell, created Sir Donnell O'Brien, as sheriff of the newly constituted county of Clare. This arrangement, though acquiesced in, was naturally displeasing to Thomond, and he was reputed to have said that he repented ever "condescending to the queen's mercy".
The arrangement did not put an end to the disputes between him and Teige, and in 1577 Sir William Drury was compelled to place the county under martial government. Thomond thereupon repaired to England, and on 7 October warrant was issued for a new patent containing the full effect of his former patent, with remainder to his son Donough, baron of Ibrickan. He returned to Ireland about Christmas; but before his arrival, according to the "Four Masters", "the marshal had imposed a severe burden on his people, so that they were obliged to become tributary to the sovereign, and pay a sum of ten pounds for every barony, and this was the first tribute ever paid by the Dal Cais." Thomond, however, seems to have lived on good terms with the new president of Connaught, Sir Nicholas Malby. He died, apparently, in January 1581, and was succeeded by his eldest son, Donough, baron of Ibrickan and 4th earl of Thomond.
Family
Conor O'Brien first married Ellen, daughter of Donald MacCormac MacCarthy Mor and widow of James FitzGerald, 14th Earl of Desmond; she died in 1560, and was buried in Muckross Abbey. He then married Una, daughter of Turlough Mac-i-Brien-Ara, with whom he had three sons: Teige (restorer of Dromore Castle, near Ruan), Daniel, created 1st Viscount Clare and Donogh O'Brien, 4th Earl of Thomond O Brien, Baron of Ibrickan, also spelt Donough O'Brien. Also had three daughters. Honora, first wife of Thomas Fitzmaurice, 18th Lord Kerry; Margaret, second wife of James Butler, 2nd Lord Dunboyne; and Mary, wife of Turlough Roe MacMahon of Corcovaskin.
Notes
References
Thomond. Rayment's peerage page
Robert Dunlop. Dictionary of National Biography Volume XLI, pp. 309–310
O'Donoghue's Hist. Memoir of the O'Briens, Dublin, 1860;
Annals of the Four Masters, ed. O'Donovan ;
Cal. State Papers, Ireland, ed. Hamilton ;
Cal. Carew MSS. ;
Cal. State Papers, Foreign, 1570 ;
Irish genealogies in Harl. MS. 1425 ;
Bagwell's Ireland under the Tudors.
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I just installed and tried the sample GettingStartedActivity, I tried to use 10 numbers to draw the column chart on a screen and it worked well. Then I tried to create a activity which has two component. The first component (textView) which occupy the half of the screen showed 10 numbers and related information, the second part (ChartView) showed the chart. It does show the chart, but it missed some information. First, the number on each column top only showed half part of the number, second, the x and y axis are missed. It looks like only the center of the chart showed on the screen. I guess the reason is that I only have half screen given to chart, right? I saw your screenshot samples and know that your application can make the chart showed completly on part of the screen in stead of the whole screen. But I do not know how to do that. Could you help on informing it. Thanks.
Well, I do not understand why ArrayAdapter is needed here, for the same reason why cell.xml is useful. I think GridView and ChartView will do the job (which might be the reason of my problem). That is what I did in my application:
Code:
setContentView(R.layout.main);
// show ten lines in textView and each line show some string
textView = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.textView_record);
// show chart in chartView which draw a chart using your sample code
chartView = (ChartView)findViewById(R.id.chartView_record);
ChartArea area = chartView.addArea();
ChartSeries series = new ChartSeries( "DemoSeries", ChartTypes.Column);
series.getPoints().setData(recordsArray);//recordsArray has ten numbers
series.setShowLabel( true );
chartView.getSeries().add( series );
series.setArea( area.getName() );
Also, I only have one xml in layout dir which is similar to main.xml in the Grid example. I could show textView and chartView on screen, but the problem is that chartView only show center part without x and y axis (as I described in the first post). Could you help to figure out the problem? Thanks for the help!
Perhaps if you'd attach your project you are working on, we could figure out why chart behaves this way. Please provide as detailed as possible description of desired output. You are also welcome to purchase aiCharts library along with a subscription. This way you will receive latest library updates and any kind of consulting you require.
Thank you pturchenko. I am just doing a demo, if this works out as desired, it is quite possible that my boss will buy it. :)
I figured out the problem, because I set the main layout background to white color...
Now it can show the column chart well, the y axis shows the number corresponding to the actual numbers for each column, but for x axis, now it shows 0.0, 2.5, 5.0, 7.5 and 10.0. Since I have ten columns, I am wondering if the x axis could show 1,5,10 or 1 to 10 under the corresponding column. Now the code is as below:
Another problem is that when I press the chartViewButton, the above code will show the chart on the screen. If I press the button for second time, the screen will show two same charts, three charts for the third press...., how to make it to show only one chart and clear the previous chart somehow.
You are right, each time clicking the button will add a chartArea (hide the textView and show chartView which are in same activity), that is the reason if i click button twice, it will show two same charts on screen, but I do not know how to remove it or reuse it as you adviced, could you help to solve the problem? Thanks.
I showed the chart to my boss and he like it. Currently, I used two chart type from your lib, one is column and the other is line type. Both charts shows ten numbers which like 123, 223, 98, 166...I am wondering if the following two requirements is applicable.
First, is it possible to draw a horizontal line accoring to a value like 100, since 100 is a special value in my app.
Second, is it applicable to change the color to different one for the part that is above a value. For example, now the default column/chart color is red, for the column/chart that is above 100 on y axis, it is another color, in other words, one column could has two color, one color for lower part below 100, one color for upper part above 100.
I saw some of your samples in which a column has two or three colors, so I think the second requirement might be applicable, or both. If so, could you please provide details on how to make it happen? Thanks.
Thanks a lot for your kind help and support. I put your code into mine, and got the result as the attahed picture.
As it shows, the whole area that is above 100 has changed color, but the columns that above 100 value do not change the color which is what I wish to do. I need not area to change the color, just the column.
And the horizontal line of 100 has the same color as 200 and 300, I wish its color is special.
Hi. It would be great if you draw an image of chart you are trying to come up with. It's kind of hard to figure out from your code snippets what's exactly wrong. We'll try to create a sample that does what you need.
I worked out the stripline (green one) as attached pic showed, the left problem is to show column that has different color for the part above the stripline. Now, those columns in blue are expected to show two colors, red color below the stripline and blue color above the stripline. Please give some help on it at your convenience. Thanks!
Code:
area = new ChartArea();
area.getDefaultXAxis().setLabelsMode(ChartAxis.LabelsMode.SeriesLabels);
area.getDefaultXAxis().setFormat("%.0f");
series = new ChartSeries( ChartTypes.Column);
for(int i = 0; i < recordsArray.length; i++)
{
series.getPoints().addXY(i+1, recordsArray[i]);
}
series.setShowLabel( true );
// set color to different one for the part above normal value
processPoints(series);
// set special color for the stripLine that is equal to normal value
ChartAxisStripLine stripLine = createStripLine(NORMAL_VALUE);
area.getDefaultYAxis().getStripLines().add(stripLine);
chartView.getAreas().add(area);
chartView.getSeries().add( series );
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Well, the mask might be tricky but since the Egyptian drawings are so simple, it should be pretty easy. First, take a mask, it could be those hockey masks. Than, clump up newspaper and form the snout by kind of squashing it and roughly molding it. Than get paper strips dipped in wallpaper paste and papier mache it. Smooth it out and get the design right by putting more layers and pushing down on the newspaper clump that you glued on the mask. Than you can shape collars and stuff out and go through the same procedure. Than you can spray paint the whole thing or use acrylic paint. Than use some paint finisher and do the whole thing. It should look great. If you need some pictures, I know a few sites, they are: http://www.pantheon.org/mythica/areas/egyptian/ |
There is no question that digital technology plays an increasingly important role in every aspect of life, including education. When it comes to learning, teaching and assessment the potential of technology is huge, but as our use of it increases the challenges of using it intelligently and the responsibility that comes with it also grow.
The 24th Annual Conference of the Association for Learning Technology, taking place 5 – 7 September 2017 at the University of Liverpool, UK, reflects this with the theme ‘Beyond islands of innovation – how Learning Technology became the new norm(al)’.
Dr Maren Deepwell, chief executive of the Association, says, ‘It’s professionals, not technology, we need to focus on. Starting with using technology effectively for which you need basic digital skills and literacy, to design and implementation which require more expansive capabilities and on to procurement, governance and leadership for which more critical faculties are required, professionals who know how to harness the potential of technology are more and more critical to success in education and training. Our conference brings together that expertise on a national scale, enabling us to increase the impact of Learning Technology for the public good through knowledge sharing, collaboration and research.’
The conference brings together over 450 participants, who are practitioners, researchers and policy makers from across sectors. In over 200 sessions, participants will chart the development of Learning Technology from isolated islands of ‘innovation’ to becoming the new norm – and the challenges this entails for staff and learners alike.
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Yellow Pine, Louisiana
Yellow Pine (also Yellowpine) is an unincorporated community in Webster Parish, Louisiana, United States.
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187 Pa. Superior Ct. 154 (1958)
Giuffre
v.
Giuffre, Appellant.
Superior Court of Pennsylvania.
Argued June 11, 1958.
September 11, 1958.
Before RHODES, P.J., HIRT, GUNTHER, WRIGHT, WOODSIDE, ERVIN, and WATKINS, JJ.
*155 William M. Marutani, with him MacCoy, Evans & Lewis, for appellant.
J. Montgomery Forster, for appellee.
OPINION BY WRIGHT, J., September 11, 1958:
On July 24, 1956, Josephine V. Giuffre filed a complaint in divorce a.v.m. against her husband, Joseph F. Giuffre, charging indignities to the person. The husband was personally served but did not appear or file an answer. The matter was referred to a master who scheduled a hearing on October 8, 1956. Due notice thereof was personally served on the husband but he did not appear. The master subsequently filed a report recommending that the divorce be granted. This report was approved by the court below on November 13, 1956, but the wife did not complete the proceeding by securing a final decree. On May 10, 1957, upon the husband's petition, a rule was granted to show cause why the matter should not be referred back to the master for further hearing, which rule was subsequently made absolute. The master scheduled a further hearing on June 18, 1957, at which time the husband appeared with counsel. The master thereafter filed a supplemental report, again recommending a decree. The husband's exceptions to this supplemental report were dismissed in the court below and a final decree entered. The husband has appealed.
While counsel for appellant has divided his argument into four sections, he concedes that "the sole question to be determined is whether or not the plaintiff's evidence, even if accepted without reservations, establishes *156 `indignities' within the meaning of the Divorce Law".
The parties were united in marriage on October 13, 1951. It was the first marriage for each. Thereafter they lived together as husband and wife at 844 Wynnewood Road, Philadelphia, until their separation in July 1956. They have one child, a boy, born June 26, 1952, who is in the mother's custody. The parties are presently aged 26 and 29 years, respectively. The wife is employed at the Devon Hobby Shop. The husband is a sales engineer. Difficulties between the parties commenced upon their return from the wedding trip, and the union was an unsuccessful one from its very inception.
"The course of conduct amounting to such indignities as would justify a divorce is apparently incapable of specific or of exact definition. Each case must necessarily depend upon its own facts. The principles applicable to the charge of `indignities to the person' have been fully and frequently set forth by this court. It is, of course, impossible to lay down any general rule as to what constitutes such indignities to the person as to render the condition of the injured spouse intolerable and life burdensome; such matters necessarily depend upon all the circumstances of the particular case and the position in life, character and disposition of the parties. It is well settled, however, that it is not with isolated occurrences that the law concerns itself in determining whether a divorce should be granted upon this ground, but only with indignities so repeated and continuous as to constitute a course of conduct which renders the complaining party's condition intolerable and life itself a burden. Such indignities we have frequently said may consist of vulgarity, unmerited reproach, habitual contumely, studied neglect, intentional incivility, manifest disdain, abusive language, *157 malignant ridicule, and every other plain manifestation of settled hate and estrangement; but slight or irregular acts of misconduct are not sufficient": Dearth v. Dearth, 141 Pa. Superior Ct. 344, 15 A. 2d 37. See also Cutter v. Cutter, 165 Pa. Superior Ct. 103, 68 A. 2d 192; Boyer v. Boyer, 183 Pa. Superior Ct. 260, 130 A. 2d 265; Patton v. Patton, 183 Pa. Superior Ct. 468, 132 A. 2d 915; Wick v. Wick, 352 Pa. 25, 42 A. 2d 76.
As reiterated in recent opinions by Judges ERVIN and WATKINS, an indignity is an affront to the personality of another, a lack of reverence for the personality of one's spouse: Robinson v. Robinson, 183 Pa. Superior Ct. 574, 133 A. 2d 259; Romano v. Romano, 183 Pa. Superior Ct. 462, 133 A. 2d 273. The offense is complete when a continued and persistent course of conduct demonstrates that the love and affection upon which the matrimonial status rests has been permanently replaced by hatred and estrangement: Trimbur v. Trimbur, 171 Pa. Superior Ct. 541, 91 A. 2d 307. Such is the type of conduct relied upon by the wife in the instant case. The evidence discloses, inter alia, that appellant showed no affection or respect for his wife and, ignoring her, preferred to devote his attention to his own affairs. He engaged in numerous card games at their apartment, which were accompanied by excessive drinking and so much noise that on one occasion the wife found it necessary to call the police. Appellant showed no concern when one of his men friends attempted improper liberties with his wife's person. Appellant was frequently absent at night and, when his wife remonstrated, he told her it was his life to do with as he saw fit. He refused to permit his wife to touch the car, and kept his phonograph records under lock and key. On one occasion he shoved his wife against a doorway so that her body was bruised and her arm was bloody. On another occasion, when his *158 wife was bathing, he turned on the hot water and inflicted such severe burns that bandages were required for several days. At a New Year's party, appellant walked out on his wife, and she was compelled to go to the house of friends for the night. Appellant's course of treatment caused the wife to remove from the common home in the summer of 1954. After living with her mother for a month and a half, upon appellant's promise to reform, she returned to live with him. Appellant then settled back into the same course of conduct as before, and the couple finally parted in July 1956.
Some of the actions testified to by the wife were denied by appellant, while others were admitted by him with an attempt at explanation or mitigation. The master was of the opinion that "defendant's denials of the material incidents charged to him by plaintiff and her witnesses were not convincing, nor was the master impressed with defendant's testimony that his conduct toward plaintiff was exemplary". While we are not concluded by the master's appraisal of the testimony, such appraisal is entitled to considerable weight, especially when his report, as in the instant case, presents a searching analysis and has been approved by the court below: Bruno v. Bruno, 185 Pa. Superior Ct. 219, 138 A. 2d 301. Where the finding of the master as to credibility is not at variance with the record, it is entitled to the fullest consideration on appeal: Hansell v. Hansell, 182 Pa. Superior Ct. 158, 126 A. 2d 509.
We have yet to mention appellant's undue familiarity with members of the opposite sex. While he chose to treat these episodes lightly, the frequency and circumstances thereof, as substantially admitted by appellant, were in themselves sufficient to make out a case of indignities. The first occasion occurred in 1952 *159 when he brought two female friends home and expected his wife to entertain them. Various other incidents were detailed, one of the more significant being an occasion during the separation in 1954 when appellant brought a girl to the apartment and kept her there until three o'clock in the morning. Hexamer v. Hexamer, 42 Pa. Superior Ct. 226, is cited for the proposition that indiscreet conduct with members of the opposite sex is not ground for divorce. This case was distinguished in Macormac v. Macormac, 159 Pa. Superior Ct. 378, 48 A. 2d 136, wherein it was held that improper conduct of one spouse with members of the opposite sex, although not sufficient to support a charge of adultery, may be considered as a form of personal indignity. See also Priest v. Priest, 162 Pa. Superior Ct. 232, 57 A. 2d 437; Olbum v. Olbum, 183 Pa. Superior Ct. 5, 128 A. 2d 125. The conduct of the appellant in keeping a girl "more or less on the string in case I needed companionship" was an unjustified affront to his wife and constituted an indignity to her person.
In conclusion, our review of this record reveals that the master properly recommended the granting of a divorce, and that the court below did not err in approving the master's report and entering a final decree. See DiNunzio v. DiNunzio, 185 Pa. Superior Ct. 106, 138 A. 2d 212; Danze v. Danze, 185 Pa. Superior Ct. 111, 137 A. 2d 809.
Decree affirmed.
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Van Conversion: Floor Insulation
We never thought it would take this long to insulate a floor, but we’d rather take the time now and have it last much longer and be as good as it can be! This insulation process was time consuming and educational! We hope you enjoy the video and hopefully we can be of some insight for those of you who are debating the van conversion process. It feels good to be done with the seats and floor insulation and moving on to the next item on our to-do list! Thanks for those who hung in there awaiting our newest van build videos, we appreciate your patience as we took some time to say goodbye to some family and friends! Back to the van build we go! |
International tools
To promote and protect human rights, States draw up and adopt standards on the subject within different international and regional forums. Human rights agreements impose obligations on the States which ratify them. They also often establish control mechanisms for the observance of these obligations.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted in 1948 by the General Assembly of the UN. For the first time, the different human rights were listed and proclaimed for all humankind. Since its adoption, this Declaration has been a referential text of great moral value. The great principles and standards established in this basic text have since been codified in a series of binding international and regional instruments. These have enabled us to develop and specify human rights standards.
International and regional agreements
Since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of human rights, several specific agreements on fundamental rights or groups of human beings have been drawn up. Since then, most of these agreements have been followed by optional protocols which set out the States’ obligations on each of these issues even more specifically. The standards drawn up at UN and Council of Europe level are extremely close and complementary in content.
At UN level:
Belgium is party to the main human rights agreements and optional protocols. Below is an overview of these different instruments:
Agreements ratified by Belgium:
International Covenant on Civil and Political rights (ratified on 21 April 1983)
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural rights (ratified on 21 April 1983)
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ratified on 7 April 1975)
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (ratified on 10 July 1985)
Convention on the Rights of the Child (ratified on 16 December 1991)
Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (ratified on 25 June 1999)
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (ratified on 2 July 2009)
Optional Protocols ratified by Belgium:
Optional Protocol of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ratified on 17 May 1994)
2nd Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty (ratified on 8 December 1998)
Optional protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (ratified on 17 June 2004)
Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, on the involvement of children in armed conflict (ratified on 6 May 2002)
Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography (ratified on 17 March 2006)
Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (ratified on 2 July 2009)
Conventions and Protocols signed by Belgium in the process of being ratified:
International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (signed on 6 February 2007)
Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (signed on 24 October 2005)
National reports to UN committees
For each ratified Convention, it is incumbent on the States to regularly submit reports on their observance of these obligations to the committees of independent experts with jurisdiction (also known as “Treaty bodies”). These committees may then provide the States with recommendations. These mechanisms make it possible to verify and ensure that national legislation, policies and practice are compliant with the provisions of the Convention in question. In Belgium, the writing of these reports is coordinated by the FPS Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation.
At regional organisational level:
At European level, the Council of Europe is the most active organisation in the development of instruments for the protection of human rights. As a founding member of this organisation, Belgium has ratified most of the conventions drawn up by the Council.
Agreements ratified by Belgium:
Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (ratified on 14 June 1955)
12 of the 14 additional Protocols to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights.
Revised European Social Charter (ratified on 2 March 2004)
European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment (ratified on 23 July 1991).
Convention against Trafficking in Human Beings (ratified on 27 April 2009)
Conventions and Protocols signed by Belgium in the process of being ratified:
The additional Protocols to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights no. 7 and no. 12.
Convention on Cybercrime (signed on 23 November 2001) and its additional Protocol concerning the criminalisation of acts of a racist or xenophobic nature committed through computer systems (signed on 28 January 2003) |
Play it again -- Orioles 8, Royals 1
With two on and two out in the first inning, Aubrey Huff drilled a ball to deep right-center field that bounced high into the air after appearing to hit the top of the wall, but video replays were inconclusive. It was initially ruled a three-run homer, which would have been Huff's first this season, but the umpires changed the call, making it a two-run ground-rule double. Huff, who entered the game batting .220, went 2-for-4 and scored a run.
No doubter
Nick Markakis hit his first career grand slam in the eighth inning on the 11th pitch of his at-bat against Royals reliever Todd Wellemeyer. Right fielder Reggie Sanders raced back toward the right-center-field gap, but the ball easily cleared the fence, giving the chilled crowd something to cheer about. Before that homer, the Orioles had struggled with runners in scoring position all night, and they stranded eight overall.
Avoiding trouble
Kansas City managed one run, but had plenty of opportunities to score. The Royals left 10 runners on base, seven of whom were in scoring position. Shortstop Miguel Tejada started two double plays in the first two innings to help left-hander Erik Bedard. Bedard gave up the lone run in the fourth but got out of a bases-loaded jam to end the inning.
On deck
Daniel Cabrera, scheduled to make his third start of the year tonight, has given up five runs in 14 2/3 innings this season. Odalis Perez, who has a 10.80 ERA in two losses, starts for Kansas City. |
New Glendale subsidies to Coyotes could top $224 million
The city of Glendale will pay owner-to-be Greg Jamison anywhere from $10 million to $20 million a year in “operating subsidies” (wink, wink) for the life of a 20-year lease. The Republic counts this as $300 million in payments; in present value it’s probably closer to $200 million.
“Glendale will also foot the bill for $24 million in capital improvements to the 9-year-old arena.” Presumably that’s $24 million now, not over time.
Rent payments, ticket surcharges, sales taxes, and other fees from the arena will amount to a whopping $2.2 million a year. Even if that rises over time, Glendale is still looking at upwards of $12 million a year in net payments, plus the capital fund. This on top of the $12.6 million a year in arena debt the city is already responsible for.
How far will $15 million a year in payments go toward paying operating expenses? Well, current arena costs have never gone above $13 million, though obviously that could rise over the next 20 years. (And that’s gross costs; the arena also has brought in at least $6.5 million a year in revenues.) One local team executive told the Republic that, in the paper’s words, “the city’s arena-management payment to Jamison likely would also be used to offset operating losses in running the Coyotes.” And the Phoenix Suns, by comparison, get nothing to pay operating costs on US Airways Arena, after Phoenix helped pay for the building’s construction.
In summation, then, Glendale is preparing to hand over upwards of $15 million a year to pay all of the Coyotes’ arena expenses, and then some, after already having built the team an arena, in exchange for $2.2 million a year in rent payments (plus whatever tax money trickles in from fans spending money at, say, nearby stores). That’s still not the worst arena deal ever — the Indiana Pacers, who are getting $10 million a year in operating subsidies plus got their arena for free plus pay no rent, still take the prize there. But it’s getting up there. |
The present invention relates generally to spray nozzles, and more particularly to full cone liquid spray nozzles having particular utility for spraying liquid coolants in metal casting operations.
In metal casting operations, and particularly continuous metal casting systems in which steel slabs, billets, or other metal shapes are extruded from a mold, it is necessary to spray the emerging metal with water for rapid heat removal. It is desirable that the spray be finely atomized and uniformly directed onto the metal for uniform cooling. Uneven distribution of the liquid coolant results in non-uniform cooling of the metal, which can cause cracking, high stresses, and reduced surface and edge quality.
Full cone liquid spray nozzles have been used in continuous metal casting operations for directing cooling liquid, namely water, onto the metal surface for maximum cooling without dissolution by pressurized air. Prior full cone spray nozzles typically comprise a nozzle body having a discharge orifice and an upstream vane for imparting swirling movement to the liquid passing through the nozzle for breaking up the liquid flow and distributing liquid particles throughout the discharging conical spray pattern. Prior full cone spray nozzles, however, have had operating drawbacks.
One problem with prior full cone liquid spray nozzles arises by reason of the liquid throughput being controlled entirely by the liquid pressure. To achieve proper cooling, the volume of liquid sprayed in a continuous casting operation must be commensurate with the rate at which the steel shape is cast. In other words, when the metal emerges from the mold at a higher rate, a greater quantity of coolant is required for proper cooling than during lower rate casting. In prior full cone spray nozzles, however, a change in liquid pressure necessary for changing the spray volume also changed the angle of the discharging conical spray, which in turn changed the spray coverage, i.e. the area on the metal surface upon which the liquid impinges. A change in the spray coverage, in turn, can alter the uniformity in cooling by changing the extent discharging sprays of adjacent nozzles overlap, and in some cases, causing gaps between the discharging sprays of adjacent nozzles.
A further problem with the use of prior full cone liquid spray nozzles in continuous metal casting operations is that the discharging spray, regardless of spray pressure, is inherently non-uniform. Tests demonstrate that the volume of liquid collected per unit area (i.e. liquid density) along one narrow planar segment parallel to the axis of the spray nozzle varies substantially from the liquid density taken in a second narrow planar segment through the nozzle axis perpendicular to the first. While such non-uniformity might be taken into account if the spray nozzles could be mounted in predetermined relation to each other, typically the spray nozzles are simply screwed onto a supply pipe such that the irregular spray pattern of one nozzle has no relation to the irregular spray pattern of an adjacent nozzle, which can result in further non-uniformity in cooling of a moving cast metal.
It is an object of the present invention to provide a cast metal liquid spray system having full cone liquid spray nozzles adapted for more uniform liquid spraying, and hence, more uniform cooling of the metal.
Another object is to provide a full cone liquid spray nozzle in which the liquid spray volume of the discharging spray may be readily changed, according to the speed of the metal casting operation, without adversely affecting uniformity in cooling.
A further object is to provide a full cone spray nozzle as characterized above in which the discharging conical spray angle, and hence spray coverage, is substantially unaffected by changes in liquid pressure.
Yet another object is to provide a full cone liquid spray nozzle of the above kind in which liquid density in the discharging spray is substantially similar throughout the spray pattern, including planar segments through the axis of the nozzle perpendicular to each other.
Still another object is to provide a full cone liquid spray nozzle of the foregoing type which is relatively simple in construction and which lends itself to economical manufacture and reliable use.
Other objects and advantages of the invention will become apparent upon reading the following detailed description and upon reference to the drawings, in which: |
Prognostic significance of micropapillary pattern in lung adenocarcinoma and expression of apoptosis-related markers: caspase-3, bcl-2, and p53.
We evaluated the clinicopathological characteristics and prognostic significance of lung adenocarcinoma with micropapillary pattern (MPP) and analyzed the expression of apoptosis-related markers: caspase-3, bcl-2, and p53. A series of 166 lung adenocarcinoma that had been surgically resected between 2004 and 2009 were reviewed. Histopathologic patterns, presence of tumor necrosis, mitosis, lymphovascular and perineural invasion, the status of pleura, and tumor differentiation were examined. Of the 166 patients; 71 were stage I, 35 stage II, 51 stage III, and nine stage IV. Histologically they were divided into two groups: MPP-positive (n = 55) and MPP-negative (n = 111). The following items were significantly more frequent in the MPP positive group: female gender (p = 0.03), lymph node metastasis (p = 0.031), and pleural invasion (p = 0.045). Age, smoking status, tumor stage, lymphatic invasion, perineural invasion, mitotic count, and survival rates had no statistically significant difference between groups (p > 0.05). In MPP positive tumors, visceral pleural invasion was identified significantly more frequent than in MPP negative tumors, at stage I. Tumors with MPP showed elevated expressions of caspase-3 (94.5%), p53 (60%), and bcl-2 (54.5%). In MPP positive group, the expression of these three markers had no statistically significant impact on survival. In whole population, bcl-2 expression was correlated with a better outcome. We conclude that MPP is associated with poor prognostic factors both in early and late stages in lung adenocarcinoma. Bcl-2 provides prognostic information independent from the MPP. |
Variation and constraints in hybrid genome formation.
Hybridization is an important source of variation; it transfers adaptive genetic variation across species boundaries and generates new species. Yet, the limits to viable hybrid genome formation are poorly understood. Here we investigated to what extent hybrid genomes are free to evolve by sequencing the genomes of four island populations of the homoploid hybrid Italian sparrow Passer italiae. We report that a variety of novel and fully functional hybrid genomic combinations are likely to have arisen independently on Crete, Corsica, Sicily and Malta, with differentiation in candidate genes for beak shape and plumage colour. However, certain genomic regions are invariably inherited from the same parent species, limiting variation. These regions are over-represented on the Z chromosome and harbour candidate incompatibility loci, including DNA-repair and mitonuclear genes. These gene classes may contribute to the general reduction of introgression on sex chromosomes. This study demonstrates that hybrid genomes may vary, and identifies new candidate reproductive isolation genes. |
Effect of drug treatment on liver-slice function following 72-hour hypothermic perfusion.
The viability of hypothermically perfused dog liver was evaluated with a tissue-slice technique. After being preserved for 72 hr, slices of liver were incubated at 30 degrees C for as long as 2 hr; then water content, K+/Na+ ratio, and ATP concentration were measured. Dog livers were assigned to the following experimental groups: Group 1 (no preservation; control); Group 2 (livers preserved for 72 hr); Group 3 (donor animals pretreated with 3.5 mg/kg of chlorpromazine (CPZ) and 20 mg/kg of methylprednisolone (MP), and livers preserved for 72 hr); Group 4 (livers pretreated with 2-deoxycoformycin (2-DOC), 50 mg/liter, and preserved for 72 hr); and Group 5 (combination of Group 3 and Group 4 treatments). Livers in Groups 2, 3, and 4 lost K+ during preservation, and the mean K+/Na+ ratio significantly decreased from a control value of 4.2 +/- 0.4 to 1.5-1.9 (P less than 0.05). Group 5 livers did not lose K+; mean K+/Na+ ratio was 3.9 +/- 0.5. Fresh livers (no preservation) rapidly reaccumulated K+ when the tissue slices were incubated for 2 hr at 30 degrees C; mean K+/Na+ ratio was 3.7 +/- 0.5. Tissue slices from Group 2 livers (72 hr preservation), and livers pretreated with CPZ-MP (Group 3) or pretreated with 2-DOC (Group 4) did not significantly reaccumulate K+ at 30 degrees C; mean K+/Na+ ratio was 1.7-2.1. Only slices prepared from liver pretreated with both CPZ-MP and 2-DOC reaccumulated K+; mean K+/Na+ ratio was 4.6 +/- 1.2.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS) |
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the ordering the Stay of any Prosecution at Law against Mr. Marriott. Ordered, ... Marriott, in relation to the false Indorsement of Exchequer-Bills, be staid ... That the Serjeant do bring Mr. Marriott... |
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#import "ZXDimensions.h"
@implementation ZXDimensions
- (id)initWithMinCols:(int)minCols maxCols:(int)maxCols minRows:(int)minRows maxRows:(int)maxRows {
if (self = [super init]) {
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Online Services For The Nintendo Switch: Cheaper Than The Competition
The Nintendo Switch, Nintendo’s upcoming console, will be featuring a paid online service. The cost is negligible though when compared to the competition. Nintendo’s president Tatsumi Kimishima gave us the predicted cost: 2,000 – 3,000 yen per year, which ends up being anywhere between $17.63 to $26.44 for those of you who don’t live in Japan.
This price was given during an interview with Nikkei, an Asian based news publication. As the Switch will be the first system in the Nintendo arsenal to ask for cash for their internet services, as both the Wii and the Wii U offer free services, many people might be disgruntled about the change. However it’s important to note that this is extremely cheap in comparison to both the PS4 and Xbox. A yearly cost for either one of the aforementioned systems will run you around $59.99. That said, it’s hardly a cost that should cause gamers any contention.
The services offered by the Switch will allow for online multiplayer play, it will also offer at least one free NES or Super NES game per moth to all subscribers. For those of you use to the PlayStation Plus or Xbox Live memberships, it’s worth noting that the games offered by Switch will only be done so monthly – after which you may no longer play the free title and a new one will be made avaliable. It’s hardly a huge issue, given how short many Nintendo games are, but something that people might throw a fit about.
The Nintendo Switch will go global March 3rd, and online services will be free until fall when everything goes lives in the fall.
Follow us on Twitter to keep up with the latest posts, or to recommend a game for the team to review: @TheSaveSpot1 |
Effect of endothelin-1 in man: pretreatment with nifedipine, with indomethacin and with cyclosporine A.
The rise in blood pressure following the intravenous administration of endothelin-1 remained unchanged in healthy male volunteers pretreated with either the calcium-channel antagonist nifedipine (10 mg orally), the cyclo-oxygenase inhibitor indomethacin (150 mg day-1 for three days) or the immunosuppressive agent cyclosporine (5 mg kg-1 body weight for five days). Following administration of nifedipine the rise in plasma concentrations of endothelin-1 during the infusion of the peptide was markedly higher (P less than 0.01) than during control experiments without nifedipine. It is concluded that, in healthy men, nifedipine, indomethacin and cyclosporine do not exert a major influence on the pressor action of endothelin-1. However, nifedipine apparently influences the elimination of endothelin-1 from the circulation in healthy men. |
Central District, Singapore
The Central Area or Central Business District (CBD) contains the core financial and commercial districts of Singapore, including eleven urban planning areas, namely Downtown Core, Marina East, Marina South, Museum, Newton, Orchard, Outram, River Valley, Rochor, Singapore River and Straits View as defined by the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA). Part of the Central Region in the southern part of Singapore, it includes high value land intensely regulated by the URA's urban planning initiatives. It approximately equates to the area which may be referred to as the city despite Singapore being a city in itself.
Singapore River which currently empties into Marina Bay by the Merlion, is a major landmark in this Central Area. The river originally emptied into the Singapore Straits, the main maritime activity site for the colony. The commercial areas which developed on the south banks became the central business district for post-independence Singapore. URA groups these areas of commercial activity and calls it the Central Area.
The Central Area has since been expanded by the Government of Singapore and the URA to include the land reclamation of Marina Bay. Many construction projects have been completed on these reclaimed lands with many more still under consideration or development. |
desc: Tests manipulation operations on objects
tests:
# Define some objects to work with
- def: obj = r.expr({'a':1, 'b':2,'c':"str",'d':null,'e':{'f':'buzz'}})
## Get attr
- cd: obj['a']
js:
- obj('a')
- obj.getField('a')
ot: 1
- cd: obj['c']
js:
- obj('c')
- obj.getField('c')
ot: 'str'
## Has_Fields
- cd: obj.has_fields('b')
ot: true
- cd: obj.keys().contains('d')
ot: true
- cd: obj.has_fields('d')
ot: false
- cd: obj.has_fields({'e':'f'})
ot: true
- cd: obj.has_fields({'e':'g'})
ot: false
- cd: obj.has_fields('f')
ot: false
# Has_Fields is variadic
- cd: obj.has_fields('a', 'b')
ot: true
- cd: obj.has_fields('a', 'd')
ot: false
- cd: obj.has_fields('a', 'f')
ot: false
- cd: obj.has_fields('a', {'e':'f'})
ot: true
# Has_Fields is polymorphic
- cd: r.expr([obj, obj.pluck('a', 'b')]).has_fields('a', 'b').count()
ot: 2
- cd: r.expr([obj, obj.pluck('a', 'b')]).has_fields('a', 'c').count()
ot: 1
- cd: r.expr([obj, obj.pluck('a', 'e')]).has_fields('a', {'e':'f'}).count()
ot: 2
## Pluck
- cd: obj.pluck('a')
ot: {'a':1}
- cd: obj.pluck('a', 'b')
ot: {'a':1, 'b':2}
## Without
- cd: obj.without('a')
ot: {'b':2, 'c':'str', 'd':null, 'e':{'f':'buzz'}}
- cd: obj.without('a', 'b')
ot: {'c':'str', 'd':null,'e':{'f':'buzz'}}
- cd: obj.without('a', 'b', 'c', 'd')
ot: {'e':{'f':'buzz'}}
- cd: obj.without({'e':'f'})
ot: {'a':1, 'b':2, 'c':'str', 'd':null, 'e':{}}
- cd: obj.without({'e':'buzz'})
ot: {'a':1, 'b':2, 'c':'str', 'd':null, 'e':{'f':'buzz'}}
## Merge
#obj = r.expr({'a':1, 'b':2,'c':"str",'d':null,'e':{'f':'buzz'}})
# complete replacement
- cd: obj.merge(1)
ot: 1
# add attr
- cd: obj.merge({'e':-2})
ot: {'a':1, 'b':2, 'c':'str', 'd':null, 'e':-2}
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R.J. was numb, laying there in the shade of the great oak. He was frozen not only by the surprisingly cold shade, but by his mind. Slipping away from him like a car tumbling off of an embankment, his thoughts fell out of his control. His anxiety, depression, fear, and anger combined into a tapestry of self-loathing. Frustrated and once again unable to take his nap, R.J. pulled out the pills his doctor friend gave him.
Damn it all.
Click, pop, snap. He used his spit to wash some down, desperate for dreams.
God, just let me sleep again. I want to forget where I am, and enjoy them while they last.
He held his eyes shut, squeezing. Tears still forced their way out, as if they were being pushed from his head by all the despair within.
Looking upward, Robert James opened his eyes.
Someone once told him that there was a word for what he saw, but he could not quite remember. It didn’t matter — not knowing did not make it any less beautiful:
Light whispering between the leaves of the tree, wisps of gold and green.
Shining through just for him to see.
The light of the gods.
For just a moment — and maybe it was because of the pills — there was a glimmer of peace within his chest. Warm, radiating out, reminding him of when he first saw his wife, all those years ago. She had caught him staring at her and their eyes locked, and R.J. felt fear at first.
Then she smiled — this is that feeling again.
For a moment that peace existed, and he slipped into unconsciousness in the shade of a giant oak. Birds flew and landed on a telephone wire, they looked down at the cars trickling through the city. One looked at the sun, and flew off alone. Looking up at it, flying against the wind and framed by the blue sky, one could mistake it for a photograph.
Somewhere, off in the distance, a dog barked. But R.J. did not hear it.
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The ground was much colder than Robert remembered, and harder too. The air hurt to breathe for some reason.
COLD!
R.J. shivered and quickly stood, rubbing the sleep from his face in one motion. He looked around at the park.
It was not the park.
Robert James was just asleep against a stone that jutted out of the side of a hill, or was it a mountain? Trees surrounded him, the ground bare except for a layer of leaves mixed with light snow, and his heart was cold – not from the weather – but from that sensation of not knowing where you are.
Fear.
Robert was afraid. A real fear that shot through his body, from his toes to his fingertips.
What is going on?
“HEY! YOU THERE!” Someone bellowed.
Robert whirled around to get a look at the voice, higher up than him on the hill behind him. It was a mountain of a man, bearded and dressed for the weather: layered from head to toe. R.J.’s mouth could not find words to speak, and so his teeth chattered instead.
“What the ‘ell are you doing out heer dressed like that? You’ll die. Sun’s goin’ down after all. Don’t wanna to be out here caught with the darkness.”
…WITH the darkness?
“I… don’t know where I am. How did I get here?” Robert asked, cautiously.
The man hopped down, one leg at a time landing steadily where he bounded. His brown boots made distinct thuds with each landing. He stood in front of R.J., and looked down at him with a boyish grin.
“Woooo-eee boy, you musta had yourself a drink of sump’n FIERCE. Let’s get the hell out of here before we talk. I told you man: the sun’s gon leave us alone out here soon. Don’t want to be out here with the dark.” His breath smelled of something strong, something Robert hoped to get a sip of when he got to where he was going.
A dream, maybe. How else could I be here? Might as well enjoy it while it lasts.
Robert laughed a bit, nervously. He looked around as he began following the man’s back into the woods. Snow laced between leaves on the ground and floated slowly from above like dandelions. It all looked very… Real. He fell behind examining the veins of a leaf he grabbed – noticing only a blue-jean cladded leg disappearing behind a tree – and trotted to make up for lost ground. The cold made his bones ache with each step.
R.J. was impressed with himself for a change, he believed his mind had crafted all of these intricate details for his own amusement. This was a dream he thought that he would surely remember. Maybe it was the one that he kept on having, and he was finally lucid enough to really experience it. He was right about one thing:
He would always, always remember.
“Come ON, man! Keep up!” The man had really picked up the pace, and Robert was not happy at all. He hadn’t run in a long time and it was showing.
“Just…. Slowdown….please…” R.J.’s words slipped out between gasping for air. The cold really made his lungs hurt, and multiplied the exhaustion that was setting in. Trees watched, growing more and more ominous by the minute with the sunlight quickly waning. Mountains had a way of making the sun vanish, he noticed grudgingly.
This better not turn into some damned nightmare.
Without warning, the running was over. The man, still with his strange boyish grin, looked on as Robert bent over with his hands on his knees gulping in air like a fish out of water.
“Lets get you inside, old timer.” The man opened the cabin door and motioned for Robert to enter first while his eyes flicked over Roberts shoulder. He was looking for something, perhaps? Robert paid hardly any mind.
“God, thank you for opening your home to me sir, I –“
The man let out a belly laugh. “Ain’t no need to call me no dang “siiiir”, mister. I work for a living!” Robert made his way inside. It was modest, wooden everything of course. Dirty shoes by the door, all of the windows had shutters. Strikingly thick and sturdy looking shutters, actually. The man bolted the door shut with several different locks, and a bar over the door. Bears must be an issue here, deep in these woods.
R.J. sat, and his host went to the kitchen where a big pot of stew was sitting, still hot.
“Yeah, its just me and my boy up here in these woods. We make our living selling firewood to the city folk about 50 miles away. Hunting and fishing too, o’ course. Good, honest work!” A gregarious grin showed all his teeth. Rather large teeth, Robert observed. Strangely… large. Not sharp or anything, but Robert was noticing now that his mouth was actually quite big.
This is a dream, after all!
R.J. was relieved. A hot bowl of stew was in his hand, and he felt really comfortable in the big couch. There was a fire roaring surrounded by a big grey stone hearth.
“Wheres the dang boy ‘o mine? He didn’t do nuthin I asked him to…” He muttered something else under his breath, quickly and quietly. Privately. The man looked nervous. He walked down the hall past the kitchen and out of sight.
“Aaron?! AAAaaaaroooon!” No response. Some sounds of slamming, suddenly. Loud, followed by sounds of metal moving and clicking into place. The man came out of the back with a large hunting rifle.
“Dang kid knows its too late to be anywhere but inside goddammit — goddammit — godDAMNit!!” He paced quickly down the hallway and with one hand began shutting the other windows up tight, metal latches locking over the wooden panels.
“Buddy, I need you to stay right where you are. I know you’re sober enough now to know where you are and I KNOW you know you ain’t gonna be able to help me with this. Damn city folk always gettin’ in the way… you seem smart enough to know when to sit still though…” As he trailed off he walked toward the door leading outside.
“Lock all these behind me. You’ll know when to open it again. And DO NOT unlatch these windows. I know you want to see but its stupid so DON’T.”
Of course Robert wanted to see, this was HIS dream after all! HE gets to enjoy whatever show his mind has conjured up for him now. R.J. couldn’t help but smile! Finally some real amusement! The door slammed behind the man, and R.J. latched the door just like he said. He then unlatched one window to the right of the door, and peeked outside. The fireplace was at his back and he could feel its warmth radiating behind him.
The snow was falling harder outside now.
He could see the man with his flashlight running off into the darkness like he knew where he was going. But he was also moving differently than before. Frantically, almost. Odd. Robert saw why. After about 5 minutes the man was making his way back, carrying some strange shape in his hands. The boy?
Yes, the boy. The light from the window reached them now, and the man noticed and looked up in anger, bellowing:
“OPEN THAT DOOR!”
Robert opened it, confused.
“I’m sorry I just wanted to see wha —” He trailed off for a second.
“Dear God. What…” Robert saw the boy now that they were inside. The child was missing an arm, and he was bleeding everywhere. It was all over the man and now the floor, and they slid in it a little as the man laid his son on the couch, taking his hat off to try and stop the bleeding.
“Shut that god damned window, big city.” The mountain of a man whispered.
“It’s too late now that they got a taste. And th’ light you let out this long? They’re all around us now. You fucking idiot.” Robert stood still in shock, his legs would not move.
One of those where you can’t move? Or speak apparently. I feel stuck.
The man looked over his left shoulder at him, the eye Robert could see was glassed over from fear. The mountain of a man was trembling with terror. Robert saw now something he failed to notice before. Three large slashes on the man’s back, like someone cut him three times with a sword with each stroke parallel to the last.
Or…Claws?
“There’s nuthin… we can really… do… now… Is there?” The man turned to look up at Robert with pleading eyes.
Robert James went quickly now to shut the window, legs moving without hesitation. He glanced outside as the shutter moved to close, and he could see a pair of eyes reflecting the light leaking out the window, low to the ground. Hanging in the darkness like glow flies, they vanished. He latched the window as quickly as he could and backed away in horror. Unknowingly he reached for the rifle, which the man had tossed on the ground.
It… Saw me… It……… Did this?
His mind was numbed, he had never felt fear like this. Wait.
It’s too late now that they got a taste.
They.
A lone howl. Starting high, then dropping into a lower tone. Almost deep. Lonely sounding. Then one more began, then another repeatedly until a cacophony of alien cries echoed off of the falling snow and the trees.
The moon watches quietly, with the sadness of the elderly.
Like it had watched these wretched children of nature grow, and yet did nothing.
Like it had lived with regret.
R.J. had no time for regret, though. There were scratches at the door now. Sniffs, he guessed. This sound he heard was unlike anything he had heard before.
He cocked the rifle and flicked the safety off. There was work to do.
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94 Wis.2d 263 (1979)
288 N.W.2d 168
WISCONSIN'S ENVIRONMENTAL DECADE, INC., Petitioner-Appellant,
v.
DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES, Respondent:
SEWERAGE COMMISSION OF CITY OF MILWAUKEE, and another, Intervenor-Respondents.[]
No. 79-611.
Court of Appeals of Wisconsin.
Argued August 30, 1979.
Decided December 20, 1979.
*266 For the petitioner-appellant there were briefs by Kathleen M. Falk of Madison, and oral argument by Kathleen M. Falk.
For the respondent there was a brief by Bronson C. La Follette, attorney general, and Linda H. Bochert, assistant attorney general, and oral argument by Linda H. Bochert.
For the intervenor-respondents there was a brief by Michael J. McCabe and Richard J. Solomon of Milwaukee, and oral argument by Richard J. Solomon.
Before Gartzke, P.J., Bablitch, J. and Dykman, J.
GARTZKE, P.J.
This appeal involves the propriety of a finding by the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) that a proposed sewer interceptor is not a major action significantly affecting the quality of the human environment. The Metropolitan Sewerage District of the *267 County and City of Milwaukee (District) filed an application with the DNR for approval of the interceptor. The circuit court affirmed the DNR's order of July 14, 1978 approving the project in an action brought by the Wisconsin Environmental Decade (Decade) challenging the order. The Decade has appealed. We affirm.
The Wisconsin Environmental Policy Act (WEPA), ch. 274, Laws of 1971, created sec. 1.11, Stats.[1] Section 1.11 (2) (c) requires a state agency to prepare an environmental impact statement (EIS) if a proposed action is a major action significantly affecting the quality of the human environment. Sewer projects must be approved by the DNR under sec. 144.04, Stats. The DNR must therefore comply with WEPA before acting on a sewer project. Section 1.11(2) (c) requires a determination as to whether an EIS is needed. Determination of the need for an EIS is made through an environmental impact assessment *268 which utilizes a screening worksheet prepared by the staff of the DNR.[2]
The DNR did not prepare an EIS as to the sewer project because it concluded that the proposed sewer interceptor is not a major action significantly affecting the quality of the human environment.
Wis. Environmental Decade v. Pub. Service Comm., 79 Wis.2d 409, 419, 256 N.W.2d 149, 155 (1977), referred to as WED III,[3] emphasizes that:
[T]he threshold decision whether to prepare an EIS occupies a critical position within the context of WEPA's operation. A negative determination at the initial stage may eliminate to a significant degree environmental consideration by the agency and may curtail much of the input, which an EIS is designed to foster, of other governmental agencies and the public in the agency's decision process. It is obvious that achievement of WEPA's goals will be significantly compromised if ill-advised determinations not to prepare an EIS are permitted by the courts to stand. Thus a consideration of the manner in which WEPA was intended to function dictates a liberal approach to the threshold decision of whether the impact statement should be prepared.
[1]
WED III holds that if the agency decides that an EIS should not be prepared, the judicial test upon review of that decision encompasses two questions:
First, has the agency developed a reviewable record reflecting a preliminary factual investigation covering the *269 relevant areas of environmental concern in sufficient depth to permit a reasonably informed preliminary judgment of the environmental consequences of the action proposed; second, giving due regard to the agency's expertise where it appears actually to have been applied, does the agency's determination that the action is not a major action significantly affecting the quality of the human environment follow from the results of the agency's investigation in a manner consistent with the exercise of reasonable judgment by an agency committed to compliance with WEPA's obligations? 79 Wis.2d 409, 425, 256 N.W.2d 149, 158 (footnote omitted).
The issue before us is limited to the first test in WED III: whether the DNR developed a reviewable record covering the relevant areas of the environmental concern.
The DNR's decision not to prepare an EIS was based upon an analysis of the environmental impact of the specific sewer interceptor[4] described in the application. The Decade challenges the decision on grounds that the DNR has purposely divided a single proposed interceptor into two parts: an environmentally insignificant part which is embraced by the application subject to the appeal before us and an environmentally significant part embraced by another application. The Decade contends that in making its threshold decision whether to prepare an EIS, the DNR should have taken both parts into account, and as the part not included in the application is environmentally significant, an EIS covering both parts should have been prepared.
Both parts were in fact covered by a single application filed with the DNR April 8, 1977 for a 9,561-foot interceptor running from the existing line in the Milwaukee *270 area northwesterly through Hales Corners to the Milwaukee-Waukesha County line. The City of New Berlin in Waukesha County was envisioned as ultimately connecting its system with the interceptor at the county line. The DNR approved that application June 7, 1977 without an EIS or an explanation for not having done so. The circuit court, upon review of that matter in an action brought by the Decade, remanded the application to the DNR in December 1977 in light of WED III. The court directed the DNR to make a determination as to whether an EIS should be prepared and to produce a reviewable record of the reasons for its determination, should it be negative. The DNR took no action on the remand.
July 11, 1978 an application was filed with the DNR which resulted in the order involved in this appeal.[5] The application was revised only in that the interceptor for which approval was sought terminates in Hales Corners and is 6,393 feet long. A 2,168-foot interceptor from Hales Corners to the county line is or will be the subject of a separate application to the DNR, according to information in the DNR's worksheet.
A. Failure To Comply With Circuit Court Remand
The Decade contends that the purposes of WEPA will be frustrated if when an agency is caught violating WEPA in its consideration of a project it may subsequently *271 divide the project into segments rather than follow the mandate of a reviewing court.
[2]
The purposes of WEPA are basically twofold. First, the Act is designed to ensure adequate consideration of environmental factors in the decision-making processes of state agencies before resources are irreversibly and irretrievably committed. Hanson, Agency Decisionmaking Under The Wisconsin Environmental Policy Act, 1977 Wis. L. Rev. 111, 115-17. "The evident purpose of WEPA was to effect an across-the-board adjustment of priorities in the decision-making processes of agencies of state government." WED III, 79 Wis.2d 409, 416, 256 N.W.2d 149, 153. Second, the Act is designed to get information on proposed actions before the public and other state agencies. Hanson, supra at 117, 121. In this respect, WEPA's model Act, the National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA), 42 U.S.C. secs. 4321 et seq., has been called, "an environmental full disclosure law." Environmental Defense Fund v. Corp of Engineers, 325 F. Supp. 749, 759 (E.D. Ark. 1971), injunction vacated and case dismissed, 342 F. Supp. 1211, aff'd. 470 F.2d 289 (8th Cir. 1972), cert. den. 412 U.S. 931 (1973).
It is unclear whether the remanded application was formally withdrawn by the District but both the District and the DNR have treated that application as having been superseded by the revised application first filed in October 1977 and refiled in July 1978. (See footnote 5.)
[3]
An agency to which an application is made is generally bound by the scope of the application before it. If an application which was the subject of judicial review is no longer before the agency, either through withdrawal or *272 supersedence, no reason exists for further action on the application.
Failure by the DNR to comply with the remand of the circuit court, standing alone, therefore does not require that we set aside the action of the DNR.
B. Effect Of Possible Attempt To Avoid Compliance
[4]
Although an agency to which an application is made can normally act only upon the application before it, that limitation must not be used to avoid the mandate of WEPA. "[C]ompliance with WEPA to the fullest possible extent is not excused merely by considerations of administrative difficulty, expense or delay." WED III, 79 Wis.2d 409, 438, 256 N.W.2d 149, 164. Consequently, administrative convenience or connivance by or with an applicant cannot be used to sidestep compliance with WEPA.
Compliance with WEPA at the threshold decision stage requires a good faith determination as to whether a proposed act is a major action significantly affecting the quality of the human environment. One of the criteria which must be considered when making that determination is as follows:
Stimulation of secondary effects. Even if the action itself has minimal or no direct environmental effects, if its nature is to stimulate or induce significant, secondary effects such as major new developments encouraged by new highways or sewer extensions the need for an impact statement is increased. Secondary effects may often be even more substantial than the primary effects of the original action. Revised Guidelines for the Implementation of the Wisconsin Environmental Policy Act, I (5) (B) at 3, issued by Governor's Executive Order No. 26, February 1976.
Section 1.11(2) (c), Stats., of WEPA itself requires that agencies follow the guidelines issued by the United *273 States Council on Environmental Quality under P.L. 91-190, 42 U.S.C. 4331, now set forth in 40 C.F.R. Part 1500. Section 1500.6 (d) (1) of those guidelines provides that when identifying major actions significantly affecting the environment, "Agencies should give careful attention to identifying and defining the purpose and scope of the action which would most appropriately serve as the subject of the [EIS]" and, "In many cases, broad program statements will be required in order to assess the . . . overall impact of a large-scale program or chain of contemplated projects (e.g., major lengths of highway as opposed to small segments)."
[5]
Thus, administrative agencies must not preordain that an EIS is unnecessary through the device of artifically dividing a project; and if an agency attempts to do so, the attempt will be ignored.
The fact that the attempt was made, however, will not be ignored. Action which suggests that an agency has compartmentalized a project so as to avoid the requirements of WEPA is support for a charge that the agency has failed to comply with the Act. That conclusion was reached in River v. Richmond Metropolitan Authority, 359 F. Supp. 611, 635 (E.D. Va. 1973), aff'd. per curiam 481 F.2d 1280 (4th Cir. 1973), with respect to compliance with NEPA.
The DNR screening worksheet contains evidence suggesting that an effort may have been made to avoid compliance with WEPA as to the 9,561 foot interceptor. One exhibit appended to the worksheet is a letter by the District's engineering director to the DNR in January 1978. The letter states that the revised project was terminated at Hales Corners "as requested by your agency and the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency," and, "If it is absolutely necessary for project approval, the District will accept termination of the project at the physical connection to the existing treatment plant."
*274 WED III noted that "an agency called upon to make the threshold decision about the need for an EIS under WEPA may very well approach the question with a bias favoring a negative conclusion." 79 Wis.2d 409, 420, 256 N.W.2d 149, 155 (footnote omitted). If there is evidence, as here, that such a bias is not only possible but may have resulted in an attempt to avoid compliance, a reviewing court should approach the agency's threshold decision with skepticism.
C. Existence Of Project To Serve New Berlin
The District states that until it determines when and how it will service New Berlin, the DNR cannot speculate as to the environmental effects of an extension of the interceptor beyond Hales Corners. The District states on brief that extension of the interceptor from Hales Corners to the county line is but one of five described methods of providing service to New Berlin. The District argues that WEPA does not require a threshold decision regarding preparation of an EIS on a project which is not in existence.
[6]
The nature of our review and the record on appeal compels us to reject the District's factual assertions as to other methods of serving New Berlin. WED III, 79 Wis. 2d 409, 424-25, holds that we must determine whether the agency has prepared a reviewable record of its investigation covering the relevant areas of environmental concern and, if so, whether the threshold decision not to prepare an EIS follows from the results of the investigation.
[7]
The record prepared by the DNR consists of its screening worksheet. We are bound by that record on appeal. It cannot be enlarged by material which has not been ordered incorporated in it. State ex rel. Wolf v. Town of Lisbon, 75 Wis.2d 152, 155-56, 248 N.W.2d 450 (1977); *275 Schimke v. Milwaukee & Suburban Transp. Corp., 34 Wis. 2d 317, 320, 149 N.W.2d 659 (1967); Ramminger v. State Highway Comm., 22 Wis.2d 194, 196, 125 N.W.2d 406 (1963). As the record contains no reference to the other four methods of serving New Berlin, we cannot consider the District's description of other methods.
The District relies upon Conservation Soc. of So. Vt. v. Secretary of Tran., 531 F.2d 637 (2d Cir. 1976), in support of the proposition that we cannot consider a project which the District says does not exist. Conservation Soc. of So. Vt. involved the question whether a twenty-mile segment of a 280-mile highway was an impermissible division of a project under NEPA. A federal district court had held that an overall EIS was necessary for the entire highway where federal officials had knowledge of overall planning by state officials, even though no overall federal plan existed. The United States Court of Appeals affirmed that decision, 508 F.2d 927 (2d Cir. 1974), but the Supreme Court vacated the judgment, sub. nom. Coleman v. Conservation Society of Southern Vermont, 423 U.S. 809 (1975), and remanded to the court of appeals for further consideration partly in light of Aberdeen & Rockfish R. Co. v. SCRAP, 422 U.S. 289 (1975).
On remand, the circuit court of appeals reviewed its prior decision and that of the district court, stating:
The Supreme Court remand here cites SCRAP, supra, which holds that a federal agency must prepare its EIS at "the time at which it makes a recommendation or report on a proposal for federal action." 422 U.S. at 320, 95 S. Ct. at 2356, 45 L. Ed.2d 215 (emphasis in original). Here the findings of the district court were that, although federal officials had knowledge of the overall planning process of state officials, there was "no overall federal plan" for improving the corridor into a superhighway. 362 F. Supp. at 636. The federal action being taken here relates only to the twenty-mile stretch between Bennington and Manchester in Vermont. The stretch is "admittedly a project with local utility," 508 F.2d at 935. *276 Hence we see no irreversible or irretrievable commitment of federal funds for the entire corridor and under SCRAP no obligation for a corridor EIS. See Friends of the Earth v. Coleman, 513 F.2d 295, 299-300 (9th Cir. 1975); Trout Unlimited v. Morton, 509 F.2d 1276, 1283-85 (9th Cir. 1974). 531 F.2d 637, 639-40 (2d Cir. 1976).
SCRAP, supra, held that the earliest time an EIS is required by NEPA is when a "proposal" has been made. The issue in Kleppe v. Sierra Club, 427 U.S. 390 (1976), was whether an EIS was required as to the development of coal reserves on federal land in the entire northern Great Plains region rather than a part of the region. There was no "proposal" for an action of regional scope but the federal agencies contemplated a regional plan. The Supreme Court held that a regional EIS was not required because there was no "proposal" before the agency. Id. at 400-01.
[8, 9]
We find no definitions of "proposal" in SCRAP or Kleppe. We do not, however, read either decision to equate a "proposal" with a formal statement of commitment to planned future action. Something more than a mere possibility and less than a commitment is necessary to require the determination whether an EIS is necessary. Locating the middle ground involves reasonable forecasting. WED III rejected an agency claim that environmental analysis of utility ratemaking would be so speculative as to render an EIS meaningless. The court in WED III commented as to that argument, "The need for a reviewable record disclosing an adequate factual investigation of environmental effects remains. So too does the need for reasonable forecasting and speculation. . . ." 79 Wis.2d 409, 433, 256 N.W.2d 149, 161.
The worksheet does not flatly state that definite plans exist to extend the sewer, as originally proposed, to the county line. It implies that no application for such an extension is before the DNR. The worksheet nevertheless contains statements from which it can be inferred *277 that an extension from Hales Corners to some point on the county line to serve New Berlin, while not a certainty, is likely in the reasonably foreseeable future.
According to the worksheet, a secondary effect of the extension to Hales Corners "would be" construction to the county line and, "The impact or affect [sic] of this action . . . will be the subject of an environmental impact statement being prepared under the direction of the DNR and the U. S. EPA." "The proposal to extend the 60-inch sewer from the Hales Corners treatment plant to the Waukesha-Milwaukee County line to provide sewer service for the City of New Berlin in the future will result in more intensive development since soil limitations restrict current development on septic tanks." "Completion of subsequent stages will provide for the abandonment of the Regal Manors wastewater treatment facility located in the City of New Berlin." "The location at which the proposed sewer will meet the Milwaukee County line for eventual service to the City of New Berlin has also been established. The City of New Berlin has requested a 54" sewer outlet at W. Grange Avenue and the county line." "The proposed sewer has been sized at 60 inches, just slightly larger than the connection to New Berlin at the county line."
Regardless of the formal status of interceptor service for New Berlin, the worksheet shows that such an extension may be reasonably forecast from Hales Corners to some point to serve New Berlin. The worksheet shows that an extension is sufficiently definite that its environmental impact could now be considered when determining whether an EIS should be prepared.
D. Scope Of Threshold Decision
That the future installation is sufficiently definite to permit its present consideration does not automatically make such consideration mandatory.
*278 The question is whether the DNR has impermissibly limited the scope of its investigation in deciding if an EIS shall be prepared. The issue turns on the reasonableness of the chosen scope of the investigation.
The District urges that we adopt the approach of Homeowners Ass'n, etc. v. Costle, 468 F. Supp 405 (W.D. Ky. 1979). Homeowners is the only reported NEPA case brought to our attention involving segmentation of a sewer expansion. As in the case before us, Homeowners involved the division of a single metropolitan sewer expansion program. Public hearings were held after the plan was announced, following which the Environmental Protection Agency determined that a limited EIS dealing with sewer lines only in one area would be prepared and no EIS would be prepared as to the remainder of the project. The federal district court held that the severance was "clearly within the discretion of the agency absent any arbitrary basis for its decision," citing Kleppe v. Sierra Club, 427 U.S. 390 (1976). 468 F. Supp. 405, 408.
[10]
We conclude that the standard of review employed by the Federal District Court in Homeowners is incompatible with that created by WED III which held:
The arbitrary and capricious standard of review . . . gives too much room for the exercise of discretion by the agency. . . . [Section 1.11 (2) (c)] contemplates the exercise of judgment by the agency, but that judgment must be reasonably exercised within the limits imposed by the Act. 79 Wis.2d 409, 423-24, 256 N.W.2d 149, 157 (emphasis added).
Establishing the scope of the threshold decision is a discretionary decision. WED III requires that we approach the review of that discretion with a more limited standard, that of reasonableness.
Courts have grappled with the problem of segmentation since the inception of NEPA. "Specifying the proper scope of an EIS has emerged as one of the most difficult *279 questions for the courts under NEPA." Professor William H. Rodgers, Jr., Handbook on Environmental Law sec. 7.9 at 791 (1977). The issue is implicit in the review imposed by WED III: whether the agency has developed a record "covering the relevant areas of environmental concern" and whether the agency has exercised reasonable judgment based on that record. 79 Wis. 2d 409, 424-25, 256 N.W.2d 149, 158.
WEPA and NEPA are silent as to segmentation. Determining the propriety of segmentation has been left to the courts. "In fact, this vaguely worded statute seems designed to serve as no more than a catalyst for the development of a `common law' of NEPA. To date, the courts have responded in just that manner and have created such a `common law.'" Kleppe v. Sierra Club, 427 U.S. 390 (1976), separate opinion of Justice Marshall at 421. As WEPA was patterned after NEPA, WED III, 79 Wis.2d 409, 414, 256 N.W.2d 149, 153, and as no Wisconsin cases are in point, we look to federal decisions consistent with WED III for assistance.
[11, 12]
Segmentation is not an ipso facto violation of the Act. "The rule against segmentation for EIS purposes is not an imperative to be applied in every case." Sierra Club v. Callaway, 499 F.2d 982, 987 (5th Cir. 1974). "Impermissible segmentation, simply put, is the defining of a project too narrowly for purposes of environmental analyses." Rodgers, supra at 787.
Professor Rodgers in reviewing federal decisions states,
In deciding whether a group of segments should be treated as a single project, courts look at "a multitude of factors, including the manner in which [the segments] were planned, their geographic locations, and the utility of each in the absence of the other." The cases ask whether the excluded segment has "independent significance," whether there is a strong "nexus" between the *280 two requiring concurrent EIS evaluation, whether one part is a "mere component" or "increment" of the other, whether the scope of the project addressed permits the evaluation of alternatives the Act requires. Rodgers, supra sec 7.9 at 788-89 (footnotes omitted).
[13]
Other factors used include whether "the segment under consideration seems to fulfill important state and local needs," Daly v. Volpe, 514 F.2d 1106, 1110 (9th Cir. 1975); whether it is an extension or a connective link, Hawthorn Environmental Preserv. Ass'n v. Coleman, 417 F. Supp. 1091, 1100 (N.D. Ga. 1976), affd. per curiam 551 F.2d 1055 (5th Cir. 1977); whether the segment serves "primarily local needs," Id.; whether the segment "is a unit unto itself, and can stand on its own two feet, or, on the contrary, whether it is so intertwined" with other units "that it is but an increment of the larger plan," Sierra Club v. Stamm, 507 F.2d 788, 791 (10th Cir. 1974); and whether "[a]s a practical matter, commitment of resources in one section tends to make further construction more likely," Patterson v. Exon, 415 F. Supp. 1276, 1282 (D. Neb. 1976).
[14]
Consideration of single factors is helpful, but no one factor can be determinative. Individual factors "are not talismans that truncate the natural scope of an EIS." Appalachian Mountain Club v. Brinegar, 394 F. Supp. 105, 117 (D.N.H. 1975). Each controversy must be decided on its own merits. Hawthorn, supra. "No general statement of a standard of review can provide a precise guideline of universal applicability. It is obvious that the inquiry needed to support an agency decision not to file an EIS will vary greatly with the circumstances." WED III, 79 Wis.2d 409, 424, 256 N.W.2d 149, 157.
[15]
We conclude that the DNR's decision to limit the scope of its threshold decision to consideration of the impact of *281 the segment terminating at Hales Corners was reasonable and should not be overturned.
The project ending at Hales Corners has independent utility. Regardless if the remaining segment is constructed, the interceptor will serve the useful and vital purpose of allowing abandonment of the inadequate Hales Corners treatment plant. The DNR worksheet indicates that the plant is currently discharging an effluent substantially in excess of the limitations with which it must comply by July 1, 1982.[6] The village must either upgrade or abandon its existing system in order to meet those limitations. The Hales Corners plant has been designated for abandonment since 1954. The worksheet explains:
The purpose of the proposed sewer is to contribute to the MSD's goal of eliminating wastewater effluent and bypassed raw sewage from the surface waters of its service area (specifically the Root River). The proposed sewer will provide for the elimination of 4 lift stations (two of which are equipped with permanent overflows), serve as a relief sewer system for a sanitary sewer collection system which is subject to bypassing, permit the abandonment of an existing inadequate wastewater treatment facility, and eliminate the discharge of inadequately treated effluent to surface waters. The insufficient capacity in the existing sanitary sewer collection and conveyance system and the inability of the Village of Hales Corners wastewater treatment facility to provide consistently adequate treatment has significantly contributed *282 to the pollution of the unnamed receiving stream which is tributary to the north branch of the Root River.
The segment terminating at Hales Corners not only fulfills a local need at Hales Corners but that is its primary purpose. According to the worksheet, eliminating the Hales Corners treatment plant is the "main purpose" of the interceptor at this time.
The logical termini test looks at the ends of a continuous project such as a highway or, in this case, a sewer interceptor. Thus, if a highway project begins and ends in "the middle of the woods," as opposed to connecting cities or highway interchanges, the project lacks logical termini. See e.g., Patterson, 415 F. Supp. 1276, 1283. As the trial court found, the interceptor discussed in the worksheet has logical starting and ending points. It begins where District sewer service in Milwaukee County now ends and terminates in Hales Corners, a community which must have new service.
Construction of the segment terminating at Hales Corners of course makes possible a second segment to serve New Berlin. Installation of the first segment does not, however, compel construction of the second. The DNR's approval of a sewer extension is required by sec. 144.04, Stats., and the DNR states in its worksheet that it treats extension proposals on a case-by-case basis. There is no evidence that the cost of the first segment makes its construction uneconomical unless New Berlin is also served. The worksheet notes that the diameter of the first segment allows for possible connection with the New Berlin system. Construction of a sewer sufficient only to satisfy the needs of today would, however, be "little short of folly" in view of the cost of future enlargement or building a parallel system. Thielen v. Metropolitan Sewerage Commission, 178 Wis. 34, 48, 189 N.W. 484, 490 (1922). There is no evidence in the worksheet that New Berlin must connect with the District's *283 system after the first segment is completed. That is a decision which is left to the future, despite installation of the first segment.
Indeed, the DNR specifically concluded in its worksheet that the extension of the sewer to the county line and the eventual elimination of the Regal Manors treatment facility, are reversible decisions at this point. The DNR found, "Since the proposed sewer is only extending to the Hales Corners treatment plant, virtually all decisions are reversible even after the proposed sewer is constructed."
It is conceded that if the second segment is installed so as to serve New Berlin, urban development in the New Berlin area may result. That development, however, is a secondary impact of that segment and not of the segment terminating at Hales Corners. The sewage and developmental problems of Hales Corners are separate and distinct from those of New Berlin. According to the DNR, Hales Corners is already ninety percent developed. The remaining ten percent will undoubtedly be developed, according to the worksheet, regardless of action taken on the interceptor terminating at Hales Corners. Hales Corners needs the interceptor because it must abandon its existing sewage treatment plant by 1982. Whether New Berlin needs service from the District or should be permitted to expand its surburban areas are questions which are irrelevant to the needs of Hales Corners.
The Decade argues that cumulative impacts of the two segments will be ignored if the projects are not considered together at this point in time. The WEPA guidelines explain that:
Many state agencies' actions regarding a project or complex of projects can be individually limited but cumulatively considerable. When an action forms a precedent for future individual actions or represents a decision in principle about a major course of action, the cumulative effects of future actions should be considered when determining *284 if an impact statement is required. Guidelines, supra I (5) (E) at 4.
More specifically, the Decade alludes to the possibility that the Milwaukee sewage treatment plants to which the sewage is to be diverted and which are already under two court orders to clean up operations (see footnote 6), may be overloaded by the combined flow from Hales Corners and New Berlin.
The worksheet shows consideration of cumulative impacts. The worksheet discusses possible cumulative impacts of the two segments and the impacts of other extensions in the area, including further land development. The worksheet states that additional extensions could overload the District's South Shore sewage treatment facility but that the District has identified future planned sewer extensions and that modifications to the South Shore facility "will provide the capacity to treat these additional wastes."
Our initial skepticism caused by the possibility that the DNR rigged the threshold decision is weakened not only by the DNR's worksheet analysis but also by the concurrence of the United States Environmental Protection Agency in that decision. Attached to the worksheet is a negative declaration by the EPA dated October 21, 1977. The EPA states in a summary which accompanies the declaration[7] that the interceptor terminating at Hales Corners will not be addressed in an EIS by that agency because the immediate service area within Milwaukee County is developed, negating potential secondary impacts associated with the project, and because the project eliminates a treatment facility that is frequently overloaded. The EPA states that the second segment will be included in an EIS, "based on the fact *285 that the primary function of this section will be to provide an outlet for anticipated flows from the proposed `future' service area outside Milwaukee County."
It may be that the EPA joined the DNR in an effort to avoid compliance with NEPA, the sister Act of WEPA. The fact is, however, that the rationale stated by the EPA for not including the segment terminated at Hales Corners in an EIS is reasonable.
E. Conclusion
The record developed by the DNR in its screening worksheet contains ample facts for judicial review of the decision to limit the scope of investigation to the environmental impact of the segment terminating at Hales Corners. Stated another way, the DNR developed a reviewable record covering the relevant areas of environmental concern when making its threshold decision, as required by WED III, 79 Wis.2d 409, 424-25, 256 N.W. 2d 149, 158. The decision to limit the scope of the threshold decision was a reasonable exercise of judgment.
The Decade concedes that the threshold decision, if reviewed solely within the scope of the application before the DNR, did not require a finding that the proposed action is a major action significantly affecting the quality of the human environment.
The order of the DNR approving the District's application was therefore properly affirmed by the trial court.
By the Court. Judgment affirmed.
BABLITCH, J. (Dissenting.)
With all respect for the thoughtful and candid opinion of the majority, I cannot concur in the result it reaches. In my view the effect of the opinion is to sanction a rather transparent subterfuge designed to evade the dictates of WEPA, as well as of a circuit court order compelling compliance with those dictates.
*286 The record is replete with indications that the original proposal extending the Hales Corners interceptor an additional 2,000 feet in order to service the relatively undeveloped New Berlin area has never been abandoned by the District and is presently extant.[1] The majority concedes that the extension is "likely," that it "may be reasonably forecast" at this time, and that is "sufficiently definite" so that its impact on the environment could presently be determined. This being so, it is difficult to understand the majority's conclusion that the decision to complete the project as originally proposed has been "left to the future." The record shows that the decision has been made. It is merely the implementation of that decision, and compliance with WEPA, which has been left to the future.
The purpose of WEPA is to ensure that state agency decisions about actions which have a significant impact on the environment will be subject to public scrutiny and debate "to the fullest extent possible." Sec. 1.11, Stats. That purpose is not served by allowing an agency to isolate the environmentally insignificant portion of an intended project here, seven-ninths of the whole and pretend that the environmentally significant balance of the project does not exist. Allowing it to do so in this case has the effect of loading the scales of future debate over the New Berlin hookup with the fait accompli of a *287 Hales Corners system ready, able, and in fact designed to accommodate it. Therefore, although the extension decision is obviously "reversible" until it is actually implemented, the chances that it will be reversed are less once the first seven-ninths of the original project has been completed. This prejudices the full and impartial consideration of alternatives to the last two-ninths of the original proposal and makes the secondary effects of the hookup more likely. For these reasons alone, I would hold that the "proposal" presently before the agency is the project described in the original application, as to which an EIS and a public hearing are required by the act.
In addition, I disagree with the implicit holding of the majority that the question whether the DNR, the EPA and the District conspired to avoid WEPA and NEPA by segmenting the original project is immaterial to our review so long as the truncated segment can "stand on its own two feet." In WED III, the supreme court observed that "[w]hen a negative EIS determination is challenged, the question is whether the agency . . . has complied with the letter and spirit of WEPA." 79 Wis.2d 409, 419, 256 N.W.2d 149, 155 (1977). It seems to me that a deliberate scheme to circumvent the act by redefining a proposal to include less than is actually and presently intended violates both the letter and spirit of the act, and ought not to be condoned by reviewing courts. See Thompson v. Fugate, 347 F. Supp. 120 (1972), Scientists' Institute for Public Information v. AEC, 481 F.2d 1079 (1973).
NOTES
[] Petition to review denied.
[1] Section 1.11(2) (c), Stats., provides:
All agencies of the state shall:
(c) Include in every recommendation or report on proposals for legislation and other major actions significantly affecting the quality of the human environment, a detailed statement, substantially following the guidelines issued by the United States council on environmental quality under P.L. 91-190, 42 U.S.C. 4331, by the responsible official on:
1. The environmental impact of the proposed action;
2. Any adverse environmental effects which cannot be avoided should the proposal be implemented;
3. Alternatives to the proposed action;
4. The relationship between local short-term uses of man's environment and the maintenance and enhancement of long-term productivity; and
5. Any irreversible and irretrievable commitments of resources which would be involved in the proposed action should it be implemented;
6. Such statement shall also contain details of the beneficial aspects of the proposed project, both short term and long term, and the economic advantages and disadvantages of the proposal.
[2] Section NR 150, Wis. Adm. Code, entitled "Environmental Impact Statement Procedures and Preparation Fees" describes the present procedures followed by the DNR in the implementation of sec. 1.11, Stats., and other statutes, including the evaluation of proposed actions in the preparation and review of environmental impact statements.
[3] WED I is Wisconsin's Environmental Decade, Inc. v. PSC, 69 Wis.2d 1, 230 N.W.2d 243 (1975). WED II is Wisconsin's Environmental Decade v. Public Service Comm., 79 Wis.2d 161, 255 N.W.2d 917 (1977).
[4] There are four kinds of sewer projects: sewer laterals (pipes that connect an individual building to a sewer extension in front of a street), sewer extensions (which transport sewage from individual buildings to a larger collection sewer called an interceptor), sewer interceptors (which collect sewage from extensions and transport it to a central plant), and treatment plants.
[5] The screening worksheet contains a revised application to the DNR for a shortened sewer, dated October 7, 1977. The letter of enclosure states, "This portion of the project plus the portion omitted by this revision were approved by your approval No. 77-546 dated June 7, 1977." That application was returned to the District May 15, 1978, apparently because of problems in acting upon the application within the time allowed by sec. 144.04, Stats. The application was resubmitted July 11, 1978. That the July 1978 application covers the same project as the October 1977 application is indicated by a letter of May 15 (attached to the petition to review), stating that resubmission of the plans and specifications would be unnecessary, by the fact that the worksheet was completed May 4, 1978, and by the fact that the DNR approved the application July 14, 1978, only three days after it was "filed."
[6] The project is also affected by the judgment in Sewerage Comm. v. DNR, Dane County Circuit Court case no. 152-342, which required improved treatment facilities at the Jones Island and South Shore treatment plants by July 1, 1982. Those plants will receive flows to be diverted from the Hales Corners' plant. We were advised during oral argument that the project is also affected by the judgment in federal district court in Illinois in Illinois v. City of Milwaukee, 72-C-1253 (N.D., Ill. Nov. 15, 1977), requiring defendant to cease discharging raw effluent into Lake Michigan. April 26, 1979 the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit reversed that judgment in part and remanded it for modification in an as yet unpublished opinion.
[7] The negative declaration and summary are separated in the worksheet by another item but the brief of the DNR indicates that they should be read together.
[1] It is interesting to note that the application for the shortened version of the project was first filed in October, 1977, during the pendency of the Decade's circuit court action challenging the original application. It is apparent that the application was filed in anticipation of the trial court's remand of the original application to the DNR for compliance with WEPA, since a holding in favor of the DNR would have rendered the shortened application moot. In light of this background, as well as other facts cited in the majority opinion which show that the New Berlin hookup is still intended, I cannot agree with the majority's statement that both the District and the DNR have treated the shortened application as having superceded the original application.
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Brave display by Culter
against thorny Rose
Culter put up a brave display against four times Scottish Junior Cup winners Linlithgow Rose on Saturday but lost to a late winner at Spain Park.
The first half hour saw Rose camped in the Culter half without making many clear-cut chances but the breakthrough came in the 29th minute.
Tommy Coyne battles with Culter's Scott McArthur
McKillen made his way into the home box and pulled the ball back to Shirra who took a touch before Kevin Kelbie stepped up to sweep the ball into the net.
Culter should have equalised immediately from the restart when Taylor found himself one on one with Christie but the keeper saved the striker’s effort.
Rose we’re soon back in the ascendancy with both MacLennan brothers coming close to adding to the lead. Roddy saw his effort headed off the line by Shand while Ruari’s dipping shot was just too high.
With half time approaching Culter rocked the Rose with a stunning equaliser, Nicky Gordon picked up the ball 25 yards out and drove past the rooted Christie into the top corner.
HT 1-1
Linlithgow were back in front on the hour mark when Heads brought down Tommy Coyne and the Rose top scorer converted the resulting penalty sending keeper Reid the wrong way.
Once again Culter went straight up the park and were lucky not to get an equiliser, Gordon’s overhead kick was palmed away before the ball fell to McKimmie whose shot come back off the crossbar.
O’Byrne was short with a headed back pass and Michael Taylor nipped in to steal the ball the ball only to fire the ball straight into the arms of Christie.
The home team grabbed an equaliser that few could grudge them in the 81st minute.
Rose didn’t deal with a short corner and when Harry Milne returned the ball into the box it found the top corner of the net at the back post.
With another Scottish Junior Cup tie replay looming for Culter, Ovenstone launched a long throw into the box in the 91st minute and with the ball bouncing about the box Calum SMITH pounced to stroke home the winner. |
Opinion: Post 53 responds to critic
Two weeks ago, Walter Casey posed a number of questions to the Director of Post 53 and to the other Posties.
Since Mr. Casey is so fond of using the Darien Times as his personal forum, I offered to have the Times host a meeting between the two of us to provide an opportunity for a two-way dialogue. A chance to answer those and any other questions he may have had, and do it on the record. However, Mr. Casey declined my offer.
About two years ago we wrote to the paper and explained that Darien EMS – Post 53 would never respond to misinformed criticism of the organization, and we still will not.
Since then, dozens of missives have been lobbed by Mr. Casey, and published by the Darien Times. Our offer to answer any questions from Walter Casey or any other individual is still on the table.
In the interim, I thought it would help to go on record, one more time, with a few facts. Over 40 years, Post 53 has constantly evolved. We embrace and welcome development and change in the field of EMS. We care deeply about patient care and put a greater emphasis on training than any of our peers. We support basing paramedics wherever the Town wants to put them. That decision rests with the Town. Today, they come from medic stations located extremely close to Darien. Our response times (about 6 minutes) are amongst the best in the state. The paramedic response times to our town are within national standards. Every call goes to a dispatcher who determines the level of response required based on nationally accepted protocols. If paramedic care is deemed necessary, medics are immediately requested. If a medic is delayed, the patient is transported immediately and an intercept takes place en route to the hospital. Patient care begins with the arrival of our first responders and our Post 53 crews. All patients, regardless of the severity of their condition, first require basic assessment and management of any life threatening conditions. This is commonly referred to as BLS (basic life support) before ALS (advanced life support). We are always happy to provide more detail for those who are interested.
A number of years ago, the town formed an EMS commission. This was done to analyze and make recommendations to the Town regarding emergency medical services. Although Post 53 has very strong internal controls, as well as oversight from Stamford Hospital and an MD responsible for medical control, the town determined that an independent review would be useful. Since then, we have made ourselves available to the commission for any and all questions. The decision to move to trained professional dispatchers was directly related to work we did with the commission. That same commission has stated that EMS services within Darien continue to meet the community’s needs in a manner that is consistent with nationally accepted standards, and they have not recommended the hiring of a full-time paramedic. I am not aware of any open issues with the commission, and we continue to have regular dialogue. We welcome any and all suggestions from them on how to improve patient care.
Sadly, it seems to me that those who are most affected by Mr. Casey’s regular writings are the 150 or so members of Post 53. These are people who are dedicated to the service of others. Many of our members volunteer more than 100 hours per month to help our community. Lastly, I want to address the insulting suggestion that any young adult member of Post 53, or their parents, think that this is an activity that will increase their chances of getting into a college. Colleges do not recruit EMTs.
In fact, as we tell all entering candidates, it is more likely that the incredible commitment required of Post membership over four years at Darien High School will necessitate sacrifice and take a toll on academic performance. We also tell all new members that the skills they develop while in our organization will serve them well and that we hope they leave with a responsibility to serve for the rest of their lives.
The Darien Times has offered to moderate any conversations Mr. Casey would like to have with Post 53. Our offer to respond and educate still stands.
About author
I just wanted to say that I greatly appreciate the time Mr. Hammer took to so eloquently and politely respond to the continued criticism of Mr. Casey. I am a former Post 53 EMT and VP of Training and currently reside out of state and keep up with the on goings of Post 53 and Darien, seeing as how I have family that live in Darien. I have been deeply offended by the continued tirades that some choose to take out of Post 53. Having been a Postie myself I know that immense dedication and time that it takes to be one and can imagine how many Posties feel when they continuously hear negative comments about them all the time. I can say that no matter the time, there will always be naysayers but Post 53 is a truly amazing organization and is beyond outstanding. During my time with Post 53, we were always pushing forward and expanding what we could do for the community to provide them the best emergency care and medics were a routine part of that. Clearly Post 53 has continued with that and is moving forward each day and continues to work with the town on improving care for its residents. It deeply upsets me to know that someone can constantly belittle the amazing work the members of Post 53 do each day and the fact that they volunteer more time than most could imagine, providing free-of-charge EMS care to the residents of Darien, while their high school counterparts are off living the so-called normal high school life. Posties are a truly special group of people and I will never ever forget what I learned while I was one and the friendships and bonds that were forged during my time with Post. I moved forward with my medical career to become an emergency room RN and I know that a great deal of people who spent time in Post moved on to medical careers, thereby continuing to provide care to those who need it.
I appreciate again what Mr. Hammer has said and his continued dedication to the town of Darien and the members of Post 53. I thank all the Posties who each year continue the organization and dedicate their time to helping others. |
The IceCube detector, located at the South Pole, monitors a cubic kilometer of ice for the flashes of light produced as energetic particles traverse the ice. Each second, about 3,000 muons, produced by cosmic rays slamming into the atmosphere, interact with matter in the detector. In contrast, neutrinos are only detected once every six minutes.
Francis Halzen, the principal investigator for IceCube, described the search for these particles in the detector at the recent meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. "It's like doing astronomy, but the sky is cloudy," he said. "It's cloudy all the time." Even the majority of the neutrinos that arrive at the detector aren't especially interesting; they're also produced as part of cosmic ray particle showers. Instead, the computers behind the detectors have to sort through 100 billion muons each year, along with 100,000 atmospheric neutrinos, just to find about 10 interesting events.
But the interesting events are incredibly energetic. "When it arrives, it hits your detector like a hammer," Halzen told the audience. "You don't have to look for it; it just announces itself." (The same goes for some of the energetic muons, two of which have deposited over 560 Tera electron Volts in the detector—compare that to the LHC's upcoming 14TeV collisions.)
In part due to the small numbers it detects, IceCube has mostly told us that incredibly energetic neutrinos exist. And we can work back from that knowledge to appreciate that there are incredibly energetic processes that must produce these neutrinos—"hadronic accelerators create a lot of the energy in our Universe" is how Halzen put it. But to start figuring out where in the sky these neutrinos originate, and thus what might be creating them, we need to get better at capturing more of them.
But Halzen has a plan. The ice beneath the South Pole turned out to be much better at transmitting the light from neutrino interactions than we'd expected. They now think they can take the same number of detectors (there are 5,160 of them) and spread them over 10 cubic kilometers of ice, significantly increasing the ability to capture these rare events, and possibly start zeroing in on the processes that generate them.
If IceCube has a hard time pinning down high energy neutrinos (at least until there's a nearby supernova; see sidebar), pity cosmologists. Just like the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) photons that tell us about the Big Bang, there's a cosmic neutrino background created by the event itself that could tell us even more. And it consists of copious numbers of neutrinos; according to Fermilab's Bradford Benson, at the time the CMB was emitted, 10 percent of the Universe's energy density was neutrinos. Even today, despite their phenomenally light mass, "at the low end of the known [mass] range, neutrinos weigh as much as all the stars in the Universe," said Benson.
But, at such low energies (they're on the scale of a Mega-electronVolt), we have no way of possibly detecting the cosmic neutrino background. Until that changes, the CMB can tell us some things about neutrinos themselves—things that are difficult to determine because the particles are so annoying to work with. Benson works on the South Pole Telescope, located near IceCube, which examines a patch of the CMB in the southern skies, achieving a 13-fold boost over the space-based WMAP probe.
With these observatories, you can spot the acoustic oscillations of matter, caused by the counteracting pull of gravity and push of radiation pressure. And these tell us about the contents of the Universe itself; matching their properties is one of the great successes of the lambda-cold dark matter model. Referring to the model, Benson said "the CMB is the best piece of evidence that we live in this Universe." And this Universe contains a lot of neutrinos.
In fact, differences in neutrino masses of as little as 0.1 electronVolts is enough to change the amount of structure in the Universe (galaxy clusters and the like) by about five percent. Of course, it's possible that this value is more than half the combined mass of all three neutrino types, so it's not as informative as it might be. Still, the CMB places some of the tightest limits on the masses of neutrinos that we've identified.
It also places limits on the number of neutrinos. Right now, we know of three, but particles called "sterile neutrinos" have maintained a persistent presence on the theoretical scene. But Benson said that the latest analyses of the CMB produce a neutrino count of 3.15—close enough to the answer we already have that there's unlikely to be any surprises here. And, when it comes to neutrinos, a lack of surprises is a rare event. |
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101 F.3d 705
9 NDLR P 35
NOTICE: Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3 provides that dispositions other than opinions or orders designated for publication are not precedential and should not be cited except when relevant under the doctrines of law of the case, res judicata, or collateral estoppel.Richard L. JAMES, Plaintiff-Appellant,v.JAMES RIVER PAPER CO., Defendant-Appellee.
No. 95-35504.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted Nov. 8, 1996.*Decided Nov. 13, 1996.
Before: CANBY, RYMER and KLEINFELD, Circuit Judges.
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MEMORANDUM**
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Richard James ("James") appeals the district court's grant of summary judgment in favor of James River Paper Company ("James River") on James's claims of wrongful termination and failure to provide a reasonable accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), 42 U.S.C. § 12101-12213. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291, and we affirm.
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* James argues that the magistrate judge erred in disregarding information compiled after his termination that purportedly shows that James River had imputed knowledge of his disability prior to his termination. This post-termination evidence consists of the EAP notation, the Oregon Employment Appeals Board Decision, the affidavit of Roger Antisdel, the letter written by Dr. Burns, and the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries Report. James argues that disregarding this evidence conflicts with Kimbro v. Atlantic Richfield Co., 889 F.2d 869, 876 (9th Cir.1989), cert. denied, 498 U.S. 814 (1990), where we held that a supervisor's knowledge of the employee's condition bound ARCO because the supervisor had both the authority to receive information regarding Kimbro's medical condition and the responsibility to disclose its nature and severity to management. We disagree, as there is no evidence that anyone at James River knew that James's work schedule affected his medical condition or that his disability needed accommodation. Nothing in the proffered documents suggests otherwise. For this reason, the documents do not create a triable issue of fact that James was terminated because of his disability instead of for his violation of James River's policy regarding physical confrontations between employees.
II
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James also argues that the magistrate judge erred in discounting the testimony of his medical expert regarding the causal link between James's disabilities and the misconduct that resulted in his termination. Employers may terminate employees under the ADA for misconduct regardless of whether the misconduct is directly attributable to the employee's disability. See Collings v. Longview Fibre Co., 63 F.3d 828, 833 (9th Cir.1995), cert. denied, 116 S.Ct. 711 (1996); see also Newland v. Dalton, 81 F.3d 904, 906 (9th Cir.1996) (applying Collings under the Rehabilitation Act). Therefore, even if Dr. Larson's opinion could be construed as establishing a causal link,1 it does not suffice to overcome summary judgment because James's termination based on misconduct caused by the disability, rather than the disability itself, is valid.
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AFFIRMED.
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The panel unanimously finds this case suitable for decision without oral argument. Fed.R.App.P. 34(a); 9th Cir.R. 34-4
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This disposition is not appropriate for publication and may not be cited to or by the courts of this circuit except as provided by 9th Cir.R. 36-3
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We do not agree with James that the magistrate judge impermissibly evaluated the sufficiency of the expert's testimony. Rather, the magistrate judge found that the expert did not connect the disruption in James's medication cycle to the encounter with Remly based on Larson's answers "Oh, crimoney, who knows" and "Who can solve the riddle of that sort of stuff" to questions about whether sleep deprivation and failure to take medications caused the altercation that led to James's dismissal
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abstract: 'We study a one-dimensional Frenkel Hamiltonian with off-diagonal disorder, focusing our attention on the physical nature of the zero-energy peak of the density of states. The character of excitonic states (localized or delocalized) is also examined in the vicinity of this peak by means of the inverse participation ratio. It is shown that the state being responsible for the peak is localized. A detailed comparison of the nearest-neighbor approach with the long-range dipole-dipole coupling is performed.'
address:
- 'All-Russian Research Center “Vavilov State Optical Institute”, Birzhevaya Liniya 12, 199034 Saint-Petersburg, Russia'
- 'GISC, Departamento de Física de Materiales, Universidad Complutense, E-28040 Madrid, Spain'
- 'GISC, Departamento de Matemática Aplicada y Estadística, Universidad Politécnica, E-28040 Madrid, Spain'
author:
- 'G. G. Kozlov and V. A. Malyshev'
- 'F. Domínguez-Adame'
- 'A. Rodríguez'
title: 'Zero-energy peak of the density of states and localization properties of a one-dimensional Frenkel exciton: Off-diagonal disorder'
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Introduction {#Intro}
============
Since the pioneering works of Anderson,[@Anderson58] and Mott and Twose,[@Mott61] electronic and transport properties of randomly disordered systems have been the subject of long-lasting interest both from fundamental and applied viewpoints. One-dimensional ($1$D) systems are frequently considered because they turn out to be simpler than those in three dimensions.[@Lieb66] Originally, Mott and Twose [@Mott61] conjectured that all states are localized in $1$D systems, for any degree of disorder. Afterwards, a great deal of work has been devoted to examine Mott-Twose conjecture (see, for instance, the review ). However, it is well-known that electron delocalization appears in 1D random systems with short-range correlations.[@Dunlap90; @Sanchez94]
Two decades ago, Theodorou and Cohen established that the density of states (DOS) of a $1$D tight-binding Hamiltonian with nearest-neighbor (NN) interactions and random off-diagonal elements presents a singularity at the center of the band.[@Theodorou76] These authors used an analytical approach based on previous results obtained by Dyson [@Dyson53] for disordered linear chains of harmonic oscillators. In Ref. , it was also stated that the corresponding state is delocalized as the localization length was found to be infinite. Adding some amount of diagonal disorder in the presence of off-diagonal randomness makes all states to be localized. [@Economou71] Remarkably, the first calculations on $1$D tight-binding Hamiltonians with only diagonal disorder did not reveal any singularity neither in the DOS nor in the localization length.[@Bush72; @Papatriantafillou73] Further, it was found both numerically [@Czychol81] and analytically [@Kappus81; @Derrida84] a very weak anomaly (a peak but not a singularity) in both properties mentioned above.
Recently, Fidder [*et al*]{}. have found by numerical diagonalization of the $1$D Frenkel Hamiltonian with off-diagonal disorder that, notwithstanding the singularity of the DOS, the corresponding state is localized if one includes the long-range (LR) interactions due to dipolar coupling between different sites.[@Fidder91] This finding seems to be in contradiction with the point of view raised in Ref. suggesting that the state corresponding to the singularity of the DOS is delocalized. In this paper, we examine in detail the conclusions of Refs. and . We address this issue by considering a $1$D Frenkel Hamiltonian with off-diagonal disorder with NN interactions and compare the results with those obtained when LR interactions are taken into account. The rest of the paper is organized as follows. In Sec. \[?\], the $1$D Frenkel Hamiltonian with NN interactions is analyzed. We present arguments against those raised in Ref. , namely that the zero-energy state is localized, even in the NN problem. This conclusion, based on analytical considerations, is then confirmed by direct diagonalization of the Hamiltonian. The detailed study of the $1$D Frenkel Hamiltonian with LR interactions is presented in Sec. \[FrHam\]. Section \[Simul\] deals with the numerical simulations confirming the analytical results. Using numerical diagonalization of a Frenkel Hamiltonian with LR interactions, we calculate both the DOS and the inverse participation ratio, to be defined below, and study new features of these magnitudes with respect to the NN approach. Section \[Sum\] concludes with some comments regarding the results we have obtained.
Is the zero-energy state delocalized? {#?}
=====================================
In this Section we briefly review the arguments of Ref. leading to the conclusion that the state at the center of the band is delocalized. We present further arguments suggesting the opposite point of view and, what is most important, numerical calculations confirm our statement. Let us consider a tight-binding Hamiltonian with only NN interactions $$H = \sum_n U_{n,n+1} (|n\rangle\langle n+1| + |n+1\rangle\langle n|),
\label{H_NN}$$ where the NN interactions $\{U_{n,n+1}\}$ are assumed to be $\delta$-correlated and similarly distributed stochastic variables. The state vector $|n\rangle$ represents an excitation at [*site*]{} $n$. All site energies are set to zero since no diagonal disorder is included. The eigenvalue problem of the NN model reads $$U_{n,n+1}a_{n+1} + U_{n,n-1}a_{n-1} = Ea_n,
\label{Eigen}$$ where the set $\{a_n\}$ represents the real eigenvector corresponding to the eigenenergy $E$. For zero energy Eq. (\[Eigen\]) gives the recurrence relation $a_{n+1}=-(U_{n,n-1}/U_{n,n+1})a_{n-1}$. Using this relation one can find $$a_{2n+1} = \Biggl(-{U_{2n,2n-1}\over U_{2n,2n+1}}\Biggr)
\Biggl(-{U_{2n-2,2n-3}\over U_{2n-2,2n-1}}\Biggr)\ldots
\Biggl(-{U_{2,1}\over U_{2,3}}\Biggr) a_1.
\label{a}$$ The amplitudes at even positions vanish. The eigenvector (\[a\]) represents the zero-energy state for a chain with odd number of sites. Defining the localization length at the center of the band $L(E=0)$ by the expression $${1\over L(E=0)} = - \lim_{n\rightarrow\infty} {1\over 2n}
\ln\Biggl|{a_{2n+1}\over a_1}\Biggr|,
\label{L}$$ and applying the central-limit theorem, the authors of Ref. obtained $1/L(E=0)=0$. From this result they concluded that the state at center of the band was extended.
The definition of the localization length (\[L\]) is based on an unconditional assumption of the so-called exponential localization. Indeed, in such a case one would have typically $a_{2n+1} \sim
\exp[-(2n+1)/L]$. Certainly, the definition (\[L\]) cannot discern between a weaker than exponentially localized state (where the amplitude $a_{2n+1}$ decreases or increases with $n$ slower than an exponential) and an extended state (where $a_{2n+1} \sim 1/\sqrt N$ with $N
\rightarrow\infty$ being the number of sites in the chain). In such a case, the mean extension of the eigenfunctions or the inverse participation ratio are the more adequate quantities for learning the character of the state.
The results presented below show that the problem we are discussing just belongs to those which cannot be adequately analyzed from the assumptions leading to Eq. (\[L\]). First, let us write the NN interactions in the form $U_{n,n+1} = U_0 (1 + \xi_{n,n+1})$, where $\xi_{n,n+1}$ is a Gaussian distributed stochastic variables with variance $\xi_0^2 \ll 1$. Then, it is easy to calculate the probability distribution of $\xi_{2n+1} \equiv \ln |a_{2n+1}/a_1|$, $$g(\xi_{2n+1}) = {1 \over \sqrt {4\pi n}\xi_0}
\exp \Biggl (- {\xi_{2n+1}^2 \over 4\xi_0^2 n}\Biggr ).
\label{g_xi}$$ From this, the authors of Ref. claimed that typically $|a_{2n+1}/a_1| \sim \exp(\pm 2\xi_0\sqrt n)$. If so, one should conclude that the zero-energy state is localized rather than extended, in contradiction with the statement of Ref. .
Further, using Eq. (\[g\_xi\]) we can calculate the probability distribution of $\chi_{2n+1} \equiv |a_{2n+1}/a_1|$, $$f(\chi_{2n+1}) = {1 \over \sqrt {4\pi n}\xi_0 \chi_{2n+1}}
\exp \Biggl (- {\ln^2\chi_{2n+1} \over 4\xi_0^2 n}\Biggr ).
\label{f_chi}$$ This function has a sharp peak at $\chi_{\mathrm{max}} = \exp(-2 \xi_0^2n)$ and a very broad tail for large $\chi_{2n+1}$ such that $\langle\chi_{2n+1}\rangle = \int \chi f(\chi) d\chi = \exp(\xi_0^2 n)$. Thus, it is rather difficult to make a definite conclusion from Eq. (\[f\_chi\]) concerning a typical dependence of $|a_{2n+1}/a_1|$ on $n$. Nevertheless, the fact that $f(0) = 0$ certainly indicates the zero probability to obtain an extended state. Below, we confirm this observation by numerical simulations.
Frenkel Hamiltonian {#FrHam}
===================
We will be also interested in studying both the DOS and the degree of localization of states of a 1D tight-binding Hamiltonian including all (LR) interactions, beyond the NN interactions. According to this, we then introduce the complete Hamiltonian $${\cal H}=\sum_{\stackrel{m,n=1}{m\neq n}}^{N}U_{mn}|m\rangle\langle n|,
\label{Hn}$$ in which summation is performed now over all pair of sites. For definiteness, it is assumed hereafter that excitations described by the presented Hamiltonian correspond to Frenkel excitons. Furthermore, the $U_{mn}$ is assumed to be of dipole-dipole nature. We restrict ourselves to the case in which all transition dipole moments have the same magnitude and direction. Thus, one can take $U_{mn} =
-U/|\xi_m-\xi_n|^3$, where $-U$ ($U>0$) is the dipole-dipole coupling of nearest-neighbors in the periodic lattice, i.e. at $\xi_m-\xi_{m+1}=1$ (we chose here the negative sign of NN coupling as it takes place, for example, in J-aggregates [@Fidder91]), and $\xi_m=m+\delta_m$ with $\delta_m$ being a stochastic variables assuming to be distributed around the regular sequence according to the Gaussian law with variance $\sigma^2$ $${\cal P}(\delta_m)=\Biggl({1\over 2\pi\sigma^2}\Biggr)^{1/2}
\exp\Biggl(-{\delta_m^2\over 2\sigma^2}\Biggr).
\label{Gauss}$$
The exciton spectrum and the DOS in the absence of disorder {#A}
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Before any discussions of the effects resulted from localization, it is useful to recall the peculiar features of the 1D-exciton spectrum and of the DOS in the absence of disorder $(\delta_m=0)$. Then the Hamiltonian (\[Hn\]) can be approximately diagonalized (with accuracy of the order of $N^{-1}$) by introducing the excitonic basis [@Malyshev95] $$|k\rangle = \left( {2\over N+1}\right)^{1/2}
\sum_{n=1}^N\sin\left({\pi kn\over N+1}\right)|n\rangle.
\label{k}$$ The state vector $|k\rangle$ represents an exciton in the $k$-th state. Substituting (\[k\]) into Eq. (\[Hn\]) one obtains [@Malyshev95]
\[one\] $${\cal H}=\sum_{k=1}^N E_k |k\rangle\langle k|,
\label{Hk}$$ $$E_k=-2U\sum_{n=1}^N{1\over n^3}\cos\left({\pi kn\over N+1}\right) +
{\cal O}(N^{-1}).
\label{Ek}$$
Equation (\[Ek\]) generalizes the corresponding expression of the NN approximation \[$n=1$ term in (\[Ek\])\] to the case of including all (LR) interactions. We are especially interested in the behavior of the spectrum and of the DOS in the vicinity of extreme points, $K\equiv\pi
k/(N+1)=0$ and $K=\pi$, as well as at the center of the band, $k =
(N+1)/2$ ($N$ taken to be odd). To do that, we exploit the following equation [@Gradshtein80] $$\sum_{n=1}^\infty {\cos Kn\over n}=-\ln\Biggl(2\sin {K\over 2}\Biggr)
\label{Grad}$$ and the fact that one can extend the sum in Eq.(\[Ek\]) up to infinity because $n^{-3}$ decreases with $n$ fast enough. Then, by integrating Eq. (\[Grad\]) twice with respect to $K$, the sum in Eq. (\[Ek\]) can be cast into the form [@Malyshev95]
\[two\] $$E_k=-2U\zeta (3)+U\Biggl({3\over 2}-\ln K\Biggr)K^2 , \quad K\ll 1,
\label{Bottom}$$ $$E_k={3\over 2}U\zeta (3)-U\ln 2(K-\pi)^2,\quad K-\pi\ll 1,
\label{Top}$$
where $\zeta (3)=\sum_{n=1}^\infty n^{-3}\approx 1.202$. The corresponding formulae within the NN approximation are $E_k=-2U+UK^2$ if $K\ll 1$ and $E_k=2U-U(K-\pi)^2$ if $K-\pi\ll 1$. Thus, one can conclude that LR interactions affect both the position of the bottom and the top of the band as well as the DOS of $1$D excitons. As we can see, the bottom and top of the band change, respectively, from $-2U$ to $-2U\zeta (3)\approx -2.404U$ and from $2U$ to $(3/2)U\zeta (3)\approx
1.803U$. The DOS decreases approximately by the factor $\sqrt{\ln |E|}$ in the vicinity of the bottom of the band and, on the contrary, grows by the factor $1/\ln 2$ close the top.
Finally, we would like to comment on the energy of the central exciton band state, with $k = (N+ 1)/2$. In the NN model, one finds that $E_{(N+1)/2} = 0$, while with including all dipolar couplings, this energy is shifted to $$E_{(N+1)/2} = -2U\sum_{n=1}^N {1\over n^3}
\cos\left({\pi n\over 2}\right) \approx 0.225 U.
\label{Epeak}$$ The DOS in the vicinity of the band center does not change noticeably as compared to the NN model.
Motion narrowing effect {#B}
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In the presence of disorder, the Hamiltonian of the system can be written as a sum of two parts: the unperturbed one (\[one\]) and a term produced by the fluctuations of $U_{mn}$
\[three\] $${\cal H}=\sum_{k=1}^N E_k |k\rangle\langle k|+\sum_{k,k^\prime=1}^N
\Delta_{kk^\prime}|k\rangle\langle k^\prime|,
\label{Hp}$$ $$\Delta_{kk^\prime} = {2\over N+1}\sum_{m,n=1}^N\delta U_{mn}
\sin\left({\pi kn\over N+1}\right)
\sin\left({\pi k^\prime m\over N+1}\right),
\label{Delta}$$
where $\delta U_{mn}=U_{mn}-{\bar U}$ where ${\bar U}$ means averaging over the probability distribution (\[Gauss\]). Here $\Delta_{kk^\prime}$ have diagonal and off-diagonal parts. The former is responsible only for the inhomogeneous broadening of excitonic levels, while the latter couples the excitonic modes and, therefore, causes the localization effects.
The $\Delta_{kk^\prime}$ undergo fluctuations because $\delta U_{mn}$ fluctuate. Assuming NN coupling and that $\delta U_{mn}$ fluctuations are small in some sense (see below), we can find the $\Delta_{kk^\prime}$ distribution in an analytical form. This also helps us to comment on the results of numerical simulations that we discuss later in Sec. \[Simul\].
In order to achieve the task, we use the definition $$\begin{aligned}
{\cal P}(\Delta_{kk^\prime}) =
\left<\delta\left(\Delta_{kk^\prime} - {2\over N+1}
\sum_{n=1}^{N-1}\delta U_{n,n+1}\left[\sin\left({\pi kn\over N+1}\right)
\sin\left({\pi k^\prime (n+1)\over N+1}\right)\right.\right.\right.
\nonumber\\
\nonumber\\ \left.\left.\left.
+\sin\left({\pi k^\prime n\over N+1}\right)
\sin\left({\pi k(n+1)\over N+1}\right)\right]\right)\right>.
\label{Def}\end{aligned}$$ Here, angle brackets indicate the average of the $\delta$-function over the fluctuations of NN distances. They obey a Gaussian distribution law like (\[Gauss\]) but replacing $\sigma^{2}$ by $\sigma_{NN}^{2} =
2\sigma^{2}$. We omit the details of tedious but straightforward trigonometric calculations and only quote the final results.
It can be easily shown that the sum in Eq. (\[Def\]) is exactly equal to zero if $k+k^\prime = N+1$. Particularly, this means that $\Delta_{kk^\prime}=0$ for $k=k^\prime=(N+1)/2$ when $N$ is taken to be odd, i.e., the first order correction to the central energy is exactly equal to zero and does not fluctuate. Fluctuations of the other $\Delta_{kk^\prime}$ are distributed according to the Gaussian function with variances of the diagonal and off-diagonal elements distribution, $\sigma_d^2(k)$ and $\sigma_{nd}^2(k,k^\prime)$, given by
\[four\] $$\sigma_d^2(k)={(6\sigma U)^2\over N+1}
\Biggl[2+\cos\left({2\pi k\over N+1}\right)\Biggl], \quad k\ne \frac{N+1}{2}.
\label{sigmad}$$ $$\sigma_{nd}^2(k,k^\prime)=
{(6\sigma U)^2\over N+1}\Biggl[1+\cos\left({\pi k\over N+1}\right)
\cos\left({\pi k^\prime\over N+1}\right)\Biggl], \quad k+k^\prime \ne N+1.
\label{sigmand}$$
From Eqs. (\[four\]) one can conclude that, in the case of off-diagonal disorder, the motion narrowing effect is also present as it takes place for diagonal disorder,[@Knapp84] i.e., both magnitudes in (\[four\]) scale as $(N+1)^{-1}$. We should point out that, in contrast to diagonal disorder, here the magnitudes $\sigma_d$ and $\sigma_{nd}$ are functions of the state numbers. Note also that $\sigma_d(k)$ goes through its minimum value exactly at the center of the exciton band, i.e., at $k=(N+1)/2$ and $k=N/2$ at $N$ taken odd and even, respectively. In fact, we can also assert this with respect to the value of $\sigma_{nd} (k,k^\prime)$ since $k$ and $k^\prime$ cannot differ greatly provided the condition $\sigma_{nd}(k,k^\prime)\ll U$.
To conclude this Section let us comment on the validity of the motion narrowing effects. Obviously, this is valid only when $\sigma_{nd} <
|E_k-E_{k+1}|$. In this case, the excitonic states are not mixed by the perturbation and remain to be extended over the whole chain. They are essentially mixed for the opposite sign of inequality, reducing their localization lengths. Then, the number of sites within the region of localization $(N^{*})$ drives the motion narrowing effect rather than the whole number in the chain $N$. In Refs. and a self-consistent rule for estimation of $N^*$ is carried out.
Numerical simulations and discussions {#Simul}
=====================================
Further, we will mainly focus our attention on the normalized density of states $\rho (E)$ and on the degree of localization (inverse participation ratio, IPR) for the states at energy $E$. They are defined respectively as follows [@Fidder91]
$$\rho (E) = {1\over N}\Biggl\langle\sum_k \delta(E - E_k)\Biggr\rangle,
\label{rho}$$
$${\cal L}(E) = {1\over N\rho(E)}\Biggl\langle\sum_k\delta(E - E_k)
\Biggl(\sum_{n=1}^N a_{kn}^4\Biggr)\Biggr\rangle,
\label{IPR}$$
where the angular brackets indicate an average over an ensemble of disordered linear chains and the $a_{kn}$ is the eigenvector of the Hamiltonian (\[Hn\]) corresponding to the eigenvalue $E_k$ with $k=1,2,3,\ldots,N,$ $$\sum_{m=1}^N U_{nm}a_{km} = E_k a_{kn}.
\label{eigen}$$ The IPR behaves like $1/N$ for delocalized states spreading uniformly over the entire system on increasing $N$. In particular, the IPR can be exactly computed for the eigenstates of the periodic lattices given in (\[k\]). In doing so we obtain the expected behavior for $N\to
\infty$. On the contrary, localized states exhibit much higher values. In the extreme case, when the exciton is localized at a single site, the IPR becomes unity. Therefore, the scaling analysis of the IPR as a function of the system size provides valuable information about the nature of the excitonic states. We should mention that a complete multifractal analysis, accomplished by studying the scaling of the other moments of the probability distribution, is beyond the scope of this work.
We have solved numerically the eigenvalue problem (\[eigen\]) for different values of disorder, namely the mean fluctuation of the NN distance, $\sigma_{NN}=\sqrt{2}\sigma$, to study the features of both the DOS and the IPR discussed above. In our numerical treatment $\sigma_{NN}$ ranges from $0$ (periodic lattices) up to $0.32$ whereas the maximum system size we have considered is $N=2500$. Results comprise averages over $50$ realizations of the disorder for each given pair of parameters $N$ and $\sigma_{NN}$.
Nearest-neighbor approximation {#NN}
------------------------------
Let us comment the results we have obtained for the NN approximation. Figure \[fig1\] shows the DOS for the largest lattice size we have considered ($N=2500$) and different values of the disorder ($\sigma_{NN}
= 0.02,0.04,0.16$ from top to bottom). We observe that the DOS is symmetric about the center of the band. The singularities at the edge of the exciton band are smeared out on increasing the degree of disorder. Interestingly, a sharp peak in the DOS at the center of the exciton band appears when the degree of disorder exceeds some threshold value ($\sigma_{NN} \approx 0.03$ for our model parameters). We will discuss further this point later. We have also observed that the percentage of states in the DOS peak increases with the degree of disorder. In addition, the amplitude of the peak rises noticeably with increasing the number of sites in the lattice, as seen in Fig. \[fig2\] for $\sigma_{NN} = 0.08$.
The IPR presents an overall increase when the degree of disorder increases, meaning that the larger the degree of disorder, the smaller the exciton localization length. This is clearly observed in Fig. \[fig3\], where we show the IPR as a function of the exciton energy for the same parameters of Fig. \[fig1\]. However, the increase of the IPR strongly depends on the energy, being more pronounced close to the center of the band. Simultaneously with the occurrence of the peak of the DOS, a hardly visible downfall arises in the IPR at zero energy. This downfall is better revealed for larger lattices, as it can be seen in Fig. \[fig4\] for the same parameters of Fig. \[fig2\].
As mentioned above, the scaling of the IPR with the lattice size may be useful to discern the nature of the eigenstates. The IPR at the center of the band for different values of the degree of disorder is plotted in Fig. \[fig5\] as a function of the lattice size. The IPR for periodic lattices scales very accurately as $1/N$, hence indicating that their eigenstates spread uniformly over the whole lattice. As soon as some amount of disorder is introduced in the system, the IPR follows a power law for small $N$ but tends to a constant value for large $N$, as plotted in Fig. \[fig5\]. The critical size for which deviation from power fit occurs decreases on increasing the degree the disorder. The constant value of the IPR for large $N$ increases with the degree of disorder, indicating that the eigenstates at the center of the band actually become more localized.
Summarizing these observations for the NN approximation, we are led to two main conclusions. First, the zero-energy peak of the DOS really exists. Moreover, as its width shows no dependence on the degree of disorder (at least, when the latter ranges over the interval used in our simulations), we are inclined to identify this peak with a $\delta$-like singularity rather than to the famous Dyson singularity $\sim 1/|E|\ln^3|E|$. This singularity was found firstly for a special distribution of the NN hopping integral in the form of a generalized Poisson function.[@Dyson53] Second, the corresponding eigenstates show no tendency to delocalization with rising the lattice size contrary to the opposite statement done in Ref. . Moreover, they are not more delocalized than those of energies close to zero.
All interactions {#All}
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Effects of inclusion of all dipolar interactions in Eq. (\[eigen\]) on the DOS and IPR has been already discussed in Ref. . Nevertheless, it has been done only for a fixed values of the chain length $(N=250)$ and the degree of disorder $(\sigma=0.08)$. Below we present our DOS and IPR numerical data obtained by varying both $N$ and $\sigma$.
Figures \[fig6\] and \[fig7\] show the results of numerical calculations of both the DOS and the IPR for different values of the degree of disorder and $N=2500$. Here, one can observe the usual changes of both magnitudes as compared to those in the NN approximation: asymmetry and shift of the excitonic band edges, both in a good agreement with the analytical results presented in Sec. \[A\].
In addition, some new features appear, namely the peak in the DOS has a finite width and is shifted from zero-energy to a somewhat higher value $E_{\mathrm{peak}}\approx 0.21U$ for low degree of disorder, in full correspondence with the results of numerical simulation done in Ref. . Higher values of the degree of disorder lead to a smaller energy shift. Further, a peak in the IPR appears at the same energy where the DOS peak, with a finite width as well. The last observation means that the states forming the DOS peak become more localized as compared to those with close energies, in contrast to the case of the NN interaction. This is also confirmed by the scaling of the IPR for $E_{\mathrm{peak}}$ with the system size (not shown here): In all cases we observe higher values of the IPR in comparison with those shown in Fig. \[fig5\]. Besides that, the trend is similar, that is, the IPR scales as $1/N$ only for perfect lattices, whereas it tends to a constant value for non-zero degree of disorder.
Discussion {#Dissc}
----------
Now let us discuss the origin of the features of the DOS and of the IPR found in numerical simulations.
### NN interaction {#NN_int}
Obviously, the zero-energy peak in the DOS might appear when the states at the center of the exciton band become localized, i.e., their localization lengths are reduced to values less than the lattice size. This occurs when the reduced degree of disorder due to motion narrowing, $\sigma_{nd}(0,0)= 6\sigma_{NN}U/(N+1)^{1/2}$, exceeds the energy spacing at the center of the band, $\Delta E=2\pi U/(N+1)$. Equalizing these two magnitudes one obtains an estimation for a [*threshold*]{} of mean fluctuations of the NN distances to observe the peak, $\sigma_{NN}^{th} \approx U/(N+1)^{1/2}$. Thus $\sigma_{NN}^{th}
\approx 0.02$ for $N=2500$, which is in a good agreement with the numerical data of Fig. \[fig1\].
With regard to the fact why this peak appears, we can suggest two explanations which seem to be suitable for the model under consideration. First, as the distribution of disorder we used has long tails then, owing to possible large fluctuations of the NN distances, strongly interacting [*dimers*]{} can be created whose level splittings noticeably exceed the typical magnitude of the intersite interaction $U$. Consequently, the whole chain is broken into several independent segments in the sense that two adjacent [*dimers*]{} produce a potential well for the exciton, localizing it into the segment bounded by them. As the zero eigenenergy is always present in a segment with odd number of sites, one can expect a peak in the DOS at this energy (similar explanation of the zero-energy peak of the DOS was suggested in Ref. ). The peak amplitude increases with disorder simply because of the rising of the number of segments as the degree of disorder grows. Appearance of such strongly interacting dimers is clearly seen from that the IPR approaches 0.5 at the DOS tails (see Figs. \[fig3\] and \[fig4\]).
Recently, it was demonstrated that the Dyson singularity of the DOS appeared even for a box-like distribution of disorder.[@Mertsching92] Then, the explanation above fails due to the absence of large fluctuations of the NN-randomness at a low magnitude of the degree of disorder. In such a case, another cause for the occurrence of the zero-energy peak in the DOS can be proposed. As we have already noted in subsection \[B\], the first order correction to the central energy is equal to zero for chains with odd number of sites and has a minimum of fluctuation in the case of even number of sites. The zero-energy peak indicates that the central band eigenenergies are more stable to perturbations than the remaining ones. This certainly will result in a peak of the DOS after averaging over realizations of disorder. It is remarkable that simulations done for a special type of disorder —which has no effect on a certain excitonic level in the sense that the first order correction to the energy vanishes— show an analogous peak in the DOS at this energy.[@Kozlov] Thus, this [*empirical*]{} rule can serve for inspecting the appearance of peaks in the DOS for the tight-binding Hamiltonian. As the last treatment does not use any specific peculiarities of the NN-randomness distribution, it seems to be suitable for any other distribution. We suppose that, for the model considered in this paper, both mechanisms discussed above contribute to the formation of the zero-energy peak in the DOS.
Concluding this subsection, note that the degree of localization of the central states obtained from the numerical simulation is in a good agreement with the theoretical estimates based on a self-consistent rule proposed in Refs. and (see paragraph 1 of the present subsection).
### All interactions {#All_int}
As it was stated in Ref. , the energy shift of the DOS peak, $E_{\mathrm{peak}}\approx 0.21 U$, agrees very well with the energy of the central band state in the absence of disorder, Eq. (\[Epeak\]). We are also inclined to relate this peculiarity to a state of analogous origin, i.e., similar to $\sin(\pi n/2)$. This can be demonstrated at least in the perturbative limit. Moreover, exploiting this analogy further, we should assume that the character (having no amplitude on the half of sites) of the mentioned eigenstate has not to be changed dramatically (at least, in average), when passing from the NN model to the exact one, as it is the case for the problem without disorder.[@Malyshev95]
The $\delta$-singularity of the DOS becomes broader with including all dipolar couplings. At least two effects can contribute to this broadening. As it was supposed above, the DOS peak results from the isolated segments of odd number of sites, which, in turn, originate from large fluctuations of the NN distances. At moderate magnitudes of disorder we are mainly dealing with, it is unlikely the simultaneous strong reduction of the distance between a nearest-neighbor pair and the distances with other neighbors. Thus, for the very beginning, one can consider adjacent segments as independent of each other. Then, the eigenenergy of the local (belonging to a certain segment) central band state will fluctuate, owing to fluctuations of the segment lengths \[see Eq. (\[Epeak\])\], and thus will produce inhomogeneous broadening of the DOS peak. The second probable origin of this effect is the coupling of different isolated segments due to the interaction with far neighbors.
In Ref. , the appearance of the IPR peak was explained by an exceptional property of this characteristic with regard to the central band state, $k = (N+1)/2$, characterized by the wave function $[2/(N+1)]^{1/2}\sin(\pi n/2)$. Even in the absence of disorder, the IPR defined by Eq. (\[IPR\]) shows stronger localization of this state $[{\cal L} = 2/(N+1)]$ as compared to localization of the remaining states $[{\cal L} = 3/2(N+1)]$.[@Fidder91] The authors of Ref. asserted that the IPR peak in the presence of disorder reflected a remnant of this special state in those forming the peak. At the moment, we do not see any other explanation of the origin of this anomaly. If it is so, the similar feature might be manifested in the NN problem, too. Nevertheless, as follows from our simulations done for the NN problem, the IPR displays a downfall rather than a peak. One of the reason for such difference may be the fact that the zero-energy state is not exponentially localized in the NN problem (see Sec. \[?\]). It results in a larger extension of this state as compared to the others. In principle, such a large extension can compensate the IPR anomaly coming from the special character of the zero-energy state (having no amplitude at all on the half of sites) giving rise to the same value of the IPR at $E=0$ and at surrounding energies.
Summary {#Sum}
=======
The numerical study of the problem of the zero-energy peak of the DOS for a one-dimensional Frenkel chain with only off-diagonal randomness shows that the peak is really presented. In the NN approximation, it is located at the center of the excitonic band and tends to convert to a $\delta$-singularity as the size of the chain increases. The states belonging the peak are localized and do not display any tendency to delocalization with the chain size. Moreover, the degree of localization (IPR) does not differ very much from that of the surrounding states. The inclusion of couplings due to far neighbors shifts the peak to a slightly higher energy ($\approx 0.21 U$), while the IPR, in contrast to the NN problem, shows a peak at the same energy.
Work at Russia was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (Project 95-03-09221). Work at Madrid was supported by CICYT under Project MAT95-0325. V. A. M. thanks Universidad de Salamanca, where this study was started, for hospitality.
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package org.neo4j.ogm.domain.dataclasses
import org.neo4j.ogm.annotation.*
/**
* @author Michael J. Simons
*/
@NodeEntity
data class MyNode (
@Id @GeneratedValue var dbId: Long? = null,
@Index(unique = true) val name: String,
val description: String,
@Relationship("IS_LINKED_TO", direction = Relationship.Direction.OUTGOING)
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Risperidone in psychotic combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder: an open trial.
Psychotic symptoms that frequently occur in combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) complicate its pharmacotherapy. We hypothesized that war veterans with psychotic PTSD, resistant to prior antidepressant treatment, would respond well to 6 weeks of treatment with the atypical antipsychotic risperidone, given as a monotherapy. Twenty-six male war veterans with psychotic PTSD (DSM-IV) completed the 6-week inpatient treatment with risperidone (2-4 mg/day) during the period from November 1999 through December 2002. The primary outcome measure was change from baseline to endpoint (6 weeks) in Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) total and subscale scores. Secondary outcome measures were changes in PTSD Interview (PTSD-I) and Clinical Global Impressions-Severity of Illness scale (CGI-S) total and subscale scores. Clinical improvement was assessed by CGI-S, CGI-Improvement scale, and Patient Global Impression of Improvement scale, while adverse events were recorded by Drug-Induced Extrapyramidal Symptoms Scale. Treatment with risperidone for either 3 or 6 weeks in an open trial significantly reduced total and subscales scores on the PANSS and on the PTSD-I and CGI-S when compared to baseline scores in patients with psychotic PTSD. Our preliminary data from the open trial indicate that risperidone decreased most of the psychotic and PTSD symptoms. Psychotic PTSD patients, unresponsive to antidepressant treatment, improved significantly after treatment for either 3 or 6 weeks with risperidone. |
Q:
A jQuery code being applied in many input, but I want it only on a intended input which is a (search box)?
I am creating an expanding search box, when it is on focus it gets expanded and contracts when off the focus, but I have in my page many buttons, textboxes and radio buttons, when on click or focus other same to search box gets expand and contract.
The code I am using:
<script type="text/javascript" src="for admg/jquery-latest.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
//global vars
var inputWdith = '150px';
var inputWdithReturn = '100px';
$(document).ready(function () {
$('input').focus(function () {
//clear the text in the box.
// $(this).val(function () {
// $(this).val('');
// });
//animate the box
$(this).animate({
width: inputWdith
}, 500)
});
$('input').blur(function () {
$(this).val(' Search ');
$(this).animate({
width: inputWdithReturn
}, 800)
});
});
</script>
A:
With $('input'), you select every kind of input. Give your search box an id or class attribute, e.g. <input id="searchBox" type="text" />, then select it with $('#searchBox') (or $('.searchBox') for a class attribute).
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# Orientação a Objetos
Falamos sobre funções e estruturas nas duas últimas seções, mas você já considerou usar funções como campos de uma estrutura? Nesta seção, vou apresentá-lo a outra forma de função que possui um receptor, que é chamado `method` (método).
## method
Suponha que você definiu uma estrutura "rectangle" (retângulo) e quer calcular a sua área. Geralmente, usamos o seguinte código para atingir esse objetivo.
package main
import "fmt"
type Rectangle struct {
width, height float64
}
func area(r Rectangle) float64 {
return r.width*r.height
}
func main() {
r1 := Rectangle{12, 2}
r2 := Rectangle{9, 4}
fmt.Println("Area of r1 is: ", area(r1))
fmt.Println("Area of r2 is: ", area(r2))
}
O exemplo acima pode calcular a área de um retângulo. Usamos a função chamada `area`, mas ela não é um método da estrutura rectangle (como métodos de classe em linguagens orientadas a objetos clássicas). A função e a estrutura são duas coisas independentes, como você pode notar.
Isto não é um problema. Entretanto, se você também tem que calcular a área de um circulo, quadrado, pentágono ou qualquer outro tipo de forma, você vai precisar adicionar funções adicionais com nomes muito semelhantes.
Figure 2.8 Relacionamento entre funções e estruturas
Evidentemente, isso não é legal. Além disso, a área deve realmente ser a propriedade de um círculo ou retângulo.
Por estas razões, temos o conceito de `method`. `method` é afiliado ao tipo. Ele possui a mesma sintaxe que as funções, exceto por um parâmetro adicional após a palavra-chave `func` chamada `receiver` (receptor), que é o corpo principal desse método.
Usando o mesmo exemplo, `Rectangle.area()` pertence diretamente ao rectangle, em vez de ser uma função periférica. Mais especificamente, `length`, `width` e `area()` pertencem ao rectangle.
Como Rob Pike disse.
"Um método é um função com um primeiro argumento implícito, chamado receptor."
Sintaxe do método.
func (r ReceiverType) funcName(parameters) (results)
Vamos mudar nosso exemplo usando `method` em vez disso.
package main
import (
"fmt"
"math"
)
type Rectangle struct {
width, height float64
}
type Circle struct {
radius float64
}
func (r Rectangle) area() float64 {
return r.width*r.height
}
func (c Circle) area() float64 {
return c.radius * c.radius * math.Pi
}
func main() {
r1 := Rectangle{12, 2}
r2 := Rectangle{9, 4}
c1 := Circle{10}
c2 := Circle{25}
fmt.Println("Area of r1 is: ", r1.area())
fmt.Println("Area of r2 is: ", r2.area())
fmt.Println("Area of c1 is: ", c1.area())
fmt.Println("Area of c2 is: ", c2.area())
}
Notas para o uso de métodos.
- Se os nomes dos métodos são os mesmos, mas eles não compartilham os mesmos receptores, eles não são os mesmos método.
- Métodos são capazes de acessar campos dentro de receptores.
- Use `.` para chamar um método na estrutura, da mesma forma que os campos são chamados.
Figure 2.9 Métodos são diferentes em diferentes estruturas
No exemplo acima, os métodos area() pertencem ao Rectangle e ao Circle respectivamente, então os receptores são Rectangle e Circle.
Um ponto que vale notar é que o método com a linha pontilhada significa que o receptor é passado por valor, não por referência. A diferença entre eles é que um método pode mudar os valores do seu receptor quando o receptor é passado por referência, e outro recebe uma cópia do receptor quando o receptor é passado por valor.
O receptor só pode ser uma estrutura? Claro que não. Qualquer tipo pode ser o receptor de um método. Você pode estar confuso sobre tipos customizados. Estrutura é um tipo especial de tipo customizado -há mais tipos customizado.
Use o seguinte formato para definir um tipo customizado.
type typeName typeLiteral
Exemplos de tipos customizados:
type ages int
type money float32
type months map[string]int
m := months {
"January":31,
"February":28,
...
"December":31,
}
Espero que você saiba usar tipos customizados agora. Semelhante ao `typedef` em C, usamos `ages` para substituir `int` no exemplo acima.
Vamos voltar a falar sobre `method`.
Você pode usar quantos métodos quiser em tipos customizados.
package main
import "fmt"
const(
WHITE = iota
BLACK
BLUE
RED
YELLOW
)
type Color byte
type Box struct {
width, height, depth float64
color Color
}
type BoxList []Box //uma slice de caixas
func (b Box) Volume() float64 {
return b.width * b.height * b.depth
}
func (b *Box) SetColor(c Color) {
b.color = c
}
func (bl BoxList) BiggestsColor() Color {
v := 0.00
k := Color(WHITE)
for _, b := range bl {
if b.Volume() > v {
v = b.Volume()
k = b.color
}
}
return k
}
func (bl BoxList) PaintItBlack() {
for i, _ := range bl {
bl[i].SetColor(BLACK)
}
}
func (c Color) String() string {
strings := []string {"WHITE", "BLACK", "BLUE", "RED", "YELLOW"}
return strings[c]
}
func main() {
boxes := BoxList {
Box{4, 4, 4, RED},
Box{10, 10, 1, YELLOW},
Box{1, 1, 20, BLACK},
Box{10, 10, 1, BLUE},
Box{10, 30, 1, WHITE},
Box{20, 20, 20, YELLOW},
}
fmt.Printf("We have %d boxes in our set\n", len(boxes))
fmt.Println("The volume of the first one is", boxes[0].Volume(), "cm³")
fmt.Println("The color of the last one is",boxes[len(boxes)-1].color.String())
fmt.Println("The biggest one is", boxes.BiggestsColor().String())
fmt.Println("Let's paint them all black")
boxes.PaintItBlack()
fmt.Println("The color of the second one is", boxes[1].color.String())
fmt.Println("Obviously, now, the biggest one is", boxes.BiggestsColor().String())
}
Definimos algumas constantes e tipos customizados.
- Usamos `Color` como apelido para `byte`.
- Definimos uma estrutura `Box` que tem os campos height (altura), width (largura), length (comprimento) e color (cor).
- Definimos uma estrutura `BoxList` que tem `Box` como seu campo.
Então, definimos alguns métodos para os nossos tipos customizados.
- Volume() usa Box como seu receptor e retorna o volume de Box.
- SetColor(c Color) muda a cor de Box.
- BiggestsColor() retorna a cor que possui o maior volume.
- PaintItBlack() define as cores das Box em BoxList para preto.
- String() usa Color como seu receptor e retorna a palavra formatada do nome da cor.
É muito mais claro quando usamos palavras para descrever nosso requisitos? Frequentemente escrevemos nossos requisitos antes de começar a programar.
### Usando ponteiro como receptor
Vamos dar uma olhada no método `SetColor`. Seu receptor é um ponteiro de Box. Sim, você pode usar `*Box` como um receptor. Por que usamos um ponteiro aqui? Porque queremos mudar as cores de Box neste método. Assim, se não usarmos um ponteiro, ele só mudará o valor dentro de um cópia de Box.
Se vemos que um receptor é o primeiro argumento de um método, não é difícil entender como ele funciona.
Você deve estar perguntando por que não estamos usando `(*b).Color=c` em vez de `b.Color=c` no método SetColor(). Qualquer um está OK aqui porque GO sabe como interpretar a atribuição. Você acha que Go é mais fascinante agora?
Você também deve estar se perguntando se devemos usar `(&bl[i]).SetColor(BLACK)` em `PaintItBlack` porque passamos um ponteiro para `SetColor`. Novamente, qualquer um está OK porque Go sabe como interpretá-lo!
### Herança do Método
Aprendemos sobre herança de campos na última seção. Similarmente, também temos herança de método em Go. Se um campo anônimo tiver métodos, então a estrutura que contém o campo terá todos os métodos dele também.
package main
import "fmt"
type Human struct {
name string
age int
phone string
}
type Student struct {
Human // campo anônimo
school string
}
type Employee struct {
Human
company string
}
// define um método em Human
func (h *Human) SayHi() {
fmt.Printf("Hi, I am %s you can call me on %s\n", h.name, h.phone)
}
func main() {
mark := Student{Human{"Mark", 25, "222-222-YYYY"}, "MIT"}
sam := Employee{Human{"Sam", 45, "111-888-XXXX"}, "Golang Inc"}
mark.SayHi()
sam.SayHi()
}
### Sobrecarga de Método
Se quisermos que Employee tenha seu próprio método `SayHi`, podemos definir um método com o mesmo nome em Employee, e ele irá sobrescrever `SayHi` em Human quando nós o chamarmos.
package main
import "fmt"
type Human struct {
name string
age int
phone string
}
type Student struct {
Human
school string
}
type Employee struct {
Human
company string
}
func (h *Human) SayHi() {
fmt.Printf("Hi, I am %s you can call me on %s\n", h.name, h.phone)
}
func (e *Employee) SayHi() {
fmt.Printf("Hi, I am %s, I work at %s. Call me on %s\n", e.name,
e.company, e.phone) //Sim, você pode dividir em 2 linhas aqui.
}
func main() {
mark := Student{Human{"Mark", 25, "222-222-YYYY"}, "MIT"}
sam := Employee{Human{"Sam", 45, "111-888-XXXX"}, "Golang Inc"}
mark.SayHi()
sam.SayHi()
}
Você é capaz de escrever um programa Orientado a Objetos agora, e os métodos usam a regra de capital letter (letra maiúscula) para decidir se é público ou privado também.
## Links
- [Sumário](preface.md)
- Seção Anterior: [Estrutura](02.4.md)
- Próxima Seção: [Interface](02.6.md)
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import {PolymerElement} from '@polymer/polymer/polymer-element.js';
import {html} from '@polymer/polymer/lib/utils/html-tag.js';
class TemplateScalabilityView extends PolymerElement {
static get is() {
return 'template-scalability-view';
}
static get template() {
return html`
<style include="shared-styles">
:host {
display: block;
}
</style>
<div id="content">
</div>
`;
}
}
customElements.define(TemplateScalabilityView.is, TemplateScalabilityView);
|
There exists a fundamental gap in understanding how CD8+ T cells, which target intracellular pathogens, protect against pathogens like Yersinia, which exist extracellularly. The candidate's long-term scientific goal is to understand mechanisms used by CD8+ T cells to recognize and eliminate Yersinia and mechanisms used by the bacteria to evade immune recognition and clearance. The objective of proposed research is to determine how T cell- and bacterial-induced apoptosis influences Yersinia infection outcomes. The central hypothesis is that the pro-apoptotic factors expressed by host and pathogen, specifically perforin from CD8+ T cells and YopJ from Yersinia, limit bacterial infection by inducing apoptosis of Yersinia-associated host cells and flagging them for phagocytic removal. Guided by strong preliminary data, two specific aims will test this hypothesis: 1) determine the contribution of perforin to CD8+ T cell-mediated elimination of host cell-associated Yersinia; and 2) determine how modulation of apoptosis by genetic or chemical manipulation influences Yersinia infection. Under the first aim, Yersinia challenge of mice with perforin-sufficient or -deficient antigen-specific CD8+ T cells will address if perforin-mediated apoptosis is required for CD8+ T cell-dependent protection. In the second aim, the consequence of genetic or chemical manipulation of apoptosis in vivo for Yersinia infection will be examined. The approach is innovative, because it manipulates both host and pathogen processes to reveal host-protective actions. The proposed work is significant, because it will advance understanding of host responses to Yersinia and suggest ways to improve current vaccines to maximally stimulate Yersinia-specific protective immunity. This work will also provide a foundation for establishing the candidate's independent research program. The candidate's immediate career goal is to successfully transition from postdoctoral fellow to assistant professor and independent researcher studying host responses to Yersinia. Her long-term career goal is to direct an independent and prolific research program studying host-pathogen interactions as tenured faculty at a leading academic institution. To achieve these goals, in addition to executing the research described above, the candidate will utilize a mentoring committee of established scientists to help develop the candidate's research program to its full potential, to speed the candidate's progression towards publication of the research, and hone the candidate's grantsmanship skills. Thus, the proposed research and career development plans fulfill the NIAID's mission to identify mechanisms of infectious agent pathogenesis and protective host responses and to support junior investigators at early stages of their careers. The proposed studies focus on important and under-investigated areas of cell-mediated immune responses to the bacteria pathogen Yersinia. They have the potential to reveal novel mechanisms of host resistance to infection. The proposed research has relevance to human health, because it will yield information that can be used to improve vaccines and other treatment strategies against pathogens like Yersinia, with the goal of protecting hosts and preventing disease. |
Ousseni Labo
Ousseni Labo (born June 11, 1982 in Lomé) is a Togolese footballer, who currently plays for VfL Wolbeck.
Career
Labo played formerly for FC Eintracht Rheine in the Oberliga Westfalen, he left the team on 15 May 2008. Labo formerly played for SC Verl, SV Davaria Davensberg, GW Gelmer, ESV Münster and FC Modèle da Lomé. On 4 February 2009, he signed a contract with Rot-Weiss Ahlen to play in the reserve team, but after only a half year returned to SV Davaria Davensberg in July 2009.
Position
He currently plays as Left Midfielder. Formerly, he played Left Back in Lomé, and as striker in his last club.
International career
Labo played his first game on 22 August 2007 against Zambia, appearing as substitute in minute 60.
Coaching career
He worked two years as youth coach for ESV Münster, now as U19 Assistant Coach for ESV Münster.
References
External links
Ousseni Labo's Official Website
Category:1982 births
Category:Living people
Category:Sportspeople from Lomé
Category:Togolese footballers
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Q:
Проблема с веб приложением Java, Spring Boot
Имеется Spring boot веб приложение. При запуске с IntelliJ Idea сервер стартует, все работает нормально. После сборки проекта через Maven сервер запускается, но при заходе через браузер выдает ошибку. В консоле пишет что не удается найти указанный шаблон. Думаю, вся проблема в пути к файлу шаблона. Но как правильно поправить не знаю. Вот контроллер начальной страницы.
@RequestMapping({"/persons","/","/index"})
public String getAllPersons(Model model) throws NotFoundException {
model.addAttribute(PERSONS, personService.findAll());
log.debug("I'm at getAllPersons");
return "/index";
}
A:
Вы возвращаете URL, когда должны вернуть имя вашего шаблона. Скорее всего, он называется index. Исправьте это в поле return и все должно заработать.
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Usefulness of PFA-100 testing in the diagnostic screening of patients with suspected abnormalities of hemostasis: comparison with the bleeding time.
Global tests of hemostasis that are used to screen patients with clinical suspicion of bleeding disorders should help the physician to identify the phase of the hemostatic system that is abnormal and guide further diagnostic workup. We compared the performance of Platelet Function Analyzer-100 (PFA-100) closure time (CT) with bleeding time (BT), both of which are screening tests for primary hemostasis, in the diagnostic workup of 128 consecutive patients who were screened for bleeding disorders. The sensitivities of BT and PFA-100 CT for known defects of hemostasis were evaluated; in addition, we calculated their correlation with the levels of severity of the bleeding symptoms, which were recorded using a standardized questionnaire. The sensitivity of PFA-100 testing was 71% for von Willebrand disease (VWD) [with both collagen-adenosine diphosphate (C-ADP) and collagen-epinephrine (C-EPI) cartridges]; 58% (C-EPI) and 8% (C-ADP) for platelet function disorders (PFDs); and the sensitivity of BT was 29% (VWD) and 33% (PFD). C-EPI CT was also prolonged in about 20% of patients with abnormalities of coagulation or fibrinolysis. Only the C-EPI CT was significantly associated with the levels of severity of the patients' bleeding scores. BT and C-EPI are insufficiently sensitive to be recommended as hemostasis screening tests. The C-ADP cartridge, which is sensitive to VWD only, might prove useful in further diagnostic workup of defects of primary hemostasis. The association of C-EPI CT with the severity of bleeding symptoms as a useful predictor of risk of bleeding in clinical practise should be tested in properly designed studies. |
OK.
So we have this really big group of living things that exist on earth. To
divide them up, we first put them into one of five KINGDOMS. Here they are,
with their defining characteristics & some examples.(you should
memorize this)
Yes, I know it
looks like a lot to remember. But who said this wasn't going to require you to
WORK ? Here are a couple generalizations that may help you keep some of that
table straight :
1)
only 1 Kingdom has organisms that are prokaryotic (the Moneran Kingdom)2) For the most
part, any organism that is unicellular & eukaryotic is a Protist
(one exception is YEAST, a unicellular fungus)3) Fungi have the
same characteristics as Plants except that Fungi are heterotrophic & Plants
are autotrophic, and their cell walls are different4) Animals are the
only motile multicellular group5) Most of the
autotrophic organism we study have chlorophyll which gives them a greenish
appearance. So being "green" is an important clue --- it indicates
they are autotrophic (ex: blue-green algae, algae, plants).
So, how are you doing ? Shall we
try some questions to see how much of that 'Kingdom Table' has stuck to your
brain ? Good idea. Let's play ...
WHAT KINGDOM IS IT ?!
For
each description or example, name the kingdom it belongs in. Your choices are :
animal,
plant, fungi, protist or moneran. Jot down all your answers & then look at the answers.
If
you got 7 or more of those right I'd say you're ready to go on. If not, study
the table more & try the questions a second time (just a suggestion).In any case, we need
to take a closer look inside each kingdom at some of the important
"phyla". A phylum is the first subgroup within a kingdom. I've
outlines the "more important" phyla of each kingdom in the next table
& given some examples too.
KINGDOM
PHYLUM
CHARACTERISTICS
EXAMPLE(S)
MONERA
blue-green algae
autotrophic
blue-green algae
bacteria
heterotrophic
StreptococcusStaphylococcus
PROTIST
algae(plant-like)
autotrophic
"sea
weeds"diatomsSpirogyra
protozoa(animal-like)
heterotrophic
AmebaParamecium
FUNGI
the
thing to remember about this kingdom is that most are multicellular
(mushrooms, molds, mildew) and a few are unicellular (yeast). don't worry
about specific phyla names. :)
PLANTS
bryophyte
nonvascular plants
(small & simple)
mossesliverworts
tracheophyte
vascular plants
treesflowering
plantsferns
ANIMAL
coelenterates
tentacleshollow body
cavity
hydrajellyfish
annelids
worms with segmented
bodies
earthworm
arthropods
exoskeletonsjointed legs
grasshopperslobstersspiders
chordates
have a notochord (nerve
chord) & usually a backbone
humans & other
mammalsbirdsreptilesamphibians fish
Yeah, I know, looks like alot
more stuff to remember. If you haven't noticed yet, this course requires
studying. No way around it. So study the table a little & try these KINGDOM
REVIEW QUESTIONS :1) The presence
of vascular tissue for transporting liquids is characteristic of :A. fernsB. mossesC. slime moldsD. algae
4) Euglena
is a eukaryotic single-celled organism that possesses chlorophyll but has no
cell wall. It also has a mouth & swims using a structure called a
flagellum. It is most reasonable to classify Euglena as a :A. plantB. animalC. protistD. blue-green algae
4)A. plant -
multicellularB. animal -
multicellularC.
protist - since it is "unicellular" it has to be either a moneran or
a protist, since its "eukaryotic" Euglena is classified as a
protistD. blue-green
algae - unicellular but prokaryotic (a MONERAN) |
This invention relates in general to continuous casting of thin metal strip by a twin roll caster.
In a twin roll caster molten metal is introduced between a pair of counter-rotated horizontal casting rolls that are cooled so that metal shells solidify on the moving roll surfaces, and are brought together at a nip between them to produce a solidified strip product delivered downwardly from the nip between the rolls. The term “nip” is used herein to refer to the general region at which the rolls are closest together. The molten metal may be poured from a ladle into a smaller vessel or series of smaller vessels from which it flows through a metal delivery nozzle or series of delivery nozzles (also called the “core nozzles”) located above the nip, forming a casting pool of molten metal supported on the casting surfaces of the rolls immediately above the nip and extending along the length of the nip. This casting pool is usually confined between side plates or dams held in sliding engagement with end surfaces of the casting rolls so as to dam the two ends of the casting pool against outflow.
Further, the twin roll caster may be capable of continuously producing cast strip from molten steel through a sequence of ladles. Pouring the molten metal from the ladle into a smaller vessel before flowing through the metal delivery nozzle enables the exchange of an empty ladle with a full ladle without disrupting the production of cast strip.
During operation, the metal flow rate and molten metal temperature in the area where the side dams, casting rolls and meniscus of the casting pool intersect, i.e. the “triple point” area or region, is controlled. Notably, the distance between the side dams and the ends of the delivery nozzles nearest the side dams should be controlled and maintained to prevent the formation of unwanted steels skulls either on the side dam or delivery nozzle.
Apparatus and method for controlling and maintaining a set distance between the outer ends of the delivery nozzles and the side dams during a campaign is disclosed in U.S. Pat. Nos. 6,910,523, 6,588,492, 7,147,035. The apparatus and method disclosed has a carriage assembly for commonly supporting the side dams and nearest delivery nozzles to maintain distance between the side dams and ends of the delivery nozzles at a set distance with wear of the side dams. The delivery nozzles could be moved relative to the side dams by the carriage assembly. The movement also involved simultaneously moving of both delivery nozzle and the adjacent side dam to maintain the distance between the side dam and end of the delivery nozzle. This movement affects the side dam force and thus side dam wear. Further, the movement of the side dam by the support to compensate for wear of the side dam required repositioning of the delivery nozzle to maintain the distance between the side dam and the end of the nearest delivery nozzle.
Solidified skulls may form from time to time on the side dam and also the delivery nozzle when the distance between the side dam and nozzle is not maintained. Additionally, skull formation is affected by flow patterns within the casting pool and temperature variations in the casting rolls and side dams. When these skulls drop into the roll nip, they cause the two solidifying shells at the casting roll nip to separate and “swallow” additional liquid steel between the shells causing the strip surface to reheat and causing the strip to break thus disrupting the continuous production of coiled strip. The dropped skulls at the nip are known as “snake eggs” and are detected as horizontal force spikes at the roll nip as well as visible bright bands across the width of the strip. Snake eggs also apply resistive forces against the side dam in addition to the forces generated by the ferrostatic head in the cast pool and can thus cause the side dam to lift from the casting roll edge resulting in the leakage of steel between the side dam and the casting roll necessitating termination of the casting sequence. Additionally, snake eggs passing through the nip between the casting rolls can cause lateral movement of the casting rolls and also cause movement in the side dams. To resist the increased forces generated by the snake eggs and the stiction of the side dam apply cylinders, the side dams are typically applied to the casting rolls with higher forces, thus increasing side dam wear.
We have found that improved flow within the molten pool and a reduction of skulls can be achieved by utilizing side dams with an improved shape during a casting campaign. The improved side dams have been found to allow for improved flow patterns within the casting pool and improved temperature control of the side dams. Improved flow patterns and temperature control, especially in the triple point pouring region, has led to a reduction in the occurrence of skulls and the incidence of snake eggs.
Disclosed is an apparatus for continuously casting metal strip which includes a pair of counter-rotatable casting rolls laterally positioned to form a nip there between through which thin strip can be cast, a pair of confining side dams adjacent the ends of the casting rolls capable of confining a casting pool of molten metal supported on the casting rolls and formed on the casting surfaces above the nip, each side dam has a surface capable of contacting the molten metal of the casting pool, the surface including an unraised portion and a raised portion with the unraised portion forming a base between the raised portion of the side dam and the casting surfaces of the casting rolls to guide the flow of molten metal, a metal delivery system disposed above the nip and capable of discharging molten metal to form the casting pool supported on the casting rolls.
The raised portion may form a trough of substantially constant width with the unraised portion as base between the raised portion and the casting rolls or a trough of substantially varying width with the unraised portion as base between the raised portion and the casting rolls. In the case of a varying width trough, the trough width may be greater toward the meniscus and less toward the nip. The trough width may vary by at least about 5 mm or by at least no more than about 25 mm. In any case, the width of the trough may be between about 5 mm and about 25 mm. The raised portion may extend in height from the unraised portion forming a trough at least about 3 mm or about 15 mm or less in depth. The troughs may extend in length from the tops of the side dams and may extend to the nip.
Also disclosed is a method of continuously casting metal strip which includes the steps of assembling a pair of counter-rotatable casting rolls to form a nip there between through which thin strip can be cast, assembling a pair of confining side dams adjacent the ends of the casting rolls capable of confining a casting pool of molten metal supported on the casting rolls and formed on the casting surfaces above the nip, each side dam has a surface capable of contacting the molten metal of the casting pool, the surface including an unraised portion and a raised portion with the unraised portion forming a base between the raised portion of the side dam and the casting surfaces of the casting rolls to guide the flow of molten metal, assembling a metal delivery system disposed above the nip and capable of discharging molten metal to form the casting pool supported on the casting rolls and counter rotating the casting rolls so as to cause the formed troughs to guide the flow of molten metal adjacent the casting surfaces of the casting rolls to form solidified shells of the casting surfaces and form cast strip discharging downwardly from the nip.
The raised portion may form a trough of substantially constant width with the unraised portion as base between the raised portion and the casting rolls or a trough of substantially varying width with the unraised portion as base between the raised portion and the casting rolls. In the case of a varying width trough the trough width may be greater toward the meniscus and less toward the nip. The trough width may vary by at least about 5 mm or by at least no more than about 25 mm. In any case, the width of the trough may be between about 5 mm and about 25 mm. The raised portion may extend in height from the unraised portion forming a trough at least about 3 mm or about 15 mm or less in depth. The troughs may extend in length from the tops of the side dams and may extend to the nip.
Various aspects of this invention will become apparent from the following detailed description and accompanying drawings. |
Q:
How to properly test with mocks Akka actors in Java?
I'm very new with Akka and I'm trying to write some unit tests in Java. Consider the following actor:
public class Worker extends UntypedActor {
@Override
public void onReceive(Object message) throws Exception {
if (message instanceof Work) {
Work work = (Work) message;
Result result = new Helper().processWork(work);
getSender().tell(result, getSelf());
} else {
unhandled(message);
}
}
}
What is the proper way to intercept the call new Helper().processWork(work)? On a side note, is there any recommended way to achieve dependency injection within Akka actors with Java?
Thanks in advance.
A:
Your code is already properly testable:
you can test your business logic separately, since you can just instantiate your Helper outside of the actor
once you are sure that the Helper does what it is supposed to do, just send some inputs to the actor and observe that the right replies come back
Now if you need to have a “mocked” Worker to test some other component, just don’t use a Worker at all, use a TestProbe instead. Where you would normally get the ActorRef of the Worker, just inject probe.getRef().
So, how to inject that?
I’ll assume that your other component is an Actor (because otherwise you won’t have trouble applying whatever injection technique you normally use). Then there are three basic choices:
pass it in as constructor argument
send it within a message
if the actor creates the ref as its child, pass in the Props, possibly in an alternative constructor
The third case is probably what you are looking at (I’m guessing based on the actor class’ name):
public class MyParent extends UntypedActor {
final Props workerProps;
public MyParent() {
workerProps = new Props(...);
}
public MyParent(Props p) {
workerProps = p;
}
...
getContext().actorOf(workerProps, "worker");
}
And then you can inject a TestProbe like this:
final TestProbe probe = new TestProbe(system);
final Props workerMock = new Props(new UntypedActorFactory() {
public UntypedActor create() {
return new UntypedActor() {
@Override
public void onReceive(Object msg) {
probe.getRef().tell(msg, getSender());
}
};
}
});
final ActorRef parent = system.actorOf(new Props(new UntypedActorFactory() {
public UntypedActor create() {
return new MyParent(workerMock);
}
}), "parent");
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Communication between physicians and nurses as a target for improving end-of-life care in the intensive care unit: challenges and opportunities for moving forward.
Our objective was to discuss obstacles and barriers to effective communication and collaboration regarding end-of-life issues between intensive care unit nurses and physicians. To evaluate practical interventions for improving communication and collaboration, we undertook a systematic literature review. An increase in shared decision making can result from a better understanding and respect for the perspectives and burdens felt by other caregivers. Intensive care unit nurses value their contributions to end-of-life decision making and want to have a more active role. Increased collaboration and communication can result in more appropriate care and increased physician/nurse, patient, and family satisfaction. Recommendations for improvement in communication between intensive care unit physicians and nurses include use of joint grand rounds, patient care seminars, and interprofessional dialogues. Communication interventions such as use of daily rounds forms, communication training, and a collaborative practice model have shown positive results. When communication is clear and constructive and practice is truly collaborative, the end-of-life care provided to intensive care unit patients and families by satisfied and engaged professionals will improve markedly. |
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Jean-Pierre Serre (French: [sɛʁ]; born 15
September 1926) is a French mathematician
who has made contributions to algebraic topology,
algebraic geometry, and algebraic number theory.
He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1954 and
the inaugural Abel Prize in 2003.
== Biography ==
===
Personal life ===
Born in Bages, Pyrénées-Orientales, France,
to pharmacist parents, Serre was educated
at the Lycée de Nîmes and then from 1945
to 1948 at the École Normale Supérieure
in Paris. He was awarded his doctorate from
the Sorbonne in 1951. From 1948 to 1954 he
held positions at the Centre National de la
Recherche Scientifique in Paris. In 1956 he
was elected professor at the Collège de France,
a position he held until his retirement in
1994. His wife, Professor Josiane Heulot-Serre,
was a chemist; she also was the director of
the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Jeunes Filles.
Their daughter is the former French diplomat,
historian and writer Claudine Monteil. The
French mathematician Denis Serre is his nephew.
He practices skiing, table tennis, and rock
climbing (in Fontainebleau).
=== Career ===
From a very young age he was an outstanding
figure in the school of Henri Cartan, working
on algebraic topology, several complex variables
and then commutative algebra and algebraic
geometry, where he introduced sheaf theory
and homological algebra techniques. Serre's
thesis concerned the Leray–Serre spectral
sequence associated to a fibration. Together
with Cartan, Serre established the technique
of using Eilenberg–MacLane spaces for computing
homotopy groups of spheres, which at that
time was one of the major problems in topology.
In his speech at the Fields Medal award ceremony
in 1954, Hermann Weyl gave high praise to
Serre, and also made the point that the award
was for the first time awarded to a non-analyst.
Serre subsequently changed his research focus.
==== Algebraic geometry ====
In the 1950s and 1960s, a fruitful collaboration
between Serre and the two-years-younger Alexander
Grothendieck led to important foundational
work, much of it motivated by the Weil conjectures.
Two major foundational papers by Serre were
Faisceaux Algébriques Cohérents (FAC), on
coherent cohomology, and Géometrie Algébrique
et Géométrie Analytique (GAGA).Even at an
early stage in his work Serre had perceived
a need to construct more general and refined
cohomology theories to tackle the Weil conjectures.
The problem was that the cohomology of a coherent
sheaf over a finite field couldn't capture
as much topology as singular cohomology with
integer coefficients. Amongst Serre's early
candidate theories of 1954–55 was one based
on Witt vector coefficients.
Around 1958 Serre suggested that isotrivial
principal bundles on algebraic varieties – those
that become trivial after pullback by a finite
étale map – are important. This acted as
one important source of inspiration for Grothendieck
to develop étale topology and the corresponding
theory of étale cohomology. These tools,
developed in full by Grothendieck and collaborators
in Séminaire de géométrie algébrique (SGA)
4 and SGA 5, provided the tools for the eventual
proof of the Weil conjectures by Pierre Deligne.
==== Other work ====
From 1959 onward Serre's interests turned
towards group theory, number theory, in particular
Galois representations and modular forms.
Amongst his most original contributions were:
his "Conjecture II" (still open) on Galois
cohomology; his use of group actions on trees
(with Hyman Bass); the Borel–Serre compactification;
results on the number of points of curves
over finite fields; Galois representations
in ℓ-adic cohomology and the proof that
these representations have often a "large"
image; the concept of p-adic modular form;
and the Serre conjecture (now a theorem) on
mod-p representations that made Fermat's last
theorem a connected part of mainstream arithmetic
geometry.
In his paper FAC, Serre asked whether a finitely
generated projective module over a polynomial
ring is free. This question led to a great
deal of activity in commutative algebra, and
was finally answered in the affirmative by
Daniel Quillen and Andrei Suslin independently
in 1976. This result is now known as the Quillen–Suslin
theorem.
== Honors and awards ==
Serre, at twenty-seven in 1954, is the youngest
ever to be awarded the Fields Medal. He went
on to win the Balzan Prize in 1985, the Steele
Prize in 1995, the Wolf Prize in Mathematics
in 2000, and was the first recipient of the
Abel Prize in 2003. He has been awarded other
prizes, such as the Gold Medal of the French
National Scientific Research Centre (Centre
National de la Recherche Scientifique, CNRS).
He is a foreign member of several scientific
Academies (France, US, Norway, Sweden, Russia,
the Royal Society, Royal Netherlands Academy
of Arts and Sciences (1978)) and has received
many honorary degrees (from Cambridge, Oxford,
Harvard, and others). In 2012 he became a
fellow of the American Mathematical Society.Serre
has been awarded the highest honors in France
as Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour (Grand
Croix de la Légion d'Honneur) and Grand Cross
of the Legion of Merit (Grand Croix de l'Ordre
National du Mérite).
== See also ==
List of things named after Jean-Pierre Serre
Nicolas Bourbaki
== Bibliography ==
Groupes Algébriques et Corps de Classes (1959),
Hermann, translated into English as Algebraic
Groups and Class Fields (1988), Springer-Verlag
Corps Locaux (1962), Hermann, as Local Fields
(1980), Springer-Verlag
Cohomologie Galoisienne (1964) Collège de
France course 1962–63, as Galois Cohomology
(1997), Springer-Verlag
Algèbre Locale, Multiplicités (1965) Collège
de France course 1957–58, as Local Algebra
(2000), Springer-Verlag
"Lie algebras and Lie groups" (1965) Harvard
Lectures, Springer-Verlag.
Algèbres de Lie Semi-simples Complexes (1966),
as Complex Semisimple Lie Algebras (1987),
Springer-Verlag
Abelian ℓ-Adic Representations and Elliptic
Curves (1968), CRC Press, reissue. Addison-Wesley.
1989.
Cours d'arithmétique (1970), PUF, as A Course
in Arithmetic (1973), Springer-Verlag
Représentations linéaires des groupes finis
(1971), Hermann, as Linear Representations
of Finite Groups (1977), Springer-Verlag
Arbres, amalgames, SL2 (1977), SMF, as Trees
(1980), Springer-Verlag
Oeuvres/Collected Papers in four volumes (1986)
Vol. IV in 2000, Springer-Verlag
Lectures on the Mordell-Weil Theorem (1990),
Vieweg
Topics in Galois Theory (1992), CRC Press
"Cohomological Invariants in Galois Cohomology
(2003) with Skip Garibaldi and Alexander Merkurjev,
AMS
"Exposés de séminaires 1950–1999" (2001),
SMF
Grothendieck–Serre Correspondence (2003),
bilingual edition, edited with Pierre Colmez,
SMF-AMS
"Lectures on N_X(p)" (2012), AK Peters, CRC
Press
Correspondance Serre-Tate (2015), edited with
Pierre Colmez, SMF
"Finite Groups: an Introduction" (2016), Higher
Education Press & International PressA list
of corrections, and updating, of these books
can be found on his home page at College de
France.
== Notes ==
== External links ==
O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Jean-Pierre
Serre", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive,
University of St Andrews.
Jean-Pierre Serre at the Mathematics Genealogy
Project
Jean-Pierre Serre, Collège de France, biography
and publications.
Jean-Pierre Serre at the French Academy of
Sciences, in French.
Interview with Jean-Pierre Serre in Notices
of the American Mathematical Society.
An Interview with Jean-Pierre Serre by C.T.
Chong and Y.K. Leong, National University
of Singapore.
How to write mathematics badly a public lecture
by Jean-Pierre Serre on writing mathematics.
Biographical page (in French)
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Mike Farley didn’t complain on the way to the emergency room the morning of March 19. He joked.
And he called his younger brother, Phil, waking him.
“He had this really great sense of humor, dark humor. He was always quick with a pun. Some were terrible; some were great,” Phil Farley said. “When I talked to him for the last time, he said, ‘Well, it looks like you’re gonna have to clean up after me.’”
“I wish I would have replied quick enough to say, ‘Oh, does that mean I get your liquor cabinet?’” Phil Farley added.
Swedish Medical Center admitted Farley that day with a fever and a persistent cough. His wife of 59 years, Nancy, said he panicked. Not because of the illness but because he hadn’t finished the book he had been reading.
“He had me bring him several books so he would not be without a book in his hand,” Nancy Farley said.
On Monday, March 23, Mike Farley died, one of Colorado’s 51 reported deaths from COVID-19, the respiratory illness caused by the coronavirus. He was 87.
Farley’s family rallied. Their close bond kept them strong through his illness and it keeps them strong in his absence. But they mourn for their lost brother, husband and father while urging others in Colorado and across the country to take the virus seriously.
Even at a recent, virtual wake for Farley, the jokes continued.
“The best line was from my cousin who said, ‘I think this is the first wake I’ve been to where you don’t have to have your pants on,’” said Mike Farley’s daughter, Maggie Farley.
But for all the laughter, his work was serious business. He spent decades as an estate attorney in Denver and as an advocate for racial equality, his family said. He was also a strong proponent of providing housing for low-income families, serving as a founding board member for the Archdiocesan Housing Committee.
He was a principled man, even in the face of adversity. Maggie Farley, who lives in Maryland with her husband and children, said some opposed her father’s campaign for affordable housing so strongly that they threatened his life. But still he carried on because it was the right thing to do.
“He was an Irishman first of all. That means he had a stubborn streak. And he told jokes but they were mostly bad jokes,” Nancy Farley said.
Mike Farley was also a lifelong Democrat, a voracious reader and a family man with a love of life, she added.
“He loved to travel and wanted to see the world,” Nancy Farley said. “He was very outgoing, social … and he just liked to be in conversation with people.”
He didn’t hold a grudge.
Phil Farley recalled the time he borrowed his older brother’s 1955 black Ford and returned it with a damaged transmission.
“It had overdrive, which allows it to coast really easily and you don’t have any of that engine compression slowing you down. You could go as fast as you want,” Phil Farley said. “He didn’t loan me his car again, but he certainly forgave me.”
The family shares fond memories of Farley, laughing often and uplifting one another. Quarantines among different family members aren’t enough to keep them from chatting with one another online.
While communicating with her hospitalized father was difficult, if not impossible, Maggie Farley said one nurse took it upon herself to connect the family as Mike Farley’s time drew near.
“She called us all with her own phone and she let us listen to the last rites and we all got to say our goodbyes,” Maggie Farley said. “That was amazing. We’re just so grateful to her.”
It’s vital that Americans take the coronavirus threat seriously and work to cut its transmission however they can, Nancy Farley said.
“It’s important for us, no matter what our political views are, to rise above all that divide and realize that we’re all so vulnerable,” she said. |
I have gushed and gushed and waited in anticipation
for this wedding for many months now! Ever since I met Sophia in my college poetry class five years ago, I knew we were kindred spirits, cut from the same cloth. We were both foodies and had a very strong Mediterranean-style upbringing, her Greek and me Italian. Little did I know that one day I would get the honor of not only sharing in her wedding day, but I would be shooting it! These two are so special to me, and their love, with all of it's quirkiness, is the kind of thing fairytales are made of. Get ready for tons of beautiful details and lots and lots of emotions...I did mention this was a Greek wedding right.. :)
Aren't their rings awesome? So much history and character.
As soon as I saw Mitch's ring, I just had a feeling it had a lot of love in it, come to find out, it was his father's wedding band for many years and they had it inscribed with the words, "Strong is your hold" love it!
Loving the artichoke in her bouquet.
Tonia, her sister and MOH does wonders with makeup, and of course she used my favorite line, MAC :)
A recreation of a old family photo, groom on the right.
Lookin good Mitch
Loving the bouts..scabiosa pods are so cool!
Dad's first look...always a favorite
Oh Sophia...you are so stunning!
I love this church, not only is is beautiful, but the people and the heart inside just makes you feel welcomed..as a church should be.
Adorable..
Joining of the hands-this represents the two becoming one in the eyes of God and the church.
The Crowning- this ritual symbolizes the couple receiving grace from God and are crowned with virtue and holiness.
Married at last!!
I am pretty sure people kill people for hair like this..just sayin'
Love
Workin' it like pros!
Each table was designated by a different poet and a quote from each was in the middle.
Love Calls Us to the Things of This World
"Outside the open window
The morning air is all awash with angels"
Richard Wilbur
A former student of Sophia's and a classmate of mine made these wonderful (and one-of-a-kind) watercolors for the name cards and yours truly wrote the calligraphy :)
How cool is this guest book? It is meant to look like a bunch of library book slips.
My favorite favors..Jordan Almonds
I am in love with this book. I am not sure the exact way to do this but all it is is the pages of the book being folded down smaller and bigger.
Like I mentioned on Monday's preview, Mitch and Sophia got married on her parent's 50th wedding anniversary, isn't that amazing! So, being the awesome person that she is, Sophia put together a surprise for her parents to celebrate their anniversary as well!
All of these speeches were so wonderful and I wish you could hear them because they were the best collection to date that I have listened to. Her bridesmaid and good friend Kathryn wrote the most amazing poem about them, I almost cried.
And don't get me started on her father George..such a sweet man..with three daughters and a wife, this man deserves a trophy! Both her parents raised amazing women!
Haha, the glasses were for reciting one of their very first poems that Tonia wrote about Sophia when they were young, again, I wish you could hear it.
Yep, this is the cutest ring bearer on the planet.. I didn't even tell him how to pose, he's just a natural.
I love this idea of having another cake cutting ceremony on your anniversary.
Tasso came all the way from Greece to be there and we did not let his dancing skills go to waste. He led the entire crowd in some pretty sweet traditional Greek dancing!
Even George had his own little solo dance, gotta love it when Dad's can cut a rug!
What a magical night for the two of them and for their families and in such an awesome location. So much love surrounded this night and I had a blast! |
Comparison of mouse hepatic mitochondrial versus microsomal cytochromes P450 following TCDD treatment.
TCDD (2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin) induces cytochromes P450 (CYPs) such as CYP1A1 and CYP1A2 via activation of the aromatic hydrocarbon receptor (AHR). Herein we describe the TCDD-dependent enrichment of CYPs in liver microsomes and mitoplasts from C57BL/6J mice. TCDD-induced accumulation of CYP1A1 and CYP1A2 was observed in microsomes and mitoplasts after treatment with 15 microg TCDD/kg/d for 3d. While microsomal CYP1 proteins peaked at 1 week and diminished thereafter, mitoplast CYP1 proteins persisted 8 weeks at high levels. TCDD also induced microsomal CYP2A5, but not microsomal proteins immunoreactive to CYP2C11, CYP3A2 or CYP4A1 antibodies. Nevertheless, each of these proteins increased in mitoplasts following TCDD exposure. These results suggest that TCDD increases mitochondrial CYP immunoreactive proteins under the transcriptional control of the AHR, as well as CYPs that are not under AHR control. We speculate that such mitochondrial CYPs may be involved in the generation, or mitigation, of the well-known TCDD-inducible oxidative stress response. |
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package org.jooq;
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import static org.jooq.SQLDialect.CUBRID;
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import static org.jooq.SQLDialect.DERBY;
import static org.jooq.SQLDialect.FIREBIRD;
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import static org.jooq.SQLDialect.H2;
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import java.util.Collection;
import org.jooq.exception.DataAccessException;
/**
* A <code>SELECT</code> statement (model API).
* <p>
* This type is the model API representation of a {@link Select} statement,
* which can be mutated after creation. The advantage of this API compared to
* the DSL API is a more simple approach to writing dynamic SQL.
* <p>
* Instances can be created using {@link DSLContext#selectQuery()} and overloads.
*
* @author Lukas Eder
*/
@SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
public interface SelectQuery<R extends Record> extends Select<R>, ConditionProvider {
/**
* Add a list of select fields.
*
* @param fields
*/
@Support
void addSelect(SelectFieldOrAsterisk... fields);
/**
* Add a list of select fields.
*
* @param fields
*/
@Support
void addSelect(Collection<? extends SelectFieldOrAsterisk> fields);
/**
* Add "distinct" keyword to the select clause.
*/
@Support
void setDistinct(boolean distinct);
/**
* Add a PostgreSQL-specific <code>DISTINCT ON (fields...)</code> clause.
* <p>
* This also sets the <code>distinct</code> flag to <code>true</code>
*/
@Support({ H2, POSTGRES })
void addDistinctOn(SelectFieldOrAsterisk... fields);
/**
* Add a PostgreSQL-specific <code>DISTINCT ON (fields...)</code> clause.
* <p>
* This also sets the <code>distinct</code> flag to <code>true</code>
*/
@Support({ H2, POSTGRES })
void addDistinctOn(Collection<? extends SelectFieldOrAsterisk> fields);
/**
* Add <code>INTO</code> clause to the <code>SELECT</code> statement.
*/
@Support({ CUBRID, DERBY, H2, HSQLDB, MARIADB, MYSQL, POSTGRES, SQLITE })
void setInto(Table<?> table);
/**
* Add tables to the table product.
*
* @param from The added tables
*/
@Support
void addFrom(TableLike<?> from);
/**
* Add tables to the table product.
*
* @param from The added tables
*/
@Support
void addFrom(TableLike<?>... from);
/**
* Add tables to the table product.
*
* @param from The added tables
*/
@Support
void addFrom(Collection<? extends TableLike<?>> from);
/**
* Joins the existing table product to a new table using a condition,
* connecting them with each other with {@link Operator#AND}.
*
* @param table The joined table
* @param condition The joining condition
*/
@Support
void addJoin(TableLike<?> table, Condition condition);
/**
* Joins the existing table product to a new table using a condition,
* connecting them with each other with {@link Operator#AND}.
*
* @param table The joined table
* @param conditions The joining conditions
*/
@Support
void addJoin(TableLike<?> table, Condition... conditions);
/**
* Joins the existing table product to a new table using a condition,
* connecting them with each other with {@link Operator#AND}.
*
* @param table The joined table
* @param type The type of join
* @param condition The joining condition
*/
@Support
void addJoin(TableLike<?> table, JoinType type, Condition condition);
/**
* Joins the existing table product to a new table using a condition,
* connecting them with each other with {@link Operator#AND}.
*
* @param table The joined table
* @param type The type of join
* @param conditions The joining conditions
*/
@Support
void addJoin(TableLike<?> table, JoinType type, Condition... conditions);
/**
* Joins the existing table product to a new table with a <code>USING</code>
* clause.
* <p>
* If this is not supported by your RDBMS, then jOOQ will try to emulate
* this behaviour using the information provided in this query.
*
* @param table The joined table
* @param fields The fields for the <code>USING</code> clause
*/
@Support
void addJoinUsing(TableLike<?> table, Collection<? extends Field<?>> fields);
/**
* Joins the existing table product to a new table with a <code>USING</code>
* clause.
* <p>
* If this is not supported by your RDBMS, then jOOQ will try to emulate
* this behaviour using the information provided in this query.
*
* @param table The joined table
* @param type The type of join
* @param fields The fields for the <code>USING</code> clause
*/
@Support
void addJoinUsing(TableLike<?> table, JoinType type, Collection<? extends Field<?>> fields);
/**
* Joins the existing table product to a new table using a foreign key.
*
* @param table The joined table
* @param type The type of join
* @see TableOnStep#onKey(ForeignKey)
* @throws DataAccessException If there is no non-ambiguous key definition
* known to jOOQ
*/
@Support
void addJoinOnKey(TableLike<?> table, JoinType type) throws DataAccessException;
/**
* Joins the existing table product to a new table using a foreign key.
*
* @param table The joined table
* @param type The type of join
* @param keyFields The foreign key fields
* @see TableOnStep#onKey(ForeignKey)
* @throws DataAccessException If there is no non-ambiguous key definition
* known to jOOQ
*/
@Support
void addJoinOnKey(TableLike<?> table, JoinType type, TableField<?, ?>... keyFields) throws DataAccessException;
/**
* Joins the existing table product to a new table using a foreign key.
*
* @param table The joined table
* @param type The type of join
* @param key The foreign key
* @see TableOnStep#onKey(ForeignKey)
*/
@Support
void addJoinOnKey(TableLike<?> table, JoinType type, ForeignKey<?, ?> key);
/**
* Adds grouping fields.
* <p>
* Calling this with an empty argument list will result in an empty
* <code>GROUP BY ()</code> clause being rendered.
*
* @param fields The grouping fields
*/
@Support
void addGroupBy(GroupField... fields);
/**
* Adds grouping fields.
* <p>
* Calling this with an empty argument list will result in an empty
* <code>GROUP BY ()</code> clause being rendered.
*
* @param fields The grouping fields
*/
@Support
void addGroupBy(Collection<? extends GroupField> fields);
/**
* Adds a new condition to the having clause of the query, connecting it
* with each other with {@link Operator#AND}.
*
* @param condition The condition
*/
@Support
void addHaving(Condition condition);
/**
* Adds new conditions to the having clause of the query, connecting them
* with each other with {@link Operator#AND}.
*
* @param conditions The condition
*/
@Support
void addHaving(Condition... conditions);
/**
* Adds new conditions to the having clause of the query, connecting them
* with each other with {@link Operator#AND}.
*
* @param conditions The condition
*/
@Support
void addHaving(Collection<? extends Condition> conditions);
/**
* Adds a new condition to the having clause of query, connecting it with
* each other with <code>operator</code>.
*
* @param operator The operator to use to add the conditions to the existing
* conditions
* @param condition The condition
*/
@Support
void addHaving(Operator operator, Condition condition);
/**
* Adds new conditions to the having clause of query, connecting them with
* each other with <code>operator</code>.
*
* @param operator The operator to use to add the conditions to the existing
* conditions
* @param conditions The condition
*/
@Support
void addHaving(Operator operator, Condition... conditions);
/**
* Adds new conditions to the having clause of query, connecting them with
* each other with <code>operator</code>.
*
* @param operator The operator to use to add the conditions to the existing
* conditions
* @param conditions The condition
*/
@Support
void addHaving(Operator operator, Collection<? extends Condition> conditions);
/**
* Adds new window definitions to the window clause of the query.
*
* @param definitions The definitions
*/
@Support({ CUBRID, FIREBIRD, H2, MARIADB, MYSQL, POSTGRES, SQLITE })
void addWindow(WindowDefinition... definitions);
/**
* Adds new window definitions to the window clause of the query.
*
* @param definitions The definitions
*/
@Support({ CUBRID, FIREBIRD, H2, MARIADB, MYSQL, POSTGRES, SQLITE })
void addWindow(Collection<? extends WindowDefinition> definitions);
/**
* Adds a new condition to the qualify clause of the query, connecting it
* with each other with {@link Operator#AND}.
*
* @param condition The condition
*/
@Support({ H2 })
void addQualify(Condition condition);
/**
* Adds new conditions to the qualify clause of the query, connecting them
* with each other with {@link Operator#AND}.
*
* @param conditions The condition
*/
@Support({ H2 })
void addQualify(Condition... conditions);
/**
* Adds new conditions to the qualify clause of the query, connecting them
* with each other with {@link Operator#AND}.
*
* @param conditions The condition
*/
@Support({ H2 })
void addQualify(Collection<? extends Condition> conditions);
/**
* Adds a new condition to the qualify clause of query, connecting it with
* each other with <code>operator</code>.
*
* @param operator The operator to use to add the conditions to the existing
* conditions
* @param condition The condition
*/
@Support({ H2 })
void addQualify(Operator operator, Condition condition);
/**
* Adds new conditions to the qualify clause of query, connecting them with
* each other with <code>operator</code>.
*
* @param operator The operator to use to add the conditions to the existing
* conditions
* @param conditions The condition
*/
@Support({ H2 })
void addQualify(Operator operator, Condition... conditions);
/**
* Adds new conditions to the qualify clause of query, connecting them with
* each other with <code>operator</code>.
*
* @param operator The operator to use to add the conditions to the existing
* conditions
* @param conditions The condition
*/
@Support({ H2 })
void addQualify(Operator operator, Collection<? extends Condition> conditions);
/**
* Add an Oracle-style hint to the select clause.
* <p>
* Example: <code><pre>
* DSLContext create = DSL.using(configuration);
*
* create.select(field1, field2)
* .hint("/*+ALL_ROWS*/")
* .from(table1)
* .execute();
* </pre></code>
* <p>
* You can also use this clause for any other database, that accepts hints
* or options at the same syntactic location, e.g. for MySQL's
* <code>SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS</code> option: <code><pre>
* create.select(field1, field2)
* .hint("SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS")
* .from(table1)
* .fetch();
* </pre></code>
* <p>
* The outcome of such a query is this: <code><pre>
* SELECT [hint] field1, field2 FROM table1
* </pre></code>
* <p>
* For SQL Server style table hints, see {@link Table#with(String)}
*
* @see Table#with(String)
*/
@Support
void addHint(String hint);
/**
* Add a SQL Server-style query hint to the select clause.
* <p>
* Example: <code><pre>
* DSLContext create = DSL.using(configuration);
*
* create.select(field1, field2)
* .from(table1)
* .option("OPTION (OPTIMIZE FOR UNKNOWN)")
* .execute();
* </pre></code>
* <p>
* You can also use this clause for any other database, that accepts hints
* or options at the same syntactic location, e.g. for DB2's isolation clause: <code><pre>
* create.select(field1, field2)
* .from(table1)
* .option("WITH RR USE AND KEEP EXCLUSIVE LOCKS")
* .execute();
* </pre></code>
* <p>
* The outcome of such a query is this: <code><pre>
* SELECT field1, field2 FROM table1 [option]
* </pre></code>
* <p>
* For SQL Server style table hints, see {@link Table#with(String)}
*
* @see Table#with(String)
*/
@Support
void addOption(String option);
// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Methods from ConditionProvider, OrderProvider, LockProvider
// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
@Override
@Support
void addConditions(Condition condition);
@Override
@Support
void addConditions(Condition... conditions);
@Override
@Support
void addConditions(Collection<? extends Condition> conditions);
@Override
@Support
void addConditions(Operator operator, Condition condition);
@Override
@Support
void addConditions(Operator operator, Condition... conditions);
@Override
@Support
void addConditions(Operator operator, Collection<? extends Condition> conditions);
/**
* Adds ordering fields.
*
* @param fields The ordering fields
*/
@Support
void addOrderBy(OrderField<?>... fields);
/**
* Adds ordering fields.
*
* @param fields The ordering fields
*/
@Support
void addOrderBy(Collection<? extends OrderField<?>> fields);
/**
* Adds ordering fields.
* <p>
* Indexes start at <code>1</code> in SQL!
* <p>
* Note, you can use <code>addOrderBy(DSL.val(1).desc())</code> or
* <code>addOrderBy(DSL.literal(1).desc())</code> to apply descending
* ordering
*
* @param fieldIndexes The ordering fields
*/
@Support
void addOrderBy(int... fieldIndexes);
/**
* Adds seeking fields.
*
* @param fields The seeking fields
*/
@Support
void addSeekAfter(Field<?>... fields);
/**
* Adds seeking fields.
*
* @param fields The seeking fields
*/
@Support
void addSeekAfter(Collection<? extends Field<?>> fields);
/**
* Adds seeking fields.
*
* @param fields The seeking fields
* @deprecated - [#7461] - SEEK BEFORE is not implemented correctly
*/
@Deprecated
@Support
void addSeekBefore(Field<?>... fields);
/**
* Adds seeking fields.
*
* @param fields The seeking fields
* @deprecated - [#7461] - SEEK BEFORE is not implemented correctly
*/
@Deprecated
@Support
void addSeekBefore(Collection<? extends Field<?>> fields);
/**
* Add an <code>OFFSET</code> clause to the query.
* <p>
* If there is no <code>LIMIT .. OFFSET</code> or <code>TOP</code> clause in
* your RDBMS, or if your RDBMS does not natively support offsets, this is
* emulated with a <code>ROW_NUMBER()</code> window function and nested
* <code>SELECT</code> statements.
*/
@Support
void addOffset(int offset);
/**
* Add an <code>OFFSET</code> clause to the query.
* <p>
* If there is no <code>LIMIT .. OFFSET</code> or <code>TOP</code> clause in
* your RDBMS, or if your RDBMS does not natively support offsets, this is
* emulated with a <code>ROW_NUMBER()</code> window function and nested
* <code>SELECT</code> statements.
*/
@Support
void addOffset(Number offset);
/**
* Add an <code>OFFSET</code> clause to the query using a named parameter.
* <p>
* If there is no <code>LIMIT .. OFFSET</code> or <code>TOP</code> clause in
* your RDBMS, or if your RDBMS does not natively support offsets, this is
* emulated with a <code>ROW_NUMBER()</code> window function and nested
* <code>SELECT</code> statements.
*/
@Support
void addOffset(Param<? extends Number> offset);
/**
* Limit the results of this select.
* <p>
* This is the same as calling {@link #addLimit(int, int)} with offset = 0
*
* @param numberOfRows The number of rows to return
*/
@Support
void addLimit(int numberOfRows);
/**
* Limit the results of this select.
* <p>
* This is the same as calling {@link #addLimit(int, int)} with offset = 0
*
* @param numberOfRows The number of rows to return
*/
@Support
void addLimit(Number numberOfRows);
/**
* Limit the results of this select using named parameters.
* <p>
* Note that some dialects do not support bind values at all in
* <code>LIMIT</code> or <code>TOP</code> clauses!
* <p>
* If there is no <code>LIMIT</code> or <code>TOP</code> clause in your
* RDBMS, or the <code>LIMIT</code> or <code>TOP</code> clause does not
* support bind values, this may be emulated with a
* <code>ROW_NUMBER()</code> window function and nested <code>SELECT</code>
* statements.
* <p>
* This is the same as calling {@link #addLimit(int, int)} with offset = 0
*
* @param numberOfRows The number of rows to return
*/
@Support
void addLimit(Param<? extends Number> numberOfRows);
/**
* Limit the results of this select.
* <p>
* Note that some dialects do not support bind values at all in
* <code>LIMIT</code> or <code>TOP</code> clauses!
* <p>
* If there is no <code>LIMIT</code> or <code>TOP</code> clause in your
* RDBMS, or if your RDBMS does not natively support offsets, this is
* emulated with a <code>ROW_NUMBER()</code> window function and nested
* <code>SELECT</code> statements.
*
* @param offset The lowest offset starting at 0
* @param numberOfRows The number of rows to return
*/
@Support
void addLimit(int offset, int numberOfRows);
/**
* Limit the results of this select.
* <p>
* Note that some dialects do not support bind values at all in
* <code>LIMIT</code> or <code>TOP</code> clauses!
* <p>
* If there is no <code>LIMIT</code> or <code>TOP</code> clause in your
* RDBMS, or if your RDBMS does not natively support offsets, this is
* emulated with a <code>ROW_NUMBER()</code> window function and nested
* <code>SELECT</code> statements.
*
* @param offset The lowest offset starting at 0
* @param numberOfRows The number of rows to return
*/
@Support
void addLimit(Number offset, Number numberOfRows);
/**
* Limit the results of this select.
* <p>
* Note that some dialects do not support bind values at all in
* <code>LIMIT</code> or <code>TOP</code> clauses!
* <p>
* If there is no <code>LIMIT</code> or <code>TOP</code> clause in your
* RDBMS, or the <code>LIMIT</code> or <code>TOP</code> clause does not
* support bind values, or if your RDBMS does not natively support offsets,
* this may be emulated with a <code>ROW_NUMBER()</code> window function
* and nested <code>SELECT</code> statements.
*
* @param offset The lowest offset starting at 0
* @param numberOfRows The number of rows to return
*/
@Support
void addLimit(Param<Integer> offset, int numberOfRows);
/**
* Limit the results of this select.
* <p>
* Note that some dialects do not support bind values at all in
* <code>LIMIT</code> or <code>TOP</code> clauses!
* <p>
* If there is no <code>LIMIT</code> or <code>TOP</code> clause in your
* RDBMS, or the <code>LIMIT</code> or <code>TOP</code> clause does not
* support bind values, or if your RDBMS does not natively support offsets,
* this may be emulated with a <code>ROW_NUMBER()</code> window function
* and nested <code>SELECT</code> statements.
*
* @param offset The lowest offset starting at 0
* @param numberOfRows The number of rows to return
*/
@Support
void addLimit(Param<? extends Number> offset, Number numberOfRows);
/**
* Limit the results of this select using named parameters.
* <p>
* Note that some dialects do not support bind values at all in
* <code>LIMIT</code> or <code>TOP</code> clauses!
* <p>
* If there is no <code>LIMIT</code> or <code>TOP</code> clause in your
* RDBMS, or the <code>LIMIT</code> or <code>TOP</code> clause does not
* support bind values, or if your RDBMS does not natively support offsets,
* this may be emulated with a <code>ROW_NUMBER()</code> window function
* and nested <code>SELECT</code> statements.
*
* @param offset The lowest offset starting at 0
* @param numberOfRows The number of rows to return
*/
@Support
void addLimit(int offset, Param<Integer> numberOfRows);
/**
* Limit the results of this select using named parameters.
* <p>
* Note that some dialects do not support bind values at all in
* <code>LIMIT</code> or <code>TOP</code> clauses!
* <p>
* If there is no <code>LIMIT</code> or <code>TOP</code> clause in your
* RDBMS, or the <code>LIMIT</code> or <code>TOP</code> clause does not
* support bind values, or if your RDBMS does not natively support offsets,
* this may be emulated with a <code>ROW_NUMBER()</code> window function
* and nested <code>SELECT</code> statements.
*
* @param offset The lowest offset starting at 0
* @param numberOfRows The number of rows to return
*/
@Support
void addLimit(Number offset, Param<? extends Number> numberOfRows);
/**
* Limit the results of this select using named parameters.
* <p>
* Note that some dialects do not support bind values at all in
* <code>LIMIT</code> or <code>TOP</code> clauses!
* <p>
* If there is no <code>LIMIT</code> or <code>TOP</code> clause in your
* RDBMS, or the <code>LIMIT</code> or <code>TOP</code> clause does not
* support bind values, or if your RDBMS does not natively support offsets,
* this may be emulated with a <code>ROW_NUMBER()</code> window function
* and nested <code>SELECT</code> statements.
*
* @param offset The lowest offset starting at 0
* @param numberOfRows The number of rows to return
*/
@Support
void addLimit(Param<? extends Number> offset, Param<? extends Number> numberOfRows);
/**
* Add the <code>PERCENT</code> clause to a <code>LIMIT</code> clause.
*/
@Support({ H2 })
void setLimitPercent(boolean percent);
/**
* Add the <code>WITH TIES</code> clause to a <code>LIMIT</code> clause.
*/
@Support({ CUBRID, FIREBIRD, H2, MARIADB, MYSQL, POSTGRES })
void setWithTies(boolean withTies);
/**
* Sets the "FOR UPDATE" lock mode onto the query.
* <p>
* <h5>Native implementation</h5>
* <p>
* This has been observed to be supported by any of these dialects:
* <ul>
* <li><a href=
* "http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/db2luw/v9r7/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.db2.luw.sql.ref.doc/doc/r0000879.html"
* >DB2 FOR UPDATE and similar clauses</a></li>
* <li><a href=
* "http://db.apache.org/derby/docs/10.7/ref/rrefsqlj31783.html"> Derby's
* FOR UPDATE clause</a></li>
* <li><a href="http://www.h2database.com/html/grammar.html#select">H2's FOR
* UPDATE clause</a></li>
* <li><a href=
* "http://www.hsqldb.org/doc/2.0/guide/dataaccess-chapt.html#N11DA9"
* >HSQLDB's FOR UPDATE clause</a></li>
* <li><a href=
* "http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/innodb-locking-reads.html"
* >MySQL's InnoDB locking reads</a></li>
* <li><a href=
* "http://www.techonthenet.com/oracle/cursors/for_update.php">Oracle's
* PL/SQL FOR UPDATE clause</a></li>
* <li><a href=
* "http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/sql-select.html#SQL-FOR-UPDATE-SHARE"
* >Postgres FOR UPDATE / FOR SHARE</a></li>
* </ul>
* <p>
* <h5>Emulation</h5>
* <p>
* {@link SQLDialect#SQLSERVER}: jOOQ will try to lock the database record
* using <code>WITH (ROWLOCK, UPDLOCK)</code> hints.
* <h5>Not supported</h5>
* <p>
* These dialects are known not to support the <code>FOR UPDATE</code>
* clause in regular SQL:
* <ul>
* <li>{@link SQLDialect#SQLITE}</li>
* </ul>
* <p>
* If your dialect does not support this clause, jOOQ will still render it,
* if you apply it to your query. This might then cause syntax errors
* reported either by your database or your JDBC driver.
* <p>
* You shouldn't combine this with {@link #setForShare(boolean)}
*
* @param forUpdate The flag's value
*/
@Support({ CUBRID, DERBY, FIREBIRD, H2, HSQLDB, MARIADB, MYSQL, POSTGRES })
void setForUpdate(boolean forUpdate);
/**
* Sets the "FOR NO KEY UPDATE" lock mode onto the query.
*/
@Support({ POSTGRES })
void setForNoKeyUpdate(boolean forNoKeyUpdate);
/**
* Some RDBMS allow for specifying the fields that should be locked by the
* <code>FOR UPDATE</code> clause, instead of the full row.
* <p>
* This automatically sets the {@link #setForUpdate(boolean)} flag, and
* unsets the {@link #setForShare(boolean)} flag, if it was previously set.
* <p>
* This has been observed to be natively supported by any of these dialects:
* <ul>
* <li>DB2</li>
* <li>Derby</li>
* <li>H2</li>
* <li>HSQLDB</li>
* <li>Ingres</li>
* <li>Oracle</li>
* <li>Sybase</li>
* </ul>
* <p>
* Note, that {@link SQLDialect#DB2} has some stricter requirements
* regarding the updatability of fields. Refer to the DB2 documentation for
* further details
*
* @param fields The fields that should be locked
*
* @deprecated [#5218] - 3.14.0 - Use {@link #setForLockModeOf(Field...)}
*/
@Deprecated
@Support({ DERBY, FIREBIRD, H2, HSQLDB })
void setForUpdateOf(Field<?>... fields);
/**
* Some RDBMS allow for specifying the fields that should be locked by the
* <code>FOR UPDATE</code> clause, instead of the full row.
* <p>
*
* @see #setForUpdateOf(Field...)
*
* @deprecated [#5218] - 3.14.0 - Use {@link #setForLockModeOf(Collection)}
*/
@Deprecated
@Support({ DERBY, FIREBIRD, H2, HSQLDB })
void setForUpdateOf(Collection<? extends Field<?>> fields);
/**
* Some RDBMS allow for specifying the tables that should be locked by the
* <code>FOR UPDATE</code> clause, instead of the full row.
* <p>
* This automatically sets the {@link #setForUpdate(boolean)} flag, and
* unsets the {@link #setForShare(boolean)} flag, if it was previously set.
* <p>
* This has been observed to be natively supported by any of these dialects:
* <ul>
* <li>Postgres</li>
* <li>H2</li>
* <li>HSQLDB</li>
* <li>Sybase</li>
* </ul>
* <p>
* jOOQ emulates this by locking all known fields of [<code>tables</code>]
* for any of these dialects:
* <ul>
* <li>DB2</li>
* <li>Derby</li>
* <li>Ingres</li>
* <li>Oracle</li>
* </ul>
*
* @param tables The tables that should be locked
*
* @deprecated [#5218] - 3.14.0 - Use {@link #setForLockModeOf(Table...)}
*/
@Deprecated
@Support({ DERBY, FIREBIRD, H2, HSQLDB, MYSQL, POSTGRES })
void setForUpdateOf(Table<?>... tables);
/**
* Some RDBMS allow for specifying the locking mode for the applied
* <code>FOR UPDATE</code> clause. In this case, the session will wait for
* some <code>seconds</code>, before aborting the lock acquirement if the
* lock is not available.
* <p>
* This automatically sets the {@link #setForUpdate(boolean)} flag, and
* unsets the {@link #setForShare(boolean)} flag, if it was previously set.
* <p>
* This has been observed to be supported by any of these dialects:
* <ul>
* <li>Oracle</li>
* </ul>
*
* @param seconds The number of seconds to wait for a lock
*
* @deprecated [#5218] - 3.14.0 - Use {@link #setForLockModeWait(int)}
*/
@Deprecated
@Support({ MARIADB })
void setForUpdateWait(int seconds);
/**
* Some RDBMS allow for specifying the locking mode for the applied
* <code>FOR UPDATE</code> clause. In this case, the session will not wait
* before aborting the lock acquirement if the lock is not available.
* <p>
* This automatically sets the {@link #setForUpdate(boolean)} flag, and
* unsets the {@link #setForShare(boolean)} flag, if it was previously set.
* <p>
* This has been observed to be supported by any of these dialects:
* <ul>
* <li>Oracle</li>
* </ul>
*
* @deprecated [#5218] - 3.14.0 - Use {@link #setForLockModeNoWait()}
*/
@Deprecated
@Support({ MARIADB, MYSQL, POSTGRES })
void setForUpdateNoWait();
/**
* Some RDBMS allow for specifying the locking mode for the applied
* <code>FOR UPDATE</code> clause. In this case, the session will skip all
* locked rows from the select statement, whose lock is not available.
* <p>
* This automatically sets the {@link #setForUpdate(boolean)} flag, and
* unsets the {@link #setForShare(boolean)} flag, if it was previously set.
* <p>
* This has been observed to be supported by any of these dialects:
* <ul>
* <li>Oracle</li>
* </ul>
*
* @deprecated [#5218] - 3.14.0 - Use {@link #setForLockModeSkipLocked()}
*/
@Deprecated
@Support({ MYSQL, POSTGRES })
void setForUpdateSkipLocked();
/**
* Sets the "FOR SHARE" lock mode onto the query.
* <p>
* This has been observed to be supported by any of these dialects:
* <ul>
* <li><a
* href="http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/innodb-locking-reads.html"
* >MySQL's InnoDB locking reads</a></li>
* <li><a href=
* "http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/sql-select.html#SQL-FOR-UPDATE-SHARE"
* >Postgres FOR UPDATE / FOR SHARE</a></li>
* </ul>
* <p>
* If your dialect does not support this clause, jOOQ will still render it,
* if you apply it to your query. This might then cause syntax errors
* reported either by your database or your JDBC driver.
* <p>
* You shouldn't combine this with {@link #setForUpdate(boolean)}
*
* @param forShare The flag's value
*/
@Support({ MARIADB, MYSQL, POSTGRES })
void setForShare(boolean forShare);
/**
* Sets the "FOR KEY SHARE" lock mode onto the query.
*/
@Support({ POSTGRES })
void setForKeyShare(boolean forKeyShare);
/**
* Some RDBMS allow for specifying the fields that should be locked by the
* <code>FOR <lock_mode></code> clause, instead of the full row.
* <p>
* In case no lock mode has been set yet, it will implicitly be set to
* <code>UPDATE</code> (i.e. {@link #setForUpdate(boolean)}).
* <p>
* Depending on the dialect and lock mode this flag may or may not be
* supported.
* <p>
* Note, that {@link SQLDialect#DB2} has some stricter requirements
* regarding the updatability of fields. Refer to the DB2 documentation for
* further details
*
* @param fields The fields that should be locked
*/
@Support({ DERBY, FIREBIRD, H2, HSQLDB })
void setForLockModeOf(Field<?>... fields);
/**
* Some RDBMS allow for specifying the fields that should be locked by the
* <code>FOR <lock_mode></code> clause, instead of the full row.
* <p>
*
* @see #setForLockModeOf(Field...)
*/
@Support({ DERBY, FIREBIRD, H2, HSQLDB })
void setForLockModeOf(Collection<? extends Field<?>> fields);
/**
* Some RDBMS allow for specifying the tables that should be locked by the
* <code>FOR <lock_mode></code> clause, instead of the full row.
* <p>
* In case no lock mode has been set yet, it will implicitly be set to
* <code>UPDATE</code> (i.e. {@link #setForUpdate(boolean)}).
* <p>
* Depending on the dialect and lock mode this flag may or may not be
* supported.
*
* @param tables The tables that should be locked
*/
@Support({ DERBY, FIREBIRD, H2, HSQLDB, MYSQL, POSTGRES })
void setForLockModeOf(Table<?>... tables);
/**
* Some RDBMS allow for specifying the locking mode for the applied
* <code>FOR <lock_mode></code> clause. In this case, the session will
* wait for some <code>seconds</code>, before aborting the lock acquirement
* if the lock is not available.
* <p>
* In case no lock mode has been set yet, it will implicitly be set to
* <code>UPDATE</code> (i.e. {@link #setForUpdate(boolean)}).
* <p>
* Depending on the dialect and lock mode this flag may or may not be
* supported.
*
* @param seconds The number of seconds to wait for a lock
*/
@Support({ MARIADB })
void setForLockModeWait(int seconds);
/**
* Some RDBMS allow for specifying the locking mode for the applied
* <code>FOR <lock_mode></code> clause. In this case, the session will
* not wait before aborting the lock acquirement if the lock is not
* available.
* <p>
* In case no lock mode has been set yet, it will implicitly be set to
* <code>UPDATE</code> (i.e. {@link #setForUpdate(boolean)}).
* <p>
* Depending on the dialect and lock mode this flag may or may not be
* supported.
*/
@Support({ MARIADB, MYSQL, POSTGRES })
void setForLockModeNoWait();
/**
* Some RDBMS allow for specifying the locking mode for the applied
* <code>FOR <lock_mode></code> clause. In this case, the session will
* skip all locked rows from the select statement, whose lock is not
* available.
* <p>
* In case no lock mode has been set yet, it will implicitly be set to
* <code>UPDATE</code> (i.e. {@link #setForUpdate(boolean)}).
* <p>
* Depending on the dialect and lock mode this flag may or may not be
* supported.
*/
@Support({ MYSQL, POSTGRES })
void setForLockModeSkipLocked();
}
|
Preparing the family for their responsibilities during treatment.
Long-term needs of a family whose child has cancer must be integrated into the family's responsibilities early in the disease treatment. The family's understanding, acceptance, and participation in the patient's care is a determining factor in the effectiveness of the treatment plan. Family responsibilities are twofold: obtain correct medical information about child's disease and its treatment, and adapt to necessary changes in lifestyle. Basic medical knowledge the family must possess includes information relating to the disease, its expected course, treatment, and side effects. Adaptation to changes requires that parents be informed to the anticipated alterations in family and community relationships. They need specific information about hospital policies and routines, financial resources, and expectations of the treatment plan in effort to adapt to the demands of long term care. The challenge in preparing a family is in acceptance of a philosophy that recognizes and values the family's contribution to care. Family members are a crucial part of the health care team. A positive and encouraging approach from professionals is essential to family acceptance of the disease and compliance with treatment. |
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to street lamp systems and, particularly, to a street lamp system utilizing wind energy to supply electric power to solid-state light source and improve the heat dissipation efficiency thereof.
2. Description of Related Art
In recent years, due to their excellent light quality and high luminous efficiency, light emitting diodes (LEDs) have been increasingly applied to substitute for cold cathode fluorescent lamps (CCFL) as light source of an illumination device, referring to “Solid-State Lighting: Toward Superior Illumination” by Michael S. Shur, et al., Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 93, NO. 10 (October, 2005).
Illuminating stability of the LEDs is affected by heat generated from the LEDs. When the temperature of the LEDs is too high, light intensity of the LEDs may gradually attenuate, shortening the lifespan of the illumination devices. Thus, some illumination devices include heat dissipation devices, such as exhaust fans, thermoelectric coolers, etc., to dissipate heat. However, the heat dissipation devices require a great amount of electricity to function, such that application of the heat dissipation devices can defeat the purpose of saving energy by using LEDs.
What is needed, therefore, is an improved street lamp system that can overcome the above shortcomings. |
######################## BEGIN LICENSE BLOCK ########################
# The Original Code is Mozilla Universal charset detector code.
#
# The Initial Developer of the Original Code is
# Netscape Communications Corporation.
# Portions created by the Initial Developer are Copyright (C) 2001
# the Initial Developer. All Rights Reserved.
#
# Contributor(s):
# Mark Pilgrim - port to Python
# Shy Shalom - original C code
#
# This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
# modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
# License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
# version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
#
# This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
# Lesser General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
# License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
# Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA
# 02110-1301 USA
######################### END LICENSE BLOCK #########################
import constants, sys
from latin1prober import Latin1Prober # windows-1252
from mbcsgroupprober import MBCSGroupProber # multi-byte character sets
from sbcsgroupprober import SBCSGroupProber # single-byte character sets
from escprober import EscCharSetProber # ISO-2122, etc.
import re
MINIMUM_THRESHOLD = 0.20
ePureAscii = 0
eEscAscii = 1
eHighbyte = 2
class UniversalDetector:
def __init__(self):
self._highBitDetector = re.compile(r'[\x80-\xFF]')
self._escDetector = re.compile(r'(\033|~{)')
self._mEscCharSetProber = None
self._mCharSetProbers = []
self.reset()
def reset(self):
self.result = {'encoding': None, 'confidence': 0.0}
self.done = constants.False
self._mStart = constants.True
self._mGotData = constants.False
self._mInputState = ePureAscii
self._mLastChar = ''
if self._mEscCharSetProber:
self._mEscCharSetProber.reset()
for prober in self._mCharSetProbers:
prober.reset()
def feed(self, aBuf):
if self.done: return
aLen = len(aBuf)
if not aLen: return
if not self._mGotData:
# If the data starts with BOM, we know it is UTF
if aBuf[:3] == '\xEF\xBB\xBF':
# EF BB BF UTF-8 with BOM
self.result = {'encoding': "UTF-8", 'confidence': 1.0}
elif aBuf[:4] == '\xFF\xFE\x00\x00':
# FF FE 00 00 UTF-32, little-endian BOM
self.result = {'encoding': "UTF-32LE", 'confidence': 1.0}
elif aBuf[:4] == '\x00\x00\xFE\xFF':
# 00 00 FE FF UTF-32, big-endian BOM
self.result = {'encoding': "UTF-32BE", 'confidence': 1.0}
elif aBuf[:4] == '\xFE\xFF\x00\x00':
# FE FF 00 00 UCS-4, unusual octet order BOM (3412)
self.result = {'encoding': "X-ISO-10646-UCS-4-3412", 'confidence': 1.0}
elif aBuf[:4] == '\x00\x00\xFF\xFE':
# 00 00 FF FE UCS-4, unusual octet order BOM (2143)
self.result = {'encoding': "X-ISO-10646-UCS-4-2143", 'confidence': 1.0}
elif aBuf[:2] == '\xFF\xFE':
# FF FE UTF-16, little endian BOM
self.result = {'encoding': "UTF-16LE", 'confidence': 1.0}
elif aBuf[:2] == '\xFE\xFF':
# FE FF UTF-16, big endian BOM
self.result = {'encoding': "UTF-16BE", 'confidence': 1.0}
self._mGotData = constants.True
if self.result['encoding'] and (self.result['confidence'] > 0.0):
self.done = constants.True
return
if self._mInputState == ePureAscii:
if self._highBitDetector.search(aBuf):
self._mInputState = eHighbyte
elif (self._mInputState == ePureAscii) and self._escDetector.search(self._mLastChar + aBuf):
self._mInputState = eEscAscii
self._mLastChar = aBuf[-1]
if self._mInputState == eEscAscii:
if not self._mEscCharSetProber:
self._mEscCharSetProber = EscCharSetProber()
if self._mEscCharSetProber.feed(aBuf) == constants.eFoundIt:
self.result = {'encoding': self._mEscCharSetProber.get_charset_name(),
'confidence': self._mEscCharSetProber.get_confidence()}
self.done = constants.True
elif self._mInputState == eHighbyte:
if not self._mCharSetProbers:
self._mCharSetProbers = [MBCSGroupProber(), SBCSGroupProber(), Latin1Prober()]
for prober in self._mCharSetProbers:
if prober.feed(aBuf) == constants.eFoundIt:
self.result = {'encoding': prober.get_charset_name(),
'confidence': prober.get_confidence()}
self.done = constants.True
break
def close(self):
if self.done: return
if not self._mGotData:
if constants._debug:
sys.stderr.write('no data received!\n')
return
self.done = constants.True
if self._mInputState == ePureAscii:
self.result = {'encoding': 'ascii', 'confidence': 1.0}
return self.result
if self._mInputState == eHighbyte:
proberConfidence = None
maxProberConfidence = 0.0
maxProber = None
for prober in self._mCharSetProbers:
if not prober: continue
proberConfidence = prober.get_confidence()
if proberConfidence > maxProberConfidence:
maxProberConfidence = proberConfidence
maxProber = prober
if maxProber and (maxProberConfidence > MINIMUM_THRESHOLD):
self.result = {'encoding': maxProber.get_charset_name(),
'confidence': maxProber.get_confidence()}
return self.result
if constants._debug:
sys.stderr.write('no probers hit minimum threshhold\n')
for prober in self._mCharSetProbers[0].mProbers:
if not prober: continue
sys.stderr.write('%s confidence = %s\n' % \
(prober.get_charset_name(), \
prober.get_confidence()))
|
Q:
r regex mileage
I'm having a hard time writing a regular expression for mileage. Mileage can take in any of the following form:
130,000 miles
130000 miles
130XXX miles
130,XXX miles
130k miles
something else you can think off
For regex strategy, would be better to read miles first and then take the first word that precedes it. So miles would be read first and then maybe 130,XXX.
A:
use this regex ^\d+,?(\d|X|k)+\smiles$
|
Q:
Not getting desired output in mysql
I am firing a query in mysql but not getting desired output.
this is the code:
select team_name,
sum(semis.points+final.points) as final_points
from semis
inner join final on semis.sid=final.sid
inner join teams on teams.tid=semis.tid
group by semis.tid
union
select team_name,
semis.Points
from semis
inner join teams on semis.tid=teams.tid
left join final on semis.sid=final.sid
where final.sid is null;
OUTPUT:
+-----------------------+--------------+
| team_name | final_points |
+-----------------------+--------------+
| BioTech & BioChem | 7 |
| Chemistry | 7 |
| Botany & Zoology | 7 |
| Physics & Electronics | 17 |
| BCA | 19 |
| BCOM | 11 |
| Gujarati | 10 |
| English | 10 |
| Economics | 20 |
| BCOM | 3 |
| Chemistry | 3 |
| English | 3 |
+-----------------------+--------------+
and the result i want to fetch
+-----------------------+--------------+
| team_name | final_points |
+-----------------------+--------------+
| BioTech & BioChem | 7 |
| Chemistry | 10 |
| Botany & Zoology | 7 |
| Physics & Electronics | 17 |
| BCA | 19 |
| BCOM | 14 |
| Gujarati | 10 |
| English | 13 |
| Economics | 20 |
+-----------------------+--------------+
Adding last 3 values to english,bcom,chemistry increasing it by 3 and making a total of BCOM: 14, Chemistry:10 , English: 13
A:
From the sample data you posted and the expected results it looks like you can do it without UNION, by left joining final and with coalesce() for final.points:
select team_name, sum(semis.points + coalesce(final.points, 0)) as final_points
from semis
inner join teams on teams.tid=semis.tid
left join final on semis.sid=final.sid
group by semis.tid
|
Page tags
Shortly after a show at the Motai Theatre, two Council members argue outside in the intersection as Rika watches after finishing said show.
"Drama After the Show"
Sunagakure
Late afternoon, the sun hasn't gone down yet but it has begun its descent and the hottest part of the day is past. With it comes the elongating shadows that such a thing brings, a great time for ninjary if such was needed. Though it really isn't right now. the Theater district has some of the most eclectic parts of the village. The fancy foreign restaurants and the likes to get the ritzy theater goers… and is Rika one of those? It might seem so since she is just emerging from it!
Itami yawns and sticks her finger into her ear to coax out some water that was stuck in her ear from taking a dip in the baths. A popping sound would be made as she passed by and she would receive a few looks of disgust from the various people of ritzyness. She didn't care, though. It had to come out or she wouldn't be able to hear all that well. She did the same with her other ear also and once she finished, she'd sigh in relief and continue on her way towards one of the places here.
She had to make a delivery, evidenced by the paper wrapped fgure in her hand. It was for a restaurant here as they were looking for something to fit their theme and so Itami's services were requested. She thinks she might have come through on this. She'd be coming by the theatre and amongst the crowd, she sees Rika exiting out from the place. What in the world did she just go see? "Rika-san?" She asks. "Rika-san!" She calls while waving her hand in the air.
"Yes. Of course. I look forward to working with you again, Hihigi-san. Have a good evening" Kuoroke comes out of a bow, and turns around. The potential client walks off, and the polite, even friendly smile oozes off the acid-fisted Jounin's face as it is turned away from him. He begins walking off, and then notices Rika had left a nearby theatre just a bit before he passed it. "Good evening." The greeting is dry. A typical Kuroki Kuoroke greeting. Itami passes by and is noticed. "Hello, Itami." She gets a slight bow together with his greeting.
"Konbanwa senpais." Rika greets along with a bow towards the two as the three's paths cross. Rika on her way to a restaurant! In this case a noodle one from the looks of it, at least that would be a pretty safe bet from the direction she is heading. Of course, she's stopped now. "How are you two this evening?" Comes her inquiry, head tilted to the side.
Itami bows lightly towards Rika and as she says 'sempais', she looks for the other to which she referenced and rose from her bow slowly. "Greetings." She states to them both with a slight air of anger. "I am well enough, thank you. What of yourself?" She inquires while looking around to see if she can spot the restaurant she was to be delivering to.
"I think I got this village a well-payed mission." Kuoroke announces. "So, I'm doing quite well, thank you." He raises his eyebrows at Itami, and offhandedly mentions, "You don't sound well enough." and then immediately continues to say, "And I got a very nice dinner while pulling in the client." he smirks. Clearly just to make conversation, Kuoroke asks Rika, "How was the show?"
"Excellent. A jazz band from the Land of Grass. They did things really well. Though I think I still prefer the shows at the bar." Rika shrugs at that. "Just more fun then, better, well, environment for that sort of music. The theater's better for normal stuff." She covers her mouth and a yawn. "And what genious decided to have shows in the middle of the day is beyond me."
"I'm glad you weren't angry enough to notice. Could you tell me why you did it?" Itami inquires, almost completely ignoring Rika's statements, but tries to divide her focus enough to include them both in conversation. "It is nice to know that we are able to enjoy the presence of bands from other lands. That lets me know that this village is considered more often than I thought." She Shrugs. "Also, I suppose I should be appreciative of your efforts in bettering the village, Kuoroke-san, but there are some things…that leave a lot…to be desired."
"Oh, that. I expected this on the spot, to be honest. Let's see… because he spat at me… and then attempted to kick me." Kuoroke answers. There goes his good mood, being replaced by, predictable, anger. Well, only irritation at this point. Kuoroke's polite smile remains on his face, but becomes a cramped, fake grimace. "I remember you punching someone in the face, too, when they attacked a Jounin. I happened to think that a harder punch was in order." He just nods to Rika. "Yes, it is better for normal stuff. Probably because the heat draws visitors inside." After this comment, he returns to the tension building between him and Itami.
Despite the things that were said to her, here is where Rika needs to slip into silence and watch as things are being said between the two Councilmembers, a free hand reaching up to push back a stray bang and her gaze moving between each of the two.
"Spitting and kicking, from a /genin/ no less, is enough to disfigure his face, Kuoroke-san?" Itami asks with growing anger. No smiles would be coming from her. "I punched someone and even shoved his face into the ground, but that didn't put him in the hospital." She growls. "Your anger nearly killed a genin for spitting and kicking. That was enough to warrant death? To warrant a critical condition? Spitting and kicking?" She repeats.
"You missed the fact that he attacked me." Kuoroke responds. "And that my reaction was quite similar to yours when you found yourself in a similar condition. So you don't get to judge." His breathing becomes heavier, his eyes narrow, and his rage predictably, steadily grows, as does the volume of his voice. "Yeah, I put him in hospital. You know what? Everyone in this village would be better off if there were no people ready to attack a superior. I think we'd be better off without him. But if you disagree, good for you, 'cause I kept him alive!"
"I just hope it doesn't keep happening." Rika muses, her own sardonic little tone as she says it. Though does not go so far as to further elucidate it. And that's all she says in response to the situation at that. Still seems like she feels this is very, very thin ice.
"You're a Jounin! A Council member at that, Kuoroke-san! He wouldn't have been able to harm you in the way that you did him! Even if he defied you, it wasn't enough to place him in a hospital. You solve everything through overwhelming force! A genin, Kuoroke-san!" Itami shouts. "Don't hold your breath, Rika-san. It's bound to happen again. Kuoroke-san couldn't control /his/ anger even if his life depended on it. Let it be known that he was attacked by a /genin/ and even if the odds were in his favor, /he/ decided that this genin was /oh so/ disrespectful that his /life/ was threatened by a /Jounin Council member/."
"Yes, I am! And that's exactly the point! I am a Jounin, and if he chooses to attack a Jounin, that's what happens!" Kuoroke is full-out shouting now. Not quite roaring like he did during the events being discussed here, though. "He could not harm me and if the little brat has no other reason to respect the order of the village, he'll respect that one at least!" the Kuroki gives Rika a glance, but does not comment on her words. He's too busy with Itami's. "Oh, no, let's deal with things peacefully, and let the insubordinate kids kick at us! I decided that we have no use for someone ready to answer orders like that. I decided we could get rid of him. You don't? You're welcome!" Her words actually bring a smirk to his face, which had become quite angry as the argument became more heated, "Yes! Let it be known that I was attacked by a Genin and Genin do not get away with attacking superiors around here. The moment I attack the Kazekage, he's welcome to take out an eyeball or two, too!"
Nope, Rika doesn't look like she's going to say a word, though she still holds her ground for the moment, even if she is subtly trying to wave off the rapidly growing group of onlookers curious about why two members of the leading council of the village are arguing so intently.
"I didn't say everything had to be resolved peacefully! Obviously, I've attacked a genin also, but never to the point that I would risk his life!" Itami shouts. "You went out of line! Admit it, Kuoroke-san! You went beyond a punishment, it was an attack! Do you realize what can happen to you for this?" She inquires. "You're going to be suffering for this, Kuoroke-san." She calms, but it's evident that she's angry still. "I don't allow genin to kick me around, but I don't threaten their life either. You just…went too far. That is what I am concerned about. Your anger nearly killed a genin. I want you to just /think/ about what you did! You're not thinking, you're looking for justification of your actions!" She builds back up into shouting. "This is what I meant when I said that I don't want to be here. The other side I spoke of. Genin are disposable simply for standing up to superiors. Don't want to follow orders? That's fine. Kill them." She states with some lifelessness. "How can you call yourself being concerned for the betterment of the village when you attack its future?" She inquires and shakes her head. "I'm leaving." She states and leaves it at that. She doesn't state where she's going, but it's not away from the village. She'll probably be out in the desert. She walks off to finish her delivery, watching as the crowd begins to clear the way for her to exit the area.
"Of course!" Kuoroke shouts even after Itami has turned her back. "The future is ignoring orders! I know what'll happen! Nothing, I made a decision and I did what I had to do! You're just soft!" With that, Kuoroke also turns, in the other direction, obviously, and begins walking. "Enjoy your evening." He drops dully to Rika, with a voice that's still clearly angry. Walking down the road, he looks at his hands, and shifts his gloves back. Somehow, they had moved a bit off his hands. He doesn't look too happy about the conversation, even after the anger has subsided from his face.
Rika watches the two Jounin Councilmembers walk off, and only when they finally get out of earshot she massages her forehead with the palm of her hand. "The heck…" She stands there for a few more moments. "Lunch time." She says then, to a random passerby who shoots her a look like she's insane, which is probably more right than he knows. And thus she just walks over to the noodle place. |
Heroin addiction: what can the GP do?
This article is based on nine months as a casualty coordinator, and eighteen months of weekly GP sessions at a drug dependency unit--a limited experience which justifies no claim to expertise. However, I believe my former ignorance to be fairly typical, so that my comments may have value for GPs. Although the comments focus on heroin (this being by far the most common narcotic of addiction), I am aware that heroin fits into a long continuum of substance dependencies, perhaps offers an entry into that continuum for the clinician who seeks understanding of all dependencies. My object being to describe the landscape through the eyes of a GP taking his first real look, I shall concern myself with concepts and impressions rather than statistics and clinical details. |
Bretton Woods II and George Soros
The expression «Bretton Woods II» is becoming more popular, and everyone has their own understanding of this vague formula. Some are nostalgic for the gold standard, while others would like to return to John Keynes’ idea of creating and introducing a supranational currency like the ‘bancor’, or using the special drawing rights issued in small amounts by the IMF in 1970 for the same purpose. There are also those who believe that Bretton Woods II will be fundamentally different from the American and British projects discussed in 1944, and that the world should consist of several regional currency zones.
The expert community introduced the idea of a Bretton Woods II at the end of the 20th century. The Reinventing Bretton Woods Committee, headed by a certain Marc Uzan, was set up in 1994 on the back of the conference’s 50 year anniversary. At an official level, the idea of a Bretton Woods II was first expressed by the Italian Senator Oskar Peterlini. At the height of the 2009 financial crisis, Peterlini officially presented a «Motion for the reorganisation of the international currency system: the new Bretton Woods» to the Italian Senate. The document was approved by a large number of deputies in the upper house. Although the document mentioned nothing about a return to gold, it pointed out the need to control the issue of money, and the need to link it to real assets and commodities rather than financial assets. Attention was also focused on the fact that the world needs a financial system with fixed (constant) exchange rates and restrictions on the free cross-border movement of venture capital.
At the G20 meetings in Washington in November 2008 and London in April 2009, where ways out of the global financial crisis were discussed, the expression «Bretton Woods II» was also heard more than once. In the midst of the financial crisis, radical proposals were put forward at G20, G8, G7 and other similar forums on the restructuring of the global monetary and financial system. There was also talk of the need to convene a global «New Bretton Woods» conference at the UN, where it was expected that a number of important international agreements would be entered into, including: 1) a Global Economic Charter based on the proposals of German Chancellor Angela Merkel; 2) a Global Energy Charter put forward by the leaders of net energy-exporting countries; and 3) major amendments to the UN Charter, including the establishment of a Financial Security Council. As soon as the threat of the global financial crisis had passed, however, political leaders immediately forgot about the «New Bretton Woods» projects.
At the end of the 20th century, the illusion emerged that the world might become unipolar and be controlled by Washington, and Pax Americana was built under the guise of globalisation. Today, however, Washington is losing its influence in the world, and chances are there will be no repetition of Bretton Woods.
George Soros’ New Bretton Woods
At the same time, it is possible to talk about a new Bretton Woods as the resuscitation of the project put forward by John Keynes 70 years ago that gained little support from those present. The most well-known and open supporter of this Bretton Woods alternative is financial speculator George Soros. Back in November 2009, at the peak of the global financial crisis, the billionaire announced the preparation of a «New Bretton Woods» conference, and in April 2011, Soros made sure the conference took place. Details about it are few and far between. Soros paid $50 million to assemble around 200 academics, businessmen and state leaders in New Hampshire under the aegis of his Institute of New Economic Thinking (INET). The meeting included such well-known figures as the former chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System Paul Volcker, former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Nobel Laureate and a former vice president of the World Bank Joseph Stiglitz, and renowned economist and director of The Earth Institute Jeffrey Sachs. Soros’ event at Bretton Woods was as secret as the meeting of the Bilderberg Group. It is known, however, that the event took place under the catchword of Keynesian economics. The particular role of China as a pole of the world economy and global politics was discussed, along with the need to move to a supranational currency, establish a global emission centre (global central bank), and restructure the global financial system.
George Soros as a mouthpiece of the Rothschild clan
It is well known that George Soros is a protégé of the Rothschilds, their mouthpiece. Through the public statements and actions of this financial speculator, renowned for his scandalous behaviour, it is possible to put together some idea of his bosses. The Rothschilds are absolute cosmopolitans, they do not hold on to any kind of national identity, unlike the Rockefellers whom America needs, because the printing press and military-industrial complex it is called upon to protect are located in America. In terms of Soros’ understanding of a global currency, therefore, then it is more likely a combination of a supranational currency and gold.
Soros has repeatedly declared that he sees China as the model for a new global financial order in place of the US. Soros has referred to the US as a burden on the global economy because of the falling dollar, noting the need for a new global currency in the form of the IMF’s special drawing rights. Soros is sometimes regarded as an advocate of John Keynes’ ideas, but this misguided thinking arises from the fact that Soros is a critic of the market, believing it cannot be a self-regulating mechanism. In truth, Soros is against the state and state regulation. He is an advocate of regulating the economy by means of major corporations and banks. Such regulation may be supplemented by regulation from supranational bodies. The institutes of the European Union, which Soros also had a hand in creating, may serve as examples of such bodies. Soros does not like the European Central Bank, the European Commission and other bodies of European integration because they provide some kind of economic efficiency and improve people’s lives; he likes them because they are bringing the death of nation states closer, thus clearing a space for monopolies and banks.
George Soros makes no secret of the fact that he does not like America. Not because it wages destructive wars around the world, or because of the country’s huge social polarisation, or because its prisons contin more than two million people, with a further four or five millions American who were sentenced to imprisonment currently at large because the country does not have enough prisons, or because the US organised an all-out surveillance of every telephone conversation in America. Soros does not like America because it still retains far too many attributes of a state. This is why Soros was one of Obama’s main sponsors during the pre-election presidential campaign. This also explains what initially seem to be certain illogical decisions and acts of the White House’s current occupant that are troubling the real patriots of America...
Properly speaking, Soros is an advocate of financial capitalism. Exactly the same capitalism that Austrian socialist Rudolf Hilferding, who took financial capitalism to mean bankocracy, or the dictatorship of banks, wrote about a century ago. This model of society is extremely reminiscent of a concentration camp.
While on the subject of Soros, one more Rothschild figure comes to mind – former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn. Like Soros, he also dislikes America and the American dollar, and is working on reducing the role of the green paper. Among other things, it is well known that just before military action began against Libya in 2011, Strauss-Kahn met with Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and gave his support to the idea of introducing a regional currency – the gold dinar. This naturally displeased those in charge of the Federal Reserve System’s printing presses and served as the reason for the scandalous resignation of Strauss-Kahn and, slightly later, NATO aggression against Libya.
The new world financial order «in a broad cultural context»
The Rothchilds do not like national currencies, which they see as an anachronism of the 20th century; they interfere with the creation of a world government. In order to get rid of national currencies more quickly, the nation state needs to be destroyed, and to accomplish this, every cultural and moral foundation of society must be undermined as much as possible. Observing Soros is evidence that the billionaire is promoting the cultural degeneration of mankind. Soros supports the rights of the «oppressed minorities» to abortion, atheism, the legalisation of drugs, sexual enlightenment, euthanasia, feminism, single-sex marriages and so on. He is in favour of globalisation in all its manifestations, mass immigration, and birth control. He promotes these ideas around the world through his Open Society Institute, which has branches in 60 countries (total expenditure on the institute’s activities is nearly $600 million a year). There are many other political, financial and media veterans who help Soros with his propaganda work, including the former president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), Jacques Attali. The striking similarity between the philosophies of Soros and Attali is astonishing. Both are cosmopolitans to the core, both put their trust in the organisational role of banks, both fiercely attack what there is left of culture and religion, both talk about the need for a global central bank, a global armed forces and so forth. It feels as if they have a common boss and client.
I do not know whether the conversations that took place at the Mount Washington hotel in April 2011 went beyond the usual agenda of global financial forums, but there is no doubt that the ‘broad-minded’ Soros focussed on destroying the foundations of traditional society. In his opinion piece published six months before the New Bretton Woods conference, Soros wrote: «Reorganising the world order will need to extend beyond the financial system.» The billionaire is expressing the world view of his bosses for whom money, finance, exchange rates, gold fixing, securities, loans, derivatives, exchanges and other attributes of the modern financial system are just the means, not the goal. The goal is world power. |
70. MORD'S COUNSEL
A little after, those namesakes and Mord met, and they were not at all of one mind. They thought they had lost much goods for Mord's sake, but had got nothing in return; and they bade him set on foot some other plot which might do Gunnar harm.
Mord said so it should be. "But now this is my counsel, that thou, Thorgeir Otkell's son shouldest beguile Ormilda, Gunnar's kinswoman; but Gunnar will let his displeasure grow against thee at that, and then I will spread that story abroad that Gunnar will not suffer thee to do such things. Then ye two shall some time after make an attack on Gunnar, but still ye must not seek him at home, for there is no thinking of that while the hound is alive."
So they settled this plan among them that it should be brought about.
Thorgeir began to turn his steps towards Ormilda, and Gunnar thought that ill, and great dislike arose between them.
So the winter wore away. Now comes the summer, and their secret meetings went on oftener than before.
As for Thorgeir of the Threecorner and Mord, they were always meeting; and they plan an onslaught on Gunnar when he rides down to the isles to see after the work done by his house-caries.
One day Mord was ware of it when Gunnar rode down to the isles, and sent a man off under the Threecorner to tell Thorgeir that then would be the likeliest time to try to fall on Gunnar.
They bestirred them at once, and fare thence twelve together, but when they came to Kirkby there they found thirteen men waiting for them.
Then they made up their minds to ride down to Rangriver and lie in wait there for Gunnar.
But when Gunnar rode up from the isles, Kolskegg rode with him. Gunnar had his bow and his arrows and his bill. Kolskegg had his short sword and weapons to match. |
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