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Saša Kalajdžić
Saša Kalajdžić (Саша Калајџић; born 7 July 1997) is an Austrian professional footballer who plays as a striker for club Wolverhampton Wanderers and the Austria national team.
Kalajdžić began his senior career playing in the third and fourth tiers of Austrian football with SR Donaufeld Wien. In 2016, he signed for Austrian Bundesliga club Admira Wacker, where he scored twelve goals in 35 matches for the first team. He joined German club VfB Stuttgart in July 2019, sustaining a serious knee injury shortly after joining and not making his debut until May 2020. Nevertheless, he would go on to score 24 goals in sixty matches for the club. In August 2022, Kalajdžić was signed by English club Wolverhampton Wanderers for a reported fee of £15 million.
Kalajdžić played for Austria at under-21 level, before making his senior international debut in October 2020. He was part of Austria's squad at Euro 2020.
FC Admira Wacker Mödling
Kalajdžić joined FC Admira Wacker Mödling in 2016, from SR Donaufeld Wien. He originally played as a midfielder for the club's reserve side in the Austrian Regionalliga East, before being converted into a forward.
VfB Stuttgart
On 5 July 2019, Kalajdžić signed a four-year contract with the German club VfB Stuttgart. Shortly after his arrival, he suffered a torn cruciate ligament during a preseason training camp. He made his league debut on 28 May 2020, coming on as a substitute in the 78th minute of matchday 28 of the 2019–20 2. Bundesliga season against Hamburger SV, and scored his first goal on matchday 33 during a 6–0 rout of FC Nuremberg.
In the following season, Kalajdžić frequently led the line for VfB Stuttgart, finishing the season as the 6th top scorer in the Bundesliga with 16 goals, helping his team finish 9th. The next season, he scored the winner in Stuttgart's 3–2 win over Borussia Mönchengladbach on matchday 25, and the team's first goal in a 2–1 win over 1. FC Köln on the final matchday, to ensure the club's presence in the Bundesliga for the 2022–23 season.
Wolverhampton Wanderers
On 31 August 2022, English club Wolverhampton Wanderers announced that they had signed Kalajdžić on a five-year deal, with the option to extend for a further 12 months. The fee was undisclosed by the club, but was reported to be £15 million. He made his debut three days later as a starter in a 1–0 Premier League win against Southampton at Molineux, but was substituted at half-time due to injury which was later confirmed as an ACL tear requiring surgery. Wolves subsequently announced that the player underwent reparative surgery on 6 September, and cautioned that the typical rehabilitation period after such a procedure is nine months.
Kalajdžić made his second appearance for Wolves (and first since 3 September 2022) against Manchester United on 14 August 2023 as a late substitute. Kalajdžić again entered the field as a late substitute against Everton on 26 August 2023, and proceeded to score his first goal for Wolves in the 87th minute to help them win 1–0 away at Goodison Park.
Kalajdžić scored his second goal for Wolves in his next match - his first start for the club since 3 September 2022 - a home game in the EFL Cup against Blackpool on 29 August 2023 that Wolves won 5–0.
Kalajdžić scored his second Premier League goal, again as a substitute, in a 2–1 Wolves win away to Bournemouth on 21 October 2023. It was the second time in the season he had scored a late winning goal for Wolves in a Premier League fixture to secure an away win.
Loan to Eintracht Frankfurt
On 7 January 2024, Wolves sent Kalajdžić on loan to Bundesliga club Eintracht Frankfurt until the end of the 2023–24 season. On 15 February, he scored his first goal for the club in a 2–2 away draw against Union Saint-Gilloise during the Conference League knockout round play-offs.
On 18 February, Kalajdžić suffered a third ACL tear in the space of five years in a Bundesliga match against SC Freiburg.
International career
Kalajdžić made six appearances for Austria at under-21 level. He made his senior international debut for Austria on 14 October 2020, in a Nations League 1–0 victory against Romania, as an extra time substitute for Michael Gregoritsch.
On 25 March 2021, he scored his first two international goals in a 2–2 away draw with Scotland during 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification. He was included in the squad for Euro 2020, where he scored a goal in a 2–1 loss after extra-time against Italy in the round of 16.
Style of play
Due to his two-metre stature and relatively slender build, Kalajdžić received comparisons with the English striker Peter Crouch, who similarly to him functioned as an out-and-out target man. During his youth career, Kalajdžić also played as a holding midfielder and referred to Nemanja Matić as an inspiration.
Personal life
Born in Austria, Kalajdžić is of Serbian descent.
International
* Scores and results list Austria's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Kalajdžić goal.
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Sync’ing between Dropbox and Microsoft SkyDrive
I’ve been a long time user of Dropbox to backup my files and particularly lots (and lots) of kids photos. Dropbox has also been a fantastic way to keep a bunch of electronic books / papers easily accessible so I can read them with my iPad on the road.
So when Microsoft has enhanced it’s SkyDrive service I was interested to see how the new client software stacked up against the Dropbox client. I’ve also used Skydrive to exchange presentations with Microsoft SME’s (as part of my Microsoft Community of Practice work within IBM), however it wasn’t easy to upload large files to Skydrive without the use of third party software.
I then thought I’d try to sync between the two cloud services via my Windows 7 laptop, so I’d have a realtime backup my Dropbox files as well. Rather than have two copies of the data on my laptop, I’d try out the NTFS symbolic link command which I’d used with Dropbox in the past.
I installed the Skydrive client from here. During the install, I chose the default SkyDrive folder. I wasn’t brave enough to point the SkyDrive default directory at my Dropbox folder !
Once the SkyDrive client was installed, I ran cmd (as Administrator) and changed to the SkyDrive directory. Which in my case was C:\Users\Darryl Miles\SkyDrive
I decided to choose a test director to sync, rather than all of my Dropbox folder (which is large). I chose my eBooks folder to test, so I then ran the following command:
mklink /d "eBooks" "C:\Users\Darryl Miles\Documents\My Dropbox\eBooks"
So SkyDrive was looking at the same folder as Dropbox is using to store files. I’ve noticed however that SkyDrive doesn’t seem to detect any new files copied into this folder until it’s restarted (which is fine for me, it will then start sync’ing when I restart my laptop – from time to time)
This is a pretty basic way of synchronizing two file storage cloud services. Which people will probably do more of for particular types of data, to protect them from situations such as their cloud provider looses their data… or worse still, going out of business! I’m sure we’ll see more companies providing cloud to cloud data replication services too.
Do you see Microsoft SkyDrive having any success against a very popular Dropbox service?
Darryl
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1. what Ive done is put dropbox folder inside skydive and likely will put the google drive folder inside skydrive too and have dropbox inside google drive.
I think this is quite a cool way to back up stuff as Im using dropbox for backing up and syncing my college work with my win8 netbook/iMac and iPod and because its all being put into skydive now, when I get a windows phone, everything will be already set to go on my windows phone because of skydrive 😀
So I can take advantage of the features each service provides and have extra backing up 🙂
So it wasn’t just me that thought of this idea.
I am so excited for google drive when it releases in UK
2. Thanks this is a really good tip. Rather than sync from one cloud directory to another, I put a link in both skydrive and box.net to a directory in my “documents” directory. That way I don’t have to change the way I normally work
3. Sorry for reviving such an old post but I was wondering if you had found a way of syncing dropbox and skydrive to the same folder without needing to restart skydrive for changes to propagate.
Up to now I was using the same setup, but needing to restart skydrive is a little inconvenient…
1. No problem i suppose, there has not been introduced a adequate solution so far. The only way I could think of to sync dropbox, skydrive, and Google drive automaticly with eachother, apart from other third party platforms, is to put a box inside a box, like was mentioned before. I have been using this method for half a year now, at home, from my desktop. It works quiet well, because I do not often use the same documents on multiple platforms in a short period of time. Sadly, it isn’t an optimal solution, is my experience. as long as your computer is running, the syncing works fine, but when it’s shut down, obviously, it’s not. It resyncs after i’ve booted it up. To me it would be ideal when i do not have to use my desktop for syncing, I’d like that to happen automatically. using a public server would be an interesting option, because it will be running all the time!:) are there any experiences worthwhile sharing on this topic?
4. Is there any way to do this in XP?
The equivalent command to “mklink” in XP is “fsutil”, but the syntax is so different I can’t figure it out.
5. I can’t see how mklink is a solution for pointing multiple folders to the same destination when it will only allow you to issue the command once because the destination folder already exists from the initial run?
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This appears to be more of an advertisement than an article of reference. It is poorly written and mostly unsubstantiated. Can anyone at least confirm whether Matt Monro Jnr's act is primarily a tribute act and/or whether he has any personal merit beyond that? Is there anything in WP guidelines that might justify the (to me) ridiculous number of promotional links to external websites? Can anyone provide citations for any of the statements or, at least, give some sort of chronological substance to the numerous events which appear all to be in the present, immediate tense? If not then I'll have to do it myself and the result may well be a two- or three-line entry. Sitush (talk) 01:03, 12 February 2010 (UTC)
* Per the above, I have now started the process of tidying up the article, which seems to me to be based entirely on the content of one website and that is the subject's own promotional website. In fact, until my recent edits huge chunks of it were copied and pasted from that site, in breach of copyright.
* I have the horrible feeling that an edit war may be looming but I have been in touch with the only recent contributor via his/her talk page in the hope of avoiding this. Without some help or discussion here, I really can see this ending up as a very short stub indeed, sorry. Sitush (talk) 20:50, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
"From that moment he knew he wanted to be a singer"
Not according to an interview published at http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=556898&publicationSubCategoryId=70. In fact, that interview - if it is reliable - debunks quite a lot of the current article content here. Views? Sitush (talk) 21:16, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
* In fact, the above article is pretty much repeated on his promoter's blog - see http://steveoneal.blogspot.com/2010/03/ill-keep-returing-til-i-find-my.html . Consequently, I am deleting the assertion in the article as it is at best not reliable. Sitush (talk) 21:25, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
Notability?
Is there any reliable sourcing showing that Matt Jr is notable in his own right? After all, notability is not inherited!
He does not appear to meet the criteria for Notability for musicians - my suggestion would be that any useful content is moved to his father's article, and then have this article as a redirect to that one. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 15:05, 18 November 2021 (UTC)
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Phalerus (Argonaut)
In Greek mythology, Phalerus (Ancient Greek: Φάληρος) was the son of Alcon from Athens. He is counted among the Argonauts.
Mythology
Phalerus was Alcon's only son, his father took pride in sending him forth to join the Argonauts, so that he would shine conspicuous among those bold heroes, “yet no other sons had he to care for his old age and livelihood”.
It is related of Phalerus that he escaped from Athens to Chalcis in Euboea together with his daughter Chalciope; the Chalcidians refused to deliver him up at the demand of his father. He is credited with having founded Gyrton; he and Acamas are also the reputed founders of the temple of Aphrodite and Isis in Soli. In Phalerum, of which he presumably was the eponym, there was an altar to his and Theseus’s children.
In popular culture
* The field of Phaleristics – the study of medals – is derived from Phalerus's name.
* The Argonaut Phalerus (portrayed by actor Andrew Faulds) appears as a minor character in the 1963 fantasy film Jason and the Argonauts, in whose climactic end battle he and his companion Castor are – contrary to mythology – slain by a group of undead skeletons.
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Roman found situations where he had
case (f n) of _ -> e
where he knew that f (which was strict in n) would terminate if n did.
Notice that the result of (f n) is discarded. So it makes sense to
transform to
case n of _ -> e
Rather than attempt some general analysis to support this, I've added
enough support that you can do this using a rewrite rule:
RULE "f/seq" forall n. seq (f n) e = seq n e
You write that rule. When GHC sees a case expression that discards
its result, it mentally transforms it to a call to 'seq' and looks for
a RULE. (This is done in Simplify.rebuildCase.) As usual, the
correctness of the rule is up to you.
This patch implements the extra stuff. I have not documented it explicitly
in the user manual yet... let's see how useful it is first.
The patch looks bigger than it is, because
a) Comments; see esp MkId Note [seqId magic]
b) Some refactoring. Notably, I moved the special desugaring for
seq from MkCore back into DsUtils where it properly belongs.
(It's really a desugaring thing, not a CoreSyn invariant.)
c) Annoyingly, in a RULE left-hand side we need to be careful that
the magical desugaring done in MkId Note [seqId magic] item (c)
is *not* done on the LHS of a rule. Or rather, we arrange to
un-do it, in DsBinds.decomposeRuleLhs.
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User:Lesanonymous/History of Mexico
* Order of things:
* Prehistory (Migration, Stone age)
Prehistory
* Known dates of inhabitation: El Cedral 30,000 BP. Valsequillo and Tlapacoya 22,000 BP. Tehuacán Valley 12,000 BP.
* The diet of ancient Mexico was varied, including corn (or maize), squashes such as pumpkin and butternut squash, common or pinto beans, tomatoes, peppers, cassava, pineapples, chocolate, and tobacco. The Three Sisters (corn, squash, and beans) constituted the principle diet.
* Not terribly different from today
* Indigenous peoples in western Mexico began to selectively breed maize (Zea mays) plants from precursor grasses (e.g., teosinte) around 8000 BC, and intensive corn farming began between 1800 and 1500 BC in Tehuacán Valley.
Many of the deities depicted are common to the various civilizations and their worship survived over long periods of time. Despite differences of chronology or geography, the crucial aspects of this religious pantheon were shared amongst the people of ancient Mesoamerica.
* Religion
* The Mesoamericans had a belief where everything represented a manifestation of the supernatural.
* To what extent is this similar or different from other pre-Colombian belief systems?
* (Image on right) Gods and goddesses are often depicted in stone reliefs, pottery decoration, wall paintings and in the various Maya, Aztec and Mixtec codices.
* This can be implied, but explain the significance of the sun stone, or use other example, of religious decoration on artifacts
* Which deities? How long? Common to various meso-american civilizations, common Mexican civilization?
* Great masks with gaping jaws and monstrous features in stone or stucco were often located at the entrance to temples, symbolizing a cavern or cave on the flanks of the mountains that allowed access to the depths of Mother Earth and the shadowy roads that lead to the underworld.
* Good for image caption
* Cults connected with the jaguar and jade especially permeated religion throughout Mesoamerica.
* Cults? How so? Or more "mainstream" religions? Were there cultures that did not have any special emphasis on one or the other or both?
* Jade, with its translucent green color was revered along with water as a symbol of life and fertility.
* Caption
* The jaguar, agile, powerful and fast, was connected with warriors and as spirit guides of shamans.
* Caption
* Thus, this quality of acceptance of new gods to the collection of existing gods may have been one of the shaping characteristics for the success during the Christianization of Mesoamerica.
* Place in the Christianity/Conquest area
* New gods did not at once replace the old; they initially joined the ever growing family of deities or were merged together with existing ones that seemed to share similar characteristics or responsibilities.
* Needs better source
* Writing
* Mesoamerica is the only place in the Americas where indigenous writing systems were invented and used before European colonization.
* Citation needed.
* While the types of writing systems in Mesoamerica range from minimalist "picture-writing" to complex logophonetic systems capable to recording speech and literature, they all share some core features that make them visually and functionally distinct from other writing systems of the world.
* Clarify.
The great civilizations
Ancient Mexico can be said to have produced five major civilizations: the Olmec, Maya, Teotihuacan,Toltec, and Aztec. Unlike other indigenous Mexican societies, these civilizations (with the exception of the politically fragmented Maya) extended their political and cultural reach across Mexico and beyond. They consolidated power and exercised influence in matters of trade, art, politics, technology, and religion. Over a span of 3,000 years, other regional powers made economic and political alliances with them; many made war on them. But almost all found themselves within their spheres of influence.
The Olmec (1400-400 BC)
The Olmec first appeared along the Atlantic coast (in what is now the state of Tabasco) in the period 1500-900 BC. The Olmecs were the first Mesoamerican culture to produce an identifiable artistic and cultural style, and may also have the society that invented writing in Mesoamerica. By the Middle Preclassic Period (900-300 BC), Olmec artistic styles had been adopted as far away as the Valley of Mexico and Costa Rica.
The Maya
Mayan cultural characteristics, such as the rise of the ahau, or king, can be traced from 300 BC onwards. During the centuries preceding the classical period, Mayan kingdoms sprang up in an area stretching from the Pacific coasts of southern Mexico and Guatemala to the northern Yucatán Peninsula. The egalitarian Mayan society of pre-royal centuries gradually gave way to a society controlled by a wealthy elite that began building large ceremonial temples and complexes. The earliest known long-count date, 199 AD, heralds the classic period, during which the Mayan kingdoms supported a population numbering in the millions. Tikal, the largest of the kingdoms, alone had 500,000 inhabitants when the Spaniards came they brought disease guns and steel. With those tools they wiped out most of their civilization. (though the average population of a kingdom was much smaller—somewhere under 50,000 people). ...
The Teotihuacan
Teotihuacan is an enormous archaeological site in the Basin of Mexico, containing some of the largest pyramidal structures built in the pre-Columbian Americas. Apart from the pyramidal structures, Teotihuacan is also known for its large residential complexes, the Avenue of the Dead, and numerous colorful, well-preserved murals. Additionally, Teotihuacan produced a thin orange pottery style that spread through Mesoamerica.
The city is thought to have been established around 100 BCE and continued to be built until about 250 CE. The city may have lasted until sometime between the 7th and 8th centuries CE. At its zenith, perhaps in the first half of the 1st millennium CE, Teotihuacan was the largest city in the pre-Columbian Americas. At this time it may have had more than 200,000 inhabitants, placing it among the largest cities of the world in this period. Teotihuacan was even home to multi-floor apartment compounds built to accommodate this large population. The civilization and cultural complex associated with the site is also referred to as Teotihuacan or Teotihuacano. Although it is a subject of debate whether Teotihuacan was the center of a state empire, its influence throughout Mesoamerica is well documented; evidence of Teotihuacano presence can be seen at numerous sites in Veracruz and the Maya region. The Aztecs may have been influenced by this city. The ethnicity of the inhabitants of Teotihuacan is also a subject of debate. Possible candidates are the Nahua, Otomi or Totonac ethnic groups. Scholars have also suggested that Teotihuacan was a multiethnic state.
The Toltec
The Toltec culture is an archaeological Mesoamerican culture that dominated a state centered in Tula, Hidalgo in the early post-classic period of Mesoamerican chronology (ca 800-1000 CE). The later Aztec culture saw the Toltecs as their intellectual and cultural predecessors and described Toltec culture emanating from Tollan (Nahuatl for Tula) as the epitome of civilization, indeed in the Nahuatl language the word "Toltec" came to take on the meaning "artisan". The Aztec oral and pictographic tradition also described the history of the Toltec empire giving lists of rulers and their exploits. Among modern scholars it is a matter of debate whether the Aztec narratives of Toltec history should be given credence as descriptions of actual historical events. While all scholars acknowledge that there is a large mythological part of the narrative some maintain that by using a critical comparative method some level of historicity can be salvaged from the sources, whereas others maintain that continued analysis of the narratives as sources of actual history is futile and hinders access to actual knowledge of the culture of Tula, Hidalgo. Other controversy relating to the Toltecs include how best to understand reasons behind the perceived similarities in architecture and iconography between the archaeological site of Tula and the Maya site of Chichén Itzá - as of yet no consensus has emerged about the degree or direction of influence between the two sites.
The Aztec Empire (1325-1521 AD)
The Nahua peoples began to enter central Mexico in the 6th Century AD. By the 12th Century, they had established their center at Azcapotzalco, the city of the Tepanecs.
The Mexica people arrived in the Valley of Mexico in 1248 AD. They had migrated from the deserts north of the Rio Grande over a period traditionally said to have been 100 years. They may have thought of themselves as the heirs to the prestigious civilizations that had preceded them. What the Aztec initially lacked in political power, however, they made up for with ambition and military skill. In 1325, they established the biggest city in the world at that time, Tenochtitlan.
'Aztec religion was based on the belief that the universe required the constant offering of human blood to continue functioning; to meet this need, the Aztec sacrificed thousands of people. This belief is thought to have been common throughout Nahuatl people. To acquire captives in times of peace, the Aztec resorted to a form of ritual warfare called flower war. The Tlaxcalteca, among other Nahuatl nations, were forced into such wars.
In 1428, the Aztec led a war of liberation against their rulers from the city of Azcapotzalco, which had subjugated most of the Valley of Mexico's peoples. The revolt was successful, and the Aztecs became the rulers of central Mexico as the leaders of the Triple Alliance. The alliance was composed of the city-states of Tenochtitlan, Texcoco, and Tlacopan.
At their peak, 350,000 Aztec presided over a wealthy tribute-empire comprising 10 million people, almost half of Mexico's estimated population of 24 million. Their empire stretched from ocean to ocean, and extended into Central America. The westward expansion of the empire was halted by a devastating military defeat at the hands of the Purepecha (who possessed weapons made of copper). The empire relied upon a system of taxation (of goods and services), which were collected through an elaborate bureaucracy of tax collectors, courts, civil servants, and local officials who were installed as loyalists to the Triple Alliance.
By 1519, the Aztec capital, Mexico-Tenochtitlan, the site of modern-day Mexico City, was one of the largest cities in the world, with a population of 30,000 (estimates range as high as 60,000).
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N order rightly to appraise the value of Karl von Linné's contributions to biological science, it is necessary to bear in mind two very axiomatic facts. Our first axiom is that Linnæus became a point of departure in the history of modern biology only because he was in turn the product of the intersection of a great number of important causal series, which ramify and intertwine indefinitely and stretch back into the remote past of every aspect of life. The second axiom is that every new idea, or, for that matter, every new event, is the fertile hybrid from the fortuitous crossing of two or more specifically distinct old ideas, or events. And in order that we may discern a few of these fortuitous crossings and follow a little some of these interminable and intricate streams of cause and effect, it may not be inappropriate, in connection with the two-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Linnæus, to touch briefly upon a series of seven epochs of thought, from Aristotle to Darwin; and further to glance at the principles and facts upon which Linnæus based his two great contributions to the broader knowledge of the class of which man is the dominating member.
Not to go back indefinitely, we begin with the Aristotelian or initial analytic epoch of the fourth century Aristotle's theory of the genetic relationship of the chain of beings from polyp to man did not, of course, materially influence Linnæus. The idea of evolution which St. Thomas Aquinas, the "princeps scholasticorum" understood and developed, was not destined to come to its fruition through the schoolmen or even in Linnæus or Cuvier. But the true relation of Aristotle's thought to that of Ray and Linnæus may be exhibited in the following well-known citations from "The Parts of Animals."
Some animals are viviparous, some oviparous, some vermiparous. The viviparous are such as man, and the horse, and all those animals which have hair; and of the aquatic animals, the whale kind, as the dolphin and
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This is a common injury that athletes and avid runners experience. Also, you can develop plantar fasciitis if you’re overweight or obese and don’t have sufficient support in your shoes.
What are the common signs and symptoms of plantar fasciitis?
The most common symptom of plantar fasciitis is stabbing pain on the bottom of your foot or on your heel. Plantar fasciitis can be extremely painful.
You usually feel the pain associated with plantar fasciitis right when you wake up in the morning, only to see it subside as you get your day started. However, the pain returns after long periods of standing, sitting and then standing, or physical activity.
Plantar fasciitis usually flares up and hurts after exercise, but not necessarily during it.
What causes plantar fasciitis?
A common cause of plantar fasciitis is the type of exercise you frequently engage in. For example, physical activity that places stress on your heels, such as distance running or certain types of dance, are more likely than other forms of exercise to cause plantar fasciitis.
However, there are other risk factors involved. Obesity is a common risk factor, as is having an occupation that keeps you on your feet for long periods of time. Also, being flat-footed and having an abnormal walk or foot mechanics can contribute to a plantar fasciitis diagnosis.
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Koch network to spend $300-400 million on 2018 midterms
The Koch network will spend 60% more on the 2018 cycle than it did on the 2016 presidential election, the largest midterm investment it's ever had, Tim Phillips of Americans for Prosperity told reporters Saturday. This includes up to $20 million on “communicating the benefits of tax reform," along with other policy and politics efforts. The network spent about $250 million on policy and politics in the 2016 cycle. Why this matters: Midterm elections are typically very difficult for the party in power, even without the scandals that have occurred under the Trump administration. The network sees the regulatory and legislative victories of the administration as hugely important and are going all-out to protect them.
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I am evaluating the Hypanthium article.
I chose this article because I have trouble identifying this structure in flowers. It's important because our class covers floral structures and it continues to be an important theme in our labs. My first impression of the article is that there is not much writing on it.
Evaluate the article
1) I think the lead section is good. The introductory sentence explains what a hypanthium is, and the following sentences introduce the next major section (variations in hypanthia). However I think all of the information is in the lead section. There is not much more to go into detail with, which results in only one other major section.
2) I am not sure if the content is very up-to-date. The most recent cited source was from 2014, and then 2010. I suppose floral structures won't change too drastically in this time but it would be nice to have more recent sources to see if there are new developments.
3) The article is neutral and reads like a science textbook.
4) The sources and references on this article are on the weaker side. There are only 7 references which is low. The most recent cited source does not seem reliable as it is someone's blog. The link also only leads to the main page of the blog and not the specific blogpost of the hypanthium. The older sources seem more reliable as they look like published books and articles. However many links do not work.
5) The writing is concise. But there is not much information to begin with. As I mentioned earlier there is only one section outside of the lead section.
6) The pictures are not helpful in identifying a hypanthium. None of them are labelled. The longer captions are slightly confusing without labels in the pictures.
7) There is nothing on the talk page.
My overall impression of the article is that it is underdeveloped. It has the most essential and basic information about what a hypanthium is, but it lacks depth. It does not go into much detail and the images are unhelpful in identifying a hypanthium. It also does not have any recent reliable sources. It can be improved by adding labelled pictures and drawing from more sources, especially recent ones. If there is more information about the hypanthium, that would also improve the article.
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Comfier Sleep by Bernice Abuan 2 minutes
Sleeping with eyes open: what is nocturnal lagophthalmos?
Have you ever entered your bedroom late at night and started talking to your partner who was chilling out on the bed, just to hear them snore loudly in response? While lying there with their eyes open? No, they are not faking it, they really are sleeping. Can you sleep with your eyes open? Yes. And it is more common than you think. This condition is called nocturnal lagophthalmos and it affects about 1 in 5 people!
Sleeping with eyes open: what causes nocturnal lagophthalmos?
The most common causes of nocturnal lagophthalmos are problems with facial muscles, nerves or skin around the eyes. These problems can come as a result of injury or illness, such as stroke, Bell’s palsy (a condition that causes temporary paralysis or weakness in facial muscles), a disorder Moebius syndrome, which causes problems with cranial nerves, or autoimmune disorders such as Graves’ disease which causes bulging eyes.
But sometimes, there is no clear cause or underlying medical problem. Nocturnal lagophthalmos can also be simply due to genetics.
How do you know if you have nocturnal lagophthalmos? Unless you have a partner who will be properly freaked out witnessing you snore with your eyes half open, you won’t know it with any certainty.
But there are some common symptoms that might point to this condition. People who sleep with their eyes open often wake up with red eyes or blurry vision, or eyes that feel dry or irritated.
Is nocturnal lagophthalmos bad?
If your eyes are not fully closed that means they’re not properly lubricated. While nocturnal lagophthalmos is generally a dangerous condition, it can lead to eye problems down the road, such as eye infections or exposure keratopathy (damage to the cornea). It also negatively affects the quality of your sleep. Both the light that is not properly blocked by your eyelids, and the irritated eyes will not let you sleep as soundly as you could have otherwise.
As treatment, your doctor may prescribe eye drops, moisture goggles or medical-grade hypoallergenic tape that is gently applied to keep the eyelids closed.
It may help to sleep with a humidifier in your bedroom to keep the air moist.
In more severe cases, surgery may be performed, when a gold weight is implanted into the eyelid to help keep it closed at night.
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No Hodings Lymphoma
Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma
Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, also called non-Hodgkin lymphoma, is cancer that originates in the lymphatic system, the disease-fighting network spread throughout your body. In non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, tumors develop from lymphocytes — a type of white blood cell.
Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma is more common than the other general type of lymphoma — Hodgkin lymphoma.
Many different subtypes of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma exist. The most common non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma subtypes include diffuse large B-cell lymphoma and follicular lymphoma.
Causes
Doctors aren’t sure what causes non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma occurs when your body produces too many abnormal lymphocytes — a type of white blood cell.
Normally, lymphocytes go through a predictable life cycle. Old lymphocytes die, and your body creates new ones to replace them. In non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, your lymphocytes don’t die, but continue to grow and divide. This oversupply of lymphocytes crowds into your lymph nodes, causing them to swell.
B cells and T cells
Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma can begin in the:
• B cells.B cells fight infection by producing antibodies that neutralize foreign invaders. Most non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma arises from B cells.
Subtypes of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma that involve B cells include diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, follicular lymphoma, mantle cell lymphoma and Burkitt lymphoma.
• T cells.T cells are involved in killing foreign invaders directly. Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma occurs less often in T cells.
Subtypes of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma that involve T cells include peripheral T-cell lymphoma and cutaneous T-cell lymphoma.
Whether your non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma arises from your B cells or T cells helps to determine your treatment options.
Where non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma occurs
Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma generally involves the presence of cancerous lymphocytes in your lymph nodes, but the disease can also spread to other parts of your lymphatic system. These include the lymphatic vessels, tonsils, adenoids, spleen, thymus and bone marrow. Occasionally, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma involves organs outside of your lymphatic system.
Risk factors
In most cases, people diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma don’t have any obvious risk factors, and many people who have risk factors for the disease never develop it. Some factors that may increase the risk of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma include:
• Medications that suppress your immune system.If you’ve had an organ transplant, you’re more susceptible because immunosuppressive therapy has reduced your body’s ability to fight off new illnesses.
• Infection with certain viruses and bacteria.Certain viral and bacterial infections appear to increase the risk of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Viruses linked to increased non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma risk include HIV and Epstein-Barr virus. Bacteria linked to an increased risk of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma include the ulcer-causing Helicobacter pylori.
• Certain chemicals, such as those used to kill insects and weeds, may increase your risk of developing non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. More research is needed to understand the possible link between pesticides and the development of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
• Older age.Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma can occur at any age, but the risk increases with age. It’s most common in people in their 60s or older.
Symptoms
Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma symptoms may include:
• Painless, swollen lymph nodes in your neck, armpits or groin
• Abdominal pain or swelling
• Chest pain, coughing or trouble breathing
• Fatigue
• Fever
• Night sweats
• Weight loss
Homoeopathic Treatment
The scope of Homeopathy for cancer management varies depending on the type of cancer, stage of cancer and the general health of the patient. Following are some of the aspects of Cancer management with Homeopathy:
• One of the most distressing complaints associated with some varieties of Cancer is the agonizing pain. Conventional medicines can provide pain relief but only to a certain extent and these medicines are not without any side effects. Moreover there is always a restriction to the dosage that can be safely administered to the patient. The advantage of administering Homeopathic medicines in such cases is that there can be effective pain control without inducing any side effects.
• Homeopathy can help in improving the general well being and vitality of the patient.
• Conventional treatment options for cancer (chemotherapy, radiotherapy, etc) are associated with distressing side effects and homeopathy can play a definitive role to counter these side effects.
• The diagnosis of cancer often leaves the patient with a sense of depression, anxiety and fear. The treatment may induce additional irritability, impatience and mood fluctuations. Homeopathy can influence the psyche of the patient and help him to deal with these emotions in a better way.
• Homeopathic medicines may also have a role to play in controlling the pace at which the disease increases and spread of the disease to other organs.
Homeopathic medicines can also be administered along with the allopathic medicines.
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Morehead River Important Bird Area
The Morehead River Important Bird Area comprises a 1356 km2 tract of tropical savanna woodland in the south-eastern Cape York Peninsula of Far North Queensland, Australia.
Description
The land is mainly pastoral lease used for extensive cattle grazing. It consista of low hills drained by ephemeral creeks and covered with open savanna woodland containing Melaleucas. It also has narrow strips of riparian rainforest adjoining grasslands. It has a monsoonal tropical savanna climate.
Birds
The site has been identified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area (IBA) because it supports a large proportion of the population of the endangered golden-shouldered parrot, and possibly of the buff-breasted button-quail. It also contains significant populations of black-throated and masked finches, bush stone-curlews, silver-crowned friarbirds, and yellow-tinted, yellow, banded, white-gaped and bar-breasted honeyeaters. During the wet season azure kingfishers occur along the streams with rainforest birds such as fairy gerygones and pied imperial-pigeons. The wet grasslands are used by Latham's snipes on migration and by brolgas for nesting. Black-breasted buzzards sometimes nest in the IBA and red goshawks have been recorded there.
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ross.CriticalSpeedResults
class ross.CriticalSpeedResults(_wn, _wd, log_dec, damping_ratio, whirl_direction)
Class used to store results from run_critical_speed() method.
Parameters
_wnarray
Undamped critical speeds array.
_wdarray
Undamped critical speeds array.
log_decarray
Logarithmic decrement for each critical speed.
damping_ratioarray
Damping ratio for each critical speed.
whirl_directionarray
Whirl direction for each critical speed. Can be forward, backward or mixed.
Methods
__init__(_wn, _wd, log_dec, damping_ratio, whirl_direction)
classmethod load(file)
Load results from a .toml file.
This function will load the simulation results from a .toml file. The file must have all the argument’s names and values that are needed to reinstantiate the class.
Parameters
filestr, pathlib.Path
The name of the file the results will be loaded from.
Examples
>>> # Example running a stochastic unbalance response
>>> from tempfile import tempdir
>>> from pathlib import Path
>>> import ross as rs
>>> # Running an example
>>> rotor = rs.rotor_example()
>>> freq_range = np.linspace(0, 500, 31)
>>> n = 3
>>> m = 0.01
>>> p = 0.0
>>> results = rotor.run_unbalance_response(n, m, p, freq_range)
>>> # create path for a temporary file
>>> file = Path(tempdir) / 'unb_resp.toml'
>>> results.save(file)
>>> # Loading file
>>> results2 = rs.ForcedResponseResults.load(file)
>>> abs(results2.forced_resp).all() == abs(results.forced_resp).all()
True
classmethod read_toml_data(data)
Read and parse data stored in a .toml file.
The data passed to this method needs to be according to the format saved in the .toml file by the .save() method.
Parameters
datadict
Dictionary obtained from toml.load().
Returns
The result object.
save(file)
Save results in a .toml file.
This function will save the simulation results to a .toml file. The file will have all the argument’s names and values that are needed to reinstantiate the class.
Parameters
filestr, pathlib.Path
The name of the file the results will be saved in.
Examples
>>> # Example running a unbalance response
>>> from tempfile import tempdir
>>> from pathlib import Path
>>> import ross as rs
>>> # Running an example
>>> rotor = rs.rotor_example()
>>> speed = np.linspace(0, 1000, 101)
>>> response = rotor.run_unbalance_response(node=3,
... unbalance_magnitude=0.001,
... unbalance_phase=0.0,
... frequency=speed)
>>> # create path for a temporary file
>>> file = Path(tempdir) / 'unb_resp.toml'
>>> response.save(file)
wd(frequency_units='rad/s')
Convert units for damped critical speeds.
Parameters
frequency_unitsstr, optional
Critical speeds units. Default is rad/s
Returns
wdarray
Undamped critical speeds array.
wn(frequency_units='rad/s')
Convert units for undamped critical speeds.
Parameters
frequency_unitsstr, optional
Critical speeds units. Default is rad/s
Returns
wnarray
Undamped critical speeds array.
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Herbal Remedies for Lyme Disease
Lyme disease is caused by a bacterial infection 1. The Family Doctor website states that Lyme disease is carried by both deer ticks and western black-legged ticks and is spread to humans via tick bites 1. Lyme disease most commonly occurs in parts of the northeastern and midwestern United States 1. Herbal remedies have been used for many years to help treat Lyme disease, but you should always meet with your doctor before taking herbs to discuss other beneficial treatments 1.
Is This an Emergency?
If you are experiencing serious medical symptoms, seek emergency treatment immediately.
Lyme Disease
According to the American Lyme Disease Foundation, if left untreated, the bacteria that cause Lyme disease travels through your bloodstream and invades certain body tissues, causing symptoms ranging from mild to severe 1. One of the most characteristic symptoms of Lyme disease is a red rash that resembles a bull's-eye or target 1. Other common symptoms include flu-like symptoms, joint pain that moves from one joint to another, neurological symptoms and an irregular heartbeat.
Herbal Approach
Phyllis A. Balch, a certified nutritional consultant and author of "Prescription for Nutritional Healing," states that Lyme disease is usually treatable and curable, as long as it is caught in its early phases 12. Balch recommends several herbs for Lyme disease, including alfalfa for the minerals it supplies your body, dandelion root, ginseng, hawthorn and marshmallow root for rebuilding your blood and injured tissues, and echinacea to improve your immune system 1. Other helpful herbal remedies may include goldenseal, milk thistle and red clover.
Goldenseal is an herbal remedy that herbalists and other health-care providers often prescribe for Lyme disease 1. The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine states that goldenseal was historically used by Native Americans to help treat ulcers, gonorrhea and skin diseases 3. Goldenseal is a natural antibiotic that may also help treat Lyme disease, allergies, bladder disorders, prostate problems and weakened immune system 1. Goldenseal helps fight infection and reduces inflammation in your body.
Warning
Lyme disease, although easily treated if caught early, can lead to serious health complications if left untreated, including arthritis, spleen and lymph node enlargement, eye inflammation, hepatitis, irregular heart rhythm and damage to your cardiovascular and central nervous systems 1. If you suspect you might have Lyme disease, visit a qualified health care professional as soon as possible to get a definitive diagnosis and discuss treatment options 1. Always talk with your doctor about the safety and efficacy of herbal treatments before using herbs to treat this condition.
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How to use Exercise Bands
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How to use Exercise Bands
When you learn how to use exercise bands, you will see that they are really fun because there is always something rare and new that you can discover by using them. An exercise band is essentially a portable workout tool that is a lot cheaper and suitable for all ages, young and adult, male and female. It is a simple device that can significantly develop your muscle and strength and can work muscle groups all over the body. It is capable of providing invariable degree of tension. As it can be used anywhere, you don’t need to go to the gym to use one. Whether you are at home, in transit, or in your work place, maximize the use of your exercise band. Below are some tips.
1. Think of your safety first before anything else. Understand that exercise bands can be dangerous in a way if they are not handled properly. There are cases in which they can cause injury on account of their elasticity. In case you are do know what to do with it, go back to the basics of using free weights. The only notable difference is how you position it.
2. Biceps building. A band utilized with arm curls is really good for building biceps. So far, this is the easiest exercise you can do with an exercise band. Step on the band with your right foot, grab both ends with your hand, and pull upward to do a curl. As you progress, increase the challenge by stepping on the band with your feet together and do the same thing. Slowly, place your feet apart so it becomes harder and harder to do a curl.
3. Triceps extension building. This is the same as No. 2, but you do a triceps extension instead. Raise your arm straight up and bend it back toward your head. Grab both ends with your hand and extend up to work your triceps.
4. Chest presses. Look for a strong post and wrap your band around it. Place both ends in each hand and pull forward while both arms stay parallel to the floor at chest level.
5. Squats. Go back to position No. 2 with your feet on the exercise band. Slowly bend both knees into a squat. You’re your arms bent and the ends of the band in both hands as if you are lifting a bar up. Then stand up straight and continue doing squats.
6. Work your butt. Start by wrapping the exercise band on either foot; let’s say the left foot. Gradually raise your leg until it reaches shoulder level at most. Hold your position for a moment and then release your body by slowly putting down your left leg. Do the same with your right leg.
All that we have identified are just a few of the motions you can do with your exercise bands. The truth is that you can experiment and discover more moves, but always be prudent and take care to not injure yourself. Depending on your level, you can choose either a light, medium-strength, or heavy-strength band. Also, exercise bands come in different colors so pick one you like. As you continue learning how to use exercise bands, you will discover its versatility. You may end up bringing your band wherever you go!
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Edward Joris
Edward Joris (1876–1957) was a Belgian Flemish anarchist who was involved in the 1905 bombing in Constantinople known as the Yıldız assassination attempt, which was directed against the Sultan Abdul Hamid II as a retribution for the Hamidian massacres.
Through his anarchism, he took an interest in anticolonialism and became involved in the attempt after meeting two leaders of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF), Vramshabouh Kendirian and one of the founders of the organization, Christapor Mikaelian.
He was sentenced to death, which triggered a significant protest movement in Belgium, involving both the Walloons and the Flemish, drawing comparisons to the Dreyfus Affair in France, with numerous political interventions advocating for his release. Supporters of his release were referred to as "Jorisards" and, while connected to the French Dreyfusards, they managed to secure his release by exerting pressure on both French and Belgian authorities.
Edward Joris was sent back to Belgium a few years later. He died in 1957 in Antwerp.
Youth and move into the Ottoman Empire
Born in 1876, Joris lost his father when he was 4 years old.
He left school at 13 and worked as a shipping clerk. Engaging in left-wing politics, he was secretary of his local branch of the Belgian Workers' Party from 1895 to 1898, as well as for a trade union. He contributed to the anarchist newspaper Ontwaking under the pseudonym Edward Greene and defended an anarcho-syndicalist stance in his publications.
In 1901 he travelled to Constantinople, where he was briefly employed writing commercial correspondence in French and English and then found work at the Singer sewing machine company. In 1902 his fiancée, Anna Nellens, joined him in Istanbul and they got married, even if he seemed to have been somewhat reluctant to do so.
On August 14, 1902, he was dismissed by his employer and found employment again by the end of the year 1902 in a sewing company in Constantinople.
Mosque Yıldız Attack
The connections between anarchists and the Armenian national liberation movement were established in the 1890s, notably with Alexander Atabekian. In 1904, during an annual congress bringing together Armenian and Bulgarian representatives, the Armenian Revolutionary Federation decided to assassinate Sultan Abdul Hamid II in response to the Hamidian massacres. One of the French anarchist representatives sensitized to the Armenian issue, Pierre Quillard, attended the congress and reported to his anarchist colleagues that the Armenians intended to use 'extreme methods.' Edward Joris later said that it was the reading of Quillard's journal, Pro Armenia, that motivated his choice to support the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF).
In this context, Joris met a colleague named Vramshabouh Kendirian, nicknamed Vram. Vram introduced him to one of the leaders of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF), Christapor Mikaelian, representing the Marxist branch of the ARF. He sheltered two conspirators in his home, and his house served as a meeting place for discussions and storage of explosives and firearms. Both Vramshabouh Kendirian and Christapor Mikaelian die in 1905 in Sofia, Bulgaria, while experimenting with explosive devices.
His passport was found on Kendirian's body, and Joris expressed deep sorrow over Kendirian's death, referring to him as a "very good friend." In total, 39 individuals were involved in the plot, including his wife, Anna Nellens, and the self-proclaimed daughter of Christapor Mikaelian, Nadedja Datalian.
Joris enabled the organization to bypass customs, allowing the cart carrying the explosives to pass through, coming from Vienna. The explosives, consisting of 140 kilograms of picric acid, were conveyed by Bulgarian sailors.
The bombing was carried out on 21 July 1905, killing 26 and injuring 58 but failing to harm the sultan himself. Joris was arrested six days later. He was brought to trial on 25 November and sentenced to death on 18 December. Due to diplomatic pressure from Belgium, the sentence was never carried out. His wife was also sentenced to death, but in absentia, as she managed to escape before being apprehended by the Ottoman police. He spoke during his trial and declared: "About a year before the attempt I read a manifest in the Parisian paper Pro Armenia for the poor Armenians. This made a deep impression on me. It was my duty to make myself available to the Armenian committee. That is how I came to Constantinople."
Contestation, Jorisards and freedom
While he was imprisoned, awaiting his execution, a significant protest movement emerged in Belgium to support him. Its members, referred to as the "Jorisards," demanded his immediate release and were likened to the Dreyfusards of Belgium by historians. They received support from notable Dreyfusards, such as Georges Clemenceau, who published a letter from one of their leaders, Georges Lorand, a progressive Walloon deputy and leader of the Jorisards, in L'Aurore. The Human Rights League in France also demonstrated for Edward Joris' release. The movement quickly extended beyond the anarchist circle of Antwerp and spread throughout Belgian society, particularly among intellectual socialist and left-leaning elites, uniting both Walloons and Flemish. On June 22, 1907, in Les Temps Nouveaux, a French anarchist journal, Jean Grave and Segher Rabaud published two statements of support for Edward Joris. In these, they declared, among other things: "Our comrades remember Joris, accused in the plot against the Yldiz-Kiosk bandit, sentenced to death by the judges of the massacrer a year and a half ago. [...] The Armenians are arrested en masse, and Joris, the dangerous and terrible one, who from the depths of his cell makes the bombs dance, will suffer from closer surveillance due to the dirty exploits of the police scum."Due to diplomatic pressure from Belgium and France, the sentence was not carried out. A support committee was established by left-wing intellectuals in Belgium to maintain pressure on the Belgian government to work towards his release. Joris was kept in prison until 23 December 1907 and then returned to Belgium. His letters from prison formed the basis of a later book about his involvement in the plot.
After his return to Belgium, Joris worked as a bookseller and was secretary to the Antwerp branch of the Ligue des droits de l'homme. After the First World War he was convicted of supporting the occupying forces' Flamenpolitik, and sought refuge in the Netherlands. He returned to Belgium after an amnesty in 1929 and worked as a self-employed publicity agent. He died in 1957.
Anarchism and the Armenian national movement
The proximity between an anarchist internationalist and the Armenian national movement has been questioned, but Maarten Van Ginderachter believes that during that time, anarchist figures like Bakunin or Proudhon were open to supporting small anti-colonial national movements, such as the demands of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation:"Joris’s best friend Resseler explicitly mentioned Armenia in September 1901 as one example of bourgeois-capitalist violence toward the working class in a longer list: ‘Our whole bourgeois society is based on violence: all governments burn and kill in the Transvaal, in China, in the Congo, on Java, in Cuba and on the Philippines, in Armenia’. This was a clear example of the emphatic anarchist interest in anti-imperialism and anticolonialism.From this synopsis it is important to remember that there is no necessary theoretical or practical contradiction between socialism (be it anarchist or reformist), nationalism (be it cultural or political) and internationalism. In general, anarchists were more drawn to anticolonial struggles in the Third World than Marxists. We do know from contemporary sources that Joris held radically internationalist, cosmopolitan ideas, in favor of ‘worldly solidarity’ and ‘humanity’. Recounting the court proceedings to his wife in an undated letter from his Istanbul prison, he claimed to have said in court: ‘The whole Universe is my fatherland, the whole of humanity is my family and all those who suffer are my brothers. I do not recognize any borders.' At the same time, however, Joris clearly believed in the existence of separate peoples that had distinct national qualities. His writings on Armenia are a case in point."
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Bademus
Bademus (also known as Bademe and Vadim) was a rich, noble citizen of Bethlapeta in Persia, who founded a monastery nearby. He and some of his disciples were arrested and Bademus was martyred in the year 376; he was subsequently recognized as a saint.
Martyrology
In the thirty-sixth year of Shapur II's persecution, Bademus was arrested with seven of his monks. For months, he lay in chains in a dungeon. At the same time, a Christian lord named Nersan, Prince of Aria, was also imprisoned because he refused to convert to Zoroastrianism. At first, he appeared resolved to keep the faith, but at the sight of tortures he gave in, and promised to conform. In order to test Nersan's sincerity, King Shapur ordered that Bademus be moved into Nersan's cell, which was actually a chamber in the royal palace. Shapur further instructed Nersan that if he would kill Bademus, his princely rights and dignities would be restored.
Nersan accepted the conditions. A sword was placed in his hand, and he advanced so as to plunge it into the abbot's chest. However, he was seized with a sudden terror, so he stopped short, and was unable to lift up his arm to strike for some time. Even so, he attempted to harden himself, and continued, trembling, to aim at Bademus' sides. A combination of fear, shame, remorse, and respect made his strokes weak and unsteady. The martyr's wounds were so numerous that the bystanders are said to have been in admiration of his invincible patience.
The resolute martyr chided his torturer, saying, "Unhappy Nersan, to what a pitch of impiety do you carry your apostasy. With joy I run to meet death; but could wish to fall by some other hand than yours: why must you be my executioner?"
It took four strokes for Nersan to successfully separate Bademus' head from his body. A short time after, Nersan committed suicide. The body of Saint Bademus was cast out of the city by the Sassanids, but was carried away and buried in secret by the Christians. His disciples were released from their chains in 379, after the death of King Shapur.
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In the creation, operation, and maintenance of software systems, data can be stored in many places: on physical or virtual disks, files, databases, and backups (which can take various forms as well). I discuss each one of these below, but the concept is relatively straightforward:
• Choose an appropriate algorithm and key
• Apply the encryption to the data
• Store the key in a safe place for use when you need to decrypt the data
Block vs. Stream Ciphers
For data at rest, the encrypt and decrypt key is one and the same. This is called symmetric encryption, and there are two varieties of algorithm used: block ciphers and stream ciphers.
Block ciphers encrypt data in fixed-size chunks. A common option is AES (Advanced Encryption Standard), and it comes in various encryption chunk sizes (known as block length), e.g., 128 bits.
Stream ciphers encrypt data one bit at a time. This is a highly secure method; however, it is quite impractical because of the large amounts of key data it needs to work (one for every bit). Variations have been used with a pseudo-random number generator, and some have become popular in Wi-Fi security implementations like WEP and WPA. These have some known vulnerabilities, so investigate carefully before using them.
Choosing the right symmetric cryptosystem may also depend on how/where your software application is used. Check industry regulations, privacy requirements, and other requirements as you design, implement, and deploy your application.
Whole Disk Encryption
Cryptography is often used to encrypt storage media. Whole disk encryption, also called "full disk encryption," is most common. Most whole disk encryption schemes encrypt every sector of the disk using symmetric encryption. The key is usually protected by encrypting it with the user's credentials as a passphrase. The user must enter the credentials at boot time to unlock the drive. This passphrase is a de facto crypto key so store it in a safe place, ideally not on the very same drive you are encrypting.
Whole disk encryption is often used to protect information on laptops. However, it is often misused. In theory, if used correctly, whole disk encryption renders the contents of the laptop's storage media unreadable if the laptop is lost or stolen. However, for whole disk encryption to be effective, the laptop must be powered off when not in use.
If the laptop is lost or stolen when in sleep or hibernation, the disk drive can be unlocked, or the encryption key can be recovered from memory, and then the disk drive can be unlocked.
In most cases, the user is the greatest weakness in deploying whole disk encryption. Many users write passwords down and store them with their laptop; if the laptop is stolen, the user's credentials are stolen with it. They might also store a two-factor authentication (2FA) device, such as an RSA SecureID token, in the same bag as their laptop. This completely negates the value of both data encryption and 2FA.
File Encryption
It's important to encrypt individual sensitive files on all virtual or physical devices. Failure to do so can allow an attacker to copy information onto insecure media or send it through insecure communication channels, rendering the sensitive info insecure. Several popular tools are available to encrypt/decrypt specific files – PGP and Zip. PGP uses both symmetric and asymmetric crypto keys (we cover asymmetric crypto in blog 2 of our crypto series), and there is an open-source version available, OpenPGP. Zip uses AES as described above and is available for all major operating systems. You will find numerous implementations of zip available; take note of the strength of the encryption key used. The larger the key, the more secure, but larger key sizes create larger zip files. If storage space is at a premium in your system, this trade-off must be carefully considered.
Many applications also allow files to be signed with a key, reducing the risk of undiscovered tampering of sensitive information. You sign a file for the same reason you might sign a paper document with a pen - to let readers know that you created the document or that the document has your approval. Everyone who recognizes your signature can confirm that you wrote the letter. Similarly, when you sign a file digitally, anyone who "recognizes" your digital signature knows that the file came from you. The process of recognizing signatures is called verification. You can design your application only to use approved (signed) files for specific functions.
Database Encryption
Information in databases presents one of the most challenging data security issues. There are many approaches to securing databases, and a method that works best for one Database Management System (DBMS) might not work for all.
Sensitive information in databases must be encrypted, but the correct approach varies with the DBMS and the requirements of the applications processing that information. While encrypting databases solves some problems, it can create new ones.
Encryption Type How it Works Risks
Hardware-Based Database resides on raw partitions, separate from the boot, file, and operating systems. Backup and restore need to happen for both the DB and the files on the non-DB partition.
Whole Disk Databases residing as part of the formatted file system. Can leave backups and exported data unsecured because only the media itself is secured, not the information in the database.
DBMS-based encryption Multiple techniques, e.g.,
- Transparent data encryption (TDE)
- Column-level encryption
- Field-level encryption
Solves the problem of backup and export data being unsecured but often leaves data exposed to queries. If an attacker issues Structured Query Language (SQL) commands against the DB, the encrypted data in the DB is no longer secure.
Server-side application-based Sensitive data is encrypted by the application querying the DB, and the DB has no knowledge that the info is encrypted. Might expose information in memory or over the networks and can limit the ability to perform ad-hoc queries on encrypted data.
Client-side application-based Sensitive data is encrypted by the client application, and neither the server nor the DB has any knowledge that the data is encrypted. Can create key-management issues, especially in systems with numerous client access points. Also, any client-side processing is susceptible to attack, hijacking, and spoofing.
Backups are often among the most significant holes in an organization's information protection processes. They almost always contain unencrypted sensitive information unless it is encrypted at the file level. For example, backups of encrypted disks produce unencrypted archives when using whole disk encryption because the unencrypted files are being backed up, not the encrypted raw disk sectors. Similarly, backups of database transaction records and database archives themselves are unencrypted unless the records in the database itself are encrypted.
If you first encrypt your data before backup, the primary risks are related to key management. If keys are not managed in an "isolated system," system administrators with malicious intent may have the ability to decrypt sensitive data using keys they have access to. The fundamental principle of keys also gives rise to a potentially devastating risk. If keys are lost, the encrypted data is essentially lost, considering decryption without keys is nearly impossible. Store your keys as carefully as you store your backup – and keep them segregated from the backed-up data the key(s) unlock.
Finally, "off-site" backups are often out of your physical control, rendering them vulnerable to unauthorized access. Theft of backups is a common means of obtaining a path into an organization – mainly for the reason stated above, i.e., most backed-up data is unencrypted. There is no substitute for encrypting every backup.
About Ed Adams, CEO
Ed Adams is a software quality and security expert with over 20 years of experience in the field. He served as a member of the Security Innovation Board of Directors since 2002 and as CEO since 2003. Ed has held senior management positions at Rational Software, Lionbridge, Ipswitch, and MathSoft. He was also an engineer for the US Army and Foster-Miller earlier in his career.
Ed is a Ponemon Institute Research Fellow, Privacy by Design Ambassador by the Information & Privacy Commissioner of Canada, Forbes Technology Council Member, and recipient of multiple SC Magazine’s Reboot Leadership Awards. He sits on the board of Cyversity, a non-profit committed to advancing minorities in the field of cyber security, and is a BoSTEM Advisory Committee member.
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Coastal cities and Pudong
The 14 coastal cities and the Pudong New Zone are not SEZs. -- 09:44, January 31 2005, UTC
Added More and streamlined the rest
Firstly I created about a new article about SEZs in China and then deflecting the bit about in SEZs in China to that main article. This allowed me restrict the infomation on this page to only infomation on SEZs in general and retaining all infomation on SEZs in the PRC. Also added few other countries to list --- which are known to have SEZs, namely Jordan and Poland. Also added infomation about SEZs in India and added External links.
What I would like to see in this article is more about SEZs all around the world.In1.154.97|<IP_ADDRESS>]] 05:17, 6 July 2006 (UTC)SANDEEEP
Brazil
'''-In Brazil there are no special economic zones contrary to the article specifically talking about special economic zones, please revise! best wishes ''' —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 01:21, 17 September 2007 (UTC)
Isn't there one for PDRK? North Korea?
I remember hearing that North Korea has an Special Economic Zone around Najin area. Any info?
Shepardsbush (talk) 08:06, 4 February 2008 (UTC)shepardsbush ===
I believe the SEZ you are referring to in the DPRK is the Gaesong complex. There are number of South Korean and foreign invested concerns currently operating there. Much to the chagrin of the United States..
Unfortunately, I haven't found out if there are incentives for investing there beyond the lower labour costs. It's a good guess that there are as the whole point to an SEZ is to attract business. It wouldn't make much sense to organize and build an sez and not offer incentives when all others do offer incentives. Hope this helps...
sorry an update you are indeed correct nanjin area bordering with china so there are actually two the one I mentioned Gaesong which is near the DMZ and the other bordering on the chinese border it is called Rajin-Sonbong. —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 15:27, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
Seperate Page for India needed
this article has been flooded with information about Indian SEZs. That information should constitute another article. Information on Indian SEZs should only be mentioned (if not summarized), like the information relating to SEZs in other countries Kashyap3 16:12, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
* India is trying to copy China in developing Special Economic Zones. They should have their own section, as should China. India has converted most of their Export Processing Zones to SEZs. <IP_ADDRESS> 02:05, 12 November 2007 (UTC)XXinfinity
Really, Separate page for Indian SEZ is required. —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 05:18, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
I also agree,a separate article is required for SEZs of India since there is a lot of information that can be added to it.Mayur.ninama (talk) 19:52, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
I support too. -- Extra 999 (Contact me + contribs) 13:53, 19 May 2011 (UTC)
i support too...since a lot of talk and issues having been going in development of SEZs in farmlands...it requires deeper depth of coverage — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 04:37, 9 June 2011 (UTC)
Special Economic Zones is a separate term
The description of SEZs as an "overarching" term for other "zones" is false. A special economic zone is treated as a foreign territory in terms of policy and regulations. If SEZs were an overarching term then you wouldn't be able to say that export processing zones in India were converted to SEZs. SEZs should be treated as their own phenomena. <IP_ADDRESS> 02:05, 12 November 2007 (UTC)XXinfinity
Special Economic Zones, Free Trade Zone, Economic PRocessing Zones etc.. are based on the similar exemptions provided by the governmewnts hence should be dealt with at the same place. —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 06:06, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
Requested move
The result of the move request was: moved to Special economic zone. Favonian (talk) 18:51, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
Special Economic Zone → Special economic zones –
There are lots of these in many countries, as pointed out in the article. Per WP:MOSCAPS ("Wikipedia avoids unnecessary capitalization") and WP:TITLE, this is a generic, common term, not a propriety or commercial term, so the article title should be downcased. Lowercase will match the formatting of related article titles. Tony (talk) 09:45, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
* Support per WP:MOSCAPS In ictu oculi (talk) 12:55, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
* Support. Julie Parson's Illustrated Dictionary of Economics lower cases this one. Kauffner (talk) 14:57, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
* Comment the MOS also avoid plurals in titles, so drop the final s. SchmuckyTheCat (talk)
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Hi all,
please consider the following table.
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3 2
3 2
4 3
4 3
4 3
In my data set column A is given. I would like to compute the second column. The values are calculated based on how many times the value in the same row of column A occurs in total in column A. For example, the first row: the value 1 occurs 3 times in column A. Hence, in CountA there is a 3 for all 1s. Is there a specific count demand that can be used to do this?
I appreciate any help. Thank you.
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by A. sort, gen: countA = _N
Please don't use the terms row and column when referring to Stata data sets. That terminology is appropriate for spreadsheets, but Stata is not a spreadsheet. And if you try to do things in Stata based on your habits from using spreadsheets, you will often find yourself going far astray. So it is important to keep the terminology separate in your mind: Stata datasets have variables and observations, not columns and rows.
Do read -help by- to learn about the -by:- prefix and how it works with _n and _N.
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LuaUnit Tests
LuaUnit Tests are used to test Lua code. They work in the following workspace types:
• Lua
Test Structure
Folder Structure
LuaUnit tests execute a tests/test.lua file that is injected into the learner's workspace. Authors do not need to add this folder or file.
Test File Structure
LuaUnit tests always start by importing the luaunit module and end by running the test suite:
lu = require('luaunit')
-- tests
os.exit( lu.LuaUnit.run() )
Each test is defined as a global function with a name prefixed by test. The luaunit module provides various assertions, such as assertEquals and assertStrContains. A complete list of assertions is in the LuaUnit documentation. Most assertions except a final string argument that will be shown to learners if the test fails :
lu = require('luaunit')
-- Imagine that adder.lua is a learner file that defines the add function
require('adder')
function testAddPositive()
lu.assertEquals(add(1, 1), 2, "Expected add(1, 1) to return 2")
end
os.exit( lu.LuaUnit.run() )
Example Tests
By default, Lua variables are global. If a learner defines a local variable, require cannot access it. Test defensively by always checking that a variable exists with assertNotNil.
lu = require('luaunit')
require('main')
-- require() cannot access local variables, so check with assertNotNil() first
function testSomeFunction()
lu.assertNotNil(add, 'Make sure to define a global function `add`')
lu.assertEquals(add(1, 1), 2, 'Expected `add(1, 1)` to return 2')
end
function testSomeVariable()
lu.assertNotNil(trio, 'Make sure to define a global variable `trio`')
lu.assertEquals(trio, 3, 'Expected `trio` to equal 3')
end
-- assertStrContains uses Lua's pattern-matching, not regular expressions.
-- https://www.lua.org/pil/20.2.html
function testSomeString()
lu.assertNotNil(telephone, 'Make sure to define a global variable `telephone`')
lu.assertIsString(telephone, 'Expected `telephone` to be a string')
lu.assertStrContains(telephone, '[%d%p]', true, 'Expected variable `telephone` to contain only digits and punctuation')
end
os.exit(lu.LuaUnit.run())
Other Guidelines
• Actual code (real variable names, language syntax, etc. ) in feedback messages should be code-ticked (`)
• Lua tests should follow Test standards.
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David E. Adelman is an American lawyer and academic. He currently serves as the Harry Reasoner Regents Chair at the University of Texas School of Law.
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On this day, February 24 in the year 1955, the Silicon Valley’s most famous innovator was born in California, USA. His name was Steven Paul Jobs, the co-founder of Apple Inc., the founder of NeXT Computers, and the majority shareholder of Pixar.
Steve was the adopted son of a former member of the Coast Guard and car repairman. While growing up in and around Silicon Valley, he learned a lot about electronics and actually tried his hand in building his own machine with parts supplied by Hewlett-Packard. He enrolled at the expensive Reed College in Oregon. There, he attended lectures in calligraphy and got interested in Zen Buddhism.
In 1974, Steve dropped out of college. After he returned to his parents’ home, he found a job at Atari, a developer of video games. Later, he left Atari and founded Apple Computers with his friend Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne. In 1977, Apple was reportedly worth $5,309 but when it went public in 1980, it was valued at $1.79 billion. 300 people in the company suddenly became millionaires and the stake of Steve was worth $256 million.
It was said that Steve was very difficult to work with because he was perfectionist and was prone to cursing. In 1985, he was kicked out from his job by the board of directors. Though he was devastated, he was soon inspired to do the next best thing: establish another company. And so, NeXt Computers was born. The company was not very successful in hardware as he had envisioned. Instead, it developed an operating system called NeXTSTEP which was considered very advanced of its time.
In 1986, Steve agreed to invest in Pixar which at that time was developing an animated film for Walt Disney. He provided $10 million in cash and took the role of chairman. The title of the film was Toy Story and when it was released in 1995, it was a huge success. When Pixar was floated to the public, the original $10 million investment of Steve ballooned to $1.2 billion. In 2004, Pixar was sold to Disney for $7.4 billion.
In 1997, Apple was looking for a new operating system but at that time, the company was short on cash and it cannot afford to develop a new one. The new Apple CEO went shopping. In a reversal of fortune, he found NeXT and bought the company for $400 million. Eventually, Steve became CEO of Apple again.
In the succeeding years, Apple became the source of world-famous innovative products such as the iMac, iTunes, iPod, and iPhone. After stepping down as CEO in 2011, he succumbed to cancer which he had been suffering since 2004. He was 56. He was survived by his wife Laurene and his four children.
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Unbiased examination of genome-wide human endogenous retrovirus transcripts in MS brain lesions
Maria L. Elkjaer, Tobias Frisch, Arianna Tonazzolli, Richard Röttger, Richard Reynolds, Jan Baumbach, Zsolt Illes
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Background: Human endogenous retrovirus (HERV) expression in multiple sclerosis (MS) brain lesions may contribute to chronic inflammation, but expression of genome-wide HERVs in different MS lesions is unknown. Objective: We examined the HERV expression landscape in different MS lesions compared to control brains. Methods: Transcripts from 71 MS brain samples and 25 control WM were obtained by next-generation RNA sequencing and mapped against HERV transcripts across the human genome. Differential expression of mapped HERV-W and HERV-H reads between MS lesion types and controls was analysed. Results: Out of 6.38 billion high-quality paired end reads, 174 million reads (2.73%) mapped to HERV transcripts. There was no difference in HERVs expression level between MS and control brains, but HERV-W transcripts were significantly reduced in chronic active lesions. Of the four HERV-W transcripts exclusively present in MS, ERV3633503 located on chromosome 7q21.13 close to the MS genetic risk locus had the highest number of reads. In the HERV-H family, 75% of transcripts located to nearby 7q21-22 were overrepresented in MS, and ERV3643914 was expressed more than 16 times in MS compared to control brains. Conclusion: Novel HERV-W and HERV-H transcripts located at chromosome 7 regions were uniquely expressed in MS lesions, indicating their potential role in brain lesion evolution.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1829-1837
Number of pages9
JournalMultiple Sclerosis Journal
Volume27
Issue number12
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StatePublished - Oct 2021
Keywords
• HERV-H
• HERV-W/17
• Multiple sclerosis
• human brain lesions
• human endogenous retroviruses
• multiple sclerosis-associated retrovirus
• transcriptome
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Walmart Has No Problem Selling Guns
(RTTNews) - Walmart Inc. has no plans to end selling of firearms despite the retail giant's stores being the scene of two shootings recently.
22 people were killed when a 21-year-old gunman opened fire at a Walmart store in the town of El Paso, Texas, on Saturday. Days earlier, two Walmart employees were fatally shot by a co-worker at a store in Mississippi.
Walmart has come under intense pressure from advocacy groups and even its own workers to stop selling guns altogether following the shooting incidents. But, a company spokesperson reportedly said the retailer will not stop selling firearms or change its policy on allowing open carry of firearms in its stores.
Walmart, the country's biggest retailer, is also one of the largest sellers of firearms and ammunition. Nevertheless, the company has tightened its gun policies following incidents of mass shooting in recent years.
Walmart had stopped sales of assault rifles at its stores in 2015 and raised the minimum age for gun purchases to 21 from 18 last year after a mass shooting in Parkland.
Following the El Paso shooting incident, Walmart tweeted on Saturday that it is "in shock" over the incident and praying for the victims, the community and its associates, as well as first responders.
However, Walmart's tweets were met with angry responses on social media, with people urging the company to stop selling guns and even calling for a boycott of the retailer.
"Nobody needs your prayers. What are you doing to keep this from happening yet again?," a person asked on Twitter.
"Instead of letting crazy people openly carry guns in your store, maybe you should let the cops carry the guns. Put more cops in your stores and STOP selling guns," another tweet reads.
Guns Down America, a non-profit gun-control advocacy organization, urged Walmart to stop selling firearms immediately and pledge to not make political contributions to lawmakers who get their money from the National Rifle Association or NRA.
Meanwhile, Walmart has reportedly took action against one of its employees who urged his co-workers to go on strike Tuesday to pressure the company to cease selling firearms. Thomas Marshall, a Walmart e-commerce category specialist, said the company blocked his corporate email account and also suspended his access to company channels.
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* 1) (temporal) before, earlier than, prior to, ahead of, ago
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Styling JavaFX Pie Chart with CSS
JavaFX provides certain colors by default when rendering charts. There are situations, however, when one wants to customize these colors. In this blog post I look at changing the colors of a JavaFX pie chart using an example I intend to include in my presentation this afternoon at RMOUG Training Days 2013. Some Java-based charting APIs provided Java methods to set colors. JavaFX, born in the days of HTML5 prevalence, instead uses Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to allow developers to adjust colors, symbols, placement, alignment and other stylistic issues used in their charts. I demonstrate using CSS to change colors here.
In this post, I will look at two code samples demonstrating simple JavaFX applications that render pie charts based on data from Oracle’s sample ‘hr’ schema. The first
example does not specify colors and so uses JavaFX’s default colors for pie slices and for the legend background. That
example is shown next.
EmployeesPerDepartmentPieChart (Default JavaFX Styling)
package rmoug.td2013.dustin.examples;
import javafx.application.Application;
import javafx.scene.Scene;
import javafx.scene.chart.PieChart;
import javafx.scene.layout.StackPane;
import javafx.stage.Stage;
/**
* Simple JavaFX application that generates a JavaFX-based Pie Chart representing
* the number of employees per department.
*
* @author Dustin
*/
public class EmployeesPerDepartmentPieChart extends Application
{
final DbAccess databaseAccess = DbAccess.newInstance();
@Override
public void start(final Stage stage) throws Exception
{
final PieChart pieChart =
new PieChart(
ChartMaker.createPieChartDataForNumberEmployeesPerDepartment(
this.databaseAccess.getNumberOfEmployeesPerDepartmentName()));
pieChart.setTitle('Number of Employees per Department');
stage.setTitle('Employees Per Department');
final StackPane root = new StackPane();
root.getChildren().add(pieChart);
final Scene scene = new Scene(root, 800 ,500);
stage.setScene(scene);
stage.show();
}
public static void main(final String[] arguments)
{
launch(arguments);
}
}
When the above simple application is executed, the output shown in the next screen snapshot appears.
I am now going to adapt the above example to use a custom ‘theme’ of blue-inspired pie slices with a brown background on the legend. Only one line is needed in the Java code to include the CSS file that has the stylistic specifics for the chart. In this case, I added several more lines to catch and print out any exception that might occur while trying to load the CSS file. With this approach, any problems loading the CSS file will lead simply to output to standard error stating the problem and the application will run with its normal default colors.
EmployeesPerDepartmentPieChartWithCssStyling (Customized CSS Styling)
package rmoug.td2013.dustin.examples;
import javafx.application.Application;
import javafx.scene.Scene;
import javafx.scene.chart.PieChart;
import javafx.scene.layout.StackPane;
import javafx.stage.Stage;
/**
* Simple JavaFX application that generates a JavaFX-based Pie Chart representing
* the number of employees per department and using style based on that provided
* in CSS stylesheet chart.css.
*
* @author Dustin
*/
public class EmployeesPerDepartmentPieChartWithCssStyling extends Application
{
final DbAccess databaseAccess = DbAccess.newInstance();
@Override
public void start(final Stage stage) throws Exception
{
final PieChart pieChart =
new PieChart(
ChartMaker.createPieChartDataForNumberEmployeesPerDepartment(
this.databaseAccess.getNumberOfEmployeesPerDepartmentName()));
pieChart.setTitle('Number of Employees per Department');
stage.setTitle('Employees Per Department');
final StackPane root = new StackPane();
root.getChildren().add(pieChart);
final Scene scene = new Scene(root, 800 ,500);
try
{
scene.getStylesheets().add('chart.css');
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
System.err.println('Cannot acquire stylesheet: ' + ex.toString());
}
stage.setScene(scene);
stage.show();
}
public static void main(final String[] arguments)
{
launch(arguments);
}
}
The chart.css file is shown next:
chart.css
/*
Find more details on JavaFX supported named colors at
http://docs.oracle.com/javafx/2/api/javafx/scene/doc-files/cssref.html#typecolor
*/
/* Colors of JavaFX pie chart slices. */
.data0.chart-pie { -fx-pie-color: turquoise; }
.data1.chart-pie { -fx-pie-color: aquamarine; }
.data2.chart-pie { -fx-pie-color: cornflowerblue; }
.data3.chart-pie { -fx-pie-color: blue; }
.data4.chart-pie { -fx-pie-color: cadetblue; }
.data5.chart-pie { -fx-pie-color: navy; }
.data6.chart-pie { -fx-pie-color: deepskyblue; }
.data7.chart-pie { -fx-pie-color: cyan; }
.data8.chart-pie { -fx-pie-color: steelblue; }
.data9.chart-pie { -fx-pie-color: teal; }
.data10.chart-pie { -fx-pie-color: royalblue; }
.data11.chart-pie { -fx-pie-color: dodgerblue; }
/* Pie Chart legend background color and stroke. */
.chart-legend { -fx-background-color: sienna; }
Running this CSS-styled example leads to output as shown in the next screen snapshot. The slices are different shades of blue and the legend’s background is ‘sienna.’ Note that while I used JavaFX ‘named colors,’ I could have also used ‘#0000ff’ for blue, for example.
I did not show the code here for my convenience classes ChartMaker and DbAccess. The latter simply retrieves the data for the charts from the Oracle database schema via JDBC and the former converts that data into the Observable collections appropriate for the PieChart(ObservableList) constructor.
It is important to note here that, as Andres Almiray has pointed out, it is not normally appropriate to execute long-running processes from the main JavaFX UI thread (AKA JavaFX Application Thread) as I’ve done in this and other other blog post examples. I can get away with it in these posts because the examples are simple, the database retrieval is quick, and there is not much more to the chart rendering application than that rendering so it is difficult to observe any ‘hanging.’ In a future blog post, I intend to look at the better way of handling the database access (or any long-running action) using the JavaFX javafx.concurrent package (which is well already well described in Concurrency in JavaFX).
JavaFX allows developers to control much more than simply chart colors with CSS. Two very useful resources detailing what can be done to style JavaFX charts with CSS are the Using JavaFX Charts section Styling Charts with CSS and the JavaFX CSS Reference Guide. CSS is becoming increasingly popular as an approach to styling web and mobile applications. By supporting CSS styling in JavaFX, the same styles can easily be applied to JavaFX apps as the HTML-based applications they might coexist with.
Reference: Styling JavaFX Pie Chart with CSS from our JCG partner Dustin Marx at the Inspired by Actual Events blog.
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One thing I want to ask… how do you change the title’s text color?
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Postal codes in Spain
Spanish postal codes were introduced on 1 July 1984, when the Sociedad Estatal de Correos y Telégrafos introduced automated mail sorting. They consist of five numerical digits, where the first two digits, ranging 01 to 52, correspond either to one of the 50 provinces of Spain or to one of the two autonomous cities on the African coast.
Two-digit prefixes
The first two digits of a Spanish postal code identify the province or autonomous city it belongs to. The numbers were assigned to the 50 provinces of Spain ordered alphabetically at the time of implementation. The official names of some of the provinces have since changed, either to the regional language version of the name (e.g. from the Spanish Guipúzcoa to the Basque Gipuzkoa) or to adopt the name of the autonomous community instead of the provincial capital (e.g. Santander to Cantabria). In these cases, the originally assigned code has been maintained, resulting in some exceptions to the alphabetical order. In addition, Ceuta and Melilla were originally included within the postal areas of Cádiz and Málaga respectively; in 1995 they were assigned their own codes and hence ended up at the end of the list.
The list below includes all 52 two-digit prefixes assigned to the 50 provinces and two autonomous cities. Included in brackets are the names of the provinces that were used for alphabetical sorting at the time of implementation, if different from the current name used in English.
* 01 Álava
* 02 Albacete
* 03 Alicante
* 04 Almería
* 05 Ávila
* 06 Badajoz
* 07 Balearic Islands (Baleares)
* 08 Barcelona
* 09 Burgos
* 10 Cáceres
* 11 Cádiz
* 12 Castellón
* 13 Ciudad Real
* 14 Córdoba
* 15 A Coruña (Coruña, La)
* 16 Cuenca
* 17 Girona (Gerona)
* 18 Granada
* 19 Guadalajara
* 20 Gipuzkoa (Guipúzcoa)
* 21 Huelva
* 22 Huesca
* 23 Jaén
* 24 León
* 25 Lleida (Lérida)
* 26 La Rioja (Logroño)
* 27 Lugo
* 28 Madrid
* 29 Málaga
* 30 Murcia
* 31 Navarre (Navarra)
* 32 Ourense (Orense)
* 33 Asturias (Oviedo)
* 34 Palencia
* 35 Las Palmas (Palmas, Las)
* 36 Pontevedra
* 37 Salamanca
* 38 Santa Cruz de Tenerife
* 39 Cantabria (Santander)
* 40 Segovia
* 41 Seville (Sevilla)
* 42 Soria
* 43 Tarragona
* 44 Teruel
* 45 Toledo
* 46 Valencia
* 47 Valladolid
* 48 Biscay (Vizcaya)
* 49 Zamora
* 50 Zaragoza
* 51 Ceuta
* 52 Melilla
Following digits
The third digit of a Spanish postal code is used to identify major cities or basic itineraries. A zero denotes a provincial capital, e.g. San Sebastián, as capital of the province of Gipuzkoa, uses the postal code 200xx.
The fourth and fifth digits are used to identify delivery areas, route itineraries or rural link itineraries.
Some codes are reserved for special use at the province capital:
* 070: official use by Correos
* 071: to address state agencies at the given province
* 080: P.O. boxes and mail lists
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Postage stamps and postal history of Anguilla
Anguilla is a British overseas territory in the Caribbean, one of the most northerly of the Leeward Islands in the Lesser Antilles. It consists of the main island of Anguilla itself, together with a number of much smaller islands and cays with no permanent population.
First stamps
Anguilla has produced its own stamps since 1967. It was formerly part of St. Kitts and Nevis and the islands were granted Associated Statehood on February 27, 1967. Its first stamps in 1967 were those of St. Kitts-Nevis but opted with Independent Anguilla. However, owing to limited stocks available for overprinting, the sale of the stamps was controlled by the Postmaster, and no orders from the trade were accepted. Later in 1967 it produced the first stamps without overprints and displayed notable sites in Anguilla such as Sombrero Lighthouse etc.
Later issues
In 1968 several issues were produced, Anguilla Ships, Anguillan Birds, the 35th Anniversary of the Anguillan Girl Guides and a Christmas issue. In 1969 the first issue celebrated the Anguillan salt industry, but on July 7, 1969 the Anguillan post office was officially recognised by the government of St. Kitts-Nevis and they issued an official independence issue in January 1969.
External lists
* The first issues of Anguilla.
* Anguilla Philatelical Resources in the web
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Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum
The Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum is an art museum in Aachen, Germany. Founded in 1877, its collection includes works by Aelbrecht Bouts, Joos van Cleve, Anthony van Dyck, Otto Dix and Max Beckmann.
History
The Aachener Museumsverein (Aachen museum association) was created in 1877, and in 1883 a city museum was opened in the Alte Redoute (Old Redoubt) building. It was named the Suermondt Museum, after the founder Barthold Suermondt, who gave 105 paintings from his collection to the city, as well as those from the collection of his sister-in-law Adèle Cockerill. This collection, together with many other works which were later sold to Berlin, had been on display in the Suermondt Gallery in Aachen already before the museum was established.
In 1901, the museum moved to the, originally owned by the Cassalette family which had acquired fortune through the , which produced raising cards. Over the next decades, the building was slowly extended to house the ever growing museum collection, interrupted by WWII when the collection was stored for safe-keeping in the Albrechtsburg in Meissen. About 200 paintings were missing after the war, but the museum recently recovered two flower paintings; Flowers in a Glass Vase and Flowers in a Wan-Li Vase.
The most recent expansion was in 1992 to 1994. Major gifts were received from Anton Ignaz van Houtem and.
In 1977, the name of the museum was changed to Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum to honour and, art collectors who donated a significant part of their collection of art (medieval to modern) to the museum that year, after having given permanent loans from 1957 on.
Building
The family Cassalette, rich factory owners in Aachen, asked the architect to design a city palace in a Renaissance Revival architecture style, inspired by Venetian palaces. The interior of the Villa Cassalette was richly decorated with murals in the Pompeian style, stucco cassettes on the ceilings, and sculptures. Many small changes and extensions were made when the building became a museum in 1901 and afterwards; but much of the original interior has been restored or made visible again since. In 1992-1994, the architecture company designed a large extension, built at the left side of the Villa.
Collection
The oldest pieces in the collection are German sculptures from the 12th to 16th century. This includes works by Tilman Riemenschneider, and Arndt van Tricht. Amongst the earliest paintings in the collection is an Adoration of the Magi by the and a work by Joos van Cleve. Paintings from the 16th century include a Judith by Lucas Cranach the Elder, an Ecce Homo and Mater Dolorosa Diptych by Aelbrecht Bouts and a Mary Magdalen by Cornelis Engebrechtsz. Major artists from the 17th century who are represented here include from Spain Francisco de Zurbarán, Luis de Morales and Jusepe de Ribera and from Italy Bartolomeo Manfredi. The large collection of paintings from Flanders and the Netherlands shows works by Anthony van Dyck, Jacob Jordaens, Frans Snyders, Jacob Isaacksz van Ruisdael, Frans Hals, Willem Claeszoon Heda, Willem Kalf, Joseph de Bray and Jan Boeckhorst.
The modern art collection is largely restricted to artists living or working in Germany, including internationally known ones like Alexej von Jawlensky, Otto Dix, Max Beckmann, August Macke and Andreas Achenbach.
Other disciplines on display include a large collection of glass painting, 10,000 works of graphic art by artists like Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt and many others, Flemish tapestries, and works of goldsmiths.
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Chor. And twine it well my bonny dow,
and twine it weel the plaiden;
The laſſie loſt ber ſilken ſnood,
in pu'ing of the bracken.
He prais'd my e'en, fae bonny blue,
fae lily white my ſkin, O;
And ſyne he pried my bonny mou',
and ſwore it was nae ſin, O. And, &c.
But he has left the laſs he loo'd,
his ain true love forſaken
Which gars me fair to greet the ſnood
I loſt among the bracken. And, &c.
Syren of the ſtage,
Charmer of an idle age,
Empty warbler, breathing lyre,
Wanton gale of fond déſire.
Bane of every manly art,
Sweet enfeebler of the heart;
Oh! too pleaſing is thy ſtrains
Hence to ſouthern ſtrains again.
Tuneful miſchief, vocal ſpell,
To this iſland bid farewel:
Leave us as we ought to be,
Leave the Britons rough and free.
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=The Making of Toby=
I shall here, at a respected user's request, outline the method by which I arrived at the images that represent Toby. I should note that writing the explanation and creating accompanying illustrations will take about 20 times as long as it took me to create the original.
Requirements
The image must be distinct even at a very small size (36 px or less, if necessary); immediately comprehensible to the very youngest possible viewer; immediately acceptable to the most intolerant, prudish, narrow-minded, uneducated, non-technical person residing in the most weed-stricken farm or blighted trailer park in the semi-rural Midwest (or South, or South-central Pennsylvania).
I daresay most Wikipedians have little real experience of such people, to the point at which we are willing to be offended on their behalf. That's not necessary. Some people just go out of their way to walk and talk like morons, even if they're really quite intelligent. It's not even as if they don't know better; they like to be that way. They think willful ignorance is a sign of virtue. Such people steal books on How To Apply Makeup from the local library and return them with all the pictures cut out. I know these people all too well; I was born among them.
For such an audience, the slashed-red-circle is obligatory. They are conditioned to expect such a symbol at every turn; it is their darling, the low rent equivalent of I ♥ My Dog. For such people, censorship is the normal condition, and the big red NO an instant reassurance. Note that in this example the little bull turd has been sanitized into a blank black dot. That is really all these people ask.
Next, what is to go inside? Obviously, no potentially questionable content itself, or even a hint at such. No text; for one, unreadable at a small size; for two, unreadable by illiterates. (And yes, it is perfectly possible for an illiterate user to click around on the web. Think about it. It might even do him some good. And no, that won't stop him from being offended by what he sees.)
This leads naturally to the concept of an offended child. Not very offended -- merely enough to hint at the possibility of offense. No sense in alarming anybody. Of course, no detail is possible or desired; a mere cartoon, a sketch of a sketch.
I am, personally, partial to round images, and having started with the slash-red-circle, a round presentation suggests itself. Why make it any bigger or obtrusive than it need be? Round things resemble breasts; they are generally more attractive to pacific temperaments than straight lines and hard corners. The bold diagonal is sufficient here. I resolve to construct the "the kid" out of circles and arcs only.
Additionally, Toby cannot suggest a specific sex, age, race, or nationality. I take no chances on offending a reader -- none at all.
Process
My chosen method, as is often the case, is creation in Macromedia FreeHand, export as EPS, then rendering in Adobe Photoshop. This gives me maximum control and flexibility, the widest possible array of tools in a small compass. (If needed, I can always dip into the junk drawer for various peculiar graphics editors, such as Fractal Painter; but this combo seems to do the job for me almost all of the time, with the occasional help of GraphicConverter, especially for batch operations.) I begin by opening my blank FreeHand template. This includes a predefined style of "no line - no fill" named Bounds. I draw a square centered on the page origin (set in the template to the page center, rather than the application default at one corner) and set it to this style, and throw it into a locked layer of the same name. This will neither render nor print, but will force Photoshop to recognize this as the actual bounds of the graphic (provided nothing else exceeds it). Thus, my content never touches the bounds square itself, and the finished graphic will holdout a predictable amount of whitespace all around. I construct the NO in standard fashion: a circle and the line diagonal. I expand the line to a bar and the circle into a concentric pair, and combine them all into a single composite path. I have no difficulty in choosing the color. I set this object aside on its own layer.
• The purpose of the expansion is to gain robust control over stroke width. It would certainly be possible to draw a fat circle and a fat line and let it go at that. But should I later desire to apply transformations or effects, the stroke will perform poorly compared to a filled solid with no stroke. I have retained a copy of the original circle on another layer. This one's stroke is irrelevant, because it falls behind the NO. But I set it to a neutral gray fill color, since I don't really think I can tolerate the complete trailer-trashiness of a white background. I lock and keep this visible, but create another layer for "the kid". The size of the face is determined by its relation to the diagonal bar; it can't be cut off by it. However, positioning the face-circle tangent to the centerline of the fat red circle means it will be cut off there, by its inner perimeter, adding to the illusion of smallness. This is a critical design decision. <br style="clear:both" /> The rest of the basic design is a no-brainer. Eyes can hardly be anything but black dots; the mouth, a round O of surprise. I create these on centerline to start.
It's terribly important to create a sense of motion in a design. A static design is usually very boring. When people are involved, the "look" can be the primary determinant of motion -- in a headshot, almost invariably.
<br style="clear:both" /> I had, from the beginning, imagined Toby's image to be positioned at the left side of the window, since that's where the sidebar is (by default), the non-content part of the window. So, to get Toby to look away, I displace eyes and mouth to the left. This is a pure juggling act -- what can you get away with? Too far and the face looks distorted; but the maximum motion is desired, for maximum effect. I tap with the cursor keys and eventually enter a half-pixel value into the Move palette. The design is almost complete. <br style="clear:both" /> Not everyone realizes that every object in FreeHand can be represented by a Bezier curve. Sure, you draw a circle, and a circle is what you get. But if you Ungroup the circle, you get a closed Bezier path consisting of four carefully-chosen curve points. The shape is the same, but its definition is more detailed.
I choose the upper-left quadrant for "the kid's" hair by selecting its endpoints and Unjoining them from the rest of this scratch circle, the remainder of which I immediately discard. <br style="clear:both" /> The drawing part of the job is now complete. I could -- and perhaps should -- convert all these strokes to filled paths, but (a) that's not always wise, and (b) I can always go back and do it over if I must. Right now, I'd just as soon hustle to a draft rendering and see what I've got.
It looks okay, but depressingly dark. This is hoodlum Toby, junior-high-boys-room-graffito Toby. Too much gray. Either Toby's face, or the background circle, will have to change -- or both. I experiment with many different fill colors and tints. I upload a green Toby; that's a mistake I later correct. <br style="clear:both" /> Indeed, as I put together this tutorial, I find myself reconsidering my choice of shades. Perhaps the background could be even lighter. I don't really want to introduce another color axis, but a slight skew to yellow? Perhaps.
All that remains is to export the final image. I'm careful to turn on the invisible Bounds layer, so that Photoshop dimensions it properly. I choose Export as EPS and I'm done in FreeHand. <br style="clear:both" /> Up until now, I haven't been concerned with final rendered dimensions; I'm working in a vector editor, so nominal size is unimportant. I can pass this EPS file to a service bureau and have it output at billboard size, to stick next to the freeway; and every line and curve will be smooth and more-or-less perfect. But of course this will be used onscreen, and at first, I think a bounds size of 1 inch is plenty. Later, I reconsider, and re-rasterize at 2 inches square. This time, I'll rasterize the new, improved Toby (with lighter background) at 4 inch bounds - just because I can.
• I won't try to upload this new, improved Toby on top of the older graphic, though. For one thing, because it's larger, it will screw up display wherever the old size was assumed. For another, it's just way too big for any practical purpose. It's an icon, after all, not a Rembrandt. <br style="clear:both" /> There remains exactly one more gimmick, and that is full alpha transparency in the PNG. With a nice, smooth, sharp round edge to the graphic, I could get away with a GIF easy, but I'm hooked on PNG and full alpha. First, I generate the alpha channel itself by loading the Photoshop layer transparancy, then saving it as a new channel. This might be enough, but there is a final technicality. At the edge of the graphic, where there should be partial transparency generating a very nice anti-aliased edge, the graphic is itself partially transparent -- and so is the entire image, because of the alpha channel. This has the effect of causing the color to drop off too rapidly.
To compensate for this "double jeopardy", I create a new layer, "png support", which sits behind the actual graphic. This is simply filled solid red; fortunately, the entire border of the graphic is one color. If this is seen without its alpha channel, the image now goes right out to the bounds square. But with the alpha channel encoded into the PNG, not only does the alpha channel force the outside to be transparent; it is the only thing trying to do that. Thus, the excellent edge. I Save a Copy As a PNG, with interlacing and adaptive encoding, and I'm all done.
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Medications for MS: What’s the difference between interferon beta-1a and interferon beta-1b?
Lisa Emrich Health Guide December 01, 2010
• Four of the seven currently available disease-modifying MS drugs are often referred to as “the interferons” - Avonex, Rebif, Betaseron, and Extavia. The first two listed are interferon beta-1a and the last two are interferon beta-1b.
What is an interferon?
Occurring naturally in the body, interferons are glycoproteins which are secreted by immune cells in response to viral infections. It is believed that they provide protection to other cells against the viral infection. In effect, they run “interference” against infection.
Interferons as Medication
In addition to having antiviral properties, interferons have immunomodulatory and anti-neoplastic (cancer fighting) properties. Synthetic interferons are manufactured commercially using recombinant DNA technology. There are two classifications of interferons. Type 1 includes interferon alpha (leukocyte interferon) and interferon beta (fibroblast interferon). Type 2 includes interferon gamma (immune interferon). There is a third classification which is not widely recognized.
Interferon alphas have been used to treat viral infections such as acute and chronic hepatitis C, chronic hepatitis B, and even genital warts. They are also used in the treatment of lymphomas and other types of cancer. Interferon betas have been approved in the treatment of multiple sclerosis. Interferon gamma is used to treat chronic granulomatous disease. (This is not intended to be a complete list of the numerous diseases which interferons have been used to treat.)
Beta Interferons and Multiple Sclerosis
As mentioned above, interferon beta-1a and interferon beta-1b are FDA approved for the treatment of multiple sclerosis. The theory behind the development of interferons as treatment for multiple sclerosis is based on the belief that the disease may be due to latent virus infections of the brain in persons whose immune system is impaired in some way. In testing, interferon alpha had no effect on MS and interferon gamma made MS worse. Interferon beta was found effective. The reason for this difference is not known.
When researching the question - What is the difference between the beta interferons? - I tried hard to locate a scientific explanation of the difference between beta-1a and beta-1b. I could not find exactly what it is. Perhaps the difference lies in a slight variation of the structure of the amino acids.
But in my search, I did find the following in the monograph for Interferon beta-1b published on Medscape (emphasis mine):
“There currently are 2 types of interferon beta (recombinant) commercially available in the US, interferon beta-1a and interferon beta-1b. Important differences in beneficial effects (clinical, MRI measures of response) between these different types of interferon beta in the management of MS have not been reported and the existence of such differences is as yet unknown. Clinical interpretation of head-to-head comparative studies involving various interferon beta preparations is limited by methodologic problems (e.g., short duration, open-label studies, nonstandardized dosages and/or routes of administration). Some of these studies were principally designed to provide evidence to the FDA that one particular preparation of interferon beta has sufficient therapeutic superiority to justify overturning the Orphan Drug Act protection of another preparation. The optimal preparation, dosage, and route of administration of interferon beta for the management of MS has not been determined. In addition, the comparative efficacy of interferon beta preparations and other disease-modifying agents (e.g., glatiramer acetate, mitoxantrone) has not been evaluated in well-designed, controlled studies.”
Thus, it is difficult and inappropriate to try to compare the effectiveness of one interferon formulation with another. Any head-to-head studies were really designed simply to gain FDA approval when a similar product was already on the market. However, it is known that non-responder and responders to interferon beta differ in their genes. A biomarker panel may soon become a valuable tool for assessing and predicting a drug’s clinical benefit for a specific patient.
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Please talk with your doctor and ask about his/her recommendations for YOU, specifically, if you are taking or considering using a beta interferon to treat your MS. It is not uncommon that a neurologist may suggest trying a different interferon medication even after one has not worked for you.
Interferon Beta-1a
This interferon beta formulation is available in two formats, manufactured by different companies. Avonex http://www.avonex.com , made by Biogen Idec, is given by injection into a muscle once per week. It received FDA approval in 1996. Rebif, made by EMD Serono/Merck and Pfizer, http://www.rebif.com is given by injection just under the skin three days per week. It received FDA approval in 2002.
Interferon Beta-1b
This interferon beta is available in one formulation, but manufactured by two companies. Betaseron, made by Bayer Healthcare, http://www.betaseron.com is given by injection just under the skin every other day. It received FDA approval in 1993. Extavia, made by Novartis, http://www.extavia.com is given by injection just under the skin every other day. It received FDA approval in 2009.
Common Side-Effects
Common side effects of all the interferons include fever, chills, headache, malaise, muscle aches and pains, and fatigue. These symptoms vary from mild to severe and occur in up to half of patients. The literature says that symptoms tend to diminish with repeated injections. Patients often pre-treat with analgesics (such as Tylenol) and antihistamines (such as Benadryl) before each injection to manage these symptoms. Tissue damage at the injection site can occur but is more common with Betaseron and Extavia. High levels of interferons can cause kidney, liver, bone marrow and heart toxicity. Regular blood testing is recommended.
SOURCES:
“Viral Interference and Interferon” from Medical Microbiology. 4th edition. Baron S, editor. Galveston (TX): University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston; 1996.
“Interferon” from Microbiology and Immunology Online. University of South Carolina School of Medicine.
Monographs for Interferon Beta-1a (subQ), Interferon Beta-1b (subQ), Interferon Beta-1a (IM) found on Medscape
“Interferons” on MedicineNet.com
Lisa Emrich is author of the blog Brass and Ivory: Life with MS and RA and founder of the Carnival of MS Bloggers.
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SQL Question
CountIf formula within MS Access report
Something terrible as happened with my poor attempt at adding a
CountIf
forumula to my access report.
I am trying to add a formula within my report header to count the number of entries in my
Service
column that contain a certain word. The problem is I am an absolute amateur when it comes to SQL code.
=CountIf([Service]="Housing")
Is the code I was hoping would work but I don't seem to be getting anywhere.
Answer
There is no Countif function in Access. However, you can use Sum and IIf (ie, Immediate If) to accomplish the same thing. Try:
=Sum(IIf([Service] Like "*Housing*", 1, 0))
The above assumes you want the Service column to contain the word "Housing". This assumes you were being precise in the wording of your question. If you really meant that you want to count the number of records where the Service column equals "Housing" exactly, you would use this instead:
=Sum(IIf([Service] = "Housing", 1, 0))
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Kentucky School for the Blind
The Kentucky School for the Blind (KSB) is an educational facility for blind and visually impaired students from Kentucky who are aged up to 21. The school provides a dormitory setting for its students.
KSB is a member of the North Central Association of Schools for the Blind (NCASB). It receives no basic school funding from the state government, and instead must "rely on money from the state’s general fund."
History
Bryce McLellan Patten founded the Kentucky Institution for the Education of the Blind in 1839 in Louisville, Kentucky. In 1842, it was chartered as the Kentucky Institution for the Blind by the state legislature as the third state-supported school for the blind established in the United States. In 1855, it moved to its present location on Frankfort Avenue in the Clifton neighborhood. About this time, it was renamed the Kentucky School for the Blind.
The school separated African-American students under de jure educational segregation until it desegregated circa 1954.
In 2018, an ex-principal of the school accused the Kentucky Board of Education of gender discrimination.
Notable alumni
Grammy winning bluegrass fiddler Michael Cleveland is a previous student of the facility. Another previous student became a notable advocate for others with visual impairments.
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1. When looking at the patient’s blood pressure in their chart the __________________ is the lower number.
1. If a patient’s systolic blood pressure is 150–159 after repeated attempts, the dental professional will __________________.
1. Before blood pressure is taken it is recommended there is __________________ at least 30 minutes prior to BP measurements.
1. The __________________ pressure reading is the highest pressure and is the effect of ventricular contraction.
1. A blood pressure range of 130-139/80-89 is considered to be __________________.
1. For a patient with blood pressure readings of 121/82, the dental professional will recommend to __________________.
1. The diastolic pressure is the __________________.
1. Hypertension should not be diagnosed with only one reading. Blood pressure reading should be taken in a variety of different situations e.g., dental office, medical office, home, as some patients experience hypertension in the dental office.
1. A higher percentage of men than women have high blood pressure until 45 years of age. After 64 years of age, a much higher percentage of women have high blood pressure than men.
1. When taking a blood pressure the inflatable bladder of the cuff is placed directly over the __________________ artery.
1. There are no concrete symptoms for high blood pressure. A flushed face, headache, and nosebleeds may not be symptoms of high blood pressure.
1. To verify you have a more accurate blood pressure reading, how many times should you take your patient’s blood pressure at their appointment?
1. Stress contributes to behaviors that can exacerbate (worsen) blood pressure. Poor diet, lack of physical activity, and the use of tobacco and/or alcohol products are behaviors that may occur when our patient is stressed.
1. Patients in hypertensive crisis should receive immediate emergency treatment. What is the blood pressure reading for a patient considered to be in hypertensive crisis?
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My Science Fair
Today I am going to tell you about my science experiment. This work was my final project for this unit.
First, I had to came up with testable question. Question had to be testable, had to have variables, and I had to be interested on it. My question that I chose was ” How do different type of acids effect coins?”. This question wasn’t my first question. I had to think so much at my house. First, I thought my question can be ” What will happen if I put different type of coins into acids?” but it didn’t work because I’ve realised that coins are made out of metal so I thought I can’t measure my observation. I took the idea from counting my coins. I found out that my coins was so dirty. Then, I’ve realised I had a science homework so I thought I could do a science experiment with it. Then, I can clean my coin, and do my homework!
To set up my experiment, I had to plan to drop the coins in the same time so it will be fair. Everything had to be fair because, if it wasn’t fair, maybe my conclusion will be wrong and I want everything to be correct. I had to think about how much ml will I need and how can I make my science experiment to be fair experiment. I had to make my prediction which has reason why I predicted that way, I had to think what I need (materials) and how I’m going to test it (procedure)
1) Take all the materials you will need for your experiment. 2) Pour each liquid until 50 ml. 3) Take the coins. 4) Drop the coin I almost the same time. 5) Observe them everyday and record them on the chart. I record my. Observation by observing my experiment everyday and recording on my chart. It was fun to do my experiment but it was harder than group experiment. I think it was harder because I get to do my group experiment with my group, helping each other but, I had to do my own experiment all by my self. I made my conclusion by looking at my chart and thinking about all my materials. Like, water has 0 acids and on and on. For me, it was hard to do my conclusion because it was hard to do thinking with using my whole brain.
To set my tri-fold board, I had to do my thinking so much. I had to think if someone will be interested on my project, do I put my work in order, did I space my tri-fold board correctly, and stuffs like that. The hardest thing to do was of place all of my works. It was hard to place in correct place and to make it eye catchy.
The most bad thing about presentation was that audience didn’t come to me. The good thing was that I didn’t read off from my board. I was so nervous to present to everybody else about my project because what if somebody asked me so much questions that I couldn’t answer. The audience gave me lot of hard question which made my brain go confused.
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How much noise do screw compressors generate?
Generally speaking, screw compressors are known for their relatively low noise levels compared to other types of compressors, especially reciprocating (AKA piston) compressors. Piston compressors have a well-earned reputation for high noise and vibration that may be heard and felt throughout the shop. As a result, they are often put in separate rooms, closets or outside, possibly impacting their operation and longevity.
The amount of noise produced by screw compressors can vary depending on several factors, including the size and type of compressor, the surrounding environment and, to some extent, the operating speed. Depending on the specific model and working conditions, it can range from just over 60 dB(A) to over 90 dB(A). For reference, the noise level of the average vacuum cleaner is 75 dB(A). Piston compressors are often 80-90 dB(A).
AIRTOWER series air compressor for automotive repair
Screw compressors are quieter because they have a rotary motion vs. reciprocating. Further, they usually have insulated cabinets. The rotary motion virtually eliminates vibration compared to piston compressors, which are typically bolted to the floor to keep them in place. The sound level on screw compressors is low enough to have a normal conversation near the machine (a convenience and a plus for safety). Being relatively quiet and vibration free, they offer more flexibility where you put them, such as a spot with better lighting, service access and ventilation. Ventilation is critical to the longevity of any compressor.
While they are comparably quiet, screw compressors can seem loud in small rooms or rooms with low ceilings. Also, concrete floors and walls are very good at reflecting noise. There are several strategies for reducing noise. Putting some sound-absorbing material on the walls in any compressor room will make a noticeable difference. If you have screw compressors with cabinets, ducting the exhaust air outside will significantly reduce noise. Unfortunately, enclosing piston units is usually not feasible due to heat and lack of directed cooling airflow.
If you notice the noise level change on a screw compressor, it may indicate a service issue, such as a lack of lubrication. The same is true of pistons.
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Ed Glover (politician)
Ed Glover was a state legislator in Arkansas. He represented Jefferson County, Arkansas in the Arkansas House of Representatives in 1885. He was a Republican, representing Jefferson County, Arkansas.
He was a Kentucky native, originally a farmer, a Baptist and had been resident in Arkansas for 9 years when elected in 1955 aged 36.
His fellow representatives from Jefferson County in 1885 were W. B. Jacko and S. H. Scott, elected September 1, 1884.
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Sir Horace Mann, who did what he could for him (, Mann and Manners at the Court of Florence, pp. 217–18), and was anxious to learn his views as to the identity of Junius. Smollett seems to have acquired a fair knowledge of Italian. Among the books sold after his death by his widow were annotated copies of Goldoni and other Italian authors, along with odd volumes of Fielding and Sterne. During the spring of 1770 he and his wife and two other compatriots secured contiguous villas about two miles out of Leghorn, near Antignano, under the shadow of Monte Nero. The site, now occupied by the Villa Gamba, upon one of the lower spurs of the mountain, commands a beautiful prospect over the sea. Smollett describes the situation in a letter to Caleb Whitefoord of 18 May 1770. Here, while tended with devotion by his wife, he gradually became weaker. He was visited by the friendly author of the ‘Art of preserving Health’ in the summer of 1770 (A Short Ramble through some Parts of France and Italy, by Lancelot Temple [i.e. Dr. John Armstrong], London, 1771, pp. 51–2), and during the autumn he penned the bulk of the immortal ‘Humphrey Clinker.’
Horace Walpole stands almost alone as a detractor of ‘Humphrey Clinker,’ which he unwarrantably described as ‘a party novel written by that profligate hireling Smollett to vindicate the Scots and cry down juries’ (Mem. of George III, iv. 328). From the first the work, which bears traces of Sterne's influence, was regarded as a rare example of a late maturity of literary power and fecundity of humour. The workmanship is unequal, and the itinerary, which is largely autobiographic, is too often the means of introducing Smollett's contemptible views on æsthetic subjects; but as a whole the setting is worthy of the characters—the kindly but irascible Bramble, the desperate old maid Tabitha, the diverting Winifred Jenkins (direct progenitors of Mrs. Malaprop), and ‘the flower of the flock’—the pedant Lismahago. The original of the last is said to have been a certain Major Robert Stobo, who drew up a curious ‘Memorial’ in 1760 (reprinted Pittsburg, 1854; cf. Journal of Lieut. Simon Stevens, Boston, 1760); Scott, in drawing Sir Dugald Dalgetty, admits his direct debt to Smollett (Legend of Montrose, Introduction).
Smollett had the satisfaction of seeing his masterpiece in print, but not of hearing the chorus of praise that greeted it. He wrote to his friend John Hunter in the spring of 1771: ‘If I can prevail upon my wife to execute my last will, you shall receive my poor carcase in a box after I am dead to be placed among your rarities. I am already so dry and emaciated that I may pass for an Egyptian mummy without any other preparation than some pitch and painted linen.’ His last words were spoken to his wife, ‘All is well, my dear,’ and on 17 Sept. 1771 he died at the age of fifty-one. An interesting account of his last illness is given by the accomplished Italian physician, Giovanni Gentili (Gentili MSS. in Riccardian Library at Florence, codici 3280 sq., cited in Pera's ‘Curiosità Livornesi,’ p. 316). Gentili comments on his perfect attachment to his wife, and his ‘temperamento molto collerico, ma riflessivo.’ He assigns his death to the night of 17 Sept. He was buried two days after death (the Westminster Journal of 26 Oct. 1771 contains the most circumstantial account; the Evening Post of 17 Oct. 1771 says he died ‘on 20 Sept. at Pisa;’ cf. Scots Magazine for October 1771). His grave is in the old English cemetery in the Via degli Elisi at Leghorn (the only town in north Italy where protestants at that time had rights of burial), and the sea lies to the west of him, as of Fielding at Oporto. A Latin inscription (inaccurate as to dates) was written for his tombstone by Armstrong, and has recently been recut. Three years later a monument was erected by the novelist's cousin, Commissary James Smollett, on the banks of the Leven—a tall Tuscan column, which still attracts tourists between the Clyde and Loch Lomond. The inscription was revised and in part written by Dr. Johnson, who visited Bonhill with Boswell in 1774 (Letters, ed. Hill, i. 286).
In November 1775 Commissary Smollett died (Gent. Mag. 1775, p. 551), and the novelist, had he lived, would have come into the property, which passed to his sister, Jean Telfer. On succeeding to the estate she resumed her maiden name, and during her occupation bleaching and other works sprang up in the vale of Leven, and there came into existence the prosperous village of Renton, named after the ‘Miss [Cecilia] R[enton],’ daughter of John Renton of Blackadder, who appears in ‘Humphrey Clinker’ as one of the belles of Edinburgh. Cecilia subsequently married Jean Smollett's son, Alexander Telfer, and was mother of Lieut.-colonel Alexander Smollett, killed at the battle of Alkmaar in 1799. The latter was succeeded at Bonhill by his brother, Admiral John Rouett Smollett (d. 1842), father of Patrick Smollett (1804–1895).
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174 CHESTER and Earl of Chester." On 21 Mar. 1412/3 he ascended the throne as Henry V, when all his honours merged in the Crown. XVII. 1454 Edward, Duke of Cornwall, only s. and h. ap. of to Henry VI, Q b. at Westminster, 13 Oct. 1453, was, 1 47 1. by charter, dat. at Westm. 15 Mar. 1454, and con- firmed the same day in Pari., cr. Prince of Wales and EARL OF CHESTER, " sibi et heredibus suis Regibus Anglie." He d. s.p., 4 May 147 1, when his Peerage dignities lapsed to the Crown. See fuller particulars under "Cornwall," Dukedom of, 1453. Richard (Plantagenet), Duke of York (whose son, in Mar. 1 460/ 1, ascended the throne as Edward IV), having obtained possession of the person of King Henry VI, was, on 25 Oct. 1460, declared by consent of Pari., heir apparent to the Crown, and, on 8 Nov. fol- lowing, Protector of the Realm, and was granted in Dec. of that year, for the King's life,('') the Principality of Wales, the Counties of Chester and Flint, and the Duchy of Cornwall. It has been supposed that he thus became Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwall, and Earl of Chester, but there was no creation of such titles, the lands being granted to him as an appanage, worth 10,000 marks />.«., to support his position as heir to the Crown. He d. 30 Dec. 1460. For fuller particulars see "York," Dukedom of, cr. 1385, under the 3rd Duke. XVIII. 1 47 1 Edward (Plantagenet), Duke of Cornwall,(') s. to and h. ap. of Edward IV, b. 2 Nov. 1470, was, by 1483. charter, 25 June 147 1, cr. Prince of Wales and EARL OF CHESTER, being invested, by charter 17 July following, with the Principality of Wales and the Counties of Chester and Flint, at which latter date he was also cr. DUKE OF CORNWALL in Pari. On 9 Apr. 1483 he ascended the throne as Edward V {post conquestum), when all his honours merged in the Crown. See fuller particulars under "Cornwall," Dukedom of, 1470 and 1471. XIX. 1483 Edward (Plantagenet), Duke of Cornwall and to Earl of Salisbury, s. and h. ap. of King Richard III, 1484. was b. 1473, and was cr. by charter 24 Aug., and inv. 8 Sep. 1483 (under the name of " Edward, eldest son of (") Henry VI, who ascended the throne when but 9 months old, was never cr. Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester. (•") Not for his own life, as stated by Courthope, and by Ramsay in his Lancaster and York, but "ad terminum vite ipsius regis." {Rot. Pari., vol. v, pp. 380-1). V.G. ("=) He was, apparently, such at his birth, both under the original creation of that Dukedom in 1337 and also by act 9 Henry V. See some explanation as to his subsequent creation by that title, under "Cornwall," Dukedom of, 1470.
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CENSUS 195 tian names, sex, age by year and month, birth- place, civil condition, occupation, domicile, and town and country population. In the second census, taken under this law in 1866, comprehensive inquiries into the agricultural, mining, and manufacturing interests of the kingdom were made. Three schedules, print- ed in the French, German, and Flemish lan- guages, were distributed and collected in one day respectively by special census agents. The statistics of schools and public institutions were taken by means of special schedules. The cen- sus of the army was taken by the military authorities. Refusal to furnish information to the census agents was punishable by fine and imprisonment. In 1858 a special census of deaf mutes and blind was taken. The census returns, together with the yearly abstracts from the civil registers, and the results of spe- cial inquiries, are prepared for publication by the central statistical commission. A census was taken Dec. 1, 1870. In the Netherlands the census is taken decennially, the last da- ting Dec. 31, 1871. It embraces inquiries as to name, sex, age, place of birth, civil state, pro- fession, occupation, or condition, physical dis- abilities, religion, number of families and habi- tations. The army and navy, inmates of hos- pitals, almshouses, prisons, schools, and public institutions generally, are separately enumer- ated. The present bureau of statistics in Italy was organized in 1860, with the well known statistician Dr. P. Maestri as chief. Provision was made for decennial censuses, the first of which was taken in 1861, and the latest Dec. 31, 1871. It was taken by municipal and administrative officers, in one day, by means of previously distributed schedules, embracing inquiries designed to show the actual popula- tion by age, sex, civil state and domestic rela- tions, families, habitations, nativity, religion, language, physical and mental infirmities, oc- cupation, emigration and immigration, aggre- gations of population by communes, and aggre- gations of habitations. The census returns were revised by local commissioners appointed throughout the kingdom, and published in three large volumes under the general direc- tion of the bureau of statistics. The first gen- eral enumeration of the kingdom of Greece was made in 1836. The census was taken an- nually till 1845, and subsequently in 1848, 1853, 1856, 1861, 1868, and in May, 1870. Prior to 1861 a mere enumeration of the in- habitants was made ; since that date the range of inquiries has been greatly extended and more comprehensive official publications have ap- peared. The movement of the population is determined from civil registers kept by the municipal authorities. Tables of births, deaths, and marriages are published at irregular inter- vals. In Turkey the object of the census, which is very imperfect, is to provide the basis for taxation and conscription. A census officer in each province prepares an annual exhibit of the number of births, deaths, absentees and travellers, public health, movement of real property, taxable values, and losses by fire, dis- ease, &c. An annual statement is prepared by the head of each village of the age, occupation, religion, military service, liability to taxation, &c., of every male inhabitant under his juris- diction. This statement is transmitted to the comptroller of the census of the province, and by him forwarded after verification to the chief comptroller of statistics in Constantinople. In France the first census of which the records are extant was taken in 1700, the results of which were published in 1720. During the latter half of the 18th century numerous statisti- cal reports relating to population and other subjects were published by the government as well as by individuals. A general enumera- tion of the population was made in 1800, and in the following year it was decreed that a national census should be taken every five years. Pursuant to this law censuses were taken in 1806 and 1821 ; and hi 1826 the ex- tent of the population was computed. Since 1826 the census has been taken regularly at quinquennial periods. The last, however, was taken in May, 1872. In 1836 individual sched- ules were used, in which the age of each person was for the first time recorded. Up to that time only the legal population had been ascer- tained, b,ut in 1841 the actual population was made the basis of the census. The enumera- tion has been usually made in May and June. The inquiries embrace surnames and Christian names, sex, age, civil state, birthplace, occupa- tion, religion, degree of instruction, and infirmi- ties of many kinds. At times other subjects of inquiry, such as the proportion of the rural to the town population, diseases, the number of households, inhabited and uninhabited houses, buildings in course of construction, and live stock, have been connected with the census. Statistics relating to population are also derived from other sources. Particulars of births, mar- riages, and deaths are taken from the civil registers. Reports are prepared of cases of mental aberration, of the inmates of public charitable and penal institutions, of charitable associations, life annuity and insurance com- panies, savings banks, and public pawn houses. The judicial authorities furnish criminal sta- tistics annually. The reports of population are prepared by the bureau de la statistique in the ministry of commerce, agriculture, and pub- lic works. The first census of Great Britain was taken in 1801, and embraced the sex but not the age of all subjects, the number of families, and the occupations, classified so as to exhibit the number employed in agriculture, in trade and manufactures or handicrafts, and those not comprised within these two classes. The first census of Ireland was taken in 1811, but not until recently have the results been re- ceived as trustworthy. Dr. Jarvis considers the Irish census of 1841, 1851, and 1861 among the best in the world. In Great Britain and Ire- land the census is decennial, and includes the
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David Fretwell
David Fretwell (born 18 February 1952) is an English retired footballer who played in the Football League for Bradford City and Wigan Athletic. He signed for Bradford City as an amateur in 1967, making 253 league, 18 FA Cup and 9 League Cup appearances for them between 1971 and 1978.
He also played non-league football for Northwich Victoria, Mossley, where he scored once from 63 appearances in all competitions, and Salisbury City, and in the United States for the California Sunshine and the Chicago Sting.
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MV Belgian Airman
Belgian Airman was a 6,959-ton cargo ship which was built by Harland & Wolff Ltd, Glasgow in 1941 for the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT). She was launched as Empire Ballantyne and transferred to the Belgian Government in 1942. She was sunk by a German U-boat on 14 April 1945.
History
Empire Ballantyne was built by Harland & Wolff Ltd, Glasgow as yard number 1093. She was launched on 21 October 1941 and completed in February 1942. She was built for the MoWT and was to have been operated under the management of W A Souter & Co Ltd, Newcastle upon Tyne. On 15 February 1942 she was transferred to the Régie de la Marine of the Belgian Government and renamed Belgian Airman. She was managed by Compagnie Maritime Belge, Antwerp.
On 25 April 1942, Belgian Airman rescued 23 survivors from the SS Modesta, which had been torpedoed and sunk by GS U-108 (1940) at 33.66667°N, -63.16667°W. The survivors were landed in Bermuda.
Belgian Airman was a member of a number of convoys during the Second World War.
* ON 162
Convoy ON 162 sailed from Liverpool on 12 January 1943 and arrived at New York on 11 February. Belgian Airman was carrying the Commodore, Captain H.C. Birnie, RNR.
* HX 228
Convoy HX 228 sailed from New York on 28 February 1943 and arrived at Liverpool on 15 March. Belgian Airman was one of the ships that detached from the convoy and proceeded to Halifax, Nova Scotia in order to reduce the size of the convoy to 60 ships.
* HX 229A
Convoy HX 229A which from New York on 9 March 1943 and arrived at Liverpool on 26 March. Belgian Airman joined at Halifax on 12 March. During the voyage, Belgian Airman was damaged by ice and diverted to Reykjavík, Iceland. She was carrying a cargo of steel and timber.
* SL 136
Convoy SL 136 sailed from Freetown, Sierra Leone on 3 September 1943 and arrived at Liverpool on 23 September. Belgian Airman was destined for Loch Ewe.
Sinking
On 8 April 1945, Belgian Airman departed Houston, bound for New York and Antwerp. She was carrying a cargo of sorghum and dairy feed. At 15:50 CET, on 14 April 1945, Belgian Airman was torpedoed and sunk off Chesapeake Bay, Maryland (36.15°N, -75.08333°W). Her attacker was GS U-857. One crew member was killed. The 46 survivors were rescued by the Liberty ship SS Harold A. Jordan. The survivors were landed at New York.
The fate of the U-857 is unknown. It disappeared in the Atlantic in April, 1945. One theory is that it was sunk by a US Navy Airship with a Mk 24 FIDO Air-Dropped ASW Homing Torpedo.
Official number and code letters
Official Numbers were a forerunner to IMO Numbers.
Empire Ballantyne had the UK Official Number 168706 and the Code Letters BCHQ were allocated to her.
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This is the list of mobile phone brands sorted by the country from which the brands originate. The number of mobile phone brands peaked to more than 750 in 2017 before declining to nearly 250 brands in 2023.
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Newron, Merck Serono to Broaden Scope of Drug Collaboration
Newron Pharmaceuticals SpA (NWRN) will
develop two of Merck KGaA (MRK) ’s neurological compounds, broadening
the companies’ collaboration. Bresso, Italy-based Newron now holds the rights to develop
pruvanserin and sarizotan, two drugs that act on
neurotransmitters in the brain, the companies said in a
statement today. Darmstadt, Germany-based Merck has the right to
reclaim the drugs, with Newron keeping a co-development option,
the companies said. No further details were given. Merck and Newron are already collaborating on the
experimental Parkinson’s drug safinamide. To contact the reporter on this story:
Eva von Schaper in Munich at
evonschaper@bloomberg.net To contact the editor responsible for this story:
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Determining Compressor State with Audio Classification - Avnet RaSynBoard
Use the Avnet RaSynBoard to listen to the sound of a pump, in order to determine compressor speed and system health.
Created By: David Tischler
Public Project Link: https://studio.edgeimpulse.com/public/343756/latest
Introduction
Most industrial settings such as pumping facilities, heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) machinery, datacenter infrastructure rooms, manufacturing and heavy industry sites will have proprietary, expensive, critical machinery to maintain. On-site workers with experience near the machinery or equipment, are generally quick to identify when a machine doesn't seem to "sound right", "feel right", or "look right". Previous experience helps them to understand the "normal” state of the equipment, and this intuition and early warning can allow for scheduled repairs or proper planning for downtime. However, facilities that don't have 24/7 staffing or on-site workers could be more prone to equipment failures, as there is no one to observe and take action on warning signs such as irregular sounds, movements, or visual indicators.
*Image credit hdbernd on Unsplash.
Predictive Maintenance using machine learning aims to solve for this problem, by identifying and acting upon anomalies in machinery health.
Hardware
To demonstrate the concept, we'll use the Avnet RaSynBoard, which is a low-cost, small device that contains a Renesas RA6 microcontroller, and a Syntiant NDP120 Neural Decision Processor to accelerate machine learning inferencing. The RaSynBoard is available to purchase easily directly from Avnet, and makes prototyping audio classification, accelerometer and motion detection projects simple.
We'll use the onboard microphone of the RaSynBoard to create a machine learning model that understands a "low-speed" sound made by a small pump, and a "high-speed" noise from the pump. For the purposes of this demo, we will consider the "high-speed" noise to be a bad sign, indicating there is a problem.
Reasons for a pump to speed up and attempt to push more liquid could vary, depending on the use-case:
• Liquid cooling, perhaps temperatures are rising and automation has increased the pump flow to try to extract more heat from the system.
• Flow has been restricted, and the pump is trying to achieve the same total volume of throughput but through a smaller diameter.
• Liquid levels are rising, and the pump is trying to reduce the volume of water in a tank, lake, or other holding area.
Dataset Collection
Getting started, we will need to collect audio samples from the pump, running at both low-speed and at high-speed, as well as a variety of “other” background noises that will form an “Unknown” classification, helping us filter out random everyday noises that occur. To collect the data, we’ll first need to prepare the RaSynBoard.
Hardware Setup
The RaSynBoard comes with default firmware from Avnet out-of-the-box, so that it is ready to use and quick to get started with machine learning exploration. But we'll need to add Edge Impulse firmware to the board instead, in order to interface with the Edge Impulse Studio or API. To flash the board with the necessary firmware, you will need two Renesas flashing applications installed, as well as the Edge Impulse CLI. Links to the needed software, as well as the firmware that needs to be flashed, are located in the documentation here: https://docs.edgeimpulse.com/docs/edge-ai-hardware/mcu-+-ai-accelerators/avnet-rasynboard#installing-dependencies. Download and install each of the three applications, and download the firmware .zip file, and unzip it.
Once you have the Renesas bits installed, and the firmware downloaded and extracted on your laptop or desktop, you can flash the RaSynBoard by removing the SD Card, removing the Jumper from pins 1-2, and then connecting a USB-C cable from your computer to the USB-C port on the I/O Board. This is shown in detail in the excellent Avnet documentation located here.
With the board connected to the computer, inside the extracted .zip file, run the flash_linux.sh or flash_win.bat file depending upon whether you are on Linux or Windows, and the Edge Impulse firmware will be flashed to the board. When completed, you can disconnect the RaSynBoard from the computer.
Next, insert the SD Card into your laptop or desktop, and copy the config.ini, mcu_fw_120.synpkg, dsp_firmware.synpkg, and ei_model.synpkg` files from the unzipped firmware directory to the SD Card. Upon completion, eject the SD Card from your computer.
Return the Jumper to pins 1-2, and insert the SD Card into the RaSynBoard. Power it back on, and reconnect it to the computer once again.
Connect to Studio
Now that the RaSynBoard is running Edge Impulse firmware, you can use the edge-impulse-daemon command (which got installed as part of the CLI installation) on your desktop or laptop to connect the RaSynBoard to Edge Impulse. The board will then show up in the “Devices” page, and over on the Data Acquisition page you can use the drop-down menus to choose your device, choose the Microphone, enter a sample length of 1000 milliseconds (1 second), and provide a label for the type of data you are collecting. Once ready you will simply click “Start sampling”. (The IMU is also available, for projects that might make us of accelerometer data).
With the pump running in what we’ll call our “normal” condition, low-speed, I’ve collected about 50 audio samples with the RaSynBoard placed on top of the pump motor, each 1 second in length. My label is entered as low-speed, but you can use another term if you prefer. You’ll want to keep the location of the RaSynBoard consistent, so that the data used to train the model is representative of what will be experienced once the model is built and deployed back to the board.
Next, I’ve increased the speed of the pump from 10% to 85%, which still gives some excess pumping capacity, but could be a cause for concern in those use-cases outlined above. The same process is followed, with individual audio samples collected and labeled as high-speed, about 50 samples should be enough.
Building a Model
Once a dataset has been collected, a machine learning model can be built that identifies or recognizes these same sounds in the field. So in this project, we should be able to identify and classify the sound of our pump running at low-speed, and the sound of our pump running at high-speed.
On the left, click on “Impulse design”, and in the first block, “Time Series Data” should already be selected. Add a Processing block, and choose Audio (Syntiant). Then add a Learning block, and choose Classification. Finally, the Output features should already be selected, thus you can click Save Impulse.
Next, on the left navigation, choose Syntiant, to configure the Processing block. This is where Features will be extracted, and you will see a Spectrogram visualization of the processed features for each data sample (chosen from a drop-down menu at the top-right of the raw data). You should be able to leave the default MFE configuration alone, and simply click on Save parameters at the bottom. However, each option has a help tip, should you need to fine-tune these settings. On the next page, click on Generate features to create a Feature explorer that will plot a graph, allowing you to examine how your Features cluster.
Choose Classifier on the left navigation to proceed to the neural network settings for the Learning block, where you can choose the number of training cycles (epochs), learning rate, and other settings (again the defaults will likely work fine, but help text can guide any fine-tuning you may want to perform). Once you are ready, you can click on Start training to begin the model build process.
Upon completion, you will see another visual representation, this time evaluating the validation performance of your model and the Accuracy against a validation set.
Deploying a Model
To deploy this newly-built audio classification machine learning model onto the RaSynBoard, there are a few options. The quickest way to test if your model is functional and determine accuracy in the real world, is to simply choose a ready-made firmware binary that can be flashed and run immediately on the RaSynBoard. However, when building a full-featured application intended for production use, you’ll instead want to choose either the Syntiant NDP120 library or Custom Block export options, as you can then leverage the machine learning model in your application code as necessary, depending on your use-case or product.
For now though, I will just use the binary download as an easy way to test out the model.
On the left navigation, click on Deployment, and type “RaSynBoard” in the search box. From the options, choose RaSynBoard and then click on the Find posterior parameters button, which will enable you to choose the keywords or sounds from your labels that you want to detect. Choose “low-speed” and “high-speed”, then click on Find parameters.
Next, click on Build, and the firmware will be generated and downloaded to your computer. Once downloaded, unzip the file, and we’ll follow a similar method as earlier.
Power down the RaSynBoard if it is still running, remove the SD Card from the board and insert the SD Card into your laptop or desktop, and copy the config.ini, mcu_fw_120.synpkg, dsp_firmware.synpkg, and ei_model.synpkg files from the unzipped download to the SD Card. Upon completion, eject the SD Card from your computer and return it to the RaSynBoard.
Inference Results
We can now power the RaSynBoard back on, the board will boot up and automatically start running the model. To see the results, we need to attach to a serial console and can view the output of any inference results. Using a standard UART adapter, connect Ground, TX, and RX to pins 2,4, and 6 on the I/O Board, as shown here:
Then in a terminal, you will see the output of the model running. I have placed the RaSynBoard back on the pump, set the speed to low, and sure enough, the model is able to predict the pump is running at low-speed. Increasing the compressor power to 85%, the RaSynBoard now recognizes that the pump is running at high-speed.
Going Further
Using machine learning and an embedded development kit, we were able to successfully identify and classify pump behavior by listening to the sound of the compressor. This demonstration validated the approach as feasible, and when wrapped into a larger application and alerting system, an audio classification model could be used for remote infrastructure facilities, factory equipment, or building HVAC equipment that is not continually monitored by workers or other human presence. The Renesas RA6 MCU combined with the Syntaint NDP120 neural decision processor in the Avnet RaSynBoard create a low-power, cost-effective solution for predictive maintenance or intervention as needed, prior to a failure or accident occurring.
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Ivy Baker Priest
Ivy Baker Priest (September 7, 1905 – June 23, 1975) was an American politician who served as Treasurer of the United States from 1953 to 1961 and California State Treasurer from 1967 to 1975.
Early life
Priest was born in Kimberly, Utah, on September 7, 1905, to Clara Fearnley and Orange D. Baker. Her father worked as a gold miner in Kimberly and later as a copper miner in the town of Bingham Canyon, while her mother ran a boarding house. She was active in politics from high school, when she worked to register voters in a mayoral campaign.
Career
Priest was a delegate to the GOP state convention in 1932 and ran unsuccessfully for Congress in Utah on the Republican ticket in 1934. From 1934 to 1936, Priest was elected as Regional Co-Chair of the Young Republican National Federation.
Beginning in 1944, she served for several years as Utah's Republican National Committeewoman and, in 1950, ran for Congress in Utah again and lost for a second time. During Dwight D. Eisenhower's campaign for President of the United States, Priest took charge of the women's division of the Republican National Committee and was credited with the successful drive to get out the women's vote, which totaled 52 percent of Eisenhower's victory margin.
She served as Treasurer of the United States under President Eisenhower from January 28, 1953, to January 29, 1961, during which time her signature appeared on all U.S. currency.
In 1967, she became national chair of the Easter Seals.
In 1966 she was elected as a Republican to the office of California State Treasurer, narrowly unseating Democrat Bert A. Betts. She was reelected to a second term in 1970 by a comfortable margin, but did not seek a third term due to declining health.
During her first term she was sued in her role as California State Treasury by John Serrano, a parent of a Los Angeles public school student, for California's inequitable system of funding public education. This case, Serrano v. Priest, together with voter-approved Proposition 13 in 1976 led to a permanent change in California's education finance system; greatly reducing per-student spending disparities among California K-12 school districts.
In 1968 she became the first woman to nominate a candidate for U.S. president for a major political party when she offered California Governor Ronald Reagan's name in a speech before the Republican National Convention. (The convention chose Richard M. Nixon.)
Personal life
She was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
On December 7, 1935, she married Roy Fletcher Priest in Salt Lake City, Utah. He died on June 11, 1959, in Arlington, Virginia. On June 20, 1961, she married Sidney William Stevens.
She died of cancer in Santa Monica, California on June 23, 1975. She was buried in the Wasatch Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Utah. Ivy Baker Priest was the mother of Hollywood actress Pat Priest, best known for her portrayal of 'Marilyn Munster' on the 1960's television comedy: 'The Munster's'.
Legacy
On August 29, 1954, Priest was the featured guest on What's My Line?. The recording is available on YouTube. On March 17, 1960 she was also featured on Take a Good Look with Ernie Kovacs.
Priest was the mother of Pat Priest, an actress best known for playing Marilyn Munster in the 1960s television show The Munsters and appearing in the 1967 Paramount motion picture Easy Come, Easy Go with Elvis Presley.
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What is the Best Fish Oil Available Online or Off?
Monday, July 24th, 2017
If you listen to the health news these days, there is a a lot of talk about how important fish oil is to our diet. The reason why fish oil is so important and good is because of the fatty acids that you get when you eat certain fish. You hear claims that eating fish can help is good for the heart all around, can lower the risk of certain cancers, lowers your risk of a heart attack or stroke and in children, could lower the chances of certain childhood disorders like ADD, ADHD and dyslexia. And this is great news if you love fish. But what if you don’t like fish? What if you can’t stand the thought of eating fish? What then? I have already spilled my guts as to why eating fish will help improve your overall health. In this article, I intend to show you your options if you don’t like fish and give you the answer to what I believe is the best fish oil available.
Things to consider when you are choosing Fish Oil
Since there are so many claims about the benefits of fish oil, you could only imagine that the choices of fish oil available are numerous and with so much available you will have to learn how to decipher the labels of the oil. In other words, when you are looking for the best fish oil supplement, you will really need to do your homework.
The two main ingredients in fish oil that make it so beneficial are EPA and DHA. These are fatty acid chains. What makes these different than the fatty acids you would normally find in other animal foods is that these chains are longer. Your body processes these Omega 3’s differently than they would other fatty acids.
Fish oil products range from the out and out scams to the pharmaceutical grade fish oil. Some fish oils are compressed from a variety of fish but the best fish oil is the oil that comes from cold water fish such as salmon.
When you are looking at different fish oil products, it is important that you take a look at the ingredients. If you don’t see the type of fish and if the fish isn’t a cold water fish, then you will want to look for a different product. Common ingredients from some of the shoddy fish oil include marine lipids. Some fish oil products will simply state the ingredients as “fish oil”. If the ingredients don’t state clearly what type of fish it came from, then you should look toward another option.
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How to Test Water Hardness at Home: 7 Different Tests
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When was the last time you tested your water hardness? Do you even know how to test your water hardness?
Testing your water hardness will help you understand why your tap water tastes funny and gives you insight into how to fix it. In addition, testing your water hardness will save you money because you won’t have to buy bottled water anymore.
I’m going to teach you everything you need to know about testing your water hardness. It’s super simple and takes just minutes to complete.
How to Test Water Hardness at Home
How do I know if I have hard water?
If you live in a large urban area, you may not notice any problems with your water until it begins to cause issues with your plumbing. The first signs of hard water include limescale buildup on faucets and shower heads, hair loss, skin irritation, and soap scum build-up.
The easiest way to determine whether you have hard water is to buy a water hardness tester at your local hardware store. Simply add a few drops of water from the sink into the sample cup and wait ten minutes. If the number reads above 50 mg/L, then you have hard water.
Methods To Test Water Hardness at Home
Test #1: The Soap Method
Soap is one of those things you never think about unless it doesn’t work properly. If you’ve ever had hard water, you know how it affects your laundry. You use more detergent and you end up with fewer suds. But what happens when you’re washing dishes? Do you notice any difference? In my experience, I don’t.
The reason why is that most dishwashing liquids are formulated to dissolve in either cold or hot water. Cold water dissolves soap faster than warm water, so you’ll end up with a thin layer of soap on your plates. Warm water dissolves soap slower, so you’ll end with a thicker layer of soap.
If you want to see what type of soap you’re using, try doing a little experiment. Take some dish soap and add a few drops of food coloring to it. Then pour the mixture into a bowl filled with tap water. Stir it around and let it sit for 10 minutes. Now, look at the color of the liquid. Is it clear or cloudy? If it’s clear, then you’re probably using regular dish soap. If it’s cloudy, then you’re using dish soap designed for hard water.
Now take a small amount of dish soap and mix it with a cup of water. Add a couple of drops of food coloring. Let it sit for 10 minutes and observe the color again. Does it remain clear or does it turn cloudy? If it turns cloudy, then you’re probably dealing with hard water.
To find out whether or not your tap has hard water, just follow the instructions above. If it’s clear, you’re good to go. If it’s cloudy…well, there’s nothing you can do except hope that your pipes aren’t too old.
Test #2: Hard Water Kit
Hard water testing kits are the best and easiest way to determine whether your water has high levels of minerals. Most kits contain some sort of strip that measures the amount of calcium, magnesium, and other minerals present in the water.
Test #3: The pH Test
The pH test measures the acidity or alkalinity of your water. This is measured on a scale of 1-14. A pH value of 7 is neutral. Anything below 7 is acidic and anything above 7 is basic.
A pH meter is used to measure the pH of your water. It looks like a flashlight with a probe attached to it. You simply dip the probe into the water and wait for the results.
If you live in an area where the water is naturally acidic (pH less than 6), you should be careful about drinking it. Acidic water can cause stomach problems such as ulcers.
If you live in an area with high levels of minerals, you may need to adjust the pH of your water by adding baking soda or vinegar. Baking soda raises the pH while vinegar lowers it.
You can buy a kit online from Amazon.com. Just search “water hardness testing kits.”
Test #4: The Iron Test
Iron is one mineral found in water. When iron is present, it makes the water yellowish brown. In order to determine how much iron is in your water, you must use a spectrophotometer.
It works by shining light through the water and measuring the intensity of the reflected light. The higher the intensity, the more iron is present.
Hard Water Test#5: The Chlorine Test
Chlorine is another common element found in water. It’s usually added to make sure that people don’t get sick when they drink it.
In order to test for chlorine, you’ll need to use a litmus paper strip. Simply place the strip in the water and watch it change color.
When the water contains no chlorine, the strip remains blue. As soon as the water begins to pick up chlorine, the strip turns red.
Test #6: The Carbonate Test
Carbonates are compounds made up of carbon and oxygen. They are often found in water.
In order to test for carbonates, you’ll need to add a drop of potassium bicarbonate solution to some water. Then, you’ll need to observe the reaction between the two chemicals.
If the water becomes cloudy, you know that it contains carbonates. If the water clears up, then you’re safe to drink it.
Test #7: Conduct a Visual Check
There are several ways to test hard water. One way is to use a pH meter. This device measures the acidity or alkalinity of water. If it reads 7.0 or above, you have hard water. You can also run some tap water into a glass container and add baking soda. After about 30 minutes, take a look inside the container. If there are bubbles, the water is acidic; if no bubbles form, the water is alkaline. Another method is to fill a clean bucket halfway full of water. Add one tablespoon of vinegar and let stand overnight. In the morning, pour out the water. If there are still bubbles, the water is hard.
If you don’t want to buy a pH meter, try testing your water visually. Pour a cupful of water onto a white plate. If the water forms lumps, the water is hard; if it runs smoothly, the water is soft.
Water Hardness Scale: How to Interpret the Water Hardness Testing Results
The average American consumes about 3 gallons of water per day. This amount is enough to fill up one-gallon jug every three days. But what happens when you go to refill it? Do you use tap water? Or do you buy bottled water?
If you live in a city, chances are you probably drink tap water. However, if you live outside of a major metropolitan area, you might be buying bottled water. Either way, you’re likely consuming some form of water that contains dissolved minerals such as calcium, magnesium, sodium, potassium, chloride, sulfate, bicarbonate, carbon dioxide, nitrate, fluoride, and silica. These elements make up the “hardness” of water.
Hardness is measured in grains per gallon (gpg). There are different ways to measure hardness; however, most home testing kits measure the total dissolved solids (TDS), which includes both the ions and molecules found in water. TDS is usually expressed in milligrams per liter (mg/L).
A simple test kit is easy to find in stores and online. You simply add a few drops of distilled water into the sample cup, wait ten minutes, and read the results. A reading over 50 mg/L indicates hard water. Anything under 10 mg/L is considered soft.
There are several factors that affect the hardness of the water. First, the source of the water affects the hardness. For example, groundwater tends to be softer than surface water because it takes longer for the water to travel through soil and rock. Second, the type of mineral deposits in the water supply can increase or decrease the hardness. Third, the climate where the water originates can influence the hardness. Fourth, the age of the pipes supplying the water can change the hardness. Finally, the treatment methods used to treat the water can impact the hardness.
For example, adding chlorine to the water increases the hardness. In fact, the addition of just 0.3 ppm of free chlorine can raise the hardness by 20 mg/L. On the other hand, reverse osmosis systems tend to reduce the hardness. Reverse osmosis systems use high pressure pumps to force pure water through membranes, allowing the water to pass through while retaining impurities. As a result, the hardness decreases.
Of course, there are some things you can do to improve the quality of your water. One method is to install a water filtration system. Another option is to purchase a water purification device that uses ultraviolet light to kill bacteria and viruses.
Conclusion
Testing for hard water is an essential step toward keeping your plumbing system running smoothly. If you suspect that your water supply contains high levels of calcium, magnesium, iron, manganese, sodium, sulfate, chloride, nitrate, fluoride, or bromide, it’s best to consult with a professional plumber.
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RAD-140 [Testolone], EP0062: Benefits, Uses, Side Effects
RAD-140 (testolone) is a non-steroidal selective androgen receptor modulator (SARM). SARMS have been under investigation since the 1990s and in the last few years have exploded onto the bodybuilding scene, for their anabolic potential, without the severity of induced side effects compared to their steroid related counterparts. We’re going to discuss the research behind RAD-140, the benefits, uses, and potential side effects.
What Is RAD-140 (testolone), EP0062
RAD-140 is an investigational non-steroidal selective androgen receptor modulator (SARMS). Developed by Radius Health, Inc, for potential therapeutic use in androgen replacement therapy, it was licensed to Ellipses Pharmaceuticals in 2020, for its potential therapeutic use in the treatment of breast cancer and is now referred as EP0062/vosilasarm.
RAD-140 whose synthesis was first described in 2011, from in-vitro studies, showed osteoblast differentiation potential in C2C12, neuroprotective properties in primary rat neurons as well as androgen receptor (AR) agonistic effects and growth suppression of AR+ breast cancer cells.
SARMS are currently investigational drugs being developed in an attempt to overcome the pharmacologic and pharmacokinetic limitations of steroidal androgen receptor agonists (i.e., testosterone and DHT), which have known associations with liver and heart disease [R].
SARMS have been investigated for several indications such as cachexia (muscle wasting), osteoporosis (bone loss), stress urinary incontinence, erectile dysfunction, symptomatic benign prostatic hyperplasia, Alzheimer’s disease, muscular dystrophy, and breast cancer [R].
Selective androgen receptor modulators comprise compounds that bind as ligands to the androgen receptor and possess tissue-selective activities. Ideally, they show agonistic properties in anabolic target tissues (muscle, and bone), while inducing antagonistic or only weak agonistic effects in reproductive organs (prostate) [R].
How Does RAD-140 (testolone) Work
RAD-140 is a relatively new compound, with Phase 1 study results completed just in 2020. Phase 1 clinical trials are the first step in human clinical trials to establish safety, efficacy, and dose tolerability, in order to proceed with further investigation for indicated therapeutic use.
In addition to high tissue-selectivity of androgen receptors in muscle and bone, preclinical animal data shows that RAD-140 has neuroprotective effects. The natural decline in testosterone levels is normal of the aging process, with increased risk in androgen responsive tissues. These tissues also include the brain. Testosterone replacement therapy (TRT) has the risk of inducing changes in tissues other than muscle and bone and accelerating the progression of cancer. To overcome these limitations, research is currently on going with SARMS as a potential alternative.
Preclinical data shows that RAD-140 was as effective as testosterone in reducing cell death induced by apoptotic insults. Mechanistically, RAD140 neuroprotection was dependent upon MAPK signaling, as evidenced by elevation of ERK phosphorylation and inhibition of protection by the MAPK kinase inhibitor U0126 [R].
These findings show initial preclinical efficacy of a SARM in neuroprotective actions relevant to Alzheimer’s disease and other age-related neurodegenerative disease states.
Animal studies reveal that RAD140 appears to be a potent and complete androgen agonist on the levator ani muscle but a weaker, partial antagonist on the seminal vesicle and possibly the prostate.
RAD-140 (testolone) Benefits
Increases Lean Muscle Mass
Preclinical animal studies shows that RAD-140 has high dose-dependent selectivity on muscle mass. Administered animal models found that RAD-140 increased muscle mass, yet, had no effect on or stimulation of the prostate at 0.1mg/kg. RAD140 demonstrated no stimulation of the prostate above the intact animal control level until the highest dose tested, 30 mg/kg.
RAD-140 like other SARMS, has a high binding affinity to androgen receptors, with high oral bioavailability. RAD140 demonstrated muscle efficacy similar to testosterone propionate at 0.5 mg/kg, but a dose of 30 mg/kg of RAD140 was required to approximate the prostate efficacy of 0.5 mg/kg TP.
In just 28 days of dosing at 0.1 mg/kg, a greater gain of 10% in muscle mass and weight occurred with a similar effect observed at the 1.0 mg/kg dosing group.
Tumor Suppression
Preclinical research has shown that androgen receptor activation exerts potent antitumor activity across a number of ER+/AR+ breast tumors, including those resistant to standard-of-care endocrine therapy and CDK4/6 inhibitors [R].
Phase 1 study of RAD-140 safety, tolerability, maximum tolerated dose (MTD), pharmacokinetic (PK) profile, and antitumor activity of RAD140, was exhibited and investigated with postmenopausal women with ER+/HER2- metastatic breast cancer (mBC).
21 patients were enrolled, and dosed at levels of 50, 100, and 150mg once daily. Most frequent treatment-emergent adverse events (TEAEs) were elevated AST (59.1%), ALT (45.5%), and total blood bilirubin (27.3%), and vomiting, dehydration, and decreased appetite and weight (27.3% each).
SARMS have several etiologies as agonists of androgen receptors. Mechanistically, RAD-140 showed agonist activation of AR and alters the genomic distribution of estrogen receptors and essential co-activators resulting in repression of estrogen receptor-regulated cell cycle genes and up-regulation of androgen receptor target genes, including known tumor suppressors.
Future, phase 2 studies will investigate safety and efficacy, as well as establish a threshold for patient selection as well as efficacy combined with established standard of care therapies [R].
RAD-140, (testolone), EP0062 Side Effects
Preclinical and Phase 1 data shows that RAD-140, EP0062 is well tolerated and safe from 0.1mg to 150mg per day, at 24 weeks.
However, SARMS do exhibit several side effects. Without long-term efficacy and toxicity studies, it is impossible to know the long-term detriment, these compounds can create [R].
Yet due to the trial length of RAD-140, 24 weeks, is a longer clinical evaluation than most SARMS.
Studies show that RAD-140, like other SARMS does suppress high-density lipoproteins, (HDL), LDL and triglycerides in a dose-dependent manner [R]. Negative effects are also notorious and associated with therapeutic application of all anabolic steroids and non-steroidal anabolics.
SARMs have shown to suppress luteinizing hormone (LH) and follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) through the hypothalamus-pituitary-testis axis, thus decreasing testosterone in a dose-dependent manner [R].
Studies also show, RAD-140 does reduce other hormones specifically sex hormone-binding globulin (SHBG). Commonly reported symptoms and findings for all SARMs were headaches, dry mouth, and upper respiratory infections (URIs), constipation, dyspepsia, and nausea.
Moreover, RAD-140 does not aromatize into Estrogen, yet it can still cause a systemic increase or decrease in Estrogen levels.
RAD0140, like other SARMS, suppresses natural Testosterone levels, which can result in an disparaging balance between Testosterone and Estrogen levels in the body.
This can result in symptoms such as
• Acne
• Low Libido
• Lethargy
• Gynecomastia
• Depressive Mood State
• High Blood Pressure
• Change in testicular size
Pharmacokinetics studies and Phase 1 clinical trials show that the average terminal half-life of RAD-140 is 44 hours and was rapidly absorbed and completely bioavailable [R].
Therefore, post cycle therapy is recommended to be started immediately after application has been concluded.
Any anabolic agent, SARMS or not, increase androgen activity. While RAD-140 is selective for muscle and bone relative to androgen modulation there is still potential for androgen related side effects.
Anabolic agents are well known to cause liver damage which may manifest with elevated liver enzymes. Selective androgen receptor modulators (SARMs) have been heavily marketed as alternatives to androgenic anabolic steroids (AASs) for muscle gain and physical performance because of their perceived superior side-effect profile.
RAD-140 does show changes in AST or ALT levels in human trials at doses much higher than those shown for efficacy, ranging between 01mg/kg of body weight to 1.0mg/kg of body weight. Despite the rather dramatic increases in body weight over such a short time, there was no elevation of liver enzyme transaminase levels in any animal at any dose >2 fold over its baseline value. Given the well-established relationship between oral androgen use and liver stress indicators, we were quite pleased that at a dose 10-fold greater than the fully effective dose we saw minimal liver enzyme elevations [R].
Doses ranging between 50-150mg per day, can result in elevated AST and ALT levels.
At therapeutic dosages, there appears to be a low risk associated with use and liver damage. However, it should be noted, that any anabolic modulator may have some degree of liver toxicity with ergogenic dosages.
With doses higher than 10mg per day, it is possible, that RAD-140, will exhibit some degree of liver toxicity, However, at therapeutic dosages, there appears to be a strong safety profile and the data suggests a complete absence of liver toxicity.
Is RAD-140, EP0062 Legal
RAD-140 is classified as experimental and used for research purposes.
RAD-140, now EP0062 is classified as an investigational new drug by the FDA, meaning that it is still being studied and has not been approved for human use. As such, it is illegal to sell or distribute EP0062 in the U.S. for any purpose other than FDA-approved clinical trials.
Thus, it is legal to sell and buy SARMs that are marketed for research purposes, which commonly occurs online. However, it is illegal to sell and buy those that are packaged in capsules for human consumption and/or labeled as dietary supplements. Furthermore, SARMS cannot be marketed to the public as dietary supplements and claims regarding their benefits cannot be made.
SARMs were banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency in January 2008, despite no drugs from this class yet being in clinical use, and blood tests for all known SARMs have been developed.
RAD-140, EP0062 is still under investigation, for metastatic breast cancer indications.
Swolverine is no way supports or condones the use of illegal or nefarious substances or compounds. This article is for informational purposes only.
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Everything About Git Part: 3
New Git Repository Setup:
Basically, the directory is called Repoitory or ‘Repo’ for short. Now if you want to start Git on any of your projects, first you have to go to the project directory from your Git Bash or your CMD command line. Or if you right click inside your project, you will see an option called Git Bash Here. This will open the git bash with the path of this directory by clicking from inside your desired project directory and you can now type any git command for the directory.
Now suppose you have a directory called git-learn in C: \ xampp \ htdocs. And there are some files inside. Now here if you want to start Git. Then you have to type the following command.
git init
Now since we want to track everything inside the git-learn directory, so I run the git init command from inside the git-learn directory. And that’s where Git’s repo setup became inside this directory. Now Git can start tracking all of your repo or directories, all the files or folders inside this directory. However, even if tracked, Git will not store them as versions. For that you have to specifically tell which one exactly when and how to save.
Save a specific file of repository or all files as git version:
Before saving a specific file or repository of repository as git version you first need to understand how git works?
When we make changes to the local repository while working on Git, we are in the working directory. And then after giving the git add command, it goes to the staging area and after giving the git commit command, it is permanently added to the local repository. If you want later, it can be uploaded to the remote (GitHub, gitLab, bitbucket) repository with git push command. Notice the image below:
Check the current status of the git
We now want to see the current status of our Git, i.e. which files are not tracked or which files are in staging. That is why we will use the following command:
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git status
Notice that I have two files in this directory named test.php and index.php. Since I just initiated Git in this project, both files are un-tracked here. And also gives some hints on how to track the files.
Taking File Staging Area
Suppose we first want to track our test.php file, that is, we want to take the test.php file to the staging area. That is why we have to give the following command:
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git add test.php
The track.php that I have tracked shows it in the Changes to be committed section. And below is the previous un-tracked file. However, at the moment we have the test.php file in the staging area, so if you commit now, Git will only keep this file in the version history. And index.php file that has not been tracked will not do anything about it. Now if we want to give a command to track all the un-tracked files inside this directory then the git command will be as follows:
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Now if you give the git status command, you will see that all the tracks are done, which means they are all in the staging area. No files un-tracked. The previous test.php is still in the staging, since we haven’t committed it yet. Now with index.php file and moving to staging area. If you commit now, Git will keep a complete version of the two together.
commit:
commit means final. That means you will make the final decision whether to keep your tracked changes in Git Repo? If you think Git Repo will do, you have to commit. And if you want to commit, you have to give a message with each commit so that you can understand at any time later on which committee was done for what reason. Everything will be in one line like this:
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git commit -m "New Message Added"
Here New Message Added is the message of our committee.
Note: You cannot commit any file or directory before taking it to the staging area.
Modify the file and re-committed
Now we have a version. But we have a lot more work to do on the project. Now I will add some new variables to the test.php file. The file is currently in the same condition as the new variable and its values
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$students=["Safan","Shail","Tortoiz"];
echo "Hello This is my First Git Learn";
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Now if you save the test.php file and check the git status, you will see that the file shows it in a modified and un-tracked state.
Now I want to take this un-track file on stage and make a final comment
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Watch: Rams RB Todd Gurley finally got a cat
About a year ago, Todd Gurley said he wanted to get at least two cats. He said he was going to be a cat dude but then never followed through and got one. Until now, that is. On Wednesday, Gurley shared a video on Instagram of himself and his new cat. Being a first-time cat owner, he asked for advice. What can I say? I'm a 🐈 dude. Got any tips? #catad A post shared by Todd Gurley (@tg4hunnid) on Aug 14, 2019 at 5:01pm PDT Gurley boldly said last year that he hates dogs, declaring his love for cats. Clearly he wasn't joking, showing he truly does like cats better. Todd Gurley loves cats. Great piece by @samalipour.https://t.co/P3uAXZW5LI pic.twitter.com/5x5HMT6GhJ Andrew Siciliano (@AndrewSiciliano) August 18, 2018 The little feline doesn't seem to have a name yet, but considering Carmelo Anthony is his favorite NBA player, Melo should be among his top choices. Or if he wants to name it after himself, Todd Purrley fits nicely, too. Sign up for the Rams Wire newsletter to get our top stories in your inbox every morning Since Sean McVay took over as head coach in 2017, the Rams have been one of the most fun teams to watch. Even fans of other teams have marveled at Los Angeles' offense, largely thanks to its creativity and explosiveness. Sunday night's game against the Seahawks was certainly one that fans enjoyed watching as the Rams scored 21 unanswered points, including touchdowns on four of their first five drives. The game was exciting for most of the night until the Rams pulled away in the fourth quarter. Jared Goff threw for 293 yards and two touchdowns with two interceptions, Todd Gurley... No team ever wants to lose 45-6 at home, but maybe that was just the wake-up call the Los Angeles Rams needed. They were embarrassed by the Ravens two weeks ago but ever since then, they've been on a roll. In their last two games, they've beaten the Cardinals and Seahawks by a combined score of 62-19 and have seemingly found a rhythm offensively. It's a big difference from the 11.7 they were averaging in the previous three weeks. If you ask Andrew Whitworth, the Rams have turned a corner and feel like a different team than they did before. He... The Rams put together a complete performance on Sunday night against the Seahawks, controlling the game from start to finish. After falling behind 3-0, the Rams responded with 21 straight points and rolled to a 28-12 victory at home. Los Angeles got strong performances from several players, including Jared Goff and Robert Woods again, moving to 8-5 on the year. Here are our studs and duds from Week 14, highlighting the best (and worst) of the night.StudsRobert WoodsWoods has emerged as Goff's favorite target. He had nine passes come his way, catching seven of them for 98 yards. He also caught... Copyright Rams Wire 2019 Powered by WordPress.com VIP Please enter an email address. Thanks for signing up. Please check your email for a confirmation. Something went wrong.
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State Z is a underwater kingdom of the Atlantic Ocean. This country is amazing. There are $n$ cities in the country and $n-1$ undirected underwater roads which connect all cities.
In order to save energy and avoid traffic congestion, the king promulgated a series of traffic regulations:
1. Residents have to travel on fish!
2. Residents need to feed the fish before you start your trip!The amount of food you feed the fish should be exactly the total distance of your journey.
3. What kind of food to feed depends on the total distance of your journey!Total distance is a multiple of three. You should feed the fish with Durian. Total distance modulus $3$ equaling $1$. It should be Papaya.Total distance modulus $3$ equaling $2$. It should be Avocado!!!
Sure, fish like to eat these fruits very much.
Today is the first day of the king's decree. Because the residents here are not good at mathematics, they don't know how much fruit they need to give fish to go to other cities. So the king give an order to the energy minister Ynaonlctrm From all cities to all cities directly, which means that he will make $n*(n-1)$ trips.
For example, A - (5 mile) - B - (5 mile) - C, he needs to run the fish, starting at A, passing B, finally arriving C (papaya 10 kg), also he needs to start at C and end at A (papaya 10 kg). Indirect passage is useless. "I've passed City B, my dear emperor." "Oh! It's no use! Not directly! People in cities will never know how much the fish need to eat! The fish will surely die!!! You also need to take several trips which start at B or end with B!" The Emperor said.
It's really a tough task. Can you help him figure out how much fruit he needs to prepare for the emperor's mission?
Input
Multiple input!
Fist line is $N$. next $N-1$ line has three integer $a$, $b$ and $c$. It represent city $a$ and city $b$ is connected by a road of $c$ nautical miles. ($1<n \le 10^4$, $0 \le a,b<n$, $1 \le c<10^5$, $\sum{n} \le 10^5$)
Output
For each data, output three number, the amount of Durian, Papaya and Avocado he need. (the result could be very large, please output the result mod $10^9+7$)
样例输入
5
0 1 2
0 2 3
0 3 7
0 4 6
样例输出
54 60 30
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Regions Trust
Regions Trust, formerly Regions Morgan Keegan Trust is the trust division of Regions Financial Corporation and its subsidiary Regions Wealth Management. The company, headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama and was created in 2002 when Regions Trust was combined with Morgan Keegan Trust to create Regions Morgan Keegan Trust. The division is made up of Regions Trust, Morgan Asset Management, and RMK Timberland Group.
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Robert Heppener
Robert Heppener (9 August 1925 in Amsterdam – 25 August 2009 in Bergen ), also known as Bob Heppener, was a Dutch composer. He was among the most important Dutch composers of the 20th century.
Early life and education
Heppener was born in Amsterdam on 9 August 1925. He studied composition with Bertus van Lier and piano with Jan Odé and Johan van den Boogert at the Amsterdam Conservatory.
Career
Heppener taught piano and music theory at the Rotterdam Music School. After leaving Rotterdam, he went to Amsterdam, where he taught music theory and composition at the Muzieklyceum. In his later years, he taught composition at the Conservatory of Music in Maastricht.
Death
Heppener died on 25 August 2009, at the age of 84.
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Maliattha ritsemae
Maliattha ritsemae is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It was described by Samuel Constantinus Snellen van Vollenhoven in 1880. It is found on Sulawesi, Ambon Island, as well northern Australia and New Hebrides.
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Vital functions
Vital functions refer to the necessary functions performed by every living being to maintain life. Even single-celled living beings can also perform vital functions, since the only existing cell can perform them independently.
There are three major vital functions: nutrition, reproduction and relationship with the environment.
Great vital functions
Nutrition
Nutrition collects all the activities that living beings perform to obtain the matter and energy essential for life. Nutrition consists of several factors:
– Food: The survival of living beings is only possible with the ingestion of foods that provide the proteins and nutrients necessary for their development. There are two types of nutrition: heterotrophic and autotrophic. The first is used by humans and animals and is based on the manufacture of matter from organic matter. That is, foods are digested and reduced to simple molecules. The digestive system is fundamental, with digestion, which is a chemical and mechanical process in which there is a breakdown of nutrient molecules, such as lipids, proteins, carbohydrates and nucleic acids.
The second type of nutrition is used by vegetables and consists of creating organic matter from inorganic matter, through photosynthesis.
– Circulation: Circulation is essential for matter to reach all parts of the body. Circulation is done through blood tissue and blood circulates through vessels, arteries, veins and capillaries. Human circulation is double, closed and complete.
– Excretion: Excretion is the elimination of metabolic waste resulting from chemical reactions in the body’s cells. These residues, such as ammonia, urea and uric acid, cannot remain in the bloodstream because they are toxic. In the case of humans and animals, waste is eliminated through urine and faeces, thanks to the excretory system.
– Breathing: Breathing is inserted in nutrition as it is the metabolic process that allows to elaborate and maintain the energy that we obtain through food. It is represented by the processes of inspiration (oxygen entering the body) and expiration (expelling carbon dioxide). The respiratory system is formed by the airways through the lungs.
Vital functions
Photo: Reproduction
reproduction
Reproduction is the vital function that guarantees the survival of the species by passing on genes to future generations. There are two types of reproduction: sexual and asexual. Sexual reproduction is that which requires two individuals of the opposite sex and is performed by the union of the sexual cells (eggs and sperm), or gametes, of each individual, which is called fertilization. Asexual reproduction is that of single-celled beings, in which only one individual intervenes.
Relationship with the environment
It allows living beings to perceive changes in the environment, both internal and external, and to develop responses to these stimuli. In this way, the relationship of living beings with each other and with the environment and the guarantee of survival becomes possible.
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Trapezia rufopunctata
Trapezia rufopunctata is a species of guard crabs in the family Trapeziidae.
Description
Trapezia rufopunctata, also known as the commensal crab, can reach the size of about 5 cm in width. They are considered true crabs, with 4 pairs of walking legs and a pair of proportionally large and long, flattened clawed legs (chelipeds). The trapezoidal carapace has a unique mottled pattern, with around 100 to 200 reddish or orange spots on a white or pink background, earning it the common name of the “rust spotted guard crab”. Their appearance is believed to help it camouflage within the colorful corals in which it resides. Its eyes, however, are a contrasting shade of green. Trapezia rufopunctata use drag powered swimming to move around. This guard crab, similar to other members of the family, lives symbiotically in association with corals. Behaviorally, this species avoids confrontation, quickly retreating into coral branches when approached while holding its claws up defensively. These crabs are gonochoric and their mating behavior includes a precopulatory courting ritual which is often instigated through olfactory or tactile cues. They reproduce sexually and the resulting fertilized eggs are carried by the female, and the mating pair often occupy the same coral colony together afterwards. The eggs hatch into planktonic larvae before growing into the distinctive aforementioned adult characteristics.
Distribution and Habitat
This species is widespread in the Indo-Pacific, Maldives and Polynesia. It has specifically been widely seen and photographed near the Great Barrier Reef in Australia and Bali, Indonesia. They have been found as far west as Hawaii, as east as eastern Africa, as north as southern Japan, and as south as South Africa. Trapezia rufopunctata inhabits coastal reefs and lagoons, mostly due to their symbiotic relationship with corals. Typically, that is shallow water at a depth of 0-30 meters with sea surface temperatures ranging from 20-36 C.
Symbiosis
Trapezia rufopunctata specifically lives on the hard corals of the genus Stylophora and Pocillopora, hiding deep within the coral branches. Single mating pairs of the species are often found to occupy a coral colony together, with larger corals able to host up to 5 different pairs of Trapezia species and smaller corals only able to host one pair. Their mutualistic relationship consists of feeding on coral tissue (polyps) and mucus, and defending the corals from predators, such as the coral-eating starfish Acanthaster planci. Trapezia rufopunctata have also been found to protect corals against the mucus of the vermetid snail, Dendropoma maximum. These sessile snails extrude a mucous net for feeding, which negatively affects both the coral growth and morphology, reducing their rate of survival. Trapezia rufopunctata have been observed cleaning the corals of vermetid mucus while feeding on the coral itself. They feed by first massaging the coral tissue with their legs, which produces a slimy mucus that they collect via the hairs on their legs, sequentially passing it to its mouth. Although there are certain sea stars they cannot deter (such as Culcita novaeguineae), these crabs are still widely known and widely recognized for increasing the survival of juvenile populations of host corals. They often work in conjunction with other mutualistic organisms, as corals need a diverse variety of sizes and morphologies of endosymbionts to fend off predation. The functional diversity within the genus minimizes any gaps in the protection of the coral, which a singular species of Trapezia cannot achieve, and although there are multiple studies on the impact of the Trapezia family overall on coral health, there is much work to be done on Trapezia rufopunctata specifically. Overall, this mutualism both stabilizes and increases biodiversity in the ecosystem as well as positively affecting coral reef demography. This symbiotic relationship has also been shown to increase the resistance of both the crab and coral to external stressors unrelated to their relationship.
In Captivity
This species of Trapezia is a favorite among many aquarists, as they help keep the corals clean from detritus and waste, while also protecting the fragile coral from harmful predators. Additionally, they can be kept in aquariums if provided an adequate supply of the preferred Pocillopora or Acropora corals, although their diet can be supplemented by fish food if needed.
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Assessment of the electronic conductivity of core-shell, Fe-doped LSGM ceramics by impedance spectroscopy
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The structure, microstructure and low-temperature electrical properties of core-shell-type mixed conductors based on lanthanum gallate with Fe-doped grain boundaries are analyzed in depth. Electron probe microanalysis revealed that the iron concentration in the grain-boundary regions (shell) is below 1 at.% and their thickness is no more than 1.5 mu m. The low-temperature (<400 degrees C) electronic conductivity is enhanced by up to 2-3 orders of magnitude with respect to the corresponding undoped ceramics, as revealed by the analysis of impedance spectra combined with microstructural information. The electronic transport numbers lie in the range between 0.35 and 0.1 at 275 to 400 degrees C, decreasing at higher temperatures, where the influence of grain boundaries on the overall transport properties vanishes and the ionic conductivity increases. (C) 2011 Published by Elsevier B.V.
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OXYGEN PERMEATION PROPERTIES; OXIDE FUEL-CELLS; ELECTRICAL-PROPERTIES; LANTHANUM GALLATE; TRANSPORT-PROPERTIES; IONIC-CONDUCTIVITY; MIXED CONDUCTORS; SOLID-SOLUTIONS; MEMBRANES; LAGAO3
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Gomes, E; Mather, GC; Figueiredo, FM; Marques, FMB
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Financial support from FCT and PRODEP (Portugal), and CEC (Brussels, Network of Excellence FAME) is greatly appreciated. Prof. Derek Sinclair (U. Sheffield, UK) kindly provided open access to EPMA facilities, with the help of Dr. Cathy Shields.
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Oil Well Modeling and Optimization Using AnyLogic Fluid Library
Oil Well Modeling and Optimization Using AnyLogic Fluid Library
Problem:
Canada has the world’s third largest oil reserves. However, most of the oil is in oil sand — a mixture of sand, oil and water — which has to be heated up with steam to retrieve the oil. Though operational costs for extraction are high, capital investments in this sphere reached $26 billion in 2014, indicating a promising future.
To extract oil from sand, a complex system of oil wells, pipes, steam generators, and other equipment is needed. It is costly to maintain such a distribution system, and outages may lead to disruptions in steam injection and oil production. For oil well optimization, cutting expenditures and capturing production lags, Stream Systems used AnyLogic simulation modeling. Using spreadsheets, engineers could model the working process of 10-20 oil wells. Adopting a simulation approach allowed them to model production for hundreds of oil wells.
Solution:
Oil Well Optimization
The oil production process consists of three major elements:
The simulation model consisted of smaller models of the system’s elements. This modular approach allowed engineers to see how the work of a particular operation might affect other elements.
Because of the model’s complexity, the AnyLogic multimethod approach (a mix of agent-based, system dynamic, and discrete event modeling) was applied. The system acted as a liquid carrier, and the lag in one component might lead to lags in other ones. The AnyLogic fluid library was used to capture these lags, including for emergency situations.
Oil Well Optimization Simulation Model – Model Logic
AnyLogic was seamlessly integrated with external data sources, allowing modelers to use any type of files to input the data into the model. To manage additional calculations, and make the model more realistic, external Java libraries were incorporated. The model’s input data included:
The model consisted of oil wells that acted as individual agents. Each well had a particular behavior and was connected with pipes and other flowchart components. It was easy to add and adjust components in the model if needed.
Apart from looking at specific parts of the model, it was also possible to observe the production process, at a high level, to make operational and strategic plans. At both levels, it was possible to set parameters and run various experiments to perform optimization. Dashboards showed statistical data to visualize changes in the system.
Oil Well Optimization Simulation Model - Interface
Output data accounted for:
Outcome:
AnyLogic simulation modeling helped connect parts of the system, located above and below ground. With the multimethod simulation modeling approach, it became possible to run multiple scenarios, including Monte Carlo and what-if experiments, and analyze variabilities in terms of scheduling and maintenance, providing the system’s optimization.
The Fluid Library helped represent each part of the oil well optimization model with high granularity and display the ripple effect and breakages in the system. Moreover, it helped consider dynamic changes and their impact on the system. With this approach, it became possible to make real time decisions and capture the quality of the oil.
The model also contributed to decision making on future capital investments as well as their reduction: establishing when to replace or provide maintenance.
AnyLogic software has also been successfully incorporated in the company’s other projects.
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Talk:The Interpretation of Dreams
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Some of the chapters are extremely long, and I think will have to be broken up into their sub-chapters (or whatever they're called), ie. A, B, C, etc. Mr. Absurd 05:29, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
* Long pages are not a big problem on Wikisource, as the editing is rarely done once complete. If the pages are going to be over 100Kb, definitely split them. Either way, it is your choice. John Vandenberg (chat) 06:14, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
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A series of brand-new single-edit editors adding the name "key_people = Jeffrey Epstein" to The Giving Pledge infobox over the last couple of weeks, despite no mention of Epstein in the text nor any sources even suggesting him being "key". I strongly suspect it's just one account creating an account for each edit, but maybe a check for sleepers is in order. Calton | Talk 07:31, 20 July 2020 (UTC)
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* Ugh, is this another one of those Epstein memes? I don't think we're going to get much from a sleeper check, since it looks like they create the account, edit with it, and toss it - no evidence at this point of sleepers. everyone involved, PC'd the page for a couple of months, closing. GeneralNotability (talk) 14:03, 21 July 2020 (UTC)
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The New Deal The New Deal had three aims Relief, which was to help with unemployment, Recovery to rebuild the economy and to return USA to the 1920s economic boom. The New Deal was not a complete success, but it did prevent things from getting worse, it dealt with unemployment in a way. One of the aims of the New Deal was to provide Relief; I am going to assess the successes and failures of this aim. The role of the FERA, they were kind of a success because they did make grants of fredren money to state relief to unemployment. It also stopped the treat of starvation, but it was not a long-term solution it was only an emergency measure. The role of the PWA was kind of a success because it created jobs. Unemployed people were employed building schools, city halls, hospitals and helping society, but not all of the jobs were helping society because some jobs were just wasting tax payers money which was known as boondoggling. There were jobs like scaring pigeons away from the white house and singing on the road, this was wasting taxpayers’ money. (Boondoggling) The role of the WPA, this act was kind of a success as well but more of a failure. It did find workers, but only some who were needed on construction projects, but this was only a short-term measure. These acts did help employment but most of them were short-term measures or emergency acts. So they weren’t that of a success in solving the unemployment problem. One of the other aims of the New Deal was to rebuild the Economy; I am going to assess the successes and failures of this aim. The New Deal aimed to tackle the problems in industries and in businesses. The NRA, ... ... middle of paper ... ...roads and dams helped the future development of agriculture and industry. Government social security and welfare schemes, such as helping many ordinary people and continued in to the future. Workers rights and conditions were improved. Many Americans began to believe in themselves again. The weaknesses of the New Deal are unemployment was reduced but not ended. In 1938 it rose again. It was rearmament programme and entry into the Second World War that eventually solved the problem. The programme lacked total support, opposition hampered it. The programmes were least helpful to unskilled workers. This group included many black people. The programme did nothing to improve the civil rights of black people. Most women continued to be paid less than men for the same type of work. So the New deal was not a complete success.
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This ETF can help you 'buffer' against all the market volatility
It's been a wild week for stocks, but there's one firm that could help you weather those wild swings using ETFs. Innovator Capital Management has a set of ETFs with built-in "buffers" for five broader market indexes: the S&P 500, Nasdaq 100, Russell 2000, MSCI EAFE and MSCI Emerging Markets indexes. The firm calls them Defined Outcome ETFs that they say help protect investors from market swings to the downside. There are three different built-in "buffer levels" in the ETFs that hedge investors from 9% downside, 15% downside or a 30% pullback depending on which level they choose. Innovator offers a Buffer ETF, Power Buffer ETF and Ultra Buffer ETF for every month of the year (they correspond respectively with the three buffer levels). In total, there are 38 Defined Outcome ETFs that cover five broad market indexes. With these ETFs, investors "have an opportunity to get into the market, know that they have a buffer on the downside, but [also know] they're going to have participation on the upside," said Innovator CEO Bruce Bond on CNBC's "ETF Edge" Wednesday. But given that the ETFs do have a built-in buffer, there is a cap to how much upside investors can get depending on the buffer level they choose. A 9% buffer level yields a higher return than a 30% downside buffer level. "What you're doing is you're giving up some of your potential upside to get the downside buffer," Bond said. And since the different months reset, Astoria Portfolio Advisors' John Davi believes the ETFs offer a less traditional play for investors. "I think this is an alternative to people that don't want to go out, buy their own puts, pick their own strikes and have to roll the options maturities," Davi, his firm's founder and chief investment officer, said in the same "ETF Edge" interview. "That's what I think the ETF is doing." Innovator is set to list their March series of buffer ETFs on March 2nd, according to the firm's product website. Its Defined Outcome ETFs passed the $2 billion mark in assets under management this week. Disclaimer
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Dobrzyca, Koszalin County
Dobrzyca (Kordeshagen) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Będzino, within Koszalin County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-western Poland. It lies approximately 6 km south-west of Będzino, 18 km west of Koszalin, and 123 km north-east of the regional capital Szczecin. It is located in the historic region of Pomerania.
Notable sights include the Holy Trinity church and the Hortulus and Hortulus Spectabilis botanical gardens. The latter contains the world's largest hornbeam labyrinth.
The village has an approximate population of 800.
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AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket Android 2.3 Wi-Fi problems with specific Acess Point
Hi, I have an AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket smarphone (Android 2.3) problem/question pertaining to a specific Wi-Fi network connection at my office which keeps keeps turning off my wife whenever I attempt to connect to it. I have full control over the Wireless Router and I have checked the security settings and there is nothing in the settings that would indicate that I should not be able to connect my phone to it. In fact my laptop and my kindle fire devices are connecting to the Access point just fine without any problems. Also, my phone works fine with my home wireless router and at any other hot spot so it is not a phone malfunction, but it seems to me that it is specific to the Access Point at my office, but I cannot figure out what could be causing my phone Wi-Fi to turn off the minute that I try to connect to my office AP. Please let me know if there is something I can do to fix this. I already contacted AT&T tech support and they could not figure out the problem either. Thanks in advance!
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It would help to know the make and model of the access point as well as the firmware version it is running.
Additionally how is the access point configured? WEP/WPA/WPA2? PSK? TKIP/AES? (I use the acronyms as that is likely how they appear in a web console...)
after connecting to AP assign a static IP address and see
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The Wireless Router I am using is a Cisco WRVS4400N Wireless-N Gigabit Security Router with VPN. I had tried the different encryption modes but that was not the problem, but I found out that the cause of my disconnection was the router's Wireless Network Mode which was set to "B/G/N Mixed Mode" and as soon as I changed it to "N-Only" then my phone was able to connect and stay connected.
Anyways, thanks! I do appreciate your reponses but the problem is now resolved.
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SQL - table with rows with no null values
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How to show table with only rows with no null values for better visual? I'm using mysql database for my data source.
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Hi Sindhu,
Before loading the data and fields from the data source, write a custom SQL statement to get those values from tables without nulls.
If it is a single table then you can write this code to get the table contents without null values.
SELECT * FROM table WHERE field_name IS NOT NULL;
The new table can then be used to perform visualization.
For multiple tables, you should rewrite the code to fetch each table. You can then rename the query after creating and use the data.
The custom SQL table later joined with other tables just like actual tables.
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Understanding the role of 3d site modeling in roadway construction
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3D technology is a relatively new instrument that has the potential to impact the roadwork construction sector significantly. With the integration of 3D-engineered modeling, construction personnel and the general public can benefit from increased efficiency in highway development and repair operations. This article will review what 3D technology is and how it applies to the roadway construction sector.
How does 3D modeling apply to the building of roadways?
Construction teams can use digital modeling tools like 3D technology to plan road construction projects. Using 3D technology instead of traditional two-dimensional paper blueprints is a faster and more economical way to build, maintain, survey, and repair roadways.
Models produced using 3D technology result from extensive planning, coordinating, and evaluation work. They generate an automated representation that realistically captures both the intended design and the current site conditions. Consequently, contractors can complete road construction projects more quickly and accuratelyusing these 3D site models than with conventional 2D equipment.
The first step of 3d site modeling boise is an aerial scan of the project. Engineers scan the location using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) like drones. When the drone sends data collection to a scanning station, designers use it to create a three-dimensional construction site model. A comprehensive 3D-engineered model also contains the original survey dataand recommended vertical and horizontal alignments, features, and structures for the future site.
The impact of 3D modeling on roadway projects
Using 3D technology in roadway construction gives civil contractors the following benefits:
Minimum room for human mistakes
When building a road, nothing is more annoying than laying concrete only to have it torn up again because of a mistake. Even though 2D construction plans are adequate for designing highway networks, there may be differences between what is on paper and what is done in the field.
With 3D-engineered modeling, contractors can anticipate everything precisely. Digital models drastically reduce errors because of their unparalleled precision and accuracy. Correcting errors in the design stage saves a significant amount of money compared to repairing them on-site. A 3D rendering allows designers to identify any irregularities quickly.
Faster project completion
GPS-enabled machinery can work day and night and generate precise grades on the first pass with guidance from 3D-engineered model data. The first-pass accuracy of machine-controlled equipment not only reduces waste and saves resources but also expedites contractors’ completion of tasks.
Reduced asphalt waste owing to accurate milling depth
It is inefficient to remove asphalt with conventional milling machinery. Operators can save waste by adjusting the depth of asphalt removal in real time through machine control. 3D machine control enables the operator to maximize productivity and increase accuracy. It lowers the possibility of making a mistake and expedites the procedure overall.
More predictability of costs
Clients and contractors can see all project elements and their interactions with a 3D-engineered model, providing them with the information they need to make decisions. Engineers can quickly input the elements they wish to quantify and retrieve their numbers thanks to 3D technology.
The bottom line
3D modeling facilitates more accurate roadwork designs and constructions, requiring fewer adjustments and saving more resources.
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account of distance, and which has linked together into one vast market the farthest-severed trade centres of the world. This power is every day tending to a widespread diffusion among the masses of the fruits of the earth and the products of industry, and therewith to the increase of the general welfare of mankind. The bonds of human brotherhood are drawn closer by daily and hourly intercourse. Misunderstandings become less frequent; differences are more easily composed. There appears to be no limit to the possible conquests of Physical Science. Nor does it seem presumptuous to hope that it may yet disclose to us a method of compelling the atmosphere to do our bidding and to disgorge those stores of fertilizing moisture which it often penuriously withholds from a thirsty soil, and a famine-stricken people; and even of controlling atmospheric disturbances in their most violent and destructive forms.
But great as are the advantages which do and may arise out of the study of Physical Science, I do not wish to undervalue the other branches of learning which you have pursued, which are no less a desirable part of a liberal education, and no less important to the purpose of fitting you for taking your place in the great world of men, and exercising the unfailing influence of minds better and more highly instructed than the generality. You have so mastered the English tongue that you can use it as a clear and graceful interpreter of thought, and if by further study you so assimilate it as to make it part of your nature, you will find that it will serve to create and animate thought as well as to interpret it. English opens to you a treasury of literature which no other nation can offer, and with it the entire philosophy of the Western world. The currents of European and of Indian thought are essentially conflicting, and by reason of your education you are, as it were, tossed about by the contending forces of these two opposing currents. But you are in a better position than your English brethren for observing, the extent to which the measures of the English Government are accepted and become naturalized on the soil of India; and your capability of estimating the advantages of European civilization necessarily surpasses that of your uneducated fellow-countrymen. This your position in relation to the Rulers and the great body of your fellow -subjects imposes upon you an honourable burden as citizens of a great community. For it points to a duty in you to afford your Rulers information and tender them advice, whenever a proposed legislative or political course, though prospectively beneficial, would be attended with too great a
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If we now return to the year two thousand and look at what was happening in the eastern arm of the fertile crescent between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates. By 1950 BCE two city-states had carved out Empires in the south, Isin and Larsa. In North, the land was controlled by the cities of Kish, Babylon, Kazallu and Sippar. Within the hundred years that followed Babylon had conquered Kish; Kazzullu had conquered Sippar and both states began to encroach on the territory held by Isin. In the south, both Larsa and a newly emerged kingdom based on the city of Uruk had also taken land from Isin. Finally, by 1790 BCE, two kingdoms had emerged – Babylon in the North and Larsa in the south. The stage was set for the emergence of one of the great kingdoms of the ancient Near East.
The origins of the first Babylonian Dynasty are vague. It is known that they were not native Akkadians, but were of Amorite descent. It may be that they too were either mercenaries or an exiled family which found itself in control of the then relatively unimportant city of Babylon. Beyond the dates they reigned we know very little of the early kings of this dynasty. Indeed even the dates, are somewhat speculative as there are in fact four competing chronologies for this period spanning a time difference of hundred and 50 years. Using the most commonly accepted chronology we know that the first ruler Samu-Abum (Sometimes referred to as Su-Abu) seems to have come to power in Babylon around 1830 BCE. The first king who we have any detail on is Sin-Mubillat, the fifth ruler of the dynasty, who succeeded his father in 1748 BCE. Up until this point, it seems that the rulers were content to hold onto the land they held immediately around Babylon, but Sin-Mubillat began an expansion of Babylonians territory which was to be continued by his son Hammurabi.
Hammurabi, his name means “the kinsman is healer “, came to the throne of the city of Babylon in 1792 BCE, probably on the death of his father, although some sources say that his father abdicated due to bad health. He spent the next 40 years consolidating and expanding the territory held by the Babylonians. During this time Babylon emerges as the predominant city in the southern -eastern area of Mesopotamia. When Hammurabi came to the throne in Babylon, the areas we have come to know, as Babylonia and Assyria was predominantly controlled by two rival Kings, Rim-Sin, King of Larsa in the South and Shamshi-Adad in the north. There have been some suggestions that initially Hammurabi may have came to power as a client king of the latter. In these extremely volatile times, no ruler could avoid being quickly drawn into regional conflicts. Records of Hammurabi’s early years mentioned a number of campaigns against his powerful neighbours, although the records are rather ambiguous about the outcomes. Nevertheless, these years honed his military, political and diplomatic skills. It seems that he also spent these early years consolidating his rule in Babylon and paying great attention to internal developments such as the digging of canals and the fortification of his cities, he undertook a series of public works strengthening the defences with a new city wall. He also built a number of new municipal buildings including temples. It was during this period that the city began to expand. Then in a period of just five years from 1776 to 1771 BCE, he established control over southern Mesopotamia, Elam and Larsa forming them into the first or Proto-Babylonian Empire. In addition, he forged alliances with lands further afield such as with Zimri-Lim in Mari, Yamkhad and the Levant and there is evidence that troops from these states aided the Babylonian army’s campaigns in the south. However, having gained control of southern Mesopotamia, Hammurabi’s gaze turned to the north. He took control of Mari, although the sources differ on whether this was a conquest, a surrender or whether the people of Mali believed that being part of this new empire was in their best interests and therefore submitted as willing partners. The lands of Yamkhad in the West do not seem to have been attacked. It has been suggested that this because Hammurabi realised that the larger his empire got the more difficult it was to control and thus he called an end to his westward expansion with the submission of Mari. He also appears to have defeated an army from the Assyrian lands to the north, which is recorded as paying him tribute, although he never incorporated their territory into the empire and they were allowed to continue as a self-governing kingdom, perhaps for the same reason mentioned previously. Following these campaigns, he added a new title ‘the King who made the four quarters of the Earth obedient’.
Hammurabi enacted significant military reforms based on a standing army, backed up by a reserve. He is of course probably most famous for his law code. The code comprised of 282 laws, based on a pre-existing Sumerian law code, thought to have originated around 2000 BCE and the law code of Lipith-Ishtar, King of Isen from around 1900 BCE. I propose to return to the law-codes in another post.
This political structure of the empire was disrupted around the year 1750 BCE with the arrival of the Mittani, an Indo-Ayrian people into the region. The settled in the North Central area of the Crescent, which at that time was occupied by a people known as the Hurrians. Like the Hurrians their place of origin is unknown. Unlike the Hurrians, the Mittani were a warrior elite and have been credited with the introduction of the newly evolved, 3-man light chariot into the area. These chariots had a complement of three warriors each; an archer, a spearman and the charioteer. Study of their religion reveals a divine pantheon not dissimilar to that of early Hinduism, which may suggest that they have a similar origin as the civilisations which settled in the Indus Valley. The Mittani incorporated themselves into the Hurrian kingdom. Best guess estimates are that they made up only about 5% of the population, but because of their military prowess, they took over as the ruling elite of the kingdom. They abandoned the accommodating, non-militaristic, stance that had been followed by the Hurrians and began expanding into the Mediterranean coastlands, Northern Syria and to the Southeast into Assyria.
The death of Hammurabi in 1686 BCE, saw an immediate downturn in the fortunes of the Babylonian Empire. The Assyrians asserted their independence and a new native Akkadian kingdom arose in the area of Sumer. Hammurabi’s son, Samsu-iluna seems to have been unable to prevent these successions. The first Babylonian Empire was to struggle on for another hundred and 50 years, but this time saw the gradual reduction in the land that it held until under the last ruler of the dynasty, Samsu-Ditana it is suggested that the empire was no bigger than it had been when Samu-abum had first taken the throne 300 years before.
The 1530’s BCE saw the height of the Hittite Empire. The wonderfully named Mursilas the first, led an ambitious raid South West through Hurrian-Mittani territory, Assyria and onto Babylon, where he proceeded to sack the city. However, trouble at home forced him to withdraw from the areas he had subdued and returned to the Hittite homeland. Here he was promptly murdered, apparently by nobles angry at the effects at home of the absence of their king and of his foreign campaigns. Whilst Mursilas’ campaign did him little good, it was also very bad news for the remnant of the line of Hammurabi, who were still ruling in Babylon. They never recovered control of their kingdom and as the Hittites withdrew, the Kassites invaded from the East and much as had happened in the Hurrian kingdom, a Kassite warrior elite replaced the dynasty of Hammurabi as the rulers of the Babylonian kingdom. There is some evidence that the Kassites may have been allied with the Hittites in the taking of Babylon and that control was their reward once the Hittites retreated. It is interesting to note that the Kassites had also by this time acquired the knowledge of the use of the 3 man light chariot, possibly as a result of their alliance with the Hittites, whilst there is no evidence from the records that this had yet become part of the Babylonian military armoury. Whilst the Kassites took control of core Babylonian territory, they seemed to have had little or no interest in the lands to the north and north-east and consequently, we see at this time the rise of an Assyrian kingdom, and beyond them, the re-expansion of MIttani territory.
In the west, the Amorites continued to control Yamhad. They were under pressure from the Hittites and later the resurgent Assyrian Empire. Around 1200 BCE they finally are replaced by, or absorbed into, a new wave of Semitic speaking immigrants, part of the Ahlamu peoples whom we know as the Arameans and from whom the ancient name for Syria, Aram and the dialect of the Semitic language, Aramaic are taken. Like the Amar, they seem to be a people from the mountains of Northern Syria and seem to have lived a lifestyle very similar to the Amorites.
The Fertile Crescent looked very different from what it had during the four or five previous centuries. A system of flourishing states whose centres of power were in close contact with one another, spreading from the Mediterranean coast to the Persian Gulf had disappeared. Some centres still existed, but on the whole, they were a poor reflection of the past illustrious and famous predecessors. Urbanism was at an all-time low. Many cities such as Mari had been destroyed and others had been abandoned. There was a distinct lack of centralised power, discontinuation of administrative and scribal practices and the levels of economic and cultural activities decreased. It is a time about which we know very little as texts were sparingly written. New groups began to assert themselves, the Kassites in Babylon and the Hurrian/Mittani in the north but these groups had returned to a much more tribal organisation.
But before we finish – one final note about Hammurabi. In 1949 CE when the chamber of the US Congress was remodelled, 23 marble portraits were installed over the gallery doors depicting figures from history noted for their work in establishing the principles of American law. Among these are Suleiman, Sultan of the Ottoman empire, Simon de Montfort and Napoleon. The most ancient figure of all is that of Hammurabi cited as ‘author of one of the earliest legal codes’
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What You Need To Know About Dental Implant Maintenance
When you have a dental implant installed, you may think that it is going to last forever and will not require much care at all. Unfortunately, dental implants require just as much care as your remaining natural teeth. While dental implants will not decay, failure is a possibility if the gums become infected, inflamed, or if you have facial trauma. Here are the basics about what you need to know when it comes to maintaining your dental implant.
What Is Osseointegration?
Many people think that dental implants attach to your existing jawbone, but they actually fuse together with it. The process is called osseointegration, and knowing what it is can be crucial to understanding what causes dental implant failure. While natural teeth are secured to your jawbone trough periodontal ligaments, implants are quite different, and it is what makes them susceptible to failure due to various problems.
Teeth Grinding
If you have a habit of grinding your teeth at night, it could be contributing to a dental implant failing down the road. This is because the pressure from grinding, or even teeth clenching, can weaken the fusion that occurred between your jawbone and the implant. You may need to take preventative measures by wearing a mouth guard at night to prevent grinding.
Infection and Inflammation
Serious tooth infections and inflammation can harm not only your natural teeth, but your implant as well. The gums surrounding the implant can become infected due to a build up of plaque and bacteria.
General Health Problems
Other health issues, like diabetes and heart disease, can affect your mouth as well as your body. These diseases make it difficult for your body to heal, and increase the risk of gum disease. Even if the implant has fully integrated with the surrounding bone in your jaw, general health problems can make it difficult to fight off infections in your gums.
Practice Great Oral Hygiene
Even though an implant cannot decay, you still need to brush and floss your teeth daily to fight bacteria in your mouth. Strict dental hygiene will help fight against any infections or diseases that may add to the already painful realities of dental implants.
While dental implants can provide you with a great way to replace a missing tooth, you cannot ignore them and assume that they will stay in great condition. By being aware of the reasons why implants fail, you can do everything it takes to prevent it from happening.
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did some copy editing
I did some copy editiding, but more needs to be done. Mostly it needs some simple removal of extraneous quotation marks and commas.
There are two section on pets that need to be combined, too. I started to work from the top down and didn't realize there were two until after I edited the top (and smaller) one. Oops!
I'll set this one to my watch and try to get back to it in a day or so.
Amers4 04:55, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
I just finished a big re-write. I hope I kept all the original info intact. I mainly hit some voice conflicts (plural/singular, removed "you"). I also combined the duplicate entries (pets, items). This is my first real edit attempt. I hope I did okay and didn't offend anyone. TNX Amers4 11:00, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
The New Name
The name of the game changed recently to Scicons of Fate because of it is moving to the North American Market. This is possiably due to the "difficult" pronounciation of the origional title and also the some sort of copyright problem dealing with a popular Korean comic book.
Did the name of the game in Korea, China, etc change as well? Or just for the upcoming US (North America?) release? :) Just curious... Amers4 07:35, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
the name "hot-blooded-steaming-tiger" is a pathetic translation to its chinese counterpart. Yul-Hyul actually refers to hot blooded. However, Gang-Ho is definitely NOT steaming-tiger. Gang Ho or 江湖 actually means another world of sorts e.g Gangsters world, Martial Artists world etc. In this case, the world of martial arts. I strongly suggest that its direct translation be changed to "Hot Blooded World of Martial Arts". —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 09:28, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
Requested move
I recommend this page be moved to Scions of Fate as the game now has an equivalent version that has been translated into English, and the English version is named Scions of Fate, not Yulgang. --Odie5533 03:42, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
The english makers still refer to it as Yulgang: Balance of Power. —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk • contribs) 18 June 2007 19:47 (UTC) --Stemonitis 05:45, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
It was requested that this article be renamed but there was no consensus for it be moved. --Stemonitis 05:45, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
I created a redirect from Scions of fate. This might solve the name problemSylvanelite (talk) 13:32, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
Two years later, the game is almost always referred to as Scions of Fate, and the other versions are referred to in English as Yulgang. The move was made, but the 'f' in Fate was not capitalized. --Odie5533 (talk) 00:31, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
Premium Store
In the article it states: "The only part of Scions Of Fate that will require you to pay (optional) is the premium store."
Let me assure you, it is not an option! If you do not spend money in the store, they will find reason to ban your account. My account was was banned after I sold a high level weapon, that a friend asked me to sell, to another player. After I received the gold, they banned my account for "gold buying", even though the log would clearly show the gold was part of a sale to another player.
After repeated appeals to the GMs, they refuse to even listen to me, in spite of the fact that the logs would clearly show what I'm saying is true!
Also, I gave the gold back to my friend, which gave me the weapon to sell for him, and to this date he has not been banned, for, as they would put it, "gold buying".
The reason is, he spends hundreds of dollars at the Premium Store, so his account is safe. My house leader told me of many other players he knows that are big time gold buyers who spend money at the Store and are never banned!
You may choose to believe this or not, but there's alot more "circumstantial evidence" backing this up than what they used to justify banning me. - Khristy <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) —Preceding undated comment was added at 21:50, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
Platform(s): PC?
PC isn't exactly a platform. I think this should be changed to Windows (which it probably is), Linux, or Mac OS X, or any combination of whichever platforms it does support... "PC" may be good enough for a Windows user, but to a Linux user, it is not enough. Many other game articles here on Wikipedia comply with this, there is no reason to excuse this one. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Zeotronic (talk • contribs) 21:35, 14 September 2008 (UTC)
Horrible article
This article is one big game-guide and has been so for years. There are no references to speak of, so I would suggest the article being deleted. Eik Corell (talk) 14:44, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
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Make a portable, multicharging device for your electronics, that will let you recharge your stuff in your car.
Step 1: Gather stuff blah blah blah...
Ok, in order to make this fun and easy device, we'll need:
1) regular USB hub (bought mine at 1,99 store priced at R$ 7,90 -- about US$ 3,50)
2) car lighter cell phone recharger that outputs 5VDC@>500mA (I happen to have a LG Scorpio KP215 cell phone, so I bought mine for this model on a street seller for R$ 13,00 (about US$ 6,00) -- this happens to be a bonus, check it later)
3) hot melt glue (optional)
4) electrician black tape (we don't need crazy wires touching each other)
5) multmeter (optional, but ok to check cables, etc. I learned I had a bad cable -- later on this)
6) pliers
7) knife
<p>It is my understanding, and correct me if I am wrong, that if you cross the two data lines on the charger, it will tell the devices that this is a charger only, and will allow many that refuse to charge to accept your charger as their own.</p>
I'll be honest its a good idea but your work and pictures is far to messy<br>try take better pictures and with the actual product instead of using tape and hot glue why not invest in a soldering iron?<br>their fairly cheap these days and can do a far better (and neater) job then hot glue can ever do so my suggestion try change the surface your recording on to a plain color (i recommend plain white) without wording on it because it creates to many visual cues which make the pictures annoying to look at and also try take higher res pictures, the quality of these aren't too great.<br>Apart from that good job mate! keep up the good work with the ideas<br>and i hope to see some more instructional's from you :)<br>~steve
Any USB (auto) charger is good to have for lots of gear and this is a simple an deffective solution. Unfortunately there are some devices which require some kind of 'intelligent presence' on the data connections or they do not charge. My Creative ZEN MP3 player and a digicamera I have refuse to charge on anything else than their own chargers (or the computer USB of course). If anyone knows the answer to this problem?
if the hub is also for data and not only for power, should work. the hub has a built in USB controller. No luck? just charge them at home
or use a car inverter
hey i got the same usb hub for $5 from a dollar store :P
hey neat :) obrigado amigo!
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Voetbalvereniging Sparta Nijkerk, is an association football club from Nijkerk, Netherlands. The club was founded in 1931, is currently (season 2022–23) playing in the Derde Divisie.
History
In one of their most notable matches of recent memory, Sparta Nijkerk lost 2–0 to ADO Den Haag in the first round of the 2021–22 KNVB Cup.
In the 2021–22 season, Sparta Nijkerk qualified for the promotion playoffs, but lost 3–1 on aggregate to HSC '21 in the first round.
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(mineral) A mineral containing arsenic, hydrogen, manganese, and oxygen.
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Kriss Kross / Clarion
"Kriss Kross" / "Clarion" is a double A-side single by multinational band Guillemots. It was released on 28 September 2008 as a digital download, then as a limited edition 10" record two weeks later. It was the first double A-side released by Guillemots. Lead singer Fyfe Dangerfield explained: "We've always meant to put out a double A-side at some point, and we couldn't decide which of 'Kriss Kross' and 'Clarion' should be the next single, so now seemed like the right time to do both." Dangerfield was the sole writer of "Clarion"; "Kriss Kross" was credited to the entire band. Both songs were produced by Guillemots and record producer Adam Noble, and both were featured on Guillemots' second album, Red.
"Kriss Kross" had already been made available to download for free from Guillemots' official website during February 2008. When officially rereleased as a download through the iTunes Store, the song was featured with "Clarion" as part of a digital EP, alongside a new song written at Latitude Festival 2008 entitled "Fishbone for a Drink", a live cover of "Black and Gold" by Sam Sparro, and the music video for "Kriss Kross". The video was filmed in 2008, and was directed by Guillemots member MC Lord Magrão, who uploaded it to his personal YouTube account during August 2008.
Critical reception to "Kriss Kross" / "Clarion" was generally positive. After it was made available for free to download, "Kriss Kross" was described as "cool" by Sugar; Stereogum praised its melody and Dangerfield's "trademark exubarence", but stated that its outro was "mundane". Andy Gill of The Independent described the song as having a "lumbering funk-rock groove", while Nick Orton of Gigwise called it "aggressive", and "revealing a harder Guillemots than we’re accustomed to". A more critical review came from Yahoo! Music UK, who gave "Kriss Kross" a score of six out of ten, unfavourably comparing it with both British glam rock band The Darkness and "Kiss Kiss" by Australian singer Holly Valance.
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* Digital download
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* 2) "Black & Gold" (Live in Jo Whiley's Live Lounge) –
* 3) "Clarion" (Radio Edit) –
* 4) "Fishbone for a Drink" –
* 5) "Kriss Kross" (music video) –
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(Sorry if these questions seem redundant. I did a search, but couldn’t find any definitive answers.)
I am new to installing DVD drives and I wanted to verify what the optimum configuration is. This is my current set-up:
Primary Master - hard drive (Cable Detected: 80 Conductor, Ultra DMA Mode: 3)
Primary Slave - none
Secondary Master - NEC DVDRW 2500A (Cable Detected: 40 Conductor, Ultra DMA Mode: 2)
Secondary Slave - Matshita DVD SR-8 (Cable Detected: 40 Conductor, Ultra DMA Mode: 2)
My NEC 2500A seemingly reads/writes fine (I tested on a Fuji DVD+RW) and my Matshita DVD-ROM works also, but I’m willing to make changes in the set-up if I can increase performance of either drive.
Also,
• Should I buy a different IDE cable? If so, what’s recommended?
• What is the purpose of the audio cable? It was connected to the DVD-ROM but when I installed the burner, I moved it to the NEC 2500A. I can still get audio from the DVD-ROM without the cable.
• The NEC 2500A has an headphone jack and volume control, but when I plugged in headphones to test with an audio CD, I didn’t get any sound from them. How do I take advantage of this?
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I don’t have answers to all your questions but the one about your set-up.
Your set-up is perfectly fine and you should leave it alone since you are getting the nec at UDMA2 which is the best one it can be at.
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If you’re getting UDMA 2 from the NEC, then everything is fine with your setup. You should be using 80-pin IDE cables for your hard drives if they are newer and support UDMA (most do).
The audio cable you are referring to is analog - you don’t need the cable.
Just go into Device Manager | DVD/CD-ROM drives | _NEC DVD_RW ND-2550A | Properties | Properties Tab | Digital CD Playback | “Check” digital CD audio for this CD-ROM device
Dunno about the headphone and volume control… I never use them - I just plug my headphones into my speakers.
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Actually it is an 80-wire IDE cable. Not 80-pin. :wink:
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Is it possible to output the command-line used to build a project in Visual Studio?
Now that Whidbey has been out in Beta for more than a few months, it seems worth revisiting some frequently asked questions which have different (better?) answers now.
In Everett (v7.1) the answer used to be No.
However, in Whidbey (v8.0), the answer is Yes (and No).
For the yes part of the answer, after building, go to the Output Window, select “Show Output from: Build”, and about half way down you will see a section like this:
Target "Compile" in project "ConsoleApplication1.csproj"
Task "Csc"
Csc.exe /noconfig /warn:4 /define:DEBUG;TRACE /debug+ /optimize- /out:obj\Debug\ConsoleApplication1.exe /reference:C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.31125\System.Data.dll, C:\WINDOWS.0\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.31125\System.XML.dll, C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.31125\System.dll /target:exe /win32icon:App.ico AssemblyInfo.cs Class1.cs
The task is invoking the IDE's in-process compiler to perform the equivalent of the above command-line.
Now for the no part of the answer. The project system does not actually execute this command line as part of the build process. As the output says, the IDE directly calls its own in-process compiler to perform the equivalent. However, in all cases, you should get the same results using the command line suggested in the output window. If you don’t, you could be looking at a bug.
Note: before you cut and paste the build output to the command line, remember to add the path to CSC.EXE
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Why is your diet not working (and how you can set it right)?
So, it’s just two weeks from a wedding and you want to lose weight fast? You require a quick fix and so you turn to a seemingly obvious solution called the crash diet. Such a diet focuses on a deliberate deprivation of foods to achieve extreme weight loss in a short period. There seems to be a new fad diet cropping up every day, be it master cleanse, paleo, detox diet, raw food diet, etc.
These diets are as tempting as they promise that they will help you lose weight faster, but the truth is they do us more harm than good. Read on for reasons as to why you should stay away from these diets.
Deprivation
All the crash diets have one thing in common: deprivation. It may be in terms of calories, food groups, or specific foods, but one thing that remains constant in all diets is that they do take something significant away from your diet.
Though this step looks logical, it is not a viable one. It is so because if you cut an entire food group from your diet plans, it only increases the temptations and cravings for it. Indulging in them can ultimately result in hampering the process of weight loss.
Food is not your foe
Fad diets make you believe that food is your enemy which is not true. Food when eaten in balanced proportions, helps to nourish your body and improve the functioning of the entire system. Instead of cutting entire food groups, the focus should be on the addition of quality foods into your diets. Ranging from whole grains to nutrient-dense fruits and veggies, there are plenty of satisfying foods that you can add in your diet to aid the weight loss process.
Unsustainable
Another issue is that fad diets are unsustainable in the long run because our bodies are not built to endure the level of deprivation demanded by these fad diets. For example, if you restrict calories, your body starts burning the muscles instead of fats and this makes a negative impact on your metabolism.
When you step on the scale, you might even find that you’ve gained weight instead of losing. The fad diets are extremely dangerous and can have detrimental effects on your health in the long run including the increased risk of heart disease, damage to arteries, and the immune system.
The smarter way ahead
It can be concluded that the healthiest and best way to shed off those extra pounds permanently is to aim for 1-2 pounds of weight loss per week. There is no need to rely on ‘fast weight loss diets’ as they will not be sustainable in the long run. Rather than expecting a transformation overnight, it is advisable to focus on creating one healthy habit a week.
We also recommend that you do not treat food as your enemy and rather start considering exercise as your friend to lose some extra flab before the special occasion. Meanwhile, here are some recommendations that you can use to get started on a smarter note.
Keto or Mediterranean: Choose the best diet for you!
It’s never too late to jump into a new diet plan. We understand that despite your best intentions, you may fall back to your everyday routine. A part of this observation could be because you have not yet understood what suits your body and lifestyle. Fortunately, we have a list of the top diets in the world today that thousands of people follow in their daily lives for better results- chances are you’ll find your lifestyle choice right here.
1. The Ketogenic Diet
The ketogenic diet or keto diet is a low-carb diet plan that aims to push your body to burn more fat by using it as a fuel source. It leads to a process of ketosis in the body, allowing the body to produce more ketones.
Ketones are by-products of fat breakdown in the liver which can be used as fuel by the body. The process of producing them, called Ketosis, typically occurs when your body is deprived of blood glucose and is in need of carbs and proteins. The keto diet leads to fat loss and overall weight loss. You also build your performance at the gym and boost muscle growth
2. Mediterranean Diet
This diet has been a popular choice among many dieters for several great reasons. It features food staples that are normally consumed in countries surrounding the Mediterranean Sea, such as Greece and Italy. Your focus should be to get a lot of good fats in your system. Some great sources include fish, olive oil, nuts and seeds, whole grains, fruits and vegetables, and legumes. The diet also promotes the consumption of red wine in moderation.
Bonus 1: South Beach Diet
Designed by an American cardiologist, Arthur Agatston, MD, the South Beach Diet was created to prevent cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and other serious ailments among patients. It is based on a simple rule that you should have your meal before you feel hungry. Most people are likely to overeat when they’re hungry, which ultimately results in weight gain. The diet encourages you to eat before you’re hungry so that you eat less until you’re satiated.
It promotes the consumption of lean protein, low-fat dairy, and good carbohydrates such as those from fruits and vegetables and whole grains. The first phase of the diet is strict but as you go into the maintenance phase, you may have your occasional treats.
Bonus 2: Atkins Diet
One of the most popular diets today, the Atkins diet is an effective low carb and high protein regime that comes with a stringent set of rules that will help people lose weight. You’re allowed to consume 20 grams of carbs every day for the first week and then slowly increase it every week.
You should not consume processed junk and/or foods that contain refined flour, starches, and sugar. Healthier high-carb sources such as whole grains are to be eaten in moderation as well until you are at the maintenance phase.
We are positive that you would take your dietary considerations very seriously to build your fitness level upwards. We have offered you Keto, Mediterranean, South Beach, and Atkins diets for better consideration and we suggest you make a smarter switch to one of them today!
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Pflügers Archiv - European Journal of Physiology
, Volume 463, Issue 1, pp 15–22
A metabolic–transcriptional network links sleep and cellular energetics in the brain
Invited Review
DOI: 10.1007/s00424-011-1030-6
Cite this article as:
Wisor, J.P. Pflugers Arch - Eur J Physiol (2012) 463: 15. doi:10.1007/s00424-011-1030-6
Abstract
This review proposes a mechanistic link between cellular metabolic status, transcriptional regulatory changes and sleep. Sleep loss is associated with changes in cellular metabolic status in the brain. Metabolic sensors responsive to cellular metabolic status regulate the circadian clock transcriptional network. Modifications of the transcriptional activity of circadian clock genes affect sleep/wake state changes. Changes in sleep state reverse sleep loss-induced changes in cellular metabolic status. It is thus proposed that the regulation of circadian clock genes by cellular metabolic sensors is a critical intermediate step in the link between cellular metabolic status and sleep. Studies of this regulatory relationship may offer insights into the function of sleep at the cellular level.
Keywords
Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide Adenosine triphosphate Slow wave activity Sleep Circadian Adenosine monophosphate-activated protein kinase Glycogen Sirtuin Poly(ADP)ribosyl polymerase Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor
Abbreviations
NREMS
Non-rapid eye movement sleep
SWA
Slow wave activity
EEG
Electroencephalographic/electroencephalogram
ATP
Adenosine triphosphate
ADP
Adenosine diphosphate
AMP
Adenosine monophosphate
AMPK
Adenosine monophosphate-activated protein kinase
cry
Cryptochrome
per
Period
NAD
Nicotine adenine dinucleotide
HDAC
Histone deacetylase
PARP
Poly ADP-ribose polymerase
GSK3b
Glycogen synthase kinase 3b
PPARs
Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors
Copyright information
© Springer-Verlag 2011
Authors and Affiliations
1. 1.WWAMI Medical Education Program and Department Of Veterinary Comparative Anatomy, Pharmacology and PhysiologyWashington State UniversitySpokaneUSA
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Omar Gooding
Omar Miles Gooding (born October 19, 1976), also known by his stage name Big O, is an American actor and comedian.
Early life and education
Omar Gooding was born in Los Angeles, on October 19, 1976, to Shirley (née Sullivan) and Cuba Gooding Sr., the former lead singer for The Main Ingredient. His older brother is Academy Award-winning actor Cuba Gooding Jr.
Omar graduated from North Hollywood High School in 1994.
Career
Gooding is best known for appearing in television shows, such as Touched by an Angel, Wild & Crazy Kids, Hangin' with Mr. Cooper, Smart Guy, and Playmakers, and also the films Ghost Dad and Baby Boy for which he received critical praise for his role as "Sweetpea". He was one of the original hosts of the Nickelodeon television show Wild & Crazy Kids from 1990 to 1992.
Gooding played D.H., a running back, on Playmakers in 2003. He played the character Odell in the third season of Deadwood. In 2005, he took the role of Calvin Palmer Jr. in the television series Barbershop, in the role originated by Ice Cube in the 2002 film of the same name. Coincidentally, he also appeared in a recurring role as a barber on the UPN sitcom One on One.
From April 2010 to July 2010, Gooding starred as trauma charge nurse, Tuck Brody, in the Bruckheimer television series Miami Medical. From 2012 to 2020, he starred in the Bounce TV series Family Time.
Gooding played a main role as Carter in the film Percentage. He released a hip hop album titled The Excuse in 2019.
In 2023, Gooding played Cal Johnson in the Disney Channel series, Saturdays.
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Scala Question
Scala java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/postgresql/Driver
I am trying to link a PostgreSQL database to a scala/spark project.
I wrote build.sbt
name := "Hermes"
version := "1.0"
scalaVersion := "2.10.6"
libraryDependencies ++= Seq(
"org.apache.spark" %% "spark-sql" % "2.2.0",
"org.apache.spark" %% "spark-core" % "2.0.1",
"org.apache.spark" %% "spark-mllib" % "2.0.1",
"org.postgresql" % "postgresql" % "42.1.1"
)
And i have method of connection :
def getDatasetFromSql(query: String): Dataset[Row] = {
val options = Map(
"driver" -> "org.postgresql.Driver",
"url" -> createConnection,
"dbtable" -> query
)
val fromSqlDs: Dataset[Row] = spark.read.format("jdbc").options(options).load
fromSqlDs.cache.printSchema()
fromSqlDs
}
There are no exceptions throw when I tape sbt package, but when I spark-submit my code, I have this exception thrown java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/postgresql/Driver
I have already checked some answers here, about the use of classOf[org.postgresql.driver] and SparkConf().setJars(). No success at this point.
How can I make this work ?
Answer Source
I faced similar issue once. So at the first try I have downloaded the postgres driver and saved it in a particular path. Then run the spark application like as follows :
sbt package
spark-submit --driver-class-path ~/jarDir/postgresql-9.3-1102-jdbc41.jar target/scala-2.10/simple-project_2.10-1.0.jar
As I was working with Ambari. So added the postgres driver directly to a custom parameter. So, next time no need to pass the postgres driver while running the command. Hope it helps.
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21 November 2012
* Suspected sockpuppets
* User compare report Auto-generated every hour.
* User:Iamthelotus, User:Iamdevotion, User:<IP_ADDRESS> and User:Truthisnow are contributing to the same limited range of articles:
* Special:Contributions/Iamthelotus (created 20 january 2011, 34 edits per 18 november 2012)
* Satguru
* Gangaji
* Amma Sri Karunamayi
* Gertrude Warner (mother of Kosi
* Special:Contributions/Iamdevotion (created 29 october 2012, 633 edits per 18 november 2012)
* Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Kosi (page mentions neo-Advaita, student of Gangaji, student of Amma Sri Karunamayi)
* Neo-Advaita
* Special:Contributions/<IP_ADDRESS> (first edit 13 november 2012)
* Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Kosi
* Neo-Advaita
* Special:Contributions/Truthisnow (created 17 november 2012, 18 edits per 18 november 2012)
* Satguru
* Neo-Advaita
* Truthisnow and Iamdevotion are making the same edits to Neo-Advaita,
* Insering the same material diff1 diff2 diff3
* Reverting reverts, showing a lack of cooperative behaviour or discussion, despite repeted invitations and warnings to do so:
* Reinserting "Please see Neo Avaita Trap Below" without explanation: diff1 diff2 (Talk Page)diff3 diff4
* Truthisnow is reinserting "Neo Advaita trap" without discussion: diff1 diff2 diff3
* Invitations and warnings at the userpage: first edit diff1 diff2 diff3
* They all three have the same kind of name;
* None of them has created a userpage;
* Subsequent periods on editing with connected time-ranges without overlap:
* 16/11:
* 10.55-11.13 Iamdevotion Kosi
* 12.44-12.52 Iamthelotus Satguru
* 13.00-13.04 Iamdevotion Kosi
* 18/11:
* 11.13-12.10 Iamdevotion Kosi
* 12.19-12.38 Truthisnow Neo-Advaita & Satguru
* 12.54-14.00 Iamdevotion Kosi
* 19/11:
* 00.20-00.22 Iamdevotion Kosi
* 00.32 <IP_ADDRESS> Kosi
* 00.49 Iamdevotion Kosi
Joshua Jonathan (talk) 12:01, 21 November 2012 (UTC)
Comments by other users
--Iamdevotion (talk) 02:35, 23 November 2012 (UTC)Hello. I am new to wiki and I am working on an Article about Kosi (Spiritual Teacher). One morning when I returned to work on the article someone changed the structure and created a section called Biography and another section called Teaching, with Neo-Advaita as a sub category. I was not familiar with Neo-Advaita, but in reading the wiki article on that subject it seemed consistent with Kosi's style of teaching and I referenced it, but around the time I was working on it someone changed what I had referenced and I added it back in. If I remember right I thought it might make sense to have it in a separate section. But again, I am new to this so I don't really know who was editing what or when. The wiki code above and wiki code in general is very confusing and this wiki world is still a bit strange for me. It turns out that Kosi is not associated with Neo-Advaita, but is purely Advaita Vedanta. Please advise on how to resolve.
* Comment by Joshua Jonathan: I'm the one who restructured the draft for Kosi diff - at 18 november. The Neo-Advaita Trap-section was added to Neo-Advaita at 16 november 23.58 (GMT?)diff by Iamdevotion, after he removed part of his draft diff 23.54, on Neo-Advaita, and added it to the Ne-Advaita article. It was re-added at 17 november diff by Truthisnow. So it were the edits by Iamdevotion and Truthisnow whigh drew my attention to the Kosi-draft - and not the other way round. Joshua Jonathan (talk) 04:33, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
--Iamdevotion (talk) 02:35, 24 November 2012 (UTC)In researching information for the article on Kosi I stumbled on the Neo-Advaita article. I had just started reading Back to the Truth by Dennis Waite and it refers to Neo Advaita as negating the need of any practice and that an experience of the Self can be perceived as awakening. But Ramana Maharshi described this as an experience of reflective consciousness of the Self and not true liberation. I had been editing and researching the Kosi article a lot at that time and forgot that I added this to the Neo Advaita article based on what I was reading, and what I know of Ramana's teaching, but at that time I was not very familiar with the term Neo Advaita. I do remember that it seemed relevant to Kosi's teaching and I added that perspective to the article about Kosi. Then Neo Advaita subheading appeared on the Kosi article diff "10:32, 18 November 2012 Joshua Jonathan (talk | contribs) . . (20,176 bytes) (+177) . . (Re-ordered sections;a dded subheaders.)", which basically indicated Kosi's teaching was Neo Advaita, which changed the meaning of what I originally wrote, but after revisiting the Neo Advaita article it did seem feasible and I made changes to reflect that. But now this all seems to be a mute point, because after researching the term Neo Advaita in more depth, it is an incorrect designation for Kosi's teaching based on the definition that Neo-Advaita does not embrace the ancient Advaita Vedanta spiritual texts or practices, but instead only acknowledges the Self or the only Reality as defined in Back to the Truth by Dennis Waite.
* Comment by Joshua Jonathan: The subheader "Neo-Advaita" was added to an already existing section of text stating that Kosi is not a Neo-Advaita teacher. It was previously called "Satsang". Before 16 november your draft contained a longer section on "neo-Advaita". First you wrote a section in the Kosi-draft on "Neo-Advaita". Then you moved this section to the Neo-Advaita article at 16 november. At 18 november I added subheaders to your Kosi-draft. And by that time you had forgotten that you moved a whole section to the Neo-Advaita article? That's a bad memory... Joshua Jonathan (talk) 06:55, 24 November 2012 (UTC)
Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
* User:Truthisnow has been reported at WP:ANEW.--Bbb23 (talk) 16:05, 21 November 2012 (UTC)
* I've blocked the master for a week for puppeting, and the socks indefinitely. Reaper Eternal (talk) 02:18, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
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Opinion | Republicans Are in Denial on Health Care
Editorial Republican critics of the Affordable Care Act have long described it as a house of cards on the verge of collapse. And they continue to be wrong. A record number of people have signed up for health insurance for 2017 on the federal exchanges created by the 2010 law. Nearly 6.4 million people had signed up for coverage as of Monday, which is about 400,000 more than at a similar point last year. Among them were two million people who did not participate in 2016, some of whom might have previously been covered through an employer. The number of enrollees does not include many millions of people whose policies will be automatically renewed or who live in states like California, Minnesota and New York that have their own marketplaces. By the time open enrollment ends early next year, the Department of Health and Human Services estimates 13.8 million people will have signed up nationwide. The percentage of Americans without insurance is steadily declining, hitting a record low of 9.1 percent in 2015, the most recent year reported. If President-elect Donald Trump and Republican leaders in Congress carry out their promise to repeal the law, they will be taking away health insurance from millions of people — the A.C.A. also expanded Medicaid to cover about 14 million more low-income and poor people. When the Obama administration announced in October that premiums would rise by 25 percent on average for midlevel plans on the federal exchanges, Republicans predicted that this would doom the system. They ignored the fact that most people would not have to pay more because federal subsidies would rise to account for the higher premiums charged by private insurers. About 77 percent of people eligible for the coverage on the exchanges can find policies for $100 a month or less. Still, the cost of insurance, deductibles and co-payments is too high for many people, especially middle-class families that earn too much to qualify for subsidies. But the solution is not to take away the benefits of the law but to strengthen it. Costs could be lowered if more young and healthy people were encouraged to sign up to spread costs over a larger pool of people. There is growing evidence that the law is working in other ways, too. The proportion of people who did not see a doctor because they couldn’t afford to fell by at least two percentage points between 2013 and 2015 in 38 states and the District of Columbia, according to a new study by the Commonwealth Fund. That helps explain why only a quarter of Americans surveyed by the Kaiser Family Foundation said the law should be scrapped. If lawmakers are moved by nothing else, they should think about the political costs of repealing the Affordable Care Act or crippling it with piecemeal changes. Many of the people who benefit from health reform live in states that voted for Mr. Trump and down-ballot Republicans. The Kaiser foundation estimated that residents of Florida received $5.2 billion in subsidies to buy health insurance as of last March, more than in any other state. More than 600,000 people in Ohio are enrolled in Medicaid thanks to the law. And in Texas, there are 4.5 million people with pre-existing conditions who cannot be denied coverage under the law, or charged higher prices. Treating the Affordable Care Act as a punching bag during a political campaign is one thing. But it is quite another to destroy a law that is helping so many people. OpinionThe Editorial Board OpinionThe Editorial Board
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David Perron scored at 1:28 of overtime and the visiting St. Louis Blues beat the Red Wings 5-4 on Sunday, Detroit’s eighth consecutive loss. Perron received a pass from Brayden Schenn and lifted the puck over goalie Jonathan Bernier’s right shoulder. The Blues rallied back after giving away a two-goal lead in the third period. Ryan O’Reilly had two goals and two assists to lead the Blues. Schenn and Zach Sanford also scored for St. Louis, while Jordan Binnington made 29 saves. Tyler Bertuzzi and Dylan Larkin each had a goal and an assist for Detroit. Filip Hronek and Valtteri Filppula also scored. St. Louis took a 2-0 lead in the first period. Schenn scored 2:07 into the game on a power play with Patrik Nemeth in the penalty box for hooking. O’Reilly passed the puck from the right circle to Schenn in front of the net, who shoveled it past Bernier. The Red Wings soon killed off another penalty but Sanford scored his first goal of the season at 7:26. He parked himself near the goal and tipped in Alexander Steen’s shot from the slot. The Blues led 3-1 after two periods. Detroit scored its first power play goal in three games when Mike Green made a pass from the point to Hronek, who rifled a shot from the left circle over Binnington’s left shoulder. That goal was quickly matched at 11:39 by O’Reilly, who ripped a shot from the left dot past Bernier’s short side. The Wings began their rally at 1:44 of the third when Bertuzzi dug the puck out of a scrum along the boards and found Larkin, who one-timed it past Binnington. Filppula scored six minutes into the period from the left side when his shot deflected off a defenseman’s skate. Bertuzzi scored the go-ahead goal at 11:51 after Larkin won a faceoff in the St. Louis zone. After the Wings were whistled for too many men on the ice, O’Reilly wristed a shot from the left circle after a Perron feed to tie at 4-all. The goal came at 15:42. —Field Level Media
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x86/build: Specify elf_i386 linker emulation explicitly for i386 objects · 927185c1
George Rimar authored
The kernel uses the OUTPUT_FORMAT linker script command in it's linker
scripts. Most of the time, the -m option is passed to the linker with
correct architecture, but sometimes (at least for x86_64) the -m option
contradicts the OUTPUT_FORMAT directive.
Specifically, arch/x86/boot and arch/x86/realmode/rm produce i386 object
files, but are linked with the -m elf_x86_64 linker flag when building
for x86_64.
The GNU linker manpage doesn't explicitly state any tie-breakers between
-m and OUTPUT_FORMAT. But with BFD and Gold linkers, OUTPUT_FORMAT
overrides the emulation value specified with the -m option.
LLVM lld has a different behavior, however. When supplied with
contradicting -m and OUTPUT_FORMAT values it fails with the following
error message:
ld.lld: error: arch/x86/realmode/rm/header.o is incompatible with elf_x86_64
Therefore, just add the correct -m after the incorrect one (it overrides
it), so the linker invocation looks like this:
ld -m elf_x86_64 -z max-page-size=0x200000 -m elf_i386 --emit-relocs -T \
realmode.lds header.o trampoline_64.o stack.o reboot.o -o realmode.elf
This is not a functional change for GNU ld, because (although not
explicitly documented) OUTPUT_FORMAT overrides -m EMULATION.
Tested by building x86_64 kernel with GNU gcc/ld toolchain and booting
it in QEMU.
[ bp: massage and clarify text. ]
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Fresh faces add intrigue to BCAA Big 8 | Miami Herald
January 28, 2014 12:01 AM No topic has created a bigger buzz around the BCAA Big 8 boys' basketball tournament than the three perennial county basketball powers and huge box office draws who didn't make the cut. Big 8 regulars Dillard, a five-time state champion, Deerfield Beach, a 2012-13 Class 8A state semifinalist, and Northeast did not qualify for the tournament, which tips off at Fort Lauderdale on Wednesday. Those glaring omissions keep with a theme of just how unpredictable this season has been. What the BCAA Big 8 loses in star power along with the throng of faithful and vocal fans who travel well with Dillard, Deerfield Beach and Northeast it gains with two fresh faces: resurgent Flanagan (14-5) and Class 8A No. 8 McArthur (15-5) trying to prove they belong among the Broward blue bloods. Our journalism takes a lot of time, effort, and hard work to produce. If you read and enjoy our journalism, please consider subscribing today. For that to happen, both programs can't just be satisfied with getting a ticket to the Big 8 dance and bowing out in the first round without a fight. If Flanagan and McArthur want to send a message they have indeed arrived, the stage is theirs to at the very least, push their top three state-ranked first round opponents to the brink, if not pull an upset. Flanagan and Kyanti Blyden get thrown into the fire at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday when they face Blanche Ely star guard Lance Tejada III and the two-time defending Class 7A state champion Tigers (18-2). Ely is not in a good mood after losing for the second time to archrival Boyd Anderson last week and dropping from No. 1 to No. 3 in the 7A state poll. The Rodney Simeon-led Cobras (18-3), who leapfrogged Ely for the No. 2 spot in 7A, open their Big 8 bid against Cypress Bay and Russ Barnes at 6:30. McArthur hopes explosive guard Derric Jean can keep speedy point guard Jose Morales occupied when the Mustangs faces Class 5A No. 3 Cardinal Gibbons (18-5) at 6:30 p.m. Thursday. Class 6A No. 5 Pines Charter, led by 6-5 guard Haanif Mr. Triple Double Cheatham, plays resurgent St. Thomas Aquinas (13-8) and Sidney Umude at 8 p.m. ELSEWHERE • American Prep 87, Ahfachkee (7-16) 40: AP (22-5): Coleman 8, Williams 8, Albert 2, Saguerra 8, Allan 15, Avery 15, Sawyer 19, Lindsay 12. Three-pointers: Williams, Seguerra 2, Coleman 2, Sawyer 4, Lindsay. Rebounds: Lindsay 9. Assists: Coleman 9. Steals: Avery 4. • Coral Springs 62, Fort Lauderdale 48. FOOTBALL • University School hired Phoenix Christian (Ariz.) Prep coach Brandon Harris as its new coach, athletic director Paul Herfurth said. Harris, 46, replaces Roger Harriott, who resigned a month ago to become an assistant coach at Florida Atlantic. A former University of Idaho receiver who also was a member of the Denver Broncos' practice squad and played for Sacramento of the World Football League, Harris has 19 years of college and high school coaching experience. • Adam Ratkevich has been named the football coach at Western. Ratkevich, who coached at Northeast and Deerfield Beach with a combined record of 47-73 over eight seasons, was an assistant at Western from 1994-98 under Ray Buscemi. • Arkansas has received oral commitments from four South Florida players in two days. Dillard safety Randy Ramsey announced his pledge to Arkansas on Sunday with Miami Norland wide receiver Kendrick Edwards, Miami Gulliver Prep receiver Cornelius Floyd and Miami Killian defensive end Anthony Brown following suit Monday. SAFID DEEN TUESDAY'S SCHEDULE GIRLS' BASKETBALL District 11-8A semifinals at Douglas: Taravella vs. Douglas, 6; Coral Springs vs. Deerfield Beach, 7:30 District 13-8A semifinals at Flanagan: West Broward vs. Everglades, 6; Flanagan vs. McArthur, 7:30 District 14-4A quarterfinal at Coral Springs Charter: University School vs. North Broward Prep, 7 District 15-3A quarterfinals at Sagemont: Doctors Charter vs. South Florida HEAT, 4; International School of Broward vs. Archbishop Curley,5:30; Somerset Miramar vs. Sagemont, 7 GIRLS' SOCCER Region 3-5A semifinal: West Boca, Douglas, 7 Region 4-5A semifinal: Cypress Bay at STA, 7 Region 4-4A semifinal: Miami Springs at Pines Charter, 7 Region 4-3A semifinal: Archbishop McCarthy at American Heritage, 7 Region 4-1A semifinal: South Florida HEAT at Westminster Academy, 7 View More Video
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Carrier concentration and lattice absorption in bulk and epitaxial silicon carbide determined using infrared ellipsometry
T. Tiwald, J. Woollam, R. B. Gregory, T. Wetteroth, S. R. Wilson
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113 Scopus citations
Abstract
We have measured the dielectric function of bulk nitrogen-doped 4H and 6H SiC substrates from 700 to 4000 (Formula presented) using Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopic ellipsometry. Photon absorption by transverse optical phonons produces a strong reststrahlen band between 797 and 1000 (Formula presented) with the effects of phonon anisotropy being observed in the region of the longitudinal phonon energy (960 to 100 (Formula presented)). The shape of this band is influenced by plasma oscillations of free electrons, which we describe with a classical Drude equation. For the 6H-SiC samples, we modify the Drude equation to account for the strong effective mass anisotropy. Detailed numerical regression analysis yields the free-electron concentrations, which range from (Formula presented) to (Formula presented) in good agreement with electrical and secondary ion mass spectrometry measurements. Finally, we observe the Berreman effect near the longitudinal optical phonon energy in (Formula presented) homoepitaxial 4H SiC and hydrogen implanted samples, and we are able to determine the thickness of these surface layers.
Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)11464-11474
Number of pages11
JournalPhysical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
Volume60
Issue number16
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 1 1999
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• Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
• Condensed Matter Physics
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Requested move 8 February 2018
The result of the move request was: no consensus to move the page to the plain title, but I am removing the caps per the request and WP:MOS-TM. Dekimasu よ! 18:40, 15 February 2018 (UTC)
ACCION International → Accion – Updating the name or this organization to reflect it's updated branding. JmtAU2017 (talk) 19:09, 8 February 2018 (UTC)
* Oppose we also have Accion U.S. Network. What's more an issue here is that Accion is just another form of Acción - the Spanish spelling is the logical location of the dab page - and there are other meanings. In ictu oculi (talk) 22:24, 8 February 2018 (UTC)
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Matharu
Matharu or Matharoo is an Jatt surname. Matharus were fierce warriors especially during, the time when the Matharu tribe, had converted to Sikhism; they fought numbers of wars for Guru Gobind Singh, Banda Singh Bahadur and Jassa Singh.
'Matharu' or Matharoo (ਮਠਾੜੂ in Gurmukhī script) is a prominent Sikh clan belonging to the Jatt Sikh tribe.
Origin
Sir Denzil Ibbetson counted the Matharus as one of the major Jatt tribes of the Punjab and the Northwest Frontier Province, centred in Amritsar, Jalandhar, Lahore, Mohali and Ludhiana.
Matharu Jatts are dominant in some villages of Punjab including Jattana, Chounkimaan, Nakodar and areas around Moga. Matharus are widely known as successful landowning farmers through Punjab today. Matharus claiming ancestry are found in Sialkot, Narowal, Gujranwala, Hoshiarpur, Jalandhar, Patiala and Ludhiana districts.
Variants
Variant forms of the name include Matharoo, Matharu, Matharo, Mathru and Matroo. Matharu’s live in Canada, India, U.K., USA etc.
Surname
* Ajaip Singh Matharu (born 1938), Ugandan hockey player
* Inderjit Singh Matharu (born 1969), Kenyan hockey player
* Jeet Matharu, Indian film director
* Kiran Matharu (born 1989), British golfer
* Santokh Singh Matharu (1942–2011), Kenyan hockey player
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(415f) More Accurate Depiction of Adsorption Energy on Transition Metals Using Work Function As One Additional Descriptor
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Shen, X., University of Akron
Peng, Z., The University of Akron
Liu, B., Kansas State University
Pan, Y., University of Akron
Transition metals (TMs), benefiting from their active interactions with chemical species owing to partial occupancy of the d bands, represent one most important category of catalysts and have been widely used in many reactions. The catalytic properties of TMs in a chemical reaction are primarily determined by adsorption energy (Eads) of the involved species. In this regard, it is of high research significance to get accurate Eads values, however, which is often challenging be measured experimentally. Active research interests have been devoted to determine Eads by establishing an exact relationship with measurable catalyst parameters like the d-band (εd) theory, which was based on the Newns-Anderson model and suggested for use by Hammer and Nørskov. It describes a simple Eads–εd linear correlation and has been widely adopted for application, which turns out to work well for certain adsorption systems, for instance H2 and CO adsorption, but becomes less effective for many other systems, such as O, OH and OOH adsorption. These controversial results suggest the current Eads–εdlinear correlation could be oversimplified to describe these adsorption systems and εd might not be the only influencing parameter, thus improvements are needed.
Considering the fact that band hybridization and electron transfer could occur simultaneously when a molecule adsorbs to a TM surface, we propound that Eads contains a mixture of covalent and ionic contributions (i.e., Eads=Ecovalent + Eionic). The Ecovalent term would be describable using the εd parameter as it accounts for the band hybridization, whereas the Eionic term is determined by the charge transfer between TM and adsorbing molecules and thus would be related to the work function (W) parameter. Herein by taking both the ionic and covalent contributions into account, we suggest a new description model for Eads by dividing it into Ecovalent and Eionic components and adding W as one additional descriptor. We study the adsorption of O, OH, and OOH groups on TM surfaces using the new Eads–(εd, W) model with the explicit formula as Eads = f(εd, W) = z0+ a × εd + k ×(W - W0)2 and achieve significantly better goodness of fit compared to the current Eads–εd model. We further demonstrate the new Eads–(εd, W) model can better predict activity property of TMs in oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) benefiting from a more accurate description of the oxygen binding energy (EO).
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you left me this morning, and I reflected a moment—your officious message, which at first appeared to me a joke—looked so very like an insult—I cannot forget it—To prevent then the necessity of forcing a smile—when I chance to meet you—I take the earliest opportunity of informing you of my real sentiments.
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Template:Did you know nominations/Bruce D. Smith
The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 18:24, 29 November 2014 (UTC)
Bruce D. Smith
* ... that Smithsonian anthropologist Bruce D. Smith (pictured) started his study of the origin of agriculture in Eastern North America with a cigar box full of seeds?
* Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Lwandle Plate
Created by HalfGig (talk). Self nominated by at 19:57, 15 November 2014 (UTC).
* Symbol question.svg. Article is new enough and long enough. Article is well referenced and inline refs are in the right places. Article seems neutral. Hook is correctly formatted and interesting enough. Image is free with an OTRS release. I don't think this sort of low profile person should normally have their full DOB in the article? See WP:DOB. I detect no close paraphrasing or copy violations. AGF on offline sources. There appears to be unsourced personal information in the second paragraph of the Early Life section about military service and the wig etc that appears to imply draft-dodging. Is this intended to be critical? That whole para has just one reference at the end to his CV. Can we have extra sources for that para or delete the unsourced material? There is also a formatting error in the infobox to be fixed. Philafrenzy (talk) 23:00, 25 November 2014 (UTC)
* I cut it to just the year. HalfGig talk 23:19, 25 November 2014 (UTC)
* Fixed the format error. Didn't know I'd just caused that. The army stuff was not meant to be critical, just interesting. He did join the reserves after all. The army stuff is all in ref 3, published in PNAS, which is highly regarded, title "Profile of Bruce D. Smith". If this is a violation of some wiki rule, we can cut it. I want to be in compliance. HalfGig talk 23:51, 25 November 2014 (UTC)
* As it reads now, it says he taught school to avoid the draft. If that's what the source says it's OK, but some might think it was defamatory given that plenty of people served and died for doing their duty. I think it could be reworded in a more neutral way. It certainly should be directly cited. Philafrenzy (talk) 23:59, 25 November 2014 (UTC)
* Here's a direct quote: "After graduation in 1968, Smith taught seventh-grade math in Inkster, MI, for a year to avoid the draft" HalfGig talk 00:01, 26 November 2014 (UTC)
* You could say that he did not serve in the Vietnam War, teaching mathematics instead? Using your own wording. That's factually correct. And add the source. Philafrenzy (talk) 00:15, 26 November 2014 (UTC)
* Please check it now. HalfGig talk 00:17, 26 November 2014 (UTC)
* Symbol voting keep.svg All fine. Good to go. Philafrenzy (talk) 00:22, 26 November 2014 (UTC)
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{{Infobox Politian
* name= Mohamed Garaad abdikani
* image= mohamed Garad .png
* birthday={{Birth date and age|1986|4|14|mf=y}}
* birthplace= Mogdisho
* occupation=politian
* spuose
* website
Mohamed G. Abdikani, born in mogadisho on April 14, 1986 capital of somalia he is son of Garad Abdulkani Garaad Jaamac he is youngest if garaad abdulkani's children.
Biography
Mohamed is son of Garaad abdulkani Garaad Jaamac 18th dhulbahante Garaad(Kingdom of Dhulbahante) he born in mogadisho and grow up in Lasanod(LA)
He attend osmania university and study a B.A.,.
He founded 2006 youth peace and development organization and works several issue he succeded and reach last point to conclude some state problem he is well know to keeping his father idealogy to do peace everything. Mohamed also is active part of somali communite in india and somali studen assocation,foreing student assocation and well known Nizam college.
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by Dinesh Thakur Category: Software Engineering
Software requirement specification (SRS) is a document that completely describes what the proposed software should do without describing how software will do it. The basic goal of the requirement phase is to produce the SRS, Which describes the complete behavior of the proposed software. SRS is also helping the clients to understand their own needs.
Advantages
Software SRS establishes the basic for agreement between the client and the supplier on what the software product will do.
• A SRS provides a reference for validation of the final product.
• A high-quality SRS is a prerequisite to high-quality software.
• A high-quality SRS reduces the development cost.
Characteristics of an SRS
• Correct
• Complete
• Unambiguous
• Verifiable
• Consistent
• Ranked for importance and/or stability
• Modifiable
• Traceable
An SRS is correct if every requirement included in the SRS represents something required in the final system. An SRS is complete, if everything the software is supposed to do and the responses of the software to all classes of input data are specified in the SRS. Correctness ensures that what is specified is done correctly, completeness ensures that everything is indeed specified.
An SRS is unambiguous if and only if every requirement stated has one and only one interpretation. Requirements are often written in natural language, which are inherently ambiguous.
An SRS is verifiable if and only if every stated requirement is verifiable. A requirement is verifiable if there exists some cost-effective process that can check whether the final software meets that requirement. An SRS is consistent if there is no requirement that conflicts with another.
Terminology can cause inconsistencies; for example, different requirements may use different terms to refer to the same object. All the requirements for software are not of equal importance. Some are critical, others are important but not critical, and there are some, which are desirable, but not very important. An SRS is ranked for importance and the stability of the requirement are indicated. Stability of requirement reflects the chances of it changing in future. An SRS is traceable if the origin of each of its requirements is clear and if it facilitates the referencing of each requirement in future development. Forward traceability means that each requirement should be traceable to some design and code elements. Backward traceability requires that it be possible to trace design and code elements to the requirements they support. Traceability aids verification and validation.
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A novel selenite-tolerant rhizosphere bacterium Wautersiella enshiensis sp. nov., isolated from Chinese selenium hyperaccumulator, Cardamine hupingshanensis
Linxi Yuan*, Zengrun Xia, Chenyang He
*Corresponding author for this work
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Selenium (Se) is a dietary essential trace element for humans with various physiological functions and it could also be accumulated by some plant species, like Astragalus bisulcatus, Stanleya pinnata, and Cardamine hupinshanensis. A novel Gram-stain-negative, facultatively anaerobic, selenite-tolerant bacterium, designated strain YLX-1T, was isolated from the rhizosphere of a Se hyperaccumulating plant, Cardamine hupingshanensis in Enshi, China. Phylogenetic analysis based on 16 S rRNA gene sequences indicated that strain YLX-1T is a potential new species in the genus Wautersiella. Strain YLX-1T could grow in the temperature range of 4–37°C (optimally at 28°C) and in the pH range of 5–9 (optimum pH 7), which also could tolerate Se up to 6000 mg Se/L via producing extracellular red nano-Se with 100–300 nm size. However, it could predominantly accumulate selenocystine (SeCys2) in the cell under lower Se stress (1.5 mg Se/L). These results would help broaden our knowledge about the Se accumulation and transformation mechanism involved in rhizosphere bacteria like strain YLX-1T in C. hupingshanensis. Based on polyphasic data, we propose the creation of the new species Wautersiella enshiensis sp. nov., strain YLX-1T (= CCTCC M 2013671) which will be promising to produce nano-Se as fertilizer, food additives or medicine.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1305-1315
Number of pages11
JournalJournal of Basic Microbiology
Volume63
Issue number11
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 25 Jul 2023
Keywords
• 16S rRNA
• red nano-Se
• rhizosphere bacterium
• taxonomy
• Wautersiella enshiensis sp. nov
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