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The difference between a speech pathologist and a speech therapist.
Our children are our hope, because they are associated with the innermost dreams of every parent. That is why moms and dads try to provide their beloved child with everything necessary for proper growth and development.
Definition
The defectologist has such specialization as defectology. And this is, first of all, work with mental and physical disabilities of children. The training program for defectologists includes such fundamentals as neurology and psychiatry, psychology and pedagogy. These specialists study those sciences that may be useful to them in the process of work, namely, deaf-pedagogy and oligophrenopedagogy.
Unlike a defectologist, a speech therapist deals with ordinary children, without mental retardation and disruption of the central nervous system. He works on the correct pronunciation, on the formulation of sounds and syllables.
Comparison
So, the defectologist deals with problem children who have impaired hearing or diseases of the central nervous system. A defectologist works, first of all, on the child's thinking, on his ways of knowing the world, or rather, on attention and speech perception. Unlike a speech therapist, he does not correct pronunciation defects, but only helps the baby express his thoughts. That is, in fact, defectologists do not stage speech, but only struggle with problems caused by mental disorders.
A defectologist can start working with children of one year old, and a speech therapist starts working with children from three years old. The speech therapist corrects and develops speech, puts sounds and pronunciation, while the speech therapist deals with the lag in the development of the child caused by various disorders and helps the child to learn about the world.
So, for example, a speech therapist will not teach a child about colors, he will pronounce their names, striving for the correct pronunciation, while the task of a defectologist is to familiarize the child with flowers and learn the name of each of them. That is, in fact, a defectologist is a wide-profile specialist, while a speech therapist is responsible only for correcting speech disorders.
Conclusions TheDifference.ru
1. A defectologist works with problem and sick children, a speech therapist deals exclusively with healthy children.
2. A defectologist starts classes with one-year-old babies, a speech therapist begins to work with children when they reach three years of age.
3. A defectologist is a broad-profile specialist, a speech therapist is a narrow-profile specialist.
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Motivation
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One of the nice things about network namespaces is that they allow one
to easily create and test complex environments.
Unfortunately, these namespaces can not be used with actual switching
ASICs, as their ports can not be migrated to other network namespaces
(NETIF_F_NETNS_LOCAL) and most of them probably do not support the
L1-separation provided by namespaces.
However, a similar kind of flexibility can be achieved by using VRFs and
by looping the switch ports together. For example:
br0
+
vrf-h1 | vrf-h2
+ +---+----+ +
| | | |
192.0.2.1/24 + + + + 192.0.2.2/24
swp1 swp2 swp3 swp4
+ + + +
| | | |
+--------+ +--------+
The VRFs act as lightweight namespaces representing hosts connected to
the switch.
This approach for testing switch ASICs has several advantages over the
traditional method that requires multiple physical machines, to name a
few:
1. Only the device under test (DUT) is being tested without noise from
other system.
2. Ability to easily provision complex topologies. Testing bridging
between 4-ports LAGs or 8-way ECMP requires many physical links that are
not always available. With the VRF-based approach one merely needs to
loopback more ports.
These tests are written with switch ASICs in mind, but they can be run
on any Linux box using veth pairs to emulate physical loopbacks.
Guidelines for Writing Tests
============================
o Where possible, reuse an existing topology for different tests instead
of recreating the same topology.
o Tests that use anything but the most trivial topologies should include
an ASCII art showing the topology.
o Where possible, IPv6 and IPv4 addresses shall conform to RFC 3849 and
RFC 5737, respectively.
o Where possible, tests shall be written so that they can be reused by
multiple topologies and added to lib.sh.
o Checks shall be added to lib.sh for any external dependencies.
o Code shall be checked using ShellCheck [1] prior to submission.
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Percona XtraDB Cluster : Synchronous Replication Cluster for MySQL
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History vs. the Whitman Saved Oregon Story/Why His Search (?) for the Truth of History was a Failure
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Win 8 Page Navigation
Let’s start with something relatively easy… navigating between pages in Windows 8.
Create a new application in Visual Studio 11. Add two BlankPages to the application, naming the first Page1.xaml and the second (you guessed it) Page2.xaml.
Find the Page name in each file and change them accordingly. For example, on page 1, your code should look like this:
<TextBlock x:Name="pageTitle"
Grid.Column="1"
Text="Page 1"
Style="{StaticResource PageHeaderTextStyle}"/>
We need the ability to navigate from Page 1 to Page 2. For that, we’ll add a HyperLinkButton. For purposes of formatting, we’ll put that control into a StackPanel:
<StackPanel Grid.Row="1"
Margin="120,0,120,60">
<HyperlinkButton
Content="Click to go to page 2"
Click="HyperlinkButton_Click_1"/>
</StackPanel>
Go to page 2, where you’ve already fixed the name of the page, and add a TextBlock (again, within a StackPanel)
<StackPanel Grid.Row=”1″
Margin=”120,0,120,60″>
<TextBlock HorizontalAlignment=”Left” Name=”Message” Text=”Hello World!”/>
</StackPanel>
Open Page1.xaml.cs and find the event handler for the HyperLinkButton. Add the following line of code,
this.Frame.Navigate( typeof( Page2 ) );
Finally, open App.xaml.cs and set Page 1 as the start page. To do so, locate OnLaunched() and substitute Page1 for BlankPage,
rootFrame.Navigate(typeof(Page1));
Run the application; Page 1 opens and offers you a link to Page 2. Page 2 displays your Hello World message. Notice that Page 2 has a back button; that is actually on every page, but Page 1 collapses the back button because CanGoBack is false (there is no page to go back to).
About Jesse Liberty
Jesse Liberty has three decades of experience writing and delivering software projects and is the author of 2 dozen books and a couple dozen Pluralsight & LinkedIn Learning courses. He was a Senior Technical Evangelist for Microsoft, a Distinguished Software Engineer for AT&T, a VP for Information Services for Citibank and a Software Architect for PBS. He is a Xamarin Certified Mobile Developer and a Xamarin MVP and a Microsoft MVP.
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2. Licantrop0 says:
Yes, I’m using MVVM Light (thanks God there is Laurent!). In Windows Phone I used the INavigationService interface to navigate between pages from ViewModel, but there is currently no concrete implementation of it for WinRT, so I will use the Messaging Service for now.
thanks!
3. Toni says:
You are not supposed to navigate from view model since it does not have a concept of a view. What framework are you using? You can use messaging service in MVVM light.
Or you can add static function to the App class which takes root visual, casts it to a PhoneFrameworkPage and navigates via its navigation service. Although that is a hack.
4. Licantrop0 says:
Hi Jesse, how would you navigate from a ViewModel?
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Max Montana
Max Montana Hoetzel (born January 11, 1996) is an American-German professional basketball player who last played for Keflavík of the Úrvalsdeild karla. He played college basketball for Indiana and San Diego State.
High school career
Montana attended Wilbraham & Monson Academy where he averaged 16 points, 8 rebounds and 4 assists as a senior.
College career
Montana started his college career with Indiana in 2014 where he averaged 2.4 points and 1.3 rebounds in 7.7 minutes per game during his freshman season. He transferred to San Diego State in 2015 and redshirted the 2015–2016 season. During the 2016–2017 season, he averaged 7.7 points and 3.8 rebounds per game. During his junior season he averaged 6.9 points in 26 games. He missed six games after hyperextending his knee in the second game of the season. In 2018, he decided to forgo his final year of eligibility and turn pro.
Professional career
In 2018, Montana signed with Giessen 46ers in the Basketball Bundesliga. In February 2019, Montana switched to the Hamburg Towers where he went on to win the German second-tier Pro A.
In February 2021, Montana signed with Úrvalsdeild karla club Keflavík. On 16 March, the team terminated its contract with Montana for violations of the club's disciplinary rules. In 9 games, he averaged 9.0 points and connected on 35.5% of his three-point shots.
National team career
Montana played for the German U-18 team in 2013.
Personal life
Montana is born to a German father and a Danish mother. | WIKI |
Moses Austin Cartland
Moses Austin Cartland (1805–1863) was a Quaker abolitionist and editor. He was a second cousin to and a confidant of the poet John Greenleaf Whittier. Cartland was the founder of the Clinton Grove Academy, the first Quaker seminary in New Hampshire. He also played an active role in the Underground Railroad, helping former slave Oliver Gilbert to escape to New York in 1852. Whittier's poem, "A Memorial: M.A.C.," which appeared in The Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier (1869), addressed Cartland's death. In the poem, Whittier writes: "In love surpassing that of brothers, | We walked, O friend, from childhood's day." | WIKI |
ExxonMobil (XOM) Misses Q4 Earnings on Lower Throughput
ExxonMobil Corporation XOM posted lower-than-expected results in fourth-quarter 2017, thanks to lower refinery throughput. This was partially offset by higher liquid price realizations.
The company reported adjusted earnings of 88 cents per share, which missed the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $1.06. Also, the bottom line fell from the year-ago quarter level of 90 cents.
Total revenues in the quarter increased to $66,515 million from $56,399 million a year ago. However, the top line failed to beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $74,444 million.
Operational Performance
Upstream: Quarterly earnings - excluding U.S. tax reform and impairments - were $2.5 billion, reflecting an improvement of $1 billion from the year-ago quarter. Increased price realizations from liquids drove the upside.
Production averaged 3.991 million barrels of oil-equivalent per day (MMBOE/d), lower than 4.121 MMBOE/d in the year-ago quarter.
Liquid production fell year over year to 2.251 million barrels per day. However, natural gas production was 10.441 MMCF/d (millions of cubic feet per day), up from 10.424 MMCF/d in the year-ago period.
Downstream: The segment recorded profits - excluding U.S. tax reform and impairments - of $952 million. The figure is $289 million lower than the October-December quarter of 2016. Last year, the segment reported higher profit owing to proceeds from the sale of the retail unit in Canada.
ExxonMobil's refinery throughput averaged 4.2 million barrels per day (MMB/D), down almost 5% from the year-earlier level.
Chemical: After excluding U.S. tax reform, this unit contributed saw a $63-million rise in earnings from the prior-year quarter.
Financials
During the quarter under review, ExxonMobil generated cash flow of $8.8 billion from operations and asset divestments. The energy giant returned $3.3 billion to shareholders through dividends. Capital and exploration spending surged more than 100% year over year to almost $7.6 billion.
Q4 Price Performance
In fourth-quarter 2017, ExxonMobil gained 2% compared with the industry's 6.6% rally.
Key Development
On Jan 30, ExxonMobil announced its intention to boost production from Permian Basin in West Texas and New Mexico. The company is willing to produce more than 600,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day within 2025 from the basin.
Over the long term, ExxonMobil is expected to allocate as much as $2 billion for developing midstream infrastructure related to transportation activities. This development will support the company's operations in the Permian Basin.
Zacks Rank & Key Picks
ExxonMobil has a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold). A few better-ranked players in the energy sector are Statoil ASA STO , Pioneer Natural Resources Company PXD and Cabot Oil & Gas COG . All these stocks sport a Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy). You can see the complete list of today's Zacks #1 Rank stocks here .
Headquartered in Stavanger, Norway, Statoil is a major international integrated energy player. The company is expected to witness year-over-year earnings growth of 17.1% for 2018.
Headquartered in Irving, TX, Pioneer Natural Resources is an upstream energy firm. The company delivered an average positive earnings surprise of 67.6% for the preceding four quarters.
Headquartered in Houston, TX, Cabot is also an upstream energy company. The firm will likely see year-over-year earnings growth of 128.4% in 2018.
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Talk:North Scott High School
we rock by 5th grader oh ya —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 16:17, 7 March 2009 (UTC) | WIKI |
Page:An introduction to physiological and systematical botany (1st edition).djvu/395
Rh of which Linnæus has set us the example, as will hereafter be explained.
Generic characters are reckoned by Linnæus of three kinds, the factitious, the essential, and the natural, all founded on the fructification alone, and not on the inflorescence, nor any other part.
The first of these serves only to discriminate genera that happen to come together in the same artificial order or section; the second to distinguish a particular genus, by one striking mark, from all of the same natural order, and consequently from all other plants; and the third comprehends every possible mark common to all the species of one genus.
The factitious character can never stand alone, but may sometimes, commodiously enough, be added to more essential distinctions, as the insertion of the petals in Agrimonia, ''Engl. Bot. t.'' 1335, indicating the natural order to which the plant belongs, which character, though essential to that order, here becomes factitious.
Linnæus very much altered his notions of the essential character after he had published | WIKI |
Create an Authorization Manager Application
Applies To: Windows Server 2008
Important
Authorization Manager is available for use in the following versions of Windows: Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8. It is deprecated as of Windows Server 2012 R2 and may be removed in subsequent versions.
An authorization store can contain authorization policy information for many applications in a single policy store. All applications in one authorization store can access all of the groups defined at the store level.
You must be assigned to the Authorization Manager Administrator user role to complete this procedure. By default, Administrators is the minimum Windows group membership assigned to this role. Review the details in "Additional considerations" in this topic.
Create an Authorization Manager application
1. If necessary, open Authorization Manager.
2. If necessary, open or create an authorization store.
3. If Authorization Manager is in administrator mode, switch to developer mode.
4. In the console tree, right-click the name of the authorization store, then choose New Application.
5. In the Name text box, type a name for your application.
6. If desired, type a description and version information.
7. Click OK.
Additional considerations
• To perform this procedure, you need to have access to an authorization store. By default, members of the Administrators group have the required access, but Authorization manager allows you to delegate responsibility. For more information, see Allow Other Users to Administer an Authorization Store.
Additional references | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Ordering Data Inside ETL
April 27, 2010
Ever wondered if it mattered what order your data was in inside an ETL load?
I hadn’t really considered it until this morning. I have already considered and used the technique of dropping indexes during ETL and then creating them afterwords. But this was new.
I had a load that took 50 seconds. It had a clustered index as well as a unique index that was used to enforce a primary key. The ETL load came in in no order.
The first thing I tried was to order the ETL in ascending order – which is the same as the order of the clustered index – to see if it mattered. I suspected it would and it did. the time went from 50 s. to 33 s. This was good – nearly half the time just by ordering the data. I wondered if ordering the data backwards from the clustered index would help or hurt, and to my surprise, it helped and lowered the time further to 28 s.
Now I wondered how much lower I could go by dropping the indexes before ETL and the rebuilding them afterwords.
I re-ran the non-ordered ETL using the drop and rebuild method and got 28 s. So if all I had done was just drop and rebuild indexes, I would have gone from 50 to 28 s. Not bad. But when I ordered the load descending it dropped even further to 14 s. The last test of course was the order it back to ascending and see which ordering worked best for the drop and rebuild method. It turned out that ordering ascending worked better and dropped the time down to 13 s.
This was a surprise to me. With the indexes built, the opposite order to the clustered index was better. When you drop and reload, the same order was better. I think the moral of the story isn’t specifically whether ascending or descending is better – I suppose it could be different in other cases. Mostly just remember that the order can really matter and when you are trying to squeeze every ounce of performance out of ETL, check out the order of your ETL.
Anyone on the SQL CAT team want to comment on why backwards works better when indexes are left intact?
SharePoint 2010 Prerequisite Install
April 26, 2010
I was trying to install SharePoint 2010 (final version) today on Windows Server 2008 (no luck with R2) and I had to try to intsall prerequisites twice before everything would install. If you have trouble, keep trying. 🙂 | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals/Archive/November 2007
This is an archive of discussions from WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals for the month of November 2007. Please move completed November discussions to this page as they occur, add discussion headers to each proposal showing the result, and leave incomplete discussions on the Proposals page. After November, the remainder of the discussions will be moved to this page, whether stub types have been created or not.
Those who create a stub template/cat should be responsible for moving the discussion here and listing the stub type in the archive summary.
Stub proposers please note: Items tagged as "nocreate" or "no consensus" are welcome for re-proposal if and when circumstances are auspicious.
* Discussion headers:
* sfp create
* sfp nocreate
* sfp other (for no consensus)
* sfp top for customized result description (use ).
* Discussion footer: sfd bottom
Over 60 british rowers are stubs so I propose Waacstats 16:46, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
* UK-rowing-bio-stub /
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Cell Signaling or Signal Transduction Stub
There are hundreds of stubs in cell-biology-stub. Ultimately, these could do with further categorisation to assist people with specific interests. However, right now, I'm trying to revive the inactive WikiProject Cell Signaling, and a cell-signaling-stub would be most useful to narrow down the search for Articles needing attention, for this project. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Biochemza (talk • contribs)
* How many current stubs with such a scope? Alai 14:53, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
* Using CatScan, I found at least 65 articles tagged as stubs in the category Cell signaling and Signal Transduction. However, there are likely many more, as many of "our" articles are not categorised into these categories yet (a goal of WikiProject Cell Signaling). Biochemza, 16:15, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
* Also, I think this stub would fit best as a child of Molecular and cellular biology stubs (molecular-cell-biology-stub) rather than Cell Biology stubs (cell-biology-stub). Biochemza, 17:18, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
* OK, sounds plenty good enough for me. If anyone can disentangle the distinction in scope between the latter two, they're better off than me, BTW. But if we can continue to hack out well-defined sub-topics, it may eventually all come out in the wash. Alai 17:46, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
* Well, simply put (as much as an overlapping topic like this can be simple), signal transduction/cell signaling is a vast and complex field, with some researchers focusing on a more broad view of the cell (cell biology, neurology, receptors, "big things" as triggers), while others focus on a more narrow, molecular view (specific enzymes, or even specific chemicals and ions). Thus, I think the combined Molecular and Cellular biology stub (molecular-cell-biology-stub is a more appropriate parent category, as it "casts a wider net". Biochemza, 21:34, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
* I'm happy to take your word for that, I was just making the wider (and admittedly less on-topic) point about the desirability of having both of these at all. If we were to scope per the permcats (and articles), we'd have and ; if we followed the WPJ scope, we'd only have . Having both -- and the entirely enormous too -- makes me suspect that articles get tossed hither and yon into on or the other on a less than syetematic basis. Alai 23:29, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
* You're totally right about the less systematic thing! While I've been looking for signal transduction stubs, I've found them tagged variously with biochemistry, biology, protein, enzyme, MCB and cell biology. Makes it very difficult for experts looking to help. As I mentioned in my first posting, the entire thing could do with more accurate sub-categories. In fact, there's a lot of rearranging I would do: Enzyme stubs would be a child of Protein stubs; I would merge Molecular and Cell Biology + Molecular Biology + Cell Biology (I know that would make the stub category overly large, but from there one can properly go about organising more relevant sub-stubs); I would move Genetics stubs to a child of MCB stubs, I could go on - one just has to look at an undergraduate Biochem textbook to see how much work this particular stub family needs. But one step at a time :). Biochemza, 10:42, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
* Any suggestions you can give are much appreciated. Understandably, as the stub tree gets bigger and more complex, we quickly reach the stage where organising different parts of it needs more specialist knowledge, especially in the sciences - knowledge that us mere stub sorters don't always have :) Grutness... wha? 11:39, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
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Split of Canadian sportspeople
both of these should be viable Waacstats 16:19, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
* Canada-rowing-bio-stub /
* Canada-Olympic-medalist-stub /
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Cycling organisations
Over 100 of these marked with Cycling-stub so I propose I have no preference for s or z in the spelling of organization as the permcat uses s while the stub parent uses z. Waacstats 16:11, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
* Cycling-org-stub /
* I'd say the permcat spelling probably has precedence (though I will admit that I'm biased towards "proper" English spelling as opposed to Webster's single-handed derailment of US spelling). Grutness... wha? 00:59, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
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Dutch cyclists
Catscan gives over 100 dutch cyclists marked with stub templates so I propose / Netherlands-cycling-bio-stub Waacstats 14:47, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
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De-upmerge
Both of the following are viable from upmerged templates Waacstats 14:45, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
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Cattle-stub/
Proposed as an upmerged template in .--Doug.(talk • contribs) 22:21, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
* Would also feed into .--Doug.(talk • contribs) 22:35, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
* On further review there are more than 70 stubs in which this would immediately apply to (or about 1/3 of that category as it is currently). The category would be a subcat of both and .--Doug.(talk • contribs) 22:57, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
* I don't know what happened, for some reason I thought today was the 13th not the 10th! Sorry, this should've been pretty simple but I managed to mess it up. Hopefully there won't end up being any problem with the stub cat.--Doug.(talk • contribs) 20:56, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
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Ohio-NRHP-struct-stub is beyond 60 and this will help to cut down the +600 strong Ohio structs. Waacstats 13:59, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
* Speedy, per earlier discussion of the NRHPs in general. This should also help a little with the NRHP parent, which was yet again oversized the last time I looked. Alai 17:58, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
* sped however it doesn't help with the NRHP parent as it was only upmerged to the Ohio structs (I can't find the NRHP parent to put a link to on the cat and Florida hasn't got the link either). Waacstats 21:37, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
* I noticed that, but I was thinking of helping indirectly, if there were significant number double-tagged, or only tagged with NRHP-stub. There don't seem to be, however. Lots of New York, though, which should take care of things for now, and Tennessee is also getting there. The other parent's at, though strictly speaking perhaps I should say "grandparent", since for other states we've split NRHP directly at state level, rather than into structs and non-structs. Doubtless this will all come out in the wash in due course as the sets of each get completed, though. Alai 15:20, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
* Sorry, strike that, I was looking at old data: not NY, Minnesota. Created a . Alai 17:17, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
* Looks like problems afoot with this - see WikiProject Stub sorting/Discoveries/Log/2007/November. Grutness... wha? 23:44, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
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Proposal for Manhwa, Manhua Categories
Because of their relative obscurity when compared to their Japanese cousins, Chinese manhua and Korean manhwa have empty pages, indexes full of red links and no appropriate stub tags. The anime/manga stub category is also rather large, and adding articles to it that don't quite match that description will only worsen the situation.
WikiProject_Korea has tagged most manhwa titles on their talk pages and would like to begin serious work on them.
I propose these stub tags and categories:
/ manhwa-stub
/ manhwa-creator-stub
/ manhua-stub
/ manhua-creator-stub
Please give your opinions.
ShiraShira 05:41, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
* Stub types are only created once its shown that there are already articles that can take them, and certainly categories aren't made until there are a viable number of stubs to warrant separate categories (60 or more stub articles). How many stub articles currently exist for these stub types? If there are fewer than 60, perhaps separate templates could feed into a more encompassing category (maybe Asian comic stubs?) until they are populous enough for individual categories. Grutness... wha? 08:53, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
ShiraShira 01:49, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
* I don't have a precise count, but eighty-five percent of the articles listed List_of_manhwa_by_English_title here merit such a tag. (There are over a hundred red-linked articles by the time one reaches "L", and many of the created articles also need a proper tag. The creators' tags could be waived, as well as both manhua category tags, but these articles here are getting out of hand. I apologize if I'm being unhelpful- I am not experienced at integrat WikiWork and this is my first foray into such creation.
* It's somewhat hard to stub-tag redlinks. Can I suggest an upmerged template, perhaps at the more systematic name Korea-comics-stub? Alai 14:57, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
* Oh, and China-comics-stub. At a minimum, redirect either way, since the proposed name are not especially obvious, or indeed memorably distinct, for the stub-sorter in the street. (Granted it's the terminology existing articles and categories use.) Alai 21:24, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
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...and another country reaches speedy level with 60 geo-stubs. Grutness... wha? 09:32, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
* Speedy by massive precedent. Waacstats 20:54, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
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/ Europe-comics-creator-stub
Owing to confusion about a withdrawn nomination in last month's listing, I'm re;listing this proposal. Initially this and a FrancoBelgian comic creators stub type were both proposed. The Franco-Belgian one was withdrawn, but User:Murph did not wish to also withdraw this European proposal (see:User talk:Pegship for more info). While is not technically oversized, it is large and this would be a useful way to thin it down, so I support Murph's original proposal. Grutness... wha? 00:39, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
* Re-listing seems a little over-egged to me, the "European" seemed to have general support. But having said that... I'd prefer no "regional" template at all, just upmerged per-country ones (per my usual "someone will only want to delete them later" rationale), and failing that if we do have one, that it be at "Europe", not "Euro-", per recent decisions to standardise in that direction. Alai 15:10, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
* Good point - I'd forgotten the change from euro-, and have changed the header accordingly, though you're probably right about by-country templates. The idea of 50-odd templates for one category is fairly unnerving, though. Grutness... wha? 23:40, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
* I admit there's a fairly strong counter-argument from patience/stamina. The more of them that are created over time, though, the less deeply-ingrained confusion on the regional templates is likely to become. Alai 01:23, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
* There are no plans to create some 20-30 different stubs for the range of European nationals working in comics, but there's a current need for some utility within the WP:CMC European comics work group, already enjoyed by the US and UK work groups. M URGH disc. 02:30, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
* I'm not sure what you precisely you mean by "different stubs", but I'm not suggesting distinct stub types (i.e. both category and template), but just simply per-country templates. Alai 02:34, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
* Thank you, no I understood. M URGH disc. 10:27, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
* To explain - since Murgh isn't a regular visitor here and WP:WSS's ways are a little arcane - it's standard practice here to make individual templates at a country level, even if there would only be enough stub articles for a continent-specific category. That way it's easier to split them at a by-country level if numbers grow. What Alai is proposing is to make the Europe category, but to have separate templates for different countries all directing into it. It may be, though, that in this case a general Europe template is more useful if numbers are unlikely to get big enough for many separate nation-specific types to ever be split off. In either case, there would be one Europe category (for now at least) - the only difference between the suggestions is the template or templates connected with it. Grutness... wha? 05:59, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
* Thanks for thorough explanation. While I appreciate the design of this philosophy I'd argue that this field may not be the most applicable. For such a specific area the application is not in creating a Bosnian-comics-creator-stub, but a combination of comics-creator-stub with Bosnian-bio-stub (what happens at any rate). The comics creator work group has a realistic aim of keeping a stub-phase minimal and brief, but will be aided by the ability to distinguish Europe from 'The World'. M URGH disc. 10:27, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
* I note that you have a preference for the latter over the former; what I'm not getting is why, or indeed what the counter-argument might be to the clear upsides of "less work" and "more consistency" vs. the double-tagging approach. Though say "Sweden-" might be more illustrative of the point in doing so, as against "Bosnia", if we're going to cherry-pick instances. Alai 16:23, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
* Just from a perspective of approach. There aren't, nor is it likely to ever become, enough notable comics creators from Sweden, much less remain at stub level, for it to become an issue if youre an editor of comics creator articles, but the double stub use serves a function in that editors coming from a national perspective, looking to develop Swedish bio stubs (not yet hidden away in a "by occupation-folder") will easily find it. In this way it makes more sense to me. M URGH disc. 19:34, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
* I wouldn't put any money on the first part: there's at least 16 at the moment, so it's already around 1/4 of the way to being a numerically viable stub type unto itself. Long and painful experience of ever-expanding stub types has taught me not to make too many optimistic assumptions about "ever". Double-upmerged stub templates serve exactly the same purpose, by populating both categories from the one template, the only difference being we're not depending on people to go to the extra effort of applying both (which often, they won't). Alai 20:05, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
* Well I am sure you speak from experience. I am personally petitioning from my own, in a work group environment where responsibilities are from a bio POV split into US, UK, Euro and the rest of the world. At some point maybe a Swedish-comics-workgroup will desire further utility and there will be tangible motivation for national sorting to occur at a stub-level, but at this point we're able to see stubhood as a very temporary state. M URGH disc. 22:20, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
* Speedy as alredy discussed. Waacstats 21:44, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
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Split of autoracing stubs
The following categories are all viable is over 600 Waacstats 16:56, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
* / Monstertruck-stub
* / Rally-stub and Rally-bio-stub
* / Autoracing-venue-stub
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subtypes
or: But not both at this point, due to overlap concerns. Alai 03:58, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
* 86
* 66
* Support per nom & numerosity.Her Pegship (tis herself) 23:45, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
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subtypes
Either by EC number cats: or: Alai 03:48, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
* 257
* 72
* 87
* 133
* 291
* 244
* What names would you suggest for the templates? Grutness... wha? 05:57, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
* Off the top of my head, perhaps 1.1.1-enzyme-stub, etc. Alai 14:50, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
* Would EC number cats, with annotation be possible? eg
* That seems to be precise while informative. Tim Vickers 06:24, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
* I like the overall idea and Tim's suggestion best of all; although longer, such stub-labels seem good for lay-person and expert alike. Not everyone will remember what "EC 1.14.13" stands for, ;) but such index numbers are wonderfully precise. Willow 10:51, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
* They strike me as hugely cryptic too, but they're following the equally-cryptic-if-not-more-so permcats:, etc. I suggest either following those as-is, for the sake of consistency, or first renaming the permcats themselves, and following new names. Alai 14:27, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
* That seems to be precise while informative. Tim Vickers 06:24, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
* I like the overall idea and Tim's suggestion best of all; although longer, such stub-labels seem good for lay-person and expert alike. Not everyone will remember what "EC 1.14.13" stands for, ;) but such index numbers are wonderfully precise. Willow 10:51, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
* They strike me as hugely cryptic too, but they're following the equally-cryptic-if-not-more-so permcats:, etc. I suggest either following those as-is, for the sake of consistency, or first renaming the permcats themselves, and following new names. Alai 14:27, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
* They strike me as hugely cryptic too, but they're following the equally-cryptic-if-not-more-so permcats:, etc. I suggest either following those as-is, for the sake of consistency, or first renaming the permcats themselves, and following new names. Alai 14:27, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
* I vote for re-naming the categories themselves, but that discussion should probably take place at WP:MCB. Willow 15:06, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
* Well, ultimately at WP:CFR, but yes, by all means make sure the WPJ is of one mind first. Alai 15:23, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
* Sounds good to me. Personally, I think Tim's solution is a good and elegant one, but the best idea is to talk to the WikiProject about the permcats, take them to CFR if they afgree, and if they're changed, make the stub cats accordingly. Grutness... wha? 23:43, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
* So, any conclusion about the possible CFR? Otherwise, I'll follow the existing names. (Though obviously the stub categories are fairly straightforward to change later, moreso than the permcats.) Alai 00:44, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
* I think we're all in favor of re-naming both the stubs and the permcats, but we haven't broached the subject at the MCB WikiProject yet. I'm honestly too tired to do it tonight; maybe Tim can muster the eloquence to make the case to everyone there? Hoping he'll say yes, sleepy 3) Willow 00:58, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
* I haven't even seen a concrete proposal as to what they're to be renamed to, and no signs of a CFR nom. Personally, I'm certainly not going to create stubcats on the speculative basis of what-the-permcats might-be-moving-to, and I'd like to to have to hold off while two separate discussions take place (or, don't take place). So... Alai 01:46, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
Created. I've created some more of these, as they'd expanded considerably more (over 1700 earlier today), and I've "consolidated" 1.3.1 to, 2.x.x to , etc. Alai 01:14, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
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India-protected-area-stub/
Actually the above template already exist but the stub category referenced here is. As India is a very big country with lot of protected areas. The stub category is sure to have more than 100 (presently 21) articles. Pls. create the stub category and add it to the template. Amartyabag TALK2ME 06:25, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
* Oppose, for now at least. The point here is that there are currently only 21 stubs. How many it's likely to have in the future, or how many are possible isn't relevant. As with all other stub types, this is likely to be split out when it reaches 60 stubs, since there's no guarantee that just because stubs are possible, they will actually be made. Once there are 60 stubs using the template, a separate category will be made, but until then it's not really needed. Grutness... wha? 08:18, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
* Actually several articles are left to be accessed and to put appropriate templates on them. You can take a look at the articles Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Protected areas of India articles by quality most of the unassessed are stubs. Amartyabag TALK2ME 10:51, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
* Or, apparently, have a talk-page "stub class article" template, and no protected-area-stub tag at all. (Insert usual whistling in the wind about the fundamental pointlessness about this duplication and its copious scope for en masse inconsistency.) So why not tag them now, and a) all will be perfectly clear as regards "numerosity", and b) we'll be spared wondering if anyone will bother doing so after de-upmerger? Our to-do list is quite long as it is. Alai 16:27, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
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Oversized again (+1000) the following are all viable by size And templates for any other teams people feel are useful. Waacstats 23:40, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
* / AtlantaBraves-season-stub
* / ChicagoCubs-season-stub
* / CincinnatiReds-season-stub
* / PhiladelphiaPhillies-season-stub
* / PittsburghPirates-season-stub
* Speedy on basis of earlier discussion, and "holy crap". Alai 00:42, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
* You sure about your count for the 'Braves, though? Alai 04:29, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
* Catscan shows 132 with the team name starting out as Boston Red Stockings then going through Boston Red Caps, Boston Beaneaters, Boston Doves, Boston Rustlers, Boston Bees, Boston Braves, Milwaukee Braves before finally arriving at Atlanta Braves. A well travelled team by the looks of things. Waacstats 16:36, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
* Aaaaaah, all becomes clear. Carry on! -- Alai (talk) 17:04, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
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, by county
Significantly oversized, at least the above are viable. Alai 04:44, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
* 185
* 117
* 78
* 73
* Suppoprt these and templates for the other 20 odd counties. In case you hadn't noticed we now have a bot creating short articles on Polish municipalities so this, and other polish-geo-stub cats, could go large rather quickly. Waacstats 13:16, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
* That'd explain it: it's Germany all over again! Any chance the bot-op could give us an idea what furrows he'll be ploughing next, so that we can get in front of this and create the new templates in advance? Alai 16:47, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
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by family
Now at exactly 800, would seem to split up by sub-taxon quite nicely. would be the largest, at just over 200. Alai 03:12, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
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Ohio-NRHP-stub and
From discussion in deletion I propose these two. Firstly to act as somewhere to put the district templates and also as parent of the existing b&s cat and also to pick up any other NRHP in Ohio. Waacstats 22:24, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
* Support, in the interest of per-state regularity. (If anyone fancies upmerged templates for the remaining states, I say go ahead now: they'll be needed soon enough.) Alai 00:02, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
* In fact, given the prior discussion at SFD, and the existing precedents, speedy. Alai 03:13, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
* Support per all of the above. Her Pegship (tis herself) 01:15, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
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Another speedy?
Poland-figure-skating-bio-stub is at 64. anyone? Waacstats 22:17, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
* Add US-bobsleigh-bio-stub at 73. . Waacstats 22:30, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
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Category:Radio show stubs
This parent category is beginning to get rather large, so I propose splitting into separate country-specific categories: US-radio-show-stub, UK-radio-show-stub, Canada-radio-show-stub (and Australia-radio-show-stub if there are enough articles to warrant it yet; I haven't verified.) Note that US and UK stub notices already exist, although the corresponding categories don't — both templates currently file articles into the general category. Bearcat 19:02, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
* Support all, as and when numerically viable. If one is feeling cautious, first populating the existing upmerged templates and creating additional ones might be the way to go.
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Drogheda Stub
I think that Drogheda now being a city should have a stub categories for the many things it has. I believe that 20 to 50 articles could be put under this instead of an all Ireland categories. I believe it should look like drogheda-stub,drogheda-area-stub,drogheda-places-stub or drogheda-geography-stub And when i say 20 to 50 those are the articles that already exist about 100 more articles could be added on if this stub type was created.markreidyhp
* Oppose. Too small (60 are normally required), wrong scope (usual practice is to first place by primary subdivision, i.e. in the case of Ireland, by county), and wonky names. If Louth-geo-stub ever becomes so large as to required being re-split, it'd be Drogheda-geo-stub. And since when was Drogheda a city? By analogy with other titchy Irish cities? Alai 19:56, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
* Of course, before Louth could be "split", it'd really need a cat of its own, which currently it is still too small for. I think that rather illustrates the problems with a Drogheda location type. Alai 16:49, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
* Oppose per above. First, X-geo-stub is standard naming (certainly not "area" or "places" or "geography"!), and second, geo-stubs are split by county except in rare cases - those cases being for places considerably larger than Drogheda (even Dublin doesn't have separate stubs for the city itself - just for the county). Grutness... wha? 00:14, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
* ForBut Drogheda is in two counties so you could not put a louth stub on Mornington
* One would assume you'd be 'for' your own proposal, but... I'd put Meath-geo-stub on Mornington, County Meath (which I assume is the article you mean); as someone has already done, in fact. If you want to cater for open-ended suburb creep, which is going to be inherently subjective, I strongly recommend keeping it to talk-page templates, if there's sufficient interest for a Drogheda wikiproject. If there's not, I'd favour "no action". Stub types are of little value in sorting redlinks, and the lack of a stub type does not prevent the creation of those articles, tagged by county for now (and realisticly, for the foreseeable future). Alai 19:23, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
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Canada-Winter-Olympic-medalist-stub
Upmerged template with 60+ stubs propose. Waacstats 13:11, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
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Norwegian politicians
The following categories are all viable by existing templates Speedy?-- Waacstats (talk) 20:27, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
* Yes. -- Alai (talk) 21:32, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
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is at 821, this would handle 196. Aligns with three existing splits: speediable? Alai 03:50, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
* Speedy support. -- Waacstats (talk) 17:01, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
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Lots of new plant stubs
These are all speedy creations that follow the established pattern of segregating new plant stubs. --EncycloPetey (talk) 16:28, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
Under :
* Chlorophyceae-stub / - 331 stubs
* Ulvophyceae-stub / - 87 stubs
Under :
* Amaranthaceae-stub / - 111 stubs
* Cactus-stub / - 195 stubs (already proposed some time ago, but never acted on)
* Nepenthes-stub / - about 100
* Polygonaceae-stub / - about 100
Under :
* Cucurbitales-stub / - about 100
* Oxalidales-stub / - about 125
* The counts for both categories are appropximate because the stubs in question were added by a bot from a database that used outdated taxonomy. The articles are currently in several other categories, including and in addition to the parent category.
Under :
* Moraceae-stub / - about 100
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new foo people stubs
Adding up the number of articles linked to upmerged bio, footy-bio and politician templates means so I propose both. Waacstats (talk) 16:53, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
* would have 63 articles
* would have 60
* First the "Astronemers", now this - People from San Marino are Sammarinese :) Other than that, support. Grutness... wha? 21:43, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
* And more coffee for Waac, please. Support as corrected. Her Pegship (tis herself) 14:48, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
* Believe it or not I used to be able to spell before I started editing here.Waacstats 19:08, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
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71 of these in the American people stubs heirachy including 31 in the oversized. Waacstats (talk) 16:53, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
* propose US-astronemer-stub and
* Well, "astronemer" is a typo, so the stub should be US-astronomer-stub. "American" is ambiguous, so we prefer new Categories to say "United States". Thus, the category should be . --EncycloPetey (talk) 16:59, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
* That'd be my preference as well, given the "prefix normal form" of stub category names, but it would be over-egging things to say there was a settled consensus one way of the other. Or indeed, the slightest consisency in the existing types... Alai (talk) 07:21, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
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Still more new plant stubs
These are all speedy creations that follow the established pattern of segregating new plant stubs. All have more than 60 stubs waiting to be shifted from the parent category as stated. --EncycloPetey (talk) 01:28, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
Under :
* Astereae-stub / - 81 stubs
* Eupatorieae-stub / - 88 stubs
Under :
* Lecythidaceae-stub / - 60+
Under :
* Apocynaceae-stub / - includes "Asclepiadaceae"
Under :
* Salicaceae-stub / - includes "Flacourtiaceae"
Under :
* Asparagales-stub / - c. 200 stubs previously proposed but never created
* will have as children:
* Iridaceae-stub / (new)
* Orchid-stub / (already exists)
Under :
* Bromeliad-stub / - c. 160 stubs
Under :
* Rhamnaceae-stub /
Under :
* Rutaceae-stub / - should subsume which currently has 3 stubs
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Czech geo-stubs
Speedy create categories: - Darwinek (talk) 16:12, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
* - 61 stubs of
* - 63 stubs of
* - 72 stubs of
* Sounds eminently speediable to me. Go for it. Grutness... wha? 23:05, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
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Bahrain geo-stubs
A speediable, per more precedent than I care to recall -, 60 stubs. Grutness... wha? 06:28, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
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{Potter Puppet Pals stub}
I believe that there should be a Potter Puppet Pals stub. 70 to 200 articals could be put here. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Markreidyhp (talk • contribs)
* That would seem to be very unlikely. Not only is there no, there isn't even an article about them - all there is is a redirect to a small section of the article about their creator. So it's quite possible there are no stubs whatsoever about this subject. It seems very unlikely there would ever be anywhere near 60, let alone 70 to 200. Grutness... wha? 09:25, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
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There are currently 59 pages that link to Utah-radio-station-stub, which I feel is sufficient to warrant these particular stubs getting their own category, a sub-category of Category:Western United States radio station stubs. (These stubs and related articles are maintained by WP:WPRS.) - JPG-GR (talk) 00:41, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
* Even closer. One more stub? Grutness... wha? 00:42, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
* Found one. Support. Waacstats (talk) 23:39, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
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There are currently 55 pages that link to Oklahoma-radio-station-stub, which I feel is sufficient to warrant these particular stubs getting their own category, a sub-category of Category:Southern United States radio station stubs. (These stubs and related articles are maintained by WP:WPRS.) - JPG-GR (talk) 00:40, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
* Not quite, but close - the standard threshold for splitting is 60 (unless there was a specific Oklahoma radio WikiProject). If you can find another five, then I've no objection. Grutness... wha? 00:41, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
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There are currently 53 pages that link to Maine-radio-station-stub, which I feel is sufficient to warrant these particular stubs getting their own category, a sub-category of Category:Northeastern United States radio station stubs. (These stubs and related articles are maintained by WP:WPRS.) - JPG-GR (talk) 00:38, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
* Not quite, but close - the standard threshold for splitting is 60 (unless there was a specific Maine radio WikiProject). If you can find another seven, then I've no objection. Grutness... wha? 00:41, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
* Ah - I was under the impression that if the stubs are watched by a WikiProject, 30 was enough - wasn't aware there had to be a specific WikiProject. In that case, the other 2 I've added are equally unwarranted at this time (per your comment). JPG-GR (talk) 00:43, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
* The Utah one's probably close enough - the others, it's just a matter of time :) Grutness... wha? 00:45, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
* I'm just in the process of doing maintenance - the larger 4 regional stub categories just seem cluttered. If they pass, great. If not, like you said - just a matter of time. JPG-GR (talk) 00:46, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
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Split of hoops-team-stub
Category is around 650. Therefore, I recommend breaking it down by continent with templates when needed. The US will need its own category. What do you think of a national team stub?--Thomas.macmillan (talk) 18:47, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
* Sounds like a resonable split and i agree with the national team stub as there appear to be around 70 of them. Waacstats (talk) 12:13, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
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Getting close to oversized, normally we split these by nationality the only ones that are clear at the moment are
or we could split out the archbishops Waacstats (talk) 10:37, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
* US-RC-bishop-stub /
* UK-RC-bishop-stub /
* RC-archbishop-stub /
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Oversized, we seem to be splitting by body parts and the following are over 60. based on permcat names. Waacstats (talk) 23:02, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
* Abdomen-stub /
* Head-stub /
* We've never split by body parts before except for eye-stub. Most anatomy stub subdivisions have been by organ system (e.g. musculoskeletal-stub, digestive-stub, circulatory-stub, etc.). I'm also not seeing a significant number of "abdomen" stubs, but I do see a lot of urogenital-stub candidates; stubs dealing with the urinary and reproductive systems. I think that would be a better option than abdomen, particularly since most of the anatomy stubs are by system. There are also quite a fair number of stubs in the category that should be stubbed for one of the subcategories (e.g. stubs on bones and nerves). That would reduce the size of quite a bit as well. --EncycloPetey (talk) 05:07, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
* well spotted, I don't know what made me think that the split was bodyparts. The problem I would have with the urogenital stub cat is that we don't have a matching permcat, we have one for Urinary system and one for Reproductive system. I think the best thing to do is to withdraw my nomination, tidy up the category and have a lok at what is left. Waacstats (talk) 10:10, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
* Comment: Do we have a way to link a stub category to two separate permcats? Or could we create a Urogential Ueber-permcat to contain the existing ones? It certainly looks like there are plenty of stubs to fill such a category. --EncycloPetey (talk) 22:48, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
* We can have a stub cat linked to any number of permcats it is just that it is not usual way (of course there are a number of exceptions). I think that because urogenital isn't linked to one permcat it might clearer if nominated seperatly rather than suggested four days into a different nomination. note dispite what I have said I would support the nomination.Waacstats (talk) 09:28, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
* But if it follows established patterns, then it can be speedied, so it would be a simple nomination. When this discussion is closed, the closer might even choose that as the outcome of the discussion, so we might just be patient. --EncycloPetey (talk) 17:17, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
* Would help winnow down this category? Her Pegship (tis herself) 00:58, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
* Well, yes and no. It would cover the "genital" part of "urogenital", so in that respect it could serve the function of such a stub without having to create a new one. However, that stub category is about physiological processes, not anatomy. The question is whether we want to swamp out all the physiological process article stubs with the strict anatomy. I could see a valid argument either way. --EncycloPetey 03:44, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
* I've thought a bit more and have to say "no" that wouldn't work. The includes reproductive methods, birth control, and a lot of other varied topics. It isn't an anatomy category and shouldn't be used for the reproductive anatomy stubs. I think urogenital-stub / would be a better solution. --EncycloPetey 03:00, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
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Category is close to oversize and the following would all have over 100 articles and follow established pattern. Waacstats (talk) 21:26, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
* US-film-actor-1890s-stub /
* US-film-actor-1880s-stub /
* US-film-actor-1870s-stub /
* Speedy 'em, by well-established precedent. Alai (talk) 14:26, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
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Italian Cuisine Stub
I think an stub should be added along the lines of those for other cuisines, such as Spain-cuisine-stub or Turkey-cuisine-stub. Most articles in the categories: Italian Cuisine, Italian desserts, Italian cheeses, etc. would be candidates for stubs.- AKeen (talk) 15:20, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
* Any idea how many candidate existing stub articles? There's also the issue of whether this should be an Italy-cuisine-stub or a Italy-food-stub -- did we make any decision to standardise in one direction or the other? Alai (talk) 18:07, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
* we didn't, IIRC, but -cuisine- would have a slightly wider scope, so I'd favour that. Grutness... wha? 23:10, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
* I'd say cuisine as well, and there are 150+ articles that currently have simply the Italy or Cuisine stub that would be better categorized by this one. - AKeen (talk) 15:31, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
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At 800 at the moment. There looks to be a lot of bios in there, split those? Split by century, or otherwise by era? Any other bids? Alai (talk) 06:39, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
* I thought the general rule was that bios were never marked with history-stub... why aren't they marked with whatever subtype of Japan-bio-stub is appropriate? Grutness... wha? 06:54, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
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Pigeon breeds
Yes I've read it (thanks for your input) and left a reply. Sting_au Talk 05:25, 20 November 2007 (UTC) Don't worry about it. It's done and being populated. Sting_au Talk 01:12, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
* this would be best under the sub category of * There are enough breeds of domesticated pigeons List of pigeon breeds to warrant creation of this stub as the list of articles is growing all the time. Sting_au Talk 03:41, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
* Numerically plausible (I can count at least 54), but see my comment about the naming of the permcat, which would also apply here. Alai (talk) 04:27, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
* so does that look any better? Sting_au Talk 05:38, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
* Sounds sensible to me, assuming there are no (counter-)objections to the CFR. Alai (talk) 05:42, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
* The Category has been created. I'll go ahead with the new stub. (when I find some time). Sting_au Talk 06:38, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
* Should this be, singular? Her Pegship (tis herself) 15:02, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
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I thought I'd proposed this before, but I can't find such a thing. At any rate, I can find 60 under (this could be scoped slightly more narrowly as, if people prefer). Alai (talk) 02:15, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
* The government-bios would be more inclusive and i feel more useful in cutting down the size of the canadian parent. Also fits in with other splits better (we have US gov split but no civil servent split anywhere). Waacstats (talk) 10:41, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
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Pig-stub /, and Domestic-pig-stub (upmerged)
* Proposed as an upmerged template to both and primary intent is to advance the working of WikiProject Agriculture in sorting and improving these articles, thus not calling it Pig stub as that would imply all of genus Sus not just Sus scrofa domestica, other pigs should not be in .--Doug.(talk • contribs) 05:55, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
* Mmmmm. I can remember suggesting this was getting close to a split when someone proposed a chicken-stub last month. Problem is, as you point out, not all pigs are domestic (we have "tuskers" living only a few kilometres from where I live, in fact). Perhaps the best way to tackle this is with two stub types:
* pig-stub / as a subtype of the E-T ungulates, and
* domestic-pig-stub upmerged into and
* Otherwise, we'll end up with a gap in the (admittedly shaky) hierarchy. Pig-stub could also be used for pig-related things like swine diseases, and would very likely meet threshold. Note, BTW, the standard stub naming convention with the hyphens (Pig stub etc. are definitely out!) Grutness... wha? 08:16, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
* Oh yes, of course, I spaced the hyphens (literally). If the intermediate stub template and stub cat are necessary, fine. Doesn't really make any difference to me. Does the heading for the proposal need to be modified?--Doug.(talk • contribs) 09:39, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
* probably - I've altered it to suit. Grutness... wha? 09:46, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
* I don't think the intermediate type is necessary, but it does seem to make things a little neater. Support both. Alai 17:16, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
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mexico-city-metro-stub/
There are lots of existing articles about the Mexico city metro system, and there really isn't a way to categorize them, except for using a. -- θnce θn this island Speak! 13:08, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
* I think the usual way this would be titled would be MexicoCity-metro-stub / . But I'm wondering whether a more general scope would be better i.e Mexico-metro-stub / as I believe both Monterrey and Guadalajara also have rapid transit systems that could then be tagged with this template. Waacstats 18:08, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
* The reason I had suggested it originally on Mexico city was because there seemed to be a lot of articles on the Mexico City metro system itself, but I agree that a more general topic would also be OK. -- θnce θn this island Speak! 19:34, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
* Support the more general Mexico-metro-stub. It's unlikely Guadalajara and Monterrey will have enough stubs for their own category any time soon, but this puts them somewhere where editors will be likely to find them readily. If numbers allow later, the three can always be split by city. Grutness... wha? 23:51, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
* Support a Mexico-in-general stub category, with per-city upmerged templates. Alai 02:11, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
* Support the idea of per city templates but i think we also need a general template incase anywhere else has a metro system.Waacstats 16:45, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
* A general metro system template? Or a general Mexico metro system Template? -- θnce θn this island Speak! 19:02, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
* sorry a general mexico-metro-stub template. Waacstats 15:05, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
* Unless WP's article on the subject is sadly mistaken, it would appear that there are only three such systems in Mexico at present. And if another gets built, let's float the boat out and make another template for that one, too. OTOH, a country-level template would probably be what the casual sorter would expect (assuming they expected there to be such a thing at all), so I agree that creating that too seems sensible. Alai 02:46, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
* Agree with points raised above, Support a general mexico-metro-stub template and category. -- θnce θn this island Speak! 01:22, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
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There were no stub categories for Support Groups that I could find. This includes Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous, Gamblers Anonymous, family support groups, peer counseling, et cetera. Parasane 22:11, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
* mmmm. An interesting one, it falls through the gaps next to med-org-stub... probably worthwhile to at least have an upmerged template... how many stubs do you think there are for this? Grutness... wha? 00:27, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
* I ran into this problem a while back while slogging through the org-stubs. If the count supports it, so do I. Her Pegship (tis herself) 22:47, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
* I'm trying to get a definitive count. There's one stub article listed as "Sponsee", which was a term I wasn't even familiar with until I watched the latest episode of Dexter. I'll post count updates as I find qualifying stubs, and I'd like to request that others post their findings as well. Parasane 21:51, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
* So how about an upmerged support-org-stub or support-group-stub? Her Pegship (tis herself) 02:25, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
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Queensland's bang on 800. This regions seems to be fairly well-defined, and there's 96 of 'em. Alai 03:36, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
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* I am about a add a number of stub articles about vaccines, and marking them with vaccine-stub. A category would be very useful for this. -- The Anome (talk) 15:42, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
* Yes, indeed, and once there are 60 articles tagged with it, a category will be appropriate. I suggest we upmerge the template until such time. Also, it would be more constructive to propose the template before creating it, although it seems reasonably formed to me. Her Pegship (tis herself) 17:20, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
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contains roughly 600 articles - none sub-categorized - and Colubridae is by far the largest family in the Serpentes. So .... - Metanoid (talk, email) 12:08, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
* See previous discussion here, closed with no consensus. Her Pegship (tis herself) 16:36, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
* Oppose, per previous discussion (not needed, too big to be a sensible initial split, too poorly-defined). If you really must split out a family, do . Alai (talk) 17:14, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
* read discussion, makes sense, thanks. - Metanoid (talk, email) 19:35, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
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Oversized both of these are viable Not to sure about the names though.Waacstats (talk) 22:28, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
* NorthAm-native-bio-stub / (110+leaders)
* NorthAm-native-leader-stub / (178)
* Perhaps & ? The templates look OK. Her Pegship (tis herself) 15:03, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
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Plant disease subtypes
The majority of these look presently intractable, since huge numbers consist of just "is a plant pathogen", a taxonomy infobox, and a couple of stub tags and external links, with (believe it or not) nothing to indicate what it is they actually affect -- especially for fungi, which are the vast bulk of these. Oh well. In the meantime, I think it might be worthwhile splitting off those cases where the infective agent is actually something else: The animals might be a little light at 55ish, but I'm inclined to invoke "any port in a storm" here. This would seem to leave behind mainly the parasitic plants, but there don't seem to many of those at all. Alai (talk) 05:01, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
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'90s and '00s rock albums are oversized, as usual: likeliest-looking split in each case looks like "pop rock". Alai (talk) 03:45, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
* not a term I like but it is used on permcats so I don't see why not. Waacstats (talk) 10:42, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
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is oversized, this looks like the most coherent subcat that I can discern. Alai (talk) 03:48, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
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is oversized, NZ seems to be the leading candidate for a fresh split. (60-odd constituencies, mainly.) Alai (talk) 01:48, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
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I realize we don't ordinarily split plants and animals by region, but we have 64 articles already tagged with Australia-stub, which is currently just over 800. (Most are flora, but it's not quite as clear-cut whether that's separately viable or not.) Alai (talk) 01:08, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
* On closer examination, it looks as if a -plant- type would indeed be viable. Alai (talk) 17:26, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
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Ohio school stubs
Early in the year, Category:Ohio geography stubs was subdivided into eight regional categories, based on county lines, in large part because there were hundreds of these articles. Category:Ohio school stubs has many hundreds of articles in it, as well. Two subcategories exist, for schools in two of the eight aforementioned regions — Category:Cleveland-Akron-Elyria school stubs and Category:Columbus-Marion-Chillicothe school stubs — and I don't see why we shouldn't have the other eight. Therefore, I'm proposing the following regional school categories: The two existing categories use county based stub tags (as do the geography stubs): for example, schools in Ashtabula County, Ohio have. Therefore, I propose that the same process be done for the sixty-eight counties in the other six regions. Nyttend 05:28, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
* Category:Greater Cincinnati school stubs
* Category:Dayton-Springfield-Greenville school stubs
* Category:East Central Ohio school stubs
* Category:Northwest Ohio school stubs
* Category:Southeastern Ohio school stubs
* Category:Southern Ohio school stubs
* Sounds reasonable (assuming the regions reach the usual 60-stub level for categories) - county templates would allow us to split further later if required (God forbid...) Grutness... wha? 08:53, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
* Given the constant stream of these, and further given the latest edict from on-high (or in at, from inside-oligarchy) that anon article creation's to be re-enabled, I'd predict this happening sooner rather than later, unless we quite literally run out of schools first. Alai 14:11, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
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National Mint of Bolivia
The National Mint of Bolivia (Casa de la Moneda de Bolivia) or the Mint of Potosí (in colonial era) is a mint located in the city of Potosí in Bolivia. It is from this mint that most of the silver shipped through the Spanish Main came.
The coinage minted during its period became so well known in the world that a saying, memorialized by Miguel de Cervantes, came into use: valer un potosí, "to be worth a potosí" (that is, "a fortune").
First mint
Silver mining at Cerro Rico (a mountain of silver ore), a growth of population and a commercial expansion coupled with Potosí's notable height, prompted a necessity to organise a coinage centre. Minting began immediately on the basis of a rudimentary technology that remained for the next 212 years, from 1572 to 1767.
A proposal by the Spanish viceroy Francisco de Toledo, Count of Oropesa set about the initial construction of the first mint. In 1572 the foundations near the Royal Palaces in the Plaza del Regozijo under the auspices of the architect Jerónimo Leto, who finished the work in three years. The overall costs exceeded 8,000 pesos, the equivalent of around ten million dollars in today's currency. Charles III of Spain is said to have remarked on hearing the cost of the mint, "the whole building must be made of pure silver".
Second mint
Following a scandal and the resulting investigation, plans to reform the old factory were abandoned and a new building was erected in the neighbouring plaza del Gato.
The new factory saw its construction begin in 1757 and finish in 1770 amongst a number of difficulties. Hammered coinage, the technique whereby coins were produced by placing a blank piece of metal of the correct weight between two dies, and then striking the upper die with a hammer to produce the required image on both sides, which had been used since the first coins at Potosí continued at the old factory until 1773. Nevertheless, the first screw-press coins were produced in 1767 as used as such until 1869 when moveable steam presses were installed.
Later years and Republican minting
The revolutionary authorities of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata taking over the Casa de Moneda by General Manuel Belgrano in 1813. Days before -in Buenos Aires- the Assembly of the Year XIII created a national currency for the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata, which had been approved on April 13, 1813.
The Potosí Mint minted gold coins with values of 8, 4, 2 and 1 escudos, and silver coins with 8, 4, 2, 1 and ½ reales. These coins, instead of having the face of the King of Spain, began to carry the legend "In Union and Liberty". On the obverse appeared a radiant Sun of May with eyes, nose, mouth and 32 rays, while the coat of arms of Argentina appeared on the reverse. The legend indicated United Provinces of the Río de la Plata and had the PTS monogram identifying the Potosí mint. In 1815, the stamps were taken from Potosí to Córdoba, where the first mint in Argentina was installed.
The Republic of Bolivia was formed on the 6 August 1825. Little after a conflict that stretched 15 years with the support of Simón Bolívar and Antonio José de Sucre, the administrative organization and monetary unit was established, albeit with numerous difficulties. Two years would have to pass, whilst Spanish currencies continued circulating, before the first Republican coin would be struck.
In 1933 the abandoned Mint was used as a headquarters during the Chaco War was fought between Bolivia and Paraguay over control of a great part of the Gran Chaco region of South America. It was subsequently used as a stable for the peasants who traveled to the Potosí market from the countryside.
The colonial and republican machinery is conserved in the mint solely for museum purposes. It is considered one of the most important museums in Bolivia. The building has UNESCO World Heritage status under the City of Potosi listing in 1987. | WIKI |
Footbridge system identification using wireless inertial measurement units for force and response measurements
James Brownjohn, Mateusz Bocian, David Hester, Antonino Quattrone, William Hudson, Daniel Moore, Daniel Moore, Sushma Goh, Meng Sun Lim
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Abstract
With the main focus on safety, design of structures for vibration serviceability is often overlooked or mismanaged, resulting in some high profile structures failing publicly to perform adequately under human dynamic loading due to walking, running or jumping. A standard tool to inform better design, prove fitness for purpose before entering service and design retrofits is modal testing, a procedure that typically involves acceleration measurements using an array of wired sensors and force generation using a mechanical shaker. A critical but often overlooked aspect is using input (force) to output (response) relationships to enable estimation of modal mass, which is a key parameter directly controlling vibration levels in service.
This paper describes the use of wireless inertial measurement units (IMUs), designed for biomechanics motion capture applications, for the modal testing of a 109 m footbridge. IMUs were first used for an output-only vibration survey to identify mode frequencies, shapes and damping ratios, then for simultaneous measurement of body accelerations of a human subject jumping to excite specific vibrations modes and build up bridge deck accelerations at the jumping location. Using the mode shapes and the vertical acceleration data from a suitable body landmark scaled by body mass, thus providing jumping force data, it was possible to create frequency response functions and estimate modal masses.
The modal mass estimates for this bridge were checked against estimates obtained using an instrumented hammer and known mass distributions, showing consistency among the experimental estimates. Finally, the method was used in an applied research application on a short span footbridge where the benefits of logistical and operational simplicity afforded by the highly portable and easy to use IMUs proved extremely useful for an efficient evaluation of vibration serviceability, including estimation of modal masses.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)339-355
Number of pages17
JournalJournal of Sound and Vibration
Volume384
Early online date20 Aug 2016
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 08 Dec 2016
Keywords
• Footbridge vibration; Human jumping; Modal mass identification; Wireless sensor
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Polaris RZR: How to Replace a Drive Belt
by Russell Wood
The drive belt on a Polaris RZR connects the secondary on the engine to the clutch. This allows the engine to turn the clutch, which engages the transmission. If this belt should fail, the ATV can't drive anywhere. To fix the issue, you need to replace the drive belt, which takes about 30 minutes.
Shift the RZR into neutral using the shifter. Pull the seat off of the top of the RZR with your hands. Pull off the heat shield cover behind the seat belt with your hands, and then unbolt the seat belt mount from the chassis using a 3/8-inch ratchet and socket and an open-end wrench. Unbolt the seat belt bar from the plastic console in the RZR with the 3/8-inch ratchet and a Torx-head bit. Remove the seat belt bar from the RZR.
Remove the clutch cover with the 3/8-inch ratchet and socket. Install the 3/8-inch to 1/2-inch adapter onto the 3/8-inch extension. Locate the secondary, which is on the right side of the assembly. Insert the extension assembly into the side of the secondary and push the extension towards the engine. Pull the belt over the secondary, and then rotate the belt over the secondary.
Route the replacement belt over the clutch and then over the secondary. Push in the extension assembly again on the secondary, and then rotate the belt onto the clutch and secondary.
Reassemble the clutch cover and seat belt bar into the chassis with the 3/8-inch ratchet and socket, an open-end wrench and a Torx-head socket. Reinstall the heat shield by pushing it into place.
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Richard's paradox
Etymology
First described by the French mathematician Jules Richard in 1905.
Proper noun
* 1) The paradox where, given the observation that certain English phrases unambiguously define real numbers while others do not, there is an infinitely long list of English phrases that unambiguously define real numbers, yet (using a similar technique to ) it is possible to generate another such phrase not in the list. | WIKI |
Toad World® Forums
JOIN Question
#1
I’ve used Query Build to design and build a 3 table join, which for the most part works fine, but I’m getting results I shouldn’t, and I’ve figured out why, but now how to fix it.
I’m JOIN I’m having issues with involves a table called Customers, which contains all the relevant customer information, joined to a table called Customer Products, which contains 1 row for each product that a customer has - so I believe this is a one-to-many join.
The problem is that I’m trying to filter out customers who have certain products in the Customer Products table, but I’m still getting them on the result set - because it’s apparently only filtering that row, not the entire customer.
Is there a way to fix this in my join?
#2
Can you post your SQL. It is hard to answer your question without this.
Debbie
#3
Sure; this is the SQL generated by Query Builder when I export it to SQL Editor:
SELECT ID_C.AC,
ID_H.C,
ID_C.H,
ID_C.CT,
ID_C.STAT
FROM (GGS.ID_H ID_H
INNER JOIN GGS.ID_C ID_C
ON (ID_H.AC = ID_C.AC)
AND (ID_H.H = ID_C.H)
AND (ID_H.CT = ID_C.CT))
INNER JOIN GGS.ID_CT_R ID_CT_R
ON (ID_CT_R.AC = ID_C.AC)
AND (ID_CT_R.H = ID_C.H)
AND (ID_CT_R.CT = ID_C.CT)
WHERE (ID_C.AC = 5)
AND (ID_H.C IN (‘A4570’, ‘A5900’, ‘A6000’))
AND (ID_C.STAT IN (‘1’, ‘2’, ‘3’, ‘4’, ‘5’))
AND (ID_CT_R.SERV NOT IN (‘T’, ‘L’, ‘X’))
The relationship between ID_C and ID_CT_R is a one to many, in that there can, and are, multiple rows in ID_CT_R for each row in ID_C. The problem I’m running into is that the select isn’t discarding the entire record if it finds one row in ID_CT_R that matches on the ID_CT_R.SERV filter.
#4
A match on the filter of ID_CT_R.SERV would be any value that is not ‘T’, ‘L’, or ‘X’. So are you saying you are getting a ‘T’, ‘L’ or ‘X’ in your result set? I set up some sample tables with data and do not get this. Take a screen shot of your result set because I am not understanding the issue.
#5
I might be wrong, but I take the original question to mean “I want my query to not show any customers that have a T, L or X in the customer_products table”. If so the query should be something like
select * from customers
WHERE NOT EXISTS
(select null from customer_products
where customers.customer_id = customer_products.customer_id
and customer_products.product_type in (‘T’, ‘L’, ‘X’)) ;
(you would need to modify this to have the proper table/column names, and to use ANSI join syntax)
Message was edited by: jacquesrk
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distal myopathy 2
Distal myopathy 2 is a condition characterized by weakness of specific muscles that begins in adulthood. It is a form of muscular dystrophy that specifically involves muscles in the throat, lower legs, and forearms. Muscles farther from the center of the body, like the muscles of the lower legs and forearms, are known as distal muscles.
Muscle weakness in the ankles is usually the first symptom of distal myopathy 2. The weakness can also affect muscles in the hands, wrists, and shoulders. At first, the muscle weakness may be on only one side of the body, but both sides are eventually involved. This muscle weakness can slowly worsen and make actions like walking and lifting the fingers difficult.
Another characteristic feature of distal myopathy 2 is weakness of the vocal cords and throat. This weakness initially causes the voice to sound weak or breathy (hypophonic). Eventually, the voice becomes gurgling, hoarse, and nasal. The weakness can also cause difficulty swallowing (dysphagia).
The prevalence of distal myopathy 2 is unknown. At least two families with the condition have been described in the scientific literature.
A mutation in the MATR3 gene has been identified in people with distal myopathy 2. This gene provides instructions for making a protein called matrin 3, which is found in the nucleus of the cell as part of the nuclear matrix. The nuclear matrix is a network of proteins that provides structural support for the nucleus and aids in several important nuclear functions.
The function of the matrin 3 protein is unknown. This protein can attach to (bind) RNA, which is a chemical cousin of DNA. Some studies indicate that matrin 3 binds and stabilizes a type of RNA called messenger RNA (mRNA), which provides the genetic blueprint for proteins. Matrin 3 may also bind certain abnormal RNAs that might lead to nonfunctional or harmful proteins, thereby blocking the formation of such proteins. Other studies suggest that the matrin 3 protein may be involved in cell survival.
The MATR3 gene mutation identified in people with distal myopathy 2 changes a single protein building block (amino acid) in the matrin 3 protein. The effect of this mutation on the function of the protein is unknown, although one study suggests that the mutation may change the location of the protein in the nucleus. Researchers are working to determine how this gene mutation leads to the signs and symptoms of distal myopathy 2.
Distal myopathy 2 is inherited in an autosomal dominant pattern, which means one copy of the altered MATR3 gene in each cell is sufficient to cause the disorder.
• distal myopathy with vocal cord and pharyngeal signs
• distal myopathy with vocal cord weakness
• matrin 3 distal myopathy
• MPD2
• myopathia distalis type 2
• VCPDM
• vocal cord and pharyngeal weakness with distal myopathy | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Hannah More was born in 1745 near Bristol, the fourth of five daughters of a schoolmaster. At a time when only upper-class women had a formal education, her father ensured she and her sisters were well taught. She studied at her father’s school for girls and, while still a teenager, taught there. Hannah wrote her first play for her pupils and became involved with the theatrical world of Bristol.
At the age of twenty-two Hannah, pictured below, became engaged to a wealthy landowner who kept postponing their wedding. When after six years the engagement was broken off, he gave Hannah, as compensation, an annual allowance that allowed her to devote herself to writing. Hannah never married.
Hannah’s poetry was published to acclaim and her plays were successfully staged not just in Britain but in other countries. She began visiting London where, as an intelligent conversationalist, she rapidly became part of the world of actors, painters and thinkers, as well as the gathering of female intellectuals known as the ‘Bluestocking circle’.
In her early thirties Hannah became disillusioned with the theatrical world and, clearly searching for something, returned to Somerset and country life. Always a church attender, she now began to be influenced by the evangelicals who were shaking up the Church of England. Through encountering the converted slave trader John Newton, she experienced a conversion to a new and vibrant faith in Christ.
Newton introduced her to William Wilberforce and their shared belief that the correct response to knowing Christ was to pursue right actions. Following them, Hannah became part of what was to be known as the ‘Clapham Sect’, a dynamic association of evangelicals with a vision to change Britain and the world for God, based around the then village of Clapham. The only woman involved, Hannah threw herself into their work, especially the writing of pamphlets, books and poems.
Hannah became involved with the campaign against slavery. In 1788 she produced a powerful and widely read poem Slavery which condemned the practice. In it she wrote:
Change with the casual colour of a skin?
Hannah’s writings against the slave trade were widely circulated and had a significant impact in shifting public opinion towards its abolition.
In 1789 Wilberforce visited her, and encountering some of the local Somerset villages was appalled by their levels of poverty and ill health. He encouraged Hannah to become involved and with the help of her sisters she began various social initiatives, including Sunday schools, day schools and other schemes to support the community. As these began to have an impact Hannah found herself accused of undermining the social order, a serious charge at a time when British society was in a panic over how the revolution in France had slid into anarchy and open atheism. Increasingly, Hannah and the ‘Clapham activists’ were forced to explain that they sought reformation rather than revolution.
Endlessly active, Hannah was also involved in the Bible Society, the Church Missionary Society, and animal welfare in setting up the organisation that became the RSPCA. She continued to publish books, pamphlets and a novel, all of which promoted evangelical Christianity and a commitment to those values of contentment, humility, work and family – characteristics of the Victorian period which began just after her death. Outliving sisters and colleagues Hannah continued to be productive, respected and widely consulted until she died in 1833 at the age of eighty-eight.
I think there are two elements about Hannah More’s life that should not be overlooked. The first is her conversion to Christ. Well into her thirties, Hannah was a ‘good person’; a respectable churchgoing individual of impeccable morality. Yet she came to realise that her faith was largely superficial and that she needed to experience that change of heart in which the living Christ took centre place in her life. One of my favourite quotations of hers is: ‘There is one single fact which we may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity, namely, that no man ever repented of being a Christian on his death-bed.’
A second element is the determined and energetic way in which Hannah expressed her new faith in her activism. As she wrote: ‘Action is the life of virtue, and the world is the theatre of action.’ Here three things stand out. I see that she had a practical activism. She was not simply a woman of words but someone who wanted to see things happen: laws passed, schools built, organisations founded. A challenge!
I note, too, that hers was a partnered activism. Again as a writer, it might have been expected that she would work on her own. She didn’t but instead showed enormous wisdom in working with others, whether with the enormously productive individuals of the ‘Clapham Sect’ or even those who were not believers. She built bridges, working with people rather than against them. Another challenge!
Finally, I note that hers was a persuasive activism. When there’s a cause to be fought there’s always a temptation to go into a loud and aggressive mode. While it may be understandable it’s often counter-productive. In contrast, Hannah, operating when women could not be involved in politics, quietly used her writing ability to popularise the causes she was passionate about. In doing so she warmed hearts with grace. To use a modern term, she was a subtle and effective ‘influencer’. Yet another challenge!
I am challenged by Hannah More; let her challenge you too! | FINEWEB-EDU |
AWS CodePipeline plugin
AWS CodePipeline is the Amazon Web Services continuous delivery service. It facilitates modelling and automation of the software release process.
Using the AWS CodePipeline plugin for XL Deploy, you can use XL Deploy as an additional deployment option for the AWS CodePipeline. This means that CodePipeline users can leverage the deployment capabilities of XL Deploy for deployments of existing enterprise applications to on-demand, on-premises, and hybrid cloud environments hosted in Amazon EC2 and other clouds.
This topic describes how to use XL Deploy with AWS CodePipeline.
Create a sample pipeline in AWS CodePipeline
This section describes how to create a sample pipeline in AWS CodePipeline to demonstrate a deployment action using XL Deploy.
Step 1 - Log in to AWS CodePipeline
Go to the AWS Management Console, select AWS CodePipeline, and click Get started to create a pipeline.
AWS CodePipeline homepage
Step 2 - Create the sample pipeline
To create the sample pipeline:
1. In Pipeline name, enter petclinic-pipeline.
Create a pipeline - Step 1
2. Click Next step.
3. Choose a source code provider.
In a well-developed pipeline, you would refer to application source code here, which would be compiled and packaged in a deployable artifact during a build step. This example demonstrates a deployment step, so the source location points to a Deployment ARchive (DAR) file, which is the XL Deploy standard input format. To learn more about DAR files, see Prepare your application for XL Deploy.
For this example, select the Amazon S3 Source provider and set the Amazon S3 location to s3://petclinic-packages/PetClinic-1.0.dar.
Create a pipeline - Step 2
4. Click Next step.
5. Choose a build provider to build the artifact.
In this example, the source code location already points to a deployable artifact (the DAR file), so select No Build.
Create a pipeline - Step 3
6. Choose a deployment provider: select the Deployment provider AWS CodeDeploy.
Note: By default, when using AWS CodePipeline, you can only select AWS CodeDeploy or AWS Elastic Beanstalk. XL Deploy is not available during the pipeline creation stage. You must first create a pipeline with an AWS deployment provider, then edit the pipeline to change the provider to XL Deploy. This procedure will be described in step 3.
Create a pipeline - Step 4
7. Click Next step.
8. Provide the AWS Service Role that you will use for AWS CodePipeline. This gives AWS CodePipeline permission to use resources in your account. You can create a new role or use an existing role.
Create a pipeline - Step 5
9. Click Next step.
10. Review the AWS CodePipeline details and click Create pipeline to create the pipeline.
Step 3 - Create an XL Deploy custom action
To use XL Deploy as a deployment provider in AWS CodePipeline, you must create a custom action.
To create a custom action:
1. Install the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI).
2. In the AWS CLI:
3. Execute the following command:
$ aws codepipeline create-custom-action-type --cli-input-json http://git.io/vYpaN
Or
4. Execute the following command using the direct link:
$ aws codepipeline create-custom-action-type --cli-input-json https://gist.githubusercontent.com/xlcommunity/41c394a82547af62363f/raw/2970533d229115e4f1a6e75946fe62ace2271234/aws-codepipeline-xl-deploy-action.json
Step 4 - Add XL Deploy as the deployment provider
After the pipeline is created, you will be redirected to the petclinic-pipeline page.
To change the deployment provider to XL Deploy:
1. Click Edit to edit the pipeline.
Edit pipeline
2. Click the X icon to delete the AWS deployment provider action from the Beta stage, then confirm the deletion.
Delete AWS deployment provider action
3. Click Action to add a new action.
4. Select the Deploy Action Category.
5. Set the Action name to petclinicdeployment.
6. In the Deployment provider field, select XL-Deploy.
Select XL Deploy deployment provider
7. To configure the XL Deploy action, set the Deployment Package Name to Applications/PetClinic and Deployment Package Version to 1.0.
This package contains the files and resources that make up a version of the application, as well as a manifest file (deployit-manifest.xml) that describes the package contents.
8. In the Environment Id field, enter Environments/dev.
An environment is a grouping of infrastructure and middleware items such as hosts, servers, clusters, and so on. The environment is the target of the deployment. The environment ID must match the ID of an existing environment in XL Deploy. For more information, see Create an environment in XL Deploy.
XL Deploy action - Package and environment details
9. In the XL Deploy URL field, enter the XL Deploy installation URL. AWS CodePipeline uses this URL to provide a link to your XL Deploy server in the CodePipeline user interface.
10. In the XL Deploy Username field, enter the ID of the user that should be used to deploy the deployment package to the target environment. This user must have sufficient permissions in XL Deploy to perform this deployment. For more information, see Overview of security in XL Deploy.
11. In the XL Deploy Password field, enter the password for the user.
12. In the XL Deploy Server Key field, provide a key to identify the XL Deploy server. If you have multiple XL Deploy servers in your organization, this key will be used to identify which XL Deploy server picks up the CodePipeline task.
XL Deploy action - XL Deploy installation details
Note: The input artifact is optional for the XL Deploy action. If it is specified, XL Deploy will attempt to import the specified input artifact, the deployment package, into its internal repository before starting the deployment.
After a deployment package has been imported in XL Deploy, you can deploy it to other target environments without importing it again. In a pipeline, only the first deployment action needs to import the new deployment package. For subsequent deployment actions that deploy the same package to environments further down the pipeline, no input artifact is specified.
13. Click Add action to add the XL Deploy action to the pipeline.
14. Click Save pipeline changes.
Pipeline with XL Deploy action
Configure XL Deploy for AWS CodePipeline
This section describes how to configure XL Deploy to communicate with AWS CodePipeline and execute deployment jobs.
Step 1 - Install XL Deploy
Install and start XL Deploy.
Note: This procedure will also install an Apache Tomcat server that will be used with the sample CodePipeline pipeline.
Step 2 - Download and install the XL Deploy AWS CodePipeline plugin
To install the XL Deploy AWS CodePipeline plugin:
1. Download the plugin from the XebiaLabs Software Distribution site. Note: A customer account is required to access this URL.
2. Copy the plugin file to the plugins directory in your XL Deploy installation.
3. Restart XL Deploy.
Step 3 - Create the environment in XL Deploy
To create an environment where the application will be deployed:
1. In the top navigation bar, click Explorer.
2. Hover over Environments, click Menu button, then New > Environment.
3. Click Create environment.
4. In the Name field, enter dev.
5. In the common section, click the Containers field, then select the Tomcat virtual host from the list of containers.
6. Click Save and close.
Step 4 Create an AWS CodePipeline job worker
An AWS CodePipeline job worker will poll AWS CodePipeline every minute for jobs that are assigned to this XL Deploy server, as determined by the XL Deploy server key.
To create an AWS CodePipeline job worker:
1. In the top navigation bar, click Explorer.
2. In the left pane, hover over Configuration, click Menu button, then select New > aws > CodePipelineJobWorker.
Create awscodepipeline.CodePipelineJobWorker
3. Enter the configuration details for the job worker.
Configure awscodepipeline.CodePipelineJobWorker
4. Click Save and close.
Step 5 Start the pipeline
To start the AWS CodePipeline pipeline, you must execute a manual command or make a commit. To start the pipeline manually:
1. Install the AWS command-line client on your computer.
2. Open a command line and execute:
aws codepipeline start-pipeline-execution --name petclinic-pipeline
Step 6 Deployment
After you start the pipeline, you will see actions in an In Progress state in the AWS CodePipeline interface. XL Deploy will poll for jobs with the deployment pipeline group dev-deployments. When a job is available, the XL Deploy action state will change to In Progress.
XL Deploy action in progress
The XL Deploy AWS CodePipeline job worker will pick up the job and perform the deployment. After the application is deployed, you can see it in the Deployment Workspace under the dev environment.
Deployed application in XL Deploy
You can also see the PetClinic application running on your Tomcat server at http://<TOMCAT_SERVER_URL>/petclinic/.
In the AWS CodePipeline interface, you will see that the XL Deploy action state is Succeeded.
XL Deploy action succeeded | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
statsmodels.discrete.discrete_model.GeneralizedPoisson
class statsmodels.discrete.discrete_model.GeneralizedPoisson(endog, exog, p=1, offset=None, exposure=None, missing='none', **kwargs)[source]
Generalized Poisson model for count data
Parameters
endogarray-like
1-d endogenous response variable. The dependent variable.
exogarray-like
A nobs x k array where nobs is the number of observations and k is the number of regressors. An intercept is not included by default and should be added by the user. See statsmodels.tools.add_constant.
p: scalar
P denotes parameterizations for GP regression. p=1 for GP-1 and p=2 for GP-2. Default is p=1.
offsetarray_like
Offset is added to the linear prediction with coefficient equal to 1.
exposurearray_like
Log(exposure) is added to the linear prediction with coefficient equal to 1.
missingstr
Available options are ‘none’, ‘drop’, and ‘raise’. If ‘none’, no nan checking is done. If ‘drop’, any observations with nans are dropped. If ‘raise’, an error is raised. Default is ‘none.’
Attributes
endogarray
A reference to the endogenous response variable
exogarray
A reference to the exogenous design.
Methods
cdf(X)
The cumulative distribution function of the model.
cov_params_func_l1(likelihood_model, xopt, …)
Computes cov_params on a reduced parameter space corresponding to the nonzero parameters resulting from the l1 regularized fit.
fit([start_params, method, maxiter, …])
Fit the model using maximum likelihood.
fit_regularized([start_params, method, …])
Fit the model using a regularized maximum likelihood.
from_formula(formula, data[, subset, drop_cols])
Create a Model from a formula and dataframe.
hessian(params)
Generalized Poisson model Hessian matrix of the loglikelihood
information(params)
Fisher information matrix of model
initialize()
Initialize is called by statsmodels.model.LikelihoodModel.__init__ and should contain any preprocessing that needs to be done for a model.
loglike(params)
Loglikelihood of Generalized Poisson model
loglikeobs(params)
Loglikelihood for observations of Generalized Poisson model
pdf(X)
The probability density (mass) function of the model.
predict(params[, exog, exposure, offset, which])
Predict response variable of a count model given exogenous variables.
score(params)
Score vector of model.
score_obs | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
-- U.S. Stocks Rise on Employment Data Amid Budget Talks
U.S. stocks rose, sending the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index higher for a third week, as optimism over better-than-estimated jobs data overshadowed a drop in consumer confidence amid continuing budget talks. JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Bank of America Corp. (BAC) advanced more than 1.7 percent as financial shares rallied. American International Group Inc. rose 2.6 percent after saying it is in talks to sell 90 percent of its plane-leasing unit. Apple Inc. (AAPL) lost 2.6 percent, sending the maker of iPhones and iPad tablet computers to its biggest weekly decline since May 2010. The S&P 500 rose 0.3 percent to 1,418.07, the highest level since Nov. 6, at 4 p.m. New York time. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 81.09 points, or 0.6 percent, to 13,155.13, extending its weekly advance to 1 percent. Both gauges advanced for a third week, the longest winning streak since August. The Nasdaq Composite Index dropped 0.4 percent to 2,978.04. More than 5.48 billion shares changed hands on U.S. exchanges, or 12 percent below the three-month average. “We’re increasing equities,” Barry James , who helps oversee $3.5 billion as president of James Investment Research in Xenia, Ohio , said in a phone interview. “People got too pessimistic about the whole fiscal cliff thing. The markets are in a way looking for a reason to go up.” Stocks rallied as Labor Department figures showed employment climbed by 146,000 following a revised 138,000 gain in October that was less than initially estimated. The median estimate of 91 economists surveyed by Bloomberg called for a gain of 85,000. Superstorm Sandy “did not substantively impact” the data, the agency said. The unemployment rate fell to 7.7 percent, the lowest since December 2008, as the size of the labor force shrank. Consumer Confidence U.S. equities briefly erased gains after a gauge of consumer confidence decreased more than forecast. The Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan preliminary index of U.S. consumer sentiment for December fell to 74.5 from 82.7 a month earlier. The median economist estimate was for a decrease to 82. Investors also watched developments in federal budget negotiations. The White House has “wasted another week” and no progress has been made in budget talks, House Speaker John Boehner said in a news conference today in Washington . President Barack Obama and Republicans are working toward a compromise to avert what has been labeled a fiscal cliff -- a Jan. 1 surge of more than $600 billion in automatic tax increases and spending cuts that could propel the nation into recession. ‘Cross Currents’ “There is a lot of confusion and there are a lot of cross currents here to consider,” Terry L. Morris, who helps oversee about $2.5 billion at Wyomissing, Pennsylvania-based National Penn Investors Trust Co., said in a phone interview. “Unemployment has improved, yet confidence deteriorated. How do you explain the market isn’t doing anything when Boehner comes out and says we’re nowhere? It seems like the market should have been going down, but the fact it’s not tells me that the market wants to go higher.” Today’s gain pushed the S&P 500 above its average in the past 50 days for the first time since Oct. 19, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The index had spent the previous 32 days below the threshold, the longest streak since a 52-day stretch that ended Oct. 7, 2011, the data show. The average is watched by traders to gauge the market’s trends. Financial companies in the S&P 500 climbed 0.8 percent as a group to the highest level since Nov. 6. JPMorgan Chase rallied 2.6 percent, the most in the Dow, to $42.56, while Bank of America advanced 1.7 percent to $10.64. Leasing Unit AIG rose 2.6 percent to $34.13. The insurer said it is in talks to sell 90 percent of its plane-leasing unit to an investor group including New China Trust Co. A deal may value International Lease Finance Corp. at about $5.5 billion, according to one person with knowledge of the matter, who asked not to be identified because the talks are confidential. After the close of regular trading, AIG said superstorm Sandy will cost the company about $1.3 billion after taxes and reinsurance, the highest sum disclosed by a U.S. insurer. The shares tumbled 1.8 percent as of 4:42 p.m. in New York. Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. climbed 2.9 percent to $31.70. The world’s largest publicly traded copper producer was raised to strong buy from buy at Oracle Investment. The stock slumped 20 percent in the previous two days after agreeing to buy Plains Exploration & Production Co. and McMoRan Exploration Co. for $9 billion. The move was a “game changer and a wise use of capital,” Oracle analyst Laurence Balter said in a note. Share Repurchases Macy’s Inc. gained 1.3 percent to $39.41 after the department-store chain authorized a $1.5 billion increase in share repurchases. McGraw-Hill Cos. gained 4.2 percent to $56.53. The global information-services provider announced a special dividend of $2.50 a share. Computer and software makers in the S&P 500 fell 0.6 percent for the only loss among 10 industry groups. Apple slipped 2.6 percent to $533.25. The shares slumped 8.9 percent this week amid concern that the company will lose ground in smartphones to Nokia Oyj in China while giving up market share to Google Inc. in tablets. Amarin Corp. sank 19 percent to $9.69. The maker of the cholesterol-lowering drug Vascepa fell as investors lost confidence that the company will soon be acquired. Financial Stocks The cost of protecting against swings in financial shares from JPMorgan to Berkshire Hathaway Inc. has fallen to a 19- month low as banks fire workers to improve profitability and the housing market recovers. Implied volatility for three-month contracts with an exercise price closest to the Financial Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLF) was 21 percent higher than for the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust yesterday, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. That’s the smallest gap between the key measures of options prices since May 2011. A gauge of banks, brokerages and insurers in the S&P 500 has climbed 22 percent this year, the most among the 10 main groups. Analysts forecast that financial companies will post the third-fastest profit growth among S&P 500 industries next year as mortgage interest rates near record lows help drive demand for a shrinking property supply and banks reduce costs. Home prices in October rose the most since 2006 and the U.S. economy expanded more than previously estimated in the third quarter. “The market is recognizing that the financial sector is healing,” Paul Zemsky, the New York-based head of asset allocation for ING Investment Management, which oversees $170 billion, said in a phone interview yesterday. “Housing prices are rising, so the collateral of the banking system is getting more valuable, which helps banks weather any future problems.” To contact the reporters on this story: Lu Wang in New York at lwang8@bloomberg.net ; Rita Nazareth in New York at rnazareth@bloomberg.net To contact the editors responsible for this story: Lynn Thomasson at lthomasson@bloomberg.net . | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Wikipedia:WikiProject Emoji
WikiProject Emoji is a Wikipedia community project for discussing and developing Wikipedia's policy and best practices relating to the use of emojis. Issues relating to emojis and Wikipedia include:
* 1) When readers visit Wikipedia articles which include emojis, what emoji set should Wikipedia display?
* 2) What is the Wikipedia best practice recommendation on the use of emojis in internal talk page discussions?
* 3) How do we align English Wikipedia resources related to emojis with resources in Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata, and Meta-Wiki?
About emojis
Example places Wikipedia articles which display emojis include the following:
* emoji
* talk:emoji
* Face with Tears of Joy emoji
* Pile of Poo emoji
* Star of David
Display of emoji in English Wikipedia
Currently when anyone accesses a Wikipedia publication which includes an emoji, that person will view the emoji set by the configuration of their own device and software. For example, if a reader is using an Apple device, then by default that reader will see the Apple emojis in Wikipedia. However if no emoji set is present then the emoji will appear as REPLACEMENT CHARACTER, �. The Wikipedia community has a choice: should Wikipedia by default present the emoji from the user's own device settings, or should Wikipedia, by default, present an emoji set recommended by the Wikipedia community? How should the Wikipedia community make a policy decision?
Practice to present, 2020
Currently on Wikipedia when emoji are displayed we add the following notice:
This notice is only due to the fact that Wikipedia relies on the user’s system to present all font rendering, whether it’s a desktop, mobile, or even a print out. For content that may not be rendered correctly images are served alongside what should be presented. However if Wikipedia was to serve font files for these emoji then they would be compatible with all devices. The benefits of fonts rather than images are numerous [many sources]. Additionally screen readers automatically read the name of the emoji, negating the time needed to annotate images with alt text.
Open emoji set from Wikimedia Commons?
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Create or develop a Wikimedia emoji set
If no emoji set can be picked as attribution shouldn’t be required, the only solution is creating an open, public domain emoji set. There are already projects such as SMirC and commons:Category:Smilies.
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Page:Quinby and Son (1925).pdf/163
Bert went into the store. If he could be off by noon he could be at the Butterfly Man's at two o'clock and the day would be saved. When the job was finished he gave Peg the remaining three dollars, demanded a receipt, stuck it in his pocket and locked the store door. Ten minutes later he had left Springham behind.
He found Tom Woods at his bench mounting specimens for a high school museum in another part of the state. There was a constraint about the meeting, and Bert grew ill at ease. In the past he had been content in this room to sit back relaxed, his body at ease, his soul tranquil under the atmosphere of peace and understanding. To-day he stirred restlessly. The Butterfly Man finished, stood two boards of mounted insects against the wall, and absently filled his pipe.
"Bill Harrison was out yesterday," he said.
Bert, in a flash of vision, saw what lay behind the sentence. Bill had told of his visit to the store. A nameless urge had sent him on this visit, but the store was the one topic he wished to avoid. He tried to steer the subject into safer channels.
"Bill was telling me about that letter from the artist!"
The man's voice brightened. "Good ol' Bill. I was scared stiff after it came; afraid I had made a mistake in showing it to him. But I wanted to give him something to hang a hope on. I was afraid he'd get puffed up. 'I suppose you think | WIKI |
Talk:BJ McKie
Untitled
His name is BJ or Bj, not B.J. This is because his given name is Bjorn. He went by BJ because his younger cousin could not pronounce this name. —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 13:23, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
* Sources vary, but the South Carolina website uses BJ, so I've moved the article to that title. Thanks for bringing this up. Zagalejo^^^ 18:50, 20 May 2010 (UTC) | WIKI |
ArrayList Reverse Search Swap Shuffle Fill Java
Note: Before going through this program ArrayList Reverse Search Swap Shuffle Fill Java, it is advised to read first ArrayList Introduction where all the methods, class signature, constructors and history are given.
4 programs are given on Arraylist.
1. ArrayList Methods: In this program, the basic operations on array list are performed like addition, checking the list is empty or not, removing the elements, knowing the index number of an element etc.
2. ArrayList Iterators: In this example, different styles of retrieving and printing the array list elements are described.
3. ArrayList Operations: In this program, operations like reversing, sorting, searching, swapping, shuffling, filling, knowing maximum and minimum values are performed. Finally, an array of array lists is created and the elements are printed.
4. ArrayList Special: In this program, operations like converting array list to array, array list to string, copying elements of one array into another, converting array to array list and finally cloning of an array list are performed.
This is the third of the above four – ArrayList Operations.
Example on ArrayList Reverse Search Swap Shuffle Fill Java
import java.util.*;
public class ArrayListOperations
{
public static void main(String args[])
{
ArrayList al1 = new ArrayList();
al1.add(10);
al1.add(50);
al1.add(30);
al1.add(20);
al1.add(40);
System.out.println("Max of al1: " + Collections.max(al1));
System.out.println("Min of al1: " + Collections.min(al1));
System.out.println("Index of 30: " + Collections.binarySearch(al1, 30));
System.out.println("\nOriginal elements: " + al1);
Collections.swap(al1, 1, 3);
System.out.println("Elements after swap 1 and 3: " + al1);
Collections.reverse(al1);
System.out.println("Reversed elements: " + al1);
Collections.shuffle(al1);
System.out.println("\nFirst time shuffled elements: " + al1);
Collections.shuffle(al1);
System.out.println("Second time shuffled elements: " + al1);
ArrayList al2 = new ArrayList();
al2.add(1000);
al2.add("hello");
al2.add('A');
System.out.println("\nal2 elements before filling with 100: " + al2);
Collections.fill(al2, 100);
System.out.println("al2 elements filled with 100: " + al2);
TreeSet ts = new TreeSet(al1);
System.out.println("\nSorted elements: " + ts);
// ARRAY OF ARRAYLISTS
ArrayList myList[] = { al1, al2 };
System.out.println("\nmyList[0] elements: " + myList[0]);
System.out.println("myList[1] elements: " + myList[1]);
}
}
ArrayList Reverse Search Swap Shuffle Fill
Output screen of ArrayList Reverse Search Swap Shuffle Fill Java
ArrayList al1 = new ArrayList();
A generics ArrayList object al1 is created that stores only integer values. Five elements are added with add() method inherited from Collection interface.
System.out.println(“\nMax of al1: ” + Collections.max(al1));
System.out.println(“Min of al1: ” + Collections.min(al1));
System.out.println(“Index of 30: ” + Collections.binarySearch(al1, 30));
Collections methods like max() and min() are used to find the maximum value and minimum value of the array list elements. binarySearch() method is used to search for a particular element in the array list. It returns the index number of the element.
Collections.swap(al1, 1, 3);
Collections.reverse(al1);
swap() method swaps the elements 1 and 3. In the first element place third comes and in third element place first comes. Observe the screenshot. reverse() method reverses the existing elements in the list al1. Observe, the swapped elements are reversed.
Collections.shuffle(al1);
Collections.shuffle(al1);
shuffle() method of Collections class shuffles the elements randomly. Calling the same shuffle() method multiple times prints the elements in different order.
Collections.fill(al2, 100);
The fill() method replaces all the existing elements of al2 with 100. After this method call, all elements become 100.
TreeSet ts = new TreeSet(al1);
The subclasses of Set interface prints the elements in ascending order by default. To print the elements of array list al1 in ascending order (instead of writing a sort algorithm), al1 object is passed to TreeSet ts constructor. Now ts prints the elements in natural (ascending) order implicitly.
ArrayList myList[] = { al1, al2 };
System.out.println(“\nmyList[0] elements: ” + myList[0]);
System.out.println(“myList[1] elements: ” + myList[1]);
An array of ArrayList, myList, is created with the elements of array lists al1 and al2. myList[0] represents al1 and myList[1] represents al2.
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Monsanto Sues California Over Herbicide Classification
Business Briefing Monsanto on Thursday stepped up its defense of Roundup, a widely used weed killer, by filing a lawsuit in California seeking to prevent glyphosate, the main ingredient in the herbicide, from being added to the state’s list of known carcinogens. The company said it filed the suit against the state’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment and the agency’s acting director, Lauren Zeise, in California state court. The state agency said in September that it planned to add glyphosate to the list after the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer classified it as a probable human carcinogen last March. Monsanto has disputed the assessment, citing numerous studies deeming glyphosate safe. In its lawsuit, Monsanto describes the International Agency for Research on Cancery as an “unelected, undemocratic, unaccountable and foreign body.” It says that the lack of oversight violates the company’s right to procedural due process under state and federal law. The agency did not comment, as it had not seen the suit. Roundup is used by farmers worldwide and generated $4.8 billion in revenue for Monsanto in the 2015 fiscal year. Questions about the safety of the herbicide have dogged Monsanto for years. Because of an editing error, a report in the Company Briefing column on Friday about a lawsuit in California by Monsanto, which seeks to prevent the main ingredient in its Roundup weed killer from being listed as a known carcinogen, misidentified the organization that the company described as an “unelected, undemocratic, unaccountable and foreign body.” It is the International Agency for Research on Cancer, a World Health Organization agency that classified the chemical as a probable human carcinogen last March — not the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, which is the target of the lawsuit. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Polish PiS promises voters even more cash ahead of October election
WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland’s ruling nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) party will offer pensioners regular annual cash bonuses and will almost double the minimum wage for workers, its leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski said ahead of parliamentary elections next month. “At the end of 2020 the minimum pay will amount to 3,000 zlotys, at the end of 2023 it will be 4,000 zlotys,” Kaczynski told his party congress on Saturday. At present the minimum wage is 2,250 zlotys a month. “In 2021 most pensioners will get two thirteen pay (cash bonuses),” Kaczynski added. This year pensioners were paid a so-called thirteenth payment, as the extra cash handout is known. Earlier Kaczynski, who has no formal government post but is seen as Poland’s de-facto leader, was also quoted as saying in an interview with tabloid Super Express that he expects Mateusz Morawiecki to remain as Prime Minister if PiS wins on Oct. 13. PiS, which is leading in opinion polls, faces a tough election campaign as its image as the party fighting for justice in Poland has been tarnished by political scandals. Its parliamentary speaker resigned after Polish media revealed that he had used a government jet for private trips with his family. And Poland’s deputy justice minister quit after he sought to discredit judges critical of the government’s judicial reforms by planting rumors about their private lives. Against this background, PiS, which is targeting a majority in the new parliament, has decided to increase handouts to voters, especially its core electorate, including the elderly who this year received a one-off cash bonus. Analysts have said that this year’s one-off bonus for pensioners, which was offered ahead of the elections to the European Parliament, cost the Polish state almost 11 billion zloty ($2.8 billion). PiS won 26 seats and the anti-PiS opposition 25 in the election to select members of the European Parliament. Polls show Poles remain a very pro-EU nation. The latest opinion poll show PiS may win around 43% of the votes in next month’s general election, while other parties combined may get 41%. Due to Poland’s voting system, this could mean a safe majority for PiS. Despite domestic scandals and spats with the European Union over rule of law, environmental policy, migrants, PiS has maintained its popularity, thanks largely to a social program which includes 500 zloty handouts for every child in a family. The PiS also promised on Saturday increased payments for farmers and a hike in the minimum pension to 1,200 from 1,100 zlotys, without giving more details. Reporting by Marcin Goclowski and Pawel Florkiewicz; Editing by Alexander Smith | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Talk:Kempsey, New South Wales
Formatting of links in Education
I suggest that refs would be better than external links in the education section, per MOS:LINK:
* "Embedded links that are used to support information in an article are positioned in the same manner as any other reference in the article, following the usual standards about citation formatting"
and WP:INCITE. (See also Talk:Iluka, New South Wales) Mitch Ames (talk) 02:09, 1 January 2014 (UTC)
Population
The population figure given is for the Shire of Kempsey, not for the town. The town appears to have about one-third this figure. Skinsmoke (talk) 07:07, 10 April 2016 (UTC)
The Kempsey census thing
I was just scrolling through and I noticed the high no vote thing. So I did some research, and I found this source https://aiatsis.gov.au/sites/default/files/catalogue_resources/21470.pdf which is probably the one they used. Anyway, they were kind of ignoring key info when they put that in. I don't have an account so I don't think I can edit but I was hoping someone else would for me <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 07:14, 21 June 2024 (UTC) | WIKI |
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unconfigure
Unconfigure network inputs and outputs
Syntax
unconfigure(net)
unconfigure(net, 'inputs', i)
unconfigure(net, 'outputs', i)
Description
unconfigure(net) returns a network with its input and output sizes set to 0, its input and output processing settings and related weight initialization settings set to values consistent with zero-sized signals. The new network will be ready to be reconfigured for data of the same or different dimensions than it was previously configured for.
unconfigure(net, 'inputs', i) unconfigures the inputs indicated by the indices i. If no indices are specified, all inputs are unconfigured.
unconfigure(net, 'outputs', i) unconfigures the outputs indicated by the indices i. If no indices are specified, all outputs are unconfigured.
Examples
Here a network is configured for a simple fitting problem, and then unconfigured.
[x,t] = simplefit_dataset;
net = fitnet(10);
view(net)
net = configure(net,x,t);
view(net)
net = unconfigure(net)
view(net)
Introduced in R2010b
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Breast biopsy
A breast biopsy is usually done after a suspicious lesion is discovered on either mammography or ultrasound to get tissue for pathological diagnosis. Several methods for a breast biopsy now exist. The most appropriate method of biopsy for a patient depends upon a variety of factors, including the size, location, appearance and characteristics of the abnormality. The different types of breast biopsies include fine-needle aspiration (FNA), vacuum-assisted biopsy, core needle biopsy, and surgical excision biopsy. Breast biopsies can be done utilizing ultrasound, MRI or a stereotactic biopsy imaging guidance. Vacuum assisted biopsies are typically done using stereotactic techniques when the suspicious lesion can only be seen on mammography. On average, 5–10 biopsies of a suspicious breast lesion will lead to the diagnosis of one case of breast cancer. Needle biopsies have largely replaced open surgical biopsies in the initial assessment of imaging as well as palpable abnormalities in the breast.
Indications
There are many reasons why a doctor may order a breast biopsy. Typical indications include:
* A suspicious area on mammography or ultrasound. This may include:
* Microcalcifications on MRI.
* BI-RADS score of 4 or 5 on mammography, ultrasound, or MRI.
* A suspicious hard palpable lump
* Skin changes like crusting, scaling, or dimpling of the breast, which may signal an underlying breast cancer
* Abnormal nipple discharge
Fine-needle aspiration
Fine-needle aspiration (FNA) is a percutaneous ("through the skin") procedure that uses a fine needle and a syringe to sample fluid from a breast cyst or remove clusters of cells from a solid mass. It is mainly used to differentiate between a cyst and a mass. If the aspirated contents are not cyst-like, then a tissue sample must be taken to better evaluate the mass. Fine-needle aspiration is one of the most commonly used initial diagnostic tools for suspicious lesions. The doctor will typically use a 22 or 27 gauge needle to aspirate out free fluid and cells. It can be done in an outpatient setting and is associated with minimal pain. However, in up to 30% of cases, pathological slides from fine-needle aspiration of breast lesions may be inconclusive, necessitating the need for further testing. FNA can be done to aspirate the contents of a cyst, which may relieve any pain that the cyst caused, or can be used to aspirate a suspicious lesion in conjunction with cytology (cellular analysis). If aspirating the contents of a cyst, the aspirate is usually not sent for cytology unless it is bloody. If the cyst is not detectable by touch, it may be located using ultrasound, MRI, or stereotactic mammography. Recovery time from an outpatient FNA is minimal.
Core needle biopsy
Core needle biopsy (CNB) is another percutaneous ("through the skin") method of breast biopsy that became more popular than FNA in the 1990s due to the larger sample of tissue CNB provides. This method is usually done under ultrasound guidance and involves using two needles, one inner "puncture" needle that is inserted into the mass, and a wider gauge needle with an open "gap" or "trough" on one side that allows for tissue to enter. A spring-loaded sheath then is triggered by the technician that covers the trough in the needle to allow sample tissue to be separated and removed for analysis. Typically four tissue samples are removed to minimize sample error. To prevent the need to pierce the breast repeatedly, a coaxial needle is left in place on top of the mass as a guide. CNB has a higher sensitivity for cancer than FNA, has lower false negatives, and has proven more successful in finding rare breast diseases like lobular carcinoma. However, this method still has relatively high rates of false negatives compared to surgical or vacuum-assisted methods due to the overall low volume of tissue removed. Also, because breast tissue can be difficult to target on ultrasound, as many as 5–10% of suspicious lesions are missed by the needle and may result in a high rate of false negatives, or the need for additional biopsies.
Stereotactic biopsy
Stereotactic biopsy is done with the help of a specialized device, which provides mammographic guidance. For a stereotactic biopsy, morbid obesity is a relative contraindication due to weight limitations of the devices. Pregnancy and breast compression size may also be contraindications depending on the modality being used.
Vacuum-assisted breast biopsy
Vacuum-assisted breast biopsy (VABB) is a more recent version of core needle biopsy using a vacuum technique to assist the collection of the tissue sample. Similarly to core needle biopsy, the needle has a lateral ("from the side") opening and can be rotated, allowing multiple samples to be collected through a single skin incision. This method has become more popular than FNA, CNB, and surgical biopsies due to the benefits of low invasiveness while still obtaining a larger tissue sample. Taking more tissue helps reduce sampling error since breast lesions are often heterogeneous (cancer cells are spread unevenly) and therefore cancer can be missed if not enough tissue is taken. VABB can be guided by stereotactic (most popular), ultrasound, and MRI, and can yield as much as 2g of tissue sample. The vacuum-assisted biopsy category also includes automated rotational core devices.
Direct and frontal biopsy
Recent innovations in tissue acquisition for the human breast have led to the development of unique direct frontal systems. Efficacy is considered optimal if the diagnosis by transcutaneous biopsy is identical to the surgical specimen in case of malignancy or in line with clinical follow-up when benign.
The direct and frontal biopsy systems can even be considered relatively painless. The quality of the sample is sufficient for research on molecular biology.
Excisional (surgical) biopsy
Excisional biopsy involves surgically removing the suspicious area of the breast to examine it under the microscope for diagnosis. One method is wire-guided (or wire-localized) excisional biopsy, where a wire is inserted into the breast and repeatedly imaged using breast ultrasound or mammography until the technician sees that the tip is located in the suspicious area. The suspicious area is then removed entirely in one block by the surgeon with the help of the wire. When the tissue is removed, it is processed by a pathologist, who describes the tissue as it appears by eye and inks the sides to help orient the tissue under the microscope after it is sliced. Each color corresponds to a direction, such as superior, inferior, medial, lateral, anterior, and posterior (these correspond to top, bottom, outside, inside, front, and back). When the tissue is then looked at under the microscope, the margins can then be evaluated to see if they are free of cancer cells, or if the surgeon needs to go back and remove more tissue from that area. Titanium surgical clips are often left behind by surgeons to help future physicians locate the site and monitor for future disease or target the area with radiation if needed. Percutaneous ("through the skin") biopsy methods have become more favored over surgical biopsies due to the high rate of benign findings (80%) and the reduction of adverse effects such as scarring.
Adverse effects
Adverse effects of breast biopsies tend to vary depending on what type of biopsy is performed. The more invasive, such as surgery, tend to have more severe types of adverse incidents, whereas less invasive such as FNA or CNB tend to have less severe. For vacuum-assisted biopsies, some complications of the procedure can include bleeding, post-operative pain, and hematoma formation. However, most can be avoided with proper application of pressure and rest. Some examples of adverse effects of core needle biopsies can include rare biopsy risks like infection, abscess formation, fistula formation, migration of any markers placed in the breast, and potential seeding of the tumor (causing displacement of cancer cells due to the procedure that can start new tumors elsewhere). Another potential adverse effect occurs when taking a biopsy of an area of microcalcification. If the entire area of microcalcification is removed, it is then very difficult to find the suspicious area in the future for treatment. A marker is placed in the suspicious area to help localize the proper area for possible removal at a later date; if this is removed during biopsy, it can be difficult to make sure that the correct area was excised in surgery. Bleeding into the site of the suspicious lesion caused by the biopsy procedure can appear to look like a complex cyst on ultrasound, which could lead to additional unnecessary management. The false negative rate of the results of a breast biopsy is approximately 1%. | WIKI |
Talk:buttery bar
Someone asked for a verification of this word.
The phrase appears in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night (Act I, Scene 3). You can find it at this site:
http://www.twelfth-night.info/TN_1_3.html
It seems that colleges at both Oxford and Cambridge have buttery bars as does the Red Lion at Croyden. I have added three quotes and have removed rfv. Andrew massyn 10:50, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
RFC discussion: January 2010–September 2011
The etymology and definition seem mixed up with each other. Equinox ◑ 04:07, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
* Tidied up. — Pingkudimmi 15:11, 8 September 2011 (UTC) | WIKI |
Talk:Alfred Chalmers
obituary
* The Times, 1937
* The Times/1937/Obituary/Sir Alfred Chalmers
burial
Name Alfred John George Chalmers Nymber: 73963 Burial Age 91 Record Type Burial Burial Date 26 Jun 1937 Burial Cemetery Kensington Cemetery, Hanwell, Middlesex Burial Borough Kensington and Chelsea Burial Place London, England
* Kensington and Chelsea Parish Chest Records. London, England: The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea: Local studies and archives. Reference: KCCB/21-50 (Kensington Cemetery, Chaplin´s Books, 1921-1950)
probate
Name Alfred John George Knight Chalmers Death Date 24 Jun 1937 Death Place London, England Probate Date 24 Jul 1937 Probate Registry London, England
* Calendar of the Grants ...
CHALMERS sir Alfred John George knight of 178 Latymer Court Hammersmith London died 24 June 1937 Probate London 24 July to Alfred Arthur Albert Chalmers principal surveyor Lloyds register of shipping and Evelyn Maud Mary Chalmers spinster. Effects £6041 1s. 1d.
census
Name Alfred J. G. Chalmers, Inspector Marine Dt. Bd. of Trade Gender Male Age 45 Relationship Head Birth Place Bishop Wearmouth, Durham, England Civil parish Linthorpe Ecclesiastical parish St Pauls Residence Place Middlesborough, Linthorpe, Yorkshire, England Registration district Middlesbrough Sub registration district Middlesbrough ED, Institution or Vessel 62 Neighbors Piece 4013 Folio 129 Household Members (Name) Age Relationship Alfred J. G. Chalmers 45 Head Mary H. Chalmers 40 Wife Evelyn M. M. Chalmers 15 Daughter Frederic T. Chalmers 37 Brother Julia Keane 17 Servant
* 1891 England
Name Alfred John G Chalmers Age 5 Relation Son Gender Male Where born Sunderland, Durham, England Civil parish Bishopwearmouth Ecclesiastical parish St Michael Country England Registration district Sunderland Sub-registration district South Bishop Wearmouth ED, institution, or vessel 1h Neighbors Household schedule number 120 Piece 2396 Folio 292 Page number 37 Household Members (Name) Age Relationship James M Chalmers 44 Head, classical and commercial trader Jane Chalmers 36 Wife James Albert Chalmers 11 Son Marianna Chalmers 8 Daughter Jessie Maude Chalmers 7 Daughter Alfred John G Chalmers 5 Son Emily Chalmers 3 Daughter Agnes Ellen Chalmers 2 Daughter Adela Chalmers 11 Mo Daughter Mary Cormack 18 Servant Margret Cormack 13 Servant
* 1851 England
birth / baptism
Name Alfred John George Chalmers Gender Male Birth Date 5 Nov 1845 Baptism Date 29 Nov 1845 Baptism Place Bishop-Wearmouth, Durham, England Father James Macfarlane Chalmers Mother Jane Chalmers FHL Film Number 1514544 Reference ID item 2 p 348
* England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013.
marriage
Name Alfred Joan George Chalmers, Master Mariner, of Buxton Hill Gender Male Record Type Marriage by license Marriage Date 3 Sep 1874 Marriage Place All Saints, Clapham Park, Lambeth, England Father James M Chalmers Spouse Mary Henrietta Johnson of Buxton Hill, father Fredk. H. Johnson, surgeon Register Type Parish Register
* London Metropolitan Archives; London, England; London Church of England Parish Registers; Reference Number: P95/All2/004
death
Name: Alfred J G Chalmers Death Age: 91 Registration Date: June Q. 1937 Registration District: Hammersmith Volume: 1a Page: 281
* FreeBMD
employment
Name Alfred John George Chalmers Birth Date 1845 Birth Place Sunderland, Durham Issue Date 4 Jun 1866 Issue Port Sunderland Certificate Number 82.835
* Master's Certificates. Greenwich, London, UK: National Maritime Museum > 081750 - 083429, 82770 - 82929
Certificate of competency as only mate ... Given under the Seal of The Board of Trade this Twenty third day of May 1866 ... Entered at the General Register and Record Office of Seamen on the 24th day of May 1866
* Noting that other certificates exist, can see 1869, 1871
* The National Archives of the UK; Kew, Surrey, England; Collection: Registry of Shipping and Seamen: Index of Apprentices; Class: BT 150; Piece Number: 30 Surnames A-J (1857-1860) [The young men on these lists were indentured to British merchant navy ships between the years 1824 and 1910.]
* July 1860 (last on page)
Name Alfred J.G Chalmers Age 14 Date of indenture 29.6 Registration or Indenture Date 9 Jul 1860 Term for which bound 5 Indenture expires 29.6.65 Names and Residence of Parties to who bound J. Hay, Sund. Name, port, burden of vessel Calliance Number and date of register 26486 (maybe 24680) Port of Registry Sund
Newspapers
* Trove https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/39787791?searchTerm=%22a.%20j.%20g.%20chalmers%22
* The Times, numerous results for "A. J. G. Chalmers" related to Board of Trade committee membership
Captain Alfred John George Chalmers,
* Knighthood The Times > Issue: 39471 > Monday, Jan. 2, 1911, p. 10 > honour of Knighthood
Professional member of the Maritime Department of the Board of Trade | WIKI |
User:PlatanoLober
PlatanoKua was created by four girls on 2017 They created the biggest company to ever exist in this year. They created the PLATANOLOBERASSOCIATION. And they created PLATANOKUA. The girls names are JAJA KHALID KHALED AND KARNATION. platanokua.wordpress.com | WIKI |
Accession Number:
ADA036505
Title:
Multipath Interference Prediction Study for Dabob Bay and Nanoose Bay Sonar Channels
Descriptive Note:
Corporate Author:
SINGER CO GLENDALE CA LIBRASCOPE DIV
Personal Author(s):
Report Date:
1970-01-19
Pagination or Media Count:
76.0
Abstract:
The purpose of this study is to determine the feasibility to communicate tracking data by UQC underwater telephone to submarines operating within the 3-D tracking areas in Dabob Bay and Nanoose Bay. The ability to communicate reliably and at a sufficient data rate depends upon three factors. The first factor is the ability to reliably transmit sound from a source to a receiver. Assuming that the power level of the transmitter is sufficient to produce an acceptable signal to noise ratio at the receiver, the ability to transmit sound from one point to another depends mainly upon the prevailing velocity profile and geometrical characteristics of the sonar channel. The second factor is the arrival time difference between a direct ray and other rays traveling paths different from the path of the direct ray.
Subject Categories:
• Acoustic Detection and Detectors
• Non-Radio Communications
Distribution Statement:
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Tarzan (radio program)
Tarzan is a generic title that can be applied to any of three radio jungle adventure programs in the United States. Two were broadcast in the 1930s and one in the 1950s.
Format
As told in the Tarzan book series, the episodes centered around young Lord Greystoke, who was raised by a female ape as Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle, and Jane Parker, a girl who was separated from a safari. Vincent Terrace wrote in his book, Radio Programs, 1924-1984: A Catalog of More Than 1800 Shows, "Stories relate Tarzan's efforts to protect his adopted homeland from evildoers."
Producers of the transcribed programs added a touch of authenticity by going to zoos to record sounds of jungle animals and then using those sounds in appropriate places in episodes.
1932-1934 (Tarzan of the Apes)
The initial radio Tarzan originated at WOR in New York City and was syndicated by the World Broadcasting System. Production later switched to Hollywood, California. The series was broadcast September 12, 1932 - March 3, 1934.
Tarzan was played by James Pierce, who portrayed the title character in the silent film Tarzan and the Golden Lion (1927). Jane was played by Joan Burroughs, daughter of Edgar Rice Burroughs, creator of the Tarzan stories. The program's writer prepared scripts using material from the original Tarzan books, and Burroughs himself revised each script as needed for accuracy.
This version of Tarzan was notable for the extent of distribution of a recorded program. Jim Cox, in his book, Radio Crime Fighters: More Than 300 Programs from the Golden Age, wrote: "The first Tarzan show, produced and recorded by American Radio Features, set a distinct precedent in U.S. radio. It was actually the premier feature prerecorded and distributed to local broadcasters throughout the nation and overseas."
The youth-oriented program included two elements that were often found in other programs aimed at a young audience: a club centered on the central character and premiums that could be obtained by sending in elements such as labels or box tops from the sponsor's products. In the first 30 days after the Signal Tarzan Club was launched by sponsor Signal Oil, 15,000 youngsters from California signed up for it. During the club's first year, membership reached 125,000. Another sponsor, Fould's Milling Company of Chicago, received 93,000 package ends of its products in eight weeks through WBBM in Chicago and CKOK in the Windsor/Detroit market. The proofs of purchase were submitted to obtain "plaster of paris statuettes of various characters in the Tarzan series."
1934-1936 (Tarzan and the Diamond of Ashair and Tarzan and the Fires of Tohr)
Tarzan and the Diamond of Ashair (1934–1935) and Tarzan and the Fires of Tohr (1935–1936) applied a serial structure to the Tarzan episodes, with one story line in each of the two seasons. Andy Briggs, in his book, The Savage Lands, wrote, "Tarzan radio serials thrilled millions of listeners across the country."
An anecdote from Dayton, Ohio, demonstrated the popularity of the second Tarzan radio series—especially when its appeal was combined with the opportunity for a free viewing of the film The New Adventures of Tarzan. The trade publication Broadcasting reported that radio station WHIO joined with sponsoring milk dealers and producers to offer a showing of the film with one milk cap as admission. The result: "By curtain time more than 15,000 children were lined up for several blocks on each side of the movie house." The theater added two showings to accommodate the crowd.
1950-1951 version
This version was syndicated in addition to being carried on the Mutual-Don Lee West Coast Network. and on CBS. March 22, 1952 - June 27, 1953.
Streaming audio
* Tarzan: The Diamond of Asher from Old Time Radio Researchers Group Library
* Tarzan: Fires of Tohr from Old Time Radio Researchers Group Library
* Tarzan: Lord of the Jungle from Old Time Radio Researchers Group Library
* Tarzan of the Apes from Old Time Radio Researchers Group Library | WIKI |
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I'm trying to understand the JSON serialization landscape in Ruby. I'm new to Ruby.
Is there any good JSON serialization options if you are not working with Rails?
That seems to be where this answer goes (to Rails) How to convert a Ruby object to JSON
The json gem seems to make it look like you have to write your own to_json method. I haven't been able to get to_json to work with arrays and hashes (documentation says it works with these) Is there a reason the json gem doesn't just reflect over the object and use a default serialization strategy? Isn't this how to_yaml works (guessing here)
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Might sound stupid, but did you actually require 'json' ? I worked with the JSON gems and they worked like a charm. – DarkDust Dec 16 '10 at 18:23
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For the JSON library to be available, you may have to install libjson-ruby from your package manager.
To use the 'json' library:
require 'json'
To convert an object to JSON (these 3 ways are equivalent):
JSON.dump object #returns a JSON string
JSON.generate object #returns a JSON string
object.to_json #returns a JSON string
To convert JSON text to an object (these 2 ways are equivalent):
JSON.load string #returns an object
JSON.parse string #returns an object
It will be a bit more difficult for objects from your own classes. For the following class, to_json will produce something like "\"#<A:0xb76e5728>\"".
class A
def initialize a=[1,2,3], b='hello'
@a = a
@b = b
end
end
This probably isn't desirable. To effectively serialise your object as JSON, you should create your own to_json method. To go with this, a from_json class method would be useful. You could extend your class like so:
class A
def to_json
{'a' => @a, 'b' => @b}.to_json
end
def self.from_json string
data = JSON.load string
self.new data['a'], data['b']
end
end
You could automate this by inheriting from a 'JSONable' class:
class JSONable
def to_json
hash = {}
self.instance_variables.each do |var|
hash[var] = self.instance_variable_get var
end
hash.to_json
end
def from_json! string
JSON.load(string).each do |var, val|
self.instance_variable_set var, val
end
end
end
Then you can use object.to_json to serialise to JSON and object.from_json! string to copy the saved state that was saved as the JSON string to the object.
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Was looking for a library that didn't require you to write the to_json method on classes. Is there a class you can inherit from that gives you this via reflection? and works on complex objects? – BuddyJoe Dec 16 '10 at 21:30
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Are you guys sure there is not an easier way ? – jj_ Nov 5 '12 at 1:29
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To remove the @ from the property name: hash[var.to_s.delete "@"] – epzee Nov 7 '12 at 20:49
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This doesn't work: in `to_json': wrong number of arguments (1 for 0) (ArgumentError) – redolent Feb 4 '14 at 3:03
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@redolent - that a rails thing appearantly. use to_json(options={}) to fix. see stackoverflow.com/questions/11599610/… – randall Nov 30 '15 at 17:08
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Check out Oj. There are gotchas when it comes to converting any old object to JSON, but Oj can do it.
require 'oj'
class A
def initialize a=[1,2,3], b='hello'
@a = a
@b = b
end
end
a = A.new
puts Oj::dump a, :indent => 2
This outputs:
{
"^o":"A",
"a":[
1,
2,
3
],
"b":"hello"
}
Note that ^o is used to designate the object's class, and is there to aid deserialization. To omit ^o, use :compat mode:
puts Oj::dump a, :indent => 2, :mode => :compat
Output:
{
"a":[
1,
2,
3
],
"b":"hello"
}
• Oj has great compatibility for changing classes and deserializing them without additional errors. +1 – ashes999 Nov 25 '14 at 18:02
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How to remove this "^oj" value ? – neustart47 Dec 15 '16 at 1:47
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@neustart47: I've edited my answer to show how this can be done, using the :compat mode. – Jimothy Dec 15 '16 at 14:14
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If rendering performance is critical, you might also want to look at yajl-ruby, which is a binding to the C yajl library. The serialization API for that one looks like:
require 'yajl'
Yajl::Encoder.encode({"foo" => "bar"}) #=> "{\"foo\":\"bar\"}"
• As I will have to work with a lots of JSON data in my next project, this can be my life saver. +1 – Ernest Dec 16 '10 at 22:10
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What version of Ruby are you using? ruby -v will tell you.
If it's 1.9.2, JSON is included in the standard library.
If you're on 1.8.something then do gem install json and it'll install. Then, in your code do:
require 'rubygems'
require 'json'
Then append to_json to an object and you're good to go:
asdf = {'a' => 'b'} #=> {"a"=>"b"}
asdf.to_json #=> "{"a":"b"}"
• Will it be quicker than yajl? – Ernest Dec 17 '10 at 0:49
• That's for you to determine using Benchmark isn't it? – the Tin Man Dec 17 '10 at 3:31
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I Thought you maybe know this. Benchmarked and it is slower :P Particularly when encoding. – Ernest Dec 17 '10 at 12:25
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Since I searched a lot myself to serialize a Ruby Object to json:
require 'json'
class User
attr_accessor :name, :age
def initialize(name, age)
@name = name
@age = age
end
def as_json(options={})
{
name: @name,
age: @age
}
end
def to_json(*options)
as_json(*options).to_json(*options)
end
end
user = User.new("Foo Bar", 42)
puts user.to_json #=> {"name":"Foo Bar","age":42}
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I copied/pasted this into a ruby file, and it executed without a problem. It might be helpful to update your answer to include the output: {"name":"Foo Bar","age":42} – Matthew Kraus Aug 19 '16 at 22:25
4
require 'json'
{"foo" => "bar"}.to_json
# => "{\"foo\":\"bar\"}"
1
If you're using 1.9.2 or above, you can convert hashes and arrays to nested JSON objects just using to_json.
{a: [1,2,3], b: 4}.to_json
In Rails, you can call to_json on Active Record objects. You can pass :include and :only parameters to control the output:
@user.to_json only: [:name, :email]
You can also call to_json on AR relations, like so:
User.order("id DESC").limit(10).to_json
You don't need to import anything and it all works exactly as you'd hope.
1
To get the build in classes (like Array and Hash) to support as_json and to_json, you need to require 'json/add/core' (see the readme for details)
1
Jbuilder is a gem built by rails community. But it works well in non-rails environments and have a cool set of features.
# suppose we have a sample object as below
sampleObj.name #=> foo
sampleObj.last_name #=> bar
# using jbuilder we can convert it to json:
Jbuilder.encode do |json|
json.name sampleObj.name
json.last_name sampleObj.last_name
end #=> "{:\"name\" => \"foo\", :\"last_name\" => \"bar\"}"
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Actually, there is a gem called Jsonable, https://github.com/treeder/jsonable. It's pretty sweet.
0
I used to virtus. Really powerful tool, allows to create a dynamic Ruby structure structure based on your specified classes. Easy DSL, possible to create objects from ruby hashes, there is strict mode. Check it out.
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Costa Mesa to ask voters to consider district-based elections - Los Angeles Times
Costa Mesa voters will be asked whether the city should switch from at-large voting to district-based voting for City Council seats. The council voted 4 to 0 to put the question on the November ballot. Costa Mesa voters will be asked to decide whether to change the way city leaders are elected in the future, after accusations that the current system is biased against Latino residents. Looking to avoid a threatened voting-rights lawsuit, the council voted 4 to 0 this week to put the question to voters in November on whether the city should switch to district-based elections. In a district-based system, the city would be divided into voting areas, with each area electing a council member to represent it. Currently, the five Costa Mesa council members are elected by voters citywide in an at-large system. The council's action came after Kevin Shenkman, an attorney with Malibu-based law firm Shenkman & Hughes, threatened to sue the city, alleging that the use of at-large voting violates the California Voting Rights Act of 2001 by diluting the power of the city's Latino residents to elect candidates of their choice or otherwise influence the outcome of Costa Mesa's council elections. No Latino candidate has ever been elected to the Costa Mesa City Council, Shenkman said, even though Latinos make up more than one-third of the city's population. Shenkman has been involved in numerous voting rights cases. Given the potentially costly lawsuit, it makes sense to begin moving to voting districts, city officials said. It's a no-win situation for the council, said Mayor Pro Tem Jim Righeimer. The way the law is written, when you have a large enough population, you will go to districts. And if residents reject district-based elections in November, Costa Mesa still could be at risk of a lawsuit. Some were concerned that moving to districts could Balkanize the city. We're all Costa Mesans, Mayor Steve Mensinger said. We're not District 1 or District 2 or District 3 or District 4 we're all here for the community and we're all here for the betterment of the community. At-large voting systems have come under fire in recent years from those who claim they dilute the electoral power of minority voters. Under the CVRA, at-large voting is sort of going the way of the dinosaur, it appears, said lawyer Kim Barlow, who negotiated on behalf of the city to avoid a lawsuit by Shenkman in exchange for putting the district system to a public vote. Some residents said moving to districts would help empower communities. You want someone that lives around your area, that knows your area, to go up there and fight for your area, said Eastside resident Luis Bravo. Voting-rights lawsuits have been filed or threatened against other cities in Orange County, including Anaheim, Fullerton, Garden Grove and San Juan Capistrano. All have taken steps to move to district-based elections. Costa Mesa has retained a consultant, Compass Demographics, at an estimated cost of $20,000 to direct the process of creating voting districts. The undertaking will include extensive outreach and community participation, city officials said. lucas.money@latimes.com Twitter: @LukeMMoney Money writes for Times Community News. Subscribe for unlimited access | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Defence industry of Bangladesh
The defence industry of Bangladesh is a strategically important sector and a large employer in Bangladesh.The Government of Bangladesh is actively seeking to upgrade its military and security capabilities and has allocated increasing amounts to its defense and security-related budget.
The Directorate General of Defense Procurement (DGDP) manages procurements for the Ministry of Defense and the various armed forces, including the Army, Navy, and Air Force. Tenders for security and defense equipment and services are frequently open only to international bidders. Low pricing remains an issue for U.S. bidders, especially for items that can be procured regionally. In 2002, China and Bangladesh signed a "Defence Cooperation Agreement" which covers military training and defence production.
Future modernization plans
Bangladesh has made a long term modernisation plan for its Armed Forces named Forces Goal 2030. The plan includes the modernization and expansion of all equipment and infrastructures and providing enhanced training.
Military budget
An amount of Tk348.42 billion ($4.4 billion) was proposed for the Defence Ministry in the national budget for outgoing fiscal year.
* Bangladesh Army – $1.97 billion (৳16817 crore)
* Bangladesh Navy – $742.78 million (৳6330 crore)
* Bangladesh Air Force – $474.3 million (৳556.56 crore)
Major manufacturers
* Bangabandhu Aeronautical Centre
* Bangladesh Machine Tools Factory
* Bangladesh Ordnance Factories
* Chittagong Dry Dock Limited
* Dockyard and Engineering Works Limited
* Khulna Shipyard | WIKI |
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36 all wrapped up in bandages, nothing but her eyes and nose to be seen; she was looking at the ceiling. I said: 'Good-evening, Marya Semyonovna!' She did not speak. And Vasya was sitting in the next room, his head in his hands, crying and saying: 'Brute that I am! I've ruined my life! O God, let me die!' I sat for half an hour by Mashenka and gave her a good talking-to. I tried to frighten. her a bit. 'The righteous,' said I, 'after this life go to Paradise, but you will go to a Gehenna of fire, like all adulteresses. Don't strive against your husband, go and lay yourself at his feet.' But never a word from her; she didn't so much as blink an eyelid, for all the world as though I were talking to a post. The next day Vasya fell ill with something like cholera, and in the evening I heard that he was dead. Well, so they buried him, and Mashenka did not go to the funeral; she didn't care to show her shameless face and her bruises. And soon there began to be talk all over the district that Vasya had not died a natural death, that Mashenka had made away with him. It got to the ears of the police; they had Vasya dug up and cut open, and in his stomach they found arsenic. It was clear he had been poisoned; the police came and took Mashenka away, and with her the innocent Kuzka. They were put in prison The woman had gone too far—God punished her Eight months later they tried her. She sat, I remember, on a low stool, with a little white kerchief on her head, wearing a grey gown, and she was so thin, so pale, so sharp-eyed it made one sad to look at her. Behind her stood a soldier with a | WIKI |
Razia (name)
Razia, Raziya or Razieh (Persian: رَضِيَه ) is a Persian feminine given name and an occasional surname which is Persianized and derived from the feminine form of the Arabic: "Radhiyyah", meaning "content, contented, pleased, satisfied". It may refer to the following people:
* Given name
* Razia Rahimtoola (1919–1988), Pakistani pediatrician
* Razia Butt (1924–2012), Urdu novelist and playwright from Pakistan
* Razia Matin Chowdhury (1925–2012), Bangladeshi politician
* Razia Banu (1926–1998), Bangladeshi politician
* Razia Khan (1936–2011), Bangladeshi novelist
* Syeda Razia Faiz (1936–2013), Bangladeshi politician
* Razia Bhatti (1944–1996), Pakistani journalist
* Razia (singer) (born 1959), singer-songwriter from Madagascar
* Razia Iqbal (born 1962), BBC news journalist
* Ummey Razia Kajol (born 1966), Bangladeshi politician
* Razia Barakzai (born 1995), Afghan women's rights activist
* Razia Jan, Afghan humanitarian
* Razia Sultana, multiple people
* Surname
* Luiz Razia (born 1989), Brazilian racing driver | WIKI |
1.21.2009
NCP Nursing Diagnosis: Ineffective Therapeutic Regimen Management
Nursing Diagnosis: Ineffective Therapeutic Regimen Management
NOC Outcomes (Nursing Outcomes Classification)
Suggested NOC Labels
* Compliance Behavior
* Knowledge: Treatment Regimen
NIC Interventions (Nursing Interventions Classification)
Suggested NIC Labels
* Self-Modification Assistance
* Teaching: Individual
NANDA Definition: Pattern of regulating and integrating into daily living a program for treatment of illness and the sequelae of illness that is unsatisfactory for meeting specific health goals
With the ongoing changes in health care, patients are being expected to be comanagers of their care. They are being discharged from hospitals earlier, and are faced with increasing complex therapeutic regimens to be handled in the home environment. Likewise, patients with chronic illness often have limited access to health care providers and are expected to assume responsibility for managing the nuances of their disease (e.g., heart failure patients taking an extra furosemide [Lasix] tablet for a 2-pound weight gain).
Patients with sensory-perception deficits, altered cognition, financial limitations, and those lacking support systems may find themselves overwhelmed and unable to follow the treatment plan. Elderly patients, who often experience most of the above problems, are especially at high risk for ineffective management of the therapeutic plan. Other vulnerable populations include patients living in adverse social conditions (e.g., poverty, unemployment, little education); patients with emotional problems (e.g., depression over the illness being treated or other life crises or problems); and patients with substance abuse problems. Culture, ethnicity, and religion may influence one’s health beliefs, health practices (e.g., folk medicine, alternative therapies), access to health services, and assertiveness in pursuing specific health care services.
* Defining Characteristics: Choices of daily living ineffective for meeting the goals of treatment or prescription program
* Increased illness
* Verbalized desire to manage illness
* Verbalized difficulty with prescribed regimen
* Verbalization by patient that he or she did not follow prescribed regimen
* Related Factors: Complexity of health care
* Complexity of therapeutic regimen
* Decisional conflicts
* Economic difficulties
* Excessive demands made on individual or family
* Family conflict
* Family patterns of health care
* Inadequate number and types of cues to action
* Knowledge deficit of prescribed regimen
* Perceived seriousness
* Perceived susceptibility
* Perceived barriers
* Social support deficits
* Perceived powerlessness
* Expected Outcomes Patient describes intention to follow prescribed regimen.
* Patient describes or demonstrates required competencies.
* Patient identifies appropriate resources.
Ongoing Assessment
* Assess prior efforts to follow regimen.
* Assess for related factors that may negatively affect success with following regimen. Knowledge of causative factors provides direction for subsequent intervention. This may range from financial constraints to physical limitations.
* Assess patient’s individual perceptions of his or her health problems. According to the Health Belief Model, patient’s perceived susceptibility to and perceived seriousness and threat of disease affect his or her compliance with the program. In addition, factors such as cultural phenomena and heritage can affect how people view their health.
* Assess patient’s confidence in his or her ability to perform desired behavior. According to the self-efficacy theory, positive conviction that one can successfully execute a behavior is correlated with performance and successful outcome.
* Assess patient’s ability to learn or remember the desired health-related activity. Cognitive impairments need to be identified so an appropriate alternative plan can be devised. For example, the Mini-Mental Status Examination can be used to identify memory problems that could interfere with accurate pill taking. Once identified, alternative actions such as using egg cartons to dispense medications, or daily phone reminders, can be instituted.
* Assess patient’s ability to perform the desired activity. Patients with limited financial resources may be unable to purchase special diet foods such as those low in fat or low in salt. Patients with arthritis may be unable to open child-proof pill containers.
Therapeutic Interventions
* Include patient in planning the treatment regimen. Patients who become comanagers of their care have a greater stake in achieving a positive outcome. They know best their personal and environmental barriers to success.
* Tailor the therapy to patient’s lifestyle (e.g., taking diuretics at dinner if working during the day).
* Inform patient of the benefits of adherence to prescribed regimen. Increased knowledge fosters compliance.
* Simplify the regimen. Suggest long-acting forms of medications and eliminate unnecessary medication. The greater the number of times during the day that patients need to take medications, the greater the risk of not following through. Polypharmacy is a significant problem with elderly patients. Attempt to reduce nonessential drug usage.
* Eliminate unnecessary clinic visits. The physical demands of traveling to an appointment, the financial costs incurred (loss of day’s work, child care), the negative feelings of being "talked down to" by health care providers not fluent in patient’s language, as well as the commonly long waits can cause patients to avoid follow-ups when they are required. Telephone follow-up may be substituted as appropriate.
* Develop a system for patient to monitor his or her own progress.
* Develop with patient a system of rewards that follow successful follow-through. Rewards may consist of verbal praise, monetary rewards, special privileges (e.g., earlier office appointment, free parking), or telephone calls.
* Concentrate on the behaviors that will make the greatest contribution to the therapeutic effect.
* If negative side effects of prescribed treatment are a problem, explain that many side effects can be controlled or eliminated. Nonadherence because of medication side effects is a commonly reported problem. Health care providers need to determine actual etiological factors for side effects, and possible interplay with over-the-counter medications. Patients likewise report fatigue or muscle cramps with exercise. The exercise prescription may need to be revised.
* If patient lacks adequate support in following prescribed treatment plan, initiate referral to a support group (e.g., American Association of Retired Persons [AARP], American Diabetes Association, senior groups, weight loss programs, Y Me, smoking cessation clinics, stress management classes, social services). Groups that come together for mutual support and information can be beneficial.
Education/Continuity of Care
* Use a variety of teaching methods. Different people learn in different ways. Match the learning style with the educational approach. For some patients this may require grocery shopping for "healthy foods" with a dietitian, or a home visit by the nurse to review a psychomotor skill.
* Introduce complicated therapy one step at a time. This allows learner to concentrate more completely on one topic at a time.
* Instruct patient on the importance of reordering medications 2 to 3 days before running out. Although many cultures in the United States are future-oriented and are concerned with measures to prevent illness, other cultures are more oriented to the present. This difference in time orientation may need to be addressed.
* Include significant others in explanations and teaching. Encourage their support and assistance in following plans. This may enhance overall adaptation to the program.
* Allow learner to practice new skills; provide immediate feedback on performance. This allows patient to use new information immediately, thus enhancing retention. Immediate feedback allows learner to make corrections rather than practice the skill incorrectly.
* Role-play scenarios when nonadherence to plan may easily occur. Demonstrate appropriate behaviors. Relapse prevention needs to be addressed early in the treatment plan. Helping patient expand his or her repertoire of responses to difficult situations assists in meeting treatment goals.
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Many people are mistaken with the concept of early childhood education. In fact, others interpret it as purely relying on reading books. Whilst this is really important for a child to learn what he has to in life, everyone must remember that much more than being the bookworms that parents want them to be, there is far more that early childhood education can reach.
One of the most integral parts of this educational concept is no less than play. Many of us think that play can be done at home that is why we leave all the reading of books in the classroom. What we fail to recognise is the essence of play in early childhood education –whether at home or in school – because of our obsession for kids to learn what they are supposed to learn. In this page, you will get to know why play is crucial in early childhood education.
Play involves a lot of activities that enhance a child’s imagination and creativity
For that reason alone we will appreciate why play should be incorporated as early as during their childhood education. With play, one can create several masterpieces out of pieces of objects like blocks and clay. Others may use their pen and sketch boards to depict what they see in their surroundings. Play can be a form of expression for kids to send their message. In all of these aspects of play, they use their imagination to turn out things into creative outputs.
It is also a way to develop their social skills
Whilst some kids play at home, it cannot be denied that the activity is limited to their personal social skills, that is, how they communicate with their families. This can be a healthy start for them but once they are in school and they get to rub elbows with other kids, their horizons and perspectives change. The way they mingle with other kids, the way they react to every situation and the way they interact with other people during play will give them an advantage when it comes to developing their social skills. These same skills will be very useful in their lives later on.
It helps children develop and acquire new skills
Skills development is already part of the reasons behind why children are sent to school by parents. We often think that skills are limited to the subjects they learn in school like Math, Science and English. Beyond those areas, however, play can help them develop their skills. Give them building blocks and see how they can form better toys out of these building blocks in a matter of minutes. Hand them straws or ribbons and see how they can change these pieces of materials into works of art within the given span of time by their teachers. Assign roles and see how they play with their characters. These parts of play will give them a good start at life and will make them appreciate their abilities that will later on become their skills.
It makes understanding subject areas a whole lot easier
Children these days get bored with the same activities they see in their books. In fact, if you happen to look at them closely, you might observe that only a few enjoy browsing their books and answering questions there. They find it very hard to do the traditional way of learning. If you incorporate play in their early childhood education, they learn faster. This is because play makes the subject areas more interesting for them.
All in all, early childhood education is very important. Much more than books, play should always be part of your kid’s experience when enrolling in schools at a very young age. | FINEWEB-EDU |
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Create Charts with PHP, MySQL: No JavaScript Knowledge
November 5, 2019
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Ever thought of creating charts with PHP only to find out you need to use JavaScript? I’ve recently taken on a school project to create a system that takes in application from students for some requirement. I can’t really give out a lot of details as it is confidential. Assume it’s a system that stores, retrieves and updates student application forms. The client wants us to include a dashboard that displays the total application forms and its status (approved, rejected, pending).
What I mean by “dashboard” is visualisation of data such as, the use of graphs and charts. With no JavaScript experience, I found it daunting to come up with a way to visualise data stored on my database (mysql) and I spent a few hours digging through Google “how to generate charts with php.” I couldn’t, however, find anything that doesn’t sacrifice aesthetic (and I’m a sucker for everything aesthetic).
So, the obvious choice was ChartJS – an open source JavaScript framework for creating aesthetically pleasing charts. The challenge, which every programmer experienced in their noob days, was making do with an unfamiliar programming language by copying, pasting and hoping it all works out. Of course, it rarely does on the first try. Which is why I’m writing this now – to help you be part of that rare exception.
Say, you have a MySQL database that stores student application forms. Each form has a status of pending, approved or rejected. You want to count the total number of forms with each status (how many forms are approved versus, pending and rejected) and display them in a bar graph. You will need to create the following files:
• database.php
• chart.html
• bar.js
database.php
Next, we code the necessary function to connect to the MySQL database, query the table and output the data extracted from MySQL database into JSON to be used by ChartJS.
<?php
//declare variables for db connection
$servername = "localhost";
$username = "root";
$password = "root";
$dbname = "testdb";
//db connection
$conn = new mysqli($servername, $username, $password, $dbname);
//error handling
if ($conn->connect_error) {
die("Connection failed: " . $conn->connect_error);
}
//sql statement to run
$sql = "SELECT formStatus, COUNT(formStatus) AS total FROM studentForm GROUP BY formStatus;";
//run sql query and store into variable
$result = mysqli_query($conn,$sql);
$data = array();
foreach ($result as $row) {
$data[] = $row;
}
//free memory and close db connection
$result->close();
$conn->close();
// IMPORTANT, output to json
echo json_encode($data);
?>
The database.php file should generate a JSON output before it can be used with ChartJS. Check the output of your php file by opening it on a browser, i.e. http://localhost/database.php getting an output that resembles below.
[{"formStatus":"Pending","total":"3"},
{"formStatus":"Approved","total":"2"},
{"formStatus":"Rejected","total":"1"}]
chart.html
This is where we display the chart. Basically, the placeholder file. Notice in the code below that script tag for calling bar.js is at the bottom (as opposed to the Jquery and Chart.min.js files). We should only load bar.js after we declare the canvas.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head><title>Chart JS Sample</title>
<!-- Must have JQUERY -->
<script src="js/jquery.min.js"></script>
<!-- link to ChartJS cdn OR download latest chartjs.min.js from GitHub -->
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/Chart.js/2.8.0/Chart.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<!-- this DIV will display the chart canvas -->
<div class="chart-container">
<canvas id="bar-chartcanvas"></canvas>
</div>
<!-- javascript to run ChartJS with SQL data (JS to generate chart must come AFTER canvas HTML) -->
<script src="bar.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
bar.js
This is where we code the function to generate the bar chart with ChartJS. I have added inline comments to help you see the only changes you need to make for a straightforward bar chart.
$(document).ready(function () {
showTotalGraph();
});
function showTotalGraph(){{
// This is the database.php file we created earlier, its JSON output will be processed in this function
$.post("database.php",
function (data){
console.log(data);
// Declare the variables for your graph (for X and Y Axis)
var formStatusVar = []; // X Axis Label
var total = []; // Value and Y Axis basis
for (var i in data) {
// formStatus is taken from JSON output (see above)
formStatusVar.push(data[i].formStatus);
total.push(data[i].total);
}
var options = {
legend: {
display: false
},
scales: {
xAxes: [{
display: true
}],
yAxes: [{
ticks: {
beginAtZero: true
}
}]
}
};
var chartdata = {
labels: formStatusVar,
datasets: [
{
label: 'Total',
backgroundColor: '#7B7979',
borderColor: '#46d5f1',
hoverBackgroundColor: '#CCCCCC',
hoverBorderColor: '#666666',
data: total
}
]
};
//This is the div ID (within the HTML content) where you want to display the chart
var graphTarget = $("#totalGraphCanvas");
var barGraph = new Chart(graphTarget, {
type: 'bar',
data: chartdata,
options: options
});
});
}}
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Peter Ross (cricketer)
Peter Ross (born 2 September 1992) is a Scottish cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm fast medium bowler. He made his first class debut for Leeds/Bradford MCC University against Yorkshire on 1 April 2014.
Ross played previously five One day cricket matches for the Scotland national cricket team under-19s team.
In March 2022, Ross was appointed interim head coach of the Scotland women's national cricket team following the resignation of Mark Coles. His appointment was to the end of the 2022 ICC Women's T20 World Cup Qualifier in the United Arab Emirates. | WIKI |
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them to flight. The descent was like one of those contemporaneous Danish invasions, in which the invaders came in light ships, prepared to carry off what they could, and escape when their enemy was too strong. It was not an attack or a siege, as it has been foolishly called; it was a foray. And so successful a foray was it, that the Russians were tempted to repeat it a second, a third, and a fourth time. Lastly, this reign is signalized by the rise and early fortunes of Basil the Macedonian.
Basil was the son of a herdsman of Macedonia. He was carried away as a boy by the Bulgarians, among whom he grew up, living on their wild fare, sharing in their wild sports, becoming as handsome as David and as strong as Samson; fearless and skilled in all the arts which fighting races love. He either escaped, or was allowed to return, or fought his way to freedom, and went to Constantinople, where he entered the service of the emperor's cousin, whom he accompanied to the Peloponnes. There, a Greek matron looked on the comely stripling with eyes of love. She gave him money, horses, and servants, so that from a mere stable-boy young Basil found himself able to maintain a certain appearance at his patron's little court. Perhaps it was then, perhaps later, that he discovered and announced the fact of his royal descent. He was, he said, of the blood of the Arsacidæ, the kings of Parthia. Perhaps he believed in his own descent. There are still, we are told, families in the Greek mountains, which claim hereditary descent from officers of the court of Alex- | WIKI |
Published June 12, 2020
If you are unlucky enough to be diagnosed with osteoporosis, living with it and managing it can be tricky. Unfortunately, it can be a fact of life for many people as they reach their elderly years, but it does exist even in children, teenagers and young adults. Your bone density is at its best at around the age of 30.
Osteoporosis should not be confused with osteoarthritis. Osteoporosis (OP) affects the bones, as opposed to the joints in the case of OA (osteoarthritis). Even more significantly, OA causes a great deal of pain, which is not present with OP unless a bone is fractured or broken.
What is osteoporosis?
Quite simply, it is thinning of the bone structure which causes weakness and extreme fragility in the skeletal make up. It can creep up gradually over a period of a few years or come on suddenly. Whichever way, you always need to be able to cope with it and ensure your safety – thinning bone density is likely to cause accidents involving fractures and breakages very easily.
Sometimes, it is not until you break a bone that osteoporosis is diagnosed, usually by x-ray or a bone density scan. Once you are diagnosed, some changes to lifestyle and diet need to be made for you to manage the condition. Whilst supplements are available to assist in management, it is still best to consider your diet before taking additional aids to help the disease.
The primary concerns
Any loss of bone density will accentuate the potential incidents of bone breakage or fracture. Even the simplest fall, or a knock or bang on a bone, could result in damage to your body, resulting in pain, discomfort and lack of mobility. Repair of any bone damage if you have OP can be lengthy, and sometimes unlikely to repair, significantly, at all. Once a break occurs, the bone is weakened even further, so even the slightest damage is likely to repeat the degradation of the area.
Whilst you can manage osteoporosis, you cannot necessarily prevent it. Your genetic make-up/family history can play a big part in determining whether it is going to happen to you. You can however, discern whether you are likely to succumb to osteoporosis by early bone density scans, which will show the middle term, known as ‘osteopenia’ – a weakness of the bones, but not necessarily indicative of fragility at that stage. This is the point at which you should consider dietary changes and exercise routines that suit your condition, if not before.
Women are more susceptible than men to osteoporosis, particularly after childbirth, and doctors may decide on requesting scans after the age of 50.
What should be included in your diet
A wide range of vitamins and minerals will help strengthen bones, but probably the most well-known and documented aid is Calcium.
In general, calcium is found in dairy products such as milk, yoghurt and cheese. Around 99% of calcium is stored in the bones and teeth in order to promote healthy growth. Calcium absorption decreases with age, which is why the older generation are more susceptible to osteoporosis. Pregnant women may also find their calcium storage depleted, due to the presence of ‘a little one’.
Vegans and lactose intolerant individuals may find this a problem, as dairy is not part of their regime and likewise for some vegetarians who banish dairy from their diets as well. However, there are plenty of non-dairy options from which calcium can be gleaned to suit vegans and other non-dairy consumers. Some suggestions are:
• Soya products such as beans, and soya milk with added calcium
• Tofu
• Fortified bread and cereals
• Nuts
• Leafy greens, such as broccoli, cabbage, kale, turnip greens, watercress and okra (avoid spinach)
• Some fruits and dried fruits such as figs, apricots (preferably dried). Oranges are also a source of calcium.
There are quite a lot of products in supermarkets these days that say ‘Fortified with Calcium’ or similar words. However, care is needed in order not to exceed the recommended allowance, as taking too much calcium can cause stomach problem
Pescatarians fair better, as a calcium supply can be found in fish such as sardines, pilchards and mackerel, where small, soft bones are included when eating, particularly the tinned variety. The ratio of calcium in fish such as these is relatively high.
Essentially, a broad diet that includes some of the above foods, should supply you with enough calcium to keep your bone strength at optimum level.
How much calcium do you need?
The recommended calcium intake varies from babies all the way through to the older age group. Here is a guideline. The maximum dosage of calcium really should never exceed 1500mg, and this amount is in more exceptional circumstances.
Age Daily RNI (Reference Nutrient Intake)
0-12 months (non-breastfed) 525 – 550mg
1-3 years 350 – 375mg
4-6 years 450 – 475mg
7-10 years 550 – 575mg
11-18 years – boys 1000mg
11-18 years – girls 800mg
Adults (19+) years 700mg
Pregnant women 700mg
Breastfeeding women 700mg + 500mg
What about Vitamin D?
Often recommended by health professionals is the addition of Vitamin D, which is a major player when it comes to osteoporosis. Many people lack Vitamin D and never realise it. Foodstuffs such as oily fish, red meat (including liver), egg yolks and some fortified breakfast cereals will give a good supply of this vitamin. In this case, consult your doctor if you feel you need any supplementation. If you are already undergoing treatment for osteoporosis, Vitamin D will certainly be a recommendation from your GP or health professional.
Exercise is important
Whilst you probably here it time and time again with all types of illnesses, exercise is important to benefit your musculoskeletal wellbeing. As recommended by the Royal Osteoporosis Society, if you are suffering from osteoporosis, you need to keep up muscle strength to support your bone structure. Moderate exercise is all that is needed with stretching, walking (brisk), light jogging and other medium impact activities that carry no danger for bone damage.
Keep safe and don’t overdo it.
Written by Bev Walton
Food Writer and Nutritionist, dietician
A chef of over 35 years with experience in all types of cuisine, dietary plans, recipe development, health and nutrition. I have been writing for over 10 years for both magazines, websites and ghostwriting for ebooks, Kindle and fully published books. I have a degree in nutrition and dietetics and work with restaurants and organisations within the healthcare profession. I am also able to take high quality photographs of recipes created. No writing task is too great, and whilst I specialise in the above, I am able to write about any topic you throw at me. Member of the Guild of food writers.
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good time in the morning Rohini finished cooking, served Brahmânanda’s meal, and, herself fasting, closed the door of her sleeping chamber, and lay down—not to sleep, but to think.
Oh! ye students of the Vedas, leave for a while your customary lore and listen to my simple speech. There is a daughter of the gods named Benevolence, and an ogress named Malevolence. These two beings roam about in the human heart, and are constantly at war with each other. As two tigresses fight for a dead cow, or two jackals for the body of a dead man, so do these two for the living man. To-day in that lonely sleeping chamber these two spirits wrangled for Rohini.
Sumati (Benevolence) said: "Is it right to ruin so good a man?" | WIKI |
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Summary -
In this topic, we described about the below sections -
Coding Sheet
1& 2 Columns - Every line of coding in the JCL should start with //.
// are mandatory for every line in the JCL except input cards.
3 - * in third column will indicate that the line is comment.
4-10 - Name field
11 - One space should be existed in between the Name and Operation.
12-15 - Operation
16 - One space should be existed in between the Operation and Operands.
17-71 - Operand
72 - Continuation column
Each line in JCL will be treated as two types.
1. JCL Statement
2. JCL comment
JCL Statement:
JCL statement is an active statement which specifies an action to complete. JCL comment is inactive statement which provides information to understand about the JCL statement.
Each JCL statement can be divided into three parts.
1. Name field
2. Operation
3. Operand
Name Field:
Name field is of length 8 characters. Name field specifies the DD name in DD statement or step name in EXEC statement or Job name in JOB Statement. Allows the combination alphabets, numbers, @, # and $.
First letter should not be number. Starts from 3rd character and continue up to 11 characters. Name field is optional during the concatenation of DD statements. In remaining all situations it is required but not mandatory.
Operation:
Operation field describes about the type of operand. Operation field specifies the operation type like JOB for JOB statement, EXEC for EXEC statement, DD for DD statement and PEND for PROC end.
Operation is of length 4 characters. Starts from 12th character and continue up to 15th character. Operation is mandatory with every name field.
Operation field should be any one of the JOB, EXEC, DD and PEND. The operation field can also code in the operand coding positions if the name field specified.
Operand:
Operand describes the parameters for the operation. Operand starts at 17th column and continue up 72 columns. Operand can end at any column between 17th to 72 columns.
Operand field is mandatory if operation field is specified. If the operand is more than 55 characters, it can be continued in the next line. But need to do two things.
1. Current statement should end with ‘,’ in 72 column.
2. The remaining operand can start from or before 16th column in the next line.
If the remaining operand not started from or before 16th column, then the below error message will be displayed during JSCAN.
“E1 8 DSS10075E CONTINUATION LINE STARTS BEYOND COLUMN 16.”
Example:
Simple JCL to explain different JCL statements.
=COLS> ---+----1---+--2---+--3--+---4---+---5---+--6---+---7--
****** ***************************** Top of Data ***********************
000001 //MTHUSERR JOB (META007),'PAWAN Y',CLASS=A,MSGCLASS=L,MSGLEVEL=(1,1),
000002 // TIME=1440,NOTIFY=&SYSUID
000004 //JOBLIB DD DSN=MTHUSER.MY.LOADLIB,DISP=SHR
000008 //STEP01 EXEC PGM=EXAMPROG
000009 //STEPLIB DD DSN=MTHUSER.TEST.LOADLIB,DISP=SHR
000010 //INPFILE DD DSN=MTHUSER.EXAMPROG.INPUT,DISP=SHR
000011 //OUTFILE DD DSN=MTHUSER.EXAMPROG.OUTPUT,
000012 // DISP=(NEW,CATLG,DELETE),
000013 // UNIT=(SYSDA,20),
000014 // SPACE=(CYL,(50,25)),
000015 // DCB=(RECFM=FB,LRECL=80,BLKSIZE=0,BUFNO=2)
000017 //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*
000018 //SYSUDUMP DD SYSOUT=*
000019 //SYSOUT DD SYSOUT=*
****** **************************** Bottom of Data ********************
Coding Sheet
JCL Comment:
JCL comment is inactive statement which provides information to understand about the JCL statement. Comment used to specify a note about the current or beside statement.
Comment should have a ‘*’ in the third column. Comment text can start in any column of any row but the third column should have ‘*’. Otherwise, JCL tries to treat it as a normal JCL statement and thorow error during the execution.
Note! If the Null indicator (//) alone coded in the Job, then it will treat as End of the JOB.
Example:
Simple JCL to explain different JCL statements.
=COLS> ----+---1---+---2---+---3---+---4---+----5---+---6----+---7--
****** ***************************** Top of Data ***************************
000001 //MTHUSERR JOB (META007),'PAWAN Y',CLASS=A,MSGCLASS=L,MSGLEVEL=(1,1),
000002 // TIME=1440,NOTIFY=&SYSUID
000003 //*
000004 //JOBLIB DD DSN=MTHUSER.MY.LOADLIB,DISP=SHR
000005 //*
000006 //* EXAMPORG RUNNING STEP
000007 //*
000008 //STEP01 EXEC PGM=EXAMPROG
000009 //STEPLIB DD DSN=MTHUSER.TEST.LOADLIB,DISP=SHR
000010 //INPFILE DD DSN=MTHUSER.EXAMPROG.INPUT,DISP=SHR
000011 //OUTFILE DD DSN=MTHUSER.EXAMPROG.OUTPUT,
000012 // DISP=(NEW,CATLG,DELETE),
000013 // UNIT=(SYSDA,20),
000014 // SPACE=(CYL,(50,25)),
000015 // DCB=(RECFM=FB,LRECL=80,BLKSIZE=0,BUFNO=2)
000016 //*
000017 //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*
000018 //SYSUDUMP DD SYSOUT=*
000019 //SYSOUT DD SYSOUT=*
****** **************************** Bottom of Data ************************
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State of Euphoria
State of Euphoria is the fourth studio album by the American heavy metal band Anthrax. It was released on September 19, 1988, through Megaforce/Island Records.
Album information
State of Euphoria was produced by Anthrax and Mark Dodson, with Alex Perialas engineering. Guitarist Scott Ian has been quoted as saying that the band hired Dodson to produce this album because of his work with Judas Priest and Metal Church. The album reached No. 30 on the Billboard 200 chart in late 1988 and was certified Gold by the RIAA on February 8, 1989. The songs "Who Cares Wins", dealing with the plight of the homeless, and "Antisocial" (a cover of the song by the French band Trust) were released as singles with accompanying music videos.
The song "Misery Loves Company" is based on the Stephen King novel Misery, while "Now It's Dark" was inspired by the David Lynch film Blue Velvet, specifically the behavior of the sexually depraved, self-asphyxiating, murderous sociopath Frank Booth, as played by Dennis Hopper. The song "Make Me Laugh" is critical of Jim and Tammy Fae Bakker and televangelism in general, a popular target of thrash metal bands of that period. The song specifically mentioned minutiae such as the air-conditioned doghouse and Christian amusement park. The majority of the album's music was composed by drummer Charlie Benante while lyrics were composed by rhythm guitarist Scott Ian.
The back cover of the album contains a parody picture of the band drawn by Mort Drucker, a caricaturist best known for his artwork in the magazine Mad.
Reception
Critical reception for the album was lukewarm upon its release. The album failed to live up to the expectations, commercial and otherwise, set by the band's previous releases, Spreading the Disease, Among the Living and the I'm the Man EP.
Aside from "Be All, End All" and "Antisocial", most of the songs on State of Euphoria have not appeared on the band's live setlists since the album's accompanying tour in 1988–1989. The only songs from this album that have never been played live at least once are "Schism", "Misery Loves Company" and "13". The members of Anthrax have since spoken about their mixed opinions on State of Euphoria, and drummer Charlie Benante has been quoted as saying that the band feels the album was not finished properly.
Touring and promotion
Anthrax spent nearly a year touring in support of State of Euphoria. Prior to the album's release, the band supported Iron Maiden on their Seventh Tour of a Seventh Tour in Europe, and opened for Ozzy Osbourne on his No Rest for the Wicked tour in the United States from November 1988 to January 1989. The band also opened for Metallica on their Damaged Justice tour.
Anthrax continued touring in 1989, playing six shows in the UK with Living Colour in March, and headlining the Headbangers Ball Tour (with support from Helloween and Exodus) in April–May. Following the Headbangers Ball tour, Anthrax toured Europe with Suicidal Tendencies, King's X and M.O.D., which took place in June–July 1989.
Personnel
* Band members
* Joey Belladonna – lead vocals
* Dan Spitz – lead guitar, backing vocals
* Scott Ian – rhythm guitar, backing vocals
* Frank Bello – bass, backing vocals
* Charlie Benante – drums
* Additional musicians
* Carol Freedman – cello
* Production
* Anthrax and Mark Dodson – production
* Alex Perialas – engineering, associate production
* Bridget Daly, Paul Speck – assistant engineering
* Jon Zazula and Marsha Zazula – executive production
* Don Brautigam, Mort Drucker – artwork
* Gene Ambo – photography | WIKI |
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Rh But the next day it all turned out to be lies, and off they were marched again. To be short, 'twasn't till the end of April that they came to the river opposite Bordeaux, and were taken in charge by English red-coats, who told them they were free men. On the 28th of that month Abe and Billy, with forty others, were put on board a sloop and dropped down the river to the Dartmouth frigate, from which they were drafted on to the Lord Wellington, and again on to the Suffolk transport. And on May 4 the Suffolk, with six other transports, having about fifteen hundred released prisoners on board, weighed anchor under convoy for Plymouth before a fine breeze, S.E. by S.
On Monday, May 9, at half-past two in the afternoon—the wind still steady in the same quarter, and blowing fresh—the Suffolk sighted land, making out St. Michael's Mount; and fetching up to Mousehole Island, the captain hailed a mackerel boat to come alongside and take ashore some officers with despatches.
Abe Cummins and Billy Bosistow were both on deck, you may be sure, watching the boat as the fishermen brought her alongside. Not a word had been said between them on the matter that lay closest to their minds, but while they waited Billy fetched a look at the boat and another at Abe. "The best man wins," he said to himself, and edged away towards the ladder.
The breeze, as I said, was a fresh one, with a sea | WIKI |
How to get cookies working in IE6 stand alone(edit)
IE is the biggest player in the browser land, and as much as I hate to do so, I have to test everything in IE. Now since IE7 is picking up ground, testing is done in both IE6 and IE7.
So, I upgraded to IE7, and downloaded and use a stand alone version IE6. The problem was cookies don't work in IE6 as a stand alone.
Here's the fix.
After a reasonable amount of hunting around Google, I came across an article on Position Is Everything explaining how to enable cookies in IE6, how to identify IE4, 5, 6 and 7 in the title bar, and importantly, how to enable conditional comments (i.e. if you're using CC for browser fixes).
Here's the full article on fixing stand alone IE.
In summary - to get the cookies working in IE stand alone:
1. Download Wininet.dll (version 5.0.2614.3400)
2. Drop it in to the stand alone IE directory
That's it, restart the stand alone browser, and cookies should work again.
All credit to Manfred Staudinger who wrote the 'Taming Your Multiple IE Standalones' article.
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Talk:List of Student Housing at Florida State University
Proposed deletion of List of Student Housing at Florida State University
* The List of Student Housing at Florida State University is a more comprehensive and organized presentation of information in the article Florida State University student housing, which also has the Category:Lists of university and college buildings in the United States attached. Additionally, the list of Former Housing is not a directory. Perhaps these two articles should be merged?
* Mgrē@sŏn ( Talk ) 12:48, 23 June 2023 (UTC)
* A redirect to Florida State University student housing is fine by me. Fram (talk) 07:01, 26 June 2023 (UTC)
* Are you suggesting that the contents of this list be replaced with a redirect to the current article Florida State University student housing? Mgrē@sŏn ( Talk ) 03:35, 28 June 2023 (UTC)
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/* $OpenBSD: cmode.c,v 1.16 2015/09/26 21:51:58 jasper Exp $ */ /* * This file is in the public domain. * * Author: Kjell Wooding */ /* * Implement an non-irritating KNF-compliant mode for editing * C code. */ #include #include #include #include #include "def.h" #include "funmap.h" #include "kbd.h" /* Pull in from modes.c */ extern int changemode(int, int, char *); static int cc_strip_trailp = TRUE; /* Delete Trailing space? */ static int cc_basic_indent = 8; /* Basic Indent multiple */ static int cc_cont_indent = 4; /* Continued line indent */ static int cc_colon_indent = -8; /* Label / case indent */ static int getmatch(int, int); static int getindent(const struct line *, int *); static int in_whitespace(struct line *, int); static int findcolpos(const struct buffer *, const struct line *, int); static struct line *findnonblank(struct line *); static int isnonblank(const struct line *, int); void cmode_init(void); int cc_comment(int, int); /* Keymaps */ static PF cmode_cCP[] = { compile, /* C-c P */ }; static PF cmode_cc[] = { NULL, /* ^C */ rescan, /* ^D */ rescan, /* ^E */ rescan, /* ^F */ rescan, /* ^G */ rescan, /* ^H */ cc_tab, /* ^I */ rescan, /* ^J */ rescan, /* ^K */ rescan, /* ^L */ cc_lfindent, /* ^M */ }; static PF cmode_spec[] = { cc_char, /* : */ }; static struct KEYMAPE (1) cmode_cmap = { 1, 1, rescan, { { 'P', 'P', cmode_cCP, NULL } } }; static struct KEYMAPE (3) cmodemap = { 3, 3, rescan, { { CCHR('C'), CCHR('M'), cmode_cc, (KEYMAP *) &cmode_cmap }, { ':', ':', cmode_spec, NULL }, } }; /* Funtion, Mode hooks */ void cmode_init(void) { funmap_add(cmode, "c-mode"); funmap_add(cc_char, "c-handle-special-char"); funmap_add(cc_tab, "c-tab-or-indent"); funmap_add(cc_indent, "c-indent"); funmap_add(cc_lfindent, "c-indent-and-newline"); maps_add((KEYMAP *)&cmodemap, "c"); } /* * Enable/toggle c-mode */ int cmode(int f, int n) { return(changemode(f, n, "c")); } /* * Handle special C character - selfinsert then indent. */ int cc_char(int f, int n) { if (n < 0) return (FALSE); if (selfinsert(FFRAND, n) == FALSE) return (FALSE); return (cc_indent(FFRAND, n)); } /* * If we are in the whitespace at the beginning of the line, * simply act as a regular tab. If we are not, indent * current line according to whitespace rules. */ int cc_tab(int f, int n) { int inwhitep = FALSE; /* In leading whitespace? */ inwhitep = in_whitespace(curwp->w_dotp, llength(curwp->w_dotp)); /* If empty line, or in whitespace */ if (llength(curwp->w_dotp) == 0 || inwhitep) return (selfinsert(f, n)); return (cc_indent(FFRAND, 1)); } /* * Attempt to indent current line according to KNF rules. */ int cc_indent(int f, int n) { int pi, mi; /* Previous indents (mi is ignored) */ int ci; /* current indent */ struct line *lp; int ret; if (n < 0) return (FALSE); undo_boundary_enable(FFRAND, 0); if (cc_strip_trailp) deltrailwhite(FFRAND, 1); /* * Search backwards for a non-blank, non-preprocessor, * non-comment line */ lp = findnonblank(curwp->w_dotp); pi = getindent(lp, &mi); /* Strip leading space on current line */ delleadwhite(FFRAND, 1); /* current indent is computed only to current position */ (void)getindent(curwp->w_dotp, &ci); if (pi + ci < 0) ret = indent(FFOTHARG, 0); else ret = indent(FFOTHARG, pi + ci); undo_boundary_enable(FFRAND, 1); return (ret); } /* * Indent-and-newline (technically, newline then indent) */ int cc_lfindent(int f, int n) { if (n < 0) return (FALSE); if (enewline(FFRAND, 1) == FALSE) return (FALSE); return (cc_indent(FFRAND, n)); } /* * Get the level of indention after line lp is processed * Note getindent has two returns: * curi = value if indenting current line. * return value = value affecting subsequent lines. */ static int getindent(const struct line *lp, int *curi) { int lo, co; /* leading space, current offset*/ int nicol = 0; /* position count */ int c = '\0'; /* current char */ int newind = 0; /* new index value */ int stringp = FALSE; /* in string? */ int escp = FALSE; /* Escape char? */ int lastc = '\0'; /* Last matched string delimeter */ int nparen = 0; /* paren count */ int obrace = 0; /* open brace count */ int cbrace = 0; /* close brace count */ int firstnwsp = FALSE; /* First nonspace encountered? */ int colonp = FALSE; /* Did we see a colon? */ int questionp = FALSE; /* Did we see a question mark? */ int slashp = FALSE; /* Slash? */ int astp = FALSE; /* Asterisk? */ int cpos = -1; /* comment position */ int cppp = FALSE; /* Preprocessor command? */ *curi = 0; /* Compute leading space */ for (lo = 0; lo < llength(lp); lo++) { if (!isspace(c = lgetc(lp, lo))) break; if (c == '\t' #ifdef NOTAB && !(curbp->b_flag & BFNOTAB) #endif /* NOTAB */ ) { nicol |= 0x07; } nicol++; } /* If last line was blank, choose 0 */ if (lo == llength(lp)) nicol = 0; newind = 0; /* Compute modifiers */ for (co = lo; co < llength(lp); co++) { c = lgetc(lp, co); /* We have a non-whitespace char */ if (!firstnwsp && !isspace(c)) { if (c == '#') cppp = TRUE; firstnwsp = TRUE; } if (c == '\\') escp = !escp; else if (stringp) { if (!escp && (c == '"' || c == '\'')) { /* unescaped string char */ if (getmatch(c, lastc)) stringp = FALSE; } } else if (c == '"' || c == '\'') { stringp = TRUE; lastc = c; } else if (c == '(') { nparen++; } else if (c == ')') { nparen--; } else if (c == '{') { obrace++; firstnwsp = FALSE; } else if (c == '}') { cbrace++; } else if (c == '?') { questionp = TRUE; } else if (c == ':') { /* ignore (foo ? bar : baz) construct */ if (!questionp) colonp = TRUE; } else if (c == '/') { /* first nonwhitespace? -> indent */ if (firstnwsp) { /* If previous char asterisk -> close */ if (astp) cpos = -1; else slashp = TRUE; } } else if (c == '*') { /* If previous char slash -> open */ if (slashp) cpos = co; else astp = TRUE; } else if (firstnwsp) { firstnwsp = FALSE; } /* Reset matches that apply to next character only */ if (c != '\\') escp = FALSE; if (c != '*') astp = FALSE; if (c != '/') slashp = FALSE; } /* * If not terminated with a semicolon, and brace or paren open. * we continue */ if (colonp) { *curi += cc_colon_indent; newind -= cc_colon_indent; } *curi -= (cbrace) * cc_basic_indent; newind += obrace * cc_basic_indent; if (nparen < 0) newind -= cc_cont_indent; else if (nparen > 0) newind += cc_cont_indent; *curi += nicol; /* Ignore preprocessor. Otherwise, add current column */ if (cppp) { newind = nicol; *curi = 0; } else { newind += nicol; } if (cpos != -1) newind = findcolpos(curbp, lp, cpos); return (newind); } /* * Given a delimeter and its purported mate, tell us if they * match. */ static int getmatch(int c, int mc) { int match = FALSE; switch (c) { case '"': match = (mc == '"'); break; case '\'': match = (mc == '\''); break; case '(': match = (mc == ')'); break; case '[': match = (mc == ']'); break; case '{': match = (mc == '}'); break; } return (match); } static int in_whitespace(struct line *lp, int len) { int lo; int inwhitep = FALSE; for (lo = 0; lo < len; lo++) { if (!isspace(lgetc(lp, lo))) break; if (lo == len - 1) inwhitep = TRUE; } return (inwhitep); } /* convert a line/offset pair to a column position (for indenting) */ static int findcolpos(const struct buffer *bp, const struct line *lp, int lo) { int col, i, c; char tmp[5]; /* determine column */ col = 0; for (i = 0; i < lo; ++i) { c = lgetc(lp, i); if (c == '\t' #ifdef NOTAB && !(bp->b_flag & BFNOTAB) #endif /* NOTAB */ ) { col |= 0x07; col++; } else if (ISCTRL(c) != FALSE) col += 2; else if (isprint(c)) { col++; } else { col += snprintf(tmp, sizeof(tmp), "\\%o", c); } } return (col); } /* * Find a non-blank line, searching backwards from the supplied line pointer. * For C, nonblank is non-preprocessor, non C++, and accounts * for complete C-style comments. */ static struct line * findnonblank(struct line *lp) { int lo; int nonblankp = FALSE; int commentp = FALSE; int slashp; int astp; int c; while (lback(lp) != curbp->b_headp && (commentp || !nonblankp)) { lp = lback(lp); slashp = FALSE; astp = FALSE; /* Potential nonblank? */ nonblankp = isnonblank(lp, llength(lp)); /* * Search from end, removing complete C-style * comments. If one is found, ignore it and * test for nonblankness from where it starts. */ for (lo = llength(lp) - 1; lo >= 0; lo--) { if (!isspace(c = lgetc(lp, lo))) { if (commentp) { /* find comment "open" */ if (c == '*') astp = TRUE; else if (astp && c == '/') { commentp = FALSE; /* whitespace to here? */ nonblankp = isnonblank(lp, lo); } } else { /* find comment "close" */ if (c == '/') slashp = TRUE; else if (slashp && c == '*') /* found a comment */ commentp = TRUE; } } } } /* Rewound to start of file? */ if (lback(lp) == curbp->b_headp && !nonblankp) return (curbp->b_headp); return (lp); } /* * Given a line, scan forward to 'omax' and determine if we * are all C whitespace. * Note that preprocessor directives and C++-style comments * count as whitespace. C-style comments do not, and must * be handled elsewhere. */ static int isnonblank(const struct line *lp, int omax) { int nonblankp = FALSE; /* Return value */ int slashp = FALSE; /* Encountered slash */ int lo; /* Loop index */ int c; /* char being read */ /* Scan from front for preprocessor, C++ comments */ for (lo = 0; lo < omax; lo++) { if (!isspace(c = lgetc(lp, lo))) { /* Possible nonblank line */ nonblankp = TRUE; /* skip // and # starts */ if (c == '#' || (slashp && c == '/')) { nonblankp = FALSE; break; } else if (!slashp && c == '/') { slashp = TRUE; continue; } } slashp = FALSE; } return (nonblankp); } | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Technology as a force for division — and unification — in politics – TechCrunch
Richard Muirhead
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Richard Muirhead is general partner at OpenOcean Venture Capital. The functions of government outlined in the U.S. Constitution can be broadly broken down into the promotion of unity, justice, peace, defense and welfare. Nearly 230 years later, in an age when software rules the world, these principles remain constant — but the way in which the average citizen experiences and interacts with government and politics has changed immeasurably. Around the world, government services have been increasingly going online. In the U.K., a digital transformation campaign began in 2013, pushing through services that let citizens do things like claim certain welfare benefits, pay taxes and register to vote online. Indeed, the U.K. was ranked at the top of the UN’s E-Government Development Index for 2016. The report found that “countries in all regions are increasingly embracing innovation and utilizing ICTs to deliver services, increase transparency and engage people in decision-making processes.” Despite the U.S. not featuring in the top 10 of the E-Government Development Index, Barack Obama’s presidency has been underpinned by a real push toward the principles of e-government, where information and services are made available online as far as is possible. So the idea of government-as-a-service is nothing new — the idea that we can report issues as minor as potholes or as major as corporate corruption using online tools are familiar to us all. But while the increase in digital government services has acted as a catalyst for people to become more socially responsible and empowered citizens, technology is changing how we act in a political sense — and not necessarily for the better. In terms of the news we see and read, some key things have changed over the years. Whereas printed publications still have editors who dictate what the audience sees, with online news, things are very different. Yes they still have editors, but news websites are pumped full of content that we arrive at in all sorts of ways — through social media, search, via an app — and the increasing personalization of this news means that we tend to see more about the things and people in which we are interested. Whether this has to do with sports, entertainment or politics, algorithms that present us with content are — unwittingly — skewing our compass. Technology is changing how we act in a political sense — and not necessarily for the better. That “echo chambers” exist within many online communities is something that we have suspected for a long time — and now have quantitative evidence of this, too. A study of Facebook users found a high degree of polarization within the social network, with users tending to interact most frequently with the people and narratives they agreed with — creating an echo chamber. Facebook also removed another human element from its platform recently. Staff tasked with curating news stories for the Trending Stories section were replaced by algorithms — and there were some well-publicized teething problems. The story chosen to illustrate why newscaster Megyn Kelly was trending — a fake story, as it turned out — shows that algorithms aren’t necessarily guaranteed to be free of political bias, even if that bias is completely unintentional. Given that so many people now use Facebook as their primary source for news, such political bias can further increase the polarization within the site, with this effect carried through into the real world, too. As Plato said, “those who tell the stories rule society.” With the populist political movements such as the anti-EU “Leave” group in the U.K. and Donald Trump’s camp being increasingly flexible with the truth, outrageous claims are hitting the headlines all the time, and are being used as justification for more and more extreme political views. Politicians from all sides use the web to push their own version of the story, and frequently it is not so important to be seen as honest as it is to be pushing a populist message that fits in with a group’s existing world view — however untrue it might be. And while some sections of the media aim to call out others they suspect of perpetuating lies, this process often descends into mudslinging that makes both sides look bad. Even though we have reached the age of post-truth politics, algorithms can help us redress the balance. In October this year, Google announced that it was introducing a new feature to the Google News service that would highlight articles that had been rigorously fact-checked. Alexa, Amazon’s virtual assistant, was able to fact-check the recent presidential campaign. Sites such as PolitiFact kept tabs on statements made by the candidates, ranking their relative level of truthfulness. But while these features and services are useful, they are unlikely to change the minds of those who have already been exposed to the echo-chamber effect for many years. With discourse becoming increasingly polarized, it becomes ever harder — and less excusable — for citizens to be apathetic toward politics. To go back to Plato, “the price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.” Fortunately for us, it is now becoming easier to become politically active thanks to digital services. Rock the Vote teamed up with theSkimm to create an online voter registration tool, and there are a number of websites that can help you decide which way to vote based on how much you agree with key policies. Tinder’s Swipe the Vote was a particularly interesting — if somewhat gimmicky — innovation. CrowdPac goes one step further, not just matching your values to political parties, but crowdfunded individual causes, as well. But while governments and private enterprises need to continue to push to improve the lives of their citizens through the provision of digital services, we must be wary of the power that technology has over how we act politically. With much content designed to win clicks rather than promote genuine debate, and many platforms accentuating biased opinions, fact-checking algorithms could be our salvation. Whether they can completely counteract the echo-chamber effect, though, remains to be seen. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Appendix D. Synchronizing Templates with Git
Red Hat Satellite 6 enables synchronization of Job Templates, Provisioning Templates, and Partition Table Templates between Satellite Server and a Git repository or a local directory.
Note
Synchronizing templates between Satellite Server and a Git repository or a local directory is a Technology Preview feature. Technology Preview features are not fully supported under Red Hat Subscription Service Level Agreements (SLAs), may not be functionally complete, and are not intended for production use. However, these features provide early access to upcoming product innovations, enabling customers to test functionality and provide feedback during the development process.
This section details the workflow for:
• installing and configuring the TemplateSync plug-in
• performing exporting and importing tasks
D.1. Enabling the TemplateSync plug-in
1. To enable the plug-in on your Satellite Server:
# satellite-installer --enable-foreman-plugin-templates
2. To verify that the plug-in is installed correctly, ensure Administer > Settings includes the TemplateSync menu.
D.2. Configuring the TemplateSync plug-in
Navigate to Administer > Settings > TemplateSync to configure the plug-in. The following table explains the attributes behavior. Note that some attributes are only used on importing or exporting tasks.
Table D.1. Synchronizing Templates Plug-in configuration
ParameterAPI parameter nameMeaning on importingMeaning on exporting
Associate
associate
Accepted values: always, new, never
Associates templates with OS, Organization, and Location based on metadata.
N/A
Branch
branch
Specifies the default branch in Git repository to read from.
Specifies the default branch in Git repository to write to.
Dirname
dirname
Specifies the subdirectory under the repository to read from.
Specifies the subdirectory under the repository to write to.
Filter
filter
Imports only templates with names that match this regular expression.
Exports only templates with names that match this regular expression.
Force import
force
Imported templates overwrite locked templates with the same name.
N/A
Metadata export mode
metadata_export_mode
Accepted values: refresh, keep, remove
N/A
Defines how metadata is handled when exporting:
• Refresh — remove existing metadata from the template content and generate new metadata based on current assignments and attributes.
• Keep — retain the existing metadata.
• Remove — export template without metadata. Useful if you want to add metadata manually.
Negate
negate
Accepted values: true, false
Imports templates ignoring the filter attribute.
Exports templates ignoring the filter attribute.
Prefix
prefix
Adds specified string to the beginning of the template if the template name does not start with the prefix already.
N/A
Repo
repo
Defines the path to the repository to synchronize from.
Defines the path to a repository to export to.
Verbosity
verbose
Accepted values: true, false
Enables writing verbose messages to the logs for this action.
N/A
D.3. Importing and Exporting Templates
Importing and exporting tasks are available through a series of API calls. API calls use the role-based access control system, which enables the tasks to be executed as any user. The TemplateSync plug-in allows synchronizing with a Git repository or a local directory.
Prerequisites
For imported templates to appear in the Satellite web UI, each template must contain the location and organization that the template belongs to. This applies to all template types. Before you import a template, ensure that you add the following section to the template:
<%#
kind: provision
name: My Kickstart File
oses:
- RedHat 7
- RedHat 6
locations:
- First Location
- Second Location
organizations:
- Default Organization
- Extra Organization
%>
You can also import and export templates using Hammer. For more information, see Provisioning Templates in the Hammer Cli Guide.
D.3.1. Synchronizing Templates with a Git repository
1. Configure a Git server that uses SSH authorization, for example gitosis, gitolite, or git daemon.
2. Configure the TemplateSync plug-in settings on a TemplateSync tab.
1. Change the Branch setting to match the target branch on a Git server.
2. Change the Repo setting to match the Git repository. For example, for the repository located in git@git.example.com/templates.git set the setting into ssh://git@git.example.com/templates.git.
3. Accept Git SSH host key as the foreman user:
# sudo -u foreman ssh git.example.com
You can see the Permission denied, please try again. message in the output, which is expected, because the SSH connection cannot succeed yet.
4. Create an SSH key pair if you do not already have it. Do not specify any passphrase.
# sudo -u foreman ssh-keygen
5. Configure your Git server with the public key from your Satellite, which resides in /usr/share/foreman/.ssh/id_rsa.pub.
6. Export templates from your Satellite Server to the Git repository specified in the TemplateSync menu:
$ curl -H "Accept:application/json,version=2" \
-H "Content-Type:application/json" \
-u login:password \
-k https://satellite.example.com/api/v2/templates/export \
-X POST
{"message":"Success"}
7. Import templates to Satellite Server after their content was changed:
$ curl -H "Accept:application/json,version=2" \
-H "Content-Type:application/json" \
-u login:password \
-k https://satellite.example.com/api/v2/templates/import \
-X POST
{“message”:”Success”}
Note that templates provided by Satellite are locked and you cannot import them by default. To overwrite this behavior, change the Force import setting in the TemplateSync menu to yes or add the force parameter -d '{ "force": "true" }’ to the import command.
D.3.2. Synchronizing templates with a local directory
Synchronizing templates with a local directory is useful if you have configured any revision control system repository in the local directory. That way, you can edit templates and track the history of edits in the directory. You can also synchronize changes to Satellite Server after editing the templates.
1. Create the directory where templates are stored and apply appropriate permissions and SELinux context:
# mkdir -p /usr/share/templates_dir/
# chown foreman /usr/share/templates_dir/
# chcon -t httpd_sys_rw_content_t /usr/share/templates_dir/ -R
2. Change the Repo setting on the TemplateSync tab to match the export directory /usr/share/templates_dir/.
3. Export templates from your Satellite Server to a local directory:
$ curl -H "Accept:application/json,version=2" \
-H "Content-Type:application/json" \
-u login:password \
-k https://satellite.example.com/api/v2/templates/export \
-X POST \
{"message":"Success"}
4. Import templates to Satellite Server after their content was changed:
$ curl -H "Accept:application/json,version=2" \
-H "Content-Type:application/json" \
-u login:password \
-k https://satellite.example.com/api/v2/templates/import \
-X POST
{“message”:”Success”}
Note that templates provided by Satellite are locked and you cannot import them by default. To overwrite this behavior, change the Force import setting in the TemplateSync menu to yes or add the force parameter -d '{ "force": "true" }’ to the import command.
Note
You can override default API settings by specifying them in the request with the -d parameter. The following example exports templates to the git.example.com/templates repository:
$ curl -H "Accept:application/json,version=2" \
-H "Content-Type:application/json" \
-u login:password \
-k https://satellite.example.com/api/v2/templates/export \
-X POST \
-d "{\"repo\":\"git.example.com/templates\"}"
D.4. Advanced Git Configuration
You can perform additional Git configuration for the TemplateSync plug-in using the command line or editing the .gitconfig file.
Accepting a self-signed Git certificate
If you are using a self-signed certificate authentification on your Git server, validate the certificate with the git config http.sslCAPath command.
For example, the following command verifies a self-signed certificate stored in /cert/cert.pem:
# sudo -u foreman git config --global http.sslCAPath cert/cert.pem
For a complete list of advanced options, see the git-config manual page.
D.5. Uninstalling the plug-in
To avoid errors after uninstallation:
1. Disable the plug-in using the Satellite installer:
# satellite-installer --no-enable-foreman-plugin-templates
2. Clean custom data of the plug-in. The command does not affect any templates that you created.
# foreman-rake templates:cleanup
3. Uninstall the plug-in:
# yum remove tfm-rubygem-foreman_templates | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
OK, let’s say you’ve decided to live a healthier life. You’re exercising regularly, stopped getting drunk every night, and you’re eating healthy. You’ve been eating more salads, almost cut out red meat, and even eating annoyingly healthy desserts, if any.
SNMP Salad
It’s been a whole week of this torture, and it’s time to get on that scale. How would you feel when you stepped on the scale and you’ve gained 7 lbs? “What the #*$& !?!?! How can this be?? This doesn’t make sense. Even my pants are feeling looser…? What’s going on? ”
Looks like when you replaced the battery in your scale, the calibration changed.
Did you know that something as simple as Cisco router re-initialization (reboot, reload and so on) or with the insertion of a new card, the SNMP instances can change resulting in completely erroneous SNMP reports? It can happen regardless of which SNMP monitoring application you use.
For this reason Cisco has included the ifIndex Persistence Feature starting in IOS version 12.x.
In taking excerpts from the ifIndex Persistence Feature link above, I’ll outline the problem as it relates to SNMP.
Problem before the ifIndex Persistence Feature
Consider a situation where a simple monitoring software (like MRTG) is polling the interface statistics of the router specific serial interface going to the Internet. As an example, you could have these conditions prior to re-initialization:
SNMP Instances before adding a card
Therefore, the management application is polling the ifIndex 3, which corresponds to the serial port.
After the router re-initialization (reboot, reload and so on) the conditions change to something similar to this:
SNMP Instances after adding a card
The management application continues polling the ifIndex 3, which corresponds now to the Ethernet port. Therefore, if the management application is not warned by a trap, for example, the router has been rebooted, the statistics polled could be completely wrong. The chart is a little dated because nobody uses token ring anymore, but this still happens with newer gig interfaces too.
The ifIndex Persistence overview
Cisco IOS Release adds support for an ifIndex value that can persist across reboots. The Interface Index Persistence feature allows for greater accuracy when it collects and processes network management data by uniquely identifying input and output interfaces for traffic flows and SNMP statistics. As it relates each interface to a known entity (such as an ISP customer), the Interface Index Persistence feature allows network management data to be more effectively utilized. IfIndex persistence means that the mapping between the ifDescr (or ifName) object values and the ifIndex object values generated from the IF-MIB is retained across reboots.
This feature is particularly useful for:
Configuration
IfIndex persistence is disabled by default. To globally enable ifIndex values that are maintained across reboots, use the following command in global configuration mode:
Router(config)# snmp-server ifindex persist
For more details on the configuration, refer to Cisco’s SNMP ifIndex Persistance Configuration documentation.
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Steve
Stephen joined Plixer in 2011. Steve’s efforts over the years have helped many customer gain better Visibility and Network Analytics. With more than 5 years of successful technology consultation, Steve has become a thought leader, focusing on how Scrutinizer can be part of a system incorporating other solutions such as Gigamon, Statseeker, Uptime, InfoBlox and Splunk. Firm believer that most organizations will have a larger SDN implementation and greater leveraging the Cloud in the next few years. Steve resides in Scarborough, ME with his wife and two sons.
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Grandmas and Grandpas Are a Kid’s Natural Allies in These Books
Children’s Books Needless to say, small children won’t be reading this review. It is aimed squarely at the grown-ups who buy picture books, borrow them, give them as gifts and read them aloud to children. Of all these transactions — buying, borrowing, giving and reading aloud — the one that really counts is the last. Reading a book to a small child can create a connection of exquisite intimacy, with the book itself as a vital point of contact. The quality of such a book is inextricably linked to the quality of that interaction. Such thoughts are stirred by these four new picture books featuring a loving relationship between a child and a grandparent. Leafing through each of these books, one tends to step outside the story and imagine it being read by grandparent to child. The fact that the two parties in this imagined scenario are in the earliest and latest chapters of their lives lends each book more than the usual measure of emotion. I REALLY WANT TO SEE YOU, GRANDMA (Chronicle, 40 pp., $18.99; ages 3 to 6), written and illustrated by Taro Gomi, was first published in Japan in 1979. Here it is, almost 40 years later, with its spare text translated into English. It hasn’t aged a bit. The book tells the simple story of an old woman and her granddaughter, who set off at the same time to visit each other across a broad valley. Using several modes of transportation, they twice miss each other en route but finally meet halfway for a happy picnic under a tree. The humor of this trifling anecdote is uncannily pitched to 3- to 6-year-olds, and Gomi’s witty one-dimensional illustrations drolly complement his storytelling. A mom, a grandpa, a cabby, a cat, a rampant goat and a face-licking cow expand the lively cast of characters without ever being mentioned in the text. And what fun to see Granny on a motorcycle! The author Minh Le and the illustrator Dan Santat have teamed up for DRAWN TOGETHER (Hyperion, 32 pp., $17.99; ages 4 to 8), another book whose pictures give an extra measure of help telling the story. This time a young Thai-American boy is dropped off to visit his grandfather. The two sit in awkward silence, separated by their gaping age difference and by an impenetrable language barrier (the old man’s dialogue is even scribbled in Thai). Not even a Southeast Asian action video engages the interest of the hapless lad. But when he idly plucks art supplies from his backpack, he and his granddad discover a shared enthusiasm for drawing action figures. At this point Santat’s staid, prosaic images explode into garish, kinetic life as the two create a comic-book epic featuring a ferocious dragon and two embattled heroes modeled on themselves. The heavily symbolic epic, it must be said, makes little sense to this particular grandfather, but it is charged with visual drama. The story ends with the old man and his grandson in each other’s arms, brought together by wordless affection and the power of their shared imagination. This touching lesson in empathy and family love may resonate more with a grown-up reader than a child (no child ever spoke the sentence “my grandfather surprised me by revealing a world beyond words”). Still, the book’s heart is firmly in the right place, and Santat’s illustrations of both the real-life and fantasy worlds of the two main characters are beautifully rendered. Another book also bears the weight of a grown-up message, but this one carries it a bit more gracefully. This is OCEAN MEETS SKY (Simon & Schuster, 48 pp., $17.99; ages 4 to 8), by the Fan Brothers. Sharing the roles of both author and illustrator, these two brothers have taken on the daunting challenge of introducing children to the grave fact of death. The central character in the book is a boy named Finn who lives in a house by the sea. With the gentle device of a verb tense, the authors reveal that Finn’s fisherman grandfather has recently died (he “would have been 90 years old today”). The impact of his absence is suggested by an empty chair in a darkened office. The room is cluttered with the old man’s books, tools and bric-a-brac, objects that fill Finn’s mind with fragmented memories of him. “To honor him,” Finn builds a boat on the beach, using found objects and detritus. Exhausted from his labors, he naps inside his rickety craft and, in a fantastical dream that recalls such books as “Where the Wild Things Are,” he sails it out to sea. From this point on, the book’s lovely, muted illustrations depict a world of melancholy magic. We see a giant golden fish, islands made of books and seashells, a “sea of moon jellies dancing.” Everywhere there are little reminders of Finn’s grandfather, all of them traceable to the objects in that ghostly office. A kind of spirit guide finally appears in the shape of an enormous blue whale, leading Finn through a misty universe of floating and flying memories. Finn’s mother awakens him near the end of the book. As he stands alone on the beach and takes one last look at moon and sky, he appears to contemplate for the very first time the mysteries of life and death. This is moving stuff for a grown-up, though it may be pretty heady fare for a lot of kids. Of these four fine books, the real gem is TINY, PERFECT THINGS (Compendium, 32 pp., $16.95; ages 3 to 7), written by M. H. Clark and illustrated by Madeline Kloepper, whose first name triggers associations with Ludwig Bemelmans, who may well be her stylistic muse. There’s really no story here at all. On the first page we see an old man and his rambunctious granddaughter strolling the sunny sidewalks and leafy yards of a small town. The text begins with a disarmingly simple statement: “Today we keep our eyes open for tiny, perfect things.” Each ensuing sentence has the same deadpan straightforwardness, peppered with a few fun, fractured rhymes. Grandpa and grandchild chronicle everything they find: leaf, snail, apple, crow, spider’s web, bottle cap. The verdant flora in Kloepper’s illustrations teems with hidden insects, birds and neighborhood pets. All of them reappear in a crowded two-page panoply toward the end of the book, setting the stage for a delightful game between old reader and young listener: “How many perfect things can you find?” As night falls, grandfather and grandchild return to the warm, welcoming interior of a clapboard house. Here we meet the girl’s parents. Mom, who is white, hugs her daughter; Dad, who is brown-skinned, serves up supper; Grandpa settles into a comfy chair. The scene sends off several signals that might seem too distinctly politically correct (besides tweaking gender stereotypes the family is racially mixed), but it does so with such unforced sweetness that its familiar sentiments simply warm the heart. You can almost hear the sighs of contentment from a doting grandparent and happy child. An earlier version of this article misspelled the given name of the illustrator for “Tiny, Perfect Things.” She is Madeline Kloepper, not Madeleine. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
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YawPitchRoll Structure
Represents a rotation as a sequence of three ElementaryRotations about a reference set of axes. The orientation and associated set of axes which result from the first elementary rotation are modified by a second elementary rotation, again performed about the original reference set of axes. Likewise, the third elementary rotation is performed about the original reference set of axes to further modify the orientation. This differs from an EulerSequence where the sequence of rotations are performed about the consecutive set of axes which result from the successive elementary rotations.
Namespace: AGI.Foundation.Coordinates
Assembly: AGI.Foundation.Core (in AGI.Foundation.Core.dll) Version: 22.1.413.0 (22.1.413.0)
Syntax
public struct YawPitchRoll : IEquatable<YawPitchRoll>
The YawPitchRoll type exposes the following members.
Constructors
NameDescription
Public methodYawPitchRoll(EulerSequence)
Initializes a YawPitchRoll sequence from the provided EulerSequence.
Public methodYawPitchRoll(AngleAxisRotation, YawPitchRollIndicator)
Initializes a EulerSequence sequence from the provided AngleAxisRotation and sequence.
Public methodYawPitchRoll(Matrix3By3, YawPitchRollIndicator)
Initializes a YawPitchRoll sequence from the provided Matrix3By3 and sequence.
Public methodYawPitchRoll(UnitQuaternion, YawPitchRollIndicator)
Initializes a YawPitchRoll sequence from the provided UnitQuaternion and sequence.
Public methodYawPitchRoll(ElementaryRotation, ElementaryRotation, ElementaryRotation)
Initializes a YawPitchRoll sequence from the provided ElementaryRotation instances.
Public methodYawPitchRoll(Double, Double, Double, YawPitchRollIndicator)
Initializes a YawPitchRoll sequence from the provided angles and sequence.
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Properties
NameDescription
Public propertyFirstRotation
Gets the first rotation.
Public propertySecondRotation
Gets the second rotation.
Public propertySequence
Gets the order of the axes rotations for this instance.
Public propertyThirdRotation
Gets the third rotation.
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Methods
NameDescription
Public methodEquals(Object)
Indicates whether another object is exactly equal to this instance.
(Overrides ValueTypeEquals(Object).)
Public methodEquals(YawPitchRoll)
Indicates whether another instance of this type is exactly equal to this instance.
Public methodEqualsEpsilon
Returns if all of the elements of this quaternion are within epsilon of the same elements of the specified quaternion. That is, in order for the quaternions to be considered equal (and for this function to return ), the absolute value of the difference between each of their elements must be less than or equal to epsilon.
Public methodStatic memberFirstAxis
Determines the first axis indicator from the provided YawPitchRollIndicator.
Public methodGetHashCode
Returns a hash code for this instance, which is suitable for use in hashing algorithms and data structures like a hash table.
(Overrides ValueTypeGetHashCode.)
Public methodGetType
Gets the Type of the current instance.
(Inherited from Object.)
Public methodStatic memberIndicator
Composes a YawPitchRollIndicator from three individual AxisIndicator items.
Public methodInvert
Inverts this instance, yielding a new YawPitchRoll sequence.
Public methodStatic memberSecondAxis
Determines the second axis indicator from the provided YawPitchRollIndicator.
Public methodStatic memberThirdAxis
Determines the third axis indicator from the provided YawPitchRollIndicator.
Public methodToString
Returns the value of this set of YawPitchRoll coordinates in the form "first rotation, second rotation, third rotation"
(Overrides ValueTypeToString.)
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Operators
NameDescription
Public operatorStatic memberEquality
Returns if the two instances are exactly equal.
Public operatorStatic memberInequality
Returns if the two instances are not exactly equal.
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Remarks
To obtain the yaw (heading), pitch (elevation), and roll (bank) orientation of the vehicle body axis relative to a local North-East-Down axes of the vehicle as a series of consecutive elementary rotations, use a 321 EulerSequence.
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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kick Natural Energy Bar
The result was delete. -- RoySmith (talk) 00:10, 16 September 2017 (UTC)
Kick Natural Energy Bar
* – ( View AfD View log Stats )
Given an exceptionally AGF straining and probably unwarranted benefit-of-the-doubt... this is... just obviously promotional garbage and needs to be deleted regardless of whether it is notable. Cheers. Timothy Joseph Wood 21:41, 8 September 2017 (UTC)
* Note: This debate has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 21:45, 8 September 2017 (UTC)
* Delete: No independent sources. ToThAc (talk) 22:57, 8 September 2017 (UTC)
* I guess I should clarify. What I mean is that this is exclusively promotional and would need to be fundamentally rewritten to conform with NOTFORPROMOTION. Timothy Joseph Wood 23:01, 8 September 2017 (UTC)
* Note: This debate has been included in the list of Food and drink-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 00:04, 9 September 2017 (UTC)
* Note: This debate has been included in the list of Health and fitness-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 00:04, 9 September 2017 (UTC)
* Whoever tagged it for deletion does not know ethics of writing and uses insulting language. Article has been discussed before in Speedy deletion and there are independent confirmed sources. Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jasperna (talk • contribs) 00:37, 9 September 2017 (UTC)
* Similar articles without reliable cited sources do exist. For example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A4rabar strictly promotional and from their own website. Compare articles please. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Moderatequite (talk • contribs) 00:44, 9 September 2017 (UTC)
* Read WP:OTHERCRAP, please. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 01:34, 9 September 2017 (UTC)
* Keep: The sources do establish notability. There is no advertisement established. Article is comprised of cited facts. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Moderatequite (talk • contribs) 02:45, 9 September 2017 (UTC) Please see Sockpuppet investigations/Jasperna
* Delete -- 100% promotionalism on a company / product with no indications of notability or significance. The section on "Brand portfolio" contains all of the sub-brands, as in Kick Natural Energy Bar Cranberry. The red links apparently mean that the article's creator plan to add articles on all of them (?) Might as well raze the future walled garden to the ground now. K.e.coffman (talk) 05:54, 9 September 2017 (UTC)
* Keep: I disagree. If there are red links that are bothering anyone from any article, they can be removed. I haven't noticed an extension to further product from this article. The fact that brand exists should remain not the red links, I agree. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jasperna (talk • contribs) 23:08, 9 September 2017 (UTC)
* Keep: Corrections seem to be made. To me doesn't look like a promotional intent if the corrections were made. Check for facts. Any boasting about the product if found to be removed(To the creator) thanks Ravinagr (talk) 03:44, 10 September 2017 (UTC)
* Comment -- I've stricken multiple sock "keep" votes; please see Sockpuppet investigations/Jasperna. K.e.coffman (talk) 20:18, 10 September 2017 (UTC)
* Delete insufficiently notable food product; WP:SPAM article. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 01:23, 11 September 2017 (UTC)
* You... guys... really aren't picking up on these hints are you? T J W talk 01:37, 11 September 2017 (UTC)
* Delete Purely promotional. And, to be sure, the article also fails general notability as the subject lacks significant coverage in reliable sources. I could find no mention of the product in the usual gSearches. Geoff | Who, me? 18:06, 11 September 2017 (UTC)
* Delete. No claims to WP:GNG. Ifnord (talk) 20:36, 13 September 2017 (UTC)
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Is it normal for your stomach to hurt when you cough while pregnant?
As the uterus grows, the ligaments that attach it to the side of the abdomen are stretched. Doctors call this round ligament pain. Sneezing and coughing can put more pressure on the ligament, causing a stabbing pain.
Can coughing hurt the baby while pregnant?
Does coughing during pregnancy harm the baby? Coughing during pregnancy doesn’t harm the baby, as it isn’t a dangerous symptom and the baby doesn’t feel it.
Why does my womb hurt when I cough?
Round ligament pain
It may be sudden and usually only lasts a few seconds. In many cases, round ligament pain appears without warning. Some women notice more pain when they cough or sneeze or when they roll over or change position in bed.
Should I go to the hospital for stomach pain while pregnant?
You should seek medical help or call your doctor if: Moderate to severe stomach pain. Stomach pain is constant and lasts more than two hours. Vaginal bleeding or spotting.
IT IS INTERESTING: Can you tone your stomach after pregnancy?
What are some bad signs during pregnancy?
While some signs may only appear at certain times during your pregnancy, many can occur at any stage, including:
• prolonged or severe vomiting.
• bleeding from your vagina.
• a discharge from your vagina that is unusual, or a lot more than usual.
• have very bad or long-lasting headaches.
• dizziness.
• continuing weight loss.
When should I worry about a cough while pregnant?
When should I go to the doctor about a cough during pregnancy? If you’ve been coughing for more than 10 days or if the cough is severe, then see a doctor. If your cough is accompanied by a green nasal discharge, it could be sinusitis or bronchitis, which will likely need medical treatment.
What helps a severe cough while pregnant?
Medications
1. menthol rub on your chest, temples, and under the nose.
2. nasal strips, which are sticky pads that open congested airways.
3. cough drops or lozenges.
4. acetaminophen (Tylenol) for aches, pains, and fevers.
5. cough suppressant at night.
6. expectorant during the day.
5.08.2016
Why when I cough my lower abdomen hurts?
Experiencing pain when coughing or sneezing, lifting heavy objects, or even when laughing or crying can be a sign of a hernia. Usually this discomfort will be felt in the lower abdominal area. Frequent heartburn, indigestion and regurgitation can be indicators of a hiatal hernia.
Can coughing cause pain in lower abdomen?
Lower abdominal pain when coughing is also one of the common problems many are facing. Nevertheless, not only coughing, even laughing out loud triggers stomachache. The abdomen contains our main organs, including the liver, appendix, pancreas, and intestine. A problem in any can lead to pain.
IT IS INTERESTING: What is the best way to get rid of a cough while pregnant?
Is belly button pain a sign of miscarriage?
Symptoms of miscarriage. When present, common signs of a miscarriage, or that a person is about to miscarry, include: Abdominal cramps. Abdominal pain.
What do miscarriage cramps feel like?
Most miscarriages happen in the first trimester. The first sign is usually vaginal bleeding or cramps that feel a lot like strong menstrual cramps, Carusi said.
Why am I getting sharp pains in my stomach while pregnant?
Harmless stomach pains, which can be dull or sharp, may be caused by: ligament pain (often called “growing pains” as the ligaments stretch to support your growing bump) – this can feel like a sharp cramp on one side of your lower tummy. constipation – which is common in pregnancy (find out how to avoid constipation)
What are five warning signs of a possible problem during pregnancy?
Fever. Abdominal pain. Feels ill. Swelling of fingers, face and legs.
DANGER SIGNS DURING PREGNANCY
• vaginal bleeding.
• convulsions/fits.
• severe headaches with blurred vision.
• fever and too weak to get out of bed.
• severe abdominal pain.
• fast or difficult breathing.
How do I know my baby is healthy in my womb?
The first way to make sure that your pregnancy is healthy is by keeping your blood pressure and blood sugar levels in check. In fact, the decision to get pregnant should be immediately followed by checking your blood pressure and the levels of sugar in your blood. You should follow up on these in all the trimesters.
When should I stop working during pregnancy?
Most women can physically handle their usual workload up until about 32 to 34 weeks of pregnancy. Around this same time, many women are also shifting their mental focus from their job towards being a new mother, and that can affect the decision on when to stop working.
IT IS INTERESTING: Do all pregnant woman's belly buttons pop out?
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62 THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY
cr.n churches in enjoying financial support without collections. Nor do they maintain a system of academies, colleges, and uni- separate from those of the state. On the other hand, wealth is not so great nor so widely diffused as with us, and the habit of waiting for the authorities to act seems to chill private initiative. The effect is seen in the amounts contributed to mis- sions.
The present organization of the Inner Mission. The Central Committee was a part of the original plan of Wichern, and it continues to carry out his ideas. It has an office in Berlin. Its functions are instruction, inspiration, counsel, and assistance, but not legislation. It seldom conducts a benevolent enterprise directly, yet its influence is widely felt. It undertakes some- thing of the work for which our Evangelical Alliance stands, 1 and its history encourages us to hope that a similar agency may some day bring order and efficiency into the chaos of our social services.
Provincial agencies. Traveling agencies are maintained in various districts for the work of strengthening existing efforts, of leading to the organization of new enterprises, and of securing means for institutions. The agents go from church to church, present the needs, interest pastors and congregations, and take collections. Some of the institutions raise money by direct appeals.
Local societies. Charities are often supported by a volun- tary local society of persons who are interested in a particular form of philanthropy. They raise the funds, administer the trust, appoint the officers, and are responsible for finances and methods. The institutions are directly administered by persons who have the confidence of the directors of the society.
The training of ivorkers. German people have great re - spect for special training. They are served by officials in schools, on railroads and elsewhere, who have passed probations and examinations, and who belong to a profession. This idea of expert service is carried into the Inner Mission. The dea-
f See article by DR. JOSIAH STRONG, in American Journal Sociology, Vol. I, No. 2. | WIKI |
Gobind Singh Deo
Gobind Singh Deo s/o Karpal Singh (ਗੋਬਿੰਦ ਸਿੰਘ ਦਿਓ; born 19 June 1973) is a Malaysian politician and lawyer who has served as the Minister of Digital in the Unity Government administration under Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim since December 2023 and the Member of Parliament (MP) for Damansara since November 2022. He served as the Minister of Communications and Multimedia in the PH administration under former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad from May 2018 to the collapse of the PH administration in February 2020 and the MP for Puchong from March 2008 to November 2022. He is a member and National Deputy Chairman of the Democratic Action Party (DAP), a component party of the PH and formerly Pakatan Rakyat (PR) coalitions. Known as the "Little Lion of Puchong", he is the son of the late DAP leader Karpal Singh, who was known as the "Tiger of Jelutong". His brothers Ramkarpal Singh and Jagdeep Singh Deo are also DAP leaders. He also created history by becoming the first ever Sikh Cabinet minister in the Malaysian history.
Early life, education and early career
Gobind Singh was born on 19 June 1973 in Penang, Malaysia.
He received his Bachelor of Laws (LLB) from University of Warwick.
He by profession is a law practitioner and founded his law firm Gobind Singh Deo & Co. based in Damansara, Kuala Lumpur. The firm is operated together with his members lawyers. He was admitted to the Malaysian Bar in 1996, a year after returning from Lincoln's Inn.
Member of Parliament (since 2008)
In the 2008 general election, Gobind Singh made his electoral debut after being nominated by PR to contest for the Puchong federal seat. He won the seat and was elected to the Parliament as the Puchong MP for the first term after defeating Lau Yeng Peng of Barisan Nasional (BN) by a majority of 19,972 votes amid a significant swing and switch of support to the opposition in Selangor.
In the 2013 general election, Gobind Singh was renominated by PR to defend the Puchong seat. He defended the seat and was reelected to the Parliament as the Puchong MLA for the second term after defeating A. Kohillan Pillay of BN y a majority of 32,802 votes.
In the 2018 general election, Gobind Singh was nominated by PH to defend the Puchong seat. He defended the seat and was reelected to the Parliament as the Puchong MLA for the third term after defeating Ang Chin Tat of BN and Mohamad Rosharizan Mohd Rozlan of Gagasan Sejahtera (GS) by a majority of 47,635 votes.
In the 2022 general election, Gobind Singh was renominated by PH to contest for the Damansara federal seat instead of defending the Puchong seat. He won the seat and was reelected to Parliament as the Damansara MP for the first term after defeating Lim Si Ching of Perikatan Nasional (PN) and Tan Gim Tuan of BN by a majority of 124,619 votes.
Minister of Communications and Multimedia (2018–2020)
After PH defeated BN in the 2018 general election and resulted in the first ever transition of power in the Malaysian history, Gobind Singh was appointed as the Minister of Communication and Multimedia on 21 May 2018. He said The Anti-Fake News Act officially gazetted in April will be repealed. Gobind Singh also stated that the proposal to repeal the act would be presented to Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad for swift action.
He lost the position following the collapse of the PH administration in the 2020 political crisis.
National Deputy Chairman of the Democratic Action Party
At the 2022 Democratic Action Party National Congress on 20 March 2022, Gobind Singh was reelected to the Central Executive Committee of DAP by 1,782 votes. He is also the candidate with the highest number of votes. He was then reappointed the National Deputy Chairman.
Minister of Digital (since 2023)
In a cabinet reshuffle on 12 December 2023, Gobind Singh was brought back to the Cabinet after he was appointed as the Minister of Digital, a new ministry formed as a result of a split from the Ministry of Communications and Digital that was led by Minister Fahmi Fadzil. Upon learning the appointment, his brother Ramkarpal resigned from the government as the Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister's Department in charge of Laws and Institutional Reforms to avoid criticisms of nepotism in the case both of them serve in the same government. Gobind also took over the Malaysian Administrative Modernisation and Management Planning Unit (MAMPU) from the Prime Minister's Department. Fahmi added that Malaysian Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC), MYNIC Bhd and the Department of Personal Data Protection would also be under Gobind. Gobind highlighted the need to clarify and fine-tune certain aspects in terms of job scopes that fall under his ministry.
Controversies and issues
In 2009 he was suspended from Parliament for 12 months for calling the Prime Minister, Najib Razak, a "murderer" in a parliamentary debate and insulting the deputy speaker. He later won a legal challenge seeking to be paid his normal remuneration for his period of suspension. | WIKI |
Heel Pain (Plantar Fasciitis)
Conditions
Symptoms
Heel pain is one of the most common foot and ankle conditions people will suffer. Often called plantar fasciitis, people usually suffer pain when they first get up in the morning or after a period of rest, which improves with walking. As the condition progresses, it’s common for pain to start coming on when walking or standing and be a lot worse the next day.
Symptoms usually start building slowly with no immediately identifiable cause and can become quite painful, causing people a lot of concern.
For those whose pain doesn’t follow this pattern, it’s likely they’re suffering from another cause of pain other than plantar fasciitis, such as a bone or fat pad bruising and in rare cases, a tear or stress fracture.
How our services can help with this condition
While the condition is very common, there’s no one best way to treat heel pain.
I help people everyday by creating personalised treatment programs. I do this by performing a thorough assessment to identify whether you’re suffering from plantar fasciitis or another condition, what is causing your pain and what treatment options would be the best for you.
Common treatments can include:
• Taping
• Stretching
• Strength exercises
• Footwear
• Foot orthoses
FAQs
Heel Pain FAQs
The answer is no. While some people may experience a lot of benefit from them, it’s not a treatment that will work for everyone and for those who could benefit from them, it’s not always required to get a good outcome.
As part of all my consults, we’ll discuss all the treatment options available, the pros and cons of each and decide together what’s the best options for you.
l often see people for second opinions and having tried some treatments previously is really helpful to help figure out what works best for you and in some cases help determine whether you’re suffering from heel pain or another condition.
Another consideration is that not all treatments are equal. Foot orthoses can be designed inappropriately, rehabilitation exercises could be inefficient or ineffective for your condition.
This will all be explained to you at your consultation and together we can figure out what’s the next best step for you going forward.
For most people, it’s safe and preferable for them to stay active. As part of your consultation we’ll discuss whether it’s appropriate for you to continue being active and give you guidance on how to adjust what you’re doing to ensure your condition doesn’t get worse. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Docker 20.10 support on SaaS?
As of 2021-01, on SaaS we can use Docker by running up sudo docker-up, but that version is only 19.03.
Can we us Docker 20.10?
$ date
Wed 13 Jan 2021 03:42:37 PM UTC
$ docker version
Client: Docker Engine - Community
Version: 19.03.13
API version: 1.40
Go version: go1.13.15
Git commit: 4484c46d9d
Built: Wed Sep 16 17:02:52 2020
OS/Arch: linux/amd64
Experimental: false
Server: Docker Engine - Community
Engine:
Version: 19.03.13
API version: 1.40 (minimum version 1.12)
Go version: go1.13.15
Git commit: 4484c46d9d
Built: Wed Sep 16 17:01:20 2020
OS/Arch: linux/amd64
Experimental: true
containerd:
Version: 1.3.7
GitCommit: 8fba4e9a7d01810a393d5d25a3621dc101981175
gitpod:
Version: 1.0.0-rc10
GitCommit: dc9208a3303feef5b3839f4323d9beb36df0a9dd
docker-init:
Version: 0.18.0
GitCommit: fec3683
If you want to use only the latest version of Docker CLI (20.10.2 as of 2021-01-13), do as follows:
curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-key fingerprint 0EBFCD88
sudo add-apt-repository "deb [arch=amd64] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu \
$(lsb_release -cs) \
stable"
sudo apt-get install docker-ce-cli
(cf. https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/ubuntu/#install-using-the-repository)
then you will see:
$ docker version
Client: Docker Engine - Community
Version: 20.10.2
API version: 1.40
Go version: go1.13.15
Git commit: 2291f61
Built: Mon Dec 28 16:17:43 2020
OS/Arch: linux/amd64
Context: default
Experimental: true
Server: Docker Engine - Community
Engine:
Version: 19.03.13
API version: 1.40 (minimum version 1.12)
Go version: go1.13.15
Git commit: 4484c46d9d
Built: Wed Sep 16 17:01:20 2020
OS/Arch: linux/amd64
Experimental: true
containerd:
Version: 1.3.7
GitCommit: 8fba4e9a7d01810a393d5d25a3621dc101981175
gitpod:
Version: 1.0.0-rc10
GitCommit: dc9208a3303feef5b3839f4323d9beb36df0a9dd
docker-init:
Version: 0.18.0
GitCommit: fec3683
Hi @tnir :wave:
Indeed, great catch! Many thanks for reporting this.
The instructions that install Docker into Gitpod’s default workspace image are here:
Now, while these instructions would seem to always install the latest available Docker version, our custom Docker build system Dazzle caches every “layer” (i.e. every Dockerfile instruction between LABEL dazzle/layer=tool-docker and the next such LABEL) independently.
So, what likely happened is that Dazzle built this layer when 19.03.13 was the latest available Docker version, and is now keeping that (now outdated) version in cache “forever”.
The solution is to “invalidate” the Dazzle cache for this “layer”, simply by modifying at least one of the Dockerfile instructions in that “layer”.
The way we’ve solved this problem to keep other important tools up-to-date was to either:
1. Add an explicit version string to the Dockerfile instructions (e.g. NODE_VERSION=14.15.4) and then have Autofix automatically send a Pull Request when a newer version is available (with a custom-built updater like upgrade-nvm-tools.js and a cronjob)
2. Or, simply add an unused ENV variable counter (e.g. TRIGGER_BREW_REBUILD=1) that we manually increment every time we want to invalidate & rebuild a given Dazzle layer
In this case, I’d personally go with option 2. and add a ENV TRIGGER_DOCKER_REBUILD=1 into the aforementioned Docker installation instructions, unless you’re interested in teaching Autofix how to determine the latest available Docker version (and e.g. implement a update-docker.js script under autofix/fixers/ that checks https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu).
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@jan Thanks. At this moment, it is enough to use option 2 since we will not have Docker 21.XX in a near future, but there will be a small room to have security vulnerabilities in 20.10.XX after 20.10.2 if there are.
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Thanks @tnir! That makes sense to me (also, I forgot to mention that Autofix aims to only send Pull Requests that can be merged without risk, i.e. it only proposes patch upgrades, or minor upgrades for tools where this is generally safe/inconsequential – it will generally never propose major upgrades).
I’ll implement option 2. to refresh the Docker Dazzle layer, and thus upgrade Docker to latest stable in Gitpod workspaces.
EDIT: Here is the Pull Request: https://github.com/gitpod-io/workspace-images/pull/331
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Twilight anesthesia
Twilight anesthesia is an anesthetic technique where a mild dose of sedation is applied to induce anxiolysis (anxiety relief), hypnosis, and anterograde amnesia (inability to form new memories). The patient is not unconscious, but sedated. During surgery or other medical procedures, the patient is under what is known as a "twilight state", where the patient is relaxed and "sleepy", able to follow simple directions by the doctor, and is responsive. Generally, twilight anesthesia causes the patient to forget the surgery and the time right after. It is used for a variety of surgical procedures and for various reasons. Just like regular anesthesia, twilight anesthesia is designed to help a patient feel more comfortable and to minimize pain associated with the procedure being performed and to allow the medical practitioner to practice without interruptions.
Overview
Twilight anesthesia is also known as twilight sleep and allows an easy awakening and a speedy recovery time for the patient. Anesthesia is used to control pain by using medicines that reversibly block nerve conduction near the site of administration, therefore, generating a loss of sensation at the area administered. Close monitoring by the anesthesia provider will sometimes be provided, to help keep the patient comfortable during a medical procedure, along with other drugs to help relax the body. It can also help control breathing, blood pressure, blood flow, and heart rate and rhythm, when needed.
There are four levels of sedation by anesthesia.
Level one
This level, called minimal sedation, causes anxiolysis, a drug-induced state in which the patient responds normally to verbal commands. Although the cognition and coordination of the patient are impaired, cardiovascular and ventilatory functions remain unaffected.
Level two
This level, called moderate sedation/analgesia or conscious sedation, causes a drug induced depression of consciousness during which the patient responds purposefully to verbal commands, either alone or accompanied with light physical stimulation. Breathing tubes are not required for this type of anesthesia. This is twilight anesthesia.
Level three
This level, called deep sedation/analgesia, causes a drug-induced depression of consciousness during which the patient cannot be easily aroused, but responds purposefully following repeated or painful stimulation. Ventilatory functions may be impaired, so breathing tubes are required. Cardiovascular functions are usually sustained.
Level four
This level, called general anesthesia, causes a drug-induced depression of consciousness during which the patient cannot be aroused even by painful stimulation. Ventilatory function is often impaired and cardiovascular functions may be impaired.
Applications
Several factors are taken into consideration when determining which level of anesthesia is used under which type of medical procedures. Along with the factors determined, different types of anesthesia medications are used depending on the medical procedure being done. While the patient is under conscious sedation by anesthesia, depending on the type and dose administered, they are in a state that is called by some, a "twilight" state.
Drugs and technology used
Some of the same drugs used in general anesthesia are also used for twilight anesthesia, except in smaller doses and in a bolus interval (a concentrated mass of a substance administered intravenously for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes). These drugs can be administered via gases, such as nitrous oxide (laughing gas), or intravenously, with drugs such as ketamine (pediatrics primarily, and infrequently in adults), propofol, and midazolam. Twilight anesthesia alone is not used to provide relief from surgical pain; therefore, it is always given in conjunction with a local or regional anesthetic. Additionally, IV sedation is frequently administered as a concoction of several agents including those previously mentioned for induction and maintenance of anesthesia, as well as a benzodiazepine (usually midazolam, but temazepam or flunitrazepam are also used via the oral route ) and a narcotic/systemic analgesic such as demerol or fentanyl. As discussed in the levels of sedation by anesthesia, assistance with breathing tubes (ETT or LMA) are not generally used for this type of anesthesia.
Effects
A few studies have been geared towards studying the effects of post operative analgesic regimes which measure the quality of recovery period and health-related quality of life. Factors other than degree of analgesia and presence of analgesic agent-related side effects (e.g., fatigue, physical functioning, and mental health) may potentially influence these outcomes. Twilight anesthesia offers a limited recovery period after procedures, and is usually associated with less nausea and vomiting than general anesthesia which makes it a popular choice among doctors who are performing procedures such as minor plastic surgeries.
Uses
Twilight anesthesia is applied to various types of medical procedures and surgeries. It is a popular choice among surgeons and doctors who are performing anything from minor plastic surgeries to dental work, and procedures that do not require extensive operations or long durations in favor of less nausea and a limited recovery period after surgery. Twilight anesthesia is used for surgical uses. • Ambulatory surgical centers
• Cosmetic surgeons
• Dentists
• Dermatologists
• Emergency Physicians
• Endodontists
• ENT surgeons
• General surgeons
• Gastroenterology
• Gynecologists
• MRI centers
• Neurologists
• Neurosurgeons
• Ophthalmologists
• Oral surgeons
• Orthopedic surgeons
• Pediatric dentists
• Periodontists
• Plastic surgeons
• Podiatrists/foot surgeons
• Psychiatrists
• Radiologists
• Rheumatologists
• Urologists | WIKI |
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Elegant way to present a pair of charts
The Bloomberg team has come up with a few goodies lately. I was captivated by the following graphic about the ebb and flow of U.S. presidential candidates across recent campaigns. Link to the full presentation here. The highlight is at the bottom of the page. This is an excerpt of the chart: From top to bottom are the sequential presidential races. The far right vertical axis is the finish line....
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Seeking simplicity in complex data: Bloomberg’s dataviz on UK gender pay gap
Bloomberg featured a thought-provoking dataviz that illustrates the pay gap by gender in the U.K. The dataset underlying this effort is complex, and the designers did a good job simplifying the data for ease of comprehension. U.K. companies are required to submit data on salaries and bonuses by gender, and by pay quartiles. The dataset is incomplete, since some companies are slow to report, and the analyst decided not to...
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Watching a valiant effort to rescue the pie chart
Today we return to the basics. In a twitter exchange with Dean E., I found the following pie chart in an Atlantic article about who's buying San Francisco real estate: The pie chart is great at one thing, showing how workers in the software industry accounted for half of the real estate purchases. (Dean and I both want to see more details of the analysis as we have many questions...
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Form and function: when academia takes on weed
I have a longer article on the sister blog about the research design of a study claiming 420 "cannabis" Day caused more road accident fatalities (link). The blog also has a discussion of the graphics used to present the analysis, which I'm excerpting here for dataviz fans. The original chart looks like this: The question being asked is whether April 20 is a special day when viewed against the backdrop...
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How to describe really small chances
Reader Aleksander B. sent me to the following chart in the Daily Mail, with the note that "the usage of area/bubble chart in combination with bar alignment is not very useful." (link) One can't argue with that statement. This chart fails the self-sufficiency test: anyone reading the chart is reading the data printed on the right column, and does not gain anything from the visual elements (thus, the visual representation...
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The unreasonable effect of chart labels
In discussing the bar-density and pie-density charts with a buddy (thanks LB!), it became obvious that the labeling is a challenge. And he's right. Here is the pie-density chart for the Youtube views with the labels as originally conceived. These labels are trying too hard to provide precise data to the reader. Here are some simplified labels that get at the message rather than the data: Here is a slightly...
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The Economist on the Economist: must read now
A visual data journalist at the Economist takes a critical eye on charts published by the Economist (link). This is a must read! (Hat tip: Fernando) Here are some of my commentary on past Economist charts.
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Bar-density and pie-density plots for showing relative proportions
In my last post, I described a bar-density chart to show paired data of proportions with an 80/20-type rule. The following example illustrates that a small proportion of Youtubers generate a large proportion of views. Other examples of this type of data include: the top 10% of families own 75% of U.S. household wealth (link) the top 1% of artists earn 77% of recorded music income (link) Five percent of...
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Visualizing the 80/20 rule, with the bar-density plot
Through Twitter, Danny H. submitted the following chart that shows a tiny 0.3 percent of Youtube creators generate almost 40 percent of all viewing on the platform. He asks for ideas about how to present lop-sided data that follow the "80/20" rule. In the classic 80/20 rule, 20 percent of the units account for 80 percent of the data. The percentages vary, so long as the first number is small...
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Not following direction or order, the dieticians complain
At first glance, this graphic's message seems clear: what proportion of Americans are exceeding or lagging guidelines for consumption of different food groups. Blue for exceeding; orange for lagging. The stacked bars are lined up at the central divider - the point of meeting recommended volumes - to make it easy to compare relative proportions. The original chart is here, on the Health.gov website. The little icons illustrating the food...
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Did the politics of the Gilded Age fail when dealing with social and economic issues? That statement has long been debated by many historians, journalists, and professors. The Gilded age was a time of transfomation. The late 19th centuraies welcomed new economies, techonologies, and social costums.
Although the Gilded Age was a time of change it still faced many issues. Monopolies were made, unskilled urban workers did not share in economic gains, instead enduring great poverty, the urban poor, typically immigrants, had hard working conditions, and lived in vile slums and tenements, and The overwhelming influence of monopolies and trusts, like the ones deminstrated by Rockefeller’s Standard Oil, and Carnegie’s US Steel, led to economic debate that were never fully resolved satisfactorily. The utilization of integration by John D. Rockefeller allowed for him to simply buy smaller oil companies and merge them with his own, eliminating the competition in addtion to gathering more resources and employees at the already existing companys. Many buisnesses monopoized small buisnesses so that their own could grow.
“Monopoly and anti-monopoly… represent the two great tendencies of our time; monopoly, the tendency to combination: anti-monopoly, the demand for social conrtol of it. As the man is ben toward buisiness or patriotism, he will negotiate combination or agitate for laws to regulate them.”(Doc 2) This system was allowed by a laissez-faire approch where major corporations would be able to fund campaigns and other endeavors the politicians may have previously considering. Lloyd, a financial writer and social reformer, targeted politicians to point out that the only two choices left to choose from is to either to join a trust or to actively speak out against them. Keppler’s 1899 political cartoon (Doc 3) also points out that the trusts and monopolies have the politics of the era, in the cartoon, specifically the senators. The political cartoon shows how bosses of the senate rule over everyone else. Big buisnesses monopolize, and the trust are much bigger than conrgress because they controlled how much money was made and new technology.
They also were running all industries, and the people’s entrance in the corner of the cartoon is closed becauss they had no money and no political power. People revolutionized buisnesses and built monopolies for their own goals not for the needs of others.The problems that the working class faced was terrible, both personally and professionally. In the workplace, emplyees were often women, foriegnors, and children. The children were not only deprived of receiving an adequate education, but they also were expected to know everything and anything about laboring jobs. “Employers claim that these boys not apprentices, and even if they se desired, could not teach… an apprentic all of the intricacies of a trade, for the reason that where the skill and intelligence of a journeyman (trained) workman were once essential, a simple machine now unerringly performs the service, and consequently, there is no occasion for an apprentice to learn to do the labor by hand.
” (Doc 5) The introduction of new and different technologies arose, which latter caused the workers with less skills to show their expendability. Most workers were not needed anymore especially the workers who did not know how to use a machine. Sadly the workers who were unskiled lost the jobs, no one needed them anymore let a lone want them. Said workers faced poverty and had no economic gains.
The boys no longer had to know the details of working they just needed to know how to follow orders exactly. Though this article may have been writen to describe the conditions of the working class and what they faced, it also exposed the truth of facotry culture. Immigrants made up a lot of the workers as well, which did in fact angered many American citizens as it was no secret that foreigners were willing to do the same job with the same responsibilities for less pay. Immigrants took jobs in factories and other industrialized jobs, and livied in the urban areas closer to their place of employment. These homes became a commonplace, even though the conditions often had cramped bedrooms with little to no circulation of fresh air and natural light.
It seemed as though the circumstances were similar at work, like they could not wake from a consitent nightmare. “They are dwarfed, in my estimation, sir, as the majority of men and women who are brought un in factories must be dwarfed under the presen industrial system; because by their long hourse of indoor labor and their hard work they are cut offf from the benefit of breathing fresh air ad from the sights that surround a workman outside a mill. Being shut up all day in the noise and in the high tempuratures of these mills, they become physically weak.”(Doc 6) Doctor Timothy Stow highlights that the health of the workers were unnatural. Immigrants, women, men, and even children were often put in situations where there was unsanitary conditions in which they lived and worked. As shown the government took some action to solve these social issues that plagued the working class during the Gilded Age, bt it did not effect everyone. The working class did not have the same rights as the wealthy did which was a big problem in the 19th century.
In conclusion, the circumstances that defined the Gilded Age brought about many problems that the politics of the time failed to do justice when trying to solve them. Despite occasional pieces of legislation being signed into law, the passivity and general corruption of the government ultimately denied the passage of reform when it came to social and economic issues. Although a few measures were taken to handle the plight of the working class, the disparity in railroad rates and the overwhelming influence of monopolies and trusts on politics, they were largely ineffective to reach their intended goals. | FINEWEB-EDU |
When should you visit your Denture Clinic? Here is your Answer!
Dentures Melbourne
Many people have teeth problems and they are not even aware of that. If you think your teeth are strong and need no dental treatment, think again! Many people believe the same and avoid what’s going inside their mouth. Consequently, lose teeth. Even if you have lost teeth, dentures will help you to regain your facial shape and confidence.
Today, we will discuss why you should reach a reliable Denture Clinic Melbourne for certain reasons.
Alarming Signs:
Teeth don’t fall all of a sudden. There are alarming signs that urge you to see your dentist ASAP. What are these signs and how some people ignore them? All will be answered below!
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1. Swollen and Red Gums
The periodontal disease makes your gums swollen and red. These early signs of gum disease can be treated with a complete cleaning and useful preventative such as mouthwash and prescription toothpaste. This helps you to get relief from current gum diseases and will prevent the condition from getting worse in future. If this condition is ignored, bone loss will begin to increase, which may lead to tooth loss. If you are already having started getting tooth loss, dentures will prevent other teeth to fall off.
1. Toothache
Not every toothache means tooth loss but having the one that will not go away is a matter of concern. A long toothache may indicate decay that has entered into your nerve and leading to discomfort. However, a root canal is the perfect option to save your tooth, but sometimes the decay has damaged your tooth to the point where it can’t be saved anymore. This may lead to dental denture or implants.
1. Moving or Losing Teeth
Have you noticed your teeth shifting or loosing? This indicates that you would need dentures in the future. Frequent tooth loss indicates periodontal disease and decay. Just because what’s happening inside the gums can’t be seen, there could be significant damage without you noticing it. The same implies to the gaps occurring between your teeth. If you have noticed gaps between your teeth, it’s high time to reach Denture Clinic Melbourne for the right treatment.
1. Already Missing Teeth
If you have many missing teeth, you need immediate denture help. The more you ignore your losing teeth, the more risks are there for losing all the teeth. Without the support of your teeth, other healthy teeth may shift and get weaker. If you have lost your teeth, but haven’t addressed it with dentures, it’s time to reach reliable and experienced dentists for the quality dentures.
1. Difficulty in Digesting or Chewing Food
Another symptom that perhaps is the less obvious indicator that you need denture is indigestion or issue while chewing. Feeling discomfort while chewing hard food could indicate certain damage in your teeth. Most of the tooth decay patients are unaware of the fact that their chronic indigestion can be the result of decayed tooth. If you are facing either of these issues, it’s time to reach your dentist for a quick remedy.
Do you experience any of these symptoms? If yes, make an appointment at the best Dentures Melbourne. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Labour for a Referendum
Labour for a Referendum (LfR) was a political campaign by members of the Labour Party that sought a referendum in the United Kingdom on the European Union. The movement was set up following a pledge by the Conservative Party to hold an in–out vote if re-elected in 2015 United Kingdom general election. In the election campaign, Labour Party policy was that such a referendum would be an unnecessary distraction from government priorities. Following the Conservative victory in that election, the Labour Party committed to supporting passage of a Referendum Bill through Parliament – thus achieving the result sought by this campaign.
The campaign was chaired by JML chairman and Labour party donor John Mills, and directed by Dominic Moffitt, with party support from over 50 councillors, three council leaders and MPs including Kate Hoey, John McDonnell and Keith Vaz, the campaign aimed to move the policy of the Labour Party to one which supports a referendum on membership of the EU, with the intention that this might help to secure a victory in the 2015 general election.
Former Northern Ireland spokesman Jim Dowd MP said: "I have been a supporter of this cause for many years and firmly believe the Labour Party must commit to a referendum before the European elections next year. As the Tories tear themselves apart over this issue, Labour for a Referendum provides the opportunity to unite the party on giving the people a say on our future in the EU."
Notable supporters
After it launched in May 2013, it attracted support from a number of councillors, MPs and party activists.
* Jim Dowd, MP for Lewisham West and Penge and former Northern Ireland spokesman
* Keith Vaz, MP for Leicester East and former Europe minister
* Kate Hoey, MP for Vauxhall
* John Cryer, MP for Leyton and Wanstead
* Rosie Cooper, MP for West Lancashire
* Graham Stringer, MP for Blackley and Broughton
* Austin Mitchell, former MP for Great Grimsby
* Lord Moonie, Member of the House of Lords
* David Drew, former MP for Stroud
* Kevin Meagher, associate editor of Labour Uncut
* Owen Jones, Guardian columnist
* Richard Wilson
Status following the 2015 general election
Following the May 2015 United Kingdom general election, the Labour Party declared that it would support the parliamentary bill for the 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum, achieving the aim of the campaign. , the status of the group was unclear and its web site appeared to be closed. | WIKI |
The Ultimate Monty Python Rip Off
The Ultimate Monty Python Rip Off is a compilation album released by Monty Python in 1994 on the occasion of their 25th anniversary. The album contains no previously unreleased material and was released as a sampler for the simultaneous release of The Instant Monty Python CD Collection box set.
Track listing
* 1) Introduction
* 2) Finland
* 3) Travel Agent
* 4) I Like Chinese
* 5) French Taunter
* 6) Australian Table Wines
* 7) Spanish Inquisition (also contains Famous Person Quiz - not written on album track list)
* 8) The Galaxy Song
* 9) Every Sperm is Sacred
* 10) Grim Reaper
* 11) Sit on My Face
* 12) Argument (also contains Cheese Shop - not written on album track list)
* 13) Mary Queen of Scots
* 14) Four Yorkshiremen
* 15) Lumberjack Song
* 16) Albatross
* 17) Nudge Nudge
* 18) Parrot
* 19) Bruces/Philosophers' Song
* 20) Fish Licence
* 21) Eric the Half-a-Bee
* 22) The Spam Song
* 23) Big Nose
* 24) Stoning
* 25) Link 1
* 26) Welease Wodger
* 27) Link 2
* 28) Always Look on the Bright Side of Life
* 29) Spanish Inquisition (Ending)
Distribution information
* CD: (1994) Virgin Records, Ltd./Kay Gee Bee Music Ltd. CDV 2748 (UK) | WIKI |
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DR. LHOTSKY.
To the Editor of the Sydney Gazette.
* SIR,
I was much disgusted with the flippant manner in which a communication from Dr. Lhotsky is treated in the Australian of this morning; and I think tho public will be disgusted too, when the circumstances are properly known.
The paper in question was given by the Doctor to one of the Editors of that journal, as an act of friendly assistance; the Editor accepted it as such, and promised to send a proof for the Doctor's correction. No proof, however, was sent; and the Doctor has the mortification to see his article disgraced by the most egregious typographical errata, which make him speak stark nonsense, and are calculated to injure his professional character as a man of science.
From the invidious mention made, in the Editorial note subjoined to the Doctor's article, by the names of Dr. B. and others, I cannot help suspecting that the writer's design was to question the genuineness of the Doctor's diploma, I can only say, that I have seen many scientific journals of eminent reputation and published in Europe, in which there appear learned articles headed, "By Dr. John Lhotsky"; and any person at all curious on the subject will, I dare say, be readily shown some of them on calling at Mr. Mansfield's book shop.
I must do the Editors the justice to say, that I am convinced the invidious note was not written by either of them; but still they are not the less to blame for admitting it into their columns. And assuredly they are much mistaken, if they suppose that the respectability of their journal will be at all promoted by such unprovoked attacks on men of undoubted learning and science, as is the gentleman in question, to whom I have the pleasure of calling myself
A FRIEND. Sydney, 19th July, 1833. | WIKI |
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Different Types of Mesothelioma
Mesothelioma is a serious and aggressive form of cancer that affects an estimated 14 to 30 people out of every million every year across the United States. This accounts for more than 2,000 new mesothelioma cases annually. Unlike other forms of cancer, mesothelioma is extremely dangerous and deadly because it is extremely difficult to catch in early stages because the symptoms often resemble those of more common diseases.
Cancer Wing - Memorial HospitalThe primary cause of mesothelioma is inhaling asbestos, an extremely resistant and durable fiber found in a variety of construction materials used for fire retardant and insulation. When these fibers are disturbed and released into the air, they can get lodged in the membrane’s that surround vital organs and eventually cause tumors to form.
Mesothelioma was first linked to breathing in asbestos fibers in 1964. The National Institute of Health now estimates that roughly 11 million people were exposed to asbestos between 1940 and 1978. Mesothelioma is also a unique cancer in that it typically has a latency period of 25 to 50 years before the patient begins to experience any serious symptoms. Unfortunately, by the time symptoms do arise, it is often too late.
Asbestos exposure doesn’t affect everyone the same way. The fibers can get stuck in a number of different places in the body, causing different forms of mesothelioma to develop. The three major types of mesothelioma include pleural, peritoneal, and pericardial mesothelioma.
Pleural Mesothelioma
Pleural mesothelioma is the most common type of mesothelioma and is found in roughly three-fourths of all mesothelioma cases. This form of mesothelioma forms in the lining of the lungs, or the pleura. When asbestos is inhaled and gets trapped in the pleura it can cause scar tissue and eventually tumors to form.
Patients suffering from pleural mesothelioma will usually experience shortness of breath and severe coughing. These symptoms are often confused with a serious flu or other lung disease.
Peritoneal Mesothelioma
This is the second most common form of mesothelioma and is found in anywhere between 10 and 20 percent of all mesothelioma cases. Peritoneal mesothelioma forms in the lining of the abdomen, or the peritoneum. Those suffering from peritoneal mesothelioma often experience a distended stomach, weight loss, and obstructed bowels.
If caught early, peritoneal mesothelioma can be treated. Unfortunately, it is typically not caught until the later stages and is much harder to treat. In fact, a patient’s life expectancy is almost twice as long if mesothelioma is caught in stage one as opposed to stage two.
Pericardial Mesothelioma
This is the rarest of all mesothelioma cases and affects the lining of the heart. Those who suffer from pericardial mesothelioma may experience heart murmurs, irregular heartbeat, shortness of breath, chest pain, and a possible heart attack.
In extremely rare cases, mesothelioma may also occur in the testicles; however, fewer than 100 cases have ever been reported. A mesothelioma diagnosis can be extremely serious and is typically a death sentence. Roughly 50 percent of all patients will live 8 to 18 months after treatment while 30 percent or more may live five years or longer.
Along with receiving medical treatment, many mesothelioma victims also take legal action and file a mesothelioma or asbestos lawsuit against asbestos manufacturers or construction companies for negligently removing the asbestos.
The Variations of Mesothelioma
Because of its fire-retardant and insulating properties, asbestos was used in a good number of construction and building materials, such as shingles for roofs, tiles, car parts like clutches and brakes, packaging, products that are heat resistant, cement products, and coatings. Despite the strength and other beneficial properties of asbestos, this mineral fiber has a number of drawbacks as well, namely its ability to cause tumors and cancer in people who inadvertently inhale or get the fibers in their bodies.
AsbestosUnfortunately, when products made with asbestos are disturbed or broken, dangerous fibers are released into the air and environment, making it easy for people to inhale them. When a person inhales these fibers, they get stuck in the lining of a person’s organs, such as the stomach, heart, and lungs, causing tumors to grow. When this happens, a person has developed the type of cancer known as mesothelioma. Depending on where the fibers get stuck in the body, the type of mesothelioma that a person develops will vary.
While mesothelioma can affect other organs of the body, there are three places where the fibers most commonly stick and form tumors – the stomach, the heart, and the lungs. The three forms of mesothelioma that this causes are the following:
• Pleural Mesothelioma – Out of these three forms of mesothelioma, this form of mesothelioma is the most common to affect people. It forms in the lining of a person’s lungs known as the pleura. Symptoms of this form of mesothelioma include difficulty breathing, shortness of breath, pressure felt in the lungs or chest, and coughing fits. Unfortunately, these symptoms may take a long time to appear, and doctors often mistakenly diagnose these symptoms as the flu.
• Peritoneal Mesothelioma – Behind pleural mesothelioma, peritoneal mesothelioma is the second most common form of mesothelioma to affect Americans. In fact, nearly 30% of the people diagnosed with mesothelioma have this form of the cancer. Peritoneal mesothelioma forms when asbestos fibers affect the cells in the peritoneum, which is the lining of the abdominal cavity. This form of cancer can develop in a person when they either inhale the dangerous asbestos fibers or ingest them. Symptoms of this form of mesothelioma include stomach swelling, unnatural loss of weight, and obstruction of a person’s bowel.
• Pericardial Mesothelioma –This form of mesothelioma is perhaps one of the most frightening as it forms in the mesothelium, or lining, of the heart. Unlike the other forms of mesothelioma, doctors are less certain of how exactly the asbestos fibers get to the lining of the heart, but it is theorized that the fibers get into the bloodstream and get caught in the lining when the heart is processing the blood. Symptoms of this form of mesothelioma include a lasting cough, heart murmurs, sweating during the night, an off heartbeat, pain in the chest, a heart attack, and fatigue.
Regardless of what form of mesothelioma a person has, it is a serious diagnosis that requires significant and intense treatment in order to give a person a chance at beating the disease. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Hussain M, Aslam M, Khan Z.
Acute mountain sickness score and hypoxemia.
J Pak Med Assoc Jan ;51(5):173-9.
BACKGROUND: Hypoxemia is the immediate consequence of hyobaric hypoxia, which is the crucial starting mechanism of acute mountain sickness (AMS). The AMS is generally a benign and self-limiting condition which can be prevented by gradual ascent. However, ascent rates recommended for prophylaxis of AMS are far slower than those attempted during military operations and by climbers. OBJECTIVE: The current study was carried out to quantify the relationship between AMS and hypoxemia alongwith evaluating the benefits of acetazolamide-dexamethasone chemoprophylaxis during acute ascent. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: Twenty-four low lander male adults (age mean +/- SE 27.8 +/- 1.24 years) were selected. They were grouped in a double-blind fashion into four groups and each group (n = 6) received placebo (multivitamin) or acetazolamide (250 mg) or dexamethasone (4 mg) or a combined regimen of the two drugs twice daily for 5 days, commencing 24 hours before ascent. The volunteers reached the altitude of 4578 meters within a span of one day. Their AMS symptoms were recorded on modified environmental symptoms questionnaire (ESQ), after 24 and 72 hours of ascent. Arterial PO2, SO2 and PCO2 were measured by GEMSTAT blood-gas analyzer (Mallincrodt-USA). RESULTS: The ESQ, AMS-C (cerebral) and AMS-R (respiratory) scores of combined therapy group were significantly lower as compared to the other groups on the symptom rating scale. The significant finding amongst the volunteers taking acetazolamide was mild to moderate diuresis whereas severity of headache was markedly less in dexamethasone group. The commonest feature of combined therapy was that none of the volunteers complained of headache, dysponea, irritability and more than mild disturbance of sleep. The ESQ scores of volunteers were inversely correlated to PaO2 and SaO2 after 24 hours of ascent to 4578 meters. CONCLUSION: The study concludes that severity of AMS is closely related to hypoxemia and combination therapy of acetazolamide-dexamethasone may be effective in preventing AMS.
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by dear memories that fan you to sleep with their gentle dreams; you have just entered that beautiful dreamland, when you are suddenly startled by a scream, a burst of laughter, and then the vision of one white-robed form darting past in the twilight, pursued by a similar form, mysterious to your veiled senses. The chase continues over beds and boxes, while shouts of laughter, followed by a shower of small articles, proceed from the other beds; then a loud smack is heard, whose nature is easily divined by those who are at all familiar with juvenile offenders, a spring from the bed and a rush by the injured party follow; but still you resolutely shut your eyes and will yourself asleep, in the fond hope that nature is really too tired to keep awake, when a sudden rolling sound, followed by a violent shock, at once convinces you of the vanity of your efforts, and you resign yourself to wakefulness, for a favourite amusement has commenced—they are 'promenading the bedsteads'! You must know that our bedsteads are of iron, and placed on rollers so movable that a slight impulsion will speed them a considerable distance. Often in stepping into bed the slight movement has caused the mercurial article to describe a sudden semicircle. This property of these usually sober pieces of furniture is taken advantage of by the girls, who are now in a frolic and exercising in the most ingenious way, to the unspeakable annoyance of a quiet individual. An impulsion is given to one end of a long row of beds, which is quickly communicated to the whole row, or a simultaneous shock is given to the two extremities and their force brought to bear on the unfortunate centre. But the favourite freak is to place a bedstead at the end of the room and drive it with great violence down the centre. The rolling noise over the brick floor is tremendous, and accompanied by a regular Babel of laughter, shouting, and jokes of every description. Some get on | WIKI |
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window, I dictated a little faster. On looking towards her again, I perceived her face clouded with embarrassment, but she was still writing on most diligently; I paused a few seconds; she employed the interval in hurriedly re-perusing what she had written, and shame and discomfiture were apparent in her countenance; she evidently found she had made great nonsense of it. In ten minutes more the dictation was complete, and, having allowed a brief space in which to correct it, I took their books; it was with a reluctant hand Mdlle. Henri gave up hers, but, having once yielded it to my possession, she composed her anxious face, as if, for the present, she had resolved to dismiss regret, and had made up her mind to be thought unprecedentedly stupid. Glancing over her exercise, I found that several lines had been omitted, but what was written contained very few faults; I instantly inscribed "Bon" at the bottom of the page, and returned it to her; she smiled, at first incredulously, | WIKI |
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Xecced ventures
The result was delete. czar 17:00, 29 November 2019 (UTC)
Xecced ventures
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Article about a Non-notable company that fails WP:GNG and WP:COMPANY NNADI GOOD LUCK ( Talk | Contribs ) 14:05, 22 November 2019 (UTC)
* Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Companies-related deletion discussions. NNADI GOOD LUCK ( Talk | Contribs ) 14:05, 22 November 2019 (UTC)
* Delete - highly promotional, and entirely sourced to primary sources or dodgy press releases. No evidence of notability. For info, the page was also deleted under a capitalization variant in July (Xecced Ventures), and there's some possible sketchiness about the two users involved, which I have flagged for investigation here Sockpuppet investigations/Jamerutl. Hugsyrup 14:07, 22 November 2019 (UTC)
* Speedy Delete - as per WP:NOTHERE WP:PROMO articles written like a WP:RESUME shouldn’t be in the encyclopedia. Celestina007 (talk) 16:12, 22 November 2019 (UTC)
* Speedy delete - article was created by a banned or blocked user and appears to be the only substantial contributor (potentially WP:G5 if article was created in violation of block somehow), and appears promotional to a large degree (WP:G11). Kirbanzo (userpage - talk - contribs) 18:57, 22 November 2019 (UTC)
* Delete per WP:NCORP and WP:SIGCOV. Generally, venture capital firms are so ordinary and common that we tend to delete them unless that's very good coverage. Bearian (talk) 21:02, 25 November 2019 (UTC)
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Using qilaunch
On this page
qilaunch is a small executable that takes care of all the boilerplate when creating a service or when running an program with a session.
qilaunch takes care of:
• initializing an Application
• connecting a Session
• forwarding logs to the LogManager
• setting a breakpad handler for possible crashes
Then it loads one or more module as requested by the user. It can instantiate an object through a factory and register it as a service, or call a simple function and keep running.
Detailed description
You need to provide a name when starting qilaunch. This name is used when qilaunch forwards the logs to the LogManager by prepending it to the category. In case of crash, it is also prepended to the minidump file name.
qilaunch loads services that are exposed as factories in modules. It can also call functions exposed by modules. Factories are called through qi::Session::loadService and functions are called through qi::Session::asyncCallModule . Thus factories (usually class constructors) and functions will receive the session as first parameter if they accept it.
All services are loaded first, in order, and then all functions are called, concurrently.
If a factory or a function throws, everything is aborted and qilaunch exits with an error.
On success (when all factories and functions finished successfully), if qilaunch is started in keep running mode (which is implied by –object ), it will keep running until qi::Application::stop is called or until it receives a termination signal. Otherwise, it will stop at the end of the function(s) given to the –function argument
qilaunch also supports all qi application arguments .
Example usage
qilaunch --name mymodule --object MyModule.MyService --qi-url tcp://myhost:9559
This will connect to myhost:9559, load MyModule, instantiate MyService through the factory of the same name and register it on the service directory.
qilaunch --name mylauncher --function MyModule.workIt
This will connect to localhost:9559, load MyModule and call workIt on it. It will terminate as soon as workIt returns.
qilaunch --name mylauncher --function MyModule.workIt --module MyModule.MyService --no-logging --qi-standalone
This will first start a Session in standalone mode (with a ServiceDirectory). It will not forward logs to the LogManager. It will first load MyModule and instantiate MyService and then call workIt. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Block Island School
Block Island School is a K-12 school located in Block Island, Rhode Island. Established in 1933, it replaced five one-room schools. Today, the Block Island School educates approximately 160 students, from kindergarten through senior year. A typical school day runs from 7:50 am to 2:50 pm, Monday through Thursday. Every Friday, school dismisses at 12:22 pm to accommodate student-athletes traveling for sporting events either on or off the island.
Athletics
The Block Island Hurricanes compete in three main sports, each played in different seasons.
Soccer
In the fall, the BI Hurricanes have both a junior high soccer team (grades 6-8) and a varsity soccer team (high school students). Both teams are co-ed, reflecting the school's small student body. In 2014, the Block Island Hurricanes secured the first seed in the Coastal Prep League and won the 2014 CPL Championship against Oxford Academy. They followed up with another strong run at the championship but were upset 3-1 by Blackstone Valley Prep.
Basketball
During the winter, students participate in basketball with Junior High Girls, Junior High Boys, Varsity Girls, and Varsity Boys teams. Each team had notable success during the 2014-2015 season. The junior high teams showcased promising talent, while the varsity girls had one of their best seasons in recent history. Senior Kiley Hall was named a 2014-2015 Rhode Island Interscholastic Basketball League All-Star for Division III basketball. She also became the third player in school history to score 1,000 career points, joining Ross Draper and Derek Marsella. The Varsity Boys basketball team had an undefeated league season and won the 2014-2015 Coastal Prep League championship. With only seven players, each one had a significant impact on every game. This is the only instance in school history where the Hurricanes won championships in two different sports in the same year. The 2015-2016 season saw the boys' team demonstrate grit with a young six-man roster, finishing with an unexpected 8-8 league record. Richard Conant became Block Island's fourth 1,000-point scorer.
Baseball and Softball
In the spring, BIS students compete in baseball and softball, with junior high and varsity teams for both sports. Male athletes participate in baseball, while female athletes compete in softball. The varsity softball team had a strong 2015 season, winning more than half of their games. The boys' varsity baseball team also excelled, losing only one league game and clinching the Coastal Prep League championship. This achievement marked the first time students won championships in all three sports in one year. Six student-athletes—Timothy O'Neill, Mason Littlefield, Griffen Hall, Richard Conant, Ryan McGarry, and Jameson Brown-Padien—were dubbed the "Silent Six" for their contributions across all three championship teams. | WIKI |
Hydroxyapatite Cement: II. Obliteration and Reconstruction of the Cat Frontal Sinus
Craig D. Friedman*, Peter D. Costantino, Kent Jones, Lawrence C. Chow, Harold J Pelzer, George A. Sisson
*Corresponding author for this work
Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review
247 Scopus citations
Abstract
Frontal sinus obliteration and reconstruction can be performed with autogenous grafts or synthetic implants, each of which has significant limitations. Hydroxyapatite cement, which can be shaped intraoperatively and sets to a microporous hydroxyapatite implant, was applied to this problem. Nine cats had the anterior table of their frontal sinus unilaterally removed and the sinus cavity stripped of its mucosa. Hydroxyapatite cement was used to obliterate the cavity and reconstruct the overlying anterior table defect. The unoperated side served as the control, and the animals were sacrificed up to 18 months postoperatively. There were no adverse reactions, infections, mucoceles, or implant extrusions. The normal anatomic contour of the forehead region overlying the hydroxyapatite cement implants was maintained in all animals. Histologic examination of undecalcified whole sinus sections revealed progressive replacement of the implants with woven bone without a loss of volume. Replacement of the hydroxyapatite cement by woven bone is postulated to occur through a combination of implant resorption coupled with osteoconduction. The use of hydroxyapatite cement proved successful for the reconstruction and obliteration of cat frontal sinuses, and may be appropriate for the same application in humans. (Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 1991; 117:385-389)
Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)385-389
Number of pages5
JournalArchives of Otolaryngology--Head and Neck Surgery
Volume117
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 1 1991
ASJC Scopus subject areas
• Surgery
• Otorhinolaryngology
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"It doesn't matter. No billiards and no cards, and no racing and no betting. Toby must be very good and behave as a distinguished soldier should do."
"What are you afther at all?" the major cried. "Sure if I am to give up me pool and whist, how is a distinguished soldier, and, above all, a distinguished soldier's wife, going to live?"
"We'll manage, dear," she said, looking roguishly up into his face. "I told you that my money was all in the Agra Bank that broke."
"You did, worse luck!"
"But I didn't tell you that I had drawn it all out before it broke, Toby dear. It was too bad to put you to such a trial, wasn't it? but really I couldn't resist the temptation. Toby shall have money enough without betting, and he shall settle down and tell his stories, and do what he likes without anything to bother him."
"Bless her heart!" cried the major fervently; and the battered old Bohemian, as he stooped over and kissed her, felt a tear spring to his eyes as he knew that he had come into harbour after life's stormy tossings.
"No billiards or cards for three months, then," said the little woman firmly, with her hands round his arm. "None at all mind! I am going into Hampshire on a visit to my cousins in the country, and you shall not see me for that time, though you may write. If you can give me your word of honour when I come back that you've given up your naughty ways, why then"
"What then?"
"Wait till then and you'll see," she said, with a merry laugh. "No, really, I won't stay another moment. Whatever will the guests say? I must, Toby; I really must" Away she tripped, while the major remained standing where she had left him, feeling a better man than he had done since he was a young ensign and kissed his mother for the last time at the Portsmouth jetty before the great transport carried him off to India. | WIKI |
Demak–Majapahit conflicts
The Demak-Majapahit conflicts or Sudarma Wisuta were a series of conflicts between the rising Demak Sultanate and the waning Majapahit Empire. It marked the defeat of forces loyal to the legitimate Majapahit ruler, Bhre Kertabhumi (Prince Kertabhumi), by Girindrawardhana, son of Singhavikramavardhana, and the independence of the Demak Sultanate under Raden Patah, sons of Kertabhumi or Bravijaya V. 1478 is used to date the end of the Majapahit Empire. The Sudarma Wisuta was the second biggest war in ancient Java after the Mongol invasion of Java. The war ended in stalemate as Girindrawardhana killed Demak commander (General Ngundung) and Demak Forces destroyed Girindrawardhana logistics.
This battle was a strategic victory for Demak, because after the battle the Demak power and forces grew dramatically and the Daha stagnated. This battle was the last chance for Daha to conquer Demak, because after this battle Daha lost its numerical advantage.
Background
The Demak Sultanate was founded by Raden Patah in 1475. According to Babad Tanah Jawi, he was the son of Kertabhumi and a Chinese concubine. In 1468, Kertabhumi won a battle for throne against Singhavikramavardhana, exiling him to Daha, and reigned as Brawijaya V of Majapahit. However, Singhavikramavardhana's son Girindrawardhana consolidated a power base in Daha to retake the throne. He was supported by religious tensions. To keep Majapahit influence and economic interest, Kertabhumi had awarded Muslim merchant trading rights on the north coast of Java, an action that supported the Demak Sultanate. The policy increased Majapahit's economy and influence, but weakened Hindu-Buddhism's position as the dominant religion, as Islam began to spread more freely in Java.
Attack on Trowulan
The conflict came to a head in 1478. The Pararaton states, ".... bhre Kertabhumi ..... bhre prabhu sang mokta ring kadaton i saka sunyanora-yuganing-wong, 1400". In that year, Girindrawardhana's army under general Udara breached Trowulan's defences and killed Bhre Kertabhumi in his palace. Demak sent reinforcements under Sunan Ngudung, who died in battle and was replaced by Sunan Kudus. Although they managed to repel the invading army, they came too late to save Kertabhumi. In the Trailokyapuri Jiwu and Petak inscriptions, Girindrawardhana claimed the defeat of Kertabhumi, and that with it he reunited Majapahit as one kingdom.
After the conflict, Girindrawardhana reigned as Brawijaya VI of Majapahit until he was killed and replaced by Prabu Udara in 1498, but Demak gained independence and was a sovereign state no longer subject to the Majapahit Empire. The conflict led to continued war between Demak and the Majapahit rump in Daha, since Demak rulers claimed descent from Kertabhumi. Prabhu Udara or Bravijaya VII sent all his forces to destroy the newly established Demak. During the battle, after realize the Daha forces strength (80.000 infantry and 2.000 horse cavalry) against 7.000 Demak infantry. the Demak Commander General Sunan Ngundung had a plan to destroy Daha's war supply, and he dispatched small divisions from special forces to burn Daha's war supply. Demak special forces burned the war supply and logistics just before General Sunan Ngundung was killed. The result of the battle was stalemate, because both of forces retreated, but this is a strategic victory for Demak, because Daha wouldn't be able to gathering huge forces again (they didn't have funds and logistic for huge forces). In the following decade, Demak forces grew very vast and were able to launch an invasion of Daha, while Daha could not. The next war ended with the defeat of Prabu Udara and the fall of Daha in 1527.
Legacy
Today, 1478 is commemorated among Javanese with the candrasengkala sirna ilang kertaning bumi (sirna = 0, ilang = 0, kerta = 4, bumi = 1, its mean 1400 Saka) (lost and gone is the pride of the land). | WIKI |
Fear the Walking Dead
Fear the Walking Dead is an American post-apocalyptic horror drama television series created by Robert Kirkman and Dave Erickson for AMC. It is a spin-off to The Walking Dead, which is based on the comic book series of the same name by Kirkman, Tony Moore, and Charlie Adlard. It is also the second television series within The Walking Dead franchise. The first three seasons serve as a prequel, focusing on a blended family who experience the start of the zombie apocalypse. Subsequent seasons run concurrently to the original show, with Morgan Jones (Lennie James) from The Walking Dead crossing over into the series.
The series features a large ensemble cast, originally led by Kim Dickens as Madison Clark, Cliff Curtis as Travis Manawa, Frank Dillane as Nick Clark, and Alycia Debnam-Carey as Alicia Clark. Following a soft reboot with its fourth season, the series was led by Lennie James as Morgan Jones. Other series regulars have included Colman Domingo, Mercedes Mason, Rubén Blades, Danay García, Maggie Grace, Garret Dillahunt, Jenna Elfman, Alexa Nisenson, Karen David, Austin Amelio, Mo Collins, and Christine Evangelista.
Fear the Walking Dead premiered on August 23, 2015. Andrew Chambliss and Ian Goldberg served as the showrunners for the fourth to eighth season, succeeding Erickson from the first three. The series concluded on November 19, 2023, after eight seasons and 113 episodes. Initially set in Los Angeles, filming for the series took place in Los Angeles, Texas, Vancouver, Canada, Mexico, and Georgia.
Premise
Set in Los Angeles, California and later in Mexico, the first three seasons of Fear the Walking Dead follow a dysfunctional, blended family composed of high school counselor Madison Clark, her English teacher fiancé Travis Manawa, her daughter Alicia, her drug addict son Nick, Travis' son from a previous marriage, Chris, Chris' mother Liza Ortiz, and others who join their group at the onset of the zombie apocalypse. They must reinvent themselves, learning new skills and adopting new attitudes in order to survive as civilization collapses around them.
Beginning in the fourth season, the series shifts focus toward Morgan Jones, a character from the original series, who encounters the group's surviving members and new survivors in Texas.
Main
* Kim Dickens as Madison Clark: An intelligent and domineering guidance counselor, the mother of Nick and Alicia, and Travis' fiancée. (seasons 1–4 and 8; guest season 7)
* Cliff Curtis as Travis Manawa: A resolute and peacekeeping high school teacher, Madison's fiancé, Chris' father, and Liza's ex-husband. (seasons 1–3)
* Frank Dillane as Nicholas "Nick" Clark: A brave recovering heroin addict, Madison's son, and Alicia's brother. (seasons 1–4)
* Alycia Debnam-Carey as Alicia Clark: The fiery yet compassionate daughter of Madison, and Nick's sister. (seasons 1–7; special guest star season 8)
* Elizabeth Rodriguez as Elizabeth "Liza" Ortiz: A no-nonsense and caring nursing student, Travis' ex-wife, and Chris' mother. (season 1; guest season 2)
* Mercedes Mason as Ofelia Salazar: The strong-willed and capable daughter of Daniel and his wife Griselda. (seasons 1–3)
* Lorenzo James Henrie as Christopher "Chris" Manawa: Travis and Liza's rebellious teenage son, who becomes more brutal due to the landscape of the deadly new world. (seasons 1–2)
* Rubén Blades as Daniel Salazar: A courageous and pragmatic former Sombra Negra member, a barber, Griselda's husband, and Ofelia's father. (seasons 1–3 and 5–8)
* Colman Domingo as Victor Strand: A smart and sophisticated conman-turned-businessman, who forms friendships with Madison's group. (seasons 2–8; guest season 1)
* Michelle Ang as Alex: A pragmatic and quiet survivor introduced in the Fear the Walking Dead: Flight 462 web series. (season 2)
* Danay García as Luciana Galvez: A strong and cautious former member of the La Colonia community in Tijuana, Mexico, and Nick's girlfriend. (seasons 3–8; recurring season 2)
* Daniel Sharman as Troy Otto: The charismatic and impulsive son of Jeremiah, and Jake's half-brother. (seasons 3 and 8)
* Sam Underwood as Jeremiah "Jake" Otto Jr.: Jeremiah's moralistic and wiser son, Troy's half-brother, and Alicia's love interest. (season 3)
* Dayton Callie as Jeremiah Otto Sr.: The racist and candid leader of Broke Jaw Ranch, and Jake and Troy's father. (season 3; guest season 2)
* Lisandra Tena as Lola Guerrero: The empathetic leader of the Gonzalez Dam community, who is responsible for supplying water to the local population. (season 3)
* Maggie Grace as Althea "Al" Szewczyk-Przygocki: A curious and tactical journalist who encounters Morgan and John. (seasons 4–6; guest season 7)
* Garret Dillahunt as John Dorie: A lonesome and friendly police officer whom Morgan encounters in Texas. (seasons 4–6)
* Lennie James as Morgan Jones: A lonely and pragmatic man, formerly a part of Rick Grimes' group on The Walking Dead, who encounters the core group of survivors and leads a pacifist agenda. (seasons 4–8)
* Jenna Elfman as June "Naomi/Laura" Dorie: A kind and mysterious nurse encountered by Madison who has a history with John. (seasons 4–8)
* Alexa Nisenson as Charlie: A young girl who acts as a spy for the Vultures until she defects to Morgan's group. (seasons 5–7; recurring season 4; guest season 8)
* Karen David as Grace Mukherjee: A former worker at a nuclear power plant that began melting down who encounters Morgan's group. (seasons 5–8)
* Austin Amelio as Dwight: A ruthless and reluctant former lieutenant of the Saviors, who was exiled from Virginia by Rick's group on The Walking Dead and has travelled to Texas hoping to reunite with his ex-wife. (seasons 5–8)
* Mo Collins as Sarah Rabinowitz: The adoptive sister of Wendell and a former U.S. Marine. (seasons 6–7; recurring seasons 4–5)
* Colby Hollman as Wes: A nihilistic painter who allies with Morgan's group. (seasons 6–7; recurring season 5)
* Zoe Colletti as Dakota: A rebellious member of the Pioneers and Virginia's daughter. (season 6)
* Christine Evangelista as Sherry: Dwight's long-missing ex-wife who fled across the country to Texas after escaping the Saviors on The Walking Dead. (seasons 6–8)
* Keith Carradine as John Dorie Sr.: John's estranged father and a retired police officer. (seasons 6–7)
Introduced in season 1
* Patricia Reyes Spíndola as Griselda Salazar: Ofelia's mother, who emigrated from El Salvador with her husband Daniel to escape political unrest. (season 1; guest season 2)
* Shawn Hatosy as Cpl. Andrew Adams: A well-intentioned member of the U.S. military, who is out of his element. (season 1)
* Sandrine Holt as Dr. Bethany Exner: A confident and skilled doctor working with the U.S. military. (season 1)
Introduced in season 2
* Daniel Zovatto as Jack Kipling: A member of a group of pirates who develops an attraction to Alicia. (season 2)
* Arturo Del Puerto as Luis Flores: An ally and right-hand man of Victor Strand and Thomas Abigail. (season 2)
* Marlene Forte as Celia Flores: Luis's mother and Thomas' adoptive mother who is the leader of a community of survivors at the Abigail estate. (season 2)
* Paul Calderón as Alejandro Nuñez: A former pharmacist and the leader of La Colonia, a community in Tijuana, Mexico, who claims to have been bitten, but did not die. (season 2)
* Alejandro Edda as Marco Rodriguez: The leader of Los Hermanos, a drug gang who operate near La Colonia. (season 2)
* Karen Bethzabe as Elena Reyes: The former manager of the Rosarito Beach Hotel. (season 2; guest season 3)
* Ramses Jimenez as Hector Reyes: Elena's nephew who previously managed the hotel with her. (season 2; guest season 3)
* Andres Londono as Oscar Diaz: The leader of a group of survivors from a wedding party that took place during the beginning of the apocalypse, now living at the Rosarito Beach Hotel. (season 2)
* Raul Casso as Andrés Diaz: A member of the wedding party and Oscar's brother. (season 2)
* Brenda Strong as Ilene Stowe: A member of the wedding party and Oscar's mother-in-law. (season 2; guest season 3)
* Kelly Blatz as Brandon Luke: The leader of a group of young men that befriend Chris. (season 2)
* Kenny Wormald as Derek: A reckless member of Brandon's group. (season 2)
Introduced in season 3
* Michael William Freeman as Blake Sarno: A remorseless member of Broke Jaw Ranch's militia. (season 3)
* Matt Lasky as Cooper: An honorable member of the Broke Jaw Ranch's militia. (season 3)
* Rae Gray as Gretchen Trimbol: A resident of the Broke Jaw Ranch who becomes friends with Alicia. (season 3)
* Sarah Benoit as Pat Daley: An outspoken resident of the Broke Jaw Ranch.
* Jesse Borrego as Efrain Morales: The chief water distributor for the Gonzalez Dam who saves Daniel's life when he was injured by a fire. (season 3)
* Michael Greyeyes as Qaletaqa "Taqa" Walker: The Native American leader of the Black Hat Reservation who is at war with Jeremiah Otto, who occupies his people's lands. (season 3)
* Justin Rain as Lee (aka "Crazy Dog"): The right-hand man of Qaletaqa and a former U.S. army sniper. (season 3)
Introduced in season 4
* Kevin Zegers as Melvin: The antagonistic leader of the Vultures, a group of opportunistic survivors who scavenge from failed communities. (season 4)
* Evan Gamble as Ennis: Melvin's right-hand man and brother. (season 4)
* Sebastian Sozzi as Cole: A supply runner for the baseball stadium community. (season 4; guest season 6)
* Rhoda Griffis as Vivian: A resident of the baseball stadium community. (season 4; guest season 6)
* Kenneth Wayne Bradley as Douglas: A resident of the baseball stadium community and Vivian's husband. (season 4; guest season 6)
* Tonya Pinkins as Martha: A mysterious antagonistic woman who kills every survivor that tries to help someone else, believing it makes them weak. (season 4)
* Aaron Stanford as Jim Brauer: A secluded brewer who has no experience fighting the undead. (season 4)
* Daryl Mitchell as Wendell Rabinowitz: The adoptive brother of Sarah who uses a wheelchair. (seasons 4–5, 7; guest season 6)
Introduced in season 5
* Matt Frewer as Logan (aka "Desert Fox"): The former partner of Clayton (aka "Polar Bear") who became disillusioned with Clayton's vision of helping other survivors and forms his own crew. (season 5)
* Cooper Dodson as Dylan: Annie and Max's younger brother. (season 5)
* Bailey Gavulic as Annie: A teenage survivor and Dylan and Max's older sister who leads a group of orphaned children. (season 5)
* Ethan Suess as Max: A teenage survivor and Annie and Dylan's brother. (season 5)
* Sydney Lemmon as Isabelle: A helicopter pilot working for the mysterious organization known as the Civic Republic Military who develops a relationship with Althea. (season 5; guest seasons 6–7)
* Mikala Gibson as Doris: Logan's right-hand woman. (season 5)
* Cory Hart as Rollie: A loyal member of Logan's crew who clashes with Dwight. (seasons 5–6)
* Peter Jacobson as Jacob Kessner: A rabbi who joins Morgan's group after being rescued from the undead. (seasons 5–6; guest season 7)
* Colby Minifie as Virginia: The antagonistic leader of the Pioneers, a network of several communities throughout Texas and Oklahoma, and Dakota's mother. (seasons 5–6)
* Holly Curran as Janis: A former member of the Pioneers who is saved by Wes and later joins Morgan's group. (season 5; guest season 6)
Introduced in season 6
* Brigitte Kali Canales as Rachel: A former member of the Pioneers and the biological mother of Mo. (season 6)
* Craig Nigh as Hill: A high-ranking member of the Pioneers and Virginia's loyal right-hand man. (season 6)
* Justin Smith as Marcus: An arrogant member of the Pioneers. (season 6)
* John Glover as Theodore "Teddy" Maddox: The leader of a doomsday cult and a serial killer who was arrested by John Dorie Sr. in the 1970s and incarcerated. (season 6)
* Nick Stahl as Jason Riley: Teddy's right-hand man and a former crew member aboard the USS Pennsylvania, a submarine armed with nuclear missiles. (season 6)
Introduced in season 7
* Omid Abtahi as Howard: The deputy leader of the Tower and Strand's right-hand man who was a former history teacher. (season 7; guest season 6)
* Demetrius Grosse as Josiah LaRoux: A seasoned survivor seeking revenge against Morgan. (season 7)
* Grosse also portrays Josiah's twin brother Emile LaRoux. (guest season 6)
* Spenser Granese as Arnold "Arno": The leader of the Stalkers, a group of scavengers who are former members of Teddy's cult. (season 7)
Introduced in season 8
* Maya Eshet as Sam Krennick (aka "Shrike"): The ruthless co-leader of PADRE alongside her brother Ben, whose aim is to rescue children from their parents and raise them without having emotional attachments. (season 8)
* Zoey Merchant as Morgan "Mo" (aka "Wren"): The adopted daughter of Morgan and Grace, named after the former, who is taken in and raised by PADRE. (season 8)
* Jayla Walton as Odessa Sanderson (aka "Dove"): A prefect at PADRE and a friend of Mo's. (season 8)
* Gavin Warren as "Finch": Dwight and Sherry's son, who was raised by PADRE. (season 8)
* Daniel Rashid as Ben Krennick (aka "Crane"): The cunning co-leader of PADRE alongside his sister Sam. (season 8)
* Isha Blaaker as Frank: Strand's German husband and Klaus' father. (season 8)
* Julian Grey as Klaus: The adopted son of Victor Strand. (season 8)
* Randy Bernales as Russell: The second-in-command of Troy's group. (season 8)
* Antonella Rose as Tracy Otto: Troy's rebellious daughter. (season 8)
Episodes
The first season consists of six episodes. The second season, comprising 15 episodes, premiered on April 10, 2016. On April 15, 2016, AMC announced the series had been renewed for a 16-episode third season, which premiered on June 4, 2017. In April 2017, AMC renewed the series for a 16-episode fourth season and announced that Andrew Chambliss and Ian Goldberg would replace the departing Dave Erickson as showrunners. The fourth season premiered on April 15, 2018. On July 28, 2018, the series was renewed for a fifth season, which premiered on June 2, 2019. On July 19, 2019, the series was renewed for a sixth season, which premiered on October 11, 2020. On December 3, 2020, the series was renewed for a seventh season, which premiered on October 17, 2021. In December 2021, the series was renewed for an eighth season, which was later confirmed to be the final season. It consists of 12 episodes, split into two six-episode parts and premiered on May 14, 2023.
Development
In September 2013, AMC announced they were developing a companion series to The Walking Dead, which follows a different set of characters created by Robert Kirkman. In September 2014, AMC ordered a pilot, which was written by Kirkman and Dave Erickson, and directed by Adam Davidson, and is executive produced by Kirkman, Erickson, Gale Anne Hurd, and David Alpert, with Erickson serving as showrunner. The project was originally known as Cobalt; Kirkman confirmed, in March 2015, that the series would be titled Fear the Walking Dead. On March 9, 2015, AMC announced it had ordered Fear the Walking Dead to series, with a two-season commitment. The series premiered on August 23, 2015.
Casting
In December 2014, the first four starring roles were cast: Kim Dickens as Madison Clark, the female lead; Cliff Curtis as Travis Manawa, the male lead; Frank Dillane as Nick; and Alycia Debnam-Carey as Alicia. In April and May 2015, Elizabeth Rodriguez and Mercedes Mason were announced as series regulars, both in unknown roles. In December 2015, it was announced that Colman Domingo was promoted to series regular.
In March 2017, it was revealed that Daniel Sharman joined the cast as a series regular. In April 2017, several new actors were announced having joined the series, including Dayton Callie (reprising his guest role from the second season) and Sam Underwood, who, along with Daniel Sharman play members of the Otto family, and Lisandra Tena as Lola Guerrero.
In November 2017, it was confirmed that Lennie James who portrays Morgan Jones on The Walking Dead would crossover and join the main cast in the fourth season. The fourth season also sees the additions of several new series regulars, played by Garret Dillahunt, Jenna Elfman, and Maggie Grace.
In December 2018, it was reported that Rubén Blades, who last appeared in the series' third season, would return in the fifth season as Daniel Salazar. In January 2019, it was reported that Austin Amelio would join the cast as Dwight, who last appeared in the eighth season of The Walking Dead. In March 2019, it was announced that Karen David had joined the main cast for the fifth season as Grace. In December 2019, it was announced that Zoe Colletti would join the main cast for the sixth season as Dakota, and that Mo Collins and Colby Hollman were promoted to series regulars. In December 2021, it was announced that Kim Dickens would return as Madison Clark in the seventh season, after last appearing in the fourth season where her character was believed to have been killed off.
Music
Paul Haslinger composed the score for the series in its first three seasons. After Dave Erickson left at the end of the third season of the series, the show underwent major changes with the fourth season taking on a semi-reboot approach. Haslinger was replaced by Saunder Jurriaans and Danny Bensi beginning with the fourth season. The original title card composed by Atticus Ross was also replaced.
Filming
Production of the pilot episode began in early 2015 and ended on February 6, 2015. The pilot and early episodes were filmed in Los Angeles, including Woodrow Wilson High School; the remaining first-season episodes were filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Production on the remaining five first-season episodes began on May 11, 2015. Adam Davidson, who directed the pilot, also directed the series' second and third episodes.
Filming for the second season began in December 2015, with production moving to Baja California, Mexico. Locations included Rosarito (sea scenes and hotel) and Valle de Guadalupe (Abigail's vineyard). The sea scenes were filmed using a horizon tank at Baja Film Studios. An additional scene from the season one finale was filmed in The Sunken City, San Pedro, Los Angeles. Filming for the third season began on January 6, 2017, in Baja California, Mexico, with some of the same location sites used for the second half of season two. Additional locations in Tijuana Municipality included Avenida Revolución, Abelardo L. Rodríguez Dam and the hills that hosted the Otto's ranch.
Filming for the fourth season began in early 2018 in various locations around Austin, Texas, including the Dell Diamond baseball stadium in nearby Round Rock, the vacant Brackenridge Hospital in downtown Austin, and the flood-damaged Onion Creek neighborhood. Filming for the fifth season began in December 2018. It was also confirmed by the showrunners that the season would be filmed in New Braunfels, Texas.
In March 2020, production for the sixth season was reported to have gone on a three-week hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The seventh season began filming in April 2021 in Texas, and wrapped in December 2021.
Production for the eighth season moved from Texas to Savannah, Georgia. The final season began filming in August 2022 and concluded in March 2023.
Broadcast
On August 23, 2015, the series debuted simultaneously worldwide on: AMC in the U.S.; AMC Global in major regional markets in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East; and FX in Australia. Hulu holds the show's video on demand rights in the U.S., while Amazon Instant Video owns the streaming rights in Austria and Germany, and make episodes available online one day after their original airing. Streaming in the UK became available to Amazon Prime members in 2016.
Season 1
On Rotten Tomatoes, the first season has a rating of 76%, based on 206 reviews, whose average rating is 6.75/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Fear the Walking Dead recycles elements of its predecessor, but it's still moody and engrossing enough to compete with the original." On Metacritic, the season has a score of 66 out of 100, based on 33 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".
Elisabeth Vincentelli of the New York Post rated the first two episodes three out of four stars, stating that "[They] are creepily suspenseful–they're great examples of how effective a slow pace and a moody atmosphere can be." Another positive review of the first episode came from Ken Tucker of Yahoo TV, who wrote, "Fear the Walking Dead is a mood piece, more artful than the original series" and that the cast is "terrific". Tim Goodman of The Hollywood Reporter wrote, "The 90-minute first episode and the hour-long second episode are, while not actually boring, certainly less magnetic than the original." Daniel Fienberg and Alan Sepinwall of HitFix reviewed the premiere episode, with Fienberg calling it "awful ... as bad as The Walking Dead has ever gotten at its very worst", while Sepinwall called his B− review "slightly generous".
Season 2
On Rotten Tomatoes, the season has a rating of 70%, based on 223 reviews, whose average rating is 6.6/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Fear the Walking Dead sets sail in its sophomore season with an intriguing backdrop that doesn't always disguise its deficiencies in comparison to its predecessor." On Metacritic, the season has a score of 54 out of 100, based on 12 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".
Season 3
On Rotten Tomatoes, the third season has an approval rating of 84% based on 110 reviews, with an average rating of 7.25/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "A distinctive ensemble brings a compelling flavor of Fear the Walking Dead mythos, but this ambitious spinoff still shares its originator's penchant longwinded pacing that may diminish the tension for some viewers." In his season review for IGN, Matt Fowler gave it an 8.2 out of 10, writing, "Fear the Walking Dead more solidly found its tone and voice this season by embracing the arid landscape, ramping up the human-on-human conflict, and rallying around Kim Dickens' anti-hero mom, Madison, as the driving character", and it is now "a better series overall than The Walking Dead".
Season 4
On Rotten Tomatoes, the fourth season has an approval rating of 80% based on 164 reviews, with an average rating of 6.85/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Fear the Walking Dead shuffles onward confidently in its fourth season with a bevy of horrifying set-pieces and heartbreaking twists, but some viewers may be dispirited by the series' constant reshuffling of its characters." TVLine reevaluated the series for its fourth season, giving it a grade of a "B+". Reviewer Charlie Mason wrote, "it's gone from being an adequate stopgap between seasons of The Walking Dead to a show that's as good or arguably even better than the one from which it was spun off", stating that the season has had several genuine surprises in its storytelling.
Season 5
On Rotten Tomatoes, the season has a rating of 55% based on 211 reviews, with an average rating of 5.1/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Despite delivering some memorable and splatter-filled zombie set-pieces that fans crave, Fear the Walking Dead feels stiff with early-onset rigor mortis in a fifth season that emphasizes altruism over coherent characterization."
Season 6
On Rotten Tomatoes, the sixth season has an approval rating of 89% based on 9 reviews, with an average rating of 7.3/10.
Season 8
On Rotten Tomatoes, the eighth season has an approval rating of 60% based on 5 reviews, with an average rating of 7/10.
Ratings
The U.S. series premiere attracted 10.1 million total viewers, with 6.3 million in the advertiser-coveted 18-to-49-year-old demographic, both cable television records for a series premiere. Numerous international debuts of the pilot also set ratings records. The first season averaged 11.2 million viewers in "live plus-3" ratings (includes VOD and DVR viewing within three days after initial telecast) to become the highest-rated first season of any series in cable history.
Fear the Walking Dead: Flight 462
Fear the Walking Dead: Flight 462, a 16-part web series, premiered on October 4, 2015, on AMC.com; it also aired as promos during The Walking Dead season 6. Two of the web series' characters, Alex (previously known as Charlie) and Jake, are introduced in Fear the Walking Dead season 2, episode 3 ("Ouroboros").
Fear the Walking Dead: Passage
A second 16-part web series debuted on October 17, 2016, and episodes were made available online weekly and aired as promos during the seventh season of The Walking Dead. The web series follows Sierra, a capable survivor, who helps an injured woman named Gabi as they try to find sanctuary. The series was written by Lauren Signorino and Mike Zunic, and directed by Andrew Bernstein.
The Althea Tapes
A six-part web series was released from July 27 to August 8, 2019, on AMC.com and YouTube. The web series features Althea interviewing different survivors for their story.
Dead in the Water
In March 2021, AMC announced the digital spin-off series Dead in the Water: A Fear the Walking Dead Story, which is set aboard USS Pennsylvania (SSBN-735) and "tells the story of a submarine crew fighting for survival, cut off from the surface world just as the apocalypse hits, becoming a nuclear-fueled walker-filled death trap with no way out." The special stars Nick Stahl as Jason Riley and premiered on AMC+ on April 10, 2022.
Home media
The first season was released on Blu-ray and DVD on December 1, 2015, by Starz through Anchor Bay Entertainment, under license from AMC Networks. A special edition version of the first season was released on Blu-ray and DVD on March 22, 2016, with new bonus features, including deleted scenes, seven featurettes, and audio commentaries by cast and crew, on all six episodes. The second season, featuring audio commentaries, deleted scenes, and various behind-the-scene featurettes, was released on Blu-ray and DVD on December 13, 2016. The third season, featuring audio commentaries and deleted scenes, was released on Blu-ray and DVD on March 13, 2018. The fourth season, featuring four audio commentaries, was released on Blu-ray and DVD on March 5, 2019. The fifth season, featuring three audio commentaries, was released on Blu-ray and DVD on May 19, 2020. The sixth season, featuring audio commentaries, was released on Blu-ray and DVD on August 31, 2021. The seventh season was released on Blu-ray and DVD on January 10, 2023. The eighth and final season was released on February 27, 2024.
Lawsuit
In July 2018, Mel Smith, the creator of the comic book series Dead Ahead, filed a lawsuit against AMC Studios charging that the second season of Fear the Walking Dead stole thematic elements from Dead Ahead, specifically a group of survivors attempting to flee a zombie apocalypse by a boat. The lawsuit also includes David Alpert, who was Smith's agent and who remains a business partner with Robert Kirkman, and who is one of Fear's executive producers; Smith's lawsuit asserts that Alpert violated his fiduciary duty to protect Smith's interests when he began working on Fear. AMC attempted to have the lawsuit dismissed, stating that once one stripped out generic elements of the zombie genre, there were no further similarities between the works. In February 2019, judge Lucy Koh rejected this, believing that it would be necessary to have a discovery phase and expert testimony to evaluate AMC's stance.
In March 2019, AMC settled the lawsuit, details remained confidential. | WIKI |
Gustav Landauer Library Witten
The Gustav Landauer Library Witten (Gustav-Landauer-Bibliothek Witten, GLBW) is a special library in Witten, Germany.
History
The Gustav Landauer Library was founded 2011 in sociocultural center Trotz Allem (Despite of it all) inside of the then infoshop. The name relates to the theorist of anarchism Gustav Landauer. Foundation of the collection was a big book donation on occasion of the 100th anniversary of the death of the Russian writer and anarcho-pacifist Leo Tolstoy in 2010. Further book donations followed. In 2012 Trotz Allem together with Deutsch-Israelische Gesellschaft Witten (German-Israeli Society Witten) organized a lecture by the editor of Ausgewählte Schriften (elected writings) of Landauer, Siegbert Wolf, about philosophy and judaism at Gustav Landauer. In the context of this event a book exposition by Gustav Landauer Library about the life and work of Gustav Landauer was presented.
Scope of collection
The collection of Gustav Landauer Library is focused at publications, that were distributed, read and discussed in the left-wing-alternative movements. Among other subjects it includes the topics antifascism, gender, free pedagogy, peace politics, ecology, economy, political developments in the diverse countries of the world and the teachings of classic and current theorists. | WIKI |
Pawan Pawan - 5 months ago 38
AngularJS Question
input type = number validation in angularjs
I am trying to validate
< input type = number >
by using input [number]
directive of module ng of angularjs.
When using an input of type number, with the max (or min) attribute set to number such as
<input type=number min="20" max="40">
it works fine , but I my min and max data are coming data dynamically using ng-repeat such as
<input type=number min="configRow.valueStart" max="configRow.valueEnd">
,
then it is not working .
I know that min and max only accept number and I am not much good in writing directives for that , Please help me any such directory or any suggestions would be appreciated.
Answer
min and max are expecting a value. So, this should work:
<input type=number min="{{configRow.valueStart}}" max="{{configRow.valueEnd}}">
Here is a plunker showing a demo. (this is just a modification of the documentation demo).
At the moment, the source for these attributes looks like below. So, you can see that a value is expected that is then cast to a float with parseFloat. So interpolating the model property {{}} to a value is required.
src/ng/directive/input.js
if (attr.min) {
var minValidator = function(value) {
var min = parseFloat(attr.min);
return validate(ctrl, 'min', ctrl.$isEmpty(value) || value >= min, value);
};
ctrl.$parsers.push(minValidator);
ctrl.$formatters.push(minValidator);
}
if (attr.max) {
var maxValidator = function(value) {
var max = parseFloat(attr.max);
return validate(ctrl, 'max', ctrl.$isEmpty(value) || value <= max, value);
};
ctrl.$parsers.push(maxValidator);
ctrl.$formatters.push(maxValidator);
} | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
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Talk:Bojan Djordjic
Stats
How come the statistics in the table and the infobox don't match up? Also, what is the source for the non-UK clubs? SeveroTC 13:46, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
Rangers - loan or move?
According to the text, Dorjic moved on loan to Rangers, but according to the Infobox, it was a move. Anyone know which it was? Darkson (BOOM! An interception!) 10:20, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
He has not joined Blackpool
He has not joined Blackpool it's only a rumor. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tarmet (talk • contribs) 10:21, 18 June 2011 (UTC)
Requested move 19 May 2016
The result of the move request was: not moved per consensus. SST flyer 05:47, 27 May 2016 (UTC)
Bojan Djordjic → Bojan Đorđić – According to the article, this footballer is based in Sweden. The Swedish language generally seems to preserve diacritics, as evidenced by Zlatan Ibrahimović's name. (Obviously this is not the case for all European language transliterations. Other Swedish examples can be found by looking through some of the categories at the bottom of Ibrahimović's article.) Sure, Đorđić has played for Western teams, but he has also played for European and Asian teams. It seems reasonable to use how his name would be spelt in Sweden as the title of the article, per WP:SERBIANNAMES. Supplementary information: Đorđić's Instagram profile spells his surname using diacritics. Rovingrobert (talk) 05:28, 19 May 2016 (UTC)
* Oppose. What the Swedish language does or who he works for has nothing to do with. The guideline tells us to follow what English-language sources do. See BBC. Gulangyu (talk) 06:00, 19 May 2016 (UTC)
* What's the story with Ibra then? Does his article use diacritics because his Twitter account does? Rovingrobert (talk) 09:30, 19 May 2016 (UTC)
* Oppose - The only source I've ever seen spell his name as "Bojan Đorđić" is his Instagram account. However, his Twitter name (not the @ but the actual name he calls himself) is "Bojan Djordjic", and every other source I've ever seen spells it that way too. There may be an argument for the ć, but not the Đ. – PeeJay 07:49, 19 May 2016 (UTC)
* What would your response be if I requested to move this page to Bojan Djordjić? Rovingrobert (talk) 11:06, 19 May 2016 (UTC)
* I would still oppose, since there aren't any sources that include the ć. – PeeJay 12:11, 19 May 2016 (UTC)
* If there aren't any sources that include the ć, then why did you say 'there may be an argument for the ć'? (You may find this interesting also.) Rovingrobert (talk) 08:17, 20 May 2016 (UTC)
* One source doesn't outweigh hundreds of others that don't use the diacritics. – PeeJay 12:24, 20 May 2016 (UTC)
* Fine. So, how would you answer my 'other' question? Rovingrobert (talk) 13:43, 20 May 2016 (UTC)
* I don't need to. There's not enough sources to support any change of name, so that's that. – PeeJay 15:46, 20 May 2016 (UTC)
* We'll see what consensus decides before we start making concrete statements, thanks. Rovingrobert (talk) 05:09, 21 May 2016 (UTC)
* Fact is, we're not lapdogs to the media. Why do you think all of these Jr. and Sr. articles have recently been moved to commaless titles without a majority of sources' concurrence? Rovingrobert (talk) 12:18, 22 May 2016 (UTC)
* Comment while he is the son of Ranko Đorđić he moved to Sweden as a teen player. 100% of straightforward Serbian bios (minus one) follow WP:SERBIANNAMES but the consensus doesn't extend to those who have taken nationality overseas nor the Dj/Đ shift. In this case print WP:RS Google Books use the Swedified version. Sport blogs and websites often aren't reliable sources for diacritics, but do show consonant changes. In ictu oculi (talk) 08:37, 19 May 2016 (UTC)
* Right, so if ever someone takes nationality overseas their name is bound to have changed at some point? Rovingrobert (talk) 09:44, 19 May 2016 (UTC)
* Oppose as the rationale seems round-about, and doesn't address the question of what English-language sources do for this subject. If a move is appropriate, making a better statement about why. Dicklyon (talk) 00:07, 22 May 2016 (UTC)
* Fair 'nough. But there is so much contradiction from one biography to another, from one source to another. Rovingrobert (talk) 01:29, 22 May 2016 (UTC)
* This is often true, but there is also nothing wrong with that. Each article can stand on it's own. If most of the 100s of opera singer articles do things one way because only a handful of editors really care to give an opinion, yet opera singer articles like Mario Lanza and Pavarotti are different because they are well known and 100s of editors care... that's fine. As long as no wiki-policies are broken, consensus can keep things different with no real damage. Fyunck(click) (talk) 04:31, 22 May 2016 (UTC)
* True, but sometimes there is no consensus on the popular articles, particularly with this topic. And that in itself makes it difficult for me to "address the question of what English-language sources do for this subject", as User:Dicklyon would justifiably like me to. Rovingrobert (talk) 07:25, 22 May 2016 (UTC)
* Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related page moves. GiantSnowman 13:31, 22 May 2016 (UTC)
* Oppose - as above, and per English-language sources. GiantSnowman 13:34, 22 May 2016 (UTC)
* Comment - also, much later in this RM request it was added to look at WP:SERBIANNAMES... a tiny section of Naming conventions (Cyrillic). It could really throw viewers of this discussion off if they only look at that tiny section (like I did at first) and fail to notice three items at the top of the article: 1) It's not a policy or guideline or process of wikipedia... it's simply a proposal. 2) the proposal is talking about Cryllic... not English spellings. and 3)even if it were someday a guideline rather than a proposal, it says right off the bat "If a name has a conventional English spelling, that is used." So only "when no commonly accepted form" of the name can be found in English do we even check the rest of the proposal. Linking only to that section of the proposal is very misleading to our readers. Fyunck(click) (talk) 17:59, 22 May 2016 (UTC)
* Why not use the Latin transliteration anyway? Rovingrobert (talk) 23:17, 22 May 2016 (UTC)
* Oppose for lack of sourcing, but without prejudice should sourcing be provided, or arise at a later time in a later RM. We routinely include diacritics, when the subject uses them consistently regardless of language (e.g. in all their social media, etc.), when the subject uses them in their native language and in English-audience-targeted materials (e.g. English version of their website, etc.), and/or when general-audience, independent sources use them, in English, at least some of the time, and the subject also does so in their native language. What we don't do is a) drop diacritics because a sport governing body (or whatever) and some journalists can't be bothered to include them, or b) impose the "normal" diacritics-using form found in a native language on an individual who may not prefer these details being included in their name in English (and in other languages that don't natively use diacritics). Doing the latter is original research and PoV-pushing about what a name "should" or "must" be, and WP is not in a position to tell celebrities what their names "really are" in any particular context (cf. hundreds of American Hispanic actors who have dropped the diacritics in their names, at least as public figures, and non-American ones like Stana Katic who doesn't spell her surname Katič, either). By the same token, when we have evidence that the subject insists on the diacritics, or that they regularly use them (without making a statement about it) and least some English-language sources respect it, that is sufficient for WP to respect it as well, and not side with jingoistic publishers who are trying dumb down their names. We've been over this probably at least 100 times now already, and the WP consensus on these matters in RM after RM after RM is pretty clear. It's the same when it comes to non-Western name order: Do what the living subject prefers, and in absence of stated preference, do what the subject seems to do in English-language works, especially if all the RS do not ignore that choice. We would only override subject preference if no RS took it seriously. The problem with the current RM is that we cannot act either way on unsourced supposition. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 14:15, 23 May 2016 (UTC)
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There was some accidental canvassing done on this topic to sway the !vote in favor of the move. I'm sure it was just not knowing the rules by the editor. I really doubt the notified editors would even give an opinion here once they saw they were canvassed, but just be aware of the situation. Fyunck(click) (talk) 06:41, 21 May 2016 (UTC)
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Kushwaha
Kushwaha (sometimes, Kushvaha) is a community of the Indo-Gangetic Plain that has traditionally been involved in agriculture, including beekeeping. The term has been used to represent different sub-castes of the Kachhis, Kachhvahas, Koeris and Muraos. Under the Indian government's system of positive discrimination, the Kushwahas are classified as a "Backward" or Other backward class. The Kushwaha had worshipped Shiva and Shakta, but beginning in the 20th century, they claim descent from the Suryavansh (Solar) dynasty via Kusha, one of the twin sons of Rama and Sita. At present, it is a broad community formed by coming together of several caste groups with similar occupational backgrounds and socio-economic status, who, over the time, started inter-marrying among themselves and created all India caste network for caste solidarity. The communities which merged into this caste cluster includes Kachhi, Kachhwaha, Kushwaha, Mali, Marrar, Saini, Sonkar, Murai, Shakya, Maurya, Koeri and Panara.
Origin
Before the 20th century CE, branches that form the Kushwaha community – the Kachhis, Koeris, and Muraos – favoured a connection with Shiva and Shakta. In the 20th century, the Kushwaha began to claim descent from the Suryavansh dynasty through Kusha, a son of the mythical Rama, an avatar of Vishnu. In the 1920s, Ganga Prasad Gupta, a proponent of Kushwaha sanskritisation, said Kushwaha families worshiped Hanuman, who Pinch described as "the embodiment of true devotion to Ram and Sita", during Kartika, a month in the Hindu lunar calendar.
Distribution and socio-economic status
William Pinch notes a Kushwaha presence in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, and they are also recorded in Haryana. Outside India, they are found in Terai, Nepal, where they have been officially recorded as Kushwaha and Koiri. They also have significant presence among the Bihari diaspora in Mauritius. The migration of Biharis to neighbouring countries became more pronounced in post-independence India. Small island nations like Mauritius have significant populations of people of Indian origin. The tradition and culture of Hindu migrants in countries like Mauritius is quite different from the Indian subcontinent, including varna status and "social hierarchy", both of which terms have several variations in Mauritius vis a vis India. The traditional ruling elites like Rajputs and Brahmins are politically and economically marginalised in Mauritius, whereas cultivating castes like Koeri, Ahir, Kurmi, Kahar, and others have improved their social and financial position. According to Crispin Bates: "The Vaish are the largest and most influential caste group on the island. Internally the group is divided into Koeri, Kurmi, Kahar, Ahir, Lohar and other jatis. In the past many admitted to Chamar status (as shown by historical records), but recently this seems to have become completely taboo. This group, now commonly known as 'Rajputs', will also sometimes describe themselves as 'Raviveds'. An explanation may lie in the rapid economic growth of the 1980s and 1990s, as well as the lack of positive discrimination measures of the sort seen in India."
The Kushwaha are often associated with the Kurmi caste, which have same socio-economic status in Bihar. Despite having some similarities, the Kushwaha and the Kurmi are different in many aspects. In the early 20th century, socio-economic ascendancy of the Kurmis led them to become landlords. Consequently, they were involved in the formation of a private army called the Bhumi Sena, which perpetrated massacres of Dalits and other atrocities. The Koeris have always led the battle of weaker sections of society against landlords. In districts such as Aurangabad, Bihar, where the feudal system was prevalent, the Kushwaha along with Yadavs have successfully led the Dalits in their armed struggle against landlords.
According to a report of the Institute of Human Development and Studies, the Kushwaha with the per capita income of ₹18,811 are among the highest-earning social groups of Bihar, much above the other important backward castes like Yadavs. They are placed below the upper castes in per capita earning. In regions like Samastipur, Bihar, the Kushwaha are politically strong and are involved with criminality. Author Tilak Das Gupta notes that Koeris of Bihar are known to be an educationally advanced community, along with castes like Awadhia Kurmi and Bania, due to more spread of education among them in contrast with several other communities categorised as Other Backward Class. Amongst various subgroups constituting Kushwaha community, Koeris of Bihar were known to be owner of significant amount of land; they were employers of Schedule Caste labourers and after the land reform drive of North Indian states like Bihar, many new landlords of the post reform period also emerged from within them. In Bihar, many Koeris, who now possess land, education and government jobs have become upwardly mobile and demonstrate upper-caste characteristics.
In Uttar Pradesh
In Uttar Pradesh, the Kushwaha community comprise approximately 8.5% of the state's population. They are distributed across the state and are known as Maurya, Morao, Shakya, Koeri, Kachhi, and Saini in different parts of the state. The community has sizeable presence in almost all of the nineteen assembly constituencies of Bundelkhand region of Uttar Pradesh, which consists seven districts— Jhansi, Hamirpur, Chitrakoot, Jalaun, Banda, Mahoba and Lalitpur.
Madhya Pradesh
The Kushwaha-Maurya community also have a sizeable presence in Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. They are found primarily in areas of the state bordering neighbouring state of Uttar Pradesh.
In 2023, the regional caste organisation of the community in Madhya Pradesh demanded that at least twenty five candidates of the Kushwaha caste should contest the election in 230 membered Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly. The leaders of the organisation declared that they will support only that political party which will provide appropriate representation to them in the government. In the 2018-23 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly, there were eight members of legislative assembly belonging to Kushwaha community. From the Bharatiya Janata Party which was in government, Bharat Singh Kushwah and Ram Kishor Kawre from the community were ministers in Government of Madhya Pradesh. There were two other legislators from the BJP in the Assembly. From the Indian National Congress, there were four legislators in the Assembly, Baijnath Kushwah, Ajab Singh Kushwah, Siddharth Sukhlal Kushwaha, and Hina Kaware.
Economy
According to Arun Sinha, the Koeris were known for their market gardening activities. Since Indian independence, the land reform movement made it difficult for the erstwhile upper-caste landlords to maintain their holdings. The growing pressure from left-wing militants backed by Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation (CPI(ML)) and some local political parties; and the weakening of the Zamindari system made it difficult for them to survive in rural areas. The decades following independence were marked by the urbanisation of upper castes, who sold their unproductive holdings, which were mostly bought by the peasants of cultivating middle castes, who were affluent enough to purchase land. Some of the land was also bought from Muslim families who were migrating to Pakistan. The Koeris, Kurmis, and Yadavs were the main buyers of these lands.
Because the peasant castes considered their land to be their most productive asset, they rarely sold it. The zeal of peasant castes to buy more and more land gradually changed their economic profile, and some of them became "neo-landlords". The peasants attempted to protect their new economic status from those below them, especially the Dalits, who were still mainly landless labourers. The peasants adopted many of the practices of their erstwhile landlords. The pattern of land reform in states like Bihar mainly benefitted the middle castes like the Koeris, and was also responsible for the imperfect mobilisation of backward castes in politics. The space created by Backward castes in electoral politics after 1967 was dominated mainly by these middle-peasant castes, who were the biggest beneficiary of the "politics of socialism", the proponents of which were people like Ram Manohar Lohia. The unequitable political space at the disposal of other "Backward castes" and Scheduled Castes was an implication of these land reforms – according to Varinder Grover: "The pattern of land reforms in Bihar is one of the main reason for imperfect mobilisation of backward castes into the politics. The abolition of all intermediaries had definitely helped the hard working castes like Kurmi, Koeris and Yadav. These small peasant proprietors worked very hard on their land and also drive their labourers hard, and any resistance by agricultural labourers gives rise to the mutual conflicts and atrocities on Harijans."
The differences between upper backward castes and the extremely backward castes, and Dalits, due to unequal distribution of the benefits of land reforms, was a major challenge before the CPI(ML) in mobilisation of collective force of lower castes against the upper-caste landlords. The upper backward castes like Koeri were initially less attached to the CPI(ML) due to their economic progress, and the communists were only successful in mobilising them in regions Patna, Bhojpur, Aurangabad, and Rohtas district. These success were attributed to the widespread dacoity and oppressive attitude of the upper-caste landlords faced by these hardworking caste groups, which prompted them to join revolutionary organisations.
Political presence
The Kushwaha engaged in political action during these latter days of the Raj. Around 1933 and 1934, the Koeris joined with the Kurmis and Yadavs to form the Triveni Sangh, a caste federation that by 1936 claimed to have a million supporters. This coalition followed an alliance for the 1930 local elections, which performed poorly at the polls. The new grouping had little electoral success; it won a few seats in the 1937 elections but was defeated by a two-pronged opposition that saw the rival Indian National Congress (Congress) attracting some of its wealthier leaders to a newly formed unit called the Backward Class Federation, and an effective opposition from upper castes organised to prevent upward mobility of the lower castes. Also, the three putatively allied castes were unable to reconcile their rivalries. The Triveni Sangh also faced competition from the All India Kisan Sabha, a peasant-oriented socio-political campaigning group run by communists. The appeal of the Triveni Sangh had significantly waned by 1947 but had achieved a measure of success outside elections by exerting sufficient influence to bring an end to the begar system of forced, unpaid labour; and by providing a platform for people seeking reservation of jobs in government for non-upper-caste people. In 1965, there was an abortive attempt to revive the defunct federation.
The Kisan Sabha was dominated by peasant castes like the Koeri, Kurmi, and Yadav; historian Gyan Pandey termed them mainly movements of the middle-peasant castes who organised against eviction with limited participation of other communities. The reality, however, was more complex. Dalit communities like the Chamars and Pasis, whose traditional occupations were leatherwork and toddy-tapping respectively, formed a significant portion of the landless peasantry and were significant in the Kisan Sabha, which also included members of the high castes such as Brahmins. The Koeris also had a significant presence in the 1960s Naxalite movement in rural Bihar, particularly in Bhojpur and nearby areas like Arrah, where an economic system dominated by upper-caste landlords was still in place. Here, the communist upsurge against the prevalent feudal system was led by Jagdish Mahto, a Koeri teacher who had read Ambedkar and Marx, and was sympathetic to the cause of Dalits.
Mahto organised his militia under the banner Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) (CPI(ML)), which murdered many upper-caste landlords in the region. These violent clashes demarcated the boundaries between Koeris and Bhumihars in the Ekwaari. For much of the 20th century, the Koeri were generally less effective and less involved in politics than the Kurmis and Yadavs, who broadly shared their socio-economic position in Hindu society. The latter two groups were more vociferous in their actions, including involvement in caste rioting, whilst the Koeris had only a brief prominence during the rise of Jagdeo Prasad. This muted position dramatically changed in the 1990s when the rise to power of Lalu Prasad in Bihar caused an assertion of Yadav-centric policies that demanded a loud reaction.
Earlier, the Koeris were given fair representation in the state governments of Lalu Prasad Yadav and Rabri Devi. The Backward politics of Lalu Prasad Yadav resulted in rise to political prominence of numerous Backward castes, among which the Koeri were prominent. In this period, caste remained the most-effective tool of political mobilisation; some leaders who were theoretically opposed to caste-based politics also appealed to caste loyalties to secure their victory. The Rabri Devi government appointed ten Koeris as ministers in her cabinet, which was sought by many community leaders as a fair representation of the caste. The portrayal of Lalu Prasad Yadav as a "Messiah of Backward castes" lost traction when the Yadav ascendancy in politics led other aspirational Backward castes to move away from his party. During the 1990s, Nitish Kumar, who was projected as the leader of Kurmi and Koeri communities, formed the Samta Party, leading to the isolation of Koeri-Kurmi community from Yadavs and Laloo Prasad.
In the decades following independence, a complete shift of power from upper castes to the "upper Backward castes"; a term coined to describe the Koeri, Yadav, Kurmi, and Bania in Bihar. The transfer of power also occurred at the local level of governance. The upper caste were first to acquire education and initially benefitted from it but with the expansion in electoral franchise and growth of the "party system", they lost support to upper Backward communities. Nepotism and patronage for fellow caste members in government, which had previously been an upper-caste phenomenon, was now available to the upper Backward communities. This phenomenon continued in the 1970s with the premiership of Karpoori Thakur, who had provided 12% reservation to lower Backward castes and 8% to upper Backward castes, in which the Koeri were included. The peak of this patronage was reached during the tenure of Laloo Yadav.
From 1990 onwards, the solidarity of Backward castes was severely weakened due to division among the Koeri-Kurmi community and Yadavs, whose voting patterns were contrasted. When the Samta Party allied with the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP), Koeris voted for this alliance and in the 1996 Lok Sabha elections, the BJP fared well, mostly due to the support of Koeri and Kurmis. The division among Backwards castes also cost their representation in the assemblies. The profile of the Bihar legislative assembly rapidly changed since 1967; until 1995 or 1996, the representation of upper castes was reduced to around 17% but the division among Backwards castes served as a hope to the upper castes to at least increase their representation. The success of the BJP-Samta coalition also consolidated the Koeris and the Kurmis, who merged as a political force in 1996 elections.
Since 1996, Koeris voted en masse for the Janata Dal (United) (JD (U))-BJP coalition. The caste-based polarisation in Bihar and other states moved the dominant Backwards castes away from the Rashtriya Janata Dal and distributed their votes to other political parties. Koeris, who were one of the most-populous caste groups, were shifted first towards the JD (U)-BJP coalition. After the expulsion of Upendra Kushwaha from the JD (U) and the formation of the Rashtriya Lok Samata Party, their votes were distributed amongst the JD (U) and the new social coalition of the BJP with the Lok Janshakti Party and the Rashtriya Lok Samata Party. In the 2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Janata Dal (United) allied with its rival Rashtriya Janata Dal due to differences with the BJP. Due to the social composition of these parties and the core-voter base, this coalition drew immense support from the Yadav, Kurmi, and Kushwaha castes, which rarely voted together after the 1990s. Consequently, the coalition emerged with a massive victory and the number of legislators from these agrarian castes grew compared to previous elections. The coalition was later dissolved and in the 2020 Assembly election, the disunity among the three castes and split of votes led to huge decline in the number of Kushwaha legislators.
Though generally considered as supporters of Janata Dal (United) in Bihar, the Kushwaha community in some of the left-dominated assembly constituencies like Ziradel and Bibhutipur are also core supporters of communist parties— Communist Party of India (Marxist) and Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation; mainly because of the creation of rooted leaders like Ramdeo Verma and Amarjeet Kushwaha from the community by these parties.
According to author and political analyst Prem Kumar Mani, Kushwahas are more acceptable to other caste groups specially the Extremely Backward Castes in Bihar, when it comes to assuming the political leadership of latter. Mani points towards existence of cordial relationship of Kushwahas with the other caste groups in Bihar's villages, where guests of all rural communities are sent to Mahto Ji ka Dalan (a rural living room owned by Kushwahas in popular village culture) to spend the night. As a political bloc, Kushwahas decides the results of elections in at least 63 assembly seats and in half a dozen Lok Sabha seats like Ara, Khagaria, Karakat, Ujiyarpur and Sasaram.
In Khagaria Lok Sabha constituency, a total of five parliamentarians from the community has been elected since 1957, which is second only to Yadav parliamentarians. The Koeri parliamentarians elected from this constituency are Kameshwar Prasad Singh, Chandra Shekhar Prasad Verma, Satish Prasad Singh, Shakuni Choudhary and Renu Kushwaha. In Arrah Lok Sabha constituency from 1951 to 2004 only Koeri and Yadav parliamentarians were elected. The Koeri parliamentarians included Chandradeo Prasad Verma, Haridwar Prasad Singh and Ram Prasad Kushwaha.
In Uttar Pradesh, Kushwaha-Maurya community had been traditional supporters of Bahujan Samaj Party, with Mayawati promoting community leaders like Babu Singh Kushwaha and Swami Prasad Maurya. Maurya was even appointed as National General Secretary of the BSP, in order to placate Kushwahas. Previously, Bahujan Samaj Party founder, Kanshi Ram also gave significant role to community in Uttar Pradesh's caste based politics. In Uttar Pradesh, community is known by various terms like Maurya, Kushwaha, Shakya and Saini. Off late, Bharatiya Janata Party also started promoting leaders of the community; it raised Keshav Prasad Maurya to the post of Deputy Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh and projected him as the representative of Kushwaha and its subgroups, the Kachhi-Shakya-Maurya-Saini-Mali block. Besides these political parties, smaller parties like Mahan Dal led by Keshav Dev Maurya also claims to represent Kushwaha and its subgroups in state.
Culture and beliefs
The central Bihar Backward castes like Koeri are numerically and politically powerful, and reject the traditional Jajmani system, which relies upon the Brahmanical notion of purity and pollution. The Backward caste groups in this region do not use the services of Brahmin priests to perform their rituals; most Koeri households employ a Koeri priest to perform their rituals, and their services are also used by other Backward castes like the Yadav. Koeri priests are different from Brahmin priests in their approval of widow remarriage. They also promote non-vegetarianism and do not grow tuft like Brahmins. Koeri priests also disapprove of the tika – a liquid form of sandalwood on the head – which is made by the Brahmin priests.
In recent times (21st century), Kushwahas of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh have started associating themselves with the Mauryan dynasty. The members of caste claim that they are direct descendant of the third century B.C ruler Chandragupta Maurya and his grandson Ashoka.
Disputed varna status
The Kushwaha were traditionally a peasant community and hence perceived to be of the Shudra varna. Pinch described them as "skilled agriculturalists". This traditional perception of Shudra status was increasingly challenged during the late decades of British Raj rule, although some castes had made claims of a higher status well before the British administration instituted its first census. The Kurmi community of cultivators, described by Christophe Jaffrelot as "middle caste peasants", led this search for greater respectability. According to Pinch; "The concern with personal dignity, community identity, and caste status reached a peak among Kurmi, Yadav, and Kushvaha peasants in the first four decades of the twentieth century".
Identification as Kushwaha Kshatriya
From around 1910, the Kachhis and the Koeris, both of whom had close links with the British for much of the preceding century due to their favoured role in the cultivation of the opium poppy, began to identify themselves as Kushwaha Kshatriya. An organisation claiming to represent those two groups and the Muraos petitioned for official recognition as one of the Kshatriya varna in 1928. This action by the All India Kushwaha Kshatriya Mahasabha (AIKKM) reflected the general trend for social uplift by communities that had traditionally been classified as Shudra. The process, which M. N. Srinivas called sanskritisation, was a feature of late nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century caste politics.
AIKKM's position was based on the concept of Vaishnavism, which promotes the worship and claims of descent from Rama or Krishna to assume the trappings of Kshatriya symbolism and thus permit the wearing of the sacred thread, even though the physical labour inherent in their cultivator occupation defined them as Shudra. The movement caused the Kushwaha to abandon their claim of descent from Shiva in favour of the alternative myth of their descent from Rama. In 1921, Ganga Prasad Gupta, a proponent of Kushwaha sanskritisation, published a book offering proof of the Kshatriya status of the Koeri, Kachhi, Murao, and Kushwaha. His reconstructed history said the Kushwaha were Hindu descendants of Kush, and that in the twelfth century, they served Raja Jayachandra in a military capacity during the Muslim consolidation of the Delhi Sultanate. Subsequent persecution by the victorious Muslims caused the Kushwaha to disperse and disguise their identity, foregoing the sacred thread, and thus becoming degraded and taking on localised community names. Gupta's attempt to prove Kshatriya status, in common with similar attempts by others to establish histories of various castes, was spread via the caste associations, which Dipankar Gupta wrote provided a link between the "urban, politically literate elite" members of a caste and the "less literate villagers". Some communities, such as the Muraos in Ayodhya, also constructed temples in support of these claims.
Some Kushwaha reformers also said, in a similar vein to Kurmi reformer Devi Prasad Sinha Chaudhari, that since Rajputs, Bhumihars, and Brahmins worked the fields in some areas, there was no rational basis for assertions such labour marked a community as being of the Shudra varna. William Pinch described the growth of militancy among agricultural castes in the wake of their claims to Kshatriya status. Castes like Koeris, Kurmis, and Yadavs asserted their Kshatriya status verbally and by joining the British Indian Army as soldiers in large numbers. The growing militancy among the castes led rural Bihar to become an arena of conflict in which numerous caste-based militias surfaced and atrocities against Dalits became normalised. The militias founded during this period were named after folk figures or popular personalities who were revered by the whole community.
Classification as Backward Caste
Kushwahas are classified as an Other Backward Caste (OBC) in some states of India. In 2013, the Haryana government added the Kushwaha, Koeri, and Maurya castes to the list of Backward classes. In Bihar they are categorised as OBC. Sub-castes of Kushwaha community, such as the Kachhi, Shakya, and Koeri, are also categorised as OBC in Uttar Pradesh. | WIKI |
Major League Baseball games longer than ever
First pitch of the best-of-seven World Series, Houston Astros vs. Los Angeles Dodgers, is tonight at 8:09 ET on Fox. " Late show: MLB postseason games stretch to record length," by AP's Ronald Blum: "Don't be surprised if you doze off during one of these World Series games, wake up and discover they're not even at the seventh-inning stretch... the average nine-inning game during the regular-season took 3:05:11, up from 3:00:42 last year and 2:56 in 2015." Potential changes: "Major League Baseball has proposed a 20-second pitch clock and restricting catchers to one trip to the mound per pitcher each inning, rules management can impose unilaterally for 2018." "Advanced analytics have transformed the sport... The average pitches by a starter this postseason is 81, according to Baseball Info Solutions, down from 96 in 2010. The average number of outs by postseason starters has dropped in the same span from 18 to 14." Putting steam on it: "There's a chance [tonight] will be the hottest World Series game on record ... with a forecast between 95 and 97 degrees at first pitch" in L.A.'s Chavez Ravine. "The hottest game-time temperature for a World Series game ... was 94 degrees for Game 1 between the Arizona Diamondbacks and New York Yankees on Oct. 27, 2001." If you love baseball, you gotta click this: "Baseball's greatest teams: one for each franchise": 1906 Cubs, 1912 Red Sox, 1917 White Sox, 1927 Yankees, 1955 Dodgers, 1986 Mets, 1998 Astros, 2011 Phillies, etc. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Unlike most mammalsmarine mammals cannot rely on vision and smell as their main senses. The vision is compromised under slow physical movement of the water. Therefore, marine mammals have evolved to use sounds and hearing as their primary means of communication and sensing their world. Similar to bats.
Whales emit sounds and use its echo to find their way and to hunt. When hitting an object, the sound waves bounces back, allowing the whale to identify the location, shape, and size of the object. The time it takes the sound to come back, helps them determine the distance. This processes is called echolocation.
The sound is generated in the head and modulated by the melon. The echo passes through a connective tissue that is placed in the lower jawbone of the inner ear.
Although all cetaceans use sound to communicate with each other and to find their ways, baleen whales do not use echolocation. Recent studies have discovered that humpback whales actually produce pulses to locate prey in the dark – a method called “Megapclicks”, this has been observed here in Iceland. How they produce this clicks is still unknown.
By listening to the whales sound, the frequency range and wave form of their clicks, whistles and moans, it is possible to distinguish species. With some species its even possible to identified different individuals with sounds and clicks that have been identified as name calls.
Studies on whales are usually carried out with photo identification, but scientists also use acoustic researches. Acoustic researches enables scientists to keep their research unchanged around the clock as acoustic research does not need daylight and is not weather dependent. Also, detectability range of an hydrophone it’s much greater than any marine mammal observation and than, acoustic registry, can sometimes confirm whale sighting when photos have not been sufficiently clear.
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Klaipėda Lighthouse
Klaipėda Lighthouse (Lithuanian: Klaipėdos švyturys) - a lighthouse located in Klaipėda, on the Lithuanian coast of the Baltic Sea; located 500 metres from the coast.
History
The lighthouse in Klaipėda was originally built in 1796, with its first glare shone on September 1, 1796. The lighthouse was the third oldest lighthouse on the coast of the Baltic Sea - with the only two older ones being in Gdańsk and in Travemünde. The original lighting system was made out of six bronze reflectors - however the glare's range was only four kilometres at that time. In 1819 the lighthouse was fitted with a new lighting system made out of thirteen silver-brass plates (used as reflectors) with thirteen kerosene lamps to illuminate the reflectors. The lighthouse was completely destroyed in World War II, it was reconstructed and renovated in 1953. | WIKI |
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McGrane
McGrane is an Irish surname derived from the Mag Raighne Gaelic Sept that was mainly located in the Province of Leinster and in the Counties of Dublin and Louth in particular. It is also found in Ulster where the variant MacGrann is more prevalent.
List of notable people with the surname McGrane
* Bernard McGrane, American sociologist
* Damien McGrane, Irish golfer
* Dave McGrane, Canadian professor
* Dennis McGrane, American Olympic Ski-jumper (1984 and 1988 Olympics)
* Dermot McGrane, English football coach
* Gail McGrane, Scottish reporter
* Ian McGrane, American soccer player
* John McGrane, Canadian soccer player
* Karen McGrane, American content strategist
* Michelle McGrane, Zimbabwean poet
* Paul McGrane, Irish Gaelic footballer
* Phil McGrane, American politician
* Seamus McGrane, Irish dissident republican and leader
* Tomás McGrane, Irish hurler
* Tony McGrane, Australian politician | WIKI |
Although the number of lynchings1 of African Americans in the United States had declined from its twentieth century peak of 106 in the year 1900, by the 1930s, vigilante violence had not disappeared from American life. Between 1933 and 1940, at least 85 African Americans were lynched, 24 of them in 1933 alone.2 As the threat to the Western democracies posed by fascism increased during the 1930s,3 African Americans were well aware that their native country, whose security they might one day be called upon to defend, tolerated mob violence towards its minorities much like Nazi Germany.
On July 19, 1935, an African American man named Rubin Stacy was lynched in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. The details of his murder are typical of the way many lynchings unfolded. According to court records, Stacy knocked on the door of a white woman, Marion Jones, to ask for a drink. She admitted him to the house and went to get the water. Mrs. Jones testified that Stacy then came after her with a pen knife and attempted to assault her. She screamed until Stacy ran off. He was seen hiding in bushes near the highway and reported to the police. After his arrest, Stacy denied having attacked Marion Jones.
Rumors spread that Mrs. Jones had been raped and that vigilantes planned to seize Stacy from the county jail once night fell. It was decided to move him to Miami for his own protection. But before driving him to Miami, Chief Deputy Sheriff Bob Clark took Stacy back to the Jones home. According to newspaper reports, Mrs. Jones received a 25 dollar reward for identifying the suspect, as did each of the deputies who brought him to her house. Stacy was returned to the car which was quickly followed and run off the road. "Masked white men" then "snatched the praying negro from the deputies." They took Stacy back about 10-15 miles where they hanged him.
In 1937, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) selected a photograph4 of the Stacy lynching for a flyer distributed to raise support for passage of the Costigan-Wagner Anti-Lynching Bill, the last of a series of such bills that had failed on the floor of the US Congress since 1922.5
Interviewed fifty years later, witnesses speculated that Sheriff Clark was the leader of the lynch mob. According to one eyewitness, Clark walked to a nearby house where he yanked down the wire clothesline and threw it over a limb of a tree. One end was tightened around Rubin Stacy's neck and his body was raised slowly from the ground. In moments, his neck was broken. Clark then told those present to shoot the body as it swayed from the tree and began passing around his handgun. Seventeen bullets hit their mark.
The governor of Florida ordered an investigation to determine who was responsible for Stacy's death. The coroner's inquest concluded Stacy had died at the hands of "a person or persons unknown." No indictments were handed down. Years later, Marion Jones recanted her story: she stated that Rubin Stacy never attacked her or caused her harm. | FINEWEB-EDU |
Ulta Beauty (ULTA) Up 5.7% Since Earnings Report: Can It Continue?
A month has gone by since the last earnings report for Ulta Beauty Inc.ULTA . Shares have added about 5.7% in that time frame.
Will the recent positive trend continue leading up to its next earnings release, or is ULTA due for a pullback? Before we dive into how investors and analysts have reacted as of late, let's take a quick look at the most recent earnings report in order to get a better handle on the important drivers.
Ulta Beauty Q4 Earnings Miss, Issues FY18 Guidance
Ulta Beauty's earnings history has been consistently impressive with the company having delivered positive earnings surprises for more than three years. However, its bottom line lagged the Zacks Consensus Estimate in fourth-quarter fiscal 2017 while the top line met the consensus mark after a miss in the previous quarter. Also, management provided guidance for first-quarter and fiscal 2018.
Q4 Numbers
Coming to numbers, Ulta Beauty posted adjusted earnings of $2.75 per share, missing the Zacks Consensus Estimate by a couple of cents. However, the metric rose 22.8% year over year. Earnings per share exclude a favorable impact of 65 cents from the tax reform related items.
Net sales of this cosmetics retailer increased 22.6% year over year to $1,937.6 million but were in line with the expectations. Excluding the effect from the 53rd week, the top line improved 15.7%. The year-over-year rise in revenues was driven by solid comps growth and e-commerce sales.
Comps (including stores and e-commerce) were up 8.8% compared with 16.6% in the prior-year quarter. Comps growth came on the back of a favorable traffic and ticket along with store growth and a stupendous e-commerce improvement. During the fiscal fourth quarter, the company registered transaction growth of 6.2% while average ticket was up 2.6%.
Retail business (comprising retail and salon) witnessed comps growth of 4.2%, including 3.2% improvement for salon. Sales for the salon business grew 17.2% to $73.7 million and, excluding the effect from the 53rd week, it rose 8.7%. Also, Ulta Beauty saw a whopping 60.4% surge in e-commerce sales to $248.3 million, reflecting about 460 bps of the total comps growth in the quarter.
Gross profit improved 20.8% year over year to $658.3 million. However, the gross profit margin contracted 50 basis points (bps) to 34% due to deleveraged merchandise margins and one-time bonus payment with respect to tax reforms.
While adjusted operating income increased 19% year over year to $266.7 million, adjusted operating margin declined 40 bps to 13.8%. The contraction in operating margin was due to a fall in gross margin coupled with 60 bps rise in SG&A expenses as a percentage of sales. However, pre-opening expenses dipped 2.3% to $4.3 million.
Other Financials
Ulta Beauty ended fiscal 2017 with cash and cash equivalents of $277.4 million, short-term investments of $120 million and shareholders' equity of $1,774.2 million. Merchandise inventories totaled $1,096.4 million, marking an increase of 16.1% from the year-ago period. Average inventory per store grew 5.3%.
Net cash provided by operating activities came in at roughly $778.2 million in fiscal 2017.
During fiscal 2017, the company bought back 1,503,545 shares for a total of $367.6 million. Additionally, the board has approved a new share buyback authorization worth $625 million on Mar 13, 2018. This new share repurchase program replaces the prior $425 million authorization approved in Mar 2017 wherein about $78.6 million remained outstanding as of Feb 3.
Store Updates
In the fiscal fourth quarter, Ulta Beauty opened 16 new stores. With this, the company stands to operate 1,074 stores at the end of fiscal 2017 while increasing its total square footage by 10% year over year.
Going forward, the company plans to open 100 net new stores plus remodel or relocate 17 outlets in fiscal 2018.
Outlook
Management issued guidance for fiscal 2018 and the first quarter. Ulta Beauty remains impressed with a year-over-year improvement in the top and bottom line owing to continued market share gains and benefits from strategic initiatives. Going ahead, the company expects to use a part of the tax reform gains to invest in people, product innovations as well as other strategies to boost growth.
Further, Ulta Beauty implements a cost optimization plan to benefit the areas of indirect procurement, operational efficiency, real estate expenses and merchandise margins. This plan will likely fuel operating profit margin growth rate in the long run. However, in fiscal 2018, the operating margin is projected to decline at a modest rate. Also, the company remains encouraged to deliver industry leading results in the near term.
For fiscal 2018, the company expects total sales to grow in low teens' percentage with comps growth (including e-commerce) in the range of 6-8%. In the meantime, the company continues to anticipate its e-commerce sales growth by 40%.
Notably, Ulta Beauty expects to adopt Accounting Standards Update 2014-09, Revenue from Contracts with Customers, thereby contributing to sales by roughly $50 million and reducing the operating margin rate by nearly 20 bps. Further, the company plans to deleverage the operating margin rate in the band of 50-70 bps for the fiscal.
Consequently, management envisions GAAP earnings per share to increase in the 20% range, inclusive of nearly $500 million impact from share repurchases. Also, it assumes an effective tax rate of 24% for fiscal 2018.
This apart, Ulta Beauty intends to spend about $375 million toward capital expenditures this year compared with $441 million incurred last year.
For the fiscal first quarter, the company anticipates net sales in the $1,506-$1,519 million band compared with 1,314.9 million in the prior-year quarter. Comps, including e-commerce sales, are predicted to grow 6-7% compared with a 14.3% rise in first-quarter fiscal 2017.
Earnings per share for the impending quarter are expected within $2.43-$2.48 compared with $2.05 in the comparable quarter, last fiscal.
How Have Estimates Been Moving Since Then?
In the past month, investors have witnessed a downward trend in fresh estimates. There have been five revisions higher for the current quarter compared to six lower.
Ulta Beauty Inc. Price and Consensus
Ulta Beauty Inc. Price and Consensus | Ulta Beauty Inc. Quote
VGM Scores
At this time, ULTA has a great Growth Score of A, though it is lagging a lot on the momentum front with a D. The stock was allocated a grade of C on the value side, putting it in the middle 20% for this investment strategy.
Overall, the stock has an aggregate VGM Score of A. If you aren't focused on one strategy, this score is the one you should be interested in.
Our style scores indicate that the stock is more suitable for growth investors than value investors.
Outlook
Estimates have been trending downward for the stock and the magnitude of these revisions indicates a downward shift. Notably, ULTA has a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold). We expect an in-line return from the stock in the next few months.
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Men&aposs lacrosse coaches to form panel to study &aposdisturbing trend&apos in attendance - Chicago Tribune
Attendance at the NCAA men's lacrosse Championship Weekend has declined by almost half over the past six years, and the Intercollegiate Men's Lacrosse Coaches Association intends to do something about it. Calling the attendance nosedive a disturbing trend, the association has announced that it has created a committee to evaluate the championships, specifically the attendance problem. The IMLCA was formed to help build the game of lacrosse and monitor the integrity of the game, so it is with these founding principles that the IMLCA Board of Directors has determined that the Association would be proactive in addressing this disturbing trend, IMLCA Executive Director Phil Buttafuoco said in the release. Individuals from within the coaching community, athletic administrators and the corporate world are being invited to participate on the panel, according to the release, which states: The IMLCA anticipates the committee will conduct several conference calls during the months of June and July and submit a position paper to the NCAA for consideration during the summer meeting of the NCAA Divisions I, II and III Men's Lacrosse Committees. This year's Division I championships at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia had a total attendance of 56,668 (28,444 for the semifinals and 28,224 for the title game). That's about 44 percent fewer fans than attended the 2007 Championship Weekend in Baltimore, which set a record for sport's final four by drawing 100,447 to M&T Bank Stadium. In a post last month, The Sun's Edward Lee looked at several possible reasons for the attendance decline and suggested a solution: Move the championships to smaller venues such as Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium in Annapolis (34,000 seats), Rutgers' High Point Solutions Stadium in New Brunswick, N.J., (52,000) and Maryland's Byrd Stadium in College Park (54,000). Meanwhile, the state of Maryland is angling to make itself the semi-permanent home of both the men's and women's championships, The Sun's Jeff Barker reported in May. The host city or cities for the 2014-15 through 2017-18 championships will be announced in December. Here's a look at the attendance figures since the NCAA moved Championship Weekend to NFL stadiums for the 2003 season: NCAA Division I Championship Weekend attendance Host city Year Semifinals Finals Total Philadelphia 2013 28,444 28,224 56,668 Foxborough 2012 31,774 30,816 62,590 Baltimore 2011 45,039 35,661 80,700 Baltimore 2010 44,389 37,126 81,515 Foxborough 2009 36,594 41,935 78,529 Foxborough 2008 48,224 48,970 97,194 Baltimore 2007 52,004 48,443 100,447 Philadelphia 2006 49,562 47,062 96,624 Philadelphia 2005 45,275 44,920 90,195 Baltimore 2004 46,923 43,898 90,821 Baltimore 2003 37,823 37,944 75,767 | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
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