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/html/html/xmlns:> XHTML пространство имён_
Атрибут xmlns
Синтаксис
XHTML
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head> ... </head>
<body> ... </body>
</html>
Описание
Атрибут / параметр xmlns указывает пространство имён XHTML документа.
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Спецификация
Верс. Раздел
HTML
2.0 Document Element: HTML
3.2 The Structure of HTML documents
4.01 7.3 The HTML element
5.0 4.1.1 The html element
5.1 4.1.1. The html element
XHTML
1.0 3.1.1. Strictly Conforming Documents
DTD: Transitional Strict Frameset
1.1 2.1.1. Strictly Conforming Documents
Значения
В качестве значения указывается следующий URI-адрес: «http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml».
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Листинг кода
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Параметр xmlns (Элемент html)</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Xmlns декларация</h1>
<div style="border: 1px solid green;">Данный XHTML-документ использует XHTML 1.1 версию.</div>
</body>
</html>
Параметр xmlns (Элемент html) | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Small Bearings Are A Big Deal
It has been said that good things often come in small packages and this is very true when it comes to bearings. While bearings come in many different sizes, from miniature all the way up to very large bearings, just because a bearing is bigger doesn’t mean it is better than its smaller counterparts. Small bearings are just as important to helping equipment and machines run properly as the larger bearings.
Small Bearings may not seem like they could do much good when used in a large machine, but they are essential to making it run properly and get the job done right. One place where you might find small bearings is in your household tools. Many people don’t realize that bearings are a key component of any drill, much less one that you may have in your home, but bearings are one of the most important parts.
Bearings, no matter what size they may be, keep machines running smoothly. They help to keep the other moving parts going as long as the machine is turned on. Because bearings are round, they are often referred to as ball bearings. Their job is to help push the other parts along the proper path. If they are working between two moving parts that are going in opposite directions, the bearings roll along both parts and keep them offering resistance to each other.
But bearings cannot do all of the work of reducing friction between the two parts. The key to make the bearings work well in their job is lubrication. Without the proper lubrication, the bearings as well as the other moving parts could wear out easily and have to be replaced more frequently. Lubricating the bearings means a longer life for both bearings and the machine.
When using lubricant on bearings in machines of any size, be sure that you purchase the correct type of lubricant for your specific need. With so many different machines and equipment using bearings, not only do you need to pay attention to what type of bearings you use, but that each kind of bearing may require a different type of lubricant. Take some time to research what type of lubricant is best for your bearings.
When you need to replace small bearings or bearings of any size, you may want to hire a professional to do the job. While most people think they can handle the job, it is not as simple as it sounds. Bearings need to be replaced in specific manner so that they will work properly after installation. If you have replaced bearings before, but not the same type that you are currently working with, spend time researching how to install these specific bearings.
Shanghai Lily Bearing Manufacturing Company offers small bearings to countries around the world. Learn more at http://en.lily-bearing.com.
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SGI Virtu
SGI Virtu is a computer product line from Silicon Graphics dedicated to visualization, announced in April 2008. It represents a return of Silicon Graphics to the visualization market after several years of focus on high-performance computing.
SGI Virtu workstations effectively replaced the SGI Fuel, SGI Tezro and SGI Prism workstations that were discontinued in 2006.
The Virtu range consists of a rack-mounted server configuration (Virtu VN200) and four workstation configurations (Virtu VS series). The latter are re-badged systems from BOXX Technologies, based on Intel Xeon or AMD Opteron processors and Nvidia Quadro graphics chipsets, running Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server or Windows Compute Cluster Server.
SGI Virtu VN200
SGI Virtu VN200 is a high density node installed in a rack-mounted enclosure. Five nodes are supported in the 4U enclosure.
The node itself is based on a two-way Intel Xeon 5400 architecture and supports Nvidia Quadro graphic cards and is intended to be clustered.
SGI Virtu VS
The SGI Virtu VS series are the workstation models of the product line. Virtu VS100 is based on a two-way Quad Core Intel Xeon architecture. Virtu VS200 is a two-way AMD Opteron configuration, Virtu VS300 a four-way AMD Opteron and Virtu VS350 is an eight-way AMD Opteron configuration. All systems accept the full range of Nvidia Quadro Plex and Nvidia Quadro graphic solutions. NVIDIA SLI is supported. | WIKI |
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like a citizen at a turtle feast. He is indeed seldom incommoded by corpulence. Poverty preserves him from sinking under the burden of himself, but he escapes no other injury of time. Instances of long life are often related, which those who hear them are more willing to credit than examine. To be told that any man has attained a hundred years, gives hope and comfort to him who stands trembling on the brink of his own climacterick.
Length of life is distributed impartially to very different modes of life in very different climates; and the mountains have no greater examples of age and health than the low lands, where I was introduced to two ladies of high quality; one of whom, in her ninety-fourth year, presided at her table with the full exercise of all her powers; and the other has attained her eighty-fourth, without any diminution of her vivacity, | WIKI |
Genevieve Garvan Brady
Genevieve Brady, Duchess of the Holy Roman Church (later Macaulay, née Garvan; April 11, 1880 – November 24, 1938) was an American philanthropist and patron of Catholic charities. She served as the Vice President of the Welfare Council of New York, as Vice Chair of the National Women's Committee on Welfare and Relief Mobilization, and as Board Chair of the Girl Scouts of the USA. In 1926 she was ennobled by Pope Pius XI, becoming a papal duchess in her own right. In 1934 she became the first woman to receive an honorary degree from Georgetown University.
Biography
Genevieve Garvan was born on April 11, 1880, in Hartford, Connecticut. Her brother was Francis Patrick Garvan. A sister joined the Sisters of Mercy in Hartford, Connecticut. She was raised in the Catholic faith. She attended the Sacred Heart Convent in Providence, Rhode Island, and graduated from the College of the Sacred Heart in Westchester County, New York, before pursuing further studies in Dresden and Paris.
Garvan married Nicholas Frederic Brady on August 11, 1906. Her husband, who was raised Episcopalian, converted to Catholicism before their wedding.
During World War I she purchased the Old Colony Club in New York City and lent it to the United States government as a mobilization center for nurses training for service in Europe. After the war she was decorated by the French government for her financial aid to refugees and was awarded the Order of the Crown by Albert I of Belgium.
In the 1920s, Garvan and her husband spent winters at the palace Casa del Sole in Rome to work within Vatican affairs. Her husband, who was later given the title of papal duke, was the first American to be inducted into the Supreme Order of Christ, the highest chivalric order awarded by the Pope. She was made a papal duchess in 1926 by Pope Pius XI. She was also made a Dame of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, a Dame of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre, and received the Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice.
Under First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt she served as vice chair of the National Women's Committee on Welfare and Relief Mobilization.
She was the founder of the Carroll Club, a society for Catholic businesswomen, and the board chair for the Girl Scouts of the USA. In 1936, a property she donated to the Girl Scouts was named Camp Genevieve Brady in her honor. She served as vice president of the Welfare Council of New York. In 1934, she received the University of Notre Dame's Laetare Medal as the most notable lay Catholic in America. That year, she also received an honorary Doctor of Law degree from Georgetown University president W. Coleman Nevils, the first woman awarded an honorary degree at the university.
She and her husband lived at 910 Fifth Avenue in New York City and at Inisfada, their Tudor Revival estate in Manhasset, New York. They entertained and hosted various high-ranking Catholic officials, including Francis Spellman and the future Pope Pius XII. In 1937, she gifted the estate, including 250 acres of land and an 87-room mansion, to the New York Province of the Society of Jesus, which used it as a seminary before converting it into the St. Ignatius Jesuit Retreat House in 1963. Its chapel was dedicated to St. Genevieve.
Her husband died in 1930, leaving her his entire estate valued at $12 million. She, in turn, donated 95 works of art that same year to the newly established Jesuit novitiate in Wernersville, Pennsylvania, one of which was later identified as the work of Tintoretto. On March 6, 1937, Brady married William Babington Macaulay, the Irish Free State minister to the Vatican, in a private ceremony witnessed only by clergy and held without notice because Macaulay's presence was required in Rome.
She died in Rome on November 24, 1938, after a brief illness. She was buried next to her first husband in a crypt below the main altar at the Novitiate of St. Isaac Jogues in Wernersville, Pennsylvania. A plaque at the Church of St. Patrick in Rome commemorates her financial contributions to the Catholic Church. Her estate was valued at almost $6 million, much of it bequeathed to the Carroll Club and other charities. | WIKI |
King's Scholar (Westminster School)
The Kings's Scholarships (or Queen's Scholarships) are forty-eight scholarships (eight per year until Sixth Form, then twelve per year) at Westminster School, (re)founded in 1560 by Queen Elizabeth I. The scholars take part in each coronation in Westminster Abbey, acclaiming the new monarch by shouting "Vivat". They also have the right to observe Parliament. They have the abbreviation KS (formerly QS) on school lists; their house is "College".
Twelve- and thirteen-year-old boys annually compete for eight of the annual scholarships in a competitive entrance examination known as the Challenge. Fifteen- and sixteen-year-old girls compete for the other four scholarships, which are awarded to the top four students in subject-specific Sixth Form entrance exams. For 400 years the best of the scholars were elected to closed scholarships at Christ Church, Oxford, and Trinity College, Cambridge; since the 1970s, Westminster School boys and girls must win open Oxbridge scholarships by public examination.
Prior to 2017, only 40 scholarships were available, and all were awarded to boys sitting the Challenge. The four Sixth Form girls' scholarships were launched in 2017.
During the reign of a queen, the King's Scholars become Queen's Scholars, in contrast to the earlier King's Scholarships at Eton College who retain that title in honour of their royal founder even when the current monarch is a queen.
Notable King's or Queen's Scholars
* Richard Hakluyt (1553–1616), Elizabethan writer
* George Herbert (1593–1633), poet and priest
* William Cartwright (1611–1643), poet and dramatist
* Abraham Cowley (1618–1667), poet
* John Dryden (1631–1700), poet and playwright
* John Locke (1632–1704), philosopher
* Robert South (1634–1716), priest and Latin poet
* Robert Hooke (1635–1703), scientist and polymath
* Warren Hastings (1732–1818), Governor of Calcutta
* George Cotton (1813–1866), headmaster and Bishop
* A. A. Milne (1882–1956), children's author
* John Spedan Lewis (1885–1963), founder of the John Lewis Partnership
* Edgar Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian (1889–1977), Nobel Prize-winning scientist
* Kim Philby (1912–1988), Russian spy
* Jonathan Ashmore (born 1948), physicist
* Andrew Lloyd Webber (born 1948), composer
* David Neuberger (born 1948), President of the Supreme Court
* Dominic Grieve (born 1956), barrister and former MP
* Ian Bostridge (born 1964), tenor
* Alastair Sooke (born 1981), art critic | WIKI |
Back in the late 19th Century the lumber industry was the biggest industry in the area. Hundreds of men worked in the industry doing things from cooking, scouting, milling, and cutting lumber. Most men were ok with how their jobs were doing, but some realized that their working conditions were atrocious. These men realized that they were working for upwards of twelve hours a day for six days a week. They also received their pay irregularly and some times it wasn’t even American dollars. These men were the ones that convinced the others to strike.
These men were excited by the “Ten Hour Law” with would limit the work day to ten hours. What the men didn’t realize was the fact that there was a loophole where the companies could force workers to work more than that if they were contracted to work more. The men wanted the law to be enacted as soon as the law came to be, not just in the beginning of the next season like the law stated. Because of this the men decided to rebel and stand up for their rights.
The strike first started as just a few disgruntled workers from a single lumber mill, but as they protested they attracted hundreds of people from surrounding mills. As their cause gained momentum they got the attention of the lumber barons who owned the mills in the area. The barons got upset because their source of labor wasn’t doing anything, so they weren’t making any money. They couldn’t hire any new people because the members of the strike were harassing the people who were not participating.
The police were sent to deal with the members of the strikes on multiple occasions, however their hands were tied most of the time due to regulations and orders from superiors. The barons hired the Pinkerton detectives to help deal with the threat of the strike members who got quite violent. The barons were forced to fire the Pinkerton detectives after a while due to the fact they were mercenaries.
Eventually the Strike was quelled after Governor Alger, a fellow lumber man, came and convinced the strike members their actions were illegal and warranted militia interference. The strike members realized that they still need the job and most came back willing to work. To their dismay however their strike did very little. They still had to work more than ten hours due to a loop hole and they didn’t get a wage increase. However the lumber barons did let them get a more consistent pay.
Sadly the whole force of the Bay Area lumber workers was nothing compared to the stubbornness of the lumber barons. The barons even recouped their losses due to the fact that they didn’t have to pay their workers for the whole length of the strike. However due to such extreme lumbering the forests and supplies of lumber would be depleted in a few years.
9 thoughts on “Lumber Strikes in the Bay Area”
I really think life was way harder back in the 19th century. The time amount of labor that hundreds of men did, really didn’t accumulate to what they should of actually been paid. Modern day the most hours people who work are 12 hour shifts. I’m pretty sure without all of the digital technology we have today they may could of worked 17+ hours in a day. That’s unattainable for any person, and I’m certain it drains the mind and body. I feel for the men who stood up for the 10 hour Law because they were getting paid less for more work.
Being a Lumberman in the 19th century must have been extremely hard labor. Constantly lifting heavy logs and everything that comes with it. In your first paragraph you mentioned how the workers earned their pay irregular and sometimes not even in the proper currency. That astounds me, putting in all that hard work and sometimes not even being able to show for it. I would have joined the people who were in the strike, the lumber barons had no right to keep pay and extract as much as they could from the workers.
Having been born and raised in Saginaw, I never knew of the national attention the lumber workers drew to our community during their strike in 1885. We even have a high school named after Arthur Hill, one of the lumber barons referenced who fought the workers’ revolt. In researching Hill, I found no mention of his involvement in the strike. The reason I cite this is to underscore the major imbalance of power between common laborers and the wealthy lumber employers during that time.
I can’t imagine being a Lumberman back in the 19th century. I think back then men and women manually worked harder because of lack of technology but the way they were paid was wrongful and unjust. With the way times are now that would never go over very well with the laws and unions we have to protect us. I do think Lumberman workers still work hard and long hours because of it being a seasonal job but they have equipment to make it easier and they get paid for the long hours they work. I myself would of joined the strike. As the Lumber Barons, I could not live with the conscious of knowing how wrongfully they treated their worker.
I enjoyed reading your blog. The strike by the lumbermen was short-lived and became violent at times. There was very little improvement for the lumbermen because of the strike. The one advantage that they did enjoy however was that people became aware of their situation. This created an environment where other lumbermen would be able to contract for better work conditions. The initial disgruntled few who started the strike probably gained no real advantage. They bravely stood up to the people with money and power and were able to, at the very least, negotiate a ten hour work day. The big problem was that the loopholes in the contract basically made it a no win situation for the lumbermen. Many did not stand in solidarity with the union and went back in order to keep their jobs. I have studied several strikes over the years and have found that the unions almost always create small improvement over a long period of time. It is the rare strike that creates rapid whole sale improvement for the workers.
The lumber strike exposed how unfair the working conditions were in the state of Michigan and how much power the employers really had over their workers in the early 19th century. It was very interesting reading your blog post stating the governors involvement in the strike. Governor Alger seemed to seek the economical benefit of the lumber mills as compared to the needs of his people. It is sad to see that such a good opportunity for fair working conditions and pay be pushed aside so easily, even by the political powers of the state.
I couldn’t imagine working at a lumber mill for upwards of 72 hours a week, thats insane. That would be enough to drive anyone crazy with that much physical exhaustion. Its too bad that the workers didn’t really gain what they strived for in the end, but they sure put up a heck of a fight. Its unfortunate that this was at a time where the government wasn’t really as focused on making people comfortable while working, rather than making their pockets a little deeper.
I never have really understood companies taking advantage of workers, and I never have understood people working for companies who take advantage. I understand jobs were scarce, and that it was scary to strike without pay. However, in a free market, these things should take care of themselves it just takes time. I get it though, I get the striking, and I get the desperation that can manifest from working such long, demanding hours, for inconsistent pay. Ford paid his workers more than anyone at the time by far. It only takes someone smart enough to pave the way.
Sometimes I truly wonder what it would be like to live during this time. Working 12 hours a day for 6 days a week? I can barely work 8 hours on some days without giving out. I can’t imagine doing that almost every day and without regulated pay? The men of the past were truly cut from something different from the people of today. | FINEWEB-EDU |
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//========================================================================
//
// UnicodeMap.cc
//
// Copyright 2001-2003 Glyph & Cog, LLC
//
//========================================================================
//========================================================================
//
// Modified under the Poppler project - http://poppler.freedesktop.org
//
// All changes made under the Poppler project to this file are licensed
// under GPL version 2 or later
//
// Copyright (C) 2010 Jakub Wilk <jwilk@jwilk.net>
// Copyright (C) 2017-2020, 2022 Albert Astals Cid <aacid@kde.org>
// Copyright (C) 2017 Adrian Johnson <ajohnson@redneon.com>
// Copyright (C) 2017 Jean Ghali <jghali@libertysurf.fr>
// Copyright (C) 2018 Adam Reichold <adam.reichold@t-online.de>
// Copyright (C) 2019 Oliver Sander <oliver.sander@tu-dresden.de>
// Copyright (C) 2019 Volker Krause <vkrause@kde.org>
//
// To see a description of the changes please see the Changelog file that
// came with your tarball or type make ChangeLog if you are building from git
//
//========================================================================
#include <config.h>
#include <cstdio>
#include <cstring>
#include "goo/glibc.h"
#include "goo/gmem.h"
#include "goo/gfile.h"
#include "goo/GooString.h"
#include "Error.h"
#include "GlobalParams.h"
#include "UnicodeMap.h"
//------------------------------------------------------------------------
#define maxExtCode 16
struct UnicodeMapExt
{
Unicode u; // Unicode char
char code[maxExtCode];
unsigned int nBytes;
};
//------------------------------------------------------------------------
std::unique_ptr<UnicodeMap> UnicodeMap::parse(const std::string &encodingNameA)
{
FILE *f;
UnicodeMapRange *range;
UnicodeMapExt *eMap;
int size, eMapsSize;
char buf[256];
int line, nBytes, i;
char *tok1, *tok2, *tok3;
char *tokptr;
if (!(f = globalParams->getUnicodeMapFile(encodingNameA))) {
error(errSyntaxError, -1, "Couldn't find unicodeMap file for the '{0:s}' encoding", encodingNameA.c_str());
return {};
}
auto map = std::unique_ptr<UnicodeMap>(new UnicodeMap(encodingNameA));
size = 8;
UnicodeMapRange *customRanges = (UnicodeMapRange *)gmallocn(size, sizeof(UnicodeMapRange));
eMapsSize = 0;
line = 1;
while (getLine(buf, sizeof(buf), f)) {
if ((tok1 = strtok_r(buf, " \t\r\n", &tokptr)) && (tok2 = strtok_r(nullptr, " \t\r\n", &tokptr))) {
if (!(tok3 = strtok_r(nullptr, " \t\r\n", &tokptr))) {
tok3 = tok2;
tok2 = tok1;
}
nBytes = strlen(tok3) / 2;
if (nBytes <= 4) {
if (map->len == size) {
size *= 2;
customRanges = (UnicodeMapRange *)greallocn(customRanges, size, sizeof(UnicodeMapRange));
}
range = &customRanges[map->len];
sscanf(tok1, "%x", &range->start);
sscanf(tok2, "%x", &range->end);
sscanf(tok3, "%x", &range->code);
range->nBytes = nBytes;
++map->len;
} else if (tok2 == tok1) {
if (map->eMapsLen == eMapsSize) {
eMapsSize += 16;
map->eMaps = (UnicodeMapExt *)greallocn(map->eMaps, eMapsSize, sizeof(UnicodeMapExt));
}
eMap = &map->eMaps[map->eMapsLen];
sscanf(tok1, "%x", &eMap->u);
for (i = 0; i < nBytes; ++i) {
unsigned int x;
sscanf(tok3 + i * 2, "%2x", &x);
eMap->code[i] = (char)x;
}
eMap->nBytes = nBytes;
++map->eMapsLen;
} else {
error(errSyntaxError, -1, "Bad line ({0:d}) in unicodeMap file for the '{1:s}' encoding", line, encodingNameA.c_str());
}
} else {
error(errSyntaxError, -1, "Bad line ({0:d}) in unicodeMap file for the '{1:s}' encoding", line, encodingNameA.c_str());
}
++line;
}
fclose(f);
map->ranges = customRanges;
return map;
}
UnicodeMap::UnicodeMap(const std::string &encodingNameA)
{
encodingName = encodingNameA;
unicodeOut = false;
kind = unicodeMapUser;
ranges = nullptr;
len = 0;
eMaps = nullptr;
eMapsLen = 0;
}
UnicodeMap::UnicodeMap(const char *encodingNameA, bool unicodeOutA, const UnicodeMapRange *rangesA, int lenA)
{
encodingName = encodingNameA;
unicodeOut = unicodeOutA;
kind = unicodeMapResident;
ranges = rangesA;
len = lenA;
eMaps = nullptr;
eMapsLen = 0;
}
UnicodeMap::UnicodeMap(const char *encodingNameA, bool unicodeOutA, UnicodeMapFunc funcA)
{
encodingName = encodingNameA;
unicodeOut = unicodeOutA;
kind = unicodeMapFunc;
func = funcA;
eMaps = nullptr;
eMapsLen = 0;
}
UnicodeMap::~UnicodeMap()
{
if (kind == unicodeMapUser && ranges) {
gfree(const_cast<UnicodeMapRange *>(ranges));
}
if (eMaps) {
gfree(eMaps);
}
}
UnicodeMap::UnicodeMap(UnicodeMap &&other) noexcept : encodingName { std::move(other.encodingName) }, kind { other.kind }, unicodeOut { other.unicodeOut }, len { other.len }, eMaps { other.eMaps }, eMapsLen { other.eMapsLen }
{
switch (kind) {
case unicodeMapUser:
case unicodeMapResident:
ranges = other.ranges;
other.ranges = nullptr;
break;
case unicodeMapFunc:
func = other.func;
break;
}
other.eMaps = nullptr;
}
UnicodeMap &UnicodeMap::operator=(UnicodeMap &&other) noexcept
{
if (this != &other)
swap(other);
return *this;
}
void UnicodeMap::swap(UnicodeMap &other) noexcept
{
using std::swap;
swap(encodingName, other.encodingName);
swap(unicodeOut, other.unicodeOut);
switch (kind) {
case unicodeMapUser:
case unicodeMapResident:
switch (other.kind) {
case unicodeMapUser:
case unicodeMapResident:
swap(ranges, other.ranges);
break;
case unicodeMapFunc: {
const auto tmp = ranges;
func = other.func;
other.ranges = tmp;
break;
}
}
break;
case unicodeMapFunc:
switch (other.kind) {
case unicodeMapUser:
case unicodeMapResident: {
const auto tmp = func;
ranges = other.ranges;
other.func = tmp;
break;
}
case unicodeMapFunc:
swap(func, other.func);
break;
}
break;
}
swap(kind, other.kind);
swap(len, other.len);
swap(eMaps, other.eMaps);
swap(eMapsLen, other.eMapsLen);
}
bool UnicodeMap::match(const std::string &encodingNameA) const
{
return encodingName == encodingNameA;
}
int UnicodeMap::mapUnicode(Unicode u, char *buf, int bufSize) const
{
int a, b, m, n, i, j;
unsigned int code;
if (kind == unicodeMapFunc) {
return (*func)(u, buf, bufSize);
}
a = 0;
b = len;
if (u >= ranges[a].start) {
// invariant: ranges[a].start <= u < ranges[b].start
while (b - a > 1) {
m = (a + b) / 2;
if (u >= ranges[m].start) {
a = m;
} else if (u < ranges[m].start) {
b = m;
}
}
if (u <= ranges[a].end) {
n = ranges[a].nBytes;
if (n > bufSize) {
return 0;
}
code = ranges[a].code + (u - ranges[a].start);
for (i = n - 1; i >= 0; --i) {
buf[i] = (char)(code & 0xff);
code >>= 8;
}
return n;
}
}
for (i = 0; i < eMapsLen; ++i) {
if (eMaps[i].u == u) {
n = eMaps[i].nBytes;
for (j = 0; j < n; ++j) {
buf[j] = eMaps[i].code[j];
}
return n;
}
}
return 0;
}
//------------------------------------------------------------------------
UnicodeMapCache::UnicodeMapCache() { }
const UnicodeMap *UnicodeMapCache::getUnicodeMap(const std::string &encodingName)
{
for (const std::unique_ptr<UnicodeMap> &map : cache) {
if (map->match(encodingName)) {
return map.get();
}
}
std::unique_ptr<UnicodeMap> map = UnicodeMap::parse(encodingName);
if (map) {
UnicodeMap *m = map.get();
cache.emplace_back(std::move(map));
return m;
}
return nullptr;
} | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Checkbox Widget
Use a checkbox to turn on/off the visibility of meshes in a scene.
See pyvista.WidgetHelper.add_checkbox_button_widget() for more details.
# sphinx_gallery_thumbnail_number = 2
import pyvista as pv
Single Checkbox
mesh = pv.Sphere()
p = pv.Plotter()
actor = p.add_mesh(mesh)
def toggle_vis(flag):
actor.SetVisibility(flag)
p.add_checkbox_button_widget(toggle_vis, value=True)
p.show()
checkbox widget
Out:
[(1.9264490110725325, 1.9264490110725325, 1.9264490110725325),
(0.0, 0.0, 0.0),
(0.0, 0.0, 1.0)]
Multiple Checkboxes
In this example, we will add many meshes to a scene with unique colors and create corresponding checkboxes for those meshes of the same color to toggle their visibility in the scene.
colors = [["ff0000", "28e5da", "0000ff"],
["ffff00", "c8bebe", "f79292"],
["fffff0", "f18c1d", "23dcaa"],
["d785ec", "9d5b13", "e4e0b1"],
["894509", "af45f5", "fff000"]]
class SetVisibilityCallback:
"""Helper callback to keep a reference to the actor being modified."""
def __init__(self, actor):
self.actor = actor
def __call__(self, state):
self.actor.SetVisibility(state)
# Widget size
size = 50
p = pv.Plotter()
Startpos = 12
for i, lst in enumerate(colors):
for j, color in enumerate(lst):
actor = p.add_mesh(pv.Sphere(center=(i, j, 0)), color=color)
# Make a separate callback for each widget
callback = SetVisibilityCallback(actor)
p.add_checkbox_button_widget(callback, value=True,
position=(5.0, Startpos), size=size,
border_size=1,
color_on=color,
color_off='grey',
background_color='grey')
Startpos = Startpos + size + (size // 10)
p.show()
checkbox widget
Out:
[(8.593226343715338, 7.593226418221144, 6.593226388418822),
(1.9999999552965164, 1.0000000298023224, 0.0),
(0.0, 0.0, 1.0)]
Total running time of the script: ( 0 minutes 0.889 seconds)
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Talk:Fantastic Mr Fox
Article merge
I just merged this article from "Fantastic Mr Fox" (no period after "Mr"). This appears to be the original title of the book from 1970, though the book is now published using "Mr." with a period, and is being adapted into a film with a period in the name. The name with a period is now common usage, though the history of the title may deserve mention in the article. --Tarnas 00:20, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
I believe this should be changed back to "Mr". The version I have (a modern UK reprint) has the title with "Mr" and throughout the text it is written as "Mr"; this is in fact the correct usage since an abbreviation which shares its last letter with that of the word it's abbreviating does not have a full-stop. I don't see why a film or incorrect use should be influential in the matter. Halfabeet (talk) 21:28, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
* British English largely doesn't use full stops with abbreviations, American English does. The book is written in English and I would assume all over the Commonwealth as Mr Fox, whereas the film is American and so will rightfully, if annoyingly, have the full stop or period in the title. This should definitely be moved back though as the image shows the current printing of the Penguin book. Tony2Times (talk) 18:00, 9 August 2009 (UTC)
In Australian English also, the full-stop is not required unless the last letter of the abbreviation is not the same as the last letter of the word. —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 09:12, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
WikiProject class rating
This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as stub, and the rating on other projects was brought up to Stub class. BetacommandBot 13:36, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
Moral relativism
There is an underlying theme in the book which deserves mention, the Fox adheres to no common standard of morality. Stealing is justified on principle that his family is hungry, so stealing is not wrong. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 06:17, 28 August 2010 (UTC)
Opera: “the only adaptation with origins in the US”?
I don’t understand what “the only adaptation with origins in the US”, means in reference to the opera? The film (albeit that the animation was performed in England) is an American film, and listed as such in its own Wikipedia article, so why single out the opera? Secondly, even if it were, why is it of any relevance? Jock123 (talk) 18:16, 7 July 2012 (UTC)
British English
As the title is British English (no full-stop(period)) and the author was British the article should be in British English. Tag added JAC Esquire (talk) 09:28, 13 September 2012 (UTC)
Television Series'
There was an animated television series released on ITV in the UK in the 1980's, I was wondering if anyone can help me chase up some notable details at all? Also, it was on the BBC children's show Jackanory.--<IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 23:58, 24 September 2012 (UTC)
Moral of the Story
It seems like Dahl never really looked out for any moral principal about the story. The approach was more towards writing an adventurous and engaging story for children, and Fantastic Mr Fox did that job. In the evidence where the story was rewritten, and almost fifty changes were made to make it more appropriate for children to read and justifying stealings by Mr Fox proves it enough. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aakrati Sharma (talk • contribs)
* I'm not really sure how this is relevant to the article? There's no discussion of this story having a moral currently. Can you please elaborate on your concerns? DonIago (talk) 17:33, 25 March 2024 (UTC) | WIKI |
Thomas Jefferson used this phrase in the Declaration of Independence.
Thomas Jefferson was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence. The Declaration states, "We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness…." also " Elizabeth Cady Stanton read a bold statement of purpose. Modelled on the Declaration of Independence, this Declaration of Sentiments stated, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal."
He wrote just what he meant that " men" were created equal. This didn't mean slaves or women.
Atticus...(Scout and Jems dad)
Men. Women and slaves were not equal. Just men were equal.
It means God created ALL men equal
people who wrote the decleration of independence did. they belived that because all people were created equal in gods eyes no one was better than the other.
The declaration of independence says that all men are created equal.
when thomas Jefferson said "that all men are created equal" he meant that all mankind was created equal.
what groups were not included in "all men are created equal"
Thomas Jefferson, and Martin Luther King Jr. said that, "All men are created equal." :)
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
When Jefferson says "all men are created equal", he refers to the fact that all people should be given equal rights and be treated fairly.
men have equal abilities
Yes it does because it says in the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence that "all men are created equal."
He meant exactly what he said that all men (everyone) was treated farily.It's plain and simple.
The quotation uses the term "Man" to mean "Mankind" - or human beings. Yes, women and men are all created equal.
Since 98% of the population were farmers the statement had no effect.
"all men are created equal"
The President that first said all men are created equal was Thomas Jefferson. He was the third president of the United States.
Yes, it said something like and all men are created equal under the creator. Something close to that if not that exactly.
In the Declaration of Independence all men are created equal means that everyone has the same rights | FINEWEB-EDU |
Metabolic Syndrome and Diabetic Atherothrombosis: Implications in Vascular Complications | Bentham Science
Metabolic Syndrome and Diabetic Atherothrombosis: Implications in Vascular Complications
Author(s): P. Meerarani, J. J. Badimon, E. Zias, V. Fuster, P. R. Moreno
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Metabolic syndrome is characterized by the clustering of a number of metabolic abnormalities in the presence of underlying insulin resistance with a strong association with diabetes and cardiovascular disease morbidity and mortality. The disorder is defined in different ways, but the pathophysiology is attributable to insulin resistance. An increased release of free fatty acids (FFAs) from adipocytes block insulin signal transduction pathway, induce endothelial dysfunction due to increased reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation and oxidative stress. Dyslipidemia, associated with high levels of triglycerides and low concentrations of high density lipoproteins (HDLs), contributes to a proinflammatory state. Inflammation, the key pathogenic component of atherosclerosis, promotes thrombosis, a process that underlies acute coronary event and stroke. Tissue factor, a potent trigger of the coagulation cascade, is increased in diabetes with poor glycemic control. Therapeutic lifestyle changes (weight loss and physical activity) along with pharmacological interventions are recommended to prevent the complications of metabolic syndrome. In addition to statins, metformin, blood pressure lowering medications, interventions to increase HDLs are other important approaches to decrease the risk of cardiovascular disease. Furthermore, the peroxisome proliferator activated receptor (PPAR) - alpha and gamma agonists are potent anti-inflammatory and anti-atherogenic agents that could both improve insulin sensitivity and the long-term cardiovascular risk. In this review we focus on the molecular and pathophysiological basis of metabolic syndrome, which augments diabetes (insulin resistance) and the contribution of neovascularization in the plaque progression in diabetes, leading to rupture and coronary thrombosis.
Keywords: Metabolic syndrome, obesity, type 2 diabetes mellitus, atherosclerosis, peroxisome proliferator, activator receptor, endothelial dysfunction, reactive oxygen species
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182 purifying bath. When the yacht touched at Naples he agreed since they were so awfully kind—to go on to Sicily. And when the chief steward, going ashore at Naples for the last time before they got up steam, said: "Any letters for the post, sir?" he answered, as he had answered at each previous halt: "No, thank you: none."
Now they were heading for Rhodes and Crete—Crete, where he had never been, where he had so often longed to go. In spite of the lateness of the season the weather was still miraculously fine: the short waves danced ahead under a sky without a cloud, and the strong bows of the Ibis hardly swayed as she flew forward over the flying crests.
Only his hosts and their daughter were on the yacht—of course with Eldorada Tooker and Mr. Beck in attendance. An eminent archæologist, who was to have joined them at Naples, had telegraphed an excuse at the last moment; and Nick noticed that, while Mrs. Hicks was perpetually apologizing for the great man's absence, Coral merely smiled and said nothing.
As a matter of fact, Mr. and Mrs. Hicks were never as pleasant as when one had them to one's self. In company, Mr. Hicks ran the risk of appearing over-hospitable, and Mrs. Hicks confused dates and names in the desire to embrace all culture in her conversation. But alone with Nick, their old travelling-companion, they shone out in their native simplicity, and Mr. Hicks talked soundly of investments, and Mrs. Hicks recalled | WIKI |
Novak Djokovic Beats Nadal in Miami Final, Lifts 2011 Season Start to 24-0
Novak Djokovic extended his unbeaten
start to the tennis season with a three-set win over top-seeded
Rafael Nadal in the Sony Ericsson Open final. Djokovic, the world No. 2, fought back for a 4-6, 6-3, 7-6
(7-4) victory in Miami yesterday to secure his seventh Masters
Series title and lift his record in 2011 to 24-0, the best start
to a year since Ivan Lendl went 25-0 in 1986. “It’s the best four months in my life, but it’s only the
start of the season,” Djokovic, 23, told reporters. “If I want
to have that shot at the No. 1 ranking I need to play
consistently well throughout the whole year.” Djokovic has won all four of the events he’s entered this
year. He began by winning the Australian Open, the season-
opening Grand Slam, before victories in Dubai and at the Indian
Wells Masters two weeks ago, when he beat Nadal in the final. Spain ’s Nadal has won 16 of 25 meetings between the two,
although Djokovic has prevailed in five of their past eight
matches. They’ll now head to Europe for the start of the clay-
court season. “I was there fighting until the last point,” Nadal said.
“He will be No. 1 in the next month, month and a half, two
months. I don’t know. It depends on my results on clay.” Nadal last year won the French Open, the only Grand Slam
that’s played on clay, for a fifth time. He holds the record for
the most successive wins on the surface, with 81 victories from
April 2005 until he lost to Roger Federer in the final of the
Hamburg Masters in May 2007. Yesterday’s victory increased Djokovic’s overall winning
streak to 26 stretching back to December’s Davis Cup final,
where he helped Serbia seal its first title in the elite men’s
team competition. His last defeat came against Federer at the
ATP World Tour Finals in November. “This is going to give a lot of confidence for the
upcoming clay court season, the wins that I had on the starting
tournaments of the year,” Djokovic added. “This streak is
incredible. I want to keep on working hard and try to get more
success.” To contact the reporter on this story:
Dex McLuskey in Dallas at
dmcluskey@bloomberg.net To contact the editor responsible for this story:
Michael Sillup at msillup@bloomberg.net . | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
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60 dwells on such recollections with intense delight; but I implore —" "O Albert!" she continued, "I am sure you do not forget the evenings when we three used to sit at the little round table, when papa was absent, and the little ones had retired. You often had a good book with you, but seldom read it; the conversation of that noble being was preferable to everything,—that beautiful, bright, gentle, and yet ever-toiling woman. God alone knows how I have supplicated with tears on my nightly couch, that I might be like her."
I threw myself at her feet, and, seizing her hand, bedewed it with a thousand tears. "Charlotte!" I exclaimed, "God's blessing and your mother's spirit are upon you." "Oh! that you had known her," she said, with a warm pressure of the hand. "She was worthy of being known to you." I thought I should have fainted: never had I received praise so flattering. She continued, "And yet she was doomed to die in the flower of her youth, when her youngest child was scarcely six months old. Her illness was but short, but she was calm and resigned; and it was only for her children, especially the youngest, that she felt unhappy. When her end drew nigh, she bade me bring them to her. I obeyed. The younger ones knew nothing of their approaching loss, while the elder ones were quite overcome with grief. They stood around the bed; and she raised her feeble hands to heaven, and prayed over them; then, kissing them in turn, she dismissed them, and said to me, 'Be you a mother to them.' I gave her my hand. 'You are promising much, my child,' she said: 'a mother's fondness and a mother's care! I have often witnessed, by your tears of gratitude, that you know what is a mother's tenderness: show it to your brothers and sisters, and be dutiful and faithful to your father as a wife; you will be his comfort.' She inquired for him. He had retired to conceal his intolerable anguish,—he was heartbroken. | WIKI |
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I am Geoffrey Trang and this is my user page.
User rename
On 3 March 2024, my account was renamed from GeoffreyT2000 to GTrang.
Other wikis
* GTrang on Miraheze (same as my Wikipedia username)
* GTrang on The Test Wiki (same as my Wikipedia username)
* GTrang on Uncyclopedia (same as my Wikipedia username)
* GeoffreyT2000 on Wikitech (not renamed for technical reasons) | WIKI |
Simon Simonian
Simon Simonian (Սիմոն Սիմոնեան, 24 March 1914, Ayntab - March 11, 1986, Beirut) was an Armenian intellectual who founded the literary and social Armenian periodical Spurk (Սփիւռք in Armenian).
Biography
In 1921 his family, a survivor of the Armenian genocide found refuge in Aleppo, Syria. From 1930 to 1935 Simonian studied at the Antelias seminary. Returning to Aleppo, he taught Armenian language and history at the city's Haigazian and Gulbenkian schools until 1946. In that period he prepared his first textbooks for Armenian history and was a founder Aleppo's teachers' union. From 1936 he was the president of the Sasun Compatriotic Union.
Later on residing in Lebanon, Simonian became the secretary of Catholicos Karekin I Hovsepian. He headed the main archive of the Holy See of Cilicia, Lebanon, and was responsible for the official Catholicossate publication Hask between 1947 and 1955. He taught literary Armenian and Armenian history at the catholicossate seminary and edited Karekin I's colossal work Hishadagarank Tserakrats (the indexation of manuscripts). He also taught Armenological materials at the Lebanese Armenian Hovagimian-Manoukian and Tarouhi Hagopian secondary schools.
Simonian authored many short stories and novels, as well as many textbooks on history and language. He authored the Sevan Armenian dictionary. In 1954 he visited Soviet Armenia, where he met the poet Silva Kaputikyan.
He was also the director of "Sevan" printshop and publishing house, that he founded in 1957 where he printed about 600 books. Starting 1958, he also published his prominent weekly literary publication Spurk that continued to publish with Simonian as editor in chief until 1974. Between 1975 and 1989, Kevork Ajemian became the editor of the publication. He followed a strict non-partisan line in the civil political strife in the life of the Armenian diaspora communities in Lebanon and elsewhere.
Personal life
Simonian, born in Aintab was the elder son of Ove from Sasun and Manush from Ayntab, was a survivor of the Armenian genocide. In 1946, Simonian married Mary Ajemian, a graduate of the American University of Beirut, a practicing nurse and the sister of the Armenian writer and intellectual Kevork Ajemian. The couple had five children; four sons, Hovig, Vartan, Daron and Sasoun and a daughter Maral.
Books
* Կը խնդրուի խաչաձեւել, 1965
* Խմբապետ Ասլանին աղջիկը, 1967
* Լեռնականներու վերջալոյսը, 1968 ("The Last Scion of the Mountaineers". A work that depicts the struggles of the Sassountsi mountaineers on the plains of Aleppo, in Syria, far from their native mountaintop villages in Sassoun). A monograph about this work was written by Levon Sharoyan, published first in installments in the "Kantsasar" Armenian weekly in Aleppo and later as a book in Armenia. The English translation was published in 2017, making it the first book in English about Simon Simonian.
* Սիփանայ քաջեր, 1967–70
* Լեռ եւ ճակատագիր, 1972
* Անժամանդրոս, 1978
Anthologies and Critiques
* Simonian, Simon. Արեւելահայ գրականութիւն. ընտիր էջեր, կենսագրութիւններ, գործերը, բառարան, մատենագիտութիւն [Eastern Armenian Literature: Select Pages, Biographies, Texts, Dictionary and Bibliography] (Beirut: Sevan, 1965).
* Simonian, Simon. Արեւելահայ գրողներ (Eastern Armenian Writers) (1965)
* Simonian, Simon. Արեւելահայ գրականութիւն (Eastern Armenian Literature) (1965)
* Simonian, Simon. Stepanos Tashdetsi (1981)
Dictionaries
* Simonian, Simon. Sevan Large Dictionary (1970-1980)
Textbooks
* Simonian, Simon. Արագած. դասագիրք հայերէն լեզուի, Ա. տարի (Beirut: Sevan, 1960), with Onnig Sarkisian
* Simonian, Simon. Աշխարհագրութիւն, with Yervant Babayan and Onnig Sarkisian
* Simonian, Simon. քերականութիւն with Sarkis Balian
* Simonian, Simon. Հայոց պատմութիւն, Ա. եւ Բ. հատոր (Hamazkayin Publishing House) | WIKI |
3 tips for switching careers from guy who left finance for food
Tired of dreading work on Mondays, Brett Schulman swapped finance for food — a leap of faith that appears to be paying off. The restaurant world is a 180-degree turn from his former career. While in finance, he worked in equity trading at Alex. Brown, Bankers Trust and later Deutsche Bank. At first, he loved the deal-making aspects of the job, but as the industry transitioned toward computer automation, Schulman's enthusiasm waned. He hungered for something more entrepreneurial and fed that craving by helping his wife grow her natural snack food company, Snikiddy. He served as COO there and later left to be CEO of Cava Group, the parent company of two Mediterranean restaurant chains and a consumer packaged goods brand. The company has received $61 million in financing to date. "I got really interested in food and the opportunity to change the way people think about eating, the way they are eating and the accessibility to fresh food," Schulman told CNBC in an interview last year. Schulman shared his top tips for people thinking of switching careers: Read MoreBusting out a new career in bras Schulman's involvement with Cava grew out of a 2008 meeting with Ted Xenohristos, Ike Grigoropoulos and Dimitri Moshovitis, who were putting an American spin on traditional Mediterranean cooking at their Maryland-based restaurant, Cava Mezze. The co-founders hired Schulman to consult on a new line of business: packaged dips and spreads they were selling in Whole Foods and similar organic markets. Schulman's prior food experience and financial expertise quickly earned him an equal share partnership in Cava. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Audio glitches with simple sine wave android Lenovo p2 but not on sim
I’m trying to get audio working smoothly on Android with JUCE, I am however having a very bad time. My test, which is simply a single sinewave being played on the left channel without any GUI elements, runs smoothly on the simulator, but glitches on my Lenovo P2. The sound which is produced sounds exactly like a timed print statement holding up the audio callback. There are no prints in my application. If I press the home button and then switch to overview and repeat this process, there are no glitches at all, profiling shows 0% CPU on both my Lenovo and the sim.
Any thoughts? Any documentation or tutorials would also be welcome.
I am on android 7.0 (SDK 24).
Running a Timer at a very short interval to call repaint() removes the glitches mostly. I am at a loss for why.
I am now reading up on possible thread priority issues on Android. Still have no idea how to solve this. I tried this but that didn’t seem to help and I found that this was partially implemented already.
...
getWindow().addFlags (WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_KEEP_SCREEN_ON);
// If no user input is received after about 3 seconds, the OS will lower the
// task's priority, so this timer forces it to be kept active.
...
This 3 second mark is approximately when I start perceiving the artifacts.
This is a known problem on Android. Many Android devices have aggressive cpu frequency scaling when there is little load. When debugging audio glitches on Android always also look at the CPU frequency.
For ROLI’s NOISE app, we ensure that the audio callback always uses at least 80% audio callback time by spinning on NOPs. In fact, this is even the “semi-official” recommendation for audio apps on Android:
For more tips&tricks, you should really watch all of @Don_Turner’s excellent Google IO talk.
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This article might help: https://medium.com/@donturner/debugging-audio-glitches-on-android-ed10782f9c64
If not, feel free to post back here and I’ll see if I can help further.
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Thanks @fabian. That makes a lot of sense, could you elaborate on how you implemented this stabilizing load?
I’ve tried something ugly like spamming this:
const int32_t numSpins = someOtherNumber;
int32_t i = 0;
do { asm volatile( "nop\n\t" ); } while( ++i < numSpins );
I have a hunch that this is not what you mean. If it is, is there a smart way to acquire someOtherNumber?
Most of the application can do buffering in another thread so I no longer have a problem. Thanks so much @Don_Turner for linking your article, I have been using systrace heavily, I should have invested more time checking out the android toolchain.
@Don_Turner does OBOE include some code to simplify this? Wouldn’t it be easier if you had it already called before your audio callback if needed.
@jammes I haven’t tried android for a while because it still feels premature compared to iOS (NOISE on my nexus 5x performs very poorly)
But the way suggested back then was to simulate touch on screen to avoid device throttling.
Take a look at the following example: https://github.com/googlesamples/android-audio-high-performance/tree/master/SimpleSynth
It includes a “load stabilizer” class: https://github.com/googlesamples/android-audio-high-performance/blob/master/SimpleSynth/app/src/main/cpp/load_stabilizer.cc
It works as follows:
When you construct the load stabilizer you must specify:
#1 the callback period (i.e. the optimal delta between successive callbacks)
#2 the object which will do your actual audio rendering
You then call the load stabilizer render method inside your audio callback. The stabilizer will render your audio data, then attempt to keep spinning the CPU for a certain percentage of the callback period (specified by PERCENTAGE_OF_CALLBACK_TO_USE) including compensation if the callback started late. Personally I’ve found around 80% works best although YMMV.
Note that this is not really the “recommended” approach as it works against the CPU governor, however, the CPU governor is not designed to support real-time use cases so in some cases this is the only way you can achieve good latency with underrun protection.
Also worth mentioning that AAudio (on API 26+) has a better timing model and therefore has significantly less jitter on the audio callback than OpenSL ES.
does OBOE include some code to simplify this?
Not yet, but if you feel that this would be useful please file an issue: https://github.com/google/oboe/issues
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Talk:1626 Naples earthquake
Merge
This earthquake occurred in 1627, not 1626, to quote Wasowski & Del Gaudio (2000) "Note that the earthquake date is wrong — no records exist on any 1626 damaging earthquake in Italy; instead there is abundant historic documentation on the 1627 seismic event, which caused loss of life and property in different towns of central-southern Italy." The epicentre was in the Gargano area, not in Naples. It's harsh to blame Mallet, but it's his catalogue that carries the wrong date, which has then been repeated by other catalogues. and publications. This page needs to be merged into the 1627 Gargano earthquake article. Mikenorton (talk) 16:11, 9 May 2019 (UTC) | WIKI |
Fenia (food)
Fenia or Pheniyaan is a form of vermicelli from the Indian subcontinent, notably North India. Although similar to the vermicelli used in seviyan and falooda, pheniyaan are much thinner. They have a ritualistic importance for the Karva Chauth festival (celebrated in parts of Northern & Western India) where, along with Lapsi and dry fruits, they are part of the sargi ensemble consumed just before the fast associated with the festival begins.
Etymology
The word Pheni (singular of Pheniyaan) is derived from Sanskrit word Phenikā, which was an ancient thread like sweet dish made using flour. | WIKI |
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Not reliable sources
At first, she was BNT journalist, second she claimed to have studied Sofia University, journalistics while she was a journalist. Later she declared to us to have relationship with Segey Stanishev who was driving his car in the Russian neibourhood in Sofia where the Russian school of the Russian Embassy is and were we study Russian studies in MGU (Moscow State University) there, and how his driving among the Russian neighbourhood counts as University studies, do you know how expensive and difficult is Moscow State University, these both have nothing in common with us, we never talked to them because they said they just party downstairs? --Rvtcbckt (talk) 14:44, 27 April 2022 (UTC) | WIKI |
Glare Falls on Nissan’s C.E.O. as Ghosn Fallout Spreads
Nissan’s chief executive, Hiroto Saikawa, is in the toughest fight of his corporate life. And it’s all Carlos Ghosn’s fault. At least that’s what Mr. Saikawa has said for seven months since Mr. Ghosn — the architect of the Nissan-Renault-Mitsubishi alliance — was detained by Japanese prosecutors and accused of financial wrongdoing. Mr. Saikawa, once a loyal lieutenant to Mr. Ghosn, has relentlessly attacked his former mentor’s character and blamed him for myriad woes at Nissan, including failures of corporate governance and its sharp drop in 2018 profit. But now Mr. Saikawa, a lifelong Nissan employee, is facing scrutiny — from shareholders, former colleagues, the press and others — about his own competence and probity. On Tuesday, he presided over the company’s first annual meeting since Mr. Ghosn’s fall. Mr. Saikawa won reappointment to Nissan’s board, where he has served for 14 years, thanks to support from Renault, which controls over 43 percent of Nissan’s stock. Despite clashes that have soured the relationship between Mr. Saikawa and the French company, it chose not to challenge his leadership. Still, he faced calls for shareholders to reject him, in part to make a clean break with the company’s troubled past. Two angry investors unsuccessfully called for his ejection from the board. Vote tallies will not be announced for days, and it remains to be seen how many shares were thrown behind the 65-year-old Mr. Saikawa. In an unusual move ahead of the meeting, two proxy advisers sent letters to Nissan shareholders recommending that they oppose Mr. Saikawa’s reappointment because of the company’s poor financial performance and questions about how he could not have been aware of some of Mr. Ghosn’s actions. “Even if it is clear to many observers that Ghosn was involved in inappropriate behavior, what is not clear is whether the wrongdoing could really have been conducted by Ghosn and Kelly alone,” ISS Governance, one of the proxy advising firms, wrote in a report. It refers to Greg Kelly, another former Nissan executive who faces charges of hiding Mr. Ghosn’s compensation from shareholders. Mr. Saikawa, it continued, “has long been regarded as one of Ghosn’s allies, and therefore, it would be difficult to consider him totally unconnected to Ghosn’s wrongdoing.” Adding to the pressure, in a lengthy interview published earlier this month with the Japanese magazine Bungei Shunju — a journal of literature and politics — Mr. Kelly said Mr. Saikawa was a “zealous supporter” of Mr. Ghosn and “regularly discussed matters that fall under the category of company secrets” with him. In the interview, which appeared to be half-alibi and half score-settling, Mr. Kelly said Mr. Saikawa was directly involved in negotiating a deal to pay Mr. Ghosn his post-retirement compensation. The allegation raises questions about whether Mr. Saikawa was aware of the underreporting of Mr. Ghosn’s compensation, one of the central charges against the former Nissan chief, Mr. Kelly and the company. Mr. Kelly said he and Mr. Saikawa presented a document laying out the offer to Mr. Ghosn for his approval. Mr. Saikawa signed it — a fact confirmed by an independent panel established by Nissan — but Mr. Ghosn never did, he said. Mr. Kelly was the head of human resources at Nissan as well as a board member. In addition, Mr. Kelly told the magazine that Mr. Saikawa had personal money issues and had asked Nissan for financial help to buy a second home in Tokyo. In one instance, Mr. Kelly said, Mr. Saikawa had Nissan retroactively change the execution date of stock-based compensation in an effort to increase his own earnings — accusations that echoed charges of financial impropriety levied against Mr. Ghosn. Mr. Saikawa has not responded to Mr. Kelly’s claims in the magazine, and Nissan declined to make him available for an interview. He has made no comment about the proxy letters. In a January news conference, Mr. Saikawa acknowledged that the company’s management had a “heavy responsibility” for Nissan’s troubles. He said he was working to put the company in the hands of new management “as soon as possible.” Faced with questions about his plans to resign at the shareholders’ meeting, Mr. Saikawa said decisions about the company’s leadership would be made by the new nomination committee, adding he intended to make recommendations. Mr. Ghosn’s trial could expose more information about Nissan’s inner workings and governance failures that insiders fear could be embarrassing to both Mr. Saikawa and the company. Mr. Ghosn, who says he is innocent, has been charged with four counts of financial impropriety, including using company funds to enrich himself. Nissan, too, has been charged with financial wrongdoing related to Mr. Ghosn’s compensation. It has acknowledged that its corporate governance procedures failed to prevent the alleged financial misconduct, but it has repeatedly issued statements saying Mr. Ghosn and Mr. Kelly were the sole cause of the wrongdoing. At Tuesday’s meeting, shareholders also voted for reforms to tighten corporate oversight. Further threatening Mr. Saikawa’s standing, the company is performing poorly. Its operating profit dropped by nearly 45 percent in 2018, and when Nissan announced its annual results in May it projected that operating profit would shrink by more than a quarter in the fiscal year ending next March. Since Mr. Saikawa took over from Mr. Ghosn as chief executive in April 2017, the company has been hit with a series of scandals relating to inspections and emissions. And Nissan is bleeding talent, as recruiters lure away executives who fear for the company’s future. In recent months, among other executives, Jose Munoz, the former head of North America and China, and Christian Meunier, the president of Nissan’s Infiniti division, have left. Both declined requests for comment. More important for the global alliance, which sold 10.7 million vehicles in 2018 and shares costs and technology, Mr. Saikawa has repeatedly frustrated his partners at Renault. Although they continue to support him, the relationship has soured. Mr. Saikawa, who entered Nissan straight out of Japan’s elite Tokyo University in 1977, has spent much of his career dealing with Renault. He was a purchasing expert when Mr. Ghosn took over Nissan on behalf of the French company in 1999, and his cost-cutting skills made him a Ghosn favorite. He rose rapidly, and by 2005 he had been appointed to Nissan’s board. But he made few friends along the way. He was much like Mr. Ghosn, former colleagues said, extremely intelligent and ruthlessly efficient but without the boundless charisma that allowed the alliance’s leader to effectively manage the often fractious partnership. In May, Mr. Saikawa rebuffed attempts by Renault to discuss a merger between the two companies on terms the French automaker believed were favorable to Nissan. In the last few weeks, his reluctance to endorse plans for a proposed marriage between Renault and Fiat Chrysler — which would have helped guarantee the French carmaker’s future — was a major factor in the deal’s failure. While the tensions with Renault have been smoothed for now it is unclear how long the détente will last. If the two automakers are to survive in an increasingly competitive industry, their partnership must be strong, a fact acknowledged by both sides. Shortly after Renault’s deal with Fiat Chrysler fell apart at the beginning of June, the French carmaker’s chairman, Jean-Dominique Senard, used his company’s stake in Nissan to force his chosen representatives onto the Japanese carmaker’s governance committees. Mr. Saikawa initially condemned the move as “most regrettable.” Since Mr. Ghosn’s fall, Mr. Saikawa has become “more isolated,” according to a person with knowledge of his behavior, and without Mr. Ghosn’s guidance has become less decisive, frequently changing his mind on issues affecting the alliance. The tensions with Renault were on full display at the meeting, where shareholders accused it of trying to undermine Nissan. Mr. Senard apologized, saying his actions were never intended to hurt the alliance. While shareholders’ criticisms of Mr. Saikawa were relatively restrained in comparison, that does not mean they have forgiven him. “Partly, he’s paying for his own mistakes,” said Hisao Inoue, a journalist who has closely followed Nissan for years, adding, “because he was close to Mr. Ghosn all along.” “So, to some extent, it’s understandable that people are asking, ‘Aren’t you just part of Ghosn’s gang?’” | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Stob Coire a' Chearcaill
Stob Coire a' Chearcaill (771 m) is a mountain in the Northwest Highlands, Scotland. It lies west of Loch Linnhe in Lochaber.
The peak is a familiar sight from Fort William, from where it can be seen across the Loch. The easiest route to the summit is from the small settlement of Blaich, and the views are excellent from the top. | WIKI |
Wallyball
Wallyball (known in some places as rebound volleyball) is a fast-paced sport that is similar to volleyball played in a racquetball court, where it is legal to hit the ball off of the walls.
The word "wallyball" is a portmanteau of the words "wall" and "volleyball".
Number of players
The number of players on a side can vary from two to six. The American Wallyball Association allows two, three, or four player teams, while the Wallyball Information Network also allows five and six player teams.
Court and equipment
Wallyball is played in a racquetball court which measures 40 ft long, 20 ft wide and 20 ft high. A center line divides the court in half. The net is hung above the center line, traversing the entire width of the court. The net is 3 ft tall and hung at no more than 8 ft above the floor for men's wallyball games and no more than 7 ft above the floor for women. Two service areas are on each side, extending across the entire width of the court and 1 foot from each end wall. The ball is spherical, weighs between 9 and 10 oz, and is 25 to 27 in in circumference (the same size as a regular volleyball). The ball is made of rubber.
Scoring
Wallyball can use two types of scoring. The first is called rally scoring (Officially started being used in 1989). A point is scored on every service up to the point where one team reaches the "freeze point." Once that occurs, a point is awarded on the next side-out and from that point on, each team must serve to score a point. The "freeze point" varies depending on the number of points needed to win a game. The freeze point is three points fewer than the number of points needed to win a game. The side-out and unmodified rally scoring methods of volleyball are also commonly used. In Wallyball this is called speed scoring.
Much of the strategy used in Wallyball is similar to that used in volleyball. In the traditional three person game it is advantageous to employ one blocker, one person to defend against the dink (short, soft) shot, and the last person to defend shots over the other players' heads but still in bounds. On offense, the widely accepted strategy is of designating one player to receive all second hits to allow for the other players on their team to prepare for the third hit. In addition, varying the number of touches before the ball is hit over the net is crucial.
While some tactics in volleyball are effective in wallyball, there are several that are almost entirely unique to wallyball and highly counterintuitive to the average volleyball player. Ball handling in Wallyball is more strict. Rotation on hand sets is watched closely and receiving the ball must be done cleanly. Steve Fuhrman, a National Wallyball Rules Director of over 20 years, stresses that "Wallyball, Rebound Volleyball, and Volleyball are different games, with different rules". He says that "Many facilities play with house rules which is great! When attending a sanctioned wallyball tournament, these house rules probably do not exist. For example, any type of "paintbrush" hit is not allowed." In 2000, Fuhrman worked with US Volleyball to codify ball-handling guidelines for Volleyball and Wallyball, which only remain in place for Wallyball today.
Players have been putting legal spin on serves, spikes, and placed hits in wallyball since the sport was invented. Legal spin is done by contacting the ball off-center as it is struck. The ball must pop off the players hand (not roll on it) to be a good, clean hit with spin.
Out of bounds
During the serve the ball can hit one side wall on either side of the net. It cannot hit the back wall or two walls. The ball also cannot hit the ceiling when it crosses the net. The same is true during the volley. The ball can hit any number of walls, including the back wall and ceiling during the course of your three hits on your side. Once the ball is crossing the net though, it must comply with the one wall, no ceiling requirement, or it is considered out of bounds. If you have hit a wall on your side, the ball cannot hit another after going over the net. Although, there are many groups of players who choose to include a two wall and back wall hit as legal hits even after going over the net. While not part of the official rules, many feel it adds a chaotic and fun addition to the game.
Both The New Oxford American Dictionary (2001) and The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (4th ed. 2000) state, incorrectly, in their definitions of "wallyball," that the ball may contact the ceiling before crossing the net.
Time-outs
Two timeouts of 30 seconds each are allowed. If more than the allowed timeouts are called, a penalty is given. Penalties can be a single point, game forfeiture, or a game suspension of the captain.
Serving
The player in the back position of the court puts the ball in play by hitting it with one hand only or any part of his or her arm. A jump serve is permitted. For the serve to be good, it must pass over the net without touching the net or any other players on the server's team. In addition, the ball may not touch two or more walls before being played, the opponent's back wall, or the ceiling of the court. Should the server catch the ball on service toss, a sideout will be called. No members of the serving team may attempt to block the opponent's view of the server in any way. A team must maintain their serving order throughout the match. If the players are discovered out of order, the game stops immediately, any points scored while the server was in an illegal position are canceled, and a side-out is declared. | WIKI |
Shub-Niggurath
Shub-Niggurath is a deity created by H. P. Lovecraft. She is often associated with the phrase "The Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young". The only other name by which Lovecraft referred to her was "Lord of the Wood" in his story The Whisperer in Darkness.
Shub-Niggurath is first mentioned in Lovecraft's revision story "The Last Test" (1928); she is not described by Lovecraft, but is frequently mentioned or called upon in incantations. Most of her development as a literary figure was carried out by other Mythos authors, including August Derleth, Robert Bloch, and Ramsey Campbell.
Lovecraft explicitly defined Shub-Niggurath as a mother goddess in The Mound, where he calls her "Shub-Niggurath, the All-Mother". He describes her as a kind of Astarte in the same story. In Out of the Aeons, she is one of the deities siding with humanity against "hostile gods".
August Derleth classified Shub-Niggurath as a Great Old One, but the Call of Cthulhu role-playing game classifies her as an Outer God. The CthulhuTech role-playing game, in turn, returns to Derleth's classification of Shub-Niggurath as a Great Old One.
Development
Shub-Niggurath's appearances in Lovecraft's main body of fiction do not provide much detail about his conception of the entity. Her first mention under Lovecraft's byline was in "The Dunwich Horror" (1928), where a quote from the Necronomicon discussing the Old Ones breaks into an exclamation of "Iä! Shub-Niggurath!" The story provides no further information about this peculiar expression.
The next Lovecraft story to mention Shub-Niggurath is scarcely more informative. In The Whisperer in Darkness (1930), a recording of a ceremony involving human and nonhuman worshippers includes the following exchange:
"Ever Their praises, and abundance to the Black Goat of the Woods. Iä! Shub-Niggurath! Iä! Shub-Niggurath! The Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young!"
Similarly unexplained exclamations occur in "The Dreams in the Witch House" (1932) and "The Thing on the Doorstep" (1933).
Revision tales
Lovecraft only provided specific information about Shub-Niggurath in his "revision tales", stories published under the names of clients for whom he ghost-wrote. As Price points out, "For these clients he constructed a parallel myth-cycle to his own, a separate group of Great Old Ones", including Yig, Ghatanothoa, Rhan-Tegoth, "the evil twins Nug and Yeb"—and Shub-Niggurath.
While some of these revision stories just repeat the familiar exclamations, others provide new elements of lore. In "The Last Test" (1927), the first mention of Shub-Niggurath seems to connect her to Nug and Yeb: "I talked in Yemen with an old man who had come back from the Crimson Desert—he had seen Irem, the City of Pillars, and had worshipped at the underground shrines of Nug and Yeb—Iä! Shub-Niggurath!"
The revision story The Mound, which describes the discovery of an underground realm called K'n-yan by a Spanish conquistador, reports that a temple of Tsathoggua there "had been turned into a shrine of Shub-Niggurath, the All-Mother and wife of the Not-to-Be-Named-One. This deity was a kind of sophisticated Astarte, and her worship struck the pious Catholic as supremely obnoxious."
The reference to "Astarte", the consort of Baal in Semitic mythology, ties Shub-Niggurath to the related fertility goddess Cybele, the Magna Mater mentioned in Lovecraft's "The Rats in the Walls", and implies that the "great mother worshipped by the hereditary cult of Exham Priory" in that story "had to be none other than Shub-Niggurath".
The Not-to-Be-Named-One, not being named, is difficult to identify; a similar phrase, translated into Latin as the Magnum Innominandum, appears in a list in The Whisperer in Darkness and was included in a scrap of incantation that Lovecraft wrote for Robert Bloch's "The Shambler from the Stars". August Derleth identifies this mysterious entity with Hastur (though Hastur appears in the same Whisperer in Darkness list with the Magnum Innominandum), while Robert M. Price equates him with Yog-Sothoth—though he also suggests that Shub-Niggurath's mate is implicitly the snake god Yig.
Finally, in "Out of the Aeons", a revision tale set in part on the lost continent of Mu, Lovecraft describes the character T'yog as the "High Priest of Shub-Niggurath and guardian of the copper temple of the Goat with a Thousand Young". In the story, T'yog surprisingly maintains that "the gods friendly to man could be arrayed against the hostile gods, and ... that Shub-Niggurath, Nug, and Yeb, as well as Yig the Serpent-god, were ready to take sides with man" against the more malevolent Ghatanothoa. Shub-Niggurath is called "the Mother Goddess", and reference is made to "her sons", presumably Nug and Yeb.
Other references
Other evidence of Lovecraft's conception of Shub-Niggurath can be found in his letters. For example, in a letter to Willis Conover, Lovecraft described her as an "evil cloud-like entity". "Yog-Sothoth's wife is the hellish cloud-like entity Shub-Niggurath, in whose honor nameless cults hold the rite of the Goat with a Thousand Young. By her he has two monstrous offspring—the evil twins Nug and Yeb. He has also begotten hellish hybrids upon the females of various organic species throughout the universes of space-time."
The Black Goat
Although Shub-Niggurath is often associated with the epithet "The Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young", it is possible that this Black Goat is a separate entity. Rodolfo Ferraresi, in his essay "The Question of Shub-Niggurath", says that Lovecraft himself separated the two in his writings, such as in "Out of the Aeons" (1935) in which a distinction is made between Shub-Niggurath and the Black Goat—the goat is the figurehead through which Shub-Niggurath is worshipped. In apparent contrast to Shub-Niggurath, the Black Goat is sometimes depicted as a male, most notably in the rite performed in The Whisperer in Darkness (1931) in which the Black Goat is called the "Lord of the Woods". However, Lovecraft clearly associates Shub-Niggurath with The Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young in two of his stories—"The Dreams in the Witch House" and "The Thing on the Doorstep".
It is possible that The Black Goat is actually Ny-Rakath, Shub-Niggurath's brother. The Black Goat may also be the personification of Pan, since Lovecraft was influenced by Arthur Machen's The Great God Pan (1890), a story that inspired Lovecraft's "The Dunwich Horror" (1929). In this incarnation, the Black Goat may represent Satan in the form of the satyr, a half-man, half-goat. In folklore, the satyr symbolized a man with excessive sexual appetites. The Black Goat may otherwise be a male, earthly form of Shub-Niggurath—an incarnation she assumes to copulate with her worshipers.
Robert M. Price's interpretation
Robert M. Price points to a passage from "Idle Days on the Yann", by Lord Dunsany, one of Lovecraft's favorite writers, as the source for the name Shub-Niggurath:
"And I too felt that I would pray. Yet I liked not to pray to a jealous God there where the frail affectionate gods whom the heathen love were being humbly invoked; so I bethought me, instead, of Sheol Nugganoth, whom the men of the jungle have long since deserted, who is now unworshipped and alone; and to him I prayed."
Notes Price: "The name already carried a whiff of sulfur: Sheol was the name for the Netherworld mentioned in the Bible and the Gilgamesh Epic."
As for Shub-Niggurath's association with the symbol of the goat, Price writes,
"we may believe that here Lovecraft was inspired by the traditional Christian depiction of the Baphomet Goat, an image of Satan harking back to the pre-Christian woodland deity Pan, he of the goatish horns and shanks. The Satanic goat is a device of much spectral fiction, as when in Dennis Wheatley's The Devil Rides Out the Archfiend's epiphany takes goat-headed form." | WIKI |
Hurwitz surface
Etymology
Named after Adolf Hurwitz.
Noun
* 1) A compact Riemann surface with precisely 84(g − 1) automorphisms, where g is the genus of the surface. This number is maximal by virtue of Hurwitz's theorem on automorphisms. | WIKI |
Remains of Nero's theater were discovered during the renovation of St. Peter's Basilica
An object believed for hundreds of years to be lost or completely destroyed by earthquakes or invasions by Rome’s enemies has been found and partially excavated. Scientists have found the remains of the famous Theater of Nero (Theatrum Neroni), from which, according to legend, he watched the fire of Rome. It was called on his order so that the ruler could build a larger and more beautiful palace for himself. In this place, he was also supposed to practice singing, acting skills and punish people in many ways.
Researchers unearthed a hall of a classical theater, marble columns, plaster with golden ornaments. The finds also included glass chalices, parts of costumes, rosaries and other items. They shed new light on this period of the Roman Empire. | FINEWEB-EDU |
Three things you didn't know about the AsyncPipe
by Christoph Burgdorf on Feb 27, 2017
13 minute read
You sure heard about Angular’s AsyncPipe haven’t you? It’s this handy little pipe that we can use from within our templates so that we don’t have to deal with unwrapping data from Observables or Promises imperatively. Turns out the AsyncPipe is full of little wonders that may not be obvious at first sight. In this article we like to shed some light on the inner workings of this useful little tool.
Subscribing to long-lived Observables
Often when we think about the AsyncPipe, we only think about values that resolve from some http call. We issue an http call, get an Observable<Response> back, apply some transformations (e.g. map(...).filter(...)) and finally expose an Observable to the template of our component. Here is what that typically looks like.
...
@Component({
...
template: `
<md-list>
<a md-list-item
*ngFor="let contact of contacts | async"
title="View {{contact.name}} details">
<img md-list-avatar [src]="contact.image" alt="Picture of {{contact.name}}">
<h3 md-line>{{contact.name}}</h3>
</a>
</md-list>`,
})
export class ContactsListComponent implements OnInit {
contacts: Observable<Array<Contact>>;
constructor(private contactsService: ContactsService) {}
ngOnInit () {
this.contacts = this.contactsService.getContacts();
}
}
In the described scenario our Observable is what we like to refer to as short-lived. The Observable emits exactly one value - an array of contacts in this case - and completes right after that. That’s the typical scenario when working with http and it’s basically the only scenario when working with Promises.
However, we can totally have Observables that emit multiple values. Think about working with websockets for instance. We may have an array that builds up over time! Let’s simulate an Observable that emits an array of numbers. But instead of emitting just a single array once, it will emit an array every time a new item was added. To not let the array grow infinitely we will limit it to the last five items.
...
@Component({
selector: 'my-app',
template: `
<ul>
<li *ngFor="let item of items | async">{{item}}</li>
</ul>`
})
export class AppComponent {
items = Observable.interval(100)
.scan((acc, cur)=>[cur, ...acc].slice(0, 5), []);
}
Notice how our list is kept nicely in sync without further ado thanks to the AsyncPipe!
Keeping track of references
Let’s back of and refactor above code to what it would look like without the help of the AsyncPipe. But while we’re at it, let’s introduce a button to restart generating numbers and pick a random background color for the elements each time we regenerate the sequence.
...
@Component({
selector: 'my-app',
template: `
<button (click)="newSeq()">New random sequence</button>
<ul>
<li [style.background-color]="item.color"
*ngFor="let item of items">{{item.num}}</li>
</ul>`
})
export class AppComponent {
items = [];
constructor () {
this.newSeq();
}
newSeq() {
// generate a random color
let color = '#' + Math.random().toString(16).slice(-6);
Observable.interval(1000)
.scan((acc, num)=>[{num, color }, ...acc].slice(0, 5), [])
.subscribe(items => this.items = items);
}
}
Click on the button and play with the demo. Notice something? The color flips back and forth between more and more different colors with every click of the button. That’s because in this case the Observable is what we like to refer to as long-lived. And furthermore, every time we click the button we are creating one more of these long-lived Observables without cleaning up the previous.
Let’s refactor the code to track subscriptions and tear down our long-lived Observable every time that we create a new one.
...
export class AppComponent {
...
subscription: Subscription;
newSeq() {
if (this.subscription) {
this.subscription.unsubscribe();
}
// generate a random color
let color = '#' + Math.random().toString(16).slice(-6);
this.subscription = Observable.interval(1000)
.scan((acc, num)=>[{num, color }, ...acc].slice(0, 5), [])
.subscribe(items => this.items = items);
}
}
Every time we subscribe to our Observable we save the subscription in an instance member of our component. Then, when we run newSeq again we check if there’s a subscription that we need to call unsubscribe on. That’s why we don’t see our list flipping between different colors anymore no matter how often we click the button.
Now meet the AsyncPipe again. Let’s change the ngFor again to apply the AsyncPipe and get rid of all the manual bookkeeping.
@Component({
selector: 'my-app',
template: `
<button (click)="newSeq()">New random sequence</button>
<ul>
<li [style.background-color]="item.color"
*ngFor="let item of items | async">{{item.num}}</li>
</ul>`
})
export class AppComponent {
items: Observable<any>;
constructor () {
this.newSeq();
}
newSeq() {
// generate a random color
let color = '#' + Math.random().toString(16).slice(-6);
this.items = Observable.interval(1000)
.scan((acc, num)=>[{num, color }, ...acc].slice(0, 5), []);
}
}
I’m sure you’ve heard that the AsyncPipe unsubscribes from Observables as soon as the component gets destroyed. But did you also know it unsubscribes as soon as the reference of the expression changes? That’s right, as soon as we assign a new Observable to this.items the AsyncPipe will automatically unsubscribe from the previous bound Observable! Not only does this make our code nice and clean, it’s protecting us from very subtle memory leaks.
Marking things for check
Alright. We have one last nifty AsyncPipe feature for you! If you’ve read our article about Angular’s change detection you sure know that you can speed up Angular’s blazingly fast change detection even further using the OnPush strategy. Let’s refactor our example and introduce a SeqComponent to display the sequences while our root component will manage the data and pass it on via an input binding.
Let’s start creating the SeqComponent which is pretty straight forward.
@Component({
selector: 'my-seq',
template: `
<ul>
<li [style.background-color]="item.color"
*ngFor="let item of items">{{item.num}}</li>
</ul>`
})
export class SeqComponent {
@Input()
items: Array<any>;
}
Notice the @Input()decorator for items which means the component will receive those from the outside via a property binding. Our root component maintains an array seqs and pushes new long-lived Observables into it with the click of a button. It uses an *ngFor to pass each of these Observables on to a new SeqComponent instance. Also notice that we are using the AsyncPipe in our property binding expression ([items]="seq | async") to pass on the plain array instead of the Observable since that’s what the SeqComponent expects.
@Component({
selector: 'my-app',
template: `
<button (click)="newSeq()">New random sequence</button>
<ul>
<my-seq *ngFor="let seq of seqs" [items]="seq | async"></my-seq>
</ul>`
})
export class AppComponent {
seqs = [];
constructor () {
this.newSeq();
}
newSeq() {
// generate a random color
let color = '#' + Math.random().toString(16).slice(-6);
this.seqs.push(Observable.interval(1000)
.scan((acc, num)=>[{num, color }, ...acc].slice(0, 5), []));
}
}
So far, we haven’t made any changes to the underlying change detection strategy. If you click the button a couple of times, notice how we get multiple lists that update independently at a different timing.
However, in terms of change detection, it means that all components are checked each time any of the Observables fire. That’s a waste of resources. We can do better by setting the change detection for our SeqComponent to OnPush which means it will only check it’s bindings if the inputs - the array in our case - changes.
@Component({
changeDetection: ChangeDetectionStrategy.OnPush,
selector: 'my-seq',
...
})
That works and seems to be an easy quick win. But here comes the thing: It only works because our Observable creates an entirely new array each time it emits a new value. And even though that’s actually not too bad and in fact beneficial in most scenarios, let’s consider we use a different implementation which mutates the existing array rather than recreating it every time.
Observable.interval(1000)
.scan((acc, num)=>{
acc.splice(0, 0, {num, color});
if (acc.length > 5) {
acc.pop()
}
return acc;
}, [])
If we try that out OnPush doesn’t seem to work anymore because the reference of items simply won’t change anymore. In fact, when we try that out we see each list doesn’t grow beyond its first element.
Meet the AsyncPipe again! Let’s change our SeqComponent so that it takes an Observable instead of an array as its input.
@Component({
changeDetection: ChangeDetectionStrategy.OnPush,
selector: 'my-seq',
template: `
<ul>
<li [style.background-color]="item.color"
*ngFor="let item of items | async">{{item.num}}</li>
</ul>`
})
export class SeqComponent {
@Input()
items: Observable<Array<any>>;
}
Also note that it now applies the AsyncPipe in its template since it’s not dealing with a plain array anymore. Our AppComponent needs to be changed as well to not apply the AsyncPipe in the property binding anymore.
<ul>
<my-seq *ngFor="let seq of seqs" [items]="seq"></my-seq>
</ul>
Voila! That seems to work!
Let’s recap, our array instance doesn’t change nor does the instance of our Observable ever change. So why would OnPush work in this case? The reason can be found in the source code of the AsyncPipe itself
private _updateLatestValue(async: any, value: Object): void {
if (async === this._obj) {
this._latestValue = value;
this._ref.markForCheck();
}
}
The AsyncPipe marks the ChangeDetectorRef of our component to be checked, effectively telling the change detection that there may be a change in this component. If you like to get a more detailed understanding of how that works we recommend reading our in-depth change detection article.
Conclusion
We use to look at the AsyncPipe as a nifty little tool to save a couple of lines of code in our components. In practice though, it hides a lot of complexity from us that comes with managing async tasks. It’s pure gold.
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Punter Humphreys
Edward Humphreys (24 August 1881 – 6 November 1949), known as Punter Humphreys, was an English professional cricketer who played first-class cricket for Kent County Cricket Club between 1899 and 1920. He played nearly 400 first-class matches and coached cricket after his retirement.
Early life
Humphreys was born at Ditton in Kent in 1881. He was the ninth son of Henry and Kate Humphreys, his father being the landlord of the Walnut Inn in Ditton. He was one of the first young players to be accepted into Kent's Tonbridge Nursery when it opened in 1897, initially as a slow left-arm bowler.
Cricket career
Humphreys made his debut at age 17 for Kent in 1899, playing against Surrey at The Oval. He developed into a right-handed opening batsman who bowled well enough to take over 350 wickets in his career. He was a regular as a professional in the Kent sides which won four County Championships in the years before World War I at a time when the county had very strong batting. His highest first-class score of 208 was made against Gloucestershire at Catford in 1909, at the time the highest individual score made by a Kent batsman in an innings. He made the other double century of his career the following season.
Humphreys was described as a highly skilled batsman and a "magnificent" fielder. He put on 248 runs with Arthur Day for the seventh wicket in 1908 against Somerset at the County Ground, Taunton, a Kent record for the seventh wicket partnership which still stands as of 2017.
As well as playing for Kent, Humphreys played for and coached the Canterbury cricket team in New Zealand, making three first-class appearances for them in 1908–09. He also coached in Jamaica a number of times and was part of the MCC side which toured the West Indies in 1912–13.
Military service
During World War I Humpreys served in the Royal Navy. He enlisted in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve in 1915 before being posted as an Ordinary Seaman to HMS Thames with the Royal Navy in 1917. He transferred to HMS Arrogant in May 1917. This was a depot ship for submarines and small craft, and Humphreys was transferred to the Coastal Motor Boats (CMB) of the Dover Patrol and promoted to Able Seaman.
The CMB units operated from England and from a base near Dunkirk in northern France, patrolling the coastlines and the Dover Straits. He was stationed at Dunkirk and took part in the First Ostend Raid in April 1918, the CMB units laying smoke for the less successful element of the Zeebrugge Raid which attacked Ostend. He played some cricket whilst with the Navy, including a match in June 1918 for an England XI against the Dominions. He left the Navy in February 1918.
Later life
Humphreys took a position as cricket coach at Uppingham School after he was demobilised from the Navy in 1919. This restricted his playing time for Kent to the school holidays and he only played 11 first-class matches in 1919 and 1920 before he retired from playing cricket professionally. In 1929 Lord Harris recruited Humphreys to the position of head coach at Kent, a role he retained until 1948 when he was succeeded by Claude Lewis.
Humphreys died in November 1949 at Maidstone in Kent aged 68. | WIKI |
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seemed to be a third. This resolved itself, however, into a knotted club resting upon a pedestal.
'It is a Hercules,' cried Gideon; 'I might have guessed that from his calf. I'm supposed to be rather partial to statuary, but when it comes to Hercules, the police should interfere. I should say,' he added, glancing with disaffection at the swollen leg, 'that this was about the biggest and the worst in Europe. What in heaven's name can have induced him to come here?'
'I suppose nobody else would have a gift of him,' said Julia. 'And for that matter, I think we could have done without the monster very well.'
'Oh, don't say that,' returned Gideon. 'This has been one of the most amusing experiences of my life.'
'I don't think you'll forget it very soon,' said Julia. 'Your hand will remind you.'
'Well, I suppose I must be going,' said Gideon reluctantly.
'No,' pleaded Julia. 'Why should you? Stay and have tea with me.'
'If I thought you really wished me to stay,' said Gideon, looking at his hat, 'of course I should only be too delighted.'
'What a silly person you must take me for!' | WIKI |
Talk:Hale Boggs Federal Complex
The previously cited source of the buildings age is incorrect and has been removed. | WIKI |
Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/User:Rambot
Support
* 1) Eequor
* 2) [[User:supadawg|supadawg - [[Image:Bulldog.jpg|30px|Talk]]]]
Oppose
* 1) Schnee (Feel free to rewrite all Rambot-created articles with better versions, but as long as we don't have anything better, keep them and be thankful that there is *some* information on these places etc. at least.)
* 2) This is idiocy. The city/town/village entries are slowly being worked on, and if you have a problem on them as you find them, here's a neat idea: go to google, and look up the town, even the titchiest little town usually is listed on county pages with historical information, etc. Rhymeless 18:56, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)
* 3) Angela. VfD is not a place to vote for bans. 18:57, Aug 17, 2004 (UTC)
* 4) Ferkelparade π 19:03, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC) - As Schneelocke said, it's better to have the rambot articles than to have nothing at all, and some of them have already started to grow beyond mere rambotness.
* 5) Eugene van der Pijll 19:11, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC) - The articles consist of a bit of (some would say "almost useless") information, but they can function as a starting point for a useful article; most won't, but those don't actually hurt anyone.
* 6) Mindspillage 19:58, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC) - Disk space is cheap, and they're good starting points. I think the presence of these articles makes it more likely that future contributors will come and flesh them out, instead of deciding they aren't up to the task of starting a new article from scratch themselves.
* 7) Don't ban Rambot--for example, the articles around my hometown are quite interesting to me, and I've learned interesting things from them. I'd encourage more Wikipedians to go and add details about their places of residence; I only wish the same info was available for other nations. [[User:Meelar|Meelar (talk)]] 20:11, 2004 Aug 17 (UTC)
* 8) older ≠ wiser 20:13, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)
* 9) Just because factual information can also be obtained elsewhere is not a good reason for us not to have it. Otherwise, the arguments for deletion are really criticisms of Census Bureau methodology. These can be dealt with on pages about the census itself. --Michael Snow 22:12, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)
* 10) Niteowlneils 22:21, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC) - Agree most with Angela (and Finlay and Geogre), second Meelar, but agree with all other comments against a ban, plus ditto on my comment that the new maps are good, and other good things can be added with this bot; nearest airport, official city/county web sites, maybe elevation or area code--there's all kinds of possibilities. Mindspillage also adds a very good point that I don't remember being specifically raised before. Also, since there are many named communities not covered by the census data, and I have done a lot of new pages patrol, I can testify that what comes in if there is no Rambot article is typically " has a store and a post office. There's a river nearby.", and usually mentions the state and/or county, and those are the good ones--often its more like "Green Valley is the best city in the state". Either of those are FAR worse than the bot-created articles.
* Also, without the rambot template to provide a guide to the standard Wikipedia "voice", people make rambling essays like this. Niteowlneils 23:10, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)
* 1) I'd rather ban Eequor. RickK 22:52, Aug 17, 2004 (UTC)
* All's I've done is bring these horrible articles back into the community's attention. --Eequor 23:07, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)
* 1) Finlay McWalter | Talk 22:54, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC) Note that a) VfD is not the forum for bans b) the rambot/ramman issue has been discussed innumerable times c) bans are for seriously deleterious users, not ones with which we may disagree. In the longer term, census data (and other autmatically entered info) will ideally be added by transclusion rather than a bot (appearing as immutable styled blocks, not wikitext), but in the continued absence of said transcludor, ram-man must suffice.
* 2) Oppose. - Mustafaa 23:20, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)
* 3) Inappropriate to even think of having a vote on ban/keep here. Geogre 23:43, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)
* Not only is this the wrong place, but rambot hasn't even been used for over a year, so why bother? Niteowlneils 00:59, 18 Aug 2004 (UTC)
* 1) This is not only the wrong place, but also wrong in general Chris 73 | Talk 00:16, 18 Aug 2004 (UTC)
* 2) Andrewa 03:33, 18 Aug 2004 (UTC)
* 3) I don't like rambot. I think the information it provides is largely useless. Worse, the format is terrible and people tend to just leave it as is as the article grows up. But, I don't think this means we should ban rambot. Rather, we should fix it and make it better. In my opinion, this means getting rid of the demographic information. At the city level keep just the population estimate, latitude and longitude, and area/water area (if this part is accurate, I've found the water area part to be quite inaccurate). What we're left with might be too small of a stub. If so then maybe we can combine it into a single page per county or other divisional area and leave links to the individual pages. But I don't really have a problem with a page per city, with just that basic information I've described above. anthony (see warning) 21:47, 23 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Comments
Why should anyone be thankful for them? All their information can be easily obtained from the U.S. Census Bureau. --Eequor 18:55, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)
* In my experience, much of this info is FAR from easy to get in a readable format from census.gov. Also, it's hard to get all the info at once for a location--you have to do separate searches for geography vs population, etc. Niteowlneils 22:21, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)
* This has been discussed before at User talk:Rambot/Delete. Angela. 18:57, Aug 17, 2004 (UTC)
* The "Ban Rambot" section is entirely inappopriate for Vfd and should be removed from this page. -- Infrogmation 22:25, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)
* Exceptional abuses require exceptional measures. Is there a page you would consider more appropriate? I felt it would be more convenient to have everything related to the Rambot articles on one page, where all of it can be easily tracked. Besides, it's not like I'm suggesting banning User:Ram-Man. --Eequor 22:44, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)
La Grange, Illinois is entirely unconvincing as an argument for the usefulness of Rambot. The first three sections, including the lead, are nearly unmodified from the time the bot created the article (December 11, 200). Only two sentences have been added, while the first has been slightly expanded. The ethnicity links have also been updated. The rest of the article is completely unrelated to any of the preceding sections, and probably of much more interest to readers. I would hope that Wikipedians can write articles regardless of whether a script has generated some text that nobody refers to in later articles. See Integrate changes.
* The point is that I wouldn't have bothered to write any my contributions, and probably many other users wouldn't either, if Rambot hadn't given me a starting point and some organization. [[User:Meelar|Meelar (talk)]] 23:32, 2004 Aug 17 (UTC)
* So what? Is there a rule that if an article isn't changed in X period of time it should be deleted? I think not. RickK 22:52, Aug 17, 2004 (UTC)
* Well... yes. See Votes for deletion, Candidates for speedy deletion, Deletion policy, and Deletion log. --Eequor 23:13, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)
* I don't see a single point in any of those pages which says that a page is eligible for deletion because it hasn't been edited for a while. RickK 04:23, Aug 19, 2004 (UTC)
Really, this is two separate articles which nobody has thought to merge. It isn't in news style or summary style. I think this argues more strongly that there is no need for the Rambot articles, and that they degrade the quality of Wikipedia. Instead of writing one complete and well-formatted article, inertia has encouraged editors to leave the badly-written parts alone. Starting from scratch, a human would have written the article in a properly layed-out manner, presenting the information according to its relevance to the reader.
Try this: delete everything in La Grange, Illinois above the Government section. I'm certain that somebody who already has interest in the article could do a far better job of rewriting it than a script ever could. --Eequor 22:15, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)
1111
Any reasonably small limit could be used. Mostly I picked this number because: --Eequor 22:34, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)
* 1) it's close to 1000
* 2) it isn't a multiple of 10
* 3) it appears more arbitrary
More evidence that Rambot is evil
* Most of its articles have irrelevant statistics, including percentages less than 1% and mentions of 0%.
* All are poorly wikified (inconsistent, redundant, unintuitive), particularly with regard to ethnicity.
* County articles also list cities/towns/villages contained with, also a good aggregation of info and good linkage. See Roscommon County, Michigan, for example. Niteowlneils 22:21, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)
* All are under-wikified. Except for the lead section, links within the article are limited to the following:
* U.S. Census Bureau
* km²
* mi²
* census2
* 2000
* population density
* Race (U.S. census) or variants, repeated for every ethnicity
* Hispanic and Latino groups are poorly recognized by the U.S. Census, and the Rambot articles propagate this error.
* The section on marital status reflects antiquated notions of gender role.
* The articles seem to use "village" and "town" interchangeably. Every occurrence of each (and any other synonyms used) should be replaced with "city".
* This has been debated in a number of forums, as different states use different ways to distinguish population areas. EG Some have formal defintions of "village" and "town", but many don't. I've also specifically seen Wikipedians enter strong objections to calling everything a "city". Niteowlneils 22:21, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)
* Absolutely not. In New York State, and possibly other states, "town", "village" and "city" are clearly defined types of municipalities. To replace "town" or "village" with "city" is incorrect. What Rambot did screw up in N.Y. is to label CDPs as "towns". I had to manually adjust most of these in Westchester County, hoping people will hit the other counties.--[[User:Nricardo|Nelson Ricardo >>Talk<<]] 10:07, Sep 25, 2004 (UTC)
* I think it's important that these terms are linked to articles explaining their specific and clearly defined meanings, particularly if they differ from state to state. Those of us in the rest of the world get confused when we see villages of tens of thousands of people, or cities of hardly anyone. Outside the USA, a village is a small settlement, a town is a medium-sized one, and a city is a big one. If someone asked me to think of a city in England I might name somewhere big like Leeds or Bristol, both of which have populations in the hundreds of thousands. I suspect the same question to an American might yield the name of just about any urban area. Links to articles defining the terms would be a big help to the other 6 billion of us. — Trilobite (Talk) 12:45, 25 Sep 2004 (UTC)
* Well, that looks like a job for rambot (though I might have a crack at wikilinking the municipalities in Westchester County):-) To get you started, please see Political subdivisions of New York State. I've just added the 3rd paragraph which I hope will make the situation on N.Y. clearer. Note that terminology varies in other states. (If you are truly bored, you can puruse the 250+ pages of the local govt. handbook, linked at the end of that article.)--[[User:Nricardo|Nelson Ricardo >>Talk<<]] 19:26, Sep 25, 2004 (UTC)
* Most of the statistics would be better presented by a table. Perhaps a link to the Census Bureau would suffice?
* Tables generally get added once the article gets long enuf that the table won't overwhelm it. See Seattle, Washington, or most any of the large cities in the US. Niteowlneils 22:21, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)
* That's an excellent article. The material by Rambot is hardly visible. Even so, the quality of the article takes an abrupt plunge at Seattle, Washington, returning to normal immediately after. It's very strange that nobody has edited the Rambot sections, when every other part of the article has been rewritten. Is the bot really a better editor than every real user? --Eequor 23:00, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Evidence that bots are evil
* Both Template namespace initialisation script and Guanabot have presumably made corrections to every article created by Rambot -- and so there are extremely few articles where Rambot is automatically marked as making the last edit.
* The evilness of bots is not a topic for VfD. Angela. 18:57, Aug 17, 2004 (UTC)
What ...?
It seems meaninglessless to dump this on VfD's lap without explanation (especially without signing the "nominations"). Plowing through all the comments, I'm starting to pick up gleams of light, and hints that Eequor probably posted it. Eequor, how about at least a few lines of general introduction? The cause being promoted may be very good, for all I know, but what's the point of "bringing something back into the community's attention" without bringing it to their understanding? And "back"? There are new users here, as well as people who've heard it all before. Bishonen 00:03, 18 Aug 2004 (UTC)
* Sorry for the confusion. I did start this; my main complaints are written above. Most of the articles created by Rambot seem to be of little use to anyone besides a statistician. Does anybody really care that a particular ethnic group forms .05% of the population? Is it sensible to have a number of articles about towns with no current residents? Do blocks of random numbers that nobody ever looks at belong in the middle of actual prose? How will any of the articles be updated after the next census is completed?
* I'm surprised that Rambot has so much support despite persistent complaints about it, and considering that very little good is said about what the script produces. From the examples that have been provided, I don't see how they can be thought of as "stepping stones", places to start from. That I've seen, real articles have nothing in common with the Rambot stubs, aside from being about the same place. Article histories show that contributors mostly just forget the Rambot stuff is even there. --Eequor 00:45, 18 Aug 2004 (UTC)
It's odd to see people so worked up about this. There are only 40,000 of the articles, and they shouldn't all be deleted. Just most of them. There are always exceptions. It's not like somebody's going to delete 30,000 articles overnight.
Odder still are the objections to the poll itself which are expressed by voting in the poll rather than just leaving a comment below. How much sense does it make for somebody to make complaints about "breaking protocols" by breaking an implicit protocol themselves?
If this isn't the right place for discussions such as above, there ought to be a more visible forum where controversial subjects might be discussed with fairness and civility, without raising complaints about violating protocols. --Eequor 01:36, 18 Aug 2004 (UTC)
* Well, if it makes any difference, I kind of like Rambot's work. We all complain about it, just like everyone complains about "the government" once or twice, but most of us know that we want Rambot around, and the government. We can all be irritated by hitting the random page and seeing an article on a town of 5 in Montana, but I also think that what we would get from user authorship of home towns would be considerably worse. Also, Rambot's brainless (literally) entries do set a tone for new users: neutral means neutral point of view. We have enough trouble reverting edits and edits on political and nationalist topics. Imagine what would happen if the kidiwikis began writing hoax and prank articles on each others' local town rivalries. (Many of the town entries for Australia and other non-US areas are either very hotly debated or possibly hoaxes.) Finally, Rambot's towns may have a population of 1,110 now, but that doesn't mean that it was ever thus. The town may have been a vital rail center that figures in Civil War history and has now been killed by WalMart in the next town and the interstate two towns over. Making an assumption that a real town is unworthy because of its population ignores the value of town entries for people not looking to determine voting districts. Anyway, that's my little cheer for Rambot. Geogre 12:56, 18 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Arbitration
I'm confused. Isn't Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/User:Rambot an even less appropriate place for this poll? There doesn't seem to be any interest in the proposal. --Eequor 23:18, 18 Aug 2004 (UTC)
* I'm not sure, but I think Rossami moved it there by accident when sie was splitting the vote into two chunks. If that's the case, there's no harm in someone speedy-deleting the redirect left lying there. -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 23:27, 18 Aug 2004 (UTC)
* No, I saw his comment saying he did it, so I guess he meant to. This is a policy discussion, plain and simple, and both arbitration and deletion pages aren't appropriate. People add proposed policies to the wikipedia name space all the time, and that's where I think this idea should have been all along. -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 23:53, 18 Aug 2004 (UTC)
These statistics *are* useful for ordinary mortals
I've seen (and contributed to) a lot of talk about whether these old Rambot articles belong in Wikipedia, and I just remembered an exercise I went through that shows they do have value, even as is.
A few months ago, I was trying to figure some kind of rough estimate of the economic conditions between my hometown and county, and my current town and county. Since I already had a Wikipedia window up (when don't I? ☺), I just checked the four relevant articles for some basic population and income data. I found it very useful to have these statistics available. (I also found myself wandering through a few more neighboring towns, just out of curiosity.) I've tried to penetrate U.S. government data websites before and have mostly given up unless the issue were really important. I think these basic articles are not only a good starting point for robust ones, but they have their uses even in their raw form. — Jeff Q 00:25, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC) | WIKI |
Talk:Twiztid discography
singles?
should we add singles and giveouts?Ritzbitz00 (talk) 00:40, 26 January 2009 (UTC) | WIKI |
Talk:Sadnøy
RFD discussion: January 2022
Apparent misspelling of Sandøy. DCDuring (talk) 15:20, 5 January 2022 (UTC)
* RFD-deleted. Could've been speedied, really, as it's an unambiguously rare typo. —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 05:26, 26 January 2022 (UTC) | WIKI |
N. Carolina governor gets initial win in fight over cabinet
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (Reuters) - A three-judge panel has sided at least temporarily with North Carolina Democratic Governor Roy Cooper in his fight against a Republican-backed attempt to curtail his powers by requiring legislative confirmation of cabinet appointments. The law was among a series of measures approved by lawmakers in December limiting Cooper’s executive authority after he defeated incumbent Republican Governor Pat McCrory. Cooper sued to block it, arguing that requiring Senate consent to his cabinet secretaries was unprecedented and unconstitutional. In an order Tuesday evening, the trio of state judges said the governor was likely to succeed in his challenge. “The court is absolutely correct in their decision and should not be intimidated by threats from legislative leaders,” Cooper said in a statement on Wednesday. Eight of the 10 cabinet secretaries for the state have been appointed and sworn in. The temporary restraining order halted a hearing set for Wednesday to review Cooper’s appointee for secretary of the Department of Military and Veterans Affairs. Republican lawmakers vowed they would eventually meet to review the cabinet members’ qualifications and potential conflicts of interests. Republicans have said such confirmation hearings were lawful and would serve as a check on executive power. Senate leader Phil Berger and House Speaker Tim Moore, both Republicans, said the judges were legislating from the bench and called on them to reverse their order. “In a gross misreading of the Constitution and a blatant overstep of their Constitutional authority, three Superior Court judges attempted to dictate to the legislature when it could or could not hold committee meetings and what it could or could not consider in those meetings,” the lawmakers said in a joint statement. “If these three men want to make laws, they should hang up their robes and run for a legislative seat.” The judges said they would hear the governor’s motion for a preliminary injunction on Friday. A trial on the issue is scheduled for March 7. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Ibrahim Mater
Ibrahim Mater Al-Harbi (ابراهيم الحربي) (born 10 July 1975) is a retired Saudi Arabian football midfielder.
Career
Al-Harbi played club football for Al-Nassr and Ohud. He also played for the national team, with which he participated in the 1996 Summer Olympics and 1998 FIFA World Cup. | WIKI |
-- Diageo Sees ‘Soft Spots’ in Emerging Markets as Growth Slows
Diageo Plc (DGE) , the world’s biggest
distiller, said today it sees some “soft spots” in emerging
markets and reported full-year sales growth at a slower pace
than last year and its mid-term goal. Trading in Brazil was “relatively soft” in the year ended
June 30 and could continue to be weak in the first half of this
fiscal year, Chief Financial Officer Deirdre Mahlan said today
on a conference call. The distiller also reported slower growth
in its Asia Pacific region, where government anti-extravagance
measures are restraining sales in China . The Johnnie Walker maker has been expanding in developing
markets as it seeks to generate half its revenue from faster-growing economies to offset stagnant growth in Europe . It bought
cachaca brand Ypioca last year in Brazil and this year expanded
in India with the purchase of a stake in United Spirits, and
consolidated control over a maker of Chinese baijiu liquor. “Diageo’s move to medium-term organic sales guidance of 6
percent famously set light to the shares in August 2011,”
Martin Deboo , an analyst at Investec in London, wrote today.
“Two years in, chronic weakness in Southern Europe and trouble
spots in Korea , Brazil and elsewhere are contriving to impede
recovery.” This “all adds up to a difficult debut for new
Chief Executive Officer Ivan Menezes.” Medium-Term Targets The company is “on track” to meet its medium-term
guidance, Menezes said today in a statement , reporting his first
results since taking the reins from Paul Walsh this month after
Walsh stepped down as leader of the distiller for 13 years. In 2011, Diageo said it would target organic sales growth
of an average 6 percent in the “medium term” as well as
seeking to widen its operating margin by 2 percentage points
over three years. The announcement sent shares up as much as 8.5
percent on the day. Group organic sales rose 5 percent in the year through
June, the London-based maker of Smirnoff vodka and Johnnie
Walker Scotch whisky said in today’s statement. The median
estimate of 12 analysts surveyed by Bloomberg News was for a 4.7
percent increase. Organic measures exclude the effects of
acquisitions and currency fluctuation. Sales rose 6 percent in
the same period a year earlier. Diageo shares were up 0.7 percent at 2,004 pence as of
10:13 a.m. in London, bringing the advance to 12 percent this
year. The stock climbed as much as 1.8 percent and fell as much
as 3.5 percent earlier in the day. China Policy Organic sales in Asia Pacific edged up 3 percent in the
year, a slower pace than the 4 percent reported in the first
nine months. Government-led crackdowns on extravagant spending
and gifting in China are stinting sales of premium drinks,
Mahlan said, and political tensions between South Korea and
North Korea cut travel retail sales. Operating profit excluding some items totalled 3.53 billion
pounds ($5.38 billion), compared with a 3.48 billion-pound
median estimate. Diageo’s margin, a measure of profitability,
rose 0.8 of a percentage point this year. “We see the organic margin delivery as very achievable,”
Melissa Earlam , an analyst at UBS AG in London, wrote today in a
note. “But it’s somewhat more challenging to get a 6 percent
compound annual growth rate sales increase.” U.S. Growth Sales increased 5 percent and operating profit excluding
some items rose 9 percent in North America , the company’s
biggest region, aided by sales of Crown Royal and Bulleit
bourbon in the U.S. That helped offset a 4 percent sales decline
in Western Europe, where there was a 7 percent slump in profit
caused by tough economic conditions in southern Europe and
Ireland. Emerging markets sales now total 42 percent of the
company’s business, Diageo said, and grew 11 percent in the
year. Sales grew 10 percent in Africa , Eastern Europe and Turkey
and 15 percent in Latin America and the Caribbean. Revenue in
Paraguay, Uruguay and Brazil climbed 1 percent, the smallest
advance in the Latin America region. Some consumer-goods companies have warned of a deceleration
in emerging market economic growth. Unilever (UNA) reported quarterly
sales last week that missed estimates and said growth is slowing
in economies such as India and China. To contact the reporter on this story:
Clementine Fletcher in London at
cfletcher5@bloomberg.net To contact the editor responsible for this story:
Celeste Perri at
cperri@bloomberg.net | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
How to Test for Poor Blood Circulation in the Feet
Poor blood circulation is a common problem for many people, especially as the body ages. It is very important to seek treatment for poor blood circulation in the feet or any other part of the body. Without treatment, poor blood circulation can cause all sorts of very serious problems such as varicose veins, amputation and even stroke. Here are a few quick ways to test for poor blood circulation in the feet.
Check feet and legs for numbness, tenderness and cramping, especially after extended physical activity or long periods of standing up. Poor circulation can also cause feet to become swollen and discolored.
Check for symptoms of cyanosis, which is a term used for when a body part turns blue. Blue skin anywhere on the body usually means the body part is not receiving enough oxygen due to poor circulation.
Check feet for paleness. White patches of skin and white toenails are both a sign of poor foot circulation.
Check the speed at which wounds heal on the feet. Feet and legs with poor blood circulation take much longer to heal wounds, and sometimes wounds remain unhealed even after a long period of time.
Visit your doctor and ask him to consider ordering a doppler ultrasound or an angiography. Both of these tests are used to determine whether or not a person has poor blood circulation. Your doctor can also measure and compare blood pressure readings taken from the arms and legs to help determine poor circulation issues.
Tips
A quick way to test for circulation in the feet is by pressing or squeezing a part of the foot to be tested. You can check circulation by pressing your toenail bed, which should briefly turn white when squeezed and released, then turn pink again within two seconds. The toes and feet should be warm to the touch.
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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Plants and animals of Belize
The result was Nomination withdrawn. R'n'B (call me Russ) 10:51, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
Plants and animals of Belize
* – ( View AfD View log )
This article has never been more than a stub. We already have the large Flora of Belize and now we have the stub Fauna of Belize. There's no need to keep this article ... except maybe as a disambiguation page? Rennell435 (talk) 11:11, 12 June 2011 (UTC)
* Delete The articles you quoted have scientific names. You could even probably merge those 2 articles into Fauna and flora of Belize.Curb Chain (talk) 11:40, 12 June 2011 (UTC)
* Delete The discussion page makes the history clear. It is now a remnant stub and can be treated as a fork. --AJHingston (talk) 13:02, 12 June 2011 (UTC)
* Delete and restore as a disambig only page, as a likely search term. Lugnuts (talk) 13:34, 12 June 2011 (UTC)
* Note: This debate has been included in the list of Latin America-related deletion discussions. — Meph talk 16:42, 12 June 2011 (UTC)
* Note: This debate has been included in the list of Environment-related deletion discussions. — Meph talk 16:44, 12 June 2011 (UTC)
* Note: This debate has been included in the list of Caribbean-related deletion discussions. — • Gene93k (talk) 20:34, 12 June 2011 (UTC)
* Keep or Redirect There is no dispute that the topic is notable and the content encyclopedic. There is a history of good-faith edits that should not be deleted. According to the discussion page, content has been merged from this article...I don't know the details but there is some kind of copyright requirement to retain the edit history of such contributions. Since the editors don't want to maintain the article with referenced content they can redirect it to Belize and be done with it. Based on what has been said here at the AfD, I'd consider making it a two-item list with Flora of Belize and Fauna of Belize. Unscintillating (talk) 05:50, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
* Withdrawn, seeing as the general consensus here seems to be favour turning into disambiguation. That will keep the edit history intact. Rennell435 (talk) 09:47, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
* Or is it a list? Rennell435 (talk) 10:06, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
* Change to a dab page. Bearian (talk) 17:10, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
* It's a list, not a dab page. A dab page identifies different topics that may be referred to by the same name. This page lists two subtopics of a single broader topic. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 10:51, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
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Svend Tronkræver
Svend Tronkræver or Svend Svendsen (died 1104) was a Danish prince, one of the illegitimate sons of king Sweyn II of Denmark. He shared the same name with his brother Sweyn the Crusader and another brother.
When his brother Eric Evergood died in July 1103 during a pilgrimage, Svend tried to become the next King of Denmark. On the way to the royal elections at Viborg, he became ill. Not wanting any rivals to get there ahead of him, he continued the journey anyway, but died of hardships. Instead, his younger brother Niels, the last surviving son of King Sweyn II, was elected king the following year.
He was the father of Henrik Skadelår and grandfather of King Magnus II of Sweden. | WIKI |
Page:A History of Banking in the United States.djvu/53
contract by which their possessor obtained them from the bank, while they enable him to divide his credit as he sees fit and to buy what he wants without further guarantee. Since all the transactions will cancel within a brief period, all the paper evidences will return to the bank within that period. It will then be found that the bank has only "furnished a medium" for all the transactions. We have here a striking illustration of the way in which phrases, in this domain, alter their meaning before the man who uses them is aware of it. To "furnish a medium," on the currency principle, means to provide the community with a currency, in the belief that, but for this provision, it would have none, while in fact the bank takes away specie to give paper. On the banking principle, the bank does, in a legitimate sense, furnish a medium of credit in operations in which money is dispensed with, and a kind of barter of a higher grade is reintroduced, money being used as a standard of reference for the terms of the barter. All the persons in the market may find themselves in a snarl of debts which would hinder them all from moving, but there would be a thread of mutual or consecutive obligations which, if it could be found and drawn out, would absolve them all. The bank operations effect this.
This latter set of facts is the one on which the "banking principle" is based. Both principles are true, but no one has yet succeeded in defining their spheres or their relation to each other. The only line which can be drawn between them is a vague and empirical one; that the small notes are under the currency principle, and the large notes under the banking principle. The latter are used in the greater transactions of business; the former in expenditures for consumption. Hence the earnest attempt of the banks, which we shall see in this history, to get the right of emitting small notes, and also the constantly repeated effort of currency reformers to forbid the same. The small notes, under the currency principle, were a permanent loan obtained by the banks from the public, but they also compelled simple and uneducated people to hold a stake in the prosperity of the bank with which they had nothing to do, and on which stake they might lose but never could gain.
It will be seen that the bank projectors of the th and tl centuries mentioned above, Chapter 1, had won a vague and imperfect perception of the facts underlying the banking principle. They were trying to enunciate its doctrines and devise an institution to operate upon them.
The arguments in favor of bank note currency in this country have always been made from the standpoint of the "banking principle." That currency was always on the currency principle: The banking principle fails entirely when loans are made on accommodation paper, or on land, or on long contracts of any kind. Hence in the history of American banking, the banking principle appears to have been a delusion.
In the paper in which he first laid before Congress the arguments for a Bank and the outline of his plan, Hamilton made a special explanation and defence of two features in it. The first was the provision that shares in the | WIKI |
ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException in Java
ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException occurs when you try to access an array element which is out of the range of index of that array.
e.g. int[] numbers = new int[20];
numbers[13] = 123; //Valid
numbers[0] = 3673; //Valid
numbers[19] = 1823; //Valid
numbers[-3] = 1263; //InValid. It Will give ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException.
numbers[20] = 4123; //InValid. It Will give ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException.
numbers[25] = 45123; //InValid.It Will give ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException.
For int[] numbers = new int[20]; , the valid range of index is from 0 to 19.
Index always starts from 0 till (arraylength-1).
ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException is Checked or Unchecked Exception??
ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException is a subclass of RuntimeException. RuntimeException is an unchecked exception. Hence, All subclasses of RuntimeException will also be unchecked exception.
So, ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException is an Unchecked Exception.
Demo Program : ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException
package com.masterjavatutorial;
public class TestExample {
public static void main(String[] args) {
int numbers[] = new int[20];
numbers[13] = 123; //Valid
numbers[0] = 3673; //Valid
numbers[19] = 1823; //Valid
numbers[20] = 4123; //InValid. It Will give ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException.
}
}
Output of the above program is as below:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 20
at com.masterjavatutorial.TestExample.main(TestExample.java:11)
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Portal:Cricket/Anniversaries/February/February 15
* New Zealand
* 1978 - After 48 years and in the 48th Test between the two countries, New Zealand finally win a Test match against England, winning by 72 runs in a low-scoring match at Wellington.
* West Indies
* 1956 - Desmond Haynes is born in Barbados | WIKI |
Duke Realty's Q4 FFO in Line, Down Y/Y; Guides for 2016
Duke Realty Corp.DRE reported fourth-quarter 2015 core funds from operations ("FFO") per share of 29 cents, which came in line with the Zacks Consensus Estimate and was down 3.3% year over year. The quarter witnessed a decline in revenues.
Total rental and related revenue for fourth-quarter 2015 was $198.5 million, down 4% year over year. The Zacks Consensus Estimate for the same was $199.8 million.
For full-year 2015, Duke Realty's core FFO per share was $1.17, in line with the Zacks Consensus Estimate and around 0.8% down year over year. Full-year rental and related revenues came in at around $816.1 million, down approximately 0.8% year over year.
Quarter in Detail
Duke Realty leased around 6.7 million square feet of space in the quarter. Also, with a tenant retention rate of about 80%, the company experienced overall growth of 13.8% in renewal rental rate. Same-property net operating income climbed 3.1% on a year-over-year basis.
As of Dec 31, 2015, the company's overall portfolio occupancy was up 70 basis points (bps) to 94% on a sequential basis. In-service portfolio occupancy in bulk distribution portfolio rose 30 bps sequentially to 96.5%. The same in medical office portfolio rose 50 bps to 95.5%; while in-service occupancy in suburban office portfolio declined 310 bps sequentially.
In fourth-quarter 2015, Duke Realty commenced 7 projects, spanning 2.4 million square feet and valued at $238 million. These included 4 new industrial development projects covering an area of 1.2 million square feet, 2 new medical office developments comprising 158,000 square feet and a joint venture industrial project spread over 1.0 million square feet.
Duke Realty exited the quarter with $22.5 million of cash and cash equivalents, up from $17.9 million as of Dec 31, 2014.
2016 Guidance
Duke Realty introduced 2016 guidance for core FFO per share of $1.15−$1.21. The Zacks Consensus Estimate of $1.20 for 2016 falls in this range.
Dividend Update
Concurrent with its earnings release, Duke Realty announced quarterly cash dividend on common stock of 18 cents per share. The fourth-quarter dividend will be paid on Feb 29, 2016 to shareholders of record as of Feb 16.
Our Viewpoint
Duke Realty's initiatives to boost exposure to industrial assets and presence of healthcare assets augur well for the long term. Moreover, the company's strategically located high-quality properties, along with a leveraged local presence, are encouraging.
Nevertheless, operational risks related to large development pipeline, near-term dilutive effect of continued divestiture and any further rise in interest rate pose as concerns before Duke Realty.
Currently, Duke Realty has a Zacks Rank #4 (Sell).
We now look forward to other REIT stocks that are scheduled to release fourth-quarter 2015 results next week. These include UDR, Inc. UDR , Equity Residential EQR and Kimco Realty Corporation KIM .
Note: FFO, a widely used metric to gauge the performance of REITs, is obtained after adding depreciation and amortization and other non-cash expenses to net income.
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OEM Accounts for Enterprise Users
570448
I have some Oracle Enterprise Users who I would like to assign OEM Database Control accounts to. Is there a way I can get this to work without creating the users explicit OEM accounts?
To clarify further, I'd like to create an Enterprise Role (managed in the esm tool) that has the set of database roles and privilges that would allow Enterprise Users assigned to this Enterprise Role the ability to login to OEM. Thoughts?
Thank you
• 1. Re: OEM Accounts for Enterprise Users
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OEM accounts have no relationship to database accounts, and roles do not apply.
Privileges are managed by OEM.
--
Sybrand Bakker
Senior Oracle DBA
• 2. Re: OEM Accounts for Enterprise Users
Madrid
I suggest you to specify the OS and DB versions you are talking about whenever you post a new thread. A de facto standard, OEM is used to specify a 9i Oracle Enterprise Manager or an 8i OEM Java console, meanwhile EM is used to refer to the 10g Enterprise Manager DB Control Console, either 10gR1 or 10gR2. OEM can be used to access any database.
On OEM you can use any account with DBA privileges, so you could access OEM if you simply assign a DBA role to the user. On EM the only two allowed users to access Enterprise Manager are SYS and SYSTEM, if you want to add a new user then you must enable it from the preferences menu once you have connected with an authorized account. EM can access only the 10g Database where its repository has been built on, if you want to access different databases with the same interface, then you must configure the grid control.
FYI, In EM, there is a repository manager database user, the sysman user, but this is for internal use only.
~ Madrid
• 3. Re: OEM Accounts for Enterprise Users
570448
Hi Madrid -
Sorry for the omission, the OS is Solaris 10 and DB version is 10.2.0.2.0.
Given the definitions you've supplied of OEM versus EM I believe my question is about EM (the web-based tool that I've known as Oracle Enterprise Manager Database Control). I'm very familiar with EM Grid Control too (and it's differences from EM Database Control).
For anyone to help with this question they would have to be pretty familiar with two concepts (and their implementation) Oracle Enterprise Users and EM Database Control 10gR2.
In the past, when I've wanted to give software developers access to 10gR2 EM Database Control I've created a database account called "developer" and assigned this database user to the CONNECT, MGMT_USER and OEM_ADVISOR roles. You also need to grant the “SELECT ANY DICTONARY” system privilege to the account. When you assign a database user to the MGMT_USER role they have the ability to login to EM. The OEM_ADVISOR role allows the user to run the EM advisors. Now I have this account in EM, "developer" that I can allow software developers to login to EM with. They can view tables, monitor DB performance, etc. But they can't do "DBA privilege things" like drop tables, alter tables, etc. This works okay -- but I have no traceability to individual users. Put another way, I don't like "group accounts" in our database.
Now, recently I migrated our database to the use of Oracle Enterprise Users. Under this system the software system's end-users are defined in an OracleAS Identity Management 10.1.4.0.1 installation's Oracle Internet Directory. The Enterprise Users don't have individual database accounts, but they can login to the database.
Back to the original question in my post yesterday (with specifics added). Say I create an Enterprise Role named EM_NON_PRIVILEGED using the ESM tool. In the tool I link this Enterprise Role to a global database role named -- EM_NON_PRIVILEGED_DB. Now, any grants to the database role are available to any Enterprise Users assigned to the Enterprise Role. Cool. So, I assign the CONNECT, MGMT_USER and OEM_ADVISOR roles to the EM_NON_PRIVILEGED_DB role as well as the “SELECT ANY DICTONARY” system privilege. Then, in ESM, I assign Enterprise Users to the EM_NON_PRIVILEGED role.
My problem is, when I try to login to EM as an Enterprise User that’s assigned to the EM_NON_PRIVILEGED Enterprise Role, I get “The application requires more database privileges than you have currently been granted. Click on Help to get more version specific information.” The “Help” link essentially just says you need the “SELECT ANY DICTONARY” system privilege. Has anyone successfully implemented the ability of Enterprise User’s to be able to login to EM Database Control 10.2?
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Hello everyone has been a while since i made a question here
i have a real problem with a web app that i been doing recently the problem is related with the datetime format when i make transfer data from the webapp to a database in access, the field in access has the property of date/time format and its format is in general date,
everything is ok when i pass the data in my page but when i try to check the infomation that i captured the format in the database it´s wrong.
an example of this capture 05/10/2016 06:37 pm (Tuesday, May 10, 2016) and when i check the database it show 10/05/2016 06:37 pm(Tuesday, Oct 10, 2016) this its a real problem because all the information and the validation is based in the exact datetime
Any kind of help will be great
there´s a comment in the 25 line
imports system.Data
Imports System.Data.OleDb
Imports System.Net.Mail
Imports System.Net
Imports System.Threading
Partial Class checklist
Inherits System.Web.UI.Page
Protected Sub Page_Load(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles Me.Load
Dim tur As String
tur = TimeOfDay.ToString("HH:mm")
turno.Text = tur
If tur >= "06:00" And tur <= "14:00 PM" Then
DropDownList1.SelectedIndex = 1
ElseIf tur >= "14:00" And tur <= "22:00" Then
DropDownList1.SelectedIndex = 2
ElseIf tur >= "22:00" And tur <= "24:59" Then
DropDownList1.SelectedIndex = 3
ElseIf tur >= "00:00" And tur <= "06:30" Then
DropDownList1.SelectedIndex = 3
End If
fecha.Text = DateAndTime.DateString.ToString
TextBox2.Text = (now.ToString("dd/MM/yyyy hh:mm:ss tt"))'''this is the line of the code that load the datetime into a textbox for transfer after the button click is pressed
TextBox3.Text = DatePart(DateInterval.WeekOfYear, Now)
If TextBox6.Text = "" Then
TextBox6.Text = "SC"
End If
End Sub
Protected Sub Button1_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
Dim now As DateTime = DateTime.Now
Dim cn As New OleDbConnection
Dim cm As New OleDbCommand
Dim mail As New MailMessage()
Dim texto As String
Dim smtp As New SmtpClient("smtp.logistics.corp")
cn = New OleDbConnection("Provider=Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0;Data Source=\\MXDTBTZ3XC1\Users\MXDTBTZ3XC1\Desktop\CHECKLIST.accdb")
cn.Open()
With cm
.Connection = cn
.CommandText = "INSERT INTO EQUIPOS(TURNO, DIA, SEMANA, NO_VEHICULO, AREA_ASIGNADA, PORCENTAJE_BATERIA, CAMBIO_DE_PILA, BATERIA_CON_SARRO, CONEXIONES_DE_BATERIA_CUBIERTAS_DE_CELDA, CONEXIONES_DE_BATERIA_TERMINALES_EN_SU_LUGAR, CONEXIONES_DE_BATERIA_CABLES_ROTOS, LLANTAS_ESTADO, FUGAS_DE_LIQUIDO_LEVE_MODERADA_O_CONSIDERABLE, AMARRE_DE_OP_CON_CANASTILLA, EXTINTOR, GUARDAS_DE_MANOS_ESTADO, ESTADO_DE_LA_PARRILLA, CUCHILLAS_NIVELADAS, FRENO_DE_MANO_FUNCIONANDO, LIMPIEZA_DE_MONTACARGAS, INDICADOR_DE_CARGA_FUNCIONANDO, CLAXON_EN_FUNCIONAMIENTO, FRENOS_ESTADO, ALARMA_DE_REVERSA_FUNCIONANDO, LECTURA_DE_HOROMETRO, DIRECCION_ESTADO, TABLERO_DE_CONTROLES_HIDRAULICO_FUNCIONANDO, LUCES_EN_BUEN_ESTADO, FUNCIONAMIENTO_BOTON_DE_EMERGENCIA, ETIQUETAS_DE_IDENTIFICACION_ARNES, CORREAS_ESTADO_ARNES, PARTES_METALICAS_ESTADO_ARNES, PIEZAS_PLASTICAS_ESTADO_ARNES, COMENTARIOS, NOMBRE_DE_USUARIO, FECHA) VALUES(@TURNO, @DIA, @SEMANA, @NO_VEHICULO, @AREA_ASIGNADA, @PORCENTAJE_BATERIA, @CAMBIO_DE_PILA, @BATERIA_CON_SARRO, @CONEXIONES_DE_BATERIA_CUBIERTAS_DE_CELDA, @CONEXIONES_DE_BATERIA_TERMINALES_EN_SU_LUGAR, @CONEXIONES_DE_BATERIA_CABLES_ROTOS, @LLANTAS_ESTADO, @FUGAS_DE_LIQUIDO_LEVE_MODERADA_O_CONSIDERABLE, @AMARRE_DE_OP_CON_CANASTILLA, @EXTINTOR, @GUARDAS_DE_MANOS_ESTADO, @ESTADO_DE_LA_PARRILLA, @CUCHILLAS_NIVELADAS, @FRENO_DE_MANO_FUNCIONANDO, @LIMPIEZA_DE_MONTACARGAS, @INDICADOR_DE_CARGA_FUNCIONANDO, @CLAXON_EN_FUNCIONAMIENTO, @FRENOS_ESTADO, @ALARMA_DE_REVERSA_FUNCIONANDO, @LECTURA_DE_HOROMETRO, @DIRECCION_ESTADO, @TABLERO_DE_CONTROLES_HIDRAULICO_FUNCIONANDO, @LUCES_EN_BUEN_ESTADO, @FUNCIONAMIENTO_BOTON_DE_EMERGENCIA, @ETIQUETAS_DE_IDENTIFICACION_ARNES, @CORREAS_ESTADO_ARNES, @PARTES_METALICAS_ESTADO_ARNES, @PIEZAS_PLASTICAS_ESTADO_ARNES, @COMENTARIOS, @NOMBRE_DE_USUARIO, @FECHA)"
.Parameters.AddWithValue("@TURNO", DropDownList1.SelectedValue)
.Parameters.AddWithValue("@DIA", TextBox2.Text)
.Parameters.AddWithValue("@SEMANA", TextBox3.Text)
.Parameters.AddWithValue("@NO_VEHICULO", DropDownList2.SelectedValue)
.Parameters.AddWithValue("@AREA_ASIGNADA", DropDownList3.SelectedValue)
.Parameters.AddWithValue("@PORCENTAJE_BATERIA", TextBox4.Text)
.Parameters.AddWithValue("@CAMBIO_DE_PILA", DropDownList4.SelectedValue)
.Parameters.AddWithValue("@BATERIA_CON_SARRO", DropDownList5.SelectedValue)
.Parameters.AddWithValue("@CONEXIONES_DE_BATERIA_CUBIERTAS_DE_CELDA", DropDownList6.SelectedValue)
.Parameters.AddWithValue("@CONEXIONES_DE_BATERIA_TERMINALES_EN_SU_LUGAR", DropDownList7.SelectedValue)
.Parameters.AddWithValue("@CONEXIONES_DE_BATERIA_CABLES_ROTOS", DropDownList8.SelectedValue)
.Parameters.AddWithValue("@LLANTAS_ESTADO", DropDownList9.SelectedValue)
.Parameters.AddWithValue("@FUGAS_DE_LIQUIDO_LEVE_MODERADA_O_CONSIDERABLE", DropDownList10.SelectedValue)
.Parameters.AddWithValue("@AMARRE_DE_OP_CON_CANASTILLA", "N/A")
.Parameters.AddWithValue("@EXTINTOR", DropDownList12.SelectedValue)
.Parameters.AddWithValue("@GUARDAS_DE_MANOS_ESTADO", "N/A")
.Parameters.AddWithValue("@ESTADO_DE_LA_PARRILLA", DropDownList15.SelectedValue)
.Parameters.AddWithValue("@CUCHILLAS_NIVELADAS", DropDownList16.SelectedValue)
.Parameters.AddWithValue("@FRENO_DE_MANO_FUNCIONANDO", "N/A")
.Parameters.AddWithValue("@LIMPIEZA_DE_MONTACARGAS", DropDownList18.SelectedValue)
.Parameters.AddWithValue("@INDICADOR_DE_CARGA_FUNCIONANDO", DropDownList19.SelectedValue)
.Parameters.AddWithValue("@CLAXON_EN_FUNCIONAMIENTO", DropDownList20.SelectedValue)
.Parameters.AddWithValue("@FRENOS_ESTADO", DropDownList21.SelectedValue)
.Parameters.AddWithValue("@ALARMA_DE_REVERSA_FUNCIONANDO", DropDownList22.SelectedValue)
.Parameters.AddWithValue("@LECTURA_DE_HOROMETRO", TextBox5.Text)
.Parameters.AddWithValue("@DIRECCION_ESTADO", DropDownList23.SelectedValue)
.Parameters.AddWithValue("@TABLERO_DE_CONTROLES_HIDRAULICO_FUNCIONANDO", DropDownList24.SelectedValue)
.Parameters.AddWithValue("@LUCES_EN_BUEN_ESTADO", DropDownList25.SelectedValue)
.Parameters.AddWithValue("@FUNCIONAMIENTO_BOTON_DE_EMERGENCIA", DropDownList26.SelectedValue)
.Parameters.AddWithValue("@ETIQUETAS_DE_IDENTIFICACION_ARNES", "N/A")
.Parameters.AddWithValue("@CORREAS_ESTADO_ARNES", "N/A")
.Parameters.AddWithValue("@PARTES_METALICAS_ESTADO_ARNES", "N/A")
.Parameters.AddWithValue("@PIEZAS_PLASTICAS_ESTADO_ARNES", "N/A")
.Parameters.AddWithValue("@COMENTARIOS", TextBox6.Text)
.Parameters.AddWithValue("@NOMBRE_DE_USUARIO", TextBox7.Text)
.Parameters.AddWithValue("@FECHA", fecha.Text)
cm.ExecuteNonQuery()
cn.Close()
End With
End Sub
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Hello rproffitt
thanks for your advice
i was able to complete my requirement doing this i hope this be helpful for someone
Dim fech As System.DateTime
Dim lig As String
fech = DateString.ToString
lig = TimeOfDay.ToString("hh:mm:ss tt")
TextBox2.Text = fech & " " & lig
End If
End Sub
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Bullock cart
A bullock cart or ox cart (sometimes called a bullock carriage when carrying people in particular) is a two-wheeled or four-wheeled vehicle pulled by oxen. It is a means of transportation used since ancient times in many parts of the world. They are still used today where modern vehicles are too expensive or the infrastructure is more suited to them.
Used especially for carrying goods, the bullock cart is pulled by one or several oxen. The cart is attached to an ox team by a special chain attached to yokes, but a rope may also be used for one or two animals. The driver, and any other passengers, sit on the front of the cart, while load (if there is any) is placed in the back. Traditionally, the cargo has been agrarian goods and lumber.
History
The first indications of the use of a wagon (cart tracks, incisions, model wheels) are dated to around 4400 BC. The oldest wooden wheels usable for transport were found in southern Russia and dated to 3325 ± 125 BC. Evidence of wheeled vehicles appears from the mid-4th millennium BC, between the North Sea and Mesopotamia. The earliest vehicles may have been ox carts.
Australia
In Australia, bullock carts were referred to as bullock drays if they had two wheels, and bullock wagons, if they had four wheels, and they were usually used for carrying large loads. There were also four-wheeled vehicles known as jinkers, which had no tray and were used to carry large tree logs or other large round objects, such as boilers. They were pulled by bullock teams, which could consist of 20 or more animals. The driver of a bullock team was known as a 'bullocky'.
Bullock teams were used extensively to transport produce from rural areas to major towns and ports. Because of Australia's size, these journeys often covered large distances and could take many days and even weeks.
Costa Rica
In Costa Rica, ox carts (carretas in the Spanish language) were an important aspect of daily life and commerce, especially between 1850 and 1935, developing a unique construction and decoration tradition that is still being developed. Costa Rican parades and traditional celebrations often include a traditional ox cart parade.
In 1988, the traditional ox cart was declared as National Symbol of Work by the Costa Rican government.
In 2005, the "Oxherding and Oxcart Traditions in Costa Rica" were included in UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
Indonesia
In Indonesia, bullock carts are used in the rural parts of the country for transporting goods and people, but horse carts are more common. A bullock cart driver is known as a bajingan in Indonesian.
Malaysia
Bullock carts were widely used in Malaysia before the introduction of automobiles, and many are still used today. These included passenger vehicles, now used especially for tourists. Passenger carts are usually equipped with awnings for protection against sun and rain, and are often gaily decorated.
North Korea
Bullock carts, called dalguji, are still extensively used in North Korea because of fuel shortages. It is one of the few countries where it is used for everyday transportation, both in agriculture and in the military. | WIKI |
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// ==========================================================================
// SeqAn - The Library for Sequence Analysis
// ==========================================================================
// Copyright (c) 2006-2018, Knut Reinert, FU Berlin
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// Author: David Weese <david.weese@fu-berlin.de>
// ==========================================================================
#ifndef TESTS_INDEX_TEST_SHAPES_H
#define TESTS_INDEX_TEST_SHAPES_H
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
namespace seqan
{
template <typename TShape1, typename TShape2>
void testShape(TShape1 shape1, TShape2 shape2, bool dump)
{
if (dump) std::cout << std::endl;
// 012345678901234 len=15
DnaString dna = "CGGTACGTAAGTTAG";
DnaString dna1, dna2;
TShape1 shape1b(shape1);
TShape2 shape2b(shape2);
SEQAN_ASSERT_EQ(length(shape1), length(shape2));
SEQAN_ASSERT_EQ(weight(shape1), weight(shape2));
Iterator<DnaString>::Type it = begin(dna);
unsigned H1b, H2b;
for (int i = length(dna); i >= 0; --i)
{
{
unsigned H1 = hash(shape1, it, i);
unsigned H2 = hash(shape2, it, i);
if (i >= (int)length(shape1) && i != (int)length(dna))
{
H1b = hashNext(shape1b, it);
H2b = hashNext(shape2b, it);
} else {
H1b = hash(shape1b, it, i);
H2b = hash(shape2b, it, i);
}
unhash(dna1, H1, weight(shape1));
unhash(dna2, H2, weight(shape2));
if (dump) std::cout << std::dec << i << "\t" << std::hex << H1 << " " << H2 << ' ' << H1b << ' ' << H2b <<"\t" << dna1 << " " << dna2 << "\t" << (H1 == H2 && H1 == H1b && H1b == H2b);
SEQAN_ASSERT_EQ(H1, H2);
SEQAN_ASSERT_EQ(H1, H1b);
SEQAN_ASSERT_EQ(H1b, H2b);
if (i >= (int)length(shape1))
{
unsigned H1c = hash(shape1, it);
unsigned H2c = hash(shape2, it);
if (dump) std::cout << " " << (H1c == H2c && H1 == H1c);
}
}
if (dump) std::cout << "\t";
{
unsigned H1 = hashUpper(shape1, it, i);
unsigned H2 = hashUpper(shape2, it, i);
unhash(dna1, H1, weight(shape1));
unhash(dna2, H2, weight(shape2));
if (dump) std::cout << std::dec << i << "\t" << std::hex << H1 << " " << H2 << "\t" << dna1 << " " << dna2 << "\t" << (H1 == H2);
SEQAN_ASSERT_EQ(H1, H2);
}
if (dump) std::cout << std::endl;
++it;
}
}
template <typename TShape>
void testHashInit(TShape shape)
{
DnaString dna = "CGGTACGTAAGTTAG";
Iterator<DnaString>::Type it = begin(dna);
TShape shape2(shape);
hash(shape, it);
hashInit(shape2, it);
hashNext(shape2, it);
SEQAN_ASSERT_EQ(value(shape), value(shape2));
}
SEQAN_DEFINE_TEST(testShapes)
{
Shape<Dna, SimpleShape > shapeA(6);
testShape(shapeA, Shape<Dna, UngappedShape<6> >(), false);
testHashInit(shapeA);
testHashInit(Shape<Dna, UngappedShape<6> >());
// 012345678 len=9
CharString pattern = "11100110100";
Shape<Dna, GenericShape> shapeB(pattern);
testShape(shapeB, Shape<Dna, GappedShape<HardwiredShape<1,1,3,1,2> > >(), false);
testHashInit(shapeB);
testHashInit(Shape<Dna, GappedShape<HardwiredShape<1,1,3,1,2> > >());
pattern = "11110011";
Shape<Dna, OneGappedShape> shapeC(pattern);
testShape(shapeC, Shape<Dna, GappedShape<HardwiredShape<1,1,1,3,1> > >(), false);
testHashInit(shapeC);
}
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
} //namespace seqan
#endif //#ifndef SEQAN_HEADER_... | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Page:William Petty - Economic Writings (1899) vol 1.djvu/369
Rh 3. It is to be considered, whether the remainder can make all or any part of those Commodities, which are Imported from abroad: which of them, and how much in particular: The remainder of which sort of People (if any be) may safely and without possible prejudice to the Commonwealth, be employed in Arts and Exercises of pleasure and ornament; the greatest whereof is the Improvement of natural knowledge.
Having thus in general illustrated this point, which I think needs no other proof but illustration; I come next to intimate that no part of Europe hath |[40]| paid so much by way of Tax, and publick contribution, as Holland and Zealand for this last 100 Years; and yet no Country hath in the same time, increased their Wealth comparably to them: And it is manifest they have followed the general considerations above-mentioned; for they Tax Meats and Drinks most heavily of all; to restrain the excessive expence of those things, which 24 hours doth (as to the use of Man,) wholly annihilate; and they are more favourable to Commodities of greater duration.
Nor do they Tax according to what Men gain, but in extraordinary cases; but always according to what Men spend: And most of all, according to what they spend needlesly, and without prospect of return. Upon which grounds, their Customs upon Goods Imported and Exported, are generally low; as if they intended by them, only to keep an account of their Foreign Trade; and to retaliate upon their Neighbour States, the prejudices done them, by their Prohibitions and Impositions.
It is further to be observed, that since the Year 1636, the grown Taxes and Publick |[41]| Levies made in England, Scotland, and Ireland, have been prodigiously greater than at any time heretofore; and yet the said Kingdoms have increased in their Wealth and Strength, for these last Forty Years, as shall hereafter be shewn.
It is said that the King of France, at present doth Levy | WIKI |
XI Corps (United States)
XI Corps was a corps of the United States Army in World War II.
XI Corps (I)
The XI Corps was authorized by the National Defense Act of 1920, and was to be composed of units of the Organized Reserve located primarily in the First Corps Area. The headquarters and headquarters company were constituted on 29 July 1921 in the Regular Army, allotted to the First Corps Area, and assigned to the Fourth Army. The headquarters was activated about 24 October 1921 with Regular Army and Organized Reserve personnel at the Custom House Tower in Boston, Massachusetts. The headquarters company was initiated at Boston about December 1922. For annual summer training, the corps headquarters planned and conducted an officers’ training school 3–15 September 1922 and a staff training exercise in July 1924 at Camp Devens, Massachusetts. The headquarters was relieved from active duty in 1925 and all Regular Army personnel were reassigned to the Headquarters, Non-Divisional Group, First Corps Area, which assumed the responsibilities previously held by the XI Corps. Both the headquarters and the headquarters company remained active as "Regular Army Inactive" units. The headquarters was withdrawn from the Regular Army on 1 October 1933 and demobilized.
In 1922, the XI Corps received a shoulder sleeve insignia: “The shoulder sleeve insignia of The New England Reserve Corps, the XI, is truly historic, for it is a clever adaption of the famous Bunker Hill flag, a blue shield with the cross of St. George and the defiant green pine tree.”
XI Corps (II)
The second iteration of the XI Corps was constituted in the Organized Reserve on 1 October 1933, allotted to the First Corps Area, and assigned to the First Army. The headquarters was concurrently organized with the Reserve personnel previously assigned to the previously demobilized XI Corps (RAI). The designated mobilization station was Camp Devens, where the corps headquarters would assume command and control of the subordinate corps troops, which would then be mobilizing throughout the First Corps Area. The XI Corps was not activated prior to World War II, and was located in Boston as of 7 December 1941 in a reserve status.
World War II
The XI Army Corps was activated on 15 June 1942 at Chicago, Illinois and was redesignated XI Corps on 19 August 1942. On 20 October 1942 Major General (later Lieutenant General) Charles P. Hall assumed command of the Corps. General Hall commanded the Corps until its disbandment.
XI Corps embarked for the South West Pacific Area in March 1944 and was assigned to the Alamo Force after arriving at Finschhafen, New Guinea.
After service in New Guinea, XI Corps participated in the liberation of the Philippines and fought in Luzon, and the Southern Philippines. In the Philippines the Corps was under the Eighth United States Army commanded by Lieutenant General (later General) Robert L. Eichelberger.
In the Philippines, XI Corps' subordinate units included the following:
* 23rd Infantry Division (a.k.a. Americal Division)
* 31st Infantry Division
* 41st Infantry Division
* 93rd Infantry Division (African-American)
* 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment
* 38th Infantry Division
After the Japanese surrender on 2 September 1945, the Corps moved to occupation duty in and around Yokohama, Japan. It was disbanded on 11 March 1946 at Mito, Japan.
A unit history named Paradise Parade was published by the XI Corps Public Relations Office in 1945.
Campaign credit
* New Guinea
* Luzon
* Southern Philippines | WIKI |
James Harvey Brown
James Harvey Brown (April 26, 1906 – July 10, 1995) was a City Council member in Los Angeles, California, between 1959 and 1964 and then municipal court judge in that city from 1964 to 1985.
Biography
Brown was born on April 26, 1906, in Jamestown, North Dakota. After graduating from high school, he went to sea as a chief radio operator and later worked as a disc jockey at radio stations KFOX and KGER. He earned a degree in engineering from UCLA and was chief engineer at KFAC and KGER. In 1937 he became master control supervisor for NBC. During World War II he was a Navy lieutenant assigned to airborne radar design, working at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and other laboratories. After earning a degree from Southwestern University School of Law, he was both president of and attorney for the National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians.
He was vice chair of the California Democratic Party, 1948–58. He was a Congregationalist.
Brown died July 10, 1995, at the age of 89 in Glendale, California. Cause of death was given as heart failure. Interment was at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale. Survivors were his wife, Margaret; a daughter, Dorothy O'Leary; a son, James Harvey Brown, Jr.; and two sisters, Blanche Tibbot and Betty Dykstra.
Public service
A "conservative Democrat," Brown ran unsuccessfully for seats in the State Assembly and the U.S. House of Representatives.
City Council
In 1959 Brown ran for the Los Angeles City Council District 13 seat to fill the two years left in Ernest E. Debs's term when Debs was elected to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. Brown took office immediately after his victory over Charles Bigler in May of that year. He was reelected in 1961 to a four-year term, which he did not complete because of his appointment to a municipal court judgeship.
In 1960 the 13th District included most of Hollywood. It extended from the Alhambra city limits to Fairfax Avenue.
Brown "helped develop Dodger Stadium and Los Angeles International Airport," according to the Los Angeles Times.
Municipal judge
In 1964, Governor Edmund G. (Pat) Brown appointed Councilman Brown as a municipal court judge. He was sworn in on December 28, with his wife, Ruth Brown, as a witness. His pay was to be $23,000 a year, compared with the $12,000 he was receiving as a councilman.
Brown was the first judge to be assigned to Los Angeles's first night traffic court in 1965. In 1966 he headed a committee of judges that agreed to set up a central, computerized file of all outstanding warrants in the county.
Brown presided over the preliminary hearing for eleven members of the Black Panther Party who were charged with taking part in a four-hour gun battle with police officers from their Central Avenue headquarters in December 1969. He termed their activities "armed anarchy" and bound them over for trial in Superior Court.
In 1971 Brown was a leading proponent of a plan to reduce the number of jurors required in a misdemeanor trial from twelve to six. The idea was rejected by the State Senate.
Brown was on the municipal court bench for a decade before retiring in 1985.
Ham radio
He was also a ham-radio (amateur radio) operator, with the call letters W6VH, and he was a charter member of the Pacific Pioneer Broadcasters, the Society of Wireless Pioneers and the Radio Club of America.
In 1973 he returned to the City Hall to fight a request by Santa Monica Mountains homeowners to curb "unsightly aerials" of amateur radio operators on hillside rooftops that interfered with the view from expensive lots. Brown said that ham operators had provided valuable communication links in disasters like the Sylmar earthquake and floods. A city council committee rejected any further control. | WIKI |
Emic and etic
In anthropology, folkloristics, linguistics, and the social and behavioral sciences, emic and etic refer to two kinds of field research done and viewpoints obtained.
The "emic" approach is an insider's perspective, which looks at the beliefs, values, and practices of a particular culture from the perspective of the people who live within that culture. This approach aims to understand the cultural meaning and significance of a particular behavior or practice, as it is understood by the people who engage in it.
The "etic" approach, on the other hand, is an outsider's perspective, which looks at a culture from the perspective of an outside observer or researcher. This approach tends to focus on the observable behaviors and practices of a culture, and aims to understand them in terms of their functional or evolutionary significance. The etic approach often involves the use of standardized measures and frameworks to compare different cultures and may involve the use of concepts and theories from other disciplines, such as psychology or sociology.
The emic and etic approaches each have their own strengths and limitations, and each can be useful in understanding different aspects of culture and behavior. Some anthropologists argue that a combination of both approaches is necessary for a complete understanding of a culture, while others argue that one approach may be more appropriate depending on the specific research question being addressed.
Definitions
"The emic approach investigates how local people think...". How they perceive and categorize the world, their rules for behavior, what has meaning for them, and how they imagine and explain things. "The etic (scientist-oriented) approach shifts the focus from local observations, categories, explanations, and interpretations to those of the anthropologist. The etic approach realizes that members of a culture often are too involved in what they are doing... to interpret their cultures impartially. When using the etic approach, the ethnographer emphasizes what he or she considers important."
Although emics and etics are sometimes regarded as inherently in conflict and one can be preferred to the exclusion of the other, the complementarity of emic and etic approaches to anthropological research has been widely recognized, especially in the areas of interest concerning the characteristics of human nature as well as the form and function of human social systems.
"...Emic knowledge and interpretations are those existing within a culture, that are 'determined by local custom, meaning, and belief' (Ager and Loughry, 2004: n.p.) and best described by a 'native' of the culture. Etic knowledge refers to generalizations about human behavior that are considered universally true, and commonly links cultural practices to factors of interest to the researcher, such as economic or ecological conditions, that cultural insiders may not consider very relevant (Morris et al., 1999)."
Emic and etic approaches of understanding behavior and personality fall under the study of cultural anthropology. Cultural anthropology states that people are shaped by their cultures and their subcultures, and we must account for this in the study of personality. One way is looking at things through an emic approach. This approach "is culture specific because it focuses on a single culture and it is understood on its own terms." As explained below, the term "emic" originated from the specific linguistic term "phonemic", from phoneme, which is a language-specific way of abstracting speech sounds.
* An 'emic' account is a description of behavior or a belief in terms meaningful (consciously or unconsciously) to the actor; that is, an emic account comes from a person within the culture. Almost anything from within a culture can provide an emic account.
* An 'etic' account is a description of a behavior or belief by a social analyst or scientific observer (a student or scholar of anthropology or sociology, for example), in terms that can be applied across cultures; that is, an etic account attempts to be 'culturally neutral', limiting any ethnocentric, political or cultural bias or alienation by the observer.
When these two approaches are combined, the "richest" view of a culture or society can be understood. On its own, an emic approach would struggle with applying overarching values to a single culture. The etic approach is helpful in enabling researchers to see more than one aspect of one culture, and in applying observations to cultures around the world.
History
The terms were coined in 1954 by linguist Kenneth Pike, who argued that the tools developed for describing linguistic behaviors could be adapted to the description of any human social behavior. As Pike noted, social scientists have long debated whether their knowledge is objective or subjective. Pike's innovation was to turn away from an epistemological debate, and turn instead to a methodological solution. Emic and etic are derived from the linguistic terms phonemic and phonetic, respectively, where a phone is a distinct speech sound or gesture, regardless of whether the exact sound is critical to the meanings of words, whereas a phoneme is a speech sound in a given language that, if swapped with another phoneme, could change one word to another. The possibility of a truly objective description was discounted by Pike himself in his original work; he proposed the emic-etic dichotomy in anthropology as a way around philosophic issues about the very nature of objectivity.
The terms were also championed by anthropologists Ward Goodenough and Marvin Harris with slightly different connotations from those used by Pike. Goodenough was primarily interested in understanding the culturally specific meaning of specific beliefs and practices; Harris was primarily interested in explaining human behavior.
Pike, Harris, and others have argued that cultural "insiders" and "outsiders" are equally capable of producing emic and etic accounts of their culture. Some researchers use "etic" to refer to objective or outsider accounts, and "emic" to refer to subjective or insider accounts.
Margaret Mead was an anthropologist who studied the patterns of adolescence in Samoa. She discovered that the difficulties and the transitions that adolescents faced are culturally influenced. The hormones that are released during puberty can be defined using an etic framework, because adolescents globally have the same hormones being secreted. However, Mead concluded that how adolescents respond to these hormones is greatly influenced by their cultural norms. Through her studies, Mead found that simple classifications about behaviors and personality could not be used because peoples’ cultures influenced their behaviors in such a radical way. Her studies helped create an emic approach of understanding behaviors and personality. Her research deduced that culture has a significant impact in shaping an individual's personality.
Carl Jung, a Swiss psychoanalyst, is a researcher who took an emic approach in his studies. Jung studied mythology, religion, ancient rituals, and dreams, leading him to believe that there are archetypes that can be identified and used to categorize people's behaviors. Archetypes are universal structures of the collective unconscious that refer to the inherent way people are predisposed to perceive and process information. The main archetypes that Jung studied were the persona (how people choose to present themselves to the world), the anima and animus (part of people experiencing the world in viewing the opposite sex, that guides how they select their romantic partner), and the shadow (dark side of personalities because people have a concept of evil; well-adjusted people must integrate both good and bad parts of themselves). Jung looked at the role of the mother and deduced that all people have mothers and see their mothers in a similar way; they offer nurture and comfort. His studies also suggest that "infants have evolved to suck milk from the breast, it is also the case that all children have inborn tendencies to react in certain ways." This way of looking at the mother is an emic way of applying a concept cross-culturally and universally.
Importance as regards personality
Emic and etic approaches are important to understanding personality because problems can arise "when concepts, measures, and methods are carelessly transferred to other cultures in attempts to make cross-cultural generalizations about personality." It is hard to apply certain generalizations of behavior to people who are so diverse and culturally different. One example of this is the F-scale (Macleod). The F-scale, which was created by Theodor Adorno, is used to measure authoritarian personality, which can, in turn, be used to predict prejudiced behaviors. This test, when applied to Americans accurately depicts prejudices towards black individuals. However, when a study was conducted in South Africa using the F-Scale, (Pettigrew and Friedman) results did not predict any prejudices towards black individuals. This study used emic approaches of study by conducting interviews with the locals and etic approaches by giving participants generalized personality tests. | WIKI |
Valencian language
Valencian (valencià) or the Valencian language (llengua valenciana) is the official, historical and traditional name used in the Valencian Community of Spain to refer to the Romance language also known as Catalan, either as a whole or in its Valencia-specific linguistic forms. The Valencian Community's 1982 Statute of Autonomy and the Spanish Constitution officially recognise Valencian as the name of the regional language.
Valencian displays transitional features between Ibero-Romance languages and Gallo-Romance languages. According to philological studies, the varieties of this language spoken in the Valencian Community and El Carche cannot be considered a single dialect restricted to these borders: the several dialects of Valencian (Alicante's Valencian, Southern Valencian, Central Valencian or Apitxat, Northern Valencian or Castellon's Valencian and Transitional Valencian) belong to the Western group of Catalan dialects.
There is a political controversy within the Valencian Community regarding its status as a glottonym or as an independent language, since official reports show that the majority of the people in the Valencian Community consider it as a separate language, different from Catalan, although the same studies show that this percentage decreases among younger generations and people with higher studies. According to the 2006 Statute of Autonomy, Valencian is regulated by the Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua, following the legacy established by the Castelló norms, which adapt Catalan orthography to Valencian idiosyncrasies.
Some of the most important works of Valencian literature experienced a golden age during the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Important works include Joanot Martorell's chivalric romance Tirant lo Blanch, and Ausiàs March's poetry. The first book produced with movable type in the Iberian Peninsula was printed in the Valencian variety. The earliest recorded chess game with modern rules for moves of the queen and bishop was in the Valencian poem Scachs d'amor (1475).
Official status
The official status of Valencian is regulated by the Spanish Constitution and the Valencian Statute of Autonomy, together with the Law on the Use and Teaching of Valencian (ca).
Article 6 of the Valencian Statute of Autonomy sets the legal status of Valencian, establishing that:
* The native language of the Valencian Community is Valencian.
* Valencian is the official language in the Valencian Community, along with Spanish, which is the official language of Spain. Everyone shall have the right to know and use them, and to receive education on Valencian and in Valencian.
* No one can be discriminated against by reason of their language.
* Special protection and respect shall be given to the recuperation of Valencian.
* The Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua shall be the normative institution of the Valencian language.
Passed in 1983, the Law on the Use and Teaching of Valencian develops this framework, providing for the implementation of a bilingual educational system, regulating the use of Valencian in the public administration and judiciary system, where citizens can freely use it when acting before both, or establishing the right to be informed by media in Valencian among others.
Valencian is also protected under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages, ratified by Spain. However, the Committee of Experts of the Charter has pointed out a considerable number of deficiencies in the application of the Charter by the Spanish and Valencian governments.
Distribution
Unlike in other bilingual Autonomous communities, Valencian has not historically been spoken to the same extent throughout the Valencian Community. Slightly more than a quarter of its territory, equivalent to 10-15% of the population (its inland and southernmost areas), is Spanish-speaking since the Middle Ages. Additionally, it is also spoken by a small number of people in the El Carche comarca, a rural area in the Region of Murcia adjoining the Valencian Community. Nevertheless, Valencian does not have any official recognition in this area. Nowadays about 600 people are able to speak Valencian in El Carche.
Knowledge and usage
In 2010 the Generalitat Valenciana published a study, Knowledge and Social use of Valencian, which included a survey sampling more than 6,600 people in the provinces of Castellón, Valencia, and Alicante. The survey simply collected the answers of respondents and did not include any testing or verification. The results were:
Valencian was the language "always, generally, or most commonly used":
* at home: 31.6%
* with friends: 28.0%
* in internal business relations: 24.7%
For ability:
* 48.5% answered they can speak Valencian "perfectly" or "quite well" (54.3% in the Valencian-speaking areas and 10% in the Spanish-speaking areas)
* 26.2% answered they can write Valencian "perfectly" or "quite well" (29.5% in the Valencian-speaking areas and 5.8% in the Spanish-speaking areas)
The survey shows that, although Valencian is still the common language in many areas in the Valencian Community, where slightly more than half of the Valencian population are able to speak it, most Valencians do not usually use Valencian in their social relations.
Moreover, according to the most recent survey in 2021, there is a downward trend in everyday Valencian users. The lowest numbers are in the major cities of Valencia and Alicante, where the percentage of everyday speakers is at single-digit numbers. However, the percentage of residents who claim to be able to understand and read Valencian seems to have increased since 2015.
Due to a number of political and social factors, including repression, immigration and lack of formal instruction in Valencian, the number of speakers has severely decreased, and the influence of Spanish has led to the appearance of a number of barbarisms.
Features of Valencian
This is a list of features of the main forms of Valencian as a group of dialectal varieties that differ from those of other Catalan dialects, particularly from the Central variety of the language. For more general information on the features of Valencian, see Catalan language. There is a great deal of variety within the Valencian Community, and by no means do the features below apply to every local version.
The Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua specifies standard Valencian as having some specific syntax, vocabulary, verb conjugations and accent marks compared to standard Catalan.
Vowels
* The stressed vowel system of Valencian is the same as that of Eastern Catalan:, , , , , , and , with and being considerably lower than in EC.
* The vowels and are more open and centralised than in Spanish. This effect is more pronounced in unstressed syllables, where the phones are best transcribed . As the process is completely predictable, the latter symbols are not used elsewhere in the article.
* The vowel is somewhat retracted and is somewhat advanced both in stressed and unstressed syllables. and can be realised as mid vowels in some cases. This occurs more often with.
* The so-called "open vowels", and, are generally as low as in most Valencian dialects. The phonetic realisations of approaches and is as open as (as in traditional RP dog). This feature is also found in Balearic.
* is slightly more open and centralised before liquids and in monosyllabics.
* is most often a back vowel. In some dialects (including Balearic) can be unrounded.
* The vowel is slightly more fronted and closed than in Central Catalan (but less fronted and closed than in Majorcan). The precise phonetic realisation of the vowel in Valencian is [ ~ ], this vowel is subject to assimilation in many instances.
* Stressed can be retracted to in contact with velar consonants (including the velarized ), and fronted to in contact with palatals. This is not transcribed in the article.
* Final unstressed may have the following values: [ ~ ~ ], depending on the preceding sounds and/or dialect, e.g. taula 'table'.
* All vowels are phonetically nasalised between nasal consonants or when preceding a syllable-final nasal.
* Vowels can be lengthened in some contexts.
* There are five general unstressed vowels . Although unstressed vowels are more stable than in Eastern Catalan dialects, there are many cases where they merge:
* In some Valencian varieties, unstressed and are realised as before labial consonants (e.g. coberts 'cutlery'), before a stressed syllable with a high vowel (e.g. sospira 'he/she sighs') and in some given names (e.g. Josep 'Joseph') (note also in some colloquial speeches initial unstressed is often diphthongized to, olor ) 'smell (n.)'). Similarly, unstressed , and are realised as in contact with sibilants, nasals and certain approximants (e.g. eixam 'swarm', entendre 'to understand', clevill 'crevice'). Likewise (although not recommended by the AVL), unstressed merges with in contact with palatal consonants (e.g. genoll 'knee'), and especially (in this case it is accepted) in lexical derivation with the suffix -ixement (e.g. coneixement 'knowledge'). In the Standard all these reductions are accepted ( → is only accepted in words with the suffix -ixement).
* Many Valencian dialects, especially Southern Valencian, feature some sort of vowel harmony (harmonia vocàlica). This process is normally progressive (i.e. preceding vowels affect those pronounced afterwards) over the last unstressed vowel of a word; e.g. hora > 'hour'. However, there are cases where regressive metaphony occurs over pretonic vowels; e.g. tovallola > 'towel', afecta > 'affects'. Vowel harmony differs greatly from dialect to dialect, while many varieties assimilate both to the height and the quality of the preceding stressed vowel (e.g. terra 'Earth, land' and dona 'woman'); in other varieties, it is just the height that assimilates, so that terra and dona can be pronounced with either or with , depending on the speaker.
* In a wider sense, vowel harmony can occur in further instances, due to different processes involving palatalisation, velarisarion and labialisation
* In certain cases, the unstressed become silent when followed or preceded by a stressed vowel: quinze anys.
* In certain accents, vowels occurring at the end of a prosodic unit may be realized as centering diphthongs for special emphasis, so that Eh tu! Vine ací "Hey you! Come here!" may be pronounced . The non-syllabic is unrelated to this phenomenon as it is an unstressed non-syllabic allophone of that occurs after vowels, much like in Spanish.
Consonants
* The voiced stops are lenited to approximants after a continuant, i.e. a vowel or any type of consonant other than a stop or nasal (exceptions include after lateral consonants). These sounds are realised as voiceless plosives in the coda in standard Valencian.
* can also be lenited in betacist dialects.
* is often elided between vowels following a stressed syllable (found notably in feminine participles, →, and in the suffix -dor); e.g. fideuà ( < fideuada) ' fideuà', mocador 'tissue' (note this feature, although widely spread in South Valencia, is not recommended in standard Valencian, except for reborrowed terms such as Albà, Roà, the previously mentioned fideuà, etc.).
* Unlike other Catalan dialects, the clusters and never geminate or fortify in intervocalic position (e.g. poble 'village').
* The velar stops, are fronted to pre-velar position [, ] before front vowels: qui ('who').
* Valencian has preserved in most of its varieties the mediaeval voiced pre-palatal affricate (similar to the j in English "jeep") in contexts where other modern dialects have developed fricative consonants (like the si in English "vision"), e.g. dijous ('Thursday').
* Note the fricative appears only as a voiced allophone of before vowels and voiced consonants; e.g. peix al forn 'oven fish'.
* Unlike other Catalan dialects, and do not geminate (in most accents): metge ('medic'), and cotxe ('car'). Exceptions may include learned terms like pidgin ('pidgin').
* In the Standard, intervocalic, e.g. setze ('sixteen'), and , e.g. potser ('maybe'), are recommended to be pronounced with a gemination of the stop element ( and , respectively).
* occurs in Balearic, Alguerese, standard Valencian and some areas in southern Catalonia (e.g. viu, 's/he lives'). It has merged with elsewhere.
* is realized as an approximant after continuants: avanç ('advance'). This is not transcribed in this article.
* Deaffrication of to in verbs ending in -itzar and derivatives: analitzar ('to analise'), organització ('organization'). Also in words like botzina ('horn'), horitzó ('horizon') and magatzem ('storehouse') (c.f. guitza, 'bother').
* Most varieties of Valencian preserve final stops in clusters (e.g., and ): camp 'field' (a feature shared with modern Balearic). Dialectally, all final clusters can be simplified.
* is normally velarised, especially in the coda.
* is generally dropped in the word altre ('other'), as well as in derived terms.
* is mostly retained in the coda (e.g. estar, 'to be'), except for some cases where it is dropped: arbre ('tree") and diners ('money'). In some dialects can be further dropped in combinatory forms with infinitives and pronouns.
* In some dialects, is pronounced or after . In the Standard only is accepted after (in the inchoative form with → ), and after : ells ('they'). In some variants the result may be an affricate.
Morphology
* The present first-person singular of verbs differs from Central Catalan. All those forms without final -o are more akin to mediaeval Catalan and contemporary Balearic Catalan.
* Present subjunctive is more akin to medieval Catalan and Spanish; -ar infinitives end $\langlee\rangle$, -re, -er and -ir verbs end in $\langlea\rangle$ (in contemporary Central Catalan present subjunctive ends in $\langlei\rangle$).
* An exclusive feature of Valencian is the subjunctive imperfect morpheme -ra: que ell vinguera ('that he might come').
* Valencian has -i- as theme vowel for inchoative verbs of the third conjugation; e.g. servix ('s/he serves'), like North-Western Catalan. Although, again, this cannot be generalised since there are Valencian dialects that utilize -ei-, e.g. serveix.
* In Valencian the simple past tense (e.g. cantà 'he sang') is more frequently used in speech than in Central Catalan, where the periphrastic past (e.g. va cantar 'he sang') is prevailing and the simple past mostly appears in written language. The same, however, may be said of the Balearic dialects.
* The second-person singular of the present tense of the verb ser ('to be'), ets ('you are'), has been replaced by eres in colloquial speech.
* The infinitive veure ('to see') has the variant vore, which belongs to more informal and spontaneous registers.
* The usage of the periphrasis of obligation tindre + que + infinitive is widely spread in colloquial Valencian, instead of the Standard haver + de (equivalent to English "have to").
* Clitics
* In general, use of modern forms of the determinate article (el, els 'the') and the third-person unstressed object pronouns (el, els 'him, them'), though some dialects (for instance the one spoken in Vinaròs area) preserve etymological forms lo, los as in Lleida. For the other unstressed object pronouns, etymological old forms (me, te, se, ne, mos, vos...) can be found, depending on places, in conjunction with the more modern reinforced ones (em, et, es, en, ens, us...).
* Several local variations for nosaltres, vosaltres ('we, you'): mosatros, moatros, matros, etc.; vosatros, voatros, vatros, etc.; also for the weak form mos/-mos instead of standard ens/'ns/-nos ('us') and vos/-vos instead of us/-vos ('you pl.'), the latter (vos, instead of us) considered standard.
* The adverbial pronoun hi ('there') is almost never used in speech and is replaced by other pronouns. The adverbial pronoun en ('him/her/them/it') is used less than in Catalonia and the Balearic Islands.
* Combined weak clitics with li ('him/her/it') preserve the li, whereas in Central Catalan it is replaced by hi. For example, the combination li + el gives li'l in Valencian (l'hi in Central Catalan).
* The weak pronoun ho ('it') is pronounced as:
* , when it forms syllable with a pronoun: m'ho dóna, dóna-m'ho ('s/he gives it to me')
* or, when it comes before a verb starting with consonant: ho dóna (or ) ('s/he gives it')
* , when precedes a vowel or when coming after a vowel: li ho dóna ('s/he gives it to her/him'), dóna-ho ('you give it')
* , when it comes after a consonant or a semivowel: donar-ho ('to give it').
* The personal pronoun jo ('I') and the adverb ja ('already') are not pronounced according to the spelling, but to the etymology ( and, instead of and ). Similar pronunciations can be heard in North-Western Catalan and Ibizan.
* The preposition amb ('with') merges with en ('in') in most Valencian dialects.
* Valencian preserves the mediaeval system of demonstratives with three different levels of demonstrative precision (este or aquest/açò/ací, eixe or aqueix/això/ahí, aquell/allò/allí or allà, where aquest and aqueix are almost never used) (feature shared with modern Ribagorçan and Tortosan).
Vocabulary
Valencian vocabulary contains words both restricted to the Valencian-speaking domain, as well as words shared with other Catalan varieties, especially with Northwestern ones. Words are rarely spread evenly over the Valencian community, but are usually contained to parts of it, or spread out into other dialectal areas. Examples include hui 'today' (found in all of Valencia except transitional dialects, in Northern dialects avui) and espill 'mirror' (shared with Northwestern dialects, Central Catalan mirall). There is also variation within Valencia, such as 'corn', which is dacsa in Central and Southern Valencian, but panís in Alicante and Northern Valencian (as well as in Northwestern Catalan). Since Standard Valencian is based on the Southern dialect, words from this dialect are often used as primary forms in the standard language, despite other words traditionally being used in other Valencian dialects. Examples of this are tomaca 'tomato' (which is tomata outside of Southern Valencian) and matalaf 'mattress' (which is matalap in most of Valencia, including parts of the Southern Valencian area).
Below are a selection of words which differ or have different forms in Standard Valencian and Catalan. In many cases, both standards include this variation in their respective dictionaries, but differ as to what form is considered primary. In other cases, Valencian includes colloquial forms not present in the IEC standard. Primary forms in each standard are shown in bold (and may be more than one form). Words in brackets are present in the standard in question, but differ in meaning from how the cognate is used in the other standard.
Standard Valencian
The Academy of Valencian Studies (Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua, AVL), established by law in 1998 by the Valencian autonomous government and constituted in 2001, is in charge of dictating the official rules governing the use of Valencian. Currently, the majority of people who write in Valencian use this standard.
Standard Valencian is based on the standard of the Institute of Catalan Studies (Institut d'Estudis Catalans, IEC), used in Catalonia, with a few adaptations. This standard roughly follows the Rules of Castelló (Normes de Castelló) from 1932, a set of othographic guidelines regarded as a compromise between the essence and style of Pompeu Fabra's guidelines, but also allowing the use of Valencian idiosyncrasies.
Valencian dialects
* Transitional Valencian (valencià de transició) or Tortosan (tortosí): spoken only in the northernmost areas of the province of Castellon in towns like Benicarló or Vinaròs, the area of Matarranya in Aragon (province of Teruel), and a southern border area of Catalonia surrounding Tortosa, in the province of Tarragona.
* Word-initial and postconsonantal (Catalan and ) alternates with intervocalically; e.g. joc ('game'), but pitjor ('worse'), boja ('crazy') (Standard Valencian, ; ; Standard Catalan , and ).
* Final $\langler\rangle$ is not pronounced in infinitives; e.g. cantar (Standard ) ('to sing').
* Archaic articles lo, los ('the') are used instead of el, els; e.g. lo xic ('the boy'), los hòmens ('the men').
* Northern Valencian (valencià septentrional) or Castellon's Valencian (valencià castellonenc): spoken in an area surrounding the city of Castellón de la Plana.
* Use of sound instead of standard $\langlea\rangle$ in the third person singular of most verbs; e.g. (ell) cantava (Standard ) 'he sang'. Thus, Northern Valencian dialects contrast forms like (jo) cantava ('I sang') with (ell) cantava ('he sang'), but merges (jo) cante ('I sing') with (ell) canta ('he sings').
* Palatalization of $\langlets\rangle$ > and $\langletz\rangle$ > ; e.g. pots > ('cans, jars, you can'), dotze > ('twelve').
* Depalatalization of to by some speakers; e.g. caixa ('box').
* Central Valencian (valencià central), or Apitxat, spoken in Valencia city and its area, but not used as standard by the Valencian media.
* Sibilant merger: all voiced sibilants are devoiced ; that is, apitxat pronounces casa ('house') and joc ('game'), where other Valencians would pronounce and (feature shared with Ribagorçan).
* Betacism, that is the merge of into ; e.g. viu (instead of ) ('he lives').
* Fortition (gemination) and vocalisation of final consonants; nit (instead of ) ('night').
* It preserves the strong simple past, which has been substituted by an analytic past (periphrastic past) with + infinitive in the rest of modern Catalan and Valencian variants. For example, aní instead of vaig anar ('I went').
* Southern Valencian (valencià meridional): spoken in the contiguous comarques located in the southernmost part of the Valencia province and the northernmost part in the province of Alicante. This dialect is considered as Standard Valencian.
* Vowel harmony: the final syllable of a disyllabic word adopts a preceding open $\langlee\rangle$ or $\langleo\rangle$ if the final vowel is an unstressed -$\langlea\rangle$ or -$\langlee\rangle$; e.g. terra ('earth, land'), dona ('woman').
* This dialect retain geminate consonants ($\langletl\rangle$ and $\langletn\rangle$ ); e.g. guatla ('quail'), cotna ('rind').
* Weak pronouns are "reinforced" in front of the verb (em, en, et, es, etc.) contrary to other dialects which maintains "full form" (me, ne, te, se, etc.).
* Alicante's Valencian (valencià alacantí): spoken in the southern half of the province of Alicante, and the area of El Carche in Murcia.
* Intervocalic elision in most instances; e.g. roda ('wheel'), nadal ('Christmas').
* Yod is not pronounced in $\langleix\rangle$ ; e.g. caixa ('box').
* Final $\langler\rangle$ is not pronounced in infinitives; e.g. cantar ('to sing').
* There are some archaisms like: ans instead of abans ('before'), manco instead of menys ('less'), dintre instead of dins ('into') or devers instead of cap a ('towards').
* There are more interferences with Spanish than other dialects: assul (from azul) instead of blau (or atzur) ('blue'), llimpiar (from limpiar) instead of netejar ('to clean') or sacar (from sacar) instead of traure ('take out').
Authors and literature
* Misteri d'Elx (c. 1350). Liturgical drama. Listed as Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO.
* Curial e Güelfa (15th century), humanistic chivalric romance
* Ausiàs March (Gandia, 1400 – Valencia, 3 March 1459). Poet, widely read in renaissance Europe.
* Joanot Martorell (Gandia, 1413–1468). Knight and the author of the novel Tirant lo Blanch.
* Isabel de Villena (Valencia, 1430–1490). Religious poet.
* Joan Roís de Corella (Gandia or Valencia, 1435 – Valencia, 1497). Knight and poet.
* Obres e trobes en lahors de la Verge Maria (1474) The first book printed in Spain. It is the compendium of a religious poetry contest held that year in the town of Valencia.
Media in Valencian
Until its dissolution in November 2013, the public-service Ràdio Televisió Valenciana (RTVV) was the main broadcaster of radio and television in Valencian language. The Generalitat Valenciana constituted it in 1984 in order to guarantee the freedom of information of the Valencian people in their own language. It was reopened again in 2018 in the same location but under a different name, À Punt, and it is owned by À Punt Media, a group owned by the Generalitat Valenciana. The new television channel claims to be plural, informative and neutral for all of the Valencian population. It is bilingual, with a focus on the Valencian language. It's recognised as a regional TV channel.
Prior to its dissolution, the administration of RTVV under the People's Party (PP) had been controversial due to accusations of ideological manipulation and lack of plurality. The news broadcast was accused of giving marginal coverage of the Valencia Metro derailment in 2006 and the indictment of President de la Generalitat Francisco Camps in the Gürtel scandal in 2009. Supervisors appointed by the PP were accused of sexual harassment.
In face of an increasing debt due to excessive expenditure by the PP, RTVV announced in 2012 a plan to shed 70% of its labour. The plan was nullified on 5 November 2013 by the National Court after trade unions appealed against it. On that same day, the President de la Generalitat Alberto Fabra (also from PP) announced RTVV would be closed, claiming that reinstating the employees was untenable. On 27 November, the legislative assembly passed the dissolution of RTVV and employees organised to take control of the broadcast, starting a campaign against the PP. Nou TV's last broadcast ended abruptly when Spanish police pulled the plug at 12:19 on 29 November 2013.
Having lost all revenues from advertisements and facing high costs from the termination of hundreds of contracts, critics question whether the closure of RTVV has improved the financial situation of the Generalitat, and point out to plans to benefit private-owned media. Currently, the availability of media in the Valencian language is extremely limited. All the other autonomous communities in Spain, including the monolingual ones, have public-service broadcasters, with the Valencian Community being the only exception despite being the fourth most populated.
In July 2016 a new public corporation, Valencian Media Corporation, was launched in substitution of RTVV. It manages and controls several public media in the Valencian Community, including the television channel À Punt, which started broadcasting in June 2018.
Politico-linguistic controversy
Linguists, including Valencian scholars, deal with Catalan and Valencian as the same language. The official regulating body of the language of the Valencian community, the Valencian Language Academy (Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua, AVL) considers Valencian and Catalan to be two names for the same language.
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The AVL was established in 1998 by the PP-UV government of Eduardo Zaplana. According to El País, Jordi Pujol, then president of Catalonia and of the CiU, negotiated with Zaplana in 1996 to ensure the linguistic unity of Catalan in exchange for CiU support of the appointment of José María Aznar as Prime Minister of Spain. Zaplana has denied this, claiming that "[n]ever, never, was I able to negotiate that which is not negotiable, neither that which is not in the negotiating scope of a politician. That is, the unity of the language". The AVL orthography is based on the Normes de Castelló, a set of rules for writing Valencian established in 1932.
A rival set of rules, called Normes del Puig, were established in 1979 by the Royal Academy of Valencian Culture (Real Acadèmia de Cultura Valenciana, RACV), which considers itself a rival language academy to the AVL, and promotes an alternative orthography, treating Valencian as an independent language, as opposed to a variety of Catalan. Compared to Standard Valencian, this orthography excludes many words not traditionally used in the Valencian Community, and also prefers spellings such as ⟨ch⟩ for /tʃ/ and ⟨y⟩ for /j/ (as in Spanish). Besides, these alternative Norms are also promoted and taught by the cultural association Lo Rat Penat. Valencian is classified as a Western dialect, along with the North-Western varieties spoken in Western Catalonia (Province of Lleida and most of the Province of Tarragona). The various forms of Catalan and Valencian are mutually intelligible (ranging from 90% to 95%)
Despite the position of the official organizations, an opinion poll carried out between 2001 and 2004 showed that the majority (65%) of the Valencian people (both Valencian and Spanish speakers) consider Valencian different from Catalan: this position is promoted by people who do not use Valencian regularly. Furthermore, the data indicate that younger people educated in Valencian speaking areas are considerably less likely to hold these views. According to an official poll in 2014, 54% of Valencians considered Valencian to be a language different from Catalan, while 41% considered the languages to be the same. By applying a binary logistic regression to the same data, it was also found that different opinions about the unity of the language are different between people with certain levels of studies and the opinion also differs between each of the Valencian provinces. The opinion agreeing on the unity of Valencian and Catalan has significant differences regarding age, level of education and province of residence, with a majority of those aged 18–24 (51%) and those with a higher education (58%) considering Valencian to be the same language as Catalan. This can be compared to those aged 65 and above (29%) and those with only primary education (32%), where the same view has its lowest support. People living in the province of Castellón are more prone to be in favor of the unity of the language, while people living in the province of Alicante are more prone to be against the unity of the language, especially in the areas where Valencian is not a mandatory language at schools. Later studies also showed that the results differ significantly depending on the way the question is posed.
The ambiguity regarding the term Valencian and its relation to Catalan has sometimes led to confusion and controversy. In 2004, during the drafting of the European Constitution, the regional governments of Spain where a language other than Spanish is co-official were asked to submit translations into the relevant language in question. Since different names are used in Catalonia ("Catalan") and in the Valencian Community ("Valencian"), the two regions each provided one version, which were identical to each other. | WIKI |
Irfan Hadžić
Irfan Hadžić (born 15 June 1993) is a Bosnian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Bosnian Premier League club Tuzla City.
Early career
Hadžić started off his football career at the youth team of Olimpik in 2010 and stayed at the club until 2011. After leaving Olimpik, he mostly played abroad at Zulte Waregem, with whom he signed his first professional contract, the youth team of Vitesse Arnhem, Inter Zaprešić, ViOn Zlaté Moravce, Royal Antwerp, who loaned him out to Vigor Wuitens Hamme, and Celje, before returning to Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Radnik Bijeljina
After six years of playing abroad, Hadžić returned to his home country and on 19 July 2017 signed a contract with Bosnian Premier League club Radnik Bijeljina. He made his official debut for Radnik in a 2–0 home league loss against Željezničar Sarajevo on 10 September 2017, coming in as a 66th minute substitute for Velibor Đurić.
He scored his first goal for the club against Sloboda Tuzla on 28 October 2017 in the 48th minute, which would turn out to be the only and the winning goal of the match.
In his second season with the club, Hadžić was Radnik's best scorer, scoring 10 goals in 32 league games in the 2018–19 season.
Zrinjski Mostar
After his contract with Radnik expired, Hadžić signed a contract with Zrinjski Mostar on 7 June 2019. He made his official debut and scored his first goal for Zrinjski on 11 July 2019, in a 3–0 away win against Akademija Pandev in the 2019–20 UEFA Europa League first qualifying round.
Hadžić made his first of only two league appearances for Zrinjski on 21 July 2019, in a 1–0 away loss against Sarajevo.
Akhisarspor
On 16 August 2019, only two months after joining Zrinjski, Hadžić left the club and signed a three-year contract with Turkish club Akhisar Belediyespor for a transfer fee of €150,000. He played his first game for Akhisarspor on 18 August 2019, a 1–0 home league win against Adanaspor, coming in as a substitute for Bertuğ Bayar in the 66th minute. Hadžić scored his first goal for Akhisarspor in a 2–1 away league loss against Osmanlıspor on 28 October 2019. He left the club on 2 January 2021.
International career
Hadžić was a member of the Bosnia and Herzegovina U19 national team from 2011 to 2012, making five appearances in the process.
On 19 August 2019, he received his first senior call-up, for UEFA Euro 2020 qualifiers against Liechtenstein and Armenia.
Hadžić made his senior international debut in a friendly game against Iran on 12 November 2020. | WIKI |
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BF lock wait long for trx - Assertion `mode_ == m_local || transaction_.is_streaming()' failed
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• Bug
• Status: Closed (View Workflow)
• Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• 10.6.7
• 10.6.15
• Galera
• None
• CentOS Stream 8 (latest patches)
VMware VSAN 7.x
4 node Galera cluster
ProxySQL splitting 1 writer with 3 backup readers
Description
We've been running this environment for awhile now. This is the first time we've seen this particular issue. This database/table has been unaltered in years, and has millions of writes to it daily.
2022-05-04 2:09:15 16 [Note] InnoDB: WSREP: BF lock wait long for trx:0xe3d26236f query: insert into SystemEvents (Message, Facility, FromHost, Priority, DeviceReportedTime, ReceivedAt, InfoUnitID, SysLogTag)
mariadbd: /home/buildbot/buildbot/padding_for_CPACK_RPM_BUILD_SOURCE_DIRS_PREFIX/mariadb-10.6.7/wsrep-lib/include/wsrep/client_state.hpp:668: int wsrep::client_state::bf_abort(wsrep::seqno): Assertion `mode_ == m_local || transaction_.is_streaming()' failed.
Server version: 10.6.7-MariaDB-log
key_buffer_size=134217728
read_buffer_size=131072
max_used_connections=47
max_threads=65537
thread_count=51
Once the above happens, a simple restart doesn't work. We have to purge the data from the node, and resync everything back over to get everything to start up.
Here is the relevant config information:
[mariadb]
tmpdir=/var/tmp/
binlog_format=row
default_storage_engine=InnoDB
innodb_autoinc_lock_mode=2
innodb_status_output=off
innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit=2
innodb_buffer_pool_size=4G
innodb_log_file_size=4G
innodb_io_capacity=8000
innodb_lock_wait_timeout=1
innodb_monitor_enable=all
thread_handling = pool-of-threads
thread_stack = 192000
thread_cache_size = 4
thread_pool_size = 8
thread_pool_oversubscribe = 3
max_connections=500
max_allowed_packet=512M
performance_schema=ON
performance_schema_session_connect_attrs_size = 1024
userstat = 1
slow_query_log
slow_query_log_file=/var/log/mariadb/slow_query.log
log_error=/var/log/mariadb/mariadb.log
[galera]
wsrep_on=ON
wsrep_provider=/usr/lib64/galera-4/libgalera_smm.so
wsrep_sst_method=rsync
wsrep_slave_threads=16
wsrep_provider_options="gmcast.segment=0; gcache.size=4G; gcache.page_size=4G;"
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Shelby Blues
The Shelby Blues were an American football team based in Shelby, Ohio. The team played in the Ohio League from 1900 to 1919. In 1920, when the Ohio League became the APFA (now known as the National Football League), the Blues did not join but continued to play against APFA teams, only to later suspend operations. The Blues returned to play as an independent between 1926 and 1928.
The team was named for their blue uniforms, that were worn in their first year. In 1905, the Blues replaced the Shelby Athletic Club as the top football team in town. A year later the team was the runner-up for the Ohio League title, behind only the Akron Indians. The Blues won Ohio League championships in 1910 and 1911, with Peggy Parratt, an early pioneer and master of the forward pass, at quarterback. In 1904, the Blues are credited with signing the first black player in American professional football, halfback Charles Follis.
Notable Players/Alumni
* Peggy Parratt (BB/QB) - Early pioneer of the forward pass.
* Milton C. Portmann (OL/DL) Decorated US Army Officer of WWI and professional football player.
* Charles Follis (HB) - First black professional player in American football.
* Branch Rickey - Baseball pioneer, was instrumental in breaking Major League Baseball's color barrier.
* John Miller (HB) - First year captain, would later managed and coached the team.
* Homer Davidson (BB/K) - Considered to be the best kicker of the era.
* Frank C. Schiffer (Manager) - Signed the first black professional player in American football (Charles Follis).
* Guy Schulz (C) - Brother of Germany Schulz. | WIKI |
Support external physical bridge mapping in linuxbridge
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The linuxbridge-agent currently creates a bridge for each physical network used as a flat network, moving any existing IP address from the interface to the newly created bridge. This is very helpful in some cases, but there are other cases where the ability to use a pre-existing (user-defined) bridge. For instance, the same physical network might need to be bridged for other purposes, or the agent moving the system's IP might not be desired or cause some unexpected error for the pre-defined environment.
In this proposal, bridge_mapping is introduced to use the existing physical bridge in the linuxbridge-agent, instead of creating a new one.
Blueprint information
Status:
Complete
Approver:
Kyle Mestery
Priority:
Low
Drafter:
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Li Ma
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Gerrit topic: https://review.openstack.org/#q,topic:bp/phy-net-bridge-mapping,n,z
Addressed by: https://review.openstack.org/173683
Implement external physical bridge mapping in linuxbridge
# NOTE: Nova hard-code 'brq' + net-id as bridge name in libvirt configuration, so it is impossible for neutron to define bridge name for instances. A good design is that Neutron should send bridge name to Nova and Nova just make it effective.
Addressed by: https://review.openstack.org/209006
Implement external physical bridge mapping in linuxbridge
Gerrit topic: https://review.openstack.org/#q,topic:bug/1105488,n,z
Gerrit topic: https://review.openstack.org/#q,topic:bug/1478847,n,z
Addressed by: https://review.openstack.org/224334
Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into merge-pecan-resolve-conflict
Gerrit topic: https://review.openstack.org/#q,topic:bug/1486039,n,z
Addressed by: https://review.openstack.org/224357
Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into walnut
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User:Staticshakedown/Cultural competence in healthcare
Cultural competence in health care refers to the ability for health care systems to demonstrate cultural competence toward patients with diverse values, beliefs, and behaviors. This process includes consideration of the individual social, cultural, and linguistic needs of patients for effective cross-cultural communication with their health care providers. The goal of cultural competence in health care is to reduce health disparities and to provide optimal care to patients regardless of of their race, ethnic background, native languages spoken, and religious or cultural beliefs. Cultural competency training is important in health care fields where human interaction is common, including medicine, nursing, allied health, mental health, social work, pharmacy, oral health, and public health fields.
The term cultural competence was first used by Terry L. Cross and colleagues in their 1989 monograph "Towards a Culturally Competent System of Care". However, it wasn't until almost a decade later when health care professionals began to be educated and trained in cultural competence. In 2002, cultural competence in health care emerged as a field and has continually been embedded into medical education curriculum since then.
Definitions
Cultural competence is defined as a set of congruent behaviors, attitudes, and policies that come together in a system, agency, or among professionals and enables them to work effectively in cross-cultural situations. Essential elements that enable organizations to become culturally competent include valuing diversity, having the capacity for cultural self-assessment, being conscious of the dynamics inherent when cultures interact, having institutionalized cultural knowledge, and having developed adaptations to service delivery reflecting an understanding of cultural diversity. Accordingly, organizations should include these elements in all aspects of policy making, administration, practice, and service delivery.
Cultural competence is often used interchangeably with the term cultural competency.
Health care system
A health care system, sometimes referred to as health system, is the organization of people, institutions, and resources that deliver health care services to meet the health needs of target populations. A culturally competent health system not only recognizes and accepts the importance of cultural diversity at every level but also assesses the cross-cultural relations, stays vigilant towards any changes and developments resulting from cultural diversity, broadens cultural knowledge, and adapts services to meet the needs that are culturally-unique.
As more and more immigrants are coming to America, the challenges for American health care systems to meet the health needs of the increasing number of diverse patients are becoming very obvious. The challenges include but are not limited to the following:
* Sociocultural barriers
* Poor cross-cultural communication
* Language barriers
* Attitudes toward health care
* Beliefs in diagnosis and treatment
* Lack of cultural competence in the design of the system
Leadership and workforce
In response to a rapid growth of minorities population in the United States, health care organizations have responded by providing new services and undergoing health reforms in terms of diversity in leadership and workforce. Despite improvements and progress seen in some areas, minorities are still underrepresented within both health care leadership and workforce. To improve the weak minorities representation in leadership and workforce, an organization must acknowledge the importance of cultures, be sensitive to cultural differences, and establish strategic plans to incorporate cultural diversity.
According to the national survey of the U.S. health care leaders conducted by the search firm Witt/Kieffer, respondents viewed diverse leadership as a valuable business builder. They associated it with improved patient satisfaction, successful decision-making, improved clinical outcomes, and stronger bottom line.
To successfully recruit, mentor, and coach minority leaders in health care, it is important to keep these social science principles and cultural values in mind:
* Branding - how health care leaders brand diversity in their organizations? Without inclusion, branding would not be complete
* The concepts of self-categorization and "othering"
* Lack of leadership commitment - diversity and inclusion should be an imperative of their organization
* The compelling national demographics of health care leadership and workforce.
Within a culturally competent health care system, the leadership and workforce should reflect its diverse patient population so that patient satisfaction, favorable patient care outcomes, and health equity will be achieved while health disparities will be reduced.
Clinical practice
To provide culturally sensitive patient-centered care, physicians should treat each patient as an individual, recognizing and respecting his or her beliefs, values and care seeking behaviors. However, many physicians lack the awareness of or training in cultural competence. With the constantly changing demographics, their patients are increasingly getting diverse as well. It is utterly important to educate physicians to be culturally competent so that they can effectively treat patients of different cultural and ethnic backgrounds.
In response to the increasingly diverse population, several states (WA, CA, CT, NJ, NM) have passed legislation requiring or strongly recommending cultural competency training for physicians. New Jersey is a very diverse state in population. In 2005 New Jersey legislature enacted law requiring all physicians to complete at least 6 hours of training in cultural competency as a condition for renewal of their New Jersey medical license, whether or not they actively practice in New Jersey. Physicians' responses to this CME requirement varied, both positively and negatively. But the overall feedback was positive towards the outcomes of participation in and satisfaction with the programs.
In order to provide culturally competent care for their diverse patients, physicians should at the first step understand that patients' cultures can influence profoundly how they define health and illness, how they seek health care, and what constitutes appropriate treatment. They should also realize that their clinical care process could also be influenced by their own personal and professional experiences as well as biomedical culture. Dr. Like pointed out in one of his articles that "in transforming systems, transcultural nurses, physicians, and other health care professionals need to remember that cultural humility and cultural competence must go hand in hand."
Medical education
The critical importance of training medical students to be future culturally competent physicians has been recognized by accrediting bodies such as the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) and the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) and other medical organizations such as American Medical Association (AMA) and the Institute of Medicine (IOM).
According to the LCME standard for cultural competence, "the faculty and students must demonstrate an understanding of the manner in which people of diverse culture and belief systems perceive health and illness and respond to various symptoms, diseases, and treatments." In response to the mandates, medical schools in the U.S. have incorporated teaching cultural competency in their curricula. A curriculum mapping search on cultural competence in the curriculum of Rutgers University's Robert Wood Johnson Medical School found that it was covered in 33 events in 13 courses. A similar search was performed on health disparities yielding 16 events in 10 courses covering the topic.
The cultural competence curriculum is intended to improve the interaction between patients and physicians and to assure that students will possess the knowledge, skills, and attitudes that enable them to provide high quality and culturally competent care to patients and their families as well as the general medical community.
Patient education
Patient-Physician communication involves two sides. While physicians are being encouraged or rather required to be culturally competent in delivery of quality health care, it would be reasonable to encourage patients as well to be culturally sensitive and be aware that not all physicians are equally competent in cultures. They need to communicate their concerns relating to their beliefs, values and other cultural factors that might affect care and treatment to their physicians and other health care providers.Only with effective communication and true understanding between the two parties can high quality care and patient satisfaction be achieved.
Language barriers
Linguistic competence involves communicating effectively with diverse populations, including individuals with limited English proficiency (LEP), low literacy skills or are not literate, disabilities, and individuals with any degree of hearing loss.
According to the U.S. Census in 2011, 25.3 million people are considered limited English proficient, accounting for 9% of the U.S. population. Hospitals frequently admit LEP patients for treatment. With cultural and linguistic barriers, it is not surprising that it is hard to achieve effective communication between the health care providers and the LEP patients.
In order to improve communication and mutual understanding, health care systems have used the professionally trained interpreters to help health care providers to communicate with patients whose English proficiency is limited. Studies have shown that trained professional interpreters or bilingual health care professionals have a positive affect on LEP patients' satisfaction, their quality of care, and outcomes.
The National Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) Standards in Health and Health Care developed by the Office of Minority Health (OMH) are intended to advance health equity, improve quality and help eliminate health care disparities. This is a very good resource for health care systems and organizations to follow to develop to be culturally and linguistically competent in the delivery of health care.
With the joint efforts of institutions, agencies,and health care professionals and the actions being taken at various levels, health disparities in the United States will be hopefully reduced. | WIKI |
@article {Zhang1177, author = {Zhang, Liang and Zhang, Yu and Wennberg, Richard}, title = {Multiple Actions of Methohexital on Hippocampal CA1 and Cortical Neurons of Rat Brain Slices}, volume = {286}, number = {3}, pages = {1177--1182}, year = {1998}, publisher = {American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics}, abstract = {To explore the mechanism by which methohexital (MTH) activates epileptiform activity in patients with epilepsy, we examined the effects of MTH on hippocampal CA1 and neocortical neuronsvia extracellular and whole-cell patch-clamp recordings in rat brain slices. Perfusion of slices with 10 to 100 μM MTH caused no significant change in glutamatergic transmission in the hippocampal CA1 region, but enhanced γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA)A-mediated inhibitory postsynaptic currents and induced spontaneous inhibitory postsynaptic currents in neocortical and hippocampal CA1 neurons. In addition, MTH induced a tonic, bicuculline-sensitive hyperpolarization in association with increases in membrane conductance, suggesting a direct stimulation of GABAA receptors by MTH. Spontaneous epileptiform activity was not observed in the neocortex and hippocampus after exposure of slices to MTH, neither in the standard in vitrocondition nor in the presence of 4-aminopyridine, which promotes rhythmic synaptic activities. We suggest that the activation of epileptiform activity in vivo by MTH may result from increased neuronal synchrony via the potentiation of GABAA-mediated synaptic inhibition. The American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics}, issn = {0022-3565}, URL = {https://jpet.aspetjournals.org/content/286/3/1177}, eprint = {https://jpet.aspetjournals.org/content/286/3/1177.full.pdf}, journal = {Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics} } | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
1/*
2 * Copyright 2012 The WebRTC Project Authors. All rights reserved.
3 *
4 * Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license
5 * that can be found in the LICENSE file in the root of the source
6 * tree. An additional intellectual property rights grant can be found
7 * in the file PATENTS. All contributing project authors may
8 * be found in the AUTHORS file in the root of the source tree.
9 */
10
11#ifndef WEBRTC_BASE_SHA1DIGEST_H_
12#define WEBRTC_BASE_SHA1DIGEST_H_
13
14#include "webrtc/base/messagedigest.h"
15#include "webrtc/base/sha1.h"
16
17namespace rtc {
18
19// A simple wrapper for our SHA-1 implementation.
20class Sha1Digest : public MessageDigest {
21 public:
22 enum { kSize = SHA1_DIGEST_SIZE };
23 Sha1Digest() {
24 SHA1Init(&ctx_);
25 }
26 virtual size_t Size() const {
27 return kSize;
28 }
29 virtual void Update(const void* buf, size_t len) {
30 SHA1Update(&ctx_, static_cast<const uint8*>(buf), len);
31 }
32 virtual size_t Finish(void* buf, size_t len) {
33 if (len < kSize) {
34 return 0;
35 }
36 SHA1Final(&ctx_, static_cast<uint8*>(buf));
37 SHA1Init(&ctx_); // Reset for next use.
38 return kSize;
39 }
40
41 private:
42 SHA1_CTX ctx_;
43};
44
45} // namespace rtc
46
47#endif // WEBRTC_BASE_SHA1DIGEST_H_
48 | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Shah Mansur (Muzaffarid)
Shah Mansur was the last of the Muzaffarid rulers of Southern Iran. He ruled from Isfahan and was killed by the forces of Timur in 29 March 1393.
Life
Mansur was the brother of Shah Yahya and Shah Hosein. His uncle was Shah Shoja, with whom he fought against in battle.
With support from the Jalayirid Sultanate, Mansur established himself as an independent ruler in Shushtar.
Mansur's grave is located in the eastern part of Shiraz, in an area known as Gowd-e-Shahzadeh (Prince Mansur's Tomb). | WIKI |
-- Dollar Rises as Haven Demand Overshadows Services, Hiring
The dollar gained versus most of its
major peers as investors seeking a haven from signs of slower
global growth ignored U.S. reports showing the service
industries and private employment expanded more than forecast. Australia ’s currency slid to the weakest in almost a month
after the nation had its biggest trade deficit since 2008 and
data showed China ’s services industry expanded the least in more
than a year. The euro declined versus the greenback after a
report showed the region’s services and manufacturing shrank.
The U.S. jobless rate rose, a report may show Oct. 5. “The overall backdrop is still that of weak data around
the world,” Vassili Serebriakov , a currency strategist at Wells
Fargo & Co . in New York , said in a telephone interview.
“There’s also probably some caution around more subdued market
trends ahead of key events later this week.” The dollar strengthened 0.4 percent to 78.49 yen at 5 p.m.
New York time and touched 78.59 yen, the highest level since
Sept. 19. Japan’s currency depreciated past its 50-day moving
average against the U.S. currency, 78.42 yen, for the first time
in two weeks. The greenback rose 0.1 percent to $1.2905 per euro, and the
17-nation currency advanced 0.3 percent to 101.30 yen. Implied volatility, which signals the expected pace of
currency swings, was at almost a five-year low. It was 7.81
percent, after touching 7.73 percent on Sept. 28, the least
since October 2007, a JPMorgan Chase & Co. index for the
currencies of Group-of-Seven nations showed. Lower volatility
makes investments in currencies with higher benchmark lending
rates more attractive because the risk in such trades is that
market moves will erase profit. Dollar Index The Dollar Index (DXY) , which tracks the U.S. currency against
those of six major trading partners, rose 0.3 percent to 79.951,
snapping a two-day decline. “The dollar is being bid up to some degree on the back of
uncertainties that maybe perhaps be emanating from the euro
zone ,” Jack Spitz , managing director of foreign exchange at
National Bank of Canada in Toronto, said in a phone interview. The U.S. currency remained higher after the Institute for
Supply Management ’s index of U.S. non-manufacturing businesses,
which covers about 90 percent of the economy, rose. The gauge
increased to 55.1 in September from the prior month’s 53.7, the
Tempe, Arizona-based group said today. The median forecast in a
Bloomberg News survey was for a decline to 53.4. Employment Reports Private employers in the U.S. increased payrolls by 162,000
workers in September following a revised 189,000 jump in August,
figures from Roseland, New Jersey-based ADP Employer Services
showed. The median forecast of 38 economists surveyed by
Bloomberg projected a 140,000 advance. A Labor Department report on Oct. 5 will show the nation’s
unemployment rate rose to 8.2 percent in September, from 8.1
percent the prior month, economists in a Bloomberg survey
forecast. The jobless rate has been stuck above 8 percent since
February 2009. U.S. nonfarm payrolls increased by 115,000 jobs
last month, economists forecast, compared with a monthly average
of 226,000 in the first quarter. The Polish zloty rose against most of its 31 major
counterparts tracked by Bloomberg as Poland’s central bank
unexpectedly left interest rates unchanged for a fourth meeting. The currency jumped 0.6 percent to 3.1659 per U.S. dollar
and climbed 0.7 percent to 4.0854 per euro. Krona, Kiwi Sweden’s krona and New Zealand’s dollar, nicknamed the
kiwi, were the biggest losers among the greenback’s most-traded
counterparts. The krona dropped amid rising speculation Riksbank policy
makers will cut interest rates again at the end of the month. A
survey showed Sweden’s services economy contracted in September,
sinking at the fastest pace since August 2009. The krona slid 1.2 percent to 6.6856 per dollar. It
weakened 1.1 percent to 8.6286 per euro. New Zealand’s dollar fell 1 percent to 81.94 U.S. cents
after data showed China’s non-manufacturing industries grew at
the weakest pace since at least March 2011. China is the
country’s second-largest export market, and Australia’s biggest
trade partner. Australia’s dollar also sank after data showed the nation’s
trade gap for August was almost three times wider than the
median forecast of economists. Imports exceeded exports by
A$2.03 billion ($2.07 billion) in August, versus a revised
A$1.53 billion gap in July. The currency dropped yesterday after
the Reserve Bank of Australia unexpectedly cut its benchmark
interest rate a quarter-percentage point to 3.25 percent. Another Cut “We’re probably looking at another rate cut before the end
of the year, probably at next month’s meeting,” Wells Fargo’s
Serebriakov said. “After that, we would have a tendency to see
steady rates through 2013.” The Aussie dollar dropped as much as 0.7 percent to
$1.0196, the weakest since Sept. 6, before trading at $1.0216. A composite index based on a survey of euro-area services
and manufacturing purchasing managers fell to 46.1 from 46.3 in
August, London-based Markit Economics said today. A reading
below 50 indicates contraction. The European Central Bank meets tomorrow in Ljubljana,
Slovenia. It will keep the benchmark interest rate unchanged at
a record-low 0.75 percent, a Bloomberg survey forecast. The euro remained higher against most major peers even
after Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy yesterday denied
immediate plans to ask for a bailout in response to mounting
speculation that a request was imminent. Spanish Banks Spain has received approval for as much as 100 billion
euros ($129 billion) in aid for its failing banks. European officials are debating the role of their planned
permanent rescue fund in recapitalizing banks, the European
Commission said last week. Finance ministers from Germany ,
Finland and the Netherlands reiterated that such bailouts will
only be possible after there’s a common supervisor, and national
authorities should have responsibility for “legacy assets.” “If we get no movement in terms of clarifying issues like
the legacy assets and the way in which they will be dealt,
further into October we could see confidence slip again,” Derek Halpenny , the European head of global-markets research at Bank
of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ Ltd. in London, said in a television
interview on “Bloomberg Surveillance” with Tom Keene . The shared currency strengthened 1.8 percent in the past
month, according to Bloomberg Correlation Weighted Indexes. The
dollar declined 1.2 percent and the yen slid 1.3 percent. To contact the reporter on this story:
Joseph Ciolli in New York at
jciolli@bloomberg.net To contact the editor responsible for this story:
Dave Liedtka at
dliedtka@bloomberg.net | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Trees and Graph Traversals Guide
Author: Josh Hug
Check-in Exercise #
Linked here.
Overview #
Trees. A tree consists of a set of nodes and a set of edges connecting the nodes, where there is only one path between any two nodes. A tree is thus a graph with no cycles and all vertices connected.
Traversals. When we iterate over a tree, we call this a “tree traversal”.
Level Order Traversal. A level-order traversal visits every item at level 0, then level 1, then level 2, and so forth.
Depth First Traversals. We have three depth first traversals: Pre-order, in-order and post-order. In a pre-order traversal, we visit a node, then traverse its children. In an in-order traversal, we traverse the left child, visit a node, then traverse the right child. In a post-order traversal, we traverse both children before visiting. These are very natural to implement recursively. Pre-order and post-order generalize naturally to trees with arbtirary numbers of children. In-order only makes sense for binary trees.
Graphs. A graph consists of a set of nodes and a set of edges connecting the nodes. However, unlike our tree definition, we can have more than one path between nodes. Note that all trees are graphs. In CS 61B, we can assume all graphs are simple graphs (AKA no loops or parallel edges).
Depth First Traversals. DFS for graphs is similar to DFS for trees, but since there are potential cycles within our graph, we add the constraint that each vertex should be visited at most once. This can be accomplished by marking nodes as visited and only visiting a node if it had not been marked as visited already.
C level #
1. Question 1 from the Fall 2014 discussion worksheet.
B level #
1. Question 4 from the Fall 2014 midterm.
A level #
1. Question 7 from the guerrilla section worksheet #2 from Spring 2015.
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comscoreFoods Containing Phytochemicals
Foods Containing Phytochemicals
Phytochemicals are compounds that are produced by plants. Some phytochemicals are believed to protect cells from damage that could lead to cancer.
Phytochemicals are compounds that are produced by plants ("phyto" means "plant"). They are found in fruits, vegetables, grains, beans, and other plants. Some of these phytochemicals are believed to protect cells from damage that could lead to cancer.
Some scientists think that you could reduce your cancer risk by as much as 40% by eating more vegetables, fruits, and other plant foods that have certain phytochemicals in them. Research has shown that some phytochemicals may:
• help stop the formation of potential cancer-causing substances (carcinogens)
• help stop carcinogens from attacking cells
• help cells stop and wipe out any cancer-like changes
Some of the most beneficial phytochemicals are:
• beta carotene and other carotenoids in fruits and vegetables
• resveratrol in red wine
• polyphenols in tea
• isothiocyanates in cruciferous vegetables (members of the cabbage family that include bok choy, collards, broccoli, brussels sprouts, kohlrabi, kale, mustard greens, turnip greens, and cauliflower)
Because these phytochemicals are in the fruits, vegetables, beans, and grains you eat, it's fairly easy to include them in your diet. A carrot, for example, has more than 100 phytochemicals. Nutrition researchers estimate that more than 4,000 phytochemicals have been identified, but only about 150 have been studied in depth. More research is needed to find out which phytochemicals may offer benefits in reducing the risk of cancer.
Keep in mind that there is no evidence that taking phytochemical supplements is as good for you as eating the whole fruits, vegetables, beans, and grains that contain them. Most experts strongly believe that it's the combination of these compounds and the other foods you eat that keeps your body healthy. Loading up on one or two phytochemicals in pill form probably won't be as beneficial as eating a balanced diet with a variety of foods that includes 5 or more cups of fruits and vegetables per day and food from other plant sources, such as whole-grain breads, cereals, nuts, seeds, rice and pasta, and beans.
There are several main groups of health-promoting phytochemicals.
Flavonoids are found in lots of grains, vegetables, and fruits. The flavonoids in soybeans, chickpeas, and licorice may act a little bit like estrogen, a hormone that might affect the risk of breast cancer that depends on estrogen for its growth.
The estrogen-like compounds in these plants are called phytoestrogens. But most phytoestrogens have very weak estrogen-like activity. When a weak estrogen-like substance replaces your body's natural estrogen's position, then the weak substance can act as a relative anti-estrogen. By acting in this way, phytoestrogens might help work against breast cancer that depends on estrogen for its growth. But phytoestrogens are present in only small amounts in these foods. Learn more about the phytoestrogens in soy foods on the Soy page.
Researchers are studying flavonoids to see if they can reduce the risk of certain types of cancers and heart disease.
Antioxidants protect your body's cells from free radicals — unstable molecules created during normal cell functions. Pollution, radiation, cigarette smoke, and herbicides also can create free radicals in your body. Free radicals can damage a cell's genetic parts and may trigger the cell to grow out of control. These changes may contribute to the development of cancer and other diseases.
Antioxidants are found in broccoli, brussels sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, tomatoes, corn, carrots, mangos, sweet potatoes, soybeans, cantaloupe, oranges, spinach, nuts, lettuce, celery, liver, fish oil, seeds, grains, kale, beets, red peppers, potatoes, blueberries, strawberries, and black and green tea. As a rule, dark-colored fruits and vegetables have more antioxidants than other fruits and vegetables.
Carotenoids, which give carrots, yams, cantaloupe, squash, and apricots their orange color, may help reduce the risk of cancer.
Anthocyanins, which give grapes, blueberries, cranberries, and raspberries their dark color, have been shown in the laboratory to have anti-inflammatory and anti-tumor properties.
Sulfides, found in garlic and onions, may strengthen the immune system.
Much of the evidence so far on the effects of phytochemicals comes from observing people who eat mainly plant-based diets. These people appear to have markedly lower rates of certain types of cancers and heart disease. Some of the associations between specific phytochemicals and cancer risk reduction are very persuasive, but more research is needed. So far there is no conclusive evidence that any phytochemicals will help reduce the risk of getting cancer or help get rid of cancer if you have it.
There will never be just one vital food ingredient that you need to include in your diet. Registered dietitians and other healthcare professionals will always recommend eating a balanced diet that includes a variety of vegetables, fruits, legumes, and whole grains.
— Last updated on February 1, 2022, 6:02 PM | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Zoya Ansari describes an important Sassanian Empire displaced
While discussing the rise of the Sassanian Empire displaced of Islamic rule it becomes essential to cast a glance at the ruling entity in the region that was supplanted by the Islamic rule. It is widely acknowledged that the Sassanian Empire was the last pre-Islamic Persian Empire that was established in 224 AD by Ardeshir I, son of Papak, descendant of Sasan known to be an outstanding war leader and prudent ruler. This empire ruled for more than four centuries till 651 AD when it was finally overthrown by the Muslim caliphate. Throughout the Sassanian Empire set important precedents for governing areas with disparate populations and practices. Some of its rulers became legendary in the annals of past rulers particularly Ardeshir, Shahpur and Khusro whose fame cut across frames of time and were held with supreme respect in variegated cultural milieus.
After Alexander’s death in 323 BC, the Iranian Plateau fell into the hands of his generals who established a state known as the Seleucid Empire mainly on what is today Iran and its height extended from modern-day Turkey to modern-day Pakistan. The Seleucids, although certainly influenced by the Iranian people over whom they ruled, still kept true to their Greco-Macedonian origins and were not taken as native rulers to most of their subjects. However, their rule was supplanted by the Parthians, a class composed of northeastern Iran and heavily influenced by Hellenistic traditions, in the Iranian territories.
In turn The Parthians themselves fell to Ardeshir I, a Persian hailing from Fars and under his rule the process aimed at restoring and reinstating Iranian values and culture. Although, at the core Sassanians remained Hellenized but the Iranization process continued unabated with Zoroastrianism becoming one of the founding stones of the Empire that was to have its deep mark of coming centuries and still survives in some shape or form. For 400 years the Sassanian Empire was the major power in the Near East as the rival of the former Roman Empire.
During his rule Ardeshir I gave special importance to centralization of power, installing Zoroastrianism as state religion and paying attention to the Persian rivalry with Rome. Centralization was an especially enormous task since the Parthians had kept a federative alliance of small kingdoms. Zoroastrianism, although always present, was now to be linked to the Empire’s organization and became of great importance to the administration system, especially since the legitimacy of the system established by the Sassanians was based on their divine lineage. It was natural that rivalry was to be the order of things but wars with Rome seemed stagnant being a game of push and pull between the two Empires mostly in Mesopotamia and Armenia that later on escalated.
Shahpur I, was a king mostly important for his ability to reaffirm Sassanian power in Iran and for his military prowess in fighting Rome. It was due to his consistent pressure on Rome that resulted in compelling the Roman Emperor Phillip to concede to Shahpur I in order to secure his power over Rome and was made to sign a treaty that would hand Armenia to Persia. The Persian king, seeing the current weakness of the Roman Empire, continued his attacks and dealt a severe blow to Roman morale by capturing Roman Emperor Valerian.
During Shahpur’s reign a legend emerged that he was crowned king in his mother’s womb but this legend comes from his having been chosen as king shortly after his birth as his father was murdered and the powerful nobles decided to crown the newborn, whom they hoped to mould, rather than risk trusting the crown to any of his older brothers.
With the passage of time Shahpur proved to be an energetic and imaginative leader, taking the empire to its greatest glory expanding his territories by taking advantage of the weakened Roman Empire. He also took the crucial step of committing the Zoroastrian scriptures to writing that gave them much needed veracity and permanence.
The Sassanian dynasty then produced Khusro I rated as the most pre-eminent ruler whose fame still holds considerable relevance and acclaim. He was successful both from military and administrative aspect and was accepted as an ideal king in history and would also feature prominently in Iranian literature. It is generally accepted that Khusrau’s reforms were probably what continued to sustain the Sassanian Empire for the next 100 years. His tax reforms strengthened the court by eliminating the special privileges of the grandees who ruled over their territories and who were able to tax the population exempting themselves. Through these reforms, the Sassanian state was able to provide a fixed tax that would help predict the amount of income received.
Khusro also brought about wide-ranging reforms in military matters that ensured the safety of the borders of the Empire that had the Romans to the west, the Huns to the east and the Arabs to the south and all these conditions required a military capable of reacting quickly. For undertaking this purpose the Empire was divided into four regions each controlled by a general. As for most Sassanian kings, the wars with Rome continued endlessly mostly favourable to the Sassanian, as the Romans and then the Byzantines would be occupied with confronting the Germanic invasions. Khusro is widely acclaimed for his penchant for knowledge and learning for which he set many academic institutions and they were rated the most important centers of learning in the world’s history as it sought texts from all of the neighbouring countries, from Greek philosophers, to Iranian religious texts translating them not only to Middle Persian but also Greek and other languages — a scholarly knowledge later inherited by the Arabs, and then passed to European Culture.
The last Sassanian king, Yazdegerd III ascended the throne when he was only eight years old and ruled during the push exerted by the Muslim rulers. The king was forced to move from province to province time gathering resources for the invading Muslim Arab armies but this advance was practically unstoppable as by 630 AD the Sassanian Empire suffered the loss of Yemen, Oman and Bahrain. Soon after, in 633 AD, the Sassanian client state of Hira was taken as well and thus a buffer state between the Iranians and the Arabs was removed. In 633 AD the Sassanian army was defeated by the Muslim army at the battle of Dat al-Salasel. More defeats followed and by 634 CE, Sawad, later Iraq, came under Muslim control. In 636 AD at the battle of Madar, Sassanian forces completely lost southern Mesopotamia to the Arab army. Finally in 637 AD the battle of Qadisiya took place in which the Iranian general Rustam and most of his army were killed.
The king could not face this situation and fled the capital and moved toward Ray but in 640 AD the Arabs managed to take over the heartland of Iran and the king had no choice but to move further toward the east. After the serious insurrections of the eastern provinces of Sistan and Kerman also resulted in defeat, the ruler of Marw refused to help the runaway king. Yazdegerd III is believed to have been murdered near Marw in 651 AD with the Sassanian Empire becoming part of Arab Muslim state though Persian cultural heritage continued as an enduring influence in the emerging Muslim world. TW | FINEWEB-EDU |
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Side-to-side overlap of 2 in-phase p atomic orbitals kinds a p bonding molecular orbital, while side-to-side overlap of 2 out-of-phase p orbitals varieties a p* antibonding molecular orbital. The Side-to-side overlap of 2 p atomic or-p bonding molecular orbital has one node—a nodal aircraft that passes via either nu- bitals varieties a P bond. All different cova- clei. The p* antibonding molecular orbital has nodal planes. become aware of that s bonds lent bonds in natural molecules are S are cylindrically symmetrical, yet p bonds will not be. bonds. the level of overlap is bigger whilst p orbitals overlap end-on than after they overlap side-to-side. which means a s bond shaped via the end-on overlap of p orbitals is improved than a p bond shaped by means of the side-to-side overlap of p orbitals. It additionally implies that a s bonding molecular orbital is extra strong than a p bonding molecular orbital as the greater the bond, the extra good it really is. determine 1. 7 indicates a molecular orbital diagram of 2 exact atoms utilizing their 3 degenerate atomic orbitals to shape 3 bonds—one s bond and p bonds. A S bond is improved than a P bond. nodal aircraft > determine 1. 6 Side-to-side overlap of 2 parallel p orbitals to shape a p bonding molecular orbital and a p* nodal aircraft antibonding molecular orbital. π∗ antibonding molecular orbital power 2 p atomic 2 p atomic orbital orbital nodal aircraft π bonding molecular orbital 24 C H A P T E R 1 digital constitution and Bonding • Acids and Bases determine 1. 7 N p Orbitals can overlap end-on to σ∗ shape bonding s and s* antibonding molecular orbitals, or π∗ π∗ can overlap side-to-side to shape p bonding and p* antibonding molecular orbitals. The relative energies of the molecular orbitals p p p p p p are s 6 p 6 p* 6 s*. Enegry π π σ Now let’s examine the molecular orbital diagram for side-to-side overlap of a p orbital of carbon with a p orbital of oxygen—the orbitals are an identical, yet they belong to various atoms (Figure 1. 8). while the 2 p atomic orbitals mix to shape molecular orbitals, they accomplish that unsymmetrically. The atomic orbital of the extra electro- adverse atom contributes extra to the bonding molecular orbital, and the atomic orbital of the fewer electronegative atom contributes extra to the antibonding molecular orbital. which means if we have been to place electrons within the bonding MO, they'd be extra apt to be round the oxygen atom than round the carbon atom. therefore, either the Lewis idea and molecular orbital thought let us know that the electrons shared via carbon and oxygen should not shared equally—the oxygen atom of a carbon–oxygen bond has a partial damaging cost and the carbon atom has a partial optimistic cost. natural chemists locate that the knowledge got from MO concept, the place valence electrons occupy bonding and antibonding molecular orbitals, doesn't constantly yield the wanted information regarding the bonds in a molecule. The valence-shell electron-pair repulsion (VSEPR) version combines the Lewis thought of shared electron pairs and lone-pair electrons with the concept that of atomic orbitals and provides a 3rd precept: the minimization of electron repulsion.
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Victória Pitts
Ana Victória Pitts (born 1991) is a Brazilian mezzo-soprano who has performed internationally.
Career
Pitts was born in Belém in 1991 and was first trained there. From 2008, she studied at the Conservatório Carlos Gomes. She made her stage debut in Belém in 2010 as Dido in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas. She received a scholarship and continued her studies in Italy from 2011 at the Rovigo conservatoire, where she graduated in 2014. In 2011, Pitts won the Young Promise Award at the International Sacred Music Competition in Rome. In 2014, she made her European debut in the world premiere of Paolo Furlani's The Water Babies at the Teatro Sociale di Rovigo.
Pitts was a member of the studio of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino from 2015 to 2017, where she appeared in Ullmann's Der Kaiser von Atlantis, as Hänsel in Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel, Flora in Verdi's La Traviata, and Tisbe in Rossini's La Cenerentola. She performed the alto part in Mozart's Requiem at the Maggio Musicale with the festival choir and the Orchestra della Toscana conducted by Daniele Rustioni. She took part in tours of Oman and Tunisia. She also performed as Isabella in Rossini's L'italiana in Algeri and as Tangia in Gluck's Le cinesi. She recorded the role of Publia in Rossini's Aureliano in Palmira in a live performance from the 2017 Rossini Festival in Wildbad, with Juan Francisco Gatell in the title role. She appeared as Emilia in Verdi's Otello at the Teatro da Paz in Belém, as Marianna in Rossini's Il Signor Bruschino at the Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza, and as Carlotta in Salieri's La scuola de' gelosi at the Teatro Salieri of Legnago.
In 2018, she appeared at the Opera de Lyon for the first time, as Vecchietta and Duchessa in Respighi's La bella dormente nel bosco. In 2022, she portrayed characters in all three parts of Puccini's Il Trittico at the Oper Frankfurt in a 2008 production directed by Claus Guth and conducted by Pier Giorgio Morandi. In Il tabarro, she performed as Frugola, in Suor Angelica as the Duchess, and in Gianni Schicchi as Zita; She appeared alongside Željko Lučić and Elza van den Heever in leading roles. A reviewer from noted that she was a powerful presence in voice and expression ("mit einer starken Präsenz an Stimme und Ausdruck"). | WIKI |
Discover Used Golf Carts for Sale by Owner in Escambia, Florida: A Comprehensive Guide
Welcome to the world of used golf carts for sale by owner in Escambia, Florida! Embark on an exciting journey as we delve into the vibrant market, uncovering popular models, exploring condition and pricing dynamics, and providing essential tips for a seamless purchase experience.
From legal considerations to financing options, our comprehensive guide will empower you to make informed decisions and find the perfect golf cart that suits your needs and budget.
The used golf cart market in Escambia, Florida is a thriving hub of activity, offering a diverse selection of pre-owned golf carts at competitive prices. Whether you’re a seasoned golf enthusiast or seeking a convenient and eco-friendly mode of transportation, our guide will navigate you through the intricacies of this dynamic market, ensuring a smooth and rewarding buying experience.
Used Golf Cart Market in Escambia, Florida
The used golf cart market in Escambia, Florida is a thriving and ever-evolving industry. With its abundance of golf courses and recreational areas, Escambia County provides a favorable environment for the sale and purchase of used golf carts.
Several factors influence market trends and supply and demand dynamics in Escambia, Florida. These include the county’s growing population, increasing tourism, and a strong demand for recreational vehicles. The availability of affordable used golf carts and the presence of reputable dealers contribute to the market’s growth.
Market Trends
The used golf cart market in Escambia, Florida has experienced steady growth in recent years. This growth is attributed to several factors, including:
• Increasing popularity of golf as a recreational activity
• Growing number of golf courses and recreational areas in the county
• Increasing tourism and demand for recreational vehicles
• Availability of affordable used golf carts
• Presence of reputable dealers
Supply and Demand
The supply and demand for used golf carts in Escambia, Florida is influenced by several factors, including:
• Seasonal fluctuations in demand
• Availability of new golf carts
• Economic conditions
• Competition from other recreational vehicles
• Government regulations
Popular Golf Cart Models for Sale
Golf carts are a popular mode of transportation in Escambia, Florida, and several models are available for sale. These models offer various features, specifications, and pricing options to suit different needs and preferences.
Among the most sought-after golf cart models in Escambia, Florida, are those manufactured by Club Car, EZ-GO, and Yamaha. These brands are known for their reliability, durability, and innovative features.
Club Car
Club Car is a leading manufacturer of golf carts, and its models are highly regarded for their comfort, style, and performance. Some of the popular Club Car models available for sale in Escambia, Florida, include:
• Onward: The Onward is a versatile golf cart suitable for both on- and off-road use. It features a rugged design, a powerful electric motor, and a comfortable seating arrangement.
• Tempo: The Tempo is a compact and agile golf cart ideal for navigating narrow paths and crowded areas. It offers a smooth ride and is available in both electric and gas-powered versions.
• Villager: The Villager is a feature-rich golf cart designed for comfort and convenience. It comes with a spacious seating area, a built-in cooler, and a variety of other amenities.
Condition and Pricing Analysis
Used golf carts in Escambia, Florida, exhibit a range of conditions, from well-maintained to those requiring repairs. The condition significantly influences the pricing of these carts.
Older golf carts, with more years of use, tend to be priced lower than newer models. However, the overall condition, including the battery life, tires, and bodywork, also plays a crucial role in determining the value.
Factors Affecting Pricing
• Age:As mentioned earlier, older golf carts generally command lower prices.
• Condition:Well-maintained carts with minimal wear and tear fetch higher prices compared to those with significant damage or mechanical issues.
• Features:Golf carts with additional features, such as upgraded seats, custom paint jobs, or lifted suspensions, tend to be priced higher.
• Battery Life:The condition and age of the battery significantly impact the price. Carts with newer or high-quality batteries will have a higher resale value.
Seller Profiles and Contact Information
This section provides a comprehensive table of sellers offering used golf carts for sale in Escambia, Florida. The table includes contact information, website links, and any relevant seller ratings to assist potential buyers in reaching out to sellers and making informed decisions.
Seller Profiles
Seller Name Contact Information Website Seller Ratings
Escambia Golf Carts (850) [email protected] www.escambiagolfcarts.com 4.5/5 (Google Reviews)
Florida Golf Carts (850) [email protected] www.floridagolfcarts.com 4.2/5 (Yelp Reviews)
Pensacola Golf Carts (850) [email protected] www.pensacolagolfcarts.com 4.8/5 (Facebook Reviews)
Inspection and Test Drive Procedures
Before purchasing a used golf cart, a thorough inspection and test drive are crucial to ensure its condition and safety. Here’s a comprehensive guide to help you through the process:
Visual Inspection
Begin by examining the golf cart’s exterior for any dents, scratches, or signs of rust. Check the tires for wear and tear, and inspect the battery terminals for corrosion.
Electrical System Check
Turn on the headlights, taillights, and horn to verify their functionality. Check the battery voltage using a voltmeter to ensure it meets the manufacturer’s specifications.
Mechanical Inspection
Inspect the brakes by applying pressure to the pedal and observing the cart’s response. Check the steering system for any loose or worn components. Test the accelerator and reverse functions to ensure smooth operation.
Test Drive
Conduct a test drive on a flat surface and gradually increase the speed to check the cart’s stability and handling. Listen for any unusual noises or vibrations that may indicate potential issues.
Additional Tips
Ask the seller for the cart’s maintenance history and any repairs or modifications performed. Bring a mechanic for a more detailed inspection if necessary. Be cautious of any cart that shows signs of neglect or has been involved in an accident.By
following these procedures, you can increase your chances of purchasing a used golf cart that meets your needs and provides years of reliable service.
Financing Options for Used Golf Carts
Financing options can make it easier to afford a used golf cart in Escambia, Florida. There are several lenders that offer financing for used golf carts, with varying interest rates, loan terms, and eligibility criteria.
Before applying for financing, it’s important to compare the options available to find the best deal. Consider the interest rate, loan term, and any fees associated with the loan. You should also make sure you meet the eligibility criteria for the loan.
Interest Rates
Interest rates on used golf cart loans can vary depending on the lender and your creditworthiness. Generally, borrowers with good credit will qualify for lower interest rates than borrowers with poor credit.
Loan Terms
Loan terms for used golf cart loans typically range from 12 to 60 months. The shorter the loan term, the higher the monthly payments will be. However, you will pay less interest over the life of the loan.
Eligibility Criteria
To qualify for financing for a used golf cart, you will typically need to meet certain eligibility criteria. These criteria may include having a good credit score, a steady income, and a debt-to-income ratio that meets the lender’s requirements.
Accessories and Customization Options
Used golf carts can be customized with a wide range of accessories to enhance their functionality, comfort, and style. These accessories can transform a basic golf cart into a versatile vehicle suitable for various purposes, from recreational activities to practical tasks.
Some of the most popular accessories include:
• Canopies and Enclosures:Protect from sun, rain, and wind, extending the usability of the golf cart in different weather conditions.
• Lift Kits and Tires:Increase ground clearance and allow for larger tires, improving off-road capabilities and stability.
• Lighting Kits:Enhance visibility and safety, especially when operating the golf cart at night or in low-light conditions.
• Sound Systems:Provide entertainment and ambiance, making the golf cart more enjoyable for cruising or social gatherings.
• Custom Seats and Upholstery:Upgrade comfort and aesthetics, providing a more personalized and stylish interior.
Safety Features and Regulations
Used golf carts in Escambia, Florida, may come equipped with various safety features to enhance the well-being of operators and passengers. These features aim to mitigate potential hazards and ensure a safe and enjoyable riding experience.
Additionally, local regulations and safety guidelines govern the operation of golf carts on public roads. Adhering to these regulations is crucial for the safety of all road users and pedestrians.
Safety Features, Used golf carts for sale by owner in Escambia, Florida
• Seat Belts:Seat belts provide a vital layer of protection in the event of a collision or sudden stop, reducing the risk of injuries.
• Headlights and Taillights:Proper lighting is essential for visibility during low-light conditions, enhancing safety for both the golf cart operator and other road users.
• Turn Signals:Turn signals communicate the operator’s intentions to other vehicles and pedestrians, minimizing the risk of accidents at intersections and during lane changes.
• Speed Governors:Speed governors limit the maximum speed of the golf cart, preventing excessive speeds that could lead to accidents.
• Safety Flags:Safety flags increase the visibility of the golf cart, particularly in areas with heavy pedestrian traffic or limited visibility.
Local Regulations
• Registration and Insurance:In Escambia, Florida, golf carts used on public roads must be registered with the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (FLHSMV) and carry liability insurance.
• Operator’s License:Operators of golf carts on public roads must possess a valid driver’s license or learner’s permit.
• Speed Limits:Golf carts are typically restricted to speeds of 15-20 mph on public roads.
• Designated Golf Cart Lanes:Some areas in Escambia, Florida, have designated golf cart lanes, which provide a safe and convenient way for golf carts to travel on public roads.
Transportation and Delivery Options
Purchasing a used golf cart in Escambia, Florida, often involves transporting the vehicle to its new home. Several transportation and delivery options are available, each with its own costs, timelines, and insurance considerations.
The most common method of transporting a used golf cart is via a trailer. Renting a trailer from a local hardware store or equipment rental company is a cost-effective option, typically ranging from $50 to $100 per day. Alternatively, hiring a professional transportation service can provide convenience and peace of mind, with costs varying depending on the distance and complexity of the move.
Towing
If you own a vehicle capable of towing, you can use a tow dolly or trailer to transport the golf cart yourself. This method offers flexibility and cost savings, but requires ensuring your vehicle has the necessary towing capacity and that the golf cart is properly secured.
Professional Transportation Services
For long-distance or complex moves, professional transportation services may be the best choice. These companies specialize in transporting vehicles, including golf carts, and provide door-to-door delivery. The cost of professional transportation varies depending on the distance, size of the golf cart, and any special requirements.
Insurance Considerations
When transporting a used golf cart, it’s crucial to have adequate insurance coverage. If you are towing the golf cart yourself, your auto insurance may cover the vehicle during transport. However, if you hire a professional transportation service, they may require you to obtain separate insurance for the golf cart.
Environmental Impact and Sustainability
Used golf carts have a relatively low environmental impact compared to traditional gas-powered vehicles. They produce zero emissions during operation, reducing air pollution and contributing to a cleaner environment.
However, it’s important to consider the environmental impact of manufacturing, maintaining, and disposing of used golf carts. Sustainable practices can minimize the environmental footprint of these vehicles throughout their lifecycle.
Sustainable Practices for Maintenance and Disposal
• Regular maintenance, including battery checks and tire inspections, can extend the lifespan of used golf carts, reducing the need for premature replacement.
• Using biodegradable lubricants and cleaning agents minimizes the environmental impact of maintenance activities.
• Proper disposal of used batteries is crucial to prevent environmental contamination. Lead-acid batteries should be recycled or disposed of at designated hazardous waste facilities.
• Consider donating or selling used golf carts instead of discarding them. This extends their lifespan and reduces waste.
Closing Summary: Used Golf Carts For Sale By Owner In Escambia, Florida
As you embark on your search for used golf carts for sale by owner in Escambia, Florida, remember to prioritize safety and legal compliance. Thoroughly inspect potential purchases, secure necessary paperwork, and familiarize yourself with local regulations. With careful consideration and the insights provided in this comprehensive guide, you’re well-equipped to find the perfect used golf cart that will enhance your lifestyle and provide years of enjoyment.
Whether you’re a golf aficionado, an eco-conscious commuter, or simply seeking a fun and affordable way to explore your surroundings, the used golf cart market in Escambia, Florida has something to offer. Embrace the journey, discover the possibilities, and find the perfect golf cart that aligns with your dreams and aspirations. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Augustus Nathaniel Lushington
August Nathaniel Lushington (born August 1, 1869 - 1939) became the first African American to earn a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine in 1897. He practiced about two years in Philadelphia and worked as an instructor in Veterinary Sanitation and Hygiene at Bell Mead Industrial and Agricultural College at Rock Castle, West Virginia. Later, he practiced for much of his career in segregated Lynchburg, Virginia. He had memberships in the statistical reporter to the Bureau of Animal Industry, the United States Department of Agriculture, and the Lychburg Chamber of Commerce.
College education
His college education started when he married his wife Elizabeth Hubert from Antigua. Her west Indian friends helped Augustus enroll in Cornell University to study Agriculture. He graduated with a degree in Agriculture in 1894.
Since there was no work for him at the time he left the West Indies, he migrated to the United States. He graduated in three years from the University of Pennsylvania veterinary school. He was the only African American to graduate from the university. His portrait hangs at the main entrance of the Rosenthal building. | WIKI |
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Who actually invented the oxygen mask? Does Wikipedia cover its history? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ladywitchthought (talk • contribs) 06:29, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
==It was invented by Moran Campbell. While oxygen masks existed before his invention, the venturi mask, his design was the first to allow for control of concentraion of oxygen being administered whihc is crucial for a mask to be effective. All medical oxygen masks used today are venturi maks of one sort of another even if the are not the brand name ventimasks.
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Chittoor Road
Chittoor Road is one of the major arterial road in the city of Kochi, India. It is the oldest arterial road in the Ernakulam mainland city that connects Ernakulam south with Chittoor, Kochi island in Ernakulam north. The road runs in north–south direction parallel to coast, covering a distance of 8.2 km. The road was named after Chittoor temple as the road ends before the main gate of the temple.
Background
The Chittoor Road was the oldest road in the Ernakulam town. The road was reported to be constructed in mid-1620s prior to arrival of Dutch to Kochi. The road was constructed to facilitate Kochi Maharaja's annual pilgrimage from the mainland to Chittoor temple. There are no recorded or written histories about this road. However the popular folklore states that King Veera Kerala Varma II's leg was seriously injured in a bomb shell due to Dutch siege of Fort Kochi. Soon he was moved to Ernakulam Palace for the safety of Royal family. Though he was able to walk after intensive treatment, he couldn't achieve full recovery. It was this time, a physician from Chittoor island came to meet the King and offered an oil for regular massage. Though the king didn't believe in the claims of the unknown physician, he thought to give a try. Within months after application of the oil, the king was able to walk with ease. He decided to search for the physician by sending soldiers to Chittoor island to bring him to the Palace. However the efforts of search parties vain and the king himself came down and seek public's help in locating the unknown physician. It was later found that, it was none other the lord of Chittoor (Chittoorappan) came in disguise to help the king from the pain. The King became an adherent devotee of the lord and ordered for reconstructing the temple. The King also decided to take a regular annual pilgrimage to the temple. The Oil (Aadiya Enna) extracted from the body of Lord Sree Krishna made up of Anjanasila after abhishekam is a divine and powerful medicine for acute Rheumatic complaint (Vatham).
Construction
However the main obstacle in reaching the island was lack of road connectivity. In those days only ferries were option to reach this island. As the temple is located somewhere in middle of the large island, it became difficult for kings and his retinue to walk a long distance once reaching the island. The reconstruction activities were also affected due irregular supplies of materials needed due to lack of road. In addition to this, the royal family thought for the necessity of a road for safe passage in event of a Dutch storming and attack over royal family. All these reason resulted in construction of a stone paved road from Valanjambalam to Chittoor temple. Works for the road started in 1617 and completed by 1622.
The original road was stone paved road and meant for exclusive travel for the King's carriage. An iron bridge was laid over Chittoor Lake that connects mainland with the island. The road ended at a turning before West gate of the temple. The road once again came into forefront during mid 18th century as part of strengthening Pallipuram Fort by Travancore Army. The construction of modern road in 1910 by Maharaja Rajrishi Rama Varma to connect residents of North Ernakulam with main parts of the city.
Present
Until the 1940s, this road was the main road of the town before taken over by MG Road. | WIKI |
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How is copper mined? Flotation, as the most being used way, can be divided into direct flotation and sulphide flotation. Sulphide flotation means curatives (Na2S, NaHS, etc.) so that the oxidation of copper become sulfide material, then using flotation sulfide as the collector to process. Direct flotation means copper oxidation not to be sulfide, advanced xanthate, mercaptans and salts thereof, fatty acids, soaps as a collector. Currently, the Industrial collector for direct flotation process, only fatty acids collector has been widely used. However, fatty acids collector can guarantee the recovery, but its selectivity is poor, and not suitable for gangue minerals calcium, magnesium higher carbonate under the high case.
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The result was '''Delete. Wikipedia is not a crystal-ball'''. Aksi_great (talk) 11:33, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
Fable 3
No possible way to get verifiable sources, Fable 2 isn't out yet. Amarkov blahedits 03:46, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
* Should be speedied This definitely meets the criteria of db-empty. Diez2 03:47, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
* I don't think so. Were there verifiable sources, it would definitely be included. -Amarkov blahedits 03:59, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
* Delete speculation. Rever e ndG 04:34, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
* Delete That is one of the funniest entries ever. Missvain 04:55, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
* Delete - Wikipedia is not a crystal ball. MER-C 05:03, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
* Delete The talk page is an explicit admission of WP:AUTO/WP:COI and WP:NOT a web host. Anyway this is crystall balling, unverified/original research, WP:NOT a game guide and borderline advertising spam. Kudos to young Mr/Ms. Amarkov for keeping a cool head in the face of some utterly pathetic behaviour . -- I sl a y So lo mo n | t a l k 07:27, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
* Delete. The talk page pretty much admits that this is pure nonsense. Zetawoof(ζ) 08:07, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
* Delete passes the fails everything test. SkierRMH, 11:58, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
* Delete though the talk page is rather funny. Hut 8.5 12:48, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
* Delete, wikipedia is NOT a crystal ball. --Wizardman 17:24, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
* Delete per nom. Don't miss the Talk page per Hut 8.5. --Dhartung | Talk 21:04, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
* Note: This debate has been added to the list of CVG deletions. -- moe. RON Let's talk 03:37, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
* Speedy Delete - Just read the talk page. DarkSaber2k 15:29, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
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Mr. Programmer has been busy working on his awesome startup project lately. The project was coded in Python. In the past few days, he was hugely refactoring the source code without any testing. After all changes have been made, he tried to run the project, but he figured out that the code is not executing properly anymore due to some cyclic dependencies created in his source code. He struggled a little bit moving things around only to know he is just messing up things even further. Maybe if I move all the classes to a single file I’ll be able to resolve the problem, he thought. But that plan didn’t work either. With a great frustration and feeling pressure to launch his project as soon as possible, he has finally decided to outsource the task of putting things in the correct order to algorithmic specialists.
The source code is a single Python file. It consists of a bunch of classes. Mr. Programmer doesn’t like multiple inheritances much, so each class in his code has at most one super class. As he does not want to leak the content of the classes, he has nulled out the contents and effectively replaced them with the “pass” command in Python. Therefore, when a class does not have a superclass, it looks like below:
class <CLASS_NAME>:
pass
When a class has a superclass, it looks like below:
class <CLASS_NAME>(<SUPER_CLASS_NAME>):
pass
In the above codes, CLASS_NAME and SUPER_CLASS_NAME are arbitrary Python identifiers. For further clarification look at the sample input.
We know that the file is executable if for each class having a super class, its superclass appears somewhere before the class in the file. Mr. Programmer doesn’t like too many changes to his file, so he wants to put the file in the correct order with the minimum number of changes. Each change is counted as cutting a single class (along with its content) and pasting it in some other position in the file. Help Mr. Programmer find the minimum number of changes to file so that the file becomes executable.
입력
The input is a python file. It consists of some python classes separated by a single blank line. The classes in the input are exactly in the format described in the problem statement. Class identifiers only consists of English upper or lower case letters, and their length does not exceed 10 characters (for the sake of this problem you should not make any other assumptions about the identifiers). There are exactly 4 space characters before each “pass” command. There are at most 2, 000 classes in the file. It is guaranteed that all super classes are defined somewhere in the file, and no class is defined multiple times. Furthermore, a class is not its own superclass.
출력
Print a single integer as the minimum number of changes that have to be made so that the file becomes executable, or -1 if it is not possible to do so.
예제 입력 1
class B(A):
pass
class C(A):
pass
class A:
pass
예제 출력 1
1 | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
blob: 86a2bc634a82c74a5172529ce0968f3867030aaf [file] [log] [blame]
# Copyright 2021 The Chromium Authors
# Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
# found in the LICENSE file.
"""Common argument parsing-related code for unexpected pass finders."""
import argparse
import logging
import os
from unexpected_passes_common import constants
def AddCommonArguments(parser: argparse.ArgumentParser) -> None:
"""Adds arguments that are common to all unexpected pass finders.
Args:
parser: An argparse.ArgumentParser instance to add arguments to.
"""
parser.add_argument('--project',
required=True,
help='The billing project to use for BigQuery queries. '
'Must have access to the ResultDB BQ tables, e.g. '
'"chrome-luci-data.chromium.gpu_ci_test_results".')
parser.add_argument('--num-samples',
type=int,
default=100,
help='The number of recent builds to query.')
parser.add_argument('--output-format',
choices=[
'html',
'print',
],
default='html',
help='How to output script results.')
parser.add_argument('--remove-stale-expectations',
action='store_true',
default=False,
help='Automatically remove any expectations that are '
'determined to be stale from the expectation file.')
semi_stale_group = parser.add_mutually_exclusive_group()
semi_stale_group.add_argument(
'--modify-semi-stale-expectations',
action='store_true',
default=False,
help='If any semi-stale expectations are found, '
'prompt the user about the modification of '
'each one.')
semi_stale_group.add_argument('--narrow-semi-stale-expectation-scope',
action='store_true',
default=False,
help='Automatically modify or split semi-stale '
'expectations so they only apply to '
'configurations that actually need them.')
parser.add_argument('-v',
'--verbose',
action='count',
default=0,
help='Increase logging verbosity, can be passed multiple '
'times.')
parser.add_argument('-q',
'--quiet',
action='store_true',
default=False,
help='Disable logging for non-errors.')
parser.add_argument('--large-query-mode',
action='store_true',
default=False,
help='Run the script in large query mode. This incurs '
'a significant performance hit, but allows the use of '
'larger sample sizes on large test suites by partially '
'working around a hard memory limit in BigQuery.')
parser.add_argument('--expectation-grace-period',
type=int,
default=7,
help=('How many days old an expectation needs to be in '
'order to be a candidate for being removed or '
'modified. This prevents newly added expectations '
'from being removed before a sufficient amount of '
'data has been generated with the expectation '
'active. Set to a negative value to disable.'))
parser.add_argument('--result-output-file',
help=('Output file to store the generated results. If '
'not specified, will use a temporary file.'))
parser.add_argument('--bug-output-file',
help=('Output file to store "Bug:"/"Fixed:" text '
'intended for use in CL descriptions. If not '
'specified, will be printed to the terminal '
'instead.'))
parser.add_argument('--jobs',
'-j',
type=int,
help=('How many parallel jobs to run. By default, runs '
'all work in parallel.'))
internal_group = parser.add_mutually_exclusive_group()
internal_group.add_argument('--include-internal-builders',
action='store_true',
dest='include_internal_builders',
default=None,
help=('Includes builders that are defined in '
'src-internal in addition to the public '
'ones. If left unset, will be '
'automatically determined by the presence '
'of src-internal.'))
internal_group.add_argument('--no-include-internal-builders',
action='store_false',
dest='include_internal_builders',
default=None,
help=('Does not include builders that are '
'defined in src-internal. If left unset, '
'will be automatically determined by the '
'presence of src-internal.'))
def PerformCommonPostParseSetup(args: argparse.Namespace) -> None:
"""Helper function to perform all common post-parse setup.
Args:
args: Parsed arguments from an argparse.ArgumentParser.
"""
SetLoggingVerbosity(args)
SetInternalBuilderInclusion(args)
def SetLoggingVerbosity(args: argparse.Namespace) -> None:
"""Sets logging verbosity based on parsed arguments.
Args:
args: Parsed arguments from an argparse.ArgumentParser.
"""
if args.quiet:
args.verbose = -1
verbosity_level = args.verbose
if verbosity_level == -1:
level = logging.ERROR
elif verbosity_level == 0:
level = logging.WARNING
elif verbosity_level == 1:
level = logging.INFO
else:
level = logging.DEBUG
logging.getLogger().setLevel(level)
def SetInternalBuilderInclusion(args: argparse.Namespace) -> None:
"""Sets internal builder inclusion based on parsed arguments.
Args:
args: Parsed arguments from an argparse.ArgumentParser.
"""
if args.include_internal_builders is not None:
return
if os.path.isdir(constants.SRC_INTERNAL_DIR):
args.include_internal_builders = True
else:
args.include_internal_builders = False | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
2.14. Tungsten Replicator 6.1.0 GA (31 July 2019)
Version End of Life. Not Yet Set
Release 6.1.0 contains both significant improvements as well as some needed bugfixes. One of the main features of this release is MySQL 8 support.
Improvements, new features and functionality
• Command-line Tools
• Two new utility scripts have been added to the release to help with setting the Replicator position:
- tungsten_find_position, which assists with locating information in the THL based on the provided MySQL binary log event position and outputs a dsctl set (in [Tungsten Replicator 6.1 Manual]) command as output.
- tungsten_find_seqno, which assists with locating information in the THL based on the provided sequence number and outputs a dsctl set (in [Tungsten Replicator 6.1 Manual]) command as output.
Issues: CT-934
• Core Replicator
• A new, beta-quality command has been included called prov-sl.sh which is intended to eventually replace the current tungsten_provision_slave (in [Tungsten Replicator 6.1 Manual]) script.
Currently, prov-sl.sh supports provisioning Replicas using mysqldump and xtrabackup tools, and is MySQL 8-compatible.
The prov-sl.sh command is written in Bash, has less dependencies compared to the current version and is meant to fix a number of issues with the current version.
Backups are streamed from source to target so that an intermediate write to disk is not performed, resulting in faster provisioning times.
Logs are written to $CONTINUENT_ROOT/service_logs/prov-sl.log (i.e. /opt/continuent/service_logs/prov-sl.log).
For example, provision a Replica from [source db] using mysqldump (default):
shell> prov-sl.sh -s {source db}
As another example, use xtrabackup for the backup method, with 10 parallel threads (default is 4), and ssh is listening on port 2222:
shell> prov-sl.sh -s {source db} -n xtrabackup -t 10 -p 2222
Warning
At the moment, prov-sl.sh does not support Composite Active/Active topologies when used with Tungsten Clustering, however it will be included in a future release.
Issues: CT-614, CT-723, CT-809, CT-855, CT-963
• Upgraded the Drizzle driver to support MySQL 8 authentication protocols (SHA256, caching_sha2).
Issues: CT-914, CT-931, CT-966
• The Redshift Applier now allows AWS authentication using IAM Roles. Previously authentication was possible via Access and Secret Key pairs only.
Issues: CT-980
For more information, see Redshift Preparation for Amazon Redshift Deployments (in [Tungsten Replicator 6.1 Manual]).
Bug Fixes
• Command-line Tools
• When executing mysqldump, all Tungsten tools no longer use the --add-drop-database flag as it will prevent MySQL 8+ from restoring the dump.
Issues: CT-935
• Fixed a bug where tpm diag (in [Tungsten Replicator 6.1 Manual]) would generate an empty zip file if the hostnames contain hyphens (-) or periods (.)
Issues: CT-1032
• Core Replicator
• Added support for missing charset GB18030 to correct WARN extractor.mysql.MysqlBinlog Unknown charset errors.
Issues: CT-915, CT-932
• Loading data into Redshift would fail with the following error if a row of data contained a specific control character (0x00 (NULL))
Missing newline: Unexpected character 0x30 found at location nnn
Issues: CT-984
• Now properly extracting the Geometry datatype.
Issues: CT-997
• The ddl_map.json file used by the apply_schema_changes filter was missing a rule to handle ALTER TABLE statements when replicating between MySQL and Redshift
Issues: CT-1002
• The extract_schema_change filter wasn't escaping " (double-quotes) and the generated JSON would then cause the applier to error with
pendingExceptionMessage: SyntaxError: missing } after property list »
(../../tungsten-replicator//support/filters-javascript/apply_schema_changes.js#236(eval)#1)
Issues: CT-1011 | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Eats barks leaves nuts and fruits
English: The Malapa site valley, looking North...
The Malapa valley South Africa, where Australopithecus sediba was found. (Credit: Lee R. Berger via Wikipedia)
The first stone tools and bones that had been cut by them, found in rocks dated at 2.5-2.6 Ma in the Bouri area of Ethiopia’s Afar Depression, have generally been taken as a sign that their invention was connected with more easily accessing meat for food. A corollary of this idea is that it was the introduction of meat into the hominin diet that helped ‘fuel’ the growth of their brains: meat-tools-brain interrelated in an evolutionary sense. There is a spatial link between such tools and fossils of Australopithecus, but direct attribution of the tools to these australopithecines has not been widely accepted. It is more generally accepted that a link to tools can be made with Homo habilis, but they lived, at the earliest, 200 to 300 ka later. The wear patterns on their teeth and association with animal bones bearing cut marks has been taken to indicate that at least part of their diet was meat.
Another approach to diet is to analyse the proportions of stable carbon isotopes (13C and 12C) in tooth enamel, which can discriminate between the ultimate plant source in their diet, i.e. between grasses that use the C4 photosynthetic pathway and the C3 version used by woody and herbaceous plants. The isotopic ‘signature’ of plants is also passed on to animals, depending on what vegetation they eat, and so up the food chain to predators and the scavengers that depend on their leavings. South African Au. africanus of around 2.5 Ma ago show a definite C4 preference as do local paranthropoids (‘robust’ australopithecine-like creatures) from around 1.8 Ma. The early humans H. habilis and H. ergaster also show the C4 isotopic proportions, which in both cases may be from a meaty diet or from a vegetarian component. The main point from these similar results, whatever the plant-meat proportions being consumed, is that these hominins were very different from chimpanzees in their eating habits, and probably as regards their habitats: savannah rather than woodlands respectively.
There are no reports of C-isotope research on Au. garhi teeth, but results from 2 Ma old Au. sediba found in South Africa have just been published (Henry, A.G and 8 others 2012. The diet of Australopithecus sediba, Nature, v. 487, p. 90-93) along with plant materials from dental plaque and tooth wear patterns. Au. sediba is notable for its very modern-looking hands and other ‘advanced’ features. Some believe it to have been closer to the direct line of human descent than a number of other hominin species, including the poor quality remains of H. habilis. So, did sediba eat meat? The forensic evidence suggests something unexpected. The C-isotope data points towards food dominated by C3 plants – less grasses and sedges, and more shrubbery. Tooth wear suggests bark was eaten, while plant remains from plaque indicate fruit leaves and wood. This is a feeding pattern more like that of chimpanzees than Homo species, Au. africanus and the paranthropoids that are roughly contemporary with Au. sediba. Ecological analysis of the sediments which buried the hominin specimens suggest a seasonal climate and savannah biome with abundant C4 plants that supported grazing herds, mixed with possibly some denser woodland along drainages. This is a pattern familiar from living savannah chimpanzee bands.
English: The hand and forearm of Australopithe...
The hand and forearm of Australopithecus sediba (Credit: Peter Schmid, courtesy Lee R. Berger via Wikipedia)
So, despite being an ‘advanced’ hominin, by carrying clear signs of foods that were not consumed by meaty potential prey animals Au. sediba probably was not a meat eater. Yet species with strong C4 ‘signatures’ cannot be assigned to carnivory on C-isotope evidence alone. One has to decide from other data, such as tooth-wear and plaque, whether this or that hominin ate grasses, those that clearly did not becoming candidates for dominantly meat-eating. How to detect a tool-using species with a mixed diet, akin to more modern humans, is a tough nut to crack.
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Zeke Smith outed as transgender on 'Survivor'
This story contains spoilers for Wednesday's episode of "Survivor: Game Changers." (CNN)The outing of a "Survivor" cast member on television has sparked outrage. Zeke Smith, who appeared on back-to-back seasons of the reality series, was revealed to be a transgender man by fellow contestant Jeff Varner in an episode that aired Wednesday night. Varner, who is gay, shared the information during an emotional Tribal Council on "Survivor: Game Changers." "Why haven't you told anyone you're transgender?" Varner asked Smith. Other contestants reacted negatively, telling Varner that was personal and he shouldn't have said it. Varner insisted he did it to show that Smith was deceptive during the game. Smith responded by explaining that he didn't want to be labeled "the trans 'Survivor' player." "I wanted to be Zeke the 'Survivor' player," Smith said. Varner apologized, but was voted off the show. Trying to find love as a transgender man Some fans were both stunned by the revelation and angered that Varner chose to go public with the information. Contestants on the series compete for a major cash prize by surviving in remote locations and competing in extreme challenges. "Survivor" host Jeff Probst told Entertainment Weekly that while he has rarely given his personal opinion in 34 seasons of the series, he could not remain quiet about this incident. "I cannot imagine anyone thinking what was done to Zeke was okay on any level, under any circumstances, and certainly not simply because there was a million dollars on the line," Probst said. "I think the response from the tribe, as it so often does, mirrors what the vast majority of society will feel. You just don't do that to someone." In a guest column written for The Hollywood Reporter, Smith said he wasn't "wild" about viewers knowing he is transgender. He said he began watching "Survivor" at a time when he was dealing with both depression and transitioning. "So significant was the experience that I remember where I watched Episode 1 of 'Survivor: Cook Islands;' I remember the date, May 2, 2010." Smith wrote. "I remember distinctly Jeff Probst's opening line, 'You are watching 20 Americans begin an adventure that will forever change their lives.' I was hooked." Smith said moving to New York where people knew him only as "Zeke" was "tremendously liberating." "A person's gender history is private information and it is up to them, and only them, when, how, and to whom they choose to disclose that information," he wrote. "Keeping your gender history private is not the same as a gay person being 'in the closet.' The only people who need to know are medical professionals and naked fun time friends." Varner tweeted an apology after the episode aired, calling it "the worst decision of my life." "Yep. I did that. And I offer my deepest, most heart-felt apologies to Zeke Smith, his friends and life allies, his family and to all those who my mistake hurt and offended," Varner wrote in a statement he posted. "Let me be clear, outing someone is assault," he added. "It robs a strong, courageous person of their power and protection and opens them up to discrimination and danger." A transgender woman's journey from bullied to beauty queen While the show was filmed eight months ago, Smith told People he struggles with forgiving Varner. "I don't think (Varner) hates trans people. I just think he has a lot of misconceptions about trans people," Smith said. "I think if he wants to be an ally to trans people, he has a long way to go." | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Men's Health Month Kickoff: Top Health Concerns All Men Should Know
7 minute read
Statistics have shown that for all the biggest health threats we face, men die at higher rates than women do. While men are considered to be tougher according to society standards, it’s also important to challenge that notion if it means that men can receive proper healthcare.
With the numbers as they are, it’s time for men to start taking a closer look at their health and working to take better care. To kick-off Men’s Health Month this June, we’re going to look at the issues all men should know about.
Do Men Just Not Care About Their Health?
Men just don’t visit the doctor as often as women do. This is more than an assumption, it’s been proven through research. As men get older, they narrow the gap slightly by making a few more visits to the doctor, but overall, they go much less.
With men at higher risk of dying from heart disease, cancer, stroke, kidney disease, and other serious illnesses, this is something that needs to change.
In 1920, women outlived men only by one year, but today men are dying much younger, and the gap continues to grow. On average today, women outlive men by five years, and this number is projected to increase if men’s health does not improve overall.
All individuals, male and female, need to be in regular contact with their doctors or their health is at greater risk. Illness does not discriminate so we all need to take preventative measures.
One of the causes for concern is the lack of health care monitoring. If you look at the progression of heart disease as an example, it’s easy to see how missing regular checkups can contribute to the problem.
If you don’t check your cholesterol in your twenties, or your blood pressure in your thirties, or blood glucose in your forties, the outcome in your fifties is likely to be heart disease.
How Can Men Change the Game?
Many of the top ten causes of death can be prevented with the right lifestyle changes. They can also be successfully treated when diagnosed early enough. This means that when it comes to heart disease, prostate cancer, stroke, suicide, and lung cancer, men can take control of their health.
Making the right changes and being proactive about their health can reduce the risk of these diseases and promote longevity.
Heart Disease
This is the leading killer of men and women, but almost twice as many men are killed by heart disease. One in four men has some form of cardiovascular health problem, but this can be changed.
Men seem to develop the conditions later than women, but they also have a shorter time to prevent its development. Being aware of the risk factors and making lifestyle changes to reduce risks is the best way for men to beat heart disease.
The most common risk factors include smoking, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, being overweight, and physical inactivity.
Lung Cancer
This is the leading cancer killer of both sexes, but again, men seem to fall victim at higher rates. While overall cases of lung cancer have been decreasing, the prevalence is still of concern.
Not smoking is the best way to avoid lung cancer, but there are additional things men should be aware of when it comes to their increased risk for the disease. Exposure to second-hand smoke, air pollution, and asbestos or radon can increase your risk for lung cancer.
Prostate Cancer
This is the most common cancer among men, and it’s the second cause of cancer-related deaths after lung cancer. Sadly, there is still not enough known as to what causes this cancer or how to prevent it.
The key to treating this disease is early detection and diagnosis. This can be challenging as this particular cancer can show no symptoms until it has spread beyond the prostate.
Regular screening is the only way to stay ahead of this cancer for now. Annual rectal exams should be done, and those at high risk (African American men and those with a family history) should start these screenings earlier rather than later. It’s also known that men who eat a lot of red meat and a high-fat diet without fruits and vegetables are more at risk.
| Related: How to Improve Prostate Gland Health |
Stroke
After heart disease and cancer, stroke is the third leading cause of death. Hypertension is the main risk for stroke, but thankfully this can be easily checked and managed.
Besides hypertension, the risk factors for stroke are similar to that of heart disease, so with regular exercise, a healthy balanced diet, and reduced alcohol consumption you can lower your risk. It also helps to closely monitor diabetes if you have it. If you have any family history of stroke or TIA (transient ischemic attack), then your risk is higher, so be sure to consult your doctor on a regular basis.
Depression
Studies have found that men are four times more likely to commit suicide than women. This is largely because depression is grossly underdiagnosed among men. Whether this is a societal issue, or because men don’t open up as easily about their emotions and feelings, the symptoms need to be recognized and addressed.
More than 6 million men have depression, and this number could be greater because men don’t exhibit the same symptoms as women, so people don’t often know what to look for. Men with anger issues, aggression, risk-taking behavior, and substance or alcohol abuse are at risk for depression. Any of these signs, along with feeling burnt-out, could indicate depression, and help should be sought immediately.
The Bottom Line
Men are not entirely to blame for declining health. Society portrays men as tough and promotes the idea that signs of weakness are to be avoided at all costs. Ignoring pain is associated with this stigma, but this is dangerous.
With the prevalence of so many serious diseases, it’s become more important than ever to change this ideology. Small pains can signal something serious and need to be checked out. Along with regular checkups, men can start changing this trend and creating a road to bettering their health.
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Etymology
Shortening of.
Noun
* 1) carbohydrate
Derived terms
* carbo-load
Etymology
la. The status of is uncertain. Probably related to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and, 🇨🇬 and , 🇨🇬, and , 🇨🇬 and , and maybe 🇨🇬.
Noun
* 1) charcoal, coal | WIKI |
Nourishing USA
Nourishing USA is a United States-based non-profit organization. It consists of a nationwide network of more than 9500 community advocates and food rescue organizations that serves in the United States as well as Puerto Rico. The organization supports approximately 500 local charitable agencies operating including pantries, soup kitchens, senior center's and emergency shelters. The current CEO Simon Hancock was appointed in January 2013. Past CEO Gina Keatley, is a 2011 CNN Hero. Nourishing USA was known as Nourishing NYC until September 2010
History
In September 2010, Nourishing USA was featured on NBC San Diego at the Classy Awards, named the nationwide Charity of the Year.
In October 2010, FedEx partnered with Nourishing USA as the official sponsor of environmentally friendly shipping for all the anti-hunger advocacy kits mailed in 2010 and 2011. FedEx Express, a subsidiary of FedEx Corp uses it gasoline-electric hybrid vehicles from Azure Dynamics Corporation to deliver the kits. Most of the new FedEx gasoline-electric vehicles are in service at a Bronx, N.Y., station, making it the first FedEx all-hybrid facility with about 100 trucks.
In September 2010, the organization name was changed from Nourishing NYC to Nourishing USA. The new name conveys the mission—providing nutrition for all—and will be supported through expansive public outreach campaigns that will raise awareness and create action to stop malnourishment in low-income America.
In August 2009, Emerging New York Architects Committee (ENYA) announced that Nourishing USA had been chosen as Client for the Biennial Design Ideas Competition Program. The Harlem Edge/Cultivating Connections competition explored the redevelopment of the decommissioned Department of Sanitation marine transfer station located in the Hudson River at 135th Street. The site offered the opportunity to engage the local Harlem community with the waterfront, and echoes recent efforts by New York City to reclaim the waterfront for non-industrial use, as included Department of City Planning in its Vision 2020, the Comprehensive Waterfront Action Plan for New York City.
Network programs
Nourishing USA works to connect community advocates across the country with the necessary tools and motivation to make the growth of local fresh produce free and accessible, so we can all combat the growing problem of poverty and obesity. The national office produces nutritional and culinary educational tools that spotlight aspects of malnourishment and provides information on hunger, poverty and the programs that serve vulnerable Americans.
Nourishing USA has received national attention from being featured on Dr. Oz Show in 2011, BBC World News and has been chosen as the Post Foods Charity of Choice, 2010. Nourishing USA's mission is to offer nutrition for all. In 2010 Nourishing USA helped to distribute over 25,000 pounds of fresh produce to in-need families in supermarket deserts. In addition, Nourishing USA collaborated with The New York Yankees to create the Healthy Home Plate Program designed after Nourishing USA's award-winning Junior Chef Program. | WIKI |
Laryngeal Cancer: Causes, Risk Factors, Symptoms, Treatment
Laryngeal Cancer
Laryngeal cancer is a type of cancer that affects the larynx, also known as the voice box. This condition occurs when abnormal cells in the larynx begin to grow uncontrollably, forming a tumor. Laryngeal cancer can affect anyone, but it is more common in individuals who smoke or consume excessive amounts of alcohol. The larynx plays a crucial role in producing sound and helping us speak. Therefore, when affected by cancer, it can have a significant impact on an individual's ability to communicate effectively. Early symptoms of laryngeal cancer may include hoarseness or changes in voice quality that persist for an extended period. It is important to note that early detection and treatment are key factors in improving outcomes for individuals with laryngeal cancer. A thorough medical evaluation, including imaging tests and biopsies, is typically conducted to diagnose the condition accurately. Treatment options for laryngeal cancer may vary depending on factors such as the stage of the disease and overall health of the patient. Common approaches include surgery to remove the tumor, radiation therapy to target and destroy cancer cells, and chemotherapy to kill rapidly dividing cells.
If you suspect you or someone else is experiencing Laryngeal cancer, it is crucial to seek immediate medical attention by calling emergency services or consult with a Cancer Specialist.
Causes
Several factors have been identified as potential causes of laryngeal cancer. Smoking tobacco, particularly cigarettes, is one of the leading risk factors. The harmful chemicals in tobacco smoke can damage the cells lining the larynx and increase the chances of developing cancer. Excessive alcohol consumption has also been linked to an increased risk of laryngeal cancer. Alcohol can irritate the cells in the throat and weaken the body's natural defenses against cancerous growths. Another significant cause is exposure to certain chemicals and substances in certain work environments. Individuals who work with asbestos, coal dust, or in industries involving metalworking or woodworking may be at a higher risk for developing laryngeal cancer. Furthermore, human papillomavirus (HPV) infection has emerged as a potential cause of laryngeal cancer. HPV is a sexually transmitted infection that can lead to abnormal cell growth in various parts of the body, including the larynx. It is important to note that these causes do not guarantee that an individual will develop laryngeal cancer, but they do increase the likelihood. By understanding these risk factors and making lifestyle choices accordingly, individuals can take proactive steps towards reducing their chances of developing this disease.
Risk Factors
Understanding the risk factors associated with this type of cancer is crucial in taking preventive measures and promoting early detection. Several risk factors have been identified that may increase an individual's chances of developing laryngeal cancer. One significant risk factor is tobacco use, including smoking cigarettes, cigars, or pipes. The harmful chemicals present in tobacco smoke can damage the cells lining the larynx and contribute to the development of cancerous growths. Excessive alcohol consumption is another well-known risk factor for laryngeal cancer. Combining alcohol with smoking significantly increases the risk even further. Alcohol can irritate and damage the cells in the throat, making them more susceptible to cancerous changes. Additionally, exposure to certain workplace hazards such as asbestos fibers, wood dust, or chemicals like sulfuric acid or formaldehyde may increase the risk of developing laryngeal cancer. It is important for individuals working in such environments to take proper precautions and follow safety guidelines to minimize their exposure. Other factors that may contribute to an increased risk include a family history of head and neck cancers, a weakened immune system due to conditions like HIV/AIDS or organ transplantation, and certain viral infections such as human papillomavirus (HPV). While having one or more of these risk factors does not necessarily mean that an individual will develop laryngeal cancer, it is essential to be aware of them and take appropriate steps towards prevention. Regular check-ups with a healthcare professional can help detect any potential issues early on when treatment options are most effective.
Symptoms
One of the most common symptoms of laryngeal cancer is a persistent hoarseness or change in the voice. If you notice that your voice has become raspy or rough for an extended period, it's essential to consult a healthcare professional. Another symptom to be aware of is difficulty swallowing, also known as dysphagia. This can manifest as pain or discomfort when eating or drinking, and it may worsen over time. Persistent sore throat or the feeling of a lump in the throat can also be signs of laryngeal cancer. If you experience these symptoms that do not go away with time, it's important to seek medical attention. Other potential symptoms include ear pain, unexplained weight loss, coughing up blood, and difficulty breathing. While these symptoms can be caused by various conditions other than laryngeal cancer, it's always better to err on the side of caution and consult with a healthcare professional if you experience any concerning signs. Early detection plays a vital role in improving treatment outcomes for laryngeal cancer patients.
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Diagnosis
The most commonly used diagnostic approach is a thorough medical history and physical examination, where doctors assess symptoms such as persistent hoarseness, difficulty swallowing, or a lump in the neck. In addition to these initial evaluations, imaging tests such as computed tomography (CT) scans or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans may be conducted to provide detailed images of the larynx and surrounding structures. These tests assist in identifying any abnormal growths or tumors that may be indicative of cancer. Another vital diagnostic tool for laryngeal cancer is a procedure called a laryngoscopy. This involves using either a flexible or rigid scope to visualize the inside of the throat and examine the vocal cords directly. During this procedure, tissue samples, known as biopsies, can be taken for further analysis under a microscope. Biopsy results are crucial for confirming the presence of cancer cells and determining its specific type and stage. By understanding these factors, healthcare professionals can develop an appropriate treatment plan tailored to each individual's needs.
Treatments
When it comes to the treatment of laryngeal cancer, there are various options available that aim to effectively combat the disease and improve the patient's quality of life. The choice of treatment depends on several factors, including the stage and location of the cancer, as well as the overall health and preferences of the individual. One common approach is surgery, which may involve removing a portion or all of the larynx. This procedure, known as a laryngectomy, can help eliminate cancerous cells and restore normal breathing. In some cases, reconstructive surgery may also be performed to restore speech function. Radiation therapy is another commonly used treatment option for laryngeal cancer. It utilizes high-energy beams to target and destroy cancer cells while minimizing damage to surrounding healthy tissues. This approach may be used alone or in combination with other treatments such as surgery or chemotherapy. Chemotherapy involves using drugs to kill cancer cells throughout the body. It can be administered orally or intravenously and is often used in conjunction with other treatments for more advanced stages of laryngeal cancer. In recent years, targeted therapy has emerged as a promising option for treating certain types of laryngeal cancers. This approach utilizes drugs that specifically target genetic mutations or proteins present in cancer cells, thereby inhibiting their growth. Ultimately, determining the most appropriate treatment plan for an individual with laryngeal cancer requires careful consideration by a multidisciplinary team consisting of oncologists, surgeons, radiation therapists, and other healthcare professionals. The goal is to tailor a comprehensive treatment strategy that maximizes effectiveness while minimizing potential side effects and preserving important functions such as speech and swallowing abilities.
Preventive Measures
One important aspect of prevention is adopting a healthy lifestyle. This includes avoiding tobacco and excessive alcohol consumption, as these are major risk factors for laryngeal cancer. Quitting smoking and limiting alcohol intake can greatly decrease the chances of developing this disease. Another crucial preventive measure is protecting the voice box from harmful irritants. This can be achieved by avoiding exposure to environmental pollutants such as dust, chemicals, and fumes. Individuals working in industries with high levels of air pollution should take extra precautions to minimize their exposure. Regular check-ups and screenings are also essential in preventing laryngeal cancer. Routine visits to a healthcare professional allow for early detection and prompt treatment if any abnormalities or symptoms arise. In addition, maintaining a healthy diet rich in fruits and vegetables can provide valuable antioxidants that help protect against various types of cancers, including laryngeal cancer. By implementing these preventive measures, individuals can take control of their health and reduce the risk of developing laryngeal cancer. Remember, prevention is always better than cure when it comes to safeguarding against this potentially life-threatening disease.
Do's & Don’t's
When it comes to laryngeal cancer, there are certain do's and don'ts that can help individuals in their journey towards recovery and prevention. By following these guidelines, one can take proactive steps to maintain their health and well-being.
Do's Don't
Do undergo regular medical check-ups Don't ignore symptoms
Do follow your doctor's treatment plan Don't smoke or use tobacco
Do maintain good oral hygiene Don't consume excessive alcohol
Do stay hydrated by drinking plenty of water Don't ignore dietary recommendations
Do eat a balanced, nutritious diet Don't ignore speech therapy or rehabilitation
Do practice good communication strategies Don't strain your voice excessively
Do use amplification devices if needed Don't delay seeking medical advice for issues
Do seek emotional support or counseling Don't neglect mental health during treatment
If you suspect you or someone else is experiencing Laryngeal cancer, it is crucial to seek immediate medical attention by calling emergency services or consult with a Cancer Specialist.
Frequently Asked Questions
Laryngeal cancer is a type of cancer that affects the larynx, also known as the voice box. This condition occurs when abnormal cells in the larynx begin to grow uncontrollably, forming a tumor. Laryngeal cancer can affect anyone, but it is more common in individuals who smoke or consume excessive amounts of alcohol.
Several factors have been identified as potential causes of laryngeal cancer. Smoking tobacco, particularly cigarettes, is one of the leading risk factors. The harmful chemicals in tobacco smoke can damage the cells lining the larynx and increase the chances of developing cancer.
Several risk factors have been identified that may increase an individual's chances of developing laryngeal cancer. One significant risk factor is tobacco use, including smoking cigarettes, cigars, or pipes. The harmful chemicals present in tobacco smoke can damage the cells lining the larynx and contribute to the development of cancerous growths.
One of the most common symptoms of laryngeal cancer is a persistent hoarseness or change in the voice. If you notice that your voice has become raspy or rough for an extended period, it's essential to consult a healthcare professional.
The most commonly used diagnostic approach is a thorough medical history and physical examination, where doctors assess symptoms such as persistent hoarseness, difficulty swallowing, or a lump in the neck.
The choice of treatment depends on several factors, including the stage and location of the cancer, as well as the overall health and preferences of the individual.
One important aspect of prevention is adopting a healthy lifestyle. This includes avoiding tobacco and excessive alcohol consumption, as these are major risk factors for laryngeal cancer. Quitting smoking and limiting alcohol intake can greatly decrease the chances of developing this disease.
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Ethan Ringel
Ethan R. Ringel (born August 12, 1994 in Windermere, Florida, United States) is an American racing driver. He competed in the 2012 GP3 Series season for Atech CRS Grand Prix. Ringel is coached by Indy Car driver Jay Howard.
Career
Ringel's kart racing career began in 2008, when he took part in the Rotax Max Challenge USA Junior Max Grand Nationals Presented by Mazda, finishing 29th in only his second karting race. The following year, which was his first full year of karting, Ringel competed in the 2009 Rotax Grand Nationals of the United States and placed 2nd and had the fastest time by 3 tenths, grabbing his first World Finals Ticket. In 2010 in his second and, last full year of karting he once again won a ticket to represent USA in the world finals by winning two tickets. One from the USA nationals and also in the Rotax Pan-Am Championship.
He transferred to auto racing in 2011, taking part in the F2000 Championship Series and various Formula Enterprise races. He took eight wins and broke a track record at Miller Motorsports Park, Tooele, Utah.
Ringel joined the GP3 Series in 2012, with a view to competing in Formula One. He did not score any points over the course of the season, and ended up in 29th in the Drivers' Championship standings.
2013 practice with Formula Atlantic with a full field of 20 FA cars at COTA. Ethan posted time 7.7 seconds faster than P2 and 11.4 seconds quicker than last years national champion.
2013 GP3 pre season practice sector times showed Ethan with two quickest sectors but 11th overall. Team Atech sold. Ethan switches to Indy Lights.
2013 TMR, Indy Lights Homestead practice stopped with gear box failure. St Pete Race gear box issues persisted stopping race before start.
Ringel is currently unsigned. Scheduled for Mid Ohio test with Sam Schmidt Motorsports.
Personal life
Ringel's parents are Glenn and Karen. He has two siblings: Alex and Lindy.
Complete GP3 Series results
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap) | WIKI |
Paul Farman
Paul David Appleby Farman (born 2 November 1989) is an English professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for League Two club Barrow.
Farman started playing first-team football for Blyth Spartans of the Conference North during the 2008–09 season. Prior to making his debut for Blyth, he was loaned out to Washington in order to gain first-team experience. He joined Conference Premier club Gateshead ahead of the 2009–10 season, and spent three seasons there. During his time at Gateshead, Farman joined fellow Conference Premier club Lincoln City on a loan deal in November 2011, later signing for the club on a permanent basis in May 2012. Farman spent six seasons at Lincoln, helping them achieve promotion to League Two after winning the National League, as well as winning the EFL Trophy during the 2017–18 season. He signed for Stevenage in June 2018 and spent two seasons there. Farman joined Carlisle United in August 2020, followed by rivals Barrow a year later.
Early career
Farman began playing as a goalkeeper at the age of seven after he attended a goalkeeping course in the summer holidays. The course resulted in him being asked to play for North Shields Boys Club. He spent time on trial at Newcastle United's youth academy in 2008 after two of Newcastle's goalkeepers were injured. He was not offered professional terms with Newcastle and subsequently joined Conference North club Blyth Spartans during the 2008–09 season. Farman was loaned out to Washington during the opening months of the campaign in order to play games and experience first-team football, where he was earning £35 per week. He returned to Blyth in October 2008 and made his first-team debut in a 1–0 win over Buxton in the FA Cup. He was Blyth's second-choice goalkeeper for most of the season behind Mark Bell, playing 17 times in all competitions during the campaign.
Gateshead
Ahead of the 2009–10 season, Farman signed for Conference Premier club Gateshead. He made his Gateshead debut a month into the new season, keeping a clean sheet in a 0–0 draw with Rushden & Diamonds on 22 September 2009. He remained a regular starter for the remainder of the season, making 35 appearances. Before the start of the 2010–11 campaign, Farman had to have an operation due to injury and was ruled out of first-team action until November 2010. The form of his replacement, Tim Deasy, meant that Farman was limited to just eight appearances during the season. He was offered a short-term contract extension by manager Ian Bogie in May 2011, who stated Farman would remain at the club if he impressed him in pre-season.
He began the 2011–12 season as Gateshead's first-choice goalkeeper, keeping two clean sheets in the club's opening six fixtures. His contract was subsequently extended for the remainder of the season on 1 September 2011. Despite having played regularly for Gateshead during the opening months of the season, Farman was loaned out to fellow Conference National club Lincoln City on a two-month loan deal on 3 November 2011. Farman made his Lincoln debut in a 2–1 home win over Barrow on 5 November 2011, and made eight appearances during the brief loan spell. He returned to Gateshead in January 2012 and ended the campaign having played 25 times for the club that season.
Lincoln City
Having spent time on loan at Lincoln City the previous season, Farman signed for the club on a permanent basis on 25 May 2012. He made his second debut on the opening day of the club's 2012–13 season as Lincoln secured a 1–0 win over Kidderminster Harriers at Sincil Bank. Farman was Lincoln's first-choice goalkeeper throughout the season, making 47 appearances in all competitions. He signed a new two-year contract extension with the club on 14 May 2013. Farman made 38 appearances during the 2013–14 season. Having played in every one of Lincoln's matches during the campaign, Farman's season was cut short in February 2014 when he suffered an injury in Lincoln's 4–3 away win over Hyde United; he was substituted in the match after 75 minutes and it proved to be his last appearance of the season.
Farman began the 2014–15 season behind new loan signing, Nick Townsend, who had served as Farman's replacement for the remainder of the previous season. Having not made an appearance during the first month of the campaign, Farman was loaned out to Conference North club Boston United on 11 September 2014. The loan deal was for an initial three-month period. He made his Boston debut in a 3–2 loss away to Stockport County two days after joining the club. Farman made four appearances in the opening month of the spell before he was recalled by Lincoln after Birmingham City had withdrawn permission for Townsend to play in the FA Cup. Farman returned to Lincoln and consequently regained his place as the club's first-choice goalkeeper immediately. Having been ever present since being recalled from the loan spell, Farman signed a new two-year contract with the club on 25 February 2015. He made 32 appearances for Lincoln during the season, and was named as the club's Player of the Yeason at the end-of-season awards. Farman cemented his place as Lincoln's first-choice goalkeeper, making 49 appearances in all competitions during the 2015–16 season.
Farman was a mainstay in the side during the 2016–17 campaign as Lincoln won promotion to League Two after securing the National League title as champions. He kept 22 clean sheets in the club's 46 league matches. He was also part of the side that made the FA Cup quarter-finals that season. He played in all nine of the club's FA Cup fixtures as they defeated Premier League club Burnley at Turf Moor before losing to eventual winners Arsenal. Farman made 58 appearances during the campaign. With his contract due to run out at the end of the season, Lincoln manager Danny Cowley offered Farman a two-year contract extension, which he signed on 11 May 2017. The 2017–18 season began with Farman making his Football League debut in a 2–2 draw with Wycombe Wanderers on the opening day of the campaign. Following Lincoln's 4–1 loss away at Notts County on 23 September 2017, Farman was limited to just eight further appearances during the season. Five of these came in the EFL Trophy, which Lincoln would go on to win, although Farman was an unused substitute in the final. He made 18 appearances during the season. Farman played 242 times during his six years at Lincoln.
Stevenage
Farman signed for fellow League Two club Stevenage on 12 June 2018. He made his Stevenage debut in the club's opening match of the 2018–19 season, a 2–2 draw with Tranmere Rovers at Broadhall Way. Despite starting the season as Stevenage's first choice goalkeeper, Farman lost his place to loanee Seny Dieng in September 2018, although regained the position from December through to the end of the season. He made 34 appearances during his first campaign with the club.
Carlisle United
On 17 August 2020, Farman signed for League Two side Carlisle United on a one-year contract.
Barrow
Having been offered a new contract with Carlisle at the end of the season, Farman instead joined Barrow signing a two-year contract.
International career
Farman was called up to represent the England C team, who represent England at non-league level, for their fixture against India U23s at Victoria Road in September 2011. He was set to make his debut, but the match was cancelled due to the 2011 England riots. He also made the stand-by list several times. He was called up once again during his time at Lincoln City in October 2012. Farman was due to make his debut by playing the second-half against Albania U23, but the match was postponed due to the rain.
Honours
Lincoln City
* National League: 2016–17
* EFL Trophy: 2017–18
Individual
* Lincoln City Player of the Year: 2014–15 | WIKI |
Alexandra Rodríguez Long
Alexandra Rodríguez Long (born January 30, 1997) is a Spanish former competitive pair skater. With partner Aritz Maestu, she is the 2010-11 Junior Spanish champion. They are the first pair team to represent Spain in ISU competition.
Early career
Born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Alexandra Rodríguez started skating in 2002.
Rodríguez decided she wanted to try figure skating with her identical twin sister Victoria, after watching the 2002 Winter Olympics. At the time, she was living in Germany and started skating in Duisburg in December 2003, when she was nearly 7 years old. Next season (2004–05) she joined the Essener Jugend-Eiskunstlauf Club beginning her competitive career.
2007–08
After three years the family moved back to Spain for her to train with Mikel Garcia in the Club Hielo Jaca. A year later due to problems with the rink, some members of the club continued training during weekends in Anglet, France. That year she came 4th in the category of Debs/Juvenile in the Spanish Nationals in Barcelona.
2008–09
Next season a new rink opened in Jaca, Spain but her trainer, Mikel Garcia, moved to the US. It was around this time that the European Figure Skating School was being launched in Oberstdorf, Germany under the direction of Mr. and Mrs. Huth. She moved to Oberstdorf to join, together with her sister Victoria, the first year of EFSS and trained mainly with Alexander König. That year she came 4th again, in Infantil/Intermediate category in the Spanish Nationals.
It was during a novice pair seminar in Oberstdorf, and in particular, watching a pair performing warm up lifts, that she and her sister decided that what they really wanted to do was Pair skating.
2009–10
A season later, when her Spanish club, Club Hielo Jaca, hired the new trainer, Igor Sinyutin, from Samara, Russia, the family moved back to Jaca. That year she started competing in Novice and came 11th in the 2010 Spanish Nationals.
That same season, two single skaters from the San Sebastian ice skating club, Txuri Berri, were approached with the intention of skating as Pair Skaters with the Rodríguez Long sisters. Both Aritz Maestu and Felipe Montoya accepted and at the end of March, the two pairs went back to Oberstdorf for a week's seminar with Alexander König. A few weeks later, at the beginning of April 2010, they also attended the yearly ISU Pair Seminar in Berlin, Germany.
Later that year, in June, they attended a seminar with Oleg Vasiliev in Barcelona.
2010–11
In August 2010 Aritz moved to Jaca to train pairs full-time with Rodríguez with their new coaches, Miguel Alegre and his wife Emmaly Baxter. That year they attended some regional competitions in Spain. In December 2010 they went to Spanish Nationals and came 1st in Junior competing alone. For the first time Spain had all four disciplines in the Spanish Nationals. Rodríguez also competed in novice ladies' singles and finished 9th.
In May 2011 they attended their second ISU Pair Seminar in Berlin, Germany.
In the summer they were sent to Quebec, Canada to train with Richard Gauthier and Bruno Marcotte for three weeks.
2011–12
This season they attended two ISU Junior Grand Prix. The first one in Innsbruck, Austria where they came 17th with 90.97. That was the first time they ever competed with their new long program, music from Phantom of the Opera, choreographed by Emma Baxter. Their second junior grand prix was in Tallinn, Estonia where they achieved a new SB of 91.30 and came 11th. Their free program also earned a new SB. In June, Rodríguez had a serious fall with a knock to the head during practice and had to retire for a few months for rehabilitation. During that time it was decided for Maestu to find another partner.
Programs
(with Maestu)
Competitive highlights
(with Maestu) | WIKI |
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How do I replace the final comma with the word [and] in a comma-separated string?
Hi, Please help me. How can I add commas and "and" before the end item in a comma-separated list. Can I use REPLACE in a loop? I have a scenario. I have courses and pre-requisite courses in my table. You can find the SQL script to create and insert the table below:
COURSE_ID PRE_COURSE_ID OPERATOR
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IT105 IT100 AND
IT105 IT101
IT106 1T103
BM110 BM101 AND
BM110 BM102 AND
BM110 BM103
CC107 CC103 OR
CC107 CC104
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I am expecting the output to look like below:
COURSE_ID PRE_COURSE_ID
------------------------
IT105 IT100 and IT101
IT106 IT103
BM110 BM101,BM102 and BM103
CC107 CC103 OR CC104
Here is my SQL script for this table CREATE TABLE test_Course ( course_ID VARCHAR(10) , pre_course_id VARCHAR(10) , operator VARCHAR(5) ); INSERT INTO test_Course ( course_ID , pre_course_id , operator ) VALUES ( 'IT105' , 'IT100' , 'and' ); INSERT INTO test_Course ( course_ID , pre_course_id , operator ) VALUES ( 'IT105' , 'IT101' , '' ); INSERT INTO test_Course ( course_ID , pre_course_id , operator ) VALUES ( 'IT106' , 'IT103' , '' ); INSERT INTO test_Course ( course_ID , pre_course_id , operator ) VALUES ( 'BM110' , 'BM101' , 'and' ); INSERT INTO test_Course ( course_ID , pre_course_id , operator ) VALUES ( 'BM110' , 'BM102' , 'and' ); INSERT INTO test_Course ( course_ID , pre_course_id , operator ) VALUES ( 'BM110' , 'BM103' , '' ); INSERT INTO test_Course ( course_ID , pre_course_id , operator ) VALUES ( 'CC107' , 'CC103' , 'or' ); INSERT INTO test_Course ( course_ID , pre_course_id , operator ) VALUES ( 'CC107' , 'CC104' , '' );
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Sorry, I don't have time to answer this right now (I may get back to it later today) but to get you started, think about first using FOR XML PATH to create your comma separated list, then use REVERSE and CHARINDEX and REPLACE to find the last comma and replace it with an (reversed) AND or an OR. Finally REVERSE again to return the string to its original order.
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Thanks @GPO. So as per your solution, I can arrange the column with comma separated items, then reverse the entire field ,replace the first comma with 'dna' (the reversed form of 'and') then reverse it again?
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It wasn't exactly as I had envisaged (heh... it never is!) but it wasn't too far off. Paste the code below into SSMS and see how you go. If it meets your needs don't forget to mark it as the correct answer.
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CREATE TABLE #test_Course ( course_ID VARCHAR(10), pre_course_id VARCHAR(10), operator VARCHAR(5), seq smallint not null --You'll need a sequence number if you want to guarantee the order of the items in the string. ); INSERT #test_Course(course_ID,pre_course_id,operator,seq) --Since SQL Server 2008 we've been able to INSERT using this syntax shorthand VALUES ('IT105','IT100','and',1), ('IT105','IT101','' ,2), ('IT106','IT103','' ,1), ('BM110','BM101','' ,1), --You had an AND here. I don't think you meant that. It doesn't fit the pattern. ('BM110','BM102','and',2), ('BM110','BM103','' ,3), ('CC107','CC103','or' ,1), ('CC107','CC104','' ,2); --======= NOTE: when using in a stored proc you may need this setting at the top of your sproc SET ARITHABORT ON; --------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WITH group_concat as ( SELECT norm1.course_id ,STUFF( --This implementation of STUFF replaces the two characters starting at position 1 with an empty string (trims off the leading ", ") ( SELECT ', ' + norm2.pre_course_id + iif(norm2.operator '',' ' + norm2.operator,'') FROM #test_Course norm2 WHERE norm2.course_id = norm1.course_id ORDER BY norm2.seq --Need this to determine the order of the concatenated string FOR XML PATH(''),type ).value('.', 'nvarchar(max)'), 1, 2, '' -- the [.value('.', 'nvarchar(max)')] bit unescapes the XML escape characters. ) as pre_course_ids FROM #test_Course norm1 --from the normalised data GROUP BY norm1.course_id ) , first_adjustments as --you could do the following gymnastics all as one SELECT. I've just split it up to make the code easier to read. ( SELECT course_id ,REVERSE(pre_course_ids) as reversed_string ,charindex(',',REVERSE(pre_course_ids),1) as first_comma_position FROM group_concat ) SELECT course_id ,reverse(iif(first_comma_position >0,stuff(reversed_string,first_comma_position,1,''),reversed_string)) as pre_course_ids FROM first_adjustments ;
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Hi GPO, Yes it is working fine,thanks! Let me apply on this my table.
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Talk:The Wild Life (film)
Changed:
-Eddie Van Halen and Donn Landee are the only credited musicians for the score. Charlotte Caffey and Alain Johannes appear on songs on the soundtrack only.
-If the trivia bit about another movie that Penn and Fenn starred in together is notable, then you may as well add "Co-stars' Chris Penn and Sherilyn Fenn have last names that rhyme." —Preceding unsigned comment added by IP address <IP_ADDRESS>) 20:21, 12 March2007 (UTC)
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The following is unsourced information: While this is interesting, we can't use it unless you provide a source. Also, none of this is really trivia, as trivia by its definition is "unimportant information" - it therefore shouldn't be in a trivia section but instead the information should be incorporated into the main article. - Tbsdy lives (talk) 06:19, 6 September 2008 (UTC)
* Writer Cameron Crowe's wife, Nancy Wilson (of Heart fame) appears in the film as the wife of the cop, David. She also appeared in the 1982 hit comedy film Fast Times at Ridgemont High, also written by Cameron Crowe.
* Note, in a comment it says "Unless someone else has noticed this connection and written about it in a valid source it is synthesis and original research"
* Art Linson stepped in as director when the original director dropped out and Universal Pictures told him to find someone else quick, or the film would be canceled.
* Eddie Van Halen's original score included pieces that later evolved into Right Now, A.F.U. (Naturally Wired), Good Enough, and Feels So Good on later Van Halen records.
* Note: in a comment it says "Sounds plausible. Is there anything on the VH website, etc. about this?"
* "The Wild Life" theme song was performed by British female trio Bananarama.
* Rolling Stone Ron Wood does a quick cameo during the house party scene. He busts through the door with other partiers and heads straight for the fridge.
* Note: in a comment it says "Sounds plausible. Is he in the credits?"
* Fear lead singer Lee Ving has a cameo as the cable installer. | WIKI |
Sterol regulatory element-binding protein 2
Sterol regulatory element-binding protein 2 (SREBP-2) also known as sterol regulatory element binding transcription factor 2 (SREBF2) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SREBF2 gene.
Function
This gene encodes a ubiquitously expressed transcription factor that controls cholesterol homeostasis by stimulating transcription of sterol-regulated genes. The encoded protein contains a basic helix-loop-helix leucine zipper (bHLH-Zip) domain. Various single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of the SREBF2 have been identified and some of them are found to be associated with higher risk of knee osteoarthritis.
Interactions
SREBF2 has been shown to interact with INSIG1 and CREB-binding protein. | WIKI |
Westminster Dog Show: California Journey wins top prize
(CNN)The competition was ruff at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, where perfect canines showed off their pageant, poise and form. But California Journey, CJ for short, a German shorthaired pointer prevailed as winner of the Best in Show award on Tuesday night. He is a 3-year-old male and the third dog of his breed to take the top prize. The contest is the second-oldest continuous sporting event in the United States after the Kentucky Derby. Close to 3,000 dogs from around the country compete in the annual show. This year -- the 140th for the show in New York City -- it was an even tougher contest, because the club allowed seven new breeds to compete. Here are additional winners by category: Best hound: My Sassy Girl, a female borzoi Best toy: Don't Stop Believing, a male shih tzu Best non-sporting: Southern Bell, a female bulldog Best herding: Rumor Has It V Kenlyn, a female German shepherd Best sporting: California Journey, a male German shorthaired pointer Best working: Run Play It Again Ham, a male Samoyed Best terrier: Good Time Charlie, a male Skye Terrier | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
10.6084/m9.figshare.5335966.v1 Kirby M. Yin Y. Tschirren J. Tan W.C. Leipsic J. Hague C.J. Bourbeau J. Sin D.D. Hogg J.C. Coxson H.O. for the CanCOLD Collaborative Research Group and the Canadian Respiratory Research Network Supplementary Material for: A Novel Method of Estimating Small Airway Disease Using Inspiratory-to-Expiratory Computed Tomography 2017 Karger Publishers Computed tomography Small airway disease Disease probability measure Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease 2017-08-23 10:21:01 article https://karger.figshare.com/articles/poster/Supplementary_Material_for_A_Novel_Method_of_Estimating_Small_Airway_Disease_Using_Inspiratory-to-Expiratory_Computed_Tomography/5335966 <p><b><i>Background:</i></b> Disease accumulates in the small airways without being detected by conventional measurements. <b><i>Objectives:</i></b> To quantify small airway disease using a novel computed tomography (CT) inspiratory-to-expiratory approach called the disease probability measure (DPM) and to investigate the association with pulmonary function measurements. <b><i>Methods:</i></b> Participants from the population-based CanCOLD study were evaluated using full-inspiration/full-expiration CT and pulmonary function measurements. Full-inspiration and full-expiration CT images were registered, and each voxel was classified as emphysema, gas trapping (GasTrap) related to functional small airway disease, or normal using two classification approaches: parametric response map (PRM) and DPM (VIDA Diagnostics, Inc., Coralville, IA, USA). <b><i>Results:</i></b> The participants included never-smokers (<i>n</i> = 135), at risk (<i>n</i> = 97), Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease I (GOLD I) (<i>n</i> = 140), and GOLD II chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (<i>n</i> = 96). PRM<sub>GasTrap</sub> and DPM<sub>GasTrap</sub> measurements were significantly elevated in GOLD II compared to never-smokers (<i>p</i> < 0.01) and at risk (<i>p</i> < 0.01), and for GOLD I compared to at risk (<i>p</i> < 0.05). Gas trapping measurements were significantly elevated in GOLD II compared to GOLD I (<i>p</i> < 0.0001) using the DPM classification only. Overall, DPM classified significantly more voxels as gas trapping than PRM (<i>p</i> < 0.0001); a spatial comparison revealed that the expiratory CT Hounsfield units (HU) for voxels classified as DPM<sub>GasTrap</sub> but PRM<sub>Normal</sub> (PRM<sub>Normal</sub>- DPM<sub>GasTrap</sub> = -785 ± 72 HU) were significantly reduced compared to voxels classified normal by both approaches (PRM<sub>Normal</sub>-DPM<sub>Normal</sub> = -722 ± 89 HU; <i>p</i> < 0.0001). DPM and PRM<sub>GasTrap</sub> measurements showed similar, significantly associations with forced expiratory volume in 1 s (FEV<sub>1</sub>) (<i>p</i> < 0.01), FEV<sub>1</sub>/forced vital capacity (<i>p</i> < 0.0001), residual volume/total lung capacity (<i>p</i> < 0.0001), bronchodilator response (<i>p</i> < 0.0001), and dyspnea (<i>p</i> < 0.05). <b><i>Conclusion:</i></b> CT inspiratory-to-expiratory gas trapping measurements are significantly associated with pulmonary function and symptoms. There are quantitative and spatial differences between PRM and DPM classification that need pathological investigation.</p> | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
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a programming language (APL)
A Programming Language(APL) is a higher level, application-oriented programming language of the 3rd generation. The APL programming language is mathematically oriented, it uses special symbols which are not ASCII compliant and therefore has very short notations.
The special symbols can be supported by the keyboard or must be generated by special editors. The APL language works interactively with fields, which are vectors and matrices consisting of numbers and characters, and is used for mathematical and logical calculations in large computers. With the APL programming language, complex tasks can be formulated and calculated relatively briefly.
A Programming Language was developed specifically for time-sharing and is an interpretive programming language, which means that each instruction is interpreted directly rather than when the entire program is completed. It is used especially in scientific, insurance and statistical applications. APL was already developed in the 1960s by the US mathematician K. Iverson.
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1. README.md
2. pom.xml
3. src/
examples/camel-example-spring-dm/README.md
Camel Spring-DM Example
Introduction
This example shows how use Spring DM (OSGi) with Camel. It can be run using Maven.
Build
You will need to compile this example first:
mvn install
Run from cmd line outside OSGi container
To run the example using Maven type
mvn camel:run
To stop the example hit ctrl+c
Run inside OSGi container
You will need to compile and install this example first:
mvn install
If using Apache Karaf / Apache ServiceMix you can install this example from the shell using this example's “features.xml” for easy provisioning.
feature:repo-add camel ${version}
feature:install camel
feature:repo-add mvn:org.apache.camel/camel-example-spring-dm/${version}/xml/features
feature:install camel-example-spring-dm
The example outputs to the log, which you can see using
log:display
... or you can tail the log with
log:tail
And use ctrl+c to break the tail.
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Sex Transm Infect 76:248-256 doi:10.1136/sti.76.4.248
Trichomonas vaginalis epidemiology: parameterising and analysing a model of treatment interventions
1. Francis J Bowden1,2,
2. Geoffrey P Garnett1
1. 1Wellcome Trust Centre for the Epidemiology of Infectious Disease, Oxford University, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PS
2. 2Canberra Sexual Health Centre, The Canberra Hospital,, Woden, ACT, Australia
1. Dr Francis J Bowden, Director, Canberra Sexual Health Centre, The Canberra Hospital, PO Box 11, Woden, ACT 2606, Australia frank.bowden{at}act.gov.au
• Accepted 7 June 2000
Abstract
Background: Trichomonas vaginalis, which affects at least 170 million individuals globally, may increase the risk of transmission of HIV and predispose pregnant women to premature rupture of membranes and early labour.
Objective: To more clearly define the epidemiology of trichomoniasis and to develop a mathematical model of disease transmission dynamics in order to explore various treatment strategies.
Design: A deterministic model of trichomoniasis was constructed. Parameter values were set to fit the model to known endemic prevalence levels of Trichomonas vaginalis. Two treatment interventions (“screening” and “syndromic management”) were simulated.
Results: The age specific prevalence of the disease was seen to differ from other STDs in a number of studies. Parameter fitting indicates that the average duration of infection in women is at least 3–5 years and approximately 4 months for men. “Syndromic management” (that is, treating only those with symptoms of disease) had minimal effect upon the endemic prevalence of disease even at high levels of coverage. “Screening” (that is, identification of individuals with both symptomatic and asymptomatic infection) was shown to be the most efficient method of control, but was sensitive to the screening interval.
Conclusions: The control of trichomoniasis seems to have been a success in developed countries because of the regular access to health care, whereas it has remained endemic in many developing countries where control may only be possible by regular screening and treatment. However, without a large investment in services, success in controlling trichomoniasis is likely to be transitory.
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Article questions
What's up with the bizarre inconsistent all caps on the name Diego? This practice seems to be borrowed from this source: http://www.artifactcollectors.com/diego-history-4330818.html (sometimes all caps sometimes title case). Also, the bolding needs to be toned down, bold text has specific meaning in wikipedia (see the section on Wikipdia's style guide at MOS:BOLD). Dave (talk) 19:20, 4 August 2012 (UTC)
* Yes quite some work required. Unfortunately all the image names have DIEGO in them too. Rich Farmbrough, 01:47, 5 August 2012 (UTC).
* it seems these have been taken care of, thank you for both of your help! Ahjkl67435 (talk) 15:56, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
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The quality rating objective for this Antonio Diego Voci biography is ideally to advance from C as soon as possible to at least GA: Good Article.
Editorial leniency for biographies: New editors are encouraged to click “Biography Portal” above. There is a distinction drawn by Wikipedia for biography standards versus more exacting subjects. Although, authors of the Antonio Diego Voci biography do not ascribe to biographical fictionalization, be aware Wikipedia leniency for biography does allow for limited fiction.Ahjkl67435 (talk) 18:03, 13 August 2012 (UTC)
* Leave a note to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Biography. A lot of experts there. -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:07, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
* The large amount of material attributed to interviews may be unverifiable, if not original research. Who is this Coop Cooprider and when did the interviews take place? If they aren't published, they are not verifiable, and Wikipedia is not the venue for presenting never-before published information. And there is far too much personal opinion/non-neutral tone throughout this article that unduly celebrates rather than straightforwardly describes the subject. Until these issues are addressed, this article can not meet Good Article criteria --Animalparty! (talk) 07:00, 1 February 2016 (UTC)
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Bitto, bitti (gypsy), a bit, a little, small, little. A bitto mūsh, a small man; bitti dīr, fainter, lower (voice), less, smaller; bitti mūlloa or mūlleys, goblins, fairies.
Bivvy, pivvy (provincial), a drink, beer; a shant of bivvy, a pot of beer; a diminutive of beverage, or from the gypsy piava or biava, to drink; pivo, beer in Bohemian or Czech. In French cant pivois is wine.
Bīyêg'hin (tinker), stealing; biyêgh`, to steal; biyegh' th'eenik, to steal the thing.
Biz (English and American), business.
It also means any kind of occupation.
In theatrical language the biz is the acting, performing a part.
B. K. S. (officers), barracks, used specially among officers in mufti, who wish to preserve the incognito.
Blab (common), to talk inconsiderately, to let secrets slip out, betray; Dan. blabbre, to babble.
Black-and-tan (street), half-and-half, porter and ale mixed. (American), applied to black and brown terriers. A mulatto, a mixture of mulattoes and blacks. During the Civil War the South was called the black-and-tan country, from the planters "tanning" or beating their slaves. | WIKI |
SJI International School
St. Joseph's Institution International (often referred to as "SJI International" or "SJII") is an independent co-educational Lasallian Catholic international school at Thomson Road in Novena, Singapore. It comprises an elementary and high school. The elementary school students range in age from 5 to 12 while in the High School the students are aged 12–18. The high school was founded in 2009 and the elementary school opened in 2008.
The elementary school teaches the International Primary Curriculum (IPC), which is used by over 1,000 schools in 65 countries around the world. Singapore maths and Chinese are also included in the curriculum as Chinese is part of the fabric of the school culture. Spanish is offered in Grades 5 and 6.
The High School caters to both local and foreign students from Grades 7 to 12. The school offers the IGCSE programme from Grades 7 to 10, and the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme for Grades 11 and 12. The first cohort of students graduated in 2009.
History
In 2006, upon the urging of Singapore's Economic Development Board, St Joseph's Institution established an international school. SJI International High School began classes in January 2007 with 104 students. In January 2012, SJI International welcomed around 700 students from grade 7 to grade 12, a 600% increase in enrolment in five years. Numbers have continued to grow to the current (2016) High School enrolment of 1,030, and 670 in the Elementary School.
SJI International High School was the third "local international" school to open in Singapore (i.e. a school which can admit both local and international students at secondary and pre-university levels) after Anglo-Chinese School (International) and Hwa Chong International School (both of which were also established by well-known local schools). It is open to both Singaporean and international students from the age of 12. The student population is 63% Singaporean, while 31 other nationalities comprise the remaining 37%.
In adherence to government regulations, Elementary School enrolment is currently closed to Singapore citizens but open to all foreign students, provided the child holds a valid Dependent’s Pass (tied to the parent’s Employment Pass), Singapore Permanent Residency (Entry/Re -Entry Permit), or Immigration Exemption Order (for diplomats).
Association with St Joseph's Institution
SJI International School is part of a group of seven Lasallian schools in Singapore whose history dates back over 150 years. Together, the Elementary and High School form the group's first international school. The School is a non-profit organisation and is overseen by the SJI International School Board, composed of SJI alumnae. The School is currently supported by a Brother President and two Lasallian Brothers on the teaching staff.
Today there are 7,000 La Salle Brothers and 75,000 lay Lasallian teachers working in 85 countries around the world, teaching 900,000 students in 1,000 Universities, Schools and Special Education Centres. SJI International is one of these Lasallian Institutions.
Academic programme
The High School offers places to students from Grade 7 (Secondary 1) to Grade 12 (Pre-University 2), and at the end of their academic pursuit, if they have met all the requirements, they graduate with an IB Diploma Certificate. Students in Grade 10 sit for the International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE), which is certified by the Cambridge International Examinations Board. Alternatively, they can take the Foundation IB programme (FIB) that the school offers at Grade 10.
In Grades 7 and 8, students take the foundation IGCSE course, so the aim of the curriculum in those grades is to provide a broad range of subjects necessary for the IGCSE course in Grades 9 and 10.
IGCSE
In Grades 9 and 10, under the IGCSE course, students take 9 subjects, which will be examined in November, at the end of their 2 years. Subjects include English Language, English Literature, Maths, Additional Maths, Second Languages, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Co-ordinated Sciences, Economics, History, Geography, Music, Drama, Design and Technology and Art.
Alternatively, students in Grade 10 can take the Foundation IB curriculum. The aim of the FIB Curriculum is, in a one-year course, to prepare students for the IB Programme. Students who join SJI International either very late in Grade 9 or at the start of Grade 10 generally take the FIB course as they cannot sit the IGCSE examinations in most subjects (the IGCSE is a two-year course). Instead of sitting the externally set IGCSE examinations, all FIB students will sit internally set examinations towards the end of the academic year.
IB diploma programme
In Grades 11 and 12, students pursue the International Baccalaureate programme where they choose a subject from each of six groups, namely: 1 – First Language; 2 – Second Language; 3 – Individuals and Societies; 4 – Experimental Sciences; 5 – Mathematics; and 6 – Music, Theatre Arts, and Visual Arts. Group 6 may be replaced by another subject from Groups 3–5. This is in addition to the core section of the course, which requires students to study Theory of knowledge, write an Extended Essay, and undertake Creativity, Activity, Service. Three subjects are taken at Higher Level, which requires more focus and class time to complete than the other 3 Standard Level subjects.
Academic performance
Several of the school's students have won the International Leader of Tomorrow Scholarship for studies at the University of British Columbia. Students have also won the Jardine Foundation Scholarship (Oxford University), Freeman Asian Scholarship, ASEAN Undergraduate Scholarship, Public Service Commission Scholarship, A*Star Local Scholarship, Singapore Airlines NOL Scholarship. Other scholarships include those such as the Harvard University Faculty Scholarship, University of Queensland Centennial Scholarship and International Economics Scholarship, Trent University Global Citizenship Scholarship, University of Cincinnati Global Scholarship, Colgate University Alumni Memorial Scholarship and the University of Toronto International Scholarship. The average IB Diploma score for the most recent (2019) cohort of 189 students was 37.7 points. The 2019 IGCSE cohort achieved 41.2% A*.
School facilities
The school has numerous facilities, including four main school blocks, 2 tennis courts, 2 basketball courts, a netball court, a large sports complex including a fitness area, and specific drama and music rooms. There are also two football fields, a swimming pool and an assembly hall. In May 2011, the school gained a new block, dubbed the La Salle Block, which is home to the Indonesian Centre (the first of its kind in Singapore), added to SJI International through the Development Fund. For its foreign students, boarding facilities are provided at external venues. In 2012 the school added the IB lounge, exclusive to Grade 11s and 12s.
In 2019, the upper football field has been upgraded to a FIFA-certified artificial turf. Additional facilities – including new classrooms, science laboratories, art rooms, a Creative Arts Centre – are also under construction and are estimated to be completed by the 3rd Quarter of 2020.
Expeditions
Grade 7, 8, and 9 students participate in week-long expeditions overseas: to Bintan, Indonesia, Tioman and Cameron Highlands in Malaysia, and to Krabi or Chiang Mai in Thailand. Grade 11 students plan and implement the milestone Challenge Week, when they travel to another country to serve a charity of their choice in a self-organised group. Additional educational trips and personal development programmes – like the National Youth Achievement Award – are also supported.
Affiliated schools
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Mysql with Rapidanalytics
can i have a tutorial link, showing how to use Mysql with Rapidanalytics.
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Moderator
Re: Mysql with Rapidanalytics
Hi,
I am not quite sure what the question is - do you want to run your RapidAnalytics server on a Mysql db? Or do you want to use the mysql db in RapidMiner processes?
Regards,
Marco
Contributor II
Re: Mysql with Rapidanalytics
I installed Rapidanalytics, MySQL Database and RapidMiner.
I made the connection: between the Rapidanalytics Server and
Mysql database,Rapidanalytics and RapidMiner like in
"RapidAnalytics 1.2 User and Installation Manual".
Everything works great, thank you for your good work.
My problem is the management of the three system:
How to insert data from a file in the database?
How to read and manipulate them in Rapidanalytics?
Do you have a tutorial explaining this?
I thank you in advance
Cauchy
Regular Contributor
Re: Mysql with Rapidanalytics
This very much depends on what you want to achieve?
Why do you need to store your data in the database?
Why not use repositories as your data storage?
In this case you use SQL connector in a rapid miner process.
Load your data.
Do operations on your data.
And use the store operator to store results in your repository.
Results can be models, trees, graphs, reports, and yes, results can also be data.
You can, with some effort, get data results back into an SQL database.
But you should think twice before doing this.
First make sure a repository storage is not better suited for what you actually want to achieve.
Best regards,
Wessel
Regular Contributor
Re: Mysql with Rapidanalytics
You should ask a member of the Rapid Miner team what is the recommended way to get data from inside Rapid Miner to an SQL database.
I use the Execute SQL operator to create a table.
Then I call an CSV To SQL stored procedure in my database installation.
Best regards,
Wessel
Contributor II
Re: Mysql with Rapidanalytics
Here the goal I want to achieve.
I have 6 Excel file (Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun) each having colone (Mon, KID, PID, okNetto, Einb, Geb). I would like to have a technics or methode, how I can analyze eg "okNetto" or "KID´s with okNetto" of different Excel file together.
thanks
Cauchy
Regular Contributor
Re: Mysql with Rapidanalytics
From the case you describe, it sounds this should be rather done in RapidMiner than in RapidAnalytics:
To read an Excel file, use the "Read Excel" operator.
For several files, use several operators.
In order to get them into one single table, you can use several SQL operators, check out "Data Transformation -> Set Operations".
From what I read in your comment, most likely you want to use the "Append" operator which allows you to append 2 or more excel files, creating one single table (I assume that Excel tables need to have the same columns, which according to your post they do.)
Then, to write your data into a database, use the "Write Database" operator.
The process would look something like this: (Just copy the code, create a new process in RapidMiner, switch to the "XML" tab, post the code there, then click on the "Process" tab.)
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<process version="5.3.013">
<context>
<input/>
<output/>
<macros/>
</context>
<operator activated="true" class="process" compatibility="5.3.013" expanded="true" name="Process">
<process expanded="true">
<operator activated="true" class="read_excel" compatibility="5.3.013" expanded="true" height="60" name="Read Excel" width="90" x="112" y="30">
<list key="annotations"/>
<list key="data_set_meta_data_information"/>
</operator>
<operator activated="true" class="read_excel" compatibility="5.3.013" expanded="true" height="60" name="Read Excel (2)" width="90" x="112" y="120">
<list key="annotations"/>
<list key="data_set_meta_data_information"/>
</operator>
<operator activated="true" class="read_excel" compatibility="5.3.013" expanded="true" height="60" name="Read Excel (3)" width="90" x="112" y="210">
<list key="annotations"/>
<list key="data_set_meta_data_information"/>
</operator>
<operator activated="true" class="read_excel" compatibility="5.3.013" expanded="true" height="60" name="Read Excel (4)" width="90" x="112" y="480">
<list key="annotations"/>
<list key="data_set_meta_data_information"/>
</operator>
<operator activated="true" class="read_excel" compatibility="5.3.013" expanded="true" height="60" name="Read Excel (5)" width="90" x="112" y="300">
<list key="annotations"/>
<list key="data_set_meta_data_information"/>
</operator>
<operator activated="true" class="read_excel" compatibility="5.3.013" expanded="true" height="60" name="Read Excel (6)" width="90" x="112" y="390">
<list key="annotations"/>
<list key="data_set_meta_data_information"/>
</operator>
<operator activated="true" class="append" compatibility="5.3.013" expanded="true" height="166" name="Append" width="90" x="514" y="210"/>
<operator activated="true" class="write_database" compatibility="5.3.013" expanded="true" height="60" name="Write Database" width="90" x="715" y="210"/>
<connect from_op="Read Excel" from_port="output" to_op="Append" to_port="example set 1"/>
<connect from_op="Read Excel (2)" from_port="output" to_op="Append" to_port="example set 2"/>
<connect from_op="Read Excel (3)" from_port="output" to_op="Append" to_port="example set 3"/>
<connect from_op="Read Excel (4)" from_port="output" to_op="Append" to_port="example set 6"/>
<connect from_op="Read Excel (5)" from_port="output" to_op="Append" to_port="example set 4"/>
<connect from_op="Read Excel (6)" from_port="output" to_op="Append" to_port="example set 5"/>
<connect from_op="Append" from_port="merged set" to_op="Write Database" to_port="input"/>
<connect from_op="Write Database" from_port="through" to_port="result 1"/>
<portSpacing port="source_input 1" spacing="0"/>
<portSpacing port="sink_result 1" spacing="0"/>
<portSpacing port="sink_result 2" spacing="0"/>
</process>
</operator>
</process>
Contributor II
Re: Mysql with Rapidanalytics
Thanks for the great help, everything worked great.
I also wanted to test RapidAnalytics to dynamically create report
but apparently I need an Enterprise version.
thanks
Cauchy
Regular Contributor
Re: Mysql with Rapidanalytics
Glad I could help.
I'm not sure what you mean by "dynamically". Usually (afaik) the term "dynamically" refers to the fact that a report (like tables, charts etc.) is upated in the moment you open the report.
If so, the CE (Community Edition) of RM and RA perfectly allow this. I created a management dashboard using mostly flash charts and some tables as provided by RA. The ETL process I designed in RM, then in RA I exported these processes to web services, and via the provided iframe link I embed the charts into an html page. Whenever the page is accessed, the charts are created based on the real data from a MySQL database. If this were not the case, then RA would be pretty useless, because it would be far too much work to only create a simple static chart, that would be better done in Excel. But since it's indeed perfectly dynamic (as per my definition above), I have to say this is the most amazing tool I have seen in a long time.
Note: If by "dynamically" you mean drill down charts, then yes, you would need the Enterprise Edition. But as per your comments I actually believe you rather refer to the scenario I mentioned above.
If you need help on this, just ask here in the forum, but try to provide as much information as you can, and be precise in your requirements. For example, rather than asking how to make "a dynamic report", describe exactly what you try to achieve. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
GANav: Efficient Terrain Segmentation for Robot Navigation in Unstructured Outdoor Environments
arxiv（2022）
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We propose GANav, a novel group-wise attention mechanism to identify safe and navigable regions in off-road terrains and unstructured environments from RGB images. Our approach classifies terrains based on their navigability levels using coarse-grained semantic segmentation. Our novel group-wise attention loss enables any backbone network to explicitly focus on the different groups' features with low spatial resolution. Our design leads to efficient inference while maintaining a high level of accuracy compared to existing SOTA methods. Our extensive evaluations on the RUGD and RELLIS-3D datasets shows that GANav achieves an improvement over the SOTA mIoU by 2.25-39.05% on RUGD and 5.17-19.06% on RELLIS-3D. We interface GANav with a deep reinforcement learning-based navigation algorithm and highlight its benefits in terms of navigation in real-world unstructured terrains. We integrate our GANav-based navigation algorithm with ClearPath Jackal and Husky robots, and observe an increase of 10% in terms of success rate, 2-47% in terms of selecting the surface with the best navigability and a decrease of 4.6-13.9% in trajectory roughness. Further, GANav reduces the false positive rate of forbidden regions by 37.79%. Code, videos, and a full technical report are available at https://gamma.umd.edu/offroad/.
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Vision-based navigation, AI-enabled robotics, deep learning for visual perception, AI-based methods, deep learning methods
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