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Samuel Franklin Emmons
Samuel Franklin Emmons (March 29, 1841 – March 28, 1911) was an American geologist. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard University in 1861 and studied at the Ecole des Mines in Paris, France, from 1862 to 1864 and at the Freiberg (Saxony) mining school in 1865. In May 1867, he was appointed assistant geologist under Clarence King on the American geological exploration of the fortieth parallel, and in July 1879 became geologist in charge of the Colorado division of the United States Geological Survey. He traveled extensively throughout the United States in connection with his work, and in 1870 made a survey, along with A. D. Wilson, of Mount Rainier, the highest and most inaccessible peak in the Cascade Range. The largest glacier in the contiguous United States, Emmons Glacier, is located along their survey route and is named after Emmons.
During the autumn of 1872, with Clarence King, Emmons discovered the locality of the supposed diamond fields in Colorado, and was active in exposing their fraudulent character.
Emmons is the namesake of Mount Emmons, Colorado, and Mount Emmons, Utah.
Emmons was president of the Geological Society of America in 1903.
Publications
* "Descriptive Geology," with Arnold Hague. Published as Vol. 2 of the "Reports of the Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel" by Clarence King (1877)
* "Statistics and Technology of the Precious Metals" with George Ferdinand Becker (1885)
* "Geological sketches of the precious metal deposits of the western United States" (1885) with George Ferdinand Becker. Extracted from the Tenth United States Census
* "Geology and mining industry of Leadville, Colorado, with atlas" with William Francis Hillebrand, Antony Guyard, and Whitman Cross. US Geological Survey No. 12 (1886)
* "Geology of the Denver basin in Colorado" with Whitman Cross and George Homans Eldridge. US Geological Survey Monograph No. 27 (1896)
* "Clarence King: A Memorial" (1902)
* "The Downtown district of Leadville, Colorado" with John Duer Irving US Geological Survey Bulletin No. 320 (1907) | WIKI |
gentilesse
Etymology
From, from.
Noun
* 1) Courtesy, refinement; gentleness.
* 2) * 1913,, "Love's Almsman Plaineth His Fare" in The Complete Poems of Francis Thompson, New York: Modern Library, no date, p. 252,
* Who bound thee to a body nothing worth, / And shamed thee much with an unlovely soul, / That the most strainedst charity of earth / Distasteth soon to render back the whole / Of thine inflamèd sweets and gentilesse?
* Who bound thee to a body nothing worth, / And shamed thee much with an unlovely soul, / That the most strainedst charity of earth / Distasteth soon to render back the whole / Of thine inflamèd sweets and gentilesse?
Etymology
Borrowed from.
Noun
* 1) courtesy, nobility, gentility, honor
* 2) * 14th century,, Boece, edited by Richard Morris, London: Chaucer Society, 1886, Book 3, Metrum 6, p. 78,
* "enm"
- For which þing it folweþ, þat yif þou ne haue no gentilesse of þi self, þat is to sein pris þat comeþ of þi deserte foreine gentilesse ne makeþ þe nat gentil.
* 1) kindness, gentleness
* 2) elegance | WIKI |
Henry Scharbau
Henry Scharbau (1822–1902), or Henry Sharbau, was a British cartographer.
Biography
Scharbau was born at Lübeck in North Germany in 1822, but came to England in his youth. Due to his skills in surveying and draughtsmanship, firstly in work on the Ordnance Survey of the south of Scotland, and between 1858 and 1864 in the Admiralty Surveys in the Hebrides and some western lochs. In 1865 he was appointed temporary assistant in the Hydrographic Office, a post he held until 1874. In 1873, he asked Colin Alexander McVean, Surveyor in Chief of Japanese government to work under him, and signed up the appointment in October 1873. But, he delayed departure more than a half year to take care of his weak wife. He became a naturalized British subject just before departure. Scharbau arrived at Japan in June 1874, and taught practice of triangulation in the Survey Office, and travelled several routs to set up base line together with McVean and Japanese colleagues, such as Nikko-Nasu route, Asamayama-Oiwake route, and Oadawa-Sagami route. He left Japan at the end of October 1876 after termination of his contract, and following year returned to the Hydrographic Office as a draughtsman. In April 1881, he transferred to the Royal Geographical Society as chief draughtsman. In 1902, Scharbau and his wife would die the same year. | WIKI |
You Need to Move Your Bethesda Launcher Games and Save Data to Steam
Bethesda is shutting down its PC app, but you can still play your games by transferring them to Steam.
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Bethesda Studios, the publisher behind many popular series like The Elder Scrolls, Doom, and Fallout, is closing down its PC launcher on May 11. That means you will no longer be able to buy, download, or play Bethesda games through the app. However, the company is letting players port their purchased Bethesda-published games, DLC, save files, and certain account-specific data like in-game currencies for Fallout 76 and The Elder Scrolls Online over to Steam entirely for free.
While the Bethesda Launcher will shut down May 11, the company is clear this is not a transfer deadline, and you can move your games and data over even after the launcher app is shuttered.
However, since your Bethesda games and information will be inaccessible until you transfer your information to Steam, it’s probably best to go through the process as soon as possible. Here’s what you need to do:
Step 1: Prepare your Steam account
First, make sure you have a Steam account you can transfer all your Bethesda info to. Chances are you already have one if you play PC games, but you can create a new one through the Steam website if you need and download the Steam app from here.
And yes, Steam is your only transfer option here. You can’t migrate to other platforms like the Epic Games Store or GOG, nor to non-PC platforms like PlayStation or Xbox, even if Bethesda’s games are available there.
Step 2: Migrate your Bethesda games to Steam
If you have Steam installed and ready to go, you can now perform the data transfer:
1. Go to Bethesda’s online account transfer tool and sign in with your Bethesda.net account.
2. Once logged in, click your account name in the upper-right and select “Transfer Library.”
3. Follow the on-screen instructions and click “Start Steam Transfer” when prompted.
4. Wait for the transfer to finish.
5. If you run into any issues during these steps, consult Bethesda’s support FAQs for help.
Once the transfer is done, your information will be moved to Steam, and any purchased games and DLC will now be added to your Steam library. However: Do not play the games yet! We need to complete one more step to transfer your save data if you want to continue playing where you left off.
Step 3: Import your save data to Steam
This step is technically optional, but it’s worth completing if you’ve sunk hundreds of hours into games like Fallout 4 and want to keep that progress, or you’re knee-deep in Doom Eternal’s single-player campaign and don’t want to start over (note that online data for games like The Elder Scrolls Online or account-based stats for multiplayer modes in Doom or Quake will transfer automatically).
The process for manually importing your save data differs among each of Bethesda’s games, but the company has a helpful guide with step-by-step instructions for each of the games where save importing is available.
Once all the above steps are complete, you can start playing your Bethesda games on Steam, and safely uninstall the Bethesda Launcher app from your PC.
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John Kettell
John Kettell (c.1639-c.1676 or 1685 or c.1690) (also known as John Kettle) was an early settler, cooper, and explorer in what is Maynard, Massachusetts and Stow, Massachusetts. Kettell's family was taken captive by Native Americans in King Philips War in 1676.
Biography
John Kettell was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts to Richard Kettle, a cooper, and Esther (Ward) and was baptized there in December 1639. Kettell had several siblings including Nathaniel, Joseph, Jonathan, Samuel, and Hannah. Kettell was likely a cooper. Kettell first married Sarah Goodnow, the daughter of Edmund Goodnow of Sudbury, Massachusetts, and they had three children, John, Sarah, and Joseph. After Sarah's death, John married Elizabeth Ward of Ipswich and had more children, including Jonathan, possibly James, and another daughter.
Around 1660 Kettell and Matthew Boon settled in what later became Stow and Maynard as the first settlers in that area. Kettle likely lived "in the vicinity of Pompassiticutt Hill, on land now included in Maynard" while others have controversially claimed that he lived closer to where his monument is located today. By 1663 Kettell was spending significant time in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. According to some disputed accounts, during King Philip's War in 1676 the Kettles fled to Rowlandson's garrison where John Kettle and his sons John and Joseph were killed in the Lancaster raid, and John's wife Elizabeth, and children, Sarah, Jonathan, and another daughter were taken captive and later redeemed with Mary Rowlandson and two other daughters escaped to Marlborough after almost starving.
In 1883 John Robbins of Stow conveyed to the town "land by an old cellar on Kettell Plain, which tradition informs us was the place where Kettell lived, and is about a quarter of a mile from the Bolton line." Today in Stow off the easterly side Maple Road on Stiles Farm Road, "there is...a large granite marker (1883) for John Kettell and family on Maple Street (near the Hudson/Bolton line), a[n]...early family who 'escaped' to the Lancaster Garrison during the Indians raids." A public right of way reserved by the town exists along Stiles Farm Road to visit the monument.
Disagreement about later life
According to one source Kettell's monument also "inaccurately states that he was killed during the Indian raids. He did not die from this attack." Historian Rev. George F. Clark claimed it is "a doubtful story about Kettle himself having been captured and killed by the [Indians]. He probably died at sea about 1690" after spending much of his life as a cooper in Portsmouth, New Hampshire according to probate and tax records in both Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Clark points to primary sources showing that Indian scribe James Printer wrote to Kettell negotiating for the release of Kettell's family, so Kettell was likely alive for some time after the Lancaster raid. Clark also disputes the evidence that John Kettell owned the land in Stow where his monument was erected due to local tradition, but agrees that Kettell (Kittle) does appear to have lived in the general area for a period on one of the farms of mariner Abraham Joslin according to Joslin's will probated in 1671, and the several Joslins were killed and abducted in the Lancaster raid along with the Kettells. According to Clark, "[i]n March 1675–76, just after the Lancaster raid, [Kettell] was a culler [and packer] of fish at Great Island, now New Castle, N.H. and made a deposition in Exeter in 1678 stating he was about 38 years old which lines up with the birth date of John Kettell of Charlestown. In 1720-21 Nathaniel Kettell requested a commission appraise his brother, John's, estate and stated that his brother disappeared at sea about thirty years prior.
There is also a source that mentions a John Kettell of Gloucester who died in Salem, Massachusetts on 12 October 1685 with probate records showing he owned 300 acres of land at Nashaway (likely including the monument site in what is now Stow on what was referred to later as Kettell farm), but this John was about eighteen years older than the John born in Charlestown; it doesn't seem like he would have been the Mr. Kettle living on Joslin's land if he had his own large farm. In the 1890s Rev. George F. Clark and Abraham G.R. Hale engaged in an influential published debate in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register regarding genealogical methodology, specifically using original documents (Clark) versus tradition (Hale), and the subject of their debate was life and death of John Kettell, the cooper from Charlestown, and his family and the inaccurate monument.
Besides the monument, Kettell's name is memorialized in several places, including Kettell Plain Road and the Kettell Farm Conservation Property in Stow. | WIKI |
How Trump’s market cheerleading could backfire
NEW YORK — The stock market has a new cheerleader in chief. President Donald Trump has latched onto gains on Wall Street, where the Dow Jones Industrial Average broke 22,000 for the first time Wednesday, as a key accomplishment of his tenure while railing against others for his struggles on health care, Russia and more. The president has tweeted about the stock market at least 10 times in the past month. “Highest Stock Market EVER,” he proclaimed on Monday. American presidents traditionally avoid weighing in on the daily gyrations on Wall Street for a simple reason: Stocks also go down. Now that Trump has eagerly claimed credit for instilling investor confidence and driving share prices to fresh highs, he stands to take the blame if markets hit a rough patch and decline. With fights looming over raising the debt limit and funding the government — and with tax reform far from a certainty — Wall Street analysts caution a significant pullback is possible that could leave Trump badly exposed. One widely followed measure of stock market valuation, by economist Robert Shiller, puts the S&P 500 more than 40 percent above its historical relationship to corporate earnings. “Presidents typically don't brag about the stock market much,” said Austan Goolsbee, who served as top economic adviser to President Barack Obama, who generally avoided market commentary even though the Dow rose about 140 percent during his tenure. “That's because it doesn't make sense to take credit for something that goes up if you don't want to be blamed when it goes down.” “Plus, presidents normally care more about ordinary folks as a measure of the economy than about how the Wall Street investors are doing,” Goolsbee said. Trump’s recent stock market exhortations are also a sharp reversal from his views during the 2016 campaign, when he repeatedly dismissed the increase in stock prices as phony. “It's all a big bubble,” he said on Fox News almost exactly a year ago. He predicted the bubble would burst if the Federal Reserve started raising interest rates, which it is now doing. “If rates go up, you're going to see something that's not pretty,” he said. Republican communications professionals are watching Trump’s repeated invocation of the stock market with concern, both because cheerleading stock prices does not exactly fit with his populist message and out of fear of a correction on Wall Street. “This was something that always aggravated me when I worked in Hill leadership,” said Kevin Madden, Mitt Romney’s chief spokesman during the 2012 campaign and now a partner at Hamilton Place Strategies. “Other offices would try to get ahead of an expected Dow milestone by putting out a joint statement taking credit for it. But I never met a market analyst or economist who thought that was a good idea.” “The better, long-term communications strategy should focus on the big picture and how a policy agenda will boost the fundamentals driving the economy that truly matter to people,” Madden said. How much credit Trump actually deserves for the new records on Wall Street also remains an open question. Stocks surged after the election on hopes that Trump would deliver strongly pro-business policies, including reduced regulations and corporate tax cuts. But the pace of the gains moderated as the administration got dragged into controversy after controversy, faced staffing troubles and suffered the collapse of its Obamacare repeal efforts. The Trump effect can still be seen — especially in the soaring shares of big banks anticipating softer regulations — but analysts now say most of the increases are based on fundamentals like strong corporate earnings and continued modest economic and job growth that are in line with the trend under Obama. The Fed’s slow and methodical approach to raising interest rates is also helping boost stocks to new highs. “I think most of it has been fundamentals right from the get-go,” said Jim Paulsen, chief investment strategist at The Leuthold Group. “A lot of the market movement started the summer prior to the election when you had the global manufacturing recession ending and the two-year pause in the earnings cycle ending. There were a lot of fundamentally good things happening that were largely the reason for this rally.” Paulsen and other analysts, however, do credit Trump for changing investor attitudes about the regulatory climate for banks, drug companies, the energy sector and other industries. “The lasting impact of Trump, to me, is that he stopped and maybe even rolled back the Obama regulatory trade,” Paulsen said. Even with the new record on the Dow, Trump actually trails many recent presidents in stock market performance over the first six months of an administration. The Dow rose about 11 percent during Obama’s first six months, compared with 9 percent for Trump, about the same increase as under President Bill Clinton in 1992. The recent record belongs to President George H.W. Bush, with a 15 percent increase in 1988, according to data compiled by the Bespoke Investment Group. There is something of a silver lining in stock prices now for Trump. Because Wall Street is no longer counting on massive tax cuts or a full rewrite of financial regulations, there could be less of a risk of collapse if Trump’s agenda stalls. “The Trump trade is pretty much gone from the market right now,” said Jack Ablin, chief investment officer at BMO Wealth Management. “That’s a far cry from where we were in December, when investors assumed everything Trump promised would be signed into law.” | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Apple apologizes for listening to Siri conversations
Apple on Wednesday apologized for its "Siri grading program," which allowed contractors to review a small percentage of the things people spoke to its Siri voice assistant. The company said it will enable a few changes that give users more control over how their Siri requests are handled. The program was halted earlier this month after The Guardian reported on July 26 that some of the workers who were reviewing Siri requests heard personal medical details, drug deals and more. Apple does most of its Siri processing on the device, however, instead of sending it to the cloud as Amazon and Google do. Still, there's no way to find out if you might have been among the small percentage of people whose questions to Siri were heard by people working for Apple. Apple also doesn't let you review the questions you've asked Siri, a feature that both Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant offer. In a post to its site, Apple said that, by default, it will "no longer retain audio recordings of Siri interactions" but that it will still use "computer-generated transcripts to help Siri improve." Users will be able to opt in to help Apple improve Siri, and those who do will also be able to opt out whenever they want to. Apple also said that only its own employees, not outside contractors, "will be allowed to listen to audio samples of the Siri interactions," and that the team will "delete any recording which is determined to be an inadvertent trigger of Siri." According to a report from The Guardian on Wednesday, Apple laid off more than 300 contractors who were working on Siri grading in Europe. "These transcriptions are associated with a random identifier, not your Apple ID, for up to six months," according to a new Siri Privacy and Grading page that Apple published on Wednesday. "If you do not want transcriptions of your Siri audio recordings to be retained, you can disable Siri and Dictation in Settings." The page also explained that Apple's grading process reviewed less than 0.2% of Siri requests. It used grading to "measure how well Siri was responding and to improve its reliability." "For example, did the user intend to wake Siri? Did Siri hear the request accurately? And did Siri respond appropriately to the request? By using grading across a small sample of Siri requests over time, Apple can make big improvements that help ensure that our customers around the world have the best Siri experience possible," Apple's new Siri privacy page says. Amazon also grades how well Alexa performs, but lets users opt out of the program, which is enabled by default. Google suspended a similar practice in Europe earlier this month. In July, Google admitted that contractors leaked more than 1,000 voice recordings from Google Assistant, and voices in the clips were identifiable by what was spoken, according to Belgian news site VLT. Follow @CNBCtech on Twitter for the latest tech product news. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
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dent of the Massachusetts Medical Society, was born in Medford, Massachu- setts in May, 1752. The son of a farmer, he received his education at the town school and at the age of fourteen was apprenticed to Dr. Simon Tufts, Jr., of Medford, for seven years, according to the custom of the day. At school he was the companion and friend of Count Rumford. Dr. Brooks at the termina- tion of apprenticeship began to practice in the neighboring town of Reading.
He interested himself in raising a company of minute men in his town, and was chosen commander. On the news of the Battle of Lexington he march- ed to the front at once with his company and assisted in harrassing the British on their retreat. He was actively engaged in the military operations of the Revolu- tion, with the rank of colonel, and was designated by Gen. Washington for the command of a brigade at its close.
Settling in Medford after the war was over he engaged in active practice, and was one of the early members of the Massachusetts Medical Society and its president from 1823 to the time of his death in 1825, preceding James Jackson in this office.
In 1816 he was elected Governor of the Commonwealth and served seven years in that capacity. Harvard College con- ferred her honorary A. M. upon him in 1787, and Yale the same in 1781, and he received the A. M. from Harvard Col- lege in 1810, also LL. D. in 1817.
He was a member of the Society of the Cincinnati, the Academy of Arts and Sciences.
He died March 1, 1825, in his seventy- third year. His wife, Lucy Smith, of Hedford, died early in life leaving two
!i and a daughter. One son was a major of artillery in the United States Army and the other, a lieutenant in the navy, was killed in the battle of Lake Erie.
As a physician Dr. Brooks was a good diagnostician and conservative in treat- ment. His anniversary oration before the Massachusetts Medical Society in
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1808 is preserved in its transactions, with the title, "Pneumonic Inflammation." W. L. B.
A Memoir by John Dixwell, M. D., Mass.
Med. Com., vol. iv, 1829.
History of Harvard Med. School. T. F.
Harrington.
A Military Jour, during the Rev. War, from
1775 to 1783. James Thaoher, M. D.,
Boston, 1823.
The Early Physicians of Medford. C. M.
Green, 1898.
Brown, Bedford (1S25-1897).
A physician and army surgeon, he was the son of the Hon. Bedford Brown, United States senator from North Carolina from 1S28 to 1841, and was born in Caswell County, North Carolina, January 17, 1825. His mother's maiden name was Mary L. Glenn.
In 1845 he studied under Dr. Benjamin W. Dudley, of Lexington, Kentucky; attended two courses of lectures in the medical department of the Transylvanian University, and graduated in 184S. Two years later he took a course of lectures at the Jefferson School in Phila- delphia, and graduated from that in- stitution.
Dr. Brown was a member of the Southern Surgical and Gynecological association of which he was vice-presi- dent in 1893, and one of its judicial council from 1894; a member of the Board of Medical Examiners of Virginia from 1885 to 1894, and of the Medical Society of Virginia, of which he was president in 1S86.
After graduation he practised three or four years in Virginia, and about 1855 returned to North Carolina and practised at Yanceyville until the out- break of the Civil War. At its close he settled in Alexandria, Virginia, where he practised until death.
In the spring of 1801 he was appointed chief surgeon in the camp of instruction at Weldon, North Carolina, then assigned to the troops sent from Richmond, Virginia, to northwestern Virginia and eventually served during the rest of the war as inspector of hospitals and camps. | WIKI |
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12 2 STA T . 12 3PUBLIC LA W 11 0– 1 8 1 —J A N .28, 2008 withsuf fi c i en t inf orma tion , ser v ices, referra l ,an dp roactive out - reach opportunities throu g hout the entire deplo y ment cycle .T his program shall b e k nown as the Y ellow R ibbon Reintegration P ro- gram. ( b ) P URPOSE O F PRO G R AM;D EP L O Y ME NTC Y C LE. — The Yellow Ribbon Reintegration Program shall consist of informational events and activities for members of the reserve components of the A rmed F orces, their families, and community members to facilitate access to services supporting their health and well-being through the 4 phases of the deployment cycle
( 1 ) Pre-Deployment. ( 2 ) Deployment. ( 3 ) Demobili z ation. (4) Post-Deployment-Reconstitution. (c) EX ECUT IV E AGENT.—The S ecretary shall designate the U nder Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness as the Department of Defense e x ecutive agent for the Yellow Ribbon Re- integration Program. (d) O FFICE FOR REINTEGRATION PROGRAMS.— (1) ESTA B LIS H MENT.—The Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness shall establish the Office for Re- integration Programs within the Office of the Secretary of Defense. The office shall administer all reintegration programs in coordination with State N ational G uard organizations. The office shall be responsible for coordination with existing National Guard and Reserve family and support programs. The Directors of the Army National Guard and Air National Guard and the Chiefs of the Army Reserve, M arine Corps Reserve, Navy Reserve, and Air Force Reserve may appoint liaison officers to coordinate with the permanent office staff. The office may also enter into partnerships with other public entities, including the Department of H ealth and Human Serv- ices, Substance Abuse and the Mental Health Services Adminis- tration, for access to necessary substance abuse and mental health treatment services from local State-licensed service pro- viders. (2) CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE IN REINTEGRATION.—The Office for Reintegration Programs shall establish a Center for Excellence in Reintegration within the office. The Center shall collect and analyze ‘ ‘lessons learned ’ ’ and suggestions from State National Guard and Reserve organizations with existing or developing reintegration programs. The Center shall also assist in developing training aids and briefing materials and training representatives from State National Guard and Reserve organizations. (e) A D VISORY B OARD.— (1) APPOINTMENT.—The Secretary of Defense shall appoint an advisory board to analyze the Yellow Ribbon Reintegration Program and report on areas of success and areas for necessary improvements. The advisory board shall include the Director of the Army National Guard, the Director of the Air National Guard, Chiefs of the Army Reserve, Marine Corps Reserve, Navy Reserve, and Air Force Reserve, the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs, an Ad j utant General on a rota- tional basis as determined by the Chief of the National Guard Bureau, and any other Department of Defense, Federal Govern- ment agency, or outside organization as determined by the Establi s hmen t . Establishment. D esi g nati o n.
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Doone Kennedy Hobart Aquatic Centre
The Doone Kennedy Hobart Aquatic Centre is a major, $17 million aquatic sporting facility located upon the Queens Domain, within less than 1 kilometre of the CBD of Hobart, the capital city of Tasmania, Australia. The venue has hosted the Australian Swimming Championships, the Tasmanian Swimming Championships, FINA Swimming World Cup, Pan Pacific Games and the Qantas Skins. Other major events held at the venue throughout its first seven years of operation include the Australian Canoe Polo Championships, Australian Diving Championships, Australian Water Polo Under Age and National League events and the World and Australian Underwater Hockey Championships.
Name
It was officially renamed on 18 October 2015, the 19th anniversary of its construction, in honour of Doone Kennedy, who was a key proponent for its development.
Construction
The funding and construction of the Hobart Aquatic Centre was spearheaded by Doone Kennedy during her reign as Lord Mayor of Hobart from 1986 to 1996.
The facility is fully indoors, and features a full 50 metre Olympic-size 8 lane competition swimming pool, a smaller 25 metre warm-up pool and leisure pool as well as a 25x20m Dive Pool. It also features a diving tower with 10, 7.5 and 5 metre platforms, and 1 and 3 metre springboards.
Operation
There is a creche, cafe and gymnasium and a wide variety of sport and recreation activities are offered, ranging from competitive swimming, Water Polo and diving, learn to swim programmes, yoga classes, aerobics and circuit and weight training. The Hobart Aquatic centre is open year round, and provides views of the River Derwent, Mount Wellington and the city. | WIKI |
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Heroku + private_pub
Background
Faye (github) is a rack-based messaging system that allows web clients to communicate.
Ryan Bates created private_pub (github) to easily add Faye to Rails projects. There is a Railscast for that here.
Heroku is a common place for us rails developers to put our projects, but Heroku can be restrictive given memory and processor constraints, especially at the free level. Running any Faye server concurrently with a rails app isn't stable.
This project is a barebones private_pub deployment that runs as a separate app on Heroku. It makes it easy to get your own Faye server running in just a few minutes.
Installation
Setting up heroku_private_pub is easy: just clone it, edit one file, and push it to Heroku. Of course, there's a little handwaving going on, so here are the excruciating details.
In this example, we want to create a Faye server named 'mypubserver' that will run at http://mypubserver.herokuapp.com/faye. So, anywhere you see 'mypubserver', replace it with the name you want to use.
1. Clone the heroku_private_pub on github to your development computer, in a new project folder (not the same as your rails project):
~> cd projects
~/projects> git clone git://github.com/IamNaN/heroku_private_pub mypubserver
Cloning into 'mypubserver'...
remote: Counting objects: 15, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (11/11), done.
remote: Total 15 (delta 3), reused 14 (delta 2)
Receiving objects: 100% (15/15), done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (3/3), done.
~/projects> cd mypubserver
~/projects/mypubserver>
2. Open config/private_pub.yml in your text editor and replace MY_KEY with what you have in the private_pub.yml of your rails project. Also, replace MY_APP with the name of the heroku app, mypubsever in this case (this is different from the name of your rails app). Save this file.
3. Run the bundler to install the gems
~/projects/mypubserver> bundle install
4. Commit the changes locally.
~/projects/mypubserver> git commit -am "Adding my configuration info and bundle"
5. Install the heroku gem if you haven't already.
~/projects/mypubserver> gem install heroku
Note: The folks at Heroku are "sunsetting" (a nice way of saying leaving you in the dark) the heroku gem soon in favor of a less railsy thingy called toolbelt. I'll be sunsetting Heroku when they sunset the heroku gem, so maybe someone else can contribute that update to this document.
6. Create your app on Heroku with the heroku tool.
~/projects/mypubserver> heroku apps:create mypubserver
Creating mypubserver... done, stack is cedar
http://mypubserver.herokuapp.com/ | git@heroku.com:mypubserver.git
Git remote heroku added
7. Push it all up to heroku.
~/projects/mypubserver> git push heroku master
It should start right away. After you have verified everything is working as expected (see Is It Running below) you can delete this project. However, it's handy if you ever want to peek at the traffic going through your Faye server (see What's It Saying? below).
If it is unlikely you'll ever need it again, then go ahead and delete the project folder. But! if you find yourself needing it again, you can just pull it from Heroku thusly:
git clone git@heroku.com:mypubserver.git mypubserver
Make your changes, commit them, and push them again just like we did above.
Troubleshooting
Is It Running?
You can test that your new Faye server running properly by browsing to the app. In the above example, we would go to http://mypubserver.herokuapp.com should see a plain text message "Sure you're not looking for /faye?"
Is It Configured?
If that is working but your messages aren't finding their way between your app and clients, double check the settings in config\private_pub.yml match those in the same file in your rails project.
What's It Saying?
If that's correct but you're still seeing problems, then check out the log to see what the problem is.
~/projects/mypubserver> heroku logs --tail | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Switzerland cancels parliament session, virus cases rise
ZURICH, March 16 (Reuters) - Switzerland canceled a session of its national parliament, the government held crisis talks and the Swiss stock market plunged on Monday as new coronavirus cases accelerated. A reported rise of some 840 new infections on Sunday brought total cases in Switzerland and neighbouring Liechtenstein to 2,200, a jump of more than 50% in a single day and signaling that the disease’s spread is intensifying. Of the total cases, 1,563 are confirmed. Switzerland has labeled the outbreak a “special situation”, shifting more power to the federal government to enact measures to protect its 8.6 million residents. Bern, which last week made more than $10 billion available for economic aid amid the crisis, still has room to intensify the order. The government has shut down schools nationwide for weeks, introduced border checks and severely curbed gatherings and events as part of efforts to protect, in particular, older residents who are at high risk. The country, whose central bank on Sunday joined global counterparts in boosting dollar liquidity for nervous markets, so far has reported 13 deaths. Six have been reported in Ticino, the Italian-speaking canton that borders Italy where the infection has killed nearly 2,000 people. The Swiss army is holding a special medical battalion in reserve for potential requests by regional health authorities for assistance. (Reporting by John Miller, Emma Farge, and Brenna Hughes Neghaiwi; Editing by Angus MacSwan) | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Elma
Elma is a city in the Olympic Peninsula region of Washington.
Get in
WA State Hwy 8 from Olympia connects into US Hwy 12 in Elma from the East. From the West, US Hwy 12 leads into Elma before splitting off South. Monte-Elma Rd (the old highway) connects Montesano to Elma paralleling US Hwy 12.
Get around
Grays Harbor Transit operates a limited bus service in Elma.
See
Grays Harbor County fair which usually starts on the second Wednesday of August and runs through the following Sunday.
Grays Harbor County Raceway is a big attraction amongst locals and out-of-town folk alike. Sprint car racing (especially the World of Outlaws) uses the track every Saturday from April til about October. Hobby-stock cars and motorbikes use the track as well.
Elma Ponds is a nice place to relax on a sunny day. Fishing is possible if you bring a raft and float in the center of the pond. Not too many fish venture towards the shore as there are usually a lot of splashing kids around.
Briggs Nursery. Nuff said.
Eat
Schmitty's is a nice burger stand on the west side of Elma. Great milkshakes, better girls who serve them ;]
Juseppie's Pizza makes the best pizza in town.
Rusty Tractor is a good place to go for a country breakfast/dinner. | WIKI |
nLab
semisimple category
Contents
Context
Category theory
[[!include category theory - contents]]
Additive and abelian categories
[[!include additive and abelian categories - contents]]
Monoidal categories
[[!include monoidal categories - contents]]
Contents
Idea
A semisimple category is a category in which each object is a direct sum of finitely many simple objects, and all such direct sums exist.
Definition
An abelian category is called semisimple if every object is a semisimple object, hence a direct sum of finitely many simple objects. See semisimple abelian category.
Alternatively, a monoidal linear category (that is, a monoidal category enriched over Vect) is called semisimple if:
• it has finite biproducts (usually called ‘direct sums’),
• idempotents split (so we say that it ‘has subobjects’ or, perhaps better, ‘has retracts’), and
• there exist objects X iX_i labeled by an index set II such that Hom(X i,X j)δ ijkHom(X_i, X_j) \cong \delta_{ij} k where kk is the ground field (such objects are called simple) and such that for any two objects VV and WW in the category, the natural composition map
iIHom(V,X i)Hom(X i,W)Hom(V,W) \bigoplus_{i \in I} Hom(V, X_i) \otimes Hom(X_i, W) \rightarrow Hom(V, W)
is an isomorphism.
Direct sums of simple objects
Note that this definition implies that every object VV is a direct sum of simple objects X iX_i. To see this, note that the third item of the definition is equivalent to stipulating that the vector space Hom(X i,V)Hom(X_i, V) is in canonical duality with the vector space Hom(V,X i)Hom(V, X_i). Indeed, we have a canonical pairing
Hom(V,X i)Hom(X i,V)k Hom(V, X_i) \otimes Hom(X_i, V) \rightarrow k
given by sending fgfgf \otimes g \mapsto \langle f \circ g \rangle where the “\langle \cdot \rangle” notation refers to extracting scalars from endomorphisms of simple objects (each such endomorphism is a scalar multiple of the identity). We also have a canonical copairing
kHom(X i,V)Hom(V,X i) k \rightarrow Hom(X_i, V) \otimes Hom(V, X_i)
given by sending id X i\id_{X_i} to the “iith block” of the image of the identity id V\id_V arrow under the isomorphism given in the definition. One can check that this pairing and copairing satisfy the snake equations. Hence if we choose a basis
{a i,p:X iV} \{ a_{i,p} : X_i \rightarrow V \}
for each vector space Hom(X i,V)Hom(X_i, V), we get a corresponding dual basis
{a i p:VX i} \{ a_i^p : V \rightarrow X_i \}
satisfying
a i pa j,q=δ ijδ p qand i,pa i,pa i p=id V. a_i^p a_{j,q} = \delta_{ij} \delta_p^q \quad and \quad \sum_{i,p} a_{i,p} a_i^p = \id_V.
This says precisely that VV has been expressed as a direct sum of the X iX_i.
Remarks
• The above definition of semisimple monoidal linear category (taken from the reference of Müger below) does not use the concept of abelian category. This is because the concepts that one thinks about with abelian categories such as kernels and cokernels do not play an important conceptual role in semisimple categories, being replaced by the more important concepts of biproduct and retract. Hence it is best to give a streamlined definition from first principles without going through the language of abelian categories which would have muddied the waters.
• For a category to be semisimple, it needs to have a certain directional symmetry in its hom-sets, namely that Hom(V,W)Hom(V, W) must at least have the same dimension asHom(W,V)Hom(W,V). This is the easiest way to check if a category will fail to be semisimple. For instance, the category Rep(A)Rep(A) of representations of an algebra AA will rarely be semisimple, precisely because there is no relation between Hom(V,W)Hom(V, W) and Hom(W,V)Hom(W,V) in general. Again, this can be traced back to the original algebra AA not having any ‘symmetry’ like the inverse operation in a group.
• As far as ‘duality’ on the hom-sets is concerned, one might have a S:CCS: C \rightarrow C from the category to itself with the property that there are canonical isomorphisms
Hom(V,W)Hom(W,SV) Hom(V, W) \cong Hom(W, SV)^\vee
where “\vee” denotes the ordinary linear dual of a vector space. Such a functor is called a Serre functor in algebraic geometry, and indeed there is precisely such a functor on the derived category of coherent sheaves on a complex manifold — it is given by tensoring with the canonical line bundle.
• For 2-Hilbert spaces, there is an antilinear **-operation on the hom-sets *:Hom(V,W)Hom(W,V)* : Hom(V, W) \rightarrow Hom(W,V). The presence of this duality in fact forces the category to be semisimple (this comes down to the fact that a finite-dimensional **-algebra, such as the hom’s between a bunch of objects in the category, must be a full matrix algebra)
Examples
References
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Shared Genetic Factors Influence Head Motion during MRI and Body Mass Index
Karen Hodgson, Russell A. Poldrack, Joanne E. Curran, Emma E. Knowles, Samuel Mathias, Harald H.H. Göring, Nailin Yao, Rene L. Olvera, Peter T. Fox, Laura Almasy, Ravi Duggirala, Deanna M. Barch, John Blangero, David C. Glahn
Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review
30 Scopus citations
Abstract
Head movements are typically viewed as a nuisance to functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) analysis, and are particularly problematic for resting state fMRI. However, there is growing evidence that head motion is a behavioral trait with neural and genetic underpinnings. Using data from a large randomly ascertained extended pedigree sample of Mexican Americans (n = 689), we modeled the genetic structure of head motion during resting state fMRI and its relation to 48 other demographic and behavioral phenotypes. A replication analysis was performed using data from the Human Connectome Project, which uses an extended twin design (n = 864). In both samples, head motion was significantly heritable (h2 = 0.313 and 0.427, respectively), and phenotypically correlated with numerous traits. The most strongly replicated relationship was between head motion and body mass index, which showed evidence of shared genetic influences in both data sets. These results highlight the need to view head motion in fMRI as a complex neurobehavioral trait correlated with a number of other demographic and behavioral phenotypes. Given this, when examining individual differences in functional connectivity, the confounding of head motion with other traits of interest needs to be taken into consideration alongside the critical important of addressing head motion artifacts.
Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)5539-5546
Number of pages8
JournalCerebral Cortex
Volume27
Issue number12
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 1 2017
Keywords
• BMI
• MRI
• head motion
ASJC Scopus subject areas
• Cognitive Neuroscience
• Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
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How-To Create a Hello World Snap-in
This sample shows you how to create a "Hello World" snap-in. While this snap-in itself does not have any interesting behavior, this procedure is intended to familiarize you with the basic steps to get a snap-in up and running using the MMC 3.0 SDK. The subsequent samples will show you how to create snap-ins with real functionality.
This sample shows you how to create your first snap-in. It shows you how to write the snap-in code in a managed language such as C#. If you choose C#, you can start by creating a file called SimpleSnapIn.cs. When this code is compiled, it will create a snap-in dll called SimpleSnapInSample.dll. This topic will guide you in a step-by-step fashion on how to write, compile, install, and run the snap-in code.
How-To create a "Hello World" snap-in
1. Begin by adding the using directives that reference the assemblies that are required for this sample. The first directive is a reference to the MMC 3.0 assembly; the second directive is a reference to the component model assembly that is the source of the RunInstaller attribute. The PermissionSetAttribute allows security actions for a permission set to be applied to code using declarative security.
using Microsoft.ManagementConsole;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System;
using System.Security.Permissions;
[assembly: PermissionSetAttribute(SecurityAction.RequestMinimum, Unrestricted = true)]
2. Define a namespace for creating this and subsequent samples.
namespace Microsoft.ManagementConsole.Samples
3. Installutil.exe is a command-line utility that ships with .NET. It requires an Installer-derived class to be declared within the target assembly and further requires that the RunInstaller attribute be defined. Derive a class from SnapInInstaller. It automatically discovers registration information in the assembly and registers the discovered snap-ins. Set the RunInstaller attribute to True. This provides an entry point for tools such as Installutil.exe to execute the framework installer code.
/// <summary>
/// The RunInstaller attribute allows the .Net framework to install the assembly.
/// </summary>
[RunInstaller(true)]
public class InstallUtilSupport : SnapInInstaller
{
}
4. Every snap-in must define a new class that is derived from the SnapIn class. Create a new scope node and assign it to be the root node for the snap-in. Give the root node a display name.
/// <summary>
/// The constructor.
/// </summary>
public SimpleSnapIn()
{
// Update tree pane with a node in the tree
this.RootNode = new ScopeNode();
this.RootNode.DisplayName = "Hello World";
}
5. Add the attribute SnapInSettingsAttribute. This attribute must be defined for any snap-in that must be featured on the Add/Remove dialog box in the MMC. This attribute defines the GUID for the snap-in, a display name for the snap-in, and a short description of the snap-in.
/// <summary>
/// The main entry point for the creation of the snap-in.
/// </summary>
[SnapInSettings("{CFAA3895-4B02-4431-A168-A6416013C3DD}",
DisplayName = "- Simple SnapIn Sample",
Description = "Simple Hello World SnapIn")]
The complete sample code for SimpleSnapIn.cs is given in the following Example section. Compile the code to create a dll called SimpleSnapIn.dll. All the code for this sample is available in the <MMC 3.0 Samples>\SimpleSnapInSample directory.
Steps to create, install, and run the snap-in
1. To install this snap-in, run the .NET Framework InstallUtil.exe program using the following command-line command: InstallUtil.exe SimpleSnapInSample.dll. Note that if the Microsoft.ManagementConsole dll is not in the GAC, both the Microsoft.ManagementConsole.dll and the SimpleSnapInSample.dll must be in the same directory. If you need to uninstall the snap-in later, run the previous InstallUtil.exe command with the /uninstall switch.
2. The InstallUtil.exe command attempts to install your snap-in using the SnapInSettingsAttribute. The utility creates an InstallUtil.InstallLog file to show the success or failure of the install and all the actions that were taken.
3. InstallUtil.exe populates the registry entries for the given snap-in under the HKLM/Software/Microsoft/MMC/SnapIns key.
4. After the snap-in is installed, the Snap-in is visible to MMC and can be added to the MMC Console using the Add/Remove dialog. To test this snap-in, run MMC 3.0 (mmc.exe) and use the Add/Remove Snap-in menu. The SimpleSnapIn appears in the Add dialog and can be loaded in the MMC console.
Example
Here is the complete sample code for SimpleSnapIn.cs that creates the "Hello World" snap-in.
using Microsoft.ManagementConsole;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System;
using System.Security.Permissions;
[assembly: PermissionSetAttribute(SecurityAction.RequestMinimum, Unrestricted = true)]
namespace Microsoft.ManagementConsole.Samples
{
/// <summary>
/// The RunInstaller attribute allows the .Net framework to install the assembly.
/// </summary>
[RunInstaller(true)]
public class InstallUtilSupport : SnapInInstaller
{
}
/// <summary>
/// The main entry point for the creation of the snap-in.
/// </summary>
[SnapInSettings("{CFAA3895-4B02-4431-A168-A6416013C3DD}",
DisplayName = "- Simple SnapIn Sample",
Description = "Simple Hello World SnapIn")]
public class SimpleSnapIn : SnapIn
{
/// <summary>
/// The constructor.
/// </summary>
public SimpleSnapIn()
{
// Update tree pane with a node in the tree
this.RootNode = new ScopeNode();
this.RootNode.DisplayName = "Hello World";
}
} // class
} // namespace
See Also
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As protests rage in Iran, Trump backs demonstrators, blames Obama
President Donald Trump’s administration backed anti-government protesters in Iran on Tuesday, seizing an opportunity to criticize not just a foreign government that the White House has framed as a chief foe but also the administration of Barack Obama. Trump tweeted that “the U.S. is watching” the ongoing anti-government demonstrations across Iran, blaming the nuclear deal struck with the support of former President Obama for, he said, lining the pockets of the Iranian government. “The people of Iran are finally acting against the brutal and corrupt Iranian regime. All of the money that President Obama so foolishly gave them went into terrorism and into their ‘pockets,’” the president wrote on Twitter. “The people have little food, big inflation and no human rights. The U.S. is watching!” U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said the U.S. would call for emergency sessions of the U.N. security and human rights councils in New York and Geneva, respectively, to address the Iranian government’s crackdown on protesters. She said the Islamic Republic’s suggestion that the protests had been fueled by outside influences was “complete nonsense.” “This is the precise picture of a long-oppressed people rising up against their dictators. The international community has a role to play on this,” Haley said at a news conference at the U.N. in New York. “If the Iranian dictatorship’s history is any guide, we can expect more outrageous abuses in the days to come. … The people of Iran are crying out for freedom. All freedom-loving people must stand with their cause.” Tuesday marked the sixth day of protests in Iran, where a flagging economy and an uptick in food prices have prompted demonstrators to chant anti-government slogans. The Associated Press reported Tuesday that at least nine people had been killed overnight, including a member of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, raising the overall death toll from the protests to at least 20. In Tehran, the Iranian capital, 450 protesters have been arrested since demonstrations began, the AP reported. The protests are the largest in Iran since 2009, when the disputed reelection of Iran’s then-President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sparked anti-government demonstrations. In what seemed a veiled criticism of the Obama administration’s response to those demonstrations, Haley said Tuesday that “the international community made the mistake of failing” to support Iranian protesters in 2009. “We must not make that mistake again.” At Tuesday’s news briefing, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders echoed Haley’s warning, telling reporters that “the international community cannot sit silent as it did” in 2009. She stopped short of saying that the president would like to see regime change in Iran, instead listing Trump’s priorities as “basic human rights” for the Iranian people and an end to Iran’s support for groups deemed by the U.S. government to be terrorist organizations. “The Iranian people are angry at the rising tide of corruption in their daily lives. The people are tired of paying the price for their violent and corrupt rulers,” Sanders said. “The citizens of Iran have paid a heavy price for the violence and extremism of their leaders, and the Iranian people long to reclaim their country’s proud history, its culture, its civilization and its cooperation with its neighbors.” Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif took a shot on Twitter at Trump and U.S. foreign policy, writing that “Iran’s security and stability depend on its own people, who — unlike the peoples of Trumps [sic] regional ‘bffs’ — have the right to vote and to protest. These hard-earned rights will be protected, and infiltrators will not be allowed to sabotage them through violence and destruction.” U.S. Undersecretary of State Steve Goldstein on Tuesday called on Iran, however, to stop blocking social media sites, including Instagram and the messaging service Telegram, calling them "legitimate avenues for communication," according to an Associated Press report. The U.S. has an obligation "not to stand by," Goldstein said, and will "encourage the protesters to continue to fight for what's right." Trump’s Tuesday tweet echoed sentiments he had expressed online over the previous three days. He has long been critical of the landmark nuclear deal negotiated in part by the Obama administration, taking steps last year to imperil it without yet making good on his campaign promise to remove the U.S. from it entirely. Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei hinted that outside influence may be playing a role in the unrest in his nation, suggesting via a statement on his official website that “in the recent days' incidents, enemies of Iran utilized various means — including money, weapon, politics and intelligence apparatuses — to create problems for the Islamic system.” | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Dnieper River Line
Dnieper River Line is a computer wargame published in 1982 by The Avalon Hill Game Company.
Gameplay
Dnieper River Line is a game in which the German defensive line of the Battle of the Dnieper is simulated.
Reception
Richard Charles Karr reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "Dnieper River Line incorporates the elements of historical accuracy, as well as fast-paced situation-in-doubt play to produce a well developed game which computer wargamers should "check out"."
Reviews
* Casus Belli #12 (Dec 1982) | WIKI |
Compagni, cittadini, fratelli, partigiani
Compagni, Cittadini, Fratelli, Partigiani is the third EP released by the Italian punk/art rock band CCCP Fedeli alla linea. It was first released on vinyl by Attack Punk Records and re-released on CD by Virgin Records along with the Ortodossia II EP. Its title comes from the first verse of the 1960 ballad "Per i Morti di Reggio Emilia" by the Italian composer Fausto Amodei, which is dedicated to the demonstrators killed by the police during a protest against the Tambroni government.
Track listing
* 1) "Militanz" — 1:59
* 2) "Sono Come Tu Mi Vuoi" — 4:30
* 3) "Morire" — 3:24
* 4) "Emilia Paranoica" — 7:45
Personnel
* Giovanni Lindo Ferretti - vocals
* Massimo Zamboni - guitar
* Umberto Negri - bass guitar, drum machine
* Danilo Fatur - Artista del popolo
* Annarella Giudici - Benemerita soubrette | WIKI |
Ryan pictured with man wearing ‘repeal and go f--- yourself’ shirt | TheHill
Speaker Paul RyanPaul Davis RyanEmbattled Juul seeks allies in Washington Ex-Parkland students criticize Kellyanne Conway Latina leaders: 'It's a women's world more than anything' MORE (R-Wis.) posed for a photo with a man wearing a shirt that said "Repeal and go f--- yourself," according to an image posted online Saturday. The shirt is from the podcast "Pod Save America," hosted by several former White House staffers from President Obama's administration. Couple friends of the pod hanging out this morning. @jonfavs @jonlovett @TVietor08 pic.twitter.com/aT3nqiyOlu The Twitter user who posted the image Saturday tagged former Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau, a co-host for the podcast, who responded to the post. "I challenge any Friend of the Pod to do better than @minnyconsin just did," he tweeted. I challenge any Friend of the Pod to do better than @minnysconsin just did. https://t.co/sP24qbI9sU Other former Obama aides behind the podcast also praised the picture: @jonfavs @Minnysconsin @jonlovett Heroic work! @TVietor08 @jonfavs @Minnysconsin Best photo I've ever seen. The House narrowly passed legislation aimed at repealing and replacing ObamaCare this week, taking a major step toward a long-held GOP goal and setting in motion an overhaul of the nation's health system. The narrow party-line 217-213 vote was a victory for GOP leaders, who heralded the legislation's passage with President Trump during an event in the White House Rose Garden on Thursday afternoon. Trump said during the event that he was confident the Senate would also vote to repeal Obama's signature healthcare law, though GOP leaders have acknowledged difficulty in getting such legislation through the Senate, where they hold just a two-seat majority. After its passage, Democrats tore into the House GOP's healthcare plan, ripping it as a "tax cut for millionaires" and "immoral." View the discussion thread. The Hill 1625 K Street, NW Suite 900 Washington DC 20006 | 202-628-8500 tel | 202-628-8503 fax The contents of this site are ©2019 Capitol Hill Publishing Corp., a subsidiary of News Communications, Inc. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Jesse Jarue Mark
Jesse Jarue Mark (24 September 1906 – 20 February 1971) was an American botanist who was one of the first African-Americans to gain a PhD in botany, and likely the first at Iowa State University, where he joined the faculty. He was also a Rockefeller Agriculture Fellow.
Early life
Jesse Jarue Mark was born in 1906 in Apple Springs, Texas, a town that had a school with 28 children in 1896 and a total population of 75 by World War I. A misspelling of his name as Jessie in the historical record appears to have led to the assumption that he was a woman.
Education and career
Mark attended the historically Black college, Prairie View State College (now Prairie View A&M University). He was awarded a baccalaureate degree in 1929. Mark earned his master's degree at Iowa State University (ISU) in 1931, gained a position as professor at Kentucky State Industrial College (now Kentucky State University), and continued research associated with the Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station at ISU, a research program that was founded in 1888.
Mark was awarded his PhD by ISU in 1935. His doctoral work, "The relation of reserves to cold resistance in alfalfa", was published in 1936 and is in university version and journal version online. Mark studied cold resistance by growing six varieties of Grimm alfalfa known to have different levels of hardiness to cold. He analyzed samples from 50 representative plants of each variety.
Mark was a Rockefeller Agriculture Fellow in 1935–1936. Mark died on February 20, 1971, aged 65. He is buried in the Nigton Memorial Park Cemetery in Texas. | WIKI |
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his own complexion. Meanwhile, he became so gallant in his praise of the French lady that Miss Crewe looked faintly surprised, though Lady Broadfeather did not. Time after time, he proposed Mme. Momoro's health in the brave eighteenth-century manner, always brightly ignoring the fact that the ceremony had already been performed. "To Artemis!" he said, and visibly was pleased to think this an original inspiration. "To Artemis, light-footed on the hills, if you understand. When goddesses come to life let it be our mortal privilege to offer libations and quaff nectar to them!" He also drank to Hyacinthe, who rose and bowed, but seemed slightly embarrassed by the compliment. "To your good health, young gentleman! You are the Mozart of bridge. We must recognize precocious genius as well as goddesses." And a little later, he called Mme. Momoro's attention to an amiable-looking young couple dining at a table across the room. "Other potentates are dining in Bougie this evening besides yourself, august Artemis. Those two young people are the hereditary rulers of the old and independent principality of Fühlderstein, Prince Orthe the Eighteenth and his bride. They were staying at our hotel in Algiers last week. Curious how one encounters | WIKI |
California inmates volunteer to help battle wildfires
(CNN)At first glance, these crews battling the devastating California wildfires look like normal firefighters. Donning orange fire-resistant suits and carrying 60 pounds of support gear on their backs, they're on the front lines of the wildfires with chain saws and hand tools, clearing brush or setting backfires to stop the flames from spreading. But they aren't officially firefighters -- they're prison inmates. With help from the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) and the Los Angeles County Fire Department, the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation jointly operates 43 adult conservation camps, or fire camps, throughout the state, according to the corrections department. They're called conservation camps because that is part of their purpose: Inmates maintain hiking trails, clear flood channels and reduce fire danger by cutting brush or large stands of trees when there are no fires ongoing. "The inmates are all doing some form of conservation work every day that they are not on a fire line," Bill Sessa, a spokesman for the corrections department, told CNN. Inmates with minimum-custody status, meaning those with the lowest security risk, can volunteer for the program, according to Sessa. He said inmates are screened and must be physically fit for rigorous activity, disciplined and willing to work on a team and take responsibility. Those who are selected to participate in the program are permanently assigned to one of the camps, where they're supervised by corrections officers, and stay there year-round, Sessa said. There are around 3,800 inmates housed at the camps, he said. The camps are more informal than prisons, Sessa said, as there are no electric fences and inmates stay in dorms. The relationships between the staff and inmates are more casual. "They're fundamentally different, and that's one of the attractions that makes inmates apply to them," he said of the camps. On the front lines After being selected for the program, the inmates participate in a two-week training program where they take part in physical training and are taught firefighting techniques by Cal Fire staff. When responding to wildfires, the inmates work in crews of 12 to 14 people under the direction of professional fire captains from Cal Fire or the LAFD, Sessa said. "Our crews do a very specific job. They don't get into a highlight reel or (TV) airtime, they don't fly a helicopter or drive a fire truck. ... They cut containment lines," he said, referring to using techniques such as clearing brush to keep a wildfire contained within boundaries. Sessa described each crew as a line in which everybody has a job related to the person in front or behind them with the goal of containing or stopping the fire. "These people are in the front line because their job is to get ahead of the fire," Sessa said. "Our crews are quite often put between the homes and the fire trying to cut containment lines." He said there are crews working on around 15 of the wildfires ravaging California. "It's been quite a while since I can remember that we have had this many fires moving this fast," he said. "Crews often work 24 straight hours and then get 24 hours of rest. This firestorm -- we had crews that worked 72 straight hours. When you get into these prolonged circumstances, everybody's concern is how to give these guys some rest, because you can't go an entire summer like this. The 72 hours, they did it because they had to do it. It's not something we would prefer them to do." Across the state, Sessa said there are 1,700 inmates on the front lines of the catastrophic wildfires, and the rest are helping in other ways. "Every inmate we have right now is either on a fire line, on a rest period from being on a fire line, or providing backup to fire protection somewhere and ready to go to a fire," he said. "In a firestorm like the one we have now, we move crews from all over the state to get them to where they're needed. We also have to move crews around to make sure we don't leave areas unprotected." 'Rehabilitative values' Sessa said the goal of the program isn't just to put out fires, and that most of the inmates who volunteer have no intention of becoming firefighters. "The value of this program is it teaches people life skills that most of us take for granted but many of them came to prison without," he said. "They learn discipline and to show up on time, and some leadership. "I hear from dozens of inmates that they are proud to help the community and pay the community back a little bit." There are also incentives for inmates to participate. Inmates get paid $2 for each day they are in camp and $1 an hour when they're on the front lines of wildfires, which Sessa called "lavish pay by prison standards." He said prison jobs inside an institution pay a maximum of $1 an hour and those inmates don't have 40 hour workweeks. They can also speed up their release from prison for their time at the camps at a higher rate than if they were in an institution. The majority of inmates receive one day off their sentences for one day of good behavior, but those at camps get two days off their sentences for each day of good behavior. Inmates at the camps even get fed better, Sessa said. As they burn a lot of calories, they are fed accordingly. The program also helps lower the likelihood that inmates commit another crime. The rate of those who reoffend is 10 percent lower among inmates paroled from the program, compared with the general prison population. CNN's Konstantin Toropin contributed to this report. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
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static void
compare64 (int n, void *p, unsigned long long val)
{
unsigned long long *x = (unsigned long long *) p;
if (*x != val)
abort();
}
static void
compare32 (int n, void *p, unsigned int val)
{
unsigned int *x = (unsigned int *) p;
if (*x != val)
abort();
}
#define V4QI_TEST(N, elt0, elt1, elt2, elt3) \
static void \
test_v4qi_##N (unsigned char a, unsigned char b, unsigned char c, unsigned char d) \
{ \
__v4qi v = { (elt0), (elt1), (elt2), (elt3) }; \
compare32(N, &v, ((int)(elt0) << 24) | \
((int)(elt1) << 16) | \
((int)(elt2) << 8) | ((int)(elt3))); \
}
V4QI_TEST(1, a, a, a, a)
V4QI_TEST(2, b, b, b, b)
V4QI_TEST(3, a, b, c, d)
V4QI_TEST(4, d, c, b, a)
V4QI_TEST(5, a, 0, 0, 0)
V4QI_TEST(6, b, 1, 1, b)
V4QI_TEST(7, c, 5, d, 5)
V4QI_TEST(8, 0x20, 0x30, b, a)
V4QI_TEST(9, 0x40, 0x50, 0x60, 0x70)
V4QI_TEST(10, 0x40, 0x50, 0x60, c)
#define V8QI_TEST(N, elt0, elt1, elt2, elt3, elt4, elt5, elt6, elt7) \
static void \
test_v8qi_##N (unsigned char a, unsigned char b, unsigned char c, unsigned char d, \
unsigned char e, unsigned char f, unsigned char g, unsigned char h) \
{ \
__v8qi v = { (elt0), (elt1), (elt2), (elt3), \
(elt4), (elt5), (elt6), (elt7) }; \
compare64(N, &v, ((long long)(elt0) << 56) | \
((long long)(elt1) << 48) | \
((long long)(elt2) << 40) | \
((long long)(elt3) << 32) | \
((long long)(elt4) << 24) | \
((long long)(elt5) << 16) | \
((long long)(elt6) << 8) | \
((long long)(elt7) << 0)); \
}
V8QI_TEST(1, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a)
V8QI_TEST(2, a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h)
V8QI_TEST(3, h, g, f, e, d, c, b, a)
V8QI_TEST(4, a, b, a, b, a, b, a, b)
V8QI_TEST(5, c, b, c, b, c, b, c, a)
V8QI_TEST(6, a, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0)
V8QI_TEST(7, b, 1, b, 1, b, 1, b, 1)
V8QI_TEST(8, c, d, 0x20, a, 0x21, b, 0x23, c)
V8QI_TEST(9, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
V8QI_TEST(10, a, a, b, b, c, c, d, d)
unsigned char a8 = 0x33;
unsigned char b8 = 0x55;
unsigned char c8 = 0x77;
unsigned char d8 = 0x99;
unsigned char e8 = 0x11;
unsigned char f8 = 0x22;
unsigned char g8 = 0x44;
unsigned char h8 = 0x66;
int main(void)
{
test_v4qi_1 (a8, b8, c8, d8);
test_v4qi_2 (a8, b8, c8, d8);
test_v4qi_3 (a8, b8, c8, d8);
test_v4qi_4 (a8, b8, c8, d8);
test_v4qi_5 (a8, b8, c8, d8);
test_v4qi_6 (a8, b8, c8, d8);
test_v4qi_7 (a8, b8, c8, d8);
test_v4qi_8 (a8, b8, c8, d8);
test_v4qi_9 (a8, b8, c8, d8);
test_v4qi_10 (a8, b8, c8, d8);
test_v8qi_1 (a8, b8, c8, d8, e8, f8, g8, h8);
test_v8qi_2 (a8, b8, c8, d8, e8, f8, g8, h8);
test_v8qi_3 (a8, b8, c8, d8, e8, f8, g8, h8);
test_v8qi_4 (a8, b8, c8, d8, e8, f8, g8, h8);
test_v8qi_5 (a8, b8, c8, d8, e8, f8, g8, h8);
test_v8qi_6 (a8, b8, c8, d8, e8, f8, g8, h8);
test_v8qi_7 (a8, b8, c8, d8, e8, f8, g8, h8);
test_v8qi_8 (a8, b8, c8, d8, e8, f8, g8, h8);
test_v8qi_9 (a8, b8, c8, d8, e8, f8, g8, h8);
test_v8qi_10 (a8, b8, c8, d8, e8, f8, g8, h8);
return 0;
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Ecromeximab is a chimeric monoclonal antibody being developed for the treatment of malignant melanoma.
The drug was developed by Kyowa Hakko Kogyo Co., Ltd. As of December 2015 development had been discontinued. | WIKI |
Talk:English phonemes
This article is non-sensical. Every dialect has a different set of phonemes. The article should describe the phonemes in different dialects. The article assumes that there is no distinction within dialects and confuses everything. That's ridiculous.
The article should also explain why the phonemes are abbreviated with those symbols, and not with other symbols. For example, why is /t/ abbreviated like that, and not with the symbol of another allophone within the phoneme, for example the (fishhook r)?
Besides, the pronunciation should be described with the International Phonetic Alphabet, not with IPA-ASCII. If you want to use IPA-ASCII, use it in addition to the IPA, not as a substitute.
Another thing: the capital "P" in the title is ridiculous. "Phoneme" is a common noun, not a proper noun. Common nouns are not capitalized in Wikipedia article titles. At least that's the custom here.
non-sense
To points 1 and 2 above, I agree that this is non-sensical. The page references http://www.antimoon.com/how/pronunc-soundsipa.htm, but I cannot find the ASCII representation this page uses on that site or elsewhere after several minutes. This page would probably be better off deleted and started from scratch. I am ignorant of wiki formatting, though, and in addition adding IPA symbols seems too daunting for me at the moment. Dubson 9 July 2005 00:06 (UTC)
* It doesn't just not make sense, but the information that the article would have if it were fully expanded is already available in the received pronunciation and general american articles. Maybe it should be deleted. AEuSoes1 22:30, August 13, 2005 (UTC)
* I vote for making it phoneme correspondances. Every distinction any (major? how do we define major?) dialect makes would have a row, and each column would show how different dialects pronounce that sound. It'd be long and mostly uninteresting, but it might have some value—more than anything else you could do with this page. (It shows not only splits and mergers, but also direct and simple equivalences, such as AmE /ɛ/ vs AusE /e/ e.g.
* {|class="wikitable"
* || RP || AusE || NYE || GAm. ||
* bath || ɑː || ɐː || ɛə || æ || trap-bath split; æ-tensing
* plant || ɑː || æː || ɛə || æ || trap-bath split; bad-lad split; æ-tensing
* bad || æ || æː || ɛə || æ || bad-lad split; æ-tensing
* trap || æ || æ || æ || æ
* bed || ɛ || e || ɛ || ɛ
* }
* bad || æ || æː || ɛə || æ || bad-lad split; æ-tensing
* trap || æ || æ || æ || æ
* bed || ɛ || e || ɛ || ɛ
* }
* bed || ɛ || e || ɛ || ɛ
* }
* I don't mean to include only those ones, they're just the ones necessary to show the point.
* — Felix the Cassowary 05:07, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
* That's great, only it's already done in the IPA chart for English
* AEuSoes1 18:46, August 19, 2005 (UTC)
* Oh, right you are; I agree then, this page can be deleted and made a redir to somewhere else. — Felix the Cassowary 12:28, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
Unless someone objects, I'll probably change the article to a redirect to IPA chart for English, and add a link to this talk page from its one. —Felix the Cassowary (User talk:Cassowary) 03:48, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
* Support merge. This article should be redirected to IPA chart for English. – AxSkov ( ☏ ) 06:42, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
* Support the merger. --Angr/undefined 06:12, 6 September 2005 (UTC) | WIKI |
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Interactive Brokers
The result was keep. Nomination withdrawn. (non-admin closure) Jytdog (talk) 02:50, 22 May 2016 (UTC)
Interactive Brokers
* – ( View AfD View log Stats )
Sources are mostly press releases; the key aspect of GNG is that here are sufficient independent sources with substantial discussion with which to build an article. That the article "must" be built on press releases, as that is pretty much all there is, makes the article inherently promotional and not encyclopedic Jytdog (talk) 03:33, 20 May 2016 (UTC)
* Note: This debate has been included in the list of Companies-related deletion discussions. North America1000 03:37, 20 May 2016 (UTC)
* Note: This debate has been included in the list of Business-related deletion discussions. North America1000 03:38, 20 May 2016 (UTC)
* Note: This debate has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. North America1000 03:38, 20 May 2016 (UTC)
* Keep. A quick check reveals plenty of news coverage beyond press releases, such as this one. It is also frequently featured in global press due to consistently winning Barron's top broker awards. Article needs work, but sources are plentiful. Owen× ☎ 01:56, 22 May 2016 (UTC)
* Keep. For reasons noted by OwenX. Confirmation of founding date and place would be nice, however... Doprendek (talk) 02:01, 22 May 2016 (UTC)
* I am withdrawing this. Jytdog (talk) 02:49, 22 May 2016 (UTC)
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Error launching session because of mounting fail
Hi,
Every time we are trying to launch a session remains in "Peding" status with the following message:
MountVolume.SetUp failed for volume "mount0" : mount failed: exit status 32 Mounting command: mount Mounting arguments: -t nfs :/home/azureuser /var/lib/kubelet/pods/ad918935-f1a9-4685-a42a-119968a73d9e/volumes/kubernetes.io~nfs/mount0 Output: mount.nfs: access denied by server while mounting :/home/azureuser
The file "launcher-mounts" is:
MountType: NFS
Host:
Path: /home/{USER}
MountPath: /home/{USER}
ReadOnly: false
Cluster: Kubernetes
The output from sudo rstudio-server verify-installation --verify-user=azureuser is:
TTY detected. Printing informational message about logging configuration. Logging configuration loaded from '/etc/rstudio/logging.conf'. Logging to '/var/log/rstudio/rstudio-server/rserver.log'.
Checking Job Launcher configuration...
Ensuring server-user is a Job Launcher admin...
Getting list of Job Launcher clusters...
Job launcher configured with the following clusters: Kubernetes
launcher-adhoc-clusters is empty - all clusters may be used to launch adhoc jobs
launcher-sessions-clusters is empty - all clusters may be used to launch session jobs
Verify Installation Failed: system error 71 (Protocol error) [description: No home directory mount configured for cluster Kubernetes and workbench RStudio - you must configure a home directory mount in /etc/rstudio/launcher-mounts for sessions to properly load user home directories]; OCCURRED AT rstudio::core::Error rstudio::server::session_proxy::overlay::{anonymous}::verifyClusterMounts(const std::set<std::__cxx11::basic_string >&, const std::vectorrstudio::server::job_launcher::MountConfigEntry&, rstudio::server::job_launcher::WorkbenchScope) src/cpp/server/JobLauncherVerification.cpp:314
2022-07-29T11:55:30.420638Z [rserver] ERROR system error 71 (Protocol error) [description: No home directory mount configured for cluster Kubernetes and workbench RStudio - you must configure a home directory mount in /etc/rstudio/launcher-mounts for sessions to properly load user home directories]; OCCURRED AT rstudio::core::Error rstudio::server::session_proxy::overlay::{anonymous}::verifyClusterMounts(const std::set<std::__cxx11::basic_string >&, const std::vectorrstudio::server::job_launcher::MountConfigEntry&, rstudio::server::job_launcher::WorkbenchScope) src/cpp/server/JobLauncherVerification.cpp:314; LOGGED FROM: int main(int, char* const*) src/cpp/server/ServerMain.cpp:872
• The NFS server is an Azure VM and the pod is able to reach the needed ports.
• I was able to mount the home directory on the server were we have RStudio Workbench and the Launcher.
• It is an AKS cluster with an Azure CNI network configuration.
Thank you in advance!
Best Regards,
Dumitru
Interesting! Thanks for reporting this! Is your Workbench server living outside the AKS cluster?
This seems like a problem that I would forward to the support team so that we can help more directly! You can do that by sending a link to this discussion and an email to support@rstudio.com
Have you verified the exports on the NFS server? showmount -e?
I would also explore setting up a directly managed pod on the Kubernetes cluster and setting up a similar volume mount (just building such a pod manually yourself). This looks mostly like either the Kubernetes Node or the pods themselves are having a hard time talking to / being trusted by the NFS server. I.e. the NFS server could be blocking the pod's IP address from mounting, firewall, NACL rule, etc.
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Hi @cole ,
Thank you for your insights, you were on the right direction.
Here it is a brief explanation of our infrastructure and how we found the source of the issue:
Infrastructure
• AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service) with a Azure CNI as a Network configuration
• VM (Virtual machine) with RSW (RStudio Workbench)
• VM with NFS host (Network File System)
All the resources are on the same VNET (Virtual Network), the AKS is in a subnet and the VMs in a different one.
This VNET has a NSG (Network Security Group) allowing the traffic just to the specific ports and all the traffic inside the VNET is allowed by default.
Troubleshooting
We discovered that if we opened all the ports we were getting the mentioned error before.
However, if you do not opened all the ports between the NFS host and the client you will get a time out.
This is because the client will try to reach the NFS trying several ports that are usually used to connect with the NFS protocol, like 111, 2049, 1110, 4045, 892, etc. and you will not get a response back from the NFS host because there is something wrong on the communication.
We were able to see this by trying to mount the NFS directory on a pod, as you suggested Cole.
So on the pod we executed the mount command and we obtained the IP which the pod communicates to the exterior with curl ifconfig.me.
Then on the NFS host we executed the following command to observe all the communications with the port 2049 (default port for NFS protocol).
sudo tcpdump -i eth0 -nn -s0 -v port 2049 | grep "<AKS-IP>"
The interface on our case was "eth0".
Issue
Basically, the network topology was not correctly set up and after a few changes all worked.
For example, be careful if the machines or pods are on the same VNET they can only connect to each other using private IPs. On our case after the network changes we also had to change the "Host" parameter in "launcher-mounts", from an "A record" registered in the Azure-provided DNS to a private IP. So the communication between the pods and the NFS host is trough privates IP.
Hopefully this can be helpful for someone else with the same issue :wink:
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Logical functions
All of the logical functions return a boolean type. These functions allow various conditions to be tested. Types have order of precedence. When comparing values of different types, they are ranked in the following order, from greatest to least. For example, a double is sorted before an integer because of its type.
1. Nulls
2. Doubles
3. Booleans
4. Dates
5. Times
6. Refs
7. Objects
8. Arrays
9. Strings
10. Integers
And
Returns true if all values are true.
Contains
Returns true when an object path points to an object’s value.
Equals
Returns true of all values are equivalent.
Exists
Returns true if an instance has an event at a specific time.
GT
Returns true if each value is greater than all following values.
GTE
Returns true if each value is greater than, or equal to, all following values.
LT
Returns true if each value is less than all following values.
LTE
Returns true if each value is less than, or equal to, all following values.
Not
Returns the opposite of a boolean expression.
Or
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# Deprecation Plan The following is a list of deprecations, according to the [Deprecation Policy](https://github.com/parse-community/parse-server/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#deprecation-policy). After a feature becomes deprecated, and giving developers time to adapt to the change, the deprecated feature will eventually be removed, leading to a breaking change. Developer feedback during the deprecation period may postpone or even revoke the introduction of the breaking change. | ID | Change | Issue | Deprecation [ℹ️][i_deprecation] | Planned Removal [ℹ️][i_removal] | Status [ℹ️][i_status] | Notes | |--------|-------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|-----------------------|-------| | DEPPS1 | Native MongoDB syntax in aggregation pipeline | [#7338](https://github.com/parse-community/parse-server/issues/7338) | 5.0.0 (2022) | 6.0.0 (2023) | deprecated | - | | DEPPS2 | Config option `directAccess` defaults to `true` | [#6636](https://github.com/parse-community/parse-server/pull/6636) | 5.0.0 (2022) | 6.0.0 (2023) | deprecated | - | [i_deprecation]: ## "The version and date of the deprecation." [i_removal]: ## "The version and date of the planned removal." [i_status]: ## "The current status of the deprecation: deprecated (the feature is deprecated and still available), removed (the deprecated feature has been removed and is unavailable), retracted (the deprecation has been retracted and the feature will not be removed." | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
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Talk:Matrix inversion lemma
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Is there anyway to document all the nested objects used in an MS Access macro
Hello all,
I have a huge MS Access migration coming up and I'm trying to prep for it now. Not only are we bringing up new servers, but we're also going to be converting a boatload of old (2000 - 2003) Access databases to Access 2007 (it might end up being a new version, but the version doesn't matter for this request). What I'd like to do is clean up the databases by only bringing over the objects that are needed. Each database has a primary Macro that runs and does a bunch of stuff. What I'd like to be able to do is programmatically list all the objects, nested objects, functions, etc used by that macro.
For instance:
Lets say I have a Macro called "mcrAutoRun". That macro starts by running another macro named mcrM1. mcrM1 runs a make table query called qryM1_Make to create the tblM1 table. qryM1_Make uses a select query called qryM1_Select and is made up of two tables (tbl1 and tbl2). After that the mcrAutoRun macro runs a delete query called qryM2_Delete which deletes the records in the tblM2 table. Then the mcrAutoRun macro runs an append query called qryM2_Append to append the tbl3 records to the tblM2 table. Lastly it runs a function called SetCurrentDate(now()) which updates a value in the tblDates table.
What I want to do is pass the macro name to some code and have it printout a list of all the dependent objects. Whether it prints to the intermediate window or to a table or to a text file, doesn't matter to me. The desired output would be something like this:
Macro - mcrAutoRun
Macro - mcrM1
Query - qryM1_Make
Table - tblM1
Query - qryM1_Select
Table - tbl1
Table - tbl2
Query - qryM2_Delete
Table - tblM2
Query - qryM2_Append
Table - tbl3
Table - tblM2
Code - SetCurrentDate(now())
Table - tblDates
Any help or direction would be GREATLY appreciated.
shannondsAsked:
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Scott McDaniel (Microsoft Access MVP - EE MVE )Connect With a Mentor Infotrakker SoftwareCommented:
Total Access Analyzer has a complete help file, and will go over all the options needed.
Essentially you would allow TAA to analyze your database, then use the Documentation Explorer to review those objects. There is a "Macro" category in that explorer, which would tell you what you need to know about each macro. Click on that, then expand the Macro you want to review, and you'll see all the details you could ever want to know about TAA.
TAA won't print items exactly as you listed here (nothing will, unless you code it yourself) but it will get you where you need to be.
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Scott McDaniel (Microsoft Access MVP - EE MVE )Infotrakker SoftwareCommented:
The best tool for doing this is Total Access Analyzer (www.fmsinc.com). It will tell you everything available for a database.
Rick Fisher's Find and Replace (www.rickworld.com) can do the same thing, although it's not as robust as TAA, and you'll have to dig around a bit more.
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shannondsAuthor Commented:
How would you do this in TAA? I've never used it before and it's a little unclear as to how to tell it to give me a list of all the objects used in a selected macro. In the documentation wizard, I selected only the macro I'm interested in. Went through and named the output file and it went ahead and did it's thing, but the end result wasn't what I'm looking for. It looks like it will do what I'm looking for, I just don't understand how to get it to do it. I looked for an online demo/tutorial, but no luck.
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shannondsAuthor Commented:
Would have preferred some code I code write to loop through the object collection or something like that, but it looks like Total Access Analyzer might do what I need. Unfortunately, it takes FOREVER to run. I have a feeling that this process is going to be painful... LOL
Thanks for pointing me in a direction.
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Scott McDaniel (Microsoft Access MVP - EE MVE )Infotrakker SoftwareCommented:
It's always painful ...
FWIW, you could write code to show you the various attributes of different objects, but since you're looking for dependency information, the process is a LOT trickier. You'd need to parse out the SQL of each query and try to find the various object/field names, and then go from there.
I tried it once, and ended up spending a LOT more time than was necessary on the project ... overall, you're far better off just biting the bullet and using TAA.
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Creating database stubs by using the Recording Studio
You use HCL OneTest™ API’s Recording Studio perspective to create a database stub while SQL events are being recorded from a database.
About this task
To create a database stub, you must record SQL statements from a live application to populate the stub with data from the live database. Each SQL SELECT statement that is recorded will be analyzed by HCL OneTest API and the corresponding results from the live system will be copied into the database stub that is being "learned" during recording. HCL OneTest API attempts to copy the data matching the SQL WHERE clause.
For example, if the recording contains only the reading of one customer, the database stub will contain only data about that customer. Alternatively, if the recording contains the reading of, say, all customers with first name "John", the database stub will contain the same data.
Note: If there is no primary key on a database table that is being "learned", the simulation database might contain duplicate records when the learning is complete. A warning message is displayed in the Recording Studio warning message block and the server activity log if HCL OneTest API detects a table without any primary keys.
To create a database stub from recorded SQL events:
Procedure
1. In the Recording Studio perspective, select (for recording) the database that you want to stub.
Note: The database selected must be the database that was specified in Before creating database stubs.
2. Click the Record button () on the Events View toolbar.
The Create Stubbed Database Whilst Recording? dialog box is displayed.
Note: The dialog box shows the last inserted values, if any. You can retain the values or edit them.
3. Click the Yes, record the SQL and create a virtual database option button.
4. Click the Create a database stub and start it option button or the Create a database stub but don’t start it option button.
5. In the Stub name field, enter a name for the stub.
6. Click Start Recording.
7. Run a test case or a test case suite against the live system to populate the stub with sufficient data to make it useful.
You will be able to add more data to the stub later. During recording, Recording Studio will display information relating to stub creation, such as messages about database table creation. However, the stub will not be created until you stop recording.
8. On the Create Stubbed Database Whilst Recording? dialog box, click Stop Recording.
If you had selected the Create a database stub and start it option or the Create a database stub but don’t start it option, the stub is now created.
If you had selected the Keep learning option, you must execute another (or perhaps many more) stub recording sessions to generate sufficient SQL to create the stub.
Results
In the Test Factory perspective, the newly created database stub is displayed under the relevant logical resource on the component tree.
You can now start, stop, or modify the new database stub.
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Primary season is almost over. It’s been a good one for people who want to hold Trump accountable. Opinion Columnist This article is part of the Opinion Today newsletter. You can sign up here to receive the newsletter each weekday. With yesterday’s voting in Arizona, Florida and Oklahoma, the 2018 primary season is almost over. Only five states — all in the Northeast, including Massachusetts and New York — have yet to vote, and each will do so over the next couple of weeks. All told, the primary season has been quite good for Democrats. They have largely avoided nominating weak candidates in winnable districts. They have kept their focus on economic issues, where the public tends to support Democratic positions (as opposed to social issues or impeachment, on which voters are more evenly split). Meanwhile, President Trump continued acting in ways that have kept his approval ratings in the low 40s. Last night’s results continued the trend. Combined, Arizona and Florida have nine House districts that Democrats have a legitimate chance to flip, according to the Cook Political Report. Solid Democratic candidates won the primaries in all nine. In Florida’s 15th, a suburban district, The Tampa Bay Times said that Kristen Carlson, a former prosecutor, was the best fit, and she won the nomination. In Arizona’s 6th, outside Phoenix, a nurse practitioner named Heather Ross, who favors expanding Medicare, will face David Schweikert, a Republican incumbent who tried to repeal Obamacare — and who has ethical problems. (Primary ballots are still being counted, and the Democrat in second place, Anita Malik, is also a strong candidate.) None of this guarantees that Democrats will retake the House in November. The party will need to continue running a strong campaign and, in all likelihood, an unusually strong turnout for a midterm. But as primary season comes to a close, it has mostly helped the Democrats’ chances. Arguably, the most complicated result for Democrats last night was the one that received the most attention. In the Florida governor's primary, Andrew Gillum — the mayor of Tallahassee, endorsed by Bernie Sanders — won a victory many progressives are celebrating. Yet some political analysts think a losing candidate — Gwen Graham, a former congresswoman — had a better chance of winning the general election this fall. Even if those analysts are right, though, I think the congressional races are more important than any governor’s race. Only if Democrats retake Congress will Trump face any serious accountability for the damage he is doing, as my colleague Michelle Goldberg explained this week. Elsewhere: Ella Nilson of Vox and Benjamin Wallace-Wells of The New Yorker profile Gillum and explain why he has excited so many people on the left. You can join me on Twitter (@DLeonhardt) and Facebook. I am also writing a daily email newsletter and invite you to subscribe. Follow The New York Times Opinion section on Facebook and Twitter (@NYTOpinion). | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
@article {Mueller:2008-01-01T00:00:00:1938-6478:438, author = "Mueller, Paul A. and Foster, Lee and Morgan, Rory", title = "Pretreatment to Optimize MF/RO Design and Operation in a Municipal Secondary Effluent Application", journal = "Proceedings of the Water Environment Federation", volume = "2008", number = "1", year = "2008-01-01T00:00:00", abstract = "The Western Corridor Recycled Water (WCRW) Project is the largest recycled water scheme to be constructed in Australia and will be the largest project of its kind in the southern hemisphere. One of a number of drought relief initiatives of the Queensland Government, the WCRW Project will involve building pipelines from six wastewater treatment plants in Brisbane and Ipswich to three advanced water treatment plants for treatment before being transferred to end users. Luggage Point Advanced Wastewater Treatment Plant (AWTP) will contribute 70 ML/d of product water to the overall project, and is being designed and constructed on a fast-track basis to provide water treated through microfiltration (MF), reverse osmosis (RO), and ultraviolet advanced oxidation (UV/AdOx) to replenish water in Wivenhoe Dam, a source of potable water supply for the region. Previous MF/RO systems applied to municipal secondary effluent in the region have had issues with organic or biological fouling, and have had product recovery limited due to calcium phosphate scaling. Luggage Point AWTP is being designed with high-rate clarification pretreatment to provide reduction in soluble organics and precipitation of phosphorus upstream of the membrane processes. This presentation will summarize pilot testing of the MF/RO/UV/AdOx process combination with upstream clarification performed during the latter half of 2007, and implications for design and operation of the membrane processes for the plant, which is scheduled to go on line in late 2008.", pages = "438-460", url = "http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/wef/wefproc/2008/00002008/00000001/art00034", doi = "doi:10.2175/193864708788803857" } | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Degree correlations in scale-free null models
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We study the average nearest neighbor degree $a(k)$ of vertices with degree $k$. In many real-world networks with power-law degree distribution $a(k)$ falls off in $k$, a property ascribed to the constraint that any two vertices are connected by at most one edge. We show that $a(k)$ indeed decays in $k$ in three simple random graph null models with power-law degrees: the erased configuration model, the rank-1 inhomogeneous random graph and the hyperbolic random graph. We consider the large-network limit when the number of nodes $n$ tends to infinity. We find for all three null models that $a(k)$ starts to decay beyond $n^{(\tau-2)/(\tau-1)}$ and then settles on a power law $a(k)\sim k^{\tau-3}$, with $\tau$ the degree exponent.
Original languageEnglish
Article number1709.01085
Number of pages19
JournalarXiv
Issue number1709.01085
Publication statusPublished - 4 Sep 2017
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19 pages, 4 figures
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11.1.2 Extra Macros for Libtool
There are several macros which can be added to `configure.in' which will change the default behaviour of libtool. If they are used they must appear before the call to the `AC_PROG_LIBTOOL' macro. Note that these macros only change the default behaviour, and options passed in to configure on the command line will always override the defaults. The most up to date information about these macros is available from the Libtool Manual.
`AC_DISABLE_FAST_INSTALL'
This macro tells libtool that on platforms which require relinking at install time, it should build executables so that they can be run from the build tree at the expense of relinking during installation, as if `--disable-fast-install' had been passed on the command line.
`AC_DISABLE_SHARED'
`AC_DISABLE_STATIC'
These macros tell libtool to not try and build either shared or static libraries respectively. libtool will always try to build something however, so even if you turn off static library building in `configure.in', building your package for a target host without shared library support will fallback to building static archives.
The time spent waiting for builds during development can be reduced a little by including these macros temporarily. Don't forget to remove them before you release the project though!
In addition to the macros provided with `AC_PROG_LIBTOOL', there are a few shell variables that you may need to set yourself, depending on the structure of your project:
`LTLIBOBJS'
If your project uses the `AC_REPLACE_FUNCS' macro, or any of the other macros which add object names to the `LIBOBJS' variable, you will also need to provide an equivalent `LTLIBOBJS' definition. At the moment, you must do it manually, but needing to do that is considered to be a bug and will fixed in a future release of Autoconf. The manual generation of `LTLIBOBJS' is a simple matter of replacing the names of the objects mentioned in `LIBOBJS' with equivalent .lo suffixed Libtool object names. The easiest way to do this is to add the following snippet to your `configure.in' near the end, just before the call to `AC_OUTPUT'.
Xsed="sed -e s/^X//"
LTLIBOBJS=`echo X"$LIBOBJS"|\
[$Xsed -e "s,\.[^.]* ,.lo ,g;s,\.[^.]*$,.lo,"]`
AC_SUBST(LTLIBOBJS)
The Xsed is not usually necessary, though it can prevent problems with the echo command in the event that one of the `LIBOBJS' files begins with a `-' character. It is also a good habit to write shell code like this, as it will avoid problems in your programs.
`LTALLOCA'
If your project uses the `AC_FUNC_ALLOCA' macro, you will need to provide a definition of `LTALLOCA' equivalent to the `ALLOCA' value provided by the macro.
Xsed="sed -e s/^X//"
LTALLOCA=`echo X"$ALLOCA"|[$Xsed -e "s,\.$[^.]*,.lo,g"]`
AC_SUBST(LTALLOCA)
Obviously you don't need to redefine Xsed if you already use it for `LTLIBOBJS' above.
`LIBTOOL_DEPS'
To help you write make rules for automatic updating of the Libtool configuration files, you can use the value of `LIBTOOL_DEPS' after the call to `AC_PROG_LIBTOOL':
AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
AC_SUBST(LIBTOOL_DEPS)
Then add the following to the top level `Makefile.in':
libtool: @[email protected]
cd $(srcdir) && \
$(SHELL) ./config.status --recheck
If you are using automake in your project, it will generate equivalent rules automatically. You don't need to use this except in circumstances where you want to use libtool and autoconf, but not automake.
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The inner workings of Slow Earthquakes and Slow Slip Events: New insights based on field, microstructural and -chemical evidence along with targeted experiments
In this exciting project, you will focus on the processes associated with the recently discovered Slow earthquakes and Slow Slip events. Until now, the processes that enable deformation at rates slower than “normal” earthquakes but faster than the commonly observed creep, remain elusive. You will tackle this problem by conducting targeted field work, perform in-depth microscopic analyses using state-of-the-art equipment and deformation experiments. Results promise to be of high relevance to society due high population densities in areas known geodetically and geophysically as being close to Slow Slip Areas.
Background:
Geophysical and geodetic observations over the past two decades have shown that our view of how plates deform along plate boundaries needs to be revised. We now recognise the importance of Slow Earthquakes (SEs) in which slip occurs more slowly than in regular earthquakes, but significantly faster than can be attributable to normal plate motion. SEs are abundant and should leave a distinct imprint in the geological record, as they accommodate deformation within large, 50 km scale plate boundary regions e.g. subduction zones. Their observed characteristics cannot, at present, be reconciled with our current understanding of how rocks deform: the extensively-studied ductile deformation processes are not compatible with the slip rates of SEs, yet classic brittle processes would result in recognisable seismic signatures that are not observed. At present, there are number of theoretical suggestions for the processes responsible for Slow Earthquakes. However, to determine what processes are actually involved, we need to search for evidence of the relevant deformation processes in the geological record.
In summary, despite SEs potential importance in the evolution of subduction zones and societal hazard, research to date has not revealed any striking geological signature that allow determination of the underlying processes of SEs [KFS’21], hampering markedly our understanding of this important phenomena. This project aims to use field observations and field analysis, as well as in-depth sample analysis, as a way to identify the possible mechanisms involved in Slow Earthquakes generation. Such analysis allows to pinpoint down the possible mechanisms and identify possible feedback mechanism that can explain the curious relationships of Earthquake Moment, duration and propagation speeds that have been identified (Fig. 1, [G&H’23]). Examples of field observations in former subduction zones include replacement veining and shear zones (Fig. 2).
Objectives
In this project the student will work with leading scientist in Leeds and abroad to integrate latest techniques in characterizing deformation in metamorphic rocks and targeted experiments in order to understand the dynamics of the physiochemical processes at the core of Slow Earthquakes. As highlighted by [KFS’21] and [P’22] only a multi-scale and multi-disciplinary project can advance our understanding of SEs.
The project will address the following questions:
1) Distinguishing features: What features distinguish areas of inferred slow slip to areas known for very slow slip i.e. creep and very fast slip i.e. earthquakes? What are the defining signatures both in the field and at the microscale?
2) Processes: What physiochemical processes are responsible for the different slow slip geophysical signatures? Is there a “goldilocks” processes combination? Are different processes relevant at different scales?
3) Effects: How do the processes effect the long term behaviour of Slow Slip zones
In order to answers the question posed above, it will be necessary to combine different techniques and approaches.
1. Conduct field work in inferred slow slip areas: Investigate the large and small scale features, collect samples for later analysis
2. Analyse collected samples (e.g. nanoscale electron microscopy, microtomography) and geochemical techniques. One field area is New Caledonia (samples already existing, [T_etal’18; C&C’21]), while a second field area is to be determined (Option e.g. Santa Catalina (USA), HP-LT areas of E Australia, Syros, Greece). In each case, PT fluid conditions will have to be determined to assess the conditions under which deformation happened. As fluids are known to play a major part, we will be using chemistry as a tracer of fluid movement, hence analyses will be focussed on a combination of physical and chemical characterisation techniques. Specifically, you will quantify the signatures of inter- and intragrain deformation and any associated chemical or isotopic changes by combining state of the art Electron Backscatter Diffraction analysis (EBSD) and in-situ chemical analyses using a unique Focussed Ion Beam-Scanning Electron Microscope with time-of-flight detector at the University of Leeds. The spatial resolution, data analysis procedures and elemental and orientation precision of these highly advanced techniques allow for an investigation, in unprecedented detail, of the link between chemistry and deformation microstructures
3. Develop models of process dynamics derived from field and sample analysis.
4. Study the results from legacy “failed” experiments with known mechanical properties (e.g. [M_etal’02, CZT’19]). Here, slow fractures that closely resemble the known characteristics of SEs have been observed and captured in the resulting experimental samples, which are available in PP Hansen’s rock-deformation laboratory
5. Conduct well-constrained experiments of slow slip in the laboratory utilizing at the University of Minnesota (USA) followed by subsequent in-depth analysis of experimental samples. Experiment will use the isotope labelling technique that allows an examination of the chemical signature [S_etal’17]. Depending on the students interest analogue modelling similar to do that [B&M’01] can be conducted at University of Leeds.
6. Develop and test hypotheses linking the observations from the rock record into slow slip behaviours, relying on what we already know from the earthquake and Quaternary records on the environment of the studied rocks.
7. There is a potential to employ also numerical modelling to test the viability of the proposed processes to generate the geophysical signatures observed. Here collaboration with Dr. Jessica Hawthorne (University of Oxford) would be sought.
We expect the balance between these approaches to vary depending on the specific interests of the student. There is the potential to develop novel methods of integrating what you may observe in the rock record with physical models of slip; a challenging but important endeavour.
Potential for high impact outcome
Active tectonics and earthquake hazard is a pressing issue facing many countries. We are in a unique position at Leeds together with our international collaborators to bring together a range of observational, experimental and field approaches to answer important unresolved questions about the inner workings of Slow Earthquakes and Slow Slip Events and their potential link to large, devastating Earthquakes. The research topic has immediate relevance to improving our understanding of the link between slow slip and nature of seismic hazard. There will be ample opportunities to deliver the results of the project at international conferences in addition to UK meetings.
The project sits in an emerging research field with important fundamental research to be done but also important societal implications. Consequently, we anticipate the project generating several papers being suitable for submission to high impact journals.
Training
You will be part of an active group of researchers and students at SEE that focus on earthquake dynamics including experts in active faulting and microstructural investigation of rocks and minerals. In addition you will have the benefit of the wide geochemical expertise in-house through Dr. Ivan Sarov and Dr. Dan Morgan. Specifically, the student will work under the supervision of Prof Sandra Piazolo and Dr. Laura Gregory and within the Tectonics group as well as the Rocks, fluids and melts groups of the Institute of Geophysics & Tectonics in the School of Earth & Environment at Leeds. The Institute also hosts the Centre for the Observation and Modelling of Earthquakes, Volcanoes and Tectonics (COMET http://comet.nerc.ac.uk/) which provides a large group of researchers engaged in active tectonics research with whom the student can interact. This project provides a high level of specialist scientific training in: (i) geological field skills, (iii) Laboratory analysis including state-of-the-art microstructural and –chemical analysis (from outcrop to nanometer scale). As fluid presence and pressure is thought to be important we will also be trained in thermodynamic modelling to assess reaction induced fluid pressure variations [CMV’21]. The successful PhD student will have access to a broad spectrum of training workshops put on by the Faculty that include an extensive range from scientific computing through to managing your degree, to preparing for your viva (http://www.emeskillstraining.leeds.ac.uk/).
Student profile
The student should have a strong interest in tectonics problems in metamorphic rocks with interest in both the physical and chemical processes and their interaction. The student should have,a desire to undertake laboratory and fieldwork overseas, and a strong background in a quantitative science (earth sciences, geophysics, geology, physics, natural sciences). Willingness and excitement for taking up the challenge to work at the boundary of mechanics, chemical and microstructural analysis utilizing a combination of technique (field analysis, in-depth microstructural analysis, experiments and/or numerical modelling) is a prerequisite.
References
References: [A&G’79] Gandhi, & Ashby, 1979, Acta Metallurgica, 27, 1565, [B&M’01] Bons, Bon & van Milligen. Geology, 29, 919-922 [C&C] Chapman & Clarke 2021, JMG, 39, 343; [CZT19] Carter, Zimmerman,Teyssier, 2019, JSG, 127, 103871; [CMV’21] Chapman, Milan, Vry, GRL, e2021GL096415; [F+’15] Frank et al. 2015, EPSL, 413, 135; [G&H’23] Gombert, & Hawthorne (2023). Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 128(2), e2022JB025034. [H&R’13] Hawthorne & Rubin, 2013. JGR, 118, 3785; [H&B’18] Hawthorne & Bartlow, 2018, JGR, 123, 4243; [HZK’12] Hansen, Zimmerman, Kohlstedt 2012, Nature, 492, 415; [KFS’21] Kirkpatrick, Fagereng, Shelley 2021, Nature Reviews, 2, 285: [M_etal’02] Mei, Bai, Hiraga, Kohlstedt, 2002, EPSL, 201, 491; [PC’22] Penrose Conference The geological fingerprints of Slow Earthquakes, USA, March 2022; S’02] Schulson, 2002, ActaMat., 50, 3415; [S_etal’17] Spruzeniece, Piazolo, Daczko, Kilburn, Putnis, 2017, JMG, 35, 281; [T_etal’18] Taetz, John, Broecker, Spandler, Stracke, 2018, EPSL, 482, 33. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
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What Is The Use Of Botox Injection In The Procedure Of The Cosmetic Treatment?
Botox is considered to be the only ointment for curing the problems such as wrinkles and dark lines. It could also be used to increase the size of the lips for the models so that they could enhance the beauty. The Botox injection has some chemical in it that performs the main function; namely, it is botulinum which is toxic. The function of that toxic is to paralyze or weaken the muscle so that the treatment could be easier and stretch the skins to remove wrinkles.
Cosmetic treatments are those which involve mostly the treating of skin issues, and the person who performs such practice is said to be a dermatologist. Botulinum toxic produces a popular protein called Botox and is used in minimal quantity to remove the dark circle or line issues on a person’s face. There is a proper procedure to cure the issue, not just by giving the injection; all the problems will be resolved. If one wants to find a reliable platform to get Botox injections in the Atlanta area, he can use the internet.
What is the working of Botox?
The major working of Botox is based on the neurotoxic mechanism. In the case of wrinkles, the muscle is loosened from the place of attachment or the origin, and as a result, we see the extra mass of the skin. This neurotoxin paralyzes the muscle for a short span or, say, temporarily, so the muscle contracts again, and the wrinkles go away. The must be a thing to be noticed while getting treatment from Botox is that the application is temporary and does not last for a lifetime.
Moving further in more detail about the contraction leaves us on a spot where the chemical messenger is released from the nerve. After the messenger, i.e., acetylcholine reaches the nerve end, it causes a sensation for the muscle contraction. The Botox injected goes to the nerve action place and creates relaxation in the area, and the muscle becomes lesser stiff.
Uses Of Botox In The Field Of Cosmetic
Botox is supposed to be the essential component of the cosmetic industry because of the multiple uses it offers. From all the other uses of Botox, the primary use service that it offers is the reduction of wrinkles and the dark circles from the person’s face. The popularity of Botox is immense and is also famous around the world. Depending upon the treatment type given to a person decides the period upto which the compound will show its effect; besides this, it lasts from 3 to 12 months.
The major use is done on the skin for treating many issues. Some of the points where the injections are used could be as follows.
• Cure the frown lines(wrinkles that lie between one’s eyebrows)
• The line going from the forehead horizontally
• Area of the chin
• A dark line near the mouth corners
• Reduces the crow’s feet, also known to be the region around the eyes.
If a person is interested in getting the compound’s treatment, they can check the availability of Botox injection in the Atlanta area.
Procedures To Use The Botox
Botox is used in the cosmetic industry, but there are specific procedures to use to create more productivity. Botox secretes a chemical that is toxic in nature known as botulinum is the main chemical responsible for the action of muscle relaxation. The botulinum is clinically diluted to convert the powder into the saline liquid state to be transmitted directly to the neuromuscular tissue. The time taken by the toxic to make its effects might vary from one day to three days, but this time also extends in some cases to five days.
Once completed, the process shows its effect for some months, i.e., it may be 3 to 12 months. The must thing to be remembered is that the chemical or the injection should not be taken during the pregnancy or while breastfeeding their kids. Some complications occur when a person allergic to any of the substances or some specific compound intakes these Botox injections.
Conclusion
Botox is such a compound that has many uses and could be used in both the fields, such as medicals and the cosmetic field. It has many benefits, and the number of effects that could be faced is negligible. Reducing the wrinkles and the dark circles from the facial areas is the best advantage of the Botox injection. Some of the other medical uses of Botox can reduce muscular and nervous system-related disorders.
If a person has a thought of getting Botox treatment, he could take help of the internet and the medical and cosmetic experts. These authorities give people the correct suggestion from which people could have relaxation. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
README.md
# UeberauthProcore
This is a Procore adapter for Überauth. The implementation is largely taken from
https://github.com/ueberauth/ueberauth_github
## Installation
If [available in Hex](https://hex.pm/docs/publish), the package can be installed as:
1. Add `ueberauth_procore` to your list of dependencies in `mix.exs`:
```elixir
def deps do
[{:ueberauth_procore, "~> 0.1.0"}]
end
```
2. Ensure `ueberauth_procore` is started before your application:
```elixir
def application do
[applications: [:ueberauth_procore]]
end
```
3. Add Procore to your Überauth configuration:
```elixir
config :ueberauth, Ueberauth,
providers: [
procore: {Ueberauth.Strategy.Procore, []}
]
```
4. Update your provider configuration:
```elixir
config :ueberauth, Ueberauth.Strategy.Procore.OAuth,
client_id: System.get_env("PROCORE_CLIENT_ID"),
client_secret: System.get_env("PROCORE_CLIENT_SECRET"),
redirect_uri: "https://someproxy.com" #optional
``` | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Talk:Operation Backfire (FBI)
Started article
The article is currently unbalanced and unformatted, as i've only started it. I will improve it soon. Rockpocket 02:07, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
=Rod Coronado / Auburn 3=
Operation Backfire is not related to Rod Coronado. So far he has not been connected to the cases in the North West except that he is a friend of at least one of the defendants. So far there have been 14 indictments in operation backfire. The Auburn or Sacramento 3 are also not part of Operation Backfire. The targets of Operation Backfire include an alleged "super cell" of the ELF called "The Family" Dumpster 05:24, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
* Read the sources, the sypathetic media are grouping them all together under the one operational name, even if the FBI are not. It might be prudent to note that, but since its not entirely clear what the FBI considers the name to cover, i figured they should all be mentioned. Rockpocket 05:28, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
* The Indymedia article does not mention the Auburn 3 and they were not mentioned by the FBI in the January press conference. They are all part of "the Green Scare." Dumpster 06:04, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
* I moved the Auburn 3 / Rod info over to the new "Green Scare" pageDumpster 06:26, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
* Fair point, i added back just a brief mention of the other indictments for context (with the media sources that group them together). Mainly because the criticism seems to encompass the whole range or arrests. I agree that they are better served being described in detail in the green scare article though. Rockpocket 06:56, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
PETA
In this edit, User:Martial Law added PETA to the See Also section, with the edit summary: "(→See also - Incl. PETA, since they contribute money, support to the Animal Liberation Front)"
It is impossible to contribute money to the Animal Liberation Front. There are no presidents, there are no leaders, there are no organizations. The Animal Liberation Front is not a physical body. Now, you can donate money to ALF Support, who are a seperate organization, who support political prisoners. One can also donate to individual prisoner support funds, which I believe is what User:Martial Law ios talking about. Canæn 05:31, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
* Actually he is probably talking about their contributions to the legal defence funds of those who were charged with commiting criminal acts in the name of the ALF, Specifically Rod Coronado (which, come to think of it, may actually be the same thing Canæn is referring to). While that is tantamount to supporting the ALF for all intents and purposes, i personally don't think that see also link to PETA is that relevent here, but if no-one else protests, i'm not going to argue it. Rockpock e t 07:10, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
* That's exactly what I mentioned, Rockpocket. I don't see the point of the link, but don't really care. [[Image:Icons-flag-scotland.png]] Canæn [[Image:Icons-flag-scotland.png]] 06:20, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
* A recent HBO documentary claims the FBI has infiltrated PETA to take out this "Animal Rights" org as a terrorist org. I've seen it. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 21:38, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
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Eric McDavid
His article states he was sentenced and released - but the page here says he is due to be sentenced. So the information needs to be updated. I would do it but I'm not experienced enough to know how to rewrite it or add citations. Dursland (talk) 07:52, 13 December 2017 (UTC)
Info Box Structure
I don’t think the structure for a battle or war seems appropriate for this page Brownhorse0 (talk) 05:25, 27 December 2019 (UTC) | WIKI |
1978–79 Winnipeg Jets season
The 1978–79 Winnipeg Jets season was the franchise's seventh and final season in the World Hockey Association. The WHA folded after the season.
Regular season
Head coach Larry Hillman, who had guided the Jets to the AVCO Cup the previous season, was fired 61 games into the season. Three days later, Tom McVie took over and coached the remaining 19 games and guided the team to a 3rd-place finish in the league, which due to the league's dwindling fortunes meant that the top five teams of the remaining seven in the league (Indianapolis folded midway in the season) went into the playoffs. They finished one point ahead of the rival Whalers for third, which meant that the Jets got a first round bye as New England and Cincinnati played each other. The Jets played the 2nd place team, Quebec. After sweeping the Nordiques, they went to their fifth and final AVCO Cup Finals against the Oilers. Fittingly, the Jets won the Cup 4-2 and clinched the series at Winnipeg Arena 7-3 in Game 6 to end a seven-year run in which they appeared in five AVCO Cups and won three of them (1976, 1978, 1979) before the WHA merged with the NHL with the Jets included.
Regular season
* Scoring
* Goaltending
Playoffs
* Scoring
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; RUN: llc -mtriple=i686-windows-msvc < %s | FileCheck %s
; 32-bit catch-all has to use a filter function because that's how it saves the
; exception code.
@str = linkonce_odr unnamed_addr constant [27 x i8] c"GetExceptionCode(): 0x%lx\0A\00", align 1
declare i32 @_except_handler3(...)
declare void @crash()
declare i32 @printf(i8* nocapture readonly, ...) nounwind
declare i32 @llvm.eh.typeid.for(i8*)
declare i8* @llvm.frameaddress(i32)
declare i8* @llvm.localrecover(i8*, i8*, i32)
declare void @llvm.localescape(...)
declare i8* @llvm.x86.seh.recoverfp(i8*, i8*)
define i32 @main() personality i8* bitcast (i32 (...)* @_except_handler3 to i8*) {
entry:
; The EH code allocation is overaligned, triggering realignment.
%__exceptioncode = alloca i32, align 8
call void (...) @llvm.localescape(i32* %__exceptioncode)
invoke void @crash() #5
to label %__try.cont unwind label %lpad
lpad: ; preds = %entry
%cs1 = catchswitch within none [label %__except] unwind to caller
__except: ; preds = %lpad
%p = catchpad within %cs1 [i8* bitcast (i32 ()* @"filt$main" to i8*)]
%code = load i32, i32* %__exceptioncode, align 4
%call = call i32 (i8*, ...) @printf(i8* getelementptr inbounds ([27 x i8], [27 x i8]* @str, i32 0, i32 0), i32 %code) #4 [ "funclet"(token %p) ]
catchret from %p to label %__try.cont
__try.cont: ; preds = %entry, %__except
ret i32 0
}
define internal i32 @"filt$main"() {
entry:
%ebp = tail call i8* @llvm.frameaddress(i32 1)
%parentfp = tail call i8* @llvm.x86.seh.recoverfp(i8* bitcast (i32 ()* @main to i8*), i8* %ebp)
%code.i8 = tail call i8* @llvm.localrecover(i8* bitcast (i32 ()* @main to i8*), i8* %parentfp, i32 0)
%__exceptioncode = bitcast i8* %code.i8 to i32*
%info.addr = getelementptr inbounds i8, i8* %ebp, i32 -20
%0 = bitcast i8* %info.addr to i32***
%1 = load i32**, i32*** %0, align 4
%2 = load i32*, i32** %1, align 4
%3 = load i32, i32* %2, align 4
store i32 %3, i32* %__exceptioncode, align 4
ret i32 1
}
; Check that we can get the exception code from eax to the printf.
; CHECK-LABEL: _main:
; CHECK: Lmain$frame_escape_0 = [[code_offs:[-0-9]+]]
; CHECK: movl %esp, [[reg_offs:[-0-9]+]](%esi)
; CHECK: movl $L__ehtable$main,
; EH state 0
; CHECK: movl $0, 40(%esi)
; CHECK: calll _crash
; CHECK: retl
; CHECK: LBB0_[[lpbb:[0-9]+]]: # %__except
; Restore ESP
; CHECK: movl -24(%ebp), %esp
; Restore ESI
; CHECK: leal -44(%ebp), %esi
; Restore EBP
; CHECK: movl 12(%esi), %ebp
; CHECK: movl [[code_offs]](%esi), %[[code:[a-z]+]]
; CHECK-DAG: movl %[[code]], 4(%esp)
; CHECK-DAG: movl $_str, (%esp)
; CHECK: calll _printf
; CHECK: .section .xdata,"dr"
; CHECK: Lmain$parent_frame_offset = [[reg_offs]]
; CHECK: L__ehtable$main
; CHECK-NEXT: .long -1
; CHECK-NEXT: .long _filt$main
; CHECK-NEXT: .long LBB0_[[lpbb]]
; CHECK-LABEL: _filt$main:
; CHECK: pushl %ebp
; CHECK: movl %esp, %ebp
; CHECK: movl (%ebp), %[[oldebp:[a-z]+]]
; CHECK: movl -20(%[[oldebp]]), %[[ehinfo:[a-z]+]]
; CHECK: movl (%[[ehinfo]]), %[[ehrec:[a-z]+]]
; CHECK: movl (%[[ehrec]]), %[[ehcode:[a-z]+]]
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Binary Serialization of Objects
Files and Directories
Binary SerializationA few days back I discussed XML Serialization in these two articles: Basic XML Serialization in C#, and XML Serialization of Collections. In this article we are going to serialize the same Employee object we serialized in those articles, but this time we are going to use Binary serialization instead.
Binary Serialization vs. XML Serialization
You might think that binary serialization and XML serialization are the same thing, the only difference being the format of the data within the created file. Well if that is the case, you would be wrong.
Binary serialization is very different from XML serialization. XML serialization is not really an actual serialization technique – in fact one might argue that Microsoft did not name it that appropriately. XML serialization does not serialize the whole object – it only creates a stream of XML data which contains the public properties of the object while ignoring any private properties.
So how can you preserve the state of an object when you are ignoring its private properties? Well, you can’t. That’s where binary serialization comes in. With binary serialization all public and private properties are serialized, therefore retaining an exact copy of the object.
This statement can obviously be proven by opening the file of a binary serialized object with a hex editor and verifying that the private properties of the object are there, but since it is a binary file that could prove a bit problematic to read for the majority of us :).
There is a simpler way to prove this – you can monitor you class’s constructor when deserializing the file. When deserializing using XML deserialization, you will notice that the class constructor for your serialized object is called. Obviously this shows that XML serialization is not retaining a copy of the actual object, but it is re-building it by instantiating your class and then populating the public properties. With binary deserialization the serialized object’s constructor is never called, and that is because there is no need for it to be called because the whole object can be rebuilt through deserialization.
Serializing an Object
To binary serialize an object, you must add the attribute [Serializable] to each class you wish to serialize. This attribute has to be added right above your class name as shown in the below code:
using System;
namespace BinarySerialization
{
[Serializable]
public class Employee
{
public enum EmployeeSex
{
Male,
Female
}
// Private Members
private string name;
private string surname;
private DateTime dob;
private EmployeeSex sex;
private string position;
// Public Properties
public string Name
{
get { return name; }
set { name = value; }
}
public string Surname
{
get { return surname; }
set { surname = value; }
}
public DateTime DateOfBirth
{
get { return dob; }
set { dob = value; }
}
public EmployeeSex Sex
{
get { return sex; }
set { sex = value; }
}
public string Position
{
get { return position; }
set { position = value; }
}
// Constructor
public Employee()
{
}
}
}
The code to serialize our Employee object is very straight forward as can be seen below:
private void Serialize()
{
// Create an instance of the Employee class
Employee employee = new Employee();
employee.Name = "John";
employee.Surname = "Smith";
employee.DateOfBirth = new DateTime(1980, 10, 08);
employee.Sex = Employee.EmployeeSex.Male;
employee.Position = "Software Engineer";
// Create an instance of System.IO.FileStream
// to save the serialized object to disk
FileStream fileStream = new FileStream("C:\\Employee\\employee.data", FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write, FileShare.None);
// Create an instance of
// System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary.BinaryFormatter
BinaryFormatter binaryFormatter = new BinaryFormatter();
// Serialize the object
binaryFormatter.Serialize(fileStream, employee);
// Close the FileStream
fileStream.Close();
}
All we are doing in this code is creating an instance of our Employee class and populating some values, then we are creating a FileStream object to write our serialized file, and finally we are using the BinaryFormatter class to serialize our object.
The code for deserialization is also very simple:
private void Deserialize()
{
Employee employee;
// Create an instance of System.IO.FileStream
// to load the serialized object from disk
FileStream fileStream = new FileStream("C:\\Employee\\employee.data", FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read, FileShare.Read);
// Create an instance of
// System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary.BinaryFormatter
BinaryFormatter binaryFormatter = new BinaryFormatter();
// Assign the deserialized object to the new employee object
employee = (Employee)binaryFormatter.Deserialize(fileStream);
// Close the FileStream
fileStream.Close();
}
The below screenshot is displaying the Visual Studio Locals window and you can see the employee object after the deserialization process which confirms that the binary file was deserialized correctly.
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Solar magnetogram
In solar observation, a magnetogram is a pictorial representation of the spatial variations in strength of the solar magnetic field.
Solar magnetograms are produced by solar magnetographs. Some magnetographs only measure the absolute value of the magnetic field strength while others are capable of measuring the 3-dimensional magnetic field. The latter are referred to as vector magnetographs. These measurements are made by exploiting the Zeeman effect or, less frequently, the Hanle effect.
The first magnetograph was constructed by George Ellery Hale in 1908. | WIKI |
One of the most striking aspects of the play “Samson Agonistes” is how it demonstrates the significant effect that Milton‘s own life experiences had on the creation of this play. By the year 1652, Milton was completely blind. Ten years previously, in 1642, he had married Mary Powell. Milton was a Republican by faith, which made him hostile to monarchy. He had vociferously opposed the death of Charles I in 1640 and afterwards served as Cromwell’s Latin Secretary during the English Commonwealth era. Milton was imprisoned during the Restoration in 1660 as a result of his anti-royalist opinions and writings from the Commonwealth era. Several friends and well-wishers had toilsomely fought on his behalf to spare him from an extended detention. He had money problems, and his home’s ambiance was not conducive to his well-being. Milton had suffered from a number of setbacks, including blindness, a failed marriage, political persecution, gout, and financial problems. When he penned (during 1667-69) “Samson Agonistes“, we can only imagine how sad he must have felt.
In Samson’s Lament, Milton expresses a lot of his own sufferings
Milton chose a biblical figure to use for the creation of this poem or play, “Samson Agonistes“, and he decided to use Samson’s final life as the play’s climax. In the latter years of his life, Samson was a slave and a prisoner in a Gazan jail. Samson had both of his eyes blinded by his enemies not long after they had caught him as a result of Dalila’s betrayal of him. Therefore, Milton had to portray the blind, ill hero as experiencing unspeakable sorrow and mental anguish in his play. Milton himself was blind when he wrote this poem, and as was already stated, he also suffered from a number of other tragedies. Though, this does not imply that Samson and Milton are identical. However, it is clear that Milton’s characterization of Samson at this stage of his life was heavily influenced by Milton’s own mental condition and personal circumstances. Samson’s initial soliloquy, as well as references to Samson’s blindness made by the Chorus and by Manoa, all evidently illustrate Milton’s own blindness and his agony over it. In the play’s opening statement, Samson claims that being blind is his biggest affliction.
He finds himself surrounded by enemies and claims that being blind is worse than being in chains, a jail, or being beggarly. Even the most disgusting worm has the ability to see, but Samson no longer has that ability. Due to his blindness, he is always at risk for fraud, abuse, disrespect, and wrongdoing both within and outside of doors. He has never been in his own control and is always entirely under the control of others. He is more than half dead; in fact, he is just partially alive.
Obvious parallels Between Milton’s and Samson’s Struggles
As has been previously stated, Milton was deeply disappointed when the Commonwealth in England was brought to an end and was restored by monarchy. His expectations for the Commonwealth had all been crushed to pieces. King Charles I’s son, Charles II, who had previously been executed by the Puritans under Cromwell, had now ascended to the throne. Thereby, the persecution of former friends and followers of Cromwell and the Commonwealth by the Royalists was inevitable. Milton was one among many who had experienced persecution. As a result, he was able to completely understand the thoughts and sentiments of Samson, the prisoner, who regrets not having achieved the purpose for which he was born and which an angel from heaven had foretold. Samson’s parents had raised him with the conviction that he was a unique creation in God’s eyes, that he was destined to perform heroic feats, and that his mission was to free Israel from the Philistines’ dominion. But when Samson became a prisoner and felt powerless like a kid, the expectations of the parents and Samson himself had come to nothing. Samson himself draws attention to the contrast between his wonderful past and his current predicament, when he says he was God’s “nursling” and “choice delight”. In the same way, Milton was also a source of pride for his parents, and he was once regarded as a national hero and sweetheart. However, he too had been deceived by his own people, who had welcomed Charles II to the English throne. Samson’s lament, which expresses the agony of a proud and valiant man forced to live in intolerable conditions, is likewise Milton’s own sorrow. It is a lament without promise.
The Similarity Between Samson’s Wife and Milton’s Wife
The play’s depiction of Dalila brings to mind Mary Powell, Milton’s first wife, and how she had treated him. Like Samson, Milton picked his wife from among those who were hostile to him. Mary Powell was from a Royalist family, whilst Milton had strong Republican ideals. Samson had picked a Philistine woman from among his enemies as his wife. The wife in question, Dalila, had deceived Samson by removing his hair and taking away his power. After finding Milton’s house unwelcoming, Mary Powell left for her parents shortly after their wedding and hasn’t returned since. Milton had been deeply saddened by Mary Powell’s betrayal. In Samson’s rather harsh way of speaking to Dalila, we may undoubtedly discern Milton’s personal thoughts towards Mary Powell.
A Reference to current Events
Apart from a few passing mentions of current events, there is one lengthy paragraph in which references to recent occurrences and developments cannot be missed by anybody who is even vaguely familiar with English history. This is the part where the Chorus complain that God often behaves in a highly random way by eliminating those very people from His favor who He had previously accepted in his favor. The chorus claims that those who were God’s favorites have occasionally been forced to undergo all manner of degrading treatment. Milton is making reference to those people who, under the Commonwealth, had achieved prominence and esteem as a result of their deeds but who, after the restoration of the British monarchy, had suffered from violent and inhumane treatment. These sentences make a clear allusion to both Cromwell and his followers once the monarchy was restored as well as the unfortunate fate of individuals like Milton himself.
Then there are the passages where Samson contrasts slavery with freedom. He claims that a country starts to prefer slavery over freedom after it has grown corrupt due to long-standing servitude. Here, Milton is making a reference to his own people, whose love of bondage had been to blame for the removal of republicanism and liberty and for the re–establishment of monarchy and despotism in England.
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1771 in France
Events from the year 1771 in France
Incumbents
* Monarch – Louis XV
Births
* 3 January – Louis Pierre Édouard, Baron Bignon, diplomat and historian (died 1841)
* 19 June – Joseph Diaz Gergonne, mathematician and logician (died 1859)
* 24 June – Éleuthère Irénée du Pont, chemical manufacturer (died 1834 in the United States)
* 18 August – Louis-François Bertin de Vaux, journalist (died 1842)
Deaths
* 20 February – Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan, geophysicist, astronomer and chronobiologist (born 1678)
* 27 December – Henri Pitot, hydraulic engineer, inventor of the pitot tube (born 1695) | WIKI |
Berat County
Berat County (Qarku Berat), officially the County of Berat (Qarku i Beratit), is a county in the Southern Region of the Republic of Albania. It is the ninth largest by area and the ninth most populous of the twelve counties, with around 119,450 people within an area of 1798 km2. The county borders the counties of Elbasan to the north, Korçë to the east, Gjirokastër to the south and Fier to the west. It is divided into five municipalities, Berat, Dimal, Kuçovë, Poliçan and Skrapar, with all of whom incorporate twenty-five administrative units.
History
Archaeologists have found artifacts including silver women's earrings and bronze belt-buckles in Bronze Age tumuli in Pëllumbas, one of the villages of Berat. These items are similar to other artifacts found in northern Albania (Kukës and Mat), Kosovo (Gjilan) and northwestern Greece (Pogoni).
Antipatrea (Ἀντιπάτρεια) was an ancient Greek polis in Illyria, now Berat. It was founded by Cassander as Antipatreia, who named it after his father Antipater at 314 BC. An ancient Greek fortress and settlement are still visible today. Dassaretae tribe existed in the area, as early as the 6th century BC. It was captured by the Romans in the 2nd century BC. Livy (31.27.2) describes Antipatrea as a strongly fortified city in a narrow pass that the Romans sacked and burned. The city was composed of two fortifications on both banks of the Osum River.
Historical manuscripts such as the 6th century Codex Purpureus Beratinus, discovered in 1868, and the Codex Aureus, a 9th-century Greek language manuscript have revealed much about the history of the region and that Berat had a reputation for producing manuscripts; 76 of the 100 codes protected in the National Archives of Albania are from Berat, indicating its historical importance.
The town of Berat became part of the unstable frontier of the Byzantine Empire following the fall of the Roman Empire and, along with much of the rest of the Balkan peninsula, it suffered from repeated invasions by Slavs and other tribes. During the Byzantine period, it was known as Pulcheriopolis.
The Bulgarians under Simeon I captured the town in the 9th century and renamed it Beligrad (White City). They were eventually driven out in the 11th century. During the 13th century, it fell to Michael I Ducas, the ruler of the Despotate of Epirus.
In the latter part of the 13th century, Berat again came under the control of the Byzantine Empire. In 1272 Berat was captured by the forces of the Kingdom of Albania, while Michael VIII Palaiologos sent letters to the Albanian leaders of Berat and Durrës asking them to abandon their alliance with Charles I of Naples; they sent the letters to Charles as a sign of their loyalty.
In 1274 Michael VIII recaptured Berat and after being joined by Albanians, who supported the Byzantine Empire marched unsuccessfully against the Angevin capital of Durrës.
In 1280–1281, the Sicilian forces under Hugh the Red of Sully laid siege to Berat. In March 1281, a relief force from Constantinople under the command of Michael Tarchaneiotes was able to drive off the besieging Sicilian army. In 1335–1337, Albanian tribes took control of the area between Berat and Vlorë for the first time, that time the Muzakaj formed the Lordship of Berat. Serbs took control of the area in 1345. Later, it passed back into the hands of Muzaka, restoring the Lordship, until 1450.
The Ottoman Empire conquered it in 1450 from the Muzaka family. Skanderbeg's Albanian forces unsuccessfully besieged the fort in 1455. It remained under Ottoman control until 1912, when it became part of Albania. Ali Pasha (born 1744-died 1822), an Ottoman Albanian ruler, took control of Berat between 1788 and 1822, as a semi-autonomous ruler. His domain was called the Pashalik of Yanina. He refortified the city in 1809. In 1867, Berat became a sanjak in the Janina (Yanya) vilayet. During Ottoman rule, it was known Arnavut Belgradı in Turkish (meaning "Albanian Belgrade") at first and then Berat.
During the early period of Ottoman rule, Berat fell into severe decline. By the end of the 16th century, it had only 710 houses. However, it began to recover by the 17th century and became a major craft centre in the Ottoman Balkans, specializing in wood carving. During the 19th century, Berat played an important part in the Albanian national revival. It became a major base of support for the League of Prizren, the late 19th century organisation which was pro-Albanian independence.
Between 1912 and 1914, it was under the control of the Albanian provisional government, and controlled by the Principality of Albania between 1914 and 1915. It was occupied by the Allies in 1915 during the First World War, despite Albania's neutrality, before falling to Austro-Hungarian forces in 1916. Austria-Hungary sustained the occupation until 1918, after which it was occupied by Italy. Italy had plans to create an autonomous province over Albania, including the area of Berat. However, following the defeat of Italy in the Vlora War, Albania retook control of Berat. Italy again occupied Berat in 1939 during the Italian invasion of Albania. Following Italy's capitulation, Germany occupied Albania between 1943 and 1944. In November 1944, the communist-controlled Anti-Fascist National Liberation Council of Albania declared in Berat that it was the provisional government of the country, signalling the beginning of the Enver Hoxha dictatorship. Communist Albania retained control over Albania for many decades, until finally falling in 1992. Berat has since then been part of the Republic of Albania.
Geography
Berat is one of 12 counties of Albania, located in the north of the Southern Region. The county lies about 300 metres up to 2400 metres above sea level. It lies between latitudes 41° N, and longitudes 20° E. The county area is 1798 km2 and the ninth unit of the Albanian county in area and the fifth in the Southern Region. Alone among the counties, Berat neither borders the sea nor another country. It is limited to the counties of Elbasan to the north, Korçë tn the east, Gjirokastër to the south and Fier to the west.
The physical relief of the south of the county is dominated by Tomorr massif (known as the Throne of Gods) and Mount Shpirag. Standing at 2416 m above sea level, the mountain is one of the highest points in Southern Albania. A deep ravine cut by the Osum river on Tomorrs west side, which is 915 m deep in a limestone formation, is where Berat is situated on stepped terraces. The north is comprised mostly by lowlands and the Myzeqe plain. The valley of the Osum river flowing from southeast to the northwest becomes also wider.
The county is home to the source of the Seman river. The river originates close to Kuçovë at the confluence of the Osum and Devoll rivers. The Osum river flows through the Osum canyon and the city of Berat, where the river has formed the narrow Gorica gorge. The river banks tend to be densely forested. Other notable rivers include the Çorovoda river, passing through the town of Çorovodë. The geographical formations of the region are frequently mentioned in local folklore. According to legend, Tomorr personified a giant who fought his brother Shpirag, personified by a nearby mountain, for the love of a young woman. The two brothers fought bitterly for her affections and ended up killing each other. Deep in sorrow, the legend states, the grieving woman for whom they had contested wept over their deaths; her tears created the Osum river. She was then said to have turned to stone, becoming the foundation on which Berat Castle is now built. Both Tomorr and Shpirag are visible from the city of Berat.
The county experiences a Mediterranean climate. This means that the winters are mild and wet and the summers are hot and dry but it vary by local topography. There are diverse microclimates in the county such as alpine climate. Summers are generally dry while heavy rains are experienced during the winter. Climate conditions near Berat are conducive to farming and related agricultural industries. Mean monthly temperature ranges between 6.5 °C (in January) and 24 °C (in July).
Phytogeographically, the county falls within the Illyrian deciduous forests and Pindus Mountains mixed forests terrestrial ecoregions of the Palearctic Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub. Inside the county, there is a national park namely, the Tomorr National Park.
Demography
According to the last national census from 2011 this county has 141,944 inhabitants. Ethnic groups in the county include:
* Albanians = 119,159 (83.95%)
* Greeks = 180 (0.13%)
* Macedonians = 13 (0.01%)
* Montenegrins = 1 (0.00%)
* Aromanians = 670 (0.47%)
* Romani = 202 (0.14%)
* Egyptians = 108 (0.08%)
* Others = 36 (0.03%)
* No answer = 20,427 (14.39%)
Islam is the largest religion in the county, forming 40.18% of the total population. There are also some Bektashi Muslims with 8.23%, 8.44% percent consisting of believers without a denomination and Christians forming 13.88% of the county's population (Orthodox (7.48%), Evangelists (0.05% (and Roman Catholics) (1.15%). Albanians in Berat speak the Tosk dialect of the Albanian language.
Culture
The main religions in Berat are Islam and Christianity. The landscape of a mixture of minarets of mosques and grand orthodox churches and chapels are a testament to the religious coexistence of Berat inhabitants. In the Middle Ages, Berat was the seat of a Greek Orthodox Bishpric, and today Aromanian and even Greek speakers can be found in the city and some surrounding villages. In 2008, Berat was added to UNESCO's World Heritage list as an example of the coexistence of religions and cultures.
The Saint Mary of Blachernae Church dates back to the 13th century and contains 16th century mural paintings by Nikola, son of the Albania's most famous medieval painter Onufri. The first inscription recording Onufri's name was found in 1951 in the Shelqan church. The Kastoria church dates to 23 July 1547 and has a reference to Onufri's origin: "I am Onufri, and come from the town of Berat." Onufri's style in painting was inherited by his son, Nikola (Nicholas), though not so successful as his father. Onufri's museum contains works of Onufri, Nikola and other painters. There is also a number of icons and some fine examples of religious silversmith's work (sacred vessels, icon casings, covers of Gospel books, etc.). Berat Gospels, which date from the 4th century, are copies (the originals are preserved in the National Archives in Tirana). The church itself has a magnificent iconostasis of carved wood, with two very fine icons of Christ and the Virgin Mary. The bishop's throne and pulpit are also of considerable quality. Near the street which descends from the fortress is the Bachelors' Mosque (Xhami e Beqareve), built in 1827. It has an attractive portico and an interesting external decoration of flowers, plants, and houses. The King Mosque (Xhamia e Mbretit), the oldest in the town built in the reign of Bayazid II (1481–1512), is notable for its fine ceiling. The Lead Mosque (Xhamia e Plumbit), built in 1555 and so called from the covering of its cupola. This mosque is the centre of the town. The Halveti Teqe (Teqeja e Helvetive) of 1790 is a khanqah (or zawiya) of the Khalwati Sufi order. It has a porch and a carved and gilded ceiling. Near of tekke is purported to be the grave of Shabbatai Zevi, a Turkish Jew who had been banished to Dulcigno (present day Ulcinj) who created controversy among his followers upon his conversion to Islam. Folk music culture exists in Berat County and the performers often wear traditional dress. | WIKI |
Best answer: Can we run spark without Hadoop and yarn?
Does Spark need YARN?
Apache Spark can be run on YARN, MESOS or StandAlone Mode.
Can YARN run without HDFS?
Yes. For what “filesystem” is, look at the Filesystem Specification.
Is Spark based on Hadoop?
Spark is a fast and general processing engine compatible with Hadoop data. It can run in Hadoop clusters through YARN or Spark’s standalone mode, and it can process data in HDFS, HBase, Cassandra, Hive, and any Hadoop InputFormat.
Does Spark replace Hadoop?
Apache Spark doesn’t replace Hadoop, rather it runs atop existing Hadoop cluster to access Hadoop Distributed File System. Apache Spark also has the functionality to process structured data in Hive and streaming data from Flume, Twitter, HDFS, Flume, etc.
Can spark work without Hadoop?
As per Spark documentation, Spark can run without Hadoop. You may run it as a Standalone mode without any resource manager. But if you want to run in multi-node setup, you need a resource manager like YARN or Mesos and a distributed file system like HDFS,S3 etc. Yes, spark can run without hadoop.
Do you need YARN for Hadoop?
YARN is the main component of Hadoop v2. 0. YARN helps to open up Hadoop by allowing to process and run data for batch processing, stream processing, interactive processing and graph processing which are stored in HDFS. In this way, It helps to run different types of distributed applications other than MapReduce.
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Why do we need Spark for Hadoop?
Hadoop and Spark are not mutually exclusive and can work together. Real-time and faster data processing in Hadoop is not possible without Spark. On the other hand, Spark doesn’t have any file system for distributed storage. … Hence, HDFS is the main need for Hadoop to run Spark in distributed mode.
What is YARN and mesos?
In between YARN and Mesos, YARN is specially designed for Hadoop work loads whereas Mesos is designed for all kinds of work loads. YARN is application level scheduler and Mesos is OS level scheduler. it is better to use YARN if you have already running Hadoop cluster (Apache/CDH/HDP).
Does Hadoop run with commodity hardware?
The Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) is a distributed file system designed to run on hardware based on open standards or what is called commodity hardware. This means the system is capable of running different operating systems (OSes) such as Windows or Linux without requiring special drivers.
Which is better Spark or Hadoop?
Spark has been found to run 100 times faster in-memory, and 10 times faster on disk. It’s also been used to sort 100 TB of data 3 times faster than Hadoop MapReduce on one-tenth of the machines. Spark has particularly been found to be faster on machine learning applications, such as Naive Bayes and k-means.
Should I learn Hadoop or Spark?
No, you don’t need to learn Hadoop to learn Spark. Spark was an independent project . But after YARN and Hadoop 2.0, Spark became popular because Spark can run on top of HDFS along with other Hadoop components. … Hadoop is a framework in which you write MapReduce job by inheriting Java classes.
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An experimental insight of friction stir welding of dissimilar AA 6061/Mg AZ 31 B joints
Rajesh Jesudoss Hynes, N and Vivek Prabhu, M and Shenbaga Velu, P and Kumar, R and Tharmaraj, R and Farooq, Muhammad Umar and Pruncu, Catalin Iulian (2021) An experimental insight of friction stir welding of dissimilar AA 6061/Mg AZ 31 B joints. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part B: Journal of Engineering Manufacture. ISSN 2041-2975
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In the present scenario, aerospace and automobile industries depend on lightweight materials such as magnesium and aluminum alloys because of their great balance between mechanical properties and weight ratio. Despite these benefits during the joining process of these dissimilar materials by welding, many challenges arises. The prominent one is related to the low melting points of these lightweight metals which make it almost impossible the joining using conventional arc welding techniques. To tackle this challenge, Friction Stir Welding (FSW) can be considered as a promising candidate tool. In this study, to demonstrate the FSW performances of joining two dissimilar materials we have investigated the joining of AA 6061 and Mg AZ 31 B using a built-in house a modified milling machine. The dissimilar combinations of AA 6061 and Mg AZ 31 B joints were successfully joined by embedding different welding conditions and varying the offset distance. The mechanical performances were evaluated by conducting specific mechanical tests such as micro-hardness, tensile, and impact tests, respectively. To explain the mechanical results, we have applied optical microscopy observation on the microstructure associated with the bonding location. The results prove that the strength of the Friction Stir Welded joints is much higher as compared to other techniques especially in terms of dissimilar metals.
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Rajesh Jesudoss Hynes, N, Vivek Prabhu, M, Shenbaga Velu, P, Kumar, R, Tharmaraj, R, Farooq, Muhammad Umar and Pruncu, Catalin Iulian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4926-2189; | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
The poem “Villegiature” at first shows stereotypical images of love. Nesbit is talking about escaping from reality by trying to convince herself that she is in love with a man. She describes their relationship in a positive way, almost trying to convince herself as well as the reader. Although nearer the end of the poem she begins to admit to herself that she does not love this man and cannot make herself love him. She tries to convince herself that she is looking back on fond memories but the reality is that the time they had was boring.
A Woman to Her Lover” presents love in another way: it is about the way men see and treat women in the nineteenth century. It is unusual for a woman in this period of time to express her feelings about love and marriage in this way. In the time this poem was written, women were forced to get married to who their parents told them to get married to, they would not have any say in the matter and would not usually go against their parents wishes. Walsh describes three different types of marriages and explains why she would not want any of those kinds of marriages.Order now
Unlike the other two poems, “When We Two Parted” was written by a man and so shows a different view about love. This poem is unusual because men are not usually seen as being heartbroken and this poem shows a view of a broken hearted man. This poem is about two people who are having a secret affair, until the woman abandons the man, leaving him heartbroken. The connection between the three poems is that they all show strong women who know what they want. “A Woman to Her Lover” is split into four stanzas, but they are not of equal length.
The best marriage that she describes has the longest stanza to show what she wants. The first three stanzas talk about three different kinds of marriages. She ends the first two paragraphs with “I refuse you! ” , she is giving him an outright rejection and referring to him as a “fool” shows him that she is not interested in him if that is the type of marriage he wants. The effect of free verse in “A Woman to Her Lover” is to make is sound almost speech like. “When We Two Parted” and “Villegiature” are also split into four stanzas but the stanzas are of equal length.
They both follow the same rhythm throughout the poem. They both use a rhyme scheme typical of love poetry but the poets present unusual love. The slow rhyme scheme is used because they are both recounting a memory from the past almost story like. “A Woman to Her Lover” builds up the first three paragraphs to the final forth when she is explaining how she wants love to be presented to her; “our co-equal love” … “live and work. to love and die with you”, this phrase contrasts almost like wedding vows.
The storyline develops from her saying what she doesn’t want in a marriage, to what she does want which is equality and love. In the poem “Villegiature” the storyline develops the opposite way: “Romeo’s way. And through the blossom climbed and kissed me. ” After complimenting him on his romantic ways, she changes her view of him, “I did not love you” … “Oh dear! ” … “you always bore me”; she refers to Romeo who fits in with romantic tradition but shatters the image with her sarcasm and humour. She comes back to reality and admits to how she really feels, by using “Oh dear! she comes across as sarcastic and shows she has no sympathy for the man.
“When We Two Parted” also ends in a sad way leading to heartbreak, “In secret we met – In silence I grieve. ” The repetition of silence emphasises the fact that it was a secret relationship and so he cannot share his pain with anybody. The man is being rejected by the woman after having what seemed like a loving relationship. Walsh uses a lot of alliteration in “A Woman to Her Lover”: “whose every deed and word and wish” … “hand holding hand” she uses this phrase to emphasise their togetherness.
She uses many poetic techniques to show how happy they could be if he fulfilled her wishes of their marriage, “stars to laugh with joy”, this is a powerful metaphor that shows the effect on the world and also seemingly represents their love, marriage and happiness. Nesbit does not use many poetic techniques in “Villegiature”. However she does use a metaphor to represent a thing of the past: “ghost” is used to describe her lover in a memory where he would climb up to her window, although she refers to him with something that is usually associated with a negative connection.
All three poems presented love in a different way. “A Woman to Her Lover” shows the most interesting way love is presented as it is the most honest. Walsh talks about how different people can view love and also how she would want love to be. “Villegiature” presents sort of “fake” love where there is no love for her to the man but Nesbit is trying to convince herself there is even though the only love there is the unreturned love from the man to the woman. “When We Two Parted” shows a sad way of how love that ends in heartbreak. It is also an honest poem as it shows love can grow and then fade away. | FINEWEB-EDU |
When winter alarms triggers, the fear of winter frightens leaving people undelightful especially to the one who are already trapped by their joint pains. With every fall in degree, there is an increase in the joint pain. Joints are more irritable, rigid and painful in winters than summers.
Why winters aggravate joint pain?
This is because of barometric pressure which means the weight of the air pressing on the earth and its changes could be felt inside the nerve endings of tissue inside the joint. Thus, in both summers and winters pressure systems move across the earth's surface, affecting victims of joint pain. Winters are very notorious.
The problem of pain is not same for all. Joint pain refers to some kind of discomfort, aches or soreness in the joints. The existence of joint pain is classified into inflammatory joint pain (Arthritis) and non-inflammatory joint pain (Arthralgia). Both joint pains are sub-categorized into 22 joint pains out which some Osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, migratory arthritis, ankle pain, tendinitis, gout, joint redness, osteonecrosis and many more. Body areas usually affected are hips, ankles, and hands.
Every mile is two in winters. Don’t let your joint pain be the spoil sport. Let us discover the beauty of winters by saying goodbye to joint pain merely, by discovering the right food eating habits. Don’t give up; diet and the healthy lifestyle will prove to be good relievers of your pain permanently.
So when your joints start to warn you of miserable weather ahead, plan to have these. Also, these tips are generalized.
Firstly, who complains of joint pain should get their uric acid levels tested. In case the levels are high, avoid the intake of purines in the diet.
Intake of Salmon fish oil capsules could be very beneficial to reduce general inflammation, morning stiffness, and reduce joint pain.
Calcium and vitamin D are essential for the health of bones. One can even opt for low-fat milk and contains the same calcium content as full-fat milk. Moreover, it is preferable to get 15 minutes of sunlight daily either one can go vitamin D supplements.
Nuts and seeds are an excellent sources of inflammation-fighting monounsaturated fat. Also one can eat Alsi Pinni in winters for their ease.
Bathing salt is not behind in loosening of stiff joints and reducing swelling in joints.
Vitamin C rich citrus fruits like oranges, grapefruits and lime aids in preventing inflammatory arthritis and maintaining healthy joints. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Little evidence for developmental plasticity of adult hematopoietic stem cells.
Science 297(5590):2256 (2002) PMID 12215650
To rigorously test the in vivo cell fate specificity of bone marrow (BM) hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs), we generated chimeric animals by transplantation of a single green fluorescent protein (GFP)-marked HSC into lethally irradiated nontransgenic recipients. Single HSCs robustly reconstituted peripheral blood leukocytes in these animals, but did not contribute appreciably to nonhematopoietic tissues, including brain, kidney, gut, liver, and muscle. Similarly, in GFP+:GFP- parabiotic mice, we found substantial chimerism of hematopoietic but not nonhematopoietic cells. These data indicate that "transdifferentiation" of circulating HSCs and/or their progeny is an extremely rare event, if it occurs at all.
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Christy Brissette, MS, RD is one of North America's top dietitians and a leading nutrition and food communications expert. She is the President of 80 Twenty Nutrition, a nutrition and food media company. Her mission is to end food confusion and dieting once and for all. Christy appears on national TV and is interviewed for international magazines, radio and websites. She empowers her clients to look and feel their best with the healing power of healthy, delicious food. She helps clients achieve results through cutting-edge, creative and fun meal plans and recipes. You can still enjoy your favourite foods and have the body of your dreams!
Many diets, including Atkins and the keto diet, fit into this umbrella. A typical low-carb diet limits carbs to less than 60 g daily, but this can vary, according to the Mayo Clinic. (15) In a September 2015 review published in PLoS One, people following low-carb diets saw modest weight loss — although study authors note that long-term effects of the diet require further research. (16)
Because the diet isn’t as restrictive as a traditional vegan or vegetarian diet, it may be simpler to stick with — hence its No. 2 ranking in U.S. News & World Report’s Easiest Diets to Follow category. Because you’ll be eating meat some of the time, you may also be at a lower risk of the aforementioned nutrient deficiencies that vegetarians and vegans may face.
In a nutshell, a “fad” is a diet trend that is most likely temporary, boosted by marketing dollars, and not scientifically-tested for safety and/or effectiveness (and sometimes outright dangerous). Before committing to any diet plan, make sure to do some research regarding your chosen plan’s claims, so you can be certain it is not only nutritionally sound, but also the perfect one for you.
To prep his patients for success, Dr. Seltzer tells them to plan around a large evening meal by eating a lighter breakfast and lunch—NBD since most people who eat a meal before bed tend to wake up feeling relatively full, he says. Research suggests balanced bedtime meals may also promote steady next-day blood sugar levels, which also helps with appetite regulation.
If you don’t have an established exercise routine, “walking is a pretty good entry point for people,” says Gagliardi. One small study published in The Journal of Exercise Nutrition & Biochemistry found that obese women who did a walking program for 50-70 minutes three days per week for 12 weeks significantly slashed their visceral fat compared to a sedentary control group.
"A study by David Jenkins, MD, PhD—the University of Toronto pioneer in low-glycemic eating — demonstrates that eating small portions at frequent intervals is good for your health in a number of remarkable ways. Within the study, they found that people who ate every three hours reduced their blood cholesterol by over 15% and their blood insulin by almost 28%. That's key, because in addition to regulating your blood sugar level, insulin plays a pivotal role in fat metabolism, inflammation and the progression to metabolic syndrome. When your body produces less insulin, you're much less likely to convert dietary calories into body fat.
The most basic approach to weight loss is burning more calories than you consume. For instance, since 3,500 calories equals 1 pound of fat, a weight loss app—or even just a pen and paper—can help you decide how many calories you need to cut from your diet or burn at the gym in order to meet your goals. “If you were to burn 500 more calories per day 7 days a week, that would lead to 3,500 calories in a week and 1 pound of weight loss,” says Gagliardi.
After a free diet analysis based on your Body Mass Index and submitting your ideal weight, Nutrisystem will recommend a plan to help you reach your goal. This plan is designed by nutritionists and allows for six meals a day (4 of them delivered by Nutrisystem and 2 to be prepared by you, following Nutrisystem’s guidance and recipes). This way you won’t be hungry for long, making it easier to stick to the diet plan until its completion.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is on Capitol Hill today, where he will testify before the House Financial Services Committee about Libra, Facebook's cryptocurrency initiative. But that likely won't be the only issue to come up during questioning. CNET senior producer Dan Patterson and CBS News political correspondent Ed O'Keefe joined CBSN to discuss the controversies involving Facebook.
The best low-cal diet plan isn't a diet so much as it is a method. CICO stands for "calories in, calories out" and is based on the mathematically sensible principle that as long as you're burning more calories than you're eating, you'll lose weight. All you need to get started is a way to track your calories—there are plenty of apps on the market although a pen and paper works great too—and a food scale to keep you honest about your portion sizes. (Also read this guide on how to safely cut calories to lose weight.) People love the simplicity and straightforwardness of the plan. And while it may not be the fastest way to lose weight, you're guaranteed to have success long term. (Just know that some weight-loss experts actually don't recommend calorie counting.)
Safety: The history of dieting is filled with dangerous and downright life-threatening practices, from the fad of ingesting cotton balls to the infamous tapeworm diet. That's why, when looking for the best diet plan, nutritional balance and reduced caloric intake (usually 1,200 for women and 1,500 for men) are a must. After all, a diet is supposed to make you healthier, not make you sick.
In practice, this means salt is substituted with herbs and spices. There are two models: the Standard Model, which recommends less than 2,300 milligrams of sodium per day, and the Low Sodium Model, which recommends less than 1,500 milligrams of sodium per day. Studies suggest DASH is also good for preventing osteoporosis, cancer, heart disease, and diabetes.
"Use a VersaClimber or take a VersaClimber class. These machines are still not that common, but in my opinion they are far more effective for weight loss than other forms of cardio. They require you to use a large portion of your muscles and it's functionally better for you than other forms of cardio like spinning. Everyone is talking about Rise Nation in LA at the moment as they are the first dedicated VersaClimbing studio. There's no harder cardio workout I have tried. To lose fat you have to put in the work. — Dan Roberts, celebrity trainer and creator of Methodology X
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Lech Browary Wielkopolski
Lech Browary Wielkopolski (English: Lech Breweries of Greater Poland) is a big industrial brewery in Poznań, with a production capacity of 7.5 million hl. The plant is owned by Asahi Breweries subsidiary Kompania Piwowarska SA.
History
The modern brewing plant in Poznań was built between 1975 and 1980. In 1984, a malthouse was added. By 1992, along with other brewers, it was part of Wielkopolskie Zakłady Piwowarsko-Słodownicze SA, but after 1992, it became the company's main production facility, Lech Browary SA. In 1993, the ministry decided to privatize the ownership of the brewery. As a result of the tender a majority shareholder in the company was Euro Agro Centrum Poznań, owned by entrepreneur Jan Kulczyk.
In 1996, the brewery was taken over by South African Breweries, which in the same year, together with Jan Kulczyk, purchased the Tyskie Brewery. Three years later, the two breweries were combined to form Kompania Piwowarska.
On 11 March 2007, at the newly opened section of the brewery, the world's biggest beer mug was erected and filled with Lech Pils beer, setting a Guinness world record for the largest number of people drinking from one mug, which included 4250 liters of beer. The establishment of the record was attended by 10,625 people.
On 31 July 2010, an advertisement containing words "Zimny Lech" (Cold Lech) was placed near Wawel. The controversy was that in Polish, "zimny Lech" means both cold Lech (beer), and can coincidentally mean cold (body of) Lech (Kaczyński), the former president of Poland, who was buried in Wawel on 18 April 2010. On 2 August 2010, it was announced that the advertisement would be removed from near Wawel, as well as from other cities.
In 2017, Kompania Piwowarska was acquired by Asahi. | WIKI |
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reader is wanted to expect every kind of irregularity in these modern hexameters: spondaic lines, so called, are almost the rule; and a word will often require to be transposed by the voice from the end of one line to the beginning of the next. | WIKI |
Australia housing market revival to continue into 2020: Reuters poll
BENGALURU (Reuters) - Australia’s housing market revival will carry on into 2020 thanks to a series of interest rate cuts from the Reserve Bank of Australia this year and another expected next year, according to a Reuters poll of property market analysts. Respondents were, however, skeptical about how long the rebound would last, with most saying it would only be a year before the rate of house price inflation cooled off again. The latest Reuters poll of 13 property analysts taken Nov. 6-20 showed average home prices would rise 5.0% nationally next year, nearly double the rate predicted just three months ago, and then slowing to 4.5% in 2021. Six of 10 analysts who answered an additional question said further interest rate cuts to the record-low 0.75% benchmark cash rate after three RBA cuts already this year would stimulate Australia’s housing market activity and prices significantly. “Oh, how the story has changed. Six months ago, the key debate among many Australian housing market observers was how much further prices could fall,” noted Paul Bloxham, chief economist at HSBC in Sydney. “We expect housing prices to continue to rise in 2020, underpinned by mortgage rates, which are likely to stay low for a considerable period of time.” The RBA is expected to ease once more in 2020 in its bid to boost a slowing economy that has marked nearly three decades of uninterrupted expansion. All but one respondent in the latest Reuters poll said that Australia’s housing market activity is more likely to rebound over the coming 12 months than decline again. “Households have responded strongly to regulatory easing and rate cuts. Strong pricing growth particularly in Sydney and Melbourne is likely over the next year,” noted Adelaide Timbrell, economist at ANZ. A regional breakdown of the poll data showed Sydney and Melbourne, Australia’s two most populous cities which contribute about 43% to the country’s gross domestic product, would lead property price growth in 2020. House prices in Sydney and Melbourne were forecast to rise 7.7% and 7.4% in 2020, respectively. In Brisbane and Adelaide they were expected to rise 2-3% next year and in 2021. But analysts were skeptical about how long the sudden revival in Australia’s property market would last, particularly given that the broader economy is still not showing many signs of improvement. Australia’s wage price index rose 0.5% in the third quarter and consumer sentiment held below average in November, suggesting that recent monetary policy stimulus has failed to spur household demand. In a Reuters poll taken last month, economists forecast the Australia economic growth to slow to 1.9% this year, the weakest rate since the 1990-1991 recession, followed by 2.5% in 2020 and 2021. “A strong rebound in household consumption will remain elusive given that the outlook is for income growth to remain subdued in the coming quarters,” noted Katrina Ell, economist at Moody’s Analytics. China, Australia’s largest offshore property investor, has imposed strict capital controls amid the ongoing trade conflict with the United States. Analysts said that could affect the sustainability of the recent house price recovery. “Low foreign demand for housing and a weaker economic environment should limit home price growth. Our view is of national home price growth of around 5% after this initial bounce has run its course,” said Diana Mousina, senior economist at AMP Capital in Sydney. On an affordability scale of 1 to 10, where 1 is extremely cheap and 10 is extremely expensive, Australia house prices were rated 7 by respondents in the Reuters poll. Polling and analysis by Vivek Mishra; Editing by Ross Finley and Alexandra Hudson | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Publication
Modulation of the endosomal and lysosomal distribution of cathepsins B, L and S in human monocytes/macrophages
Journal Paper/Review - Jul 1, 2002
Units
PubMed
Doi
Citation
Schmid H, Sauerbrei R, Schwarz G, Weber E, Kalbacher H, Driessen C. Modulation of the endosomal and lysosomal distribution of cathepsins B, L and S in human monocytes/macrophages. Biological chemistry 2002; 383:1277-83.
Type
Journal Paper/Review (English)
Journal
Biological chemistry 2002; 383
Publication Date
Jul 1, 2002
Issn Print
1431-6730
Pages
1277-83
Brief description/objective
Endosomal and lysosomal fractions of human monocytes/macrophages prepared from buffy coats were analyzed for activities of cathepsins B, L and S, and expression of cathepsin proteins along with major histocompatibility complex class I and class II molecules under control and immunomodulatory conditions. While the total activity of cathepsins B, L, and S together remained unchanged in lysates of control cells during culture for 72 h, the subcellular distribution of cathepsin activities underwent a shift from a predominantly endosomal localization in freshly isolated cells to a lysosomal pattern after 72 h of culture. Interferon-gamma treatment for 72 h resulted in an upregulation of both major histocompatibility complex proteins and cathepsins with differential changes in cathepsin B, L and S activities in endosomes versus lysosomes. These changes suggest a remodeling of the endocytic machinery and imply different functions of cathepsins B, L and S during monocyte differentiation. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Nickanan Night
Proper noun
* 1) A traditional Cornish feast, held on the Monday before Lent, during which local youths would undertake acts of minor vandalism and play practical jokes. | WIKI |
Subclade
In genetics, a subclade is a subgroup of a haplogroup.
Naming convention
Although human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and Y chromosome DNA (Y-DNA) haplogroups and subclades are named in a similar manner, their names belong to completely separate systems.
mtDNA
mtDNA haplogroups are defined by the presence of a series of single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers in the hypervariable regions and the coding region of mitochondrial DNA. They are named with the capital letters A through Z, with further subclades named using numbers and lower case letters.
Y-DNA
Y-DNA haplogroups are defined by the presence of a series of SNP markers on the Y chromosome. Subclades are defined by a terminal SNP, the SNP furthest down in the Y chromosome phylogenetic tree.
Human Y-DNA
The Y Chromosome Consortium (YCC) developed a system of naming major human Y-DNA haplogroups with the capital letters A through T, with further subclades named using numbers and lower case letters (YCC longhand nomenclature). YCC shorthand nomenclature names Y-DNA haplogroups and their subclades with the first letter of the major Y-DNA haplogroup followed by a dash and the name of the defining terminal SNP. Y-DNA haplogroup nomenclature is changing over time to accommodate the increasing number of SNPs being discovered and tested, and the resulting expansion of the Y chromosome phylogenetic tree. This change in nomenclature has resulted in inconsistent nomenclature being used in different sources. This inconsistency, and increasingly cumbersome longhand nomenclature, has prompted a move towards using the simpler shorthand nomenclature. | WIKI |
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Meet your teams!Maken the BaconHow You Ben Franklins?Washington Machines
QuestionWhat is a plantation?AnswerA large farm that grows cash cropsQuestionWhat is an indentured servant?AnswerA person who agrees to work for a certain amount of time to pay off a debt.QuestionWhat is an apprentice?AnswerA child who is given as a trainee to a craftsman. The child works as a servant and learns the craftsmans trade.QuestionWhat is the Maryland Toleration Act?AnswerIt was the first law in the 13 Colonies that granted religious toleration to other religious.QuestionWhat were Slave Codes?AnswerThey were the laws passed after Bacons Rebellion to restrict the rights of slaves.These laws were made because slaves participated in Bacons Rebellion and the planters were scared of a slave rebellion.They changed what slavery was like in the 13 Colonies. They made the life of slaves much harsher and restricted what slaves could do, where before slaves were treated similarly to indentured servants and apprentices.They made it illegal for slaves to learn to read and marry. They made slaves property, not people.QuestionWhat was Bacons Rebellion and why is it important?AnswerNathaniel Bacon lead a rebellion of former indentured servants against the Virginia governor. The indentured servants moved west onto Native lands when they were freed. The Natives fought back. Bacon and his followers were angry because the governor wouldnt protect them.It was important because planters saw the danger of large numbers of indentured servants. This lead to a decline in indentured servitude and an increase in African slavery.They planters made peace with the indentured servants by making war on the Native Americans.They also refocused the hatred of the indentured servants onto slaves, who were competing with them for jobs. This lead to the development of Slave Codes and the beginning of racism against Black slaves.QuestionDescribe the task system of slavery.AnswerSlaves were given a list of tasks to finish every day. If they finished their tasks, they were free to use their time how they pleased. This is what slavery was often like early in the history of the colonies.QuestionDescribe the gang system of slavery.AnswerGangs of slaves were forced to work in the fields all day. It was much harsher than the task system. Slavery in the colonies shifted from the task system to the gang system as huge plantations developed, as Slave Codes were passed, and Africans slaves started to be used more often than indentured servants.QuestionWhat was the House of Burgesses?AnswerIt was a group of lawmakers that were elected by the citizens of Virginia Colony. It worked like Congress works today. In fact, it was one of the inspirations for Congress.QuestionWhat is a proprietary colony?AnswerA colony owned by a lord or a group of lords. It was usually run by a governor appointed by the proprietors.QuestionWhat was a royal colony?AnswerIt was a colony owned by the King of England. The King often eventually got ownership of the proprietary colonies. He appointed governors to rule the colonies for him.QuestionWhat is a charter colony?AnswerIt is a colony that is ruled by an English company or corporation (Virginia and Massachusetts are examples). The Jamestown and Plymouth Colonies formed companies to pay for the move to the New World.QuestionWhere was New England? What are some examples of colonies?AnswerIt was the most northern group of colonies. It was mainly settled by Puritans seeking religious freedom.Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Vermont, and New HampshireQuestionDescribe where the Middle Colonies were located.Name the Middle Colonies.AnswerThey were in the middle, between New England and the Southern Colonies.New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and DelawareQuestionWhere were the Southern colonies located?Name the Southern colonies.AnswerThey were obviously the most southern colonies.Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and GeorgiaQuestionWhat was the Great Awakening?AnswerIt was a religious movement in the 13 Colonies. It was revival, or renewed interest in religionIt focused on Heaven and HellIt focused on emotion and feelingIt was lead by traveling preachersIt had huge outdoor gatherings for which thousands gathered to hear preachers speakIt was a reaction to the EnlightenmentQuestionWhat was the Enlightenment?AnswerIt was a movement in the 13 Colonies that focused more on this world and what it could teach us.It was lead by thinkers and writersIt focused on reason and thinkingIt focused on scienceIt was a reaction to the Great AwakeningQuestionWhat was the French-Indian War?AnswerIt was a war between England and France. The colonists and Iroquois fought for England.The French colonists and most of the Native Americans fought for France.They fought over who would control the Ohio River Valley between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi.The English won. The French were kicked out of North America. The Natives were dealt a serious defeat. The English colonists started streaming over the mountains and taking Native land. QuestionWhat makes the New England colonies similar politically? Economically? Religiously?AnswerReligiously: settled by Puritans, many didnt have religious toleration until much later after the Great Awakening.Politically: They had many different kinds of governments.Economically: Most people farmed corn or wheat on small farms. Shipping, shipbuilding, and trade were big.QuestionWhat makes the Middle Colonies similar economically? Religiously? Politically?AnswerEconomically: Farmed mainly tobacco. Bigger cities, like New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore. Banking, shipping, and trade important.Religiously: They were many different religions. Pennsylvania was originally Quaker, New York was a mix, Maryland was mainly Catholic. But these colonies were the first to develop religious toleration, then religious freedom.Politically: They had many different kinds of governments.
QuestionHow were the Southern Colonies similar economically? Religiously?AnswerEconomically: Big plantations that farmed tobacco, rice, and indigo. More indentured servants (and later, slaves).Religiously: Most had the Church of England (Anglican) as their state church, but later developed religious toleration after the Great Awakening.Politically: They had many different kinds of governments.
QuestionDescribe the difference between House Slave and Field Slaves
AnswerHouse slaves were clothed better and ate better because they were around the masters family.House slaves were considered privileged by the field slavesField slaves mainly worked in farming tradesField slaves rarely saw their masters family, many couldnt speak EnglishQuestionDescribe the government of South Carolina colony. How is it similar to the USAs government today?
AnswerIt had a president appointed by the proprietors. It also had a congress elected by the people. They were forced to work together to rule the colony. This is similar to the President and Congress of the USA today.QuestionExplain the government of Virginia. How is it similar to the USAs government today?
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Word 'Trump' spray-painted with swastika on Yale Law School steps | TheHill
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User:Kgt11/Atypical Anorexia/Rac150 Peer Review
General info
* Whose work are you reviewing?
Kgt11, VelenWu, GraceRademacher
* Link to draft you're reviewing
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Kgt11/Atypical_Anorexia?veaction=edit&preload=Template%3ADashboard.wikiedu.org_draft_template
* Link to the current version of the article (if it exists)
* n/a
Evaluate the drafted changes
(Compose a detailed peer review here, considering each of the key aspects listed above if it is relevant. Consider the guiding questions, and check out the examples of what feedback looks like.)
Super great article so far, it's surprising that there isn't a page for this yet! The information you have so far seems to be unbiased and provides a good overview of atypical anorexia.
Citations are needed for signs and symptoms section, but otherwise citations look good! I don't know if each symptom needs a citation, but you definitely need something cited in that intro paragraph and maybe on the headers for the two types of symptoms? Should be pretty easy to provide a link to the dsm-5 or whatever source you're using! Y'all also seem to rely on one source a lot, but I'm sure that will change as you add more to your work.
I think each section needs more in it, especially the history section. Maybe look into how and why it was finally added? There are probably sources from around the time it was finally added that talk about it, maybe news archives could be good to check out? I think treatment and epidemiology could also be a good way to branch out sources and flesh out the article. You also mentioned secondary side effects in your treatment section, would that go under signs and symptoms as well? Overall this is really good and it's so cool that y'all are adding a new article! What you have looks really great aside from the citations issue in symptoms, I would just say keep adding more to your work as you research. | WIKI |
Template talk:User United Kingdom
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Hi, I made a few minor changes to make this template look more like the other templates. I made it so that only Great Britain is bold, I aligned the text to the left and I reduced the template width to that of the others by reducing the border width to that of the others. Hope no-one minds rst20xx 19:32, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
Align
I think it was said somewhere that boxes should have no align on the box themselves or main content, because sepetate tags can be used on userpages if they so wish (i.e. in their tables). Ian13ID:540053 21:05, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
* How? Whenever I've tried that it just doesn't work. [[Image:Anglo-Indian identity.svg|20px]] Deano (Talk) 21:19, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
* Well, in theory if noalign is defined in the userbox, it will look for external aligns if applicable, style="text-align:left;" should do it. Ian13ID:540053 17:05, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
Content Change
There is a discussion and proposal regarding the changing of content and wording in United Kingdom location/nationality userbox templates located at Wikipedia talk:Userboxes/Location/United Kingdom. - Hayter 20:23, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
* Hayter - someone else has now reverted this. I suggest you leave it as is. Gsd2000 17:56, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
* And I suggest you research further than you have. Check the original version of this template. The included category was (and still is) . From Day 1, this template was created to reflect location rather than nationality. British nationals overseas should be using a different template - this one miscategorizes them, and the change of text is precisely because of situations like this, where "comes from" is seen as interchangeable with "lives in" and confusion and miscategorisation result. I'd encourage anyone with an interest in this to read the linked discussion above, and also check out, User Proud to be British and User British. - Hayter 18:23, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
* I'm British, but I'm not particularly proud of it, so I don't want the User British template. I want the one that I thought I was originally signed up to, but which you changed after an overwhelming number of Wikipedians (four) voted for your suggestion. Gsd2000 19:11, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
* So follow your own advice and create a new one. It's not my fault you've been using an incorrect one up til now. - Hayter 19:16, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
* Why should I???? Read the original wording of this template: []. Why should I have to create a new one because you don't like the original wording? If anything the template wording trumps any category it might be attached to, because you can't actually see the category unless you view the source. Has it occurred to you that the category might have been wrong but the template wording right? You are rude telling me to create my own one - you changed it, so politeness dictates that you should sort a new one out for the people you have affected. Gsd2000 19:24, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
* Agree with Gsd2000. I put that box on my page because it said "comes from UK". I don't live there. The wording is also consistent with all other templates - when I wanted a 'lives in Rwanda' box for myself, I had to create one along the lines of { { User Rwanda resident } }. I would advise you to do the same, but in fact I can't even see the box on your page, Hayter, so I don't know why the fuss? — SteveRwanda 07:04, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
Please stop changing this template
It's totally unreasonable. Every country in the world has { { User country } } to represent comes from. Whatever you may think are the rights and wrongs of this, it's the way it is now, and has been for months. That means the lives in box will have to have a new standard. I proposed { { User Country resident } } but am open to debate on that. It's too late for changes to the basic one though. — SteveRwanda 09:57, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
* Template: User United Kingdom
* Category: Wikipedians in the UK (see Userboxes/Location/United Kingdom)
* Wikipedia: Userboxes/Location
* Question: are you in the UK? I am. But I am planning to move to the USA soon, and I will be removing this userbox from my userpage when I have done so. There are other categories such as ethnicity and ancestry which might suit your usage better. I am reverting this again. If you revert it once more, you will be in breach of WP:3RR. --Mal 10:27, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
* No, I'm not in the UK, that's why I sought out and found myself a nice box with a comes from line in it. That's why I got pretty annoyed when I came back and found someone had changed it. Conversely to your point, when I return to the UK I might decide to change for a lives in box. I understand your point about the categorisation, and it's unfortunate that the mistake was made, but I'm quite sure people pick out these boxes primarily for their textual content so that usage must remain in place. I'm sorry this is getting antagonistic, but it just seems wrong that people are levelling accusations of not wanting to fork 'my change' at me when they are in fact the ones making the change, not just to the format of this box but every { { user country } } box there is. — SteveRwanda 10:45, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
* It had been changed ages ago, and you hadn't complained then. Nor had you submitted a vote (that I am aware of) when we were all seeking consensus on the proper categorisation of these things. If you look at the page I refered you to, all the other userboxes for the constituent countries of the UK state "lives in". As you say, a 'mistake', as such, had been made. The simple fix is to find another user box which reflects your position better, or to create one if it doesn't exist. I base my opinion on logic more than anything else, and it seems to me that your stance is not logical. If you are to change the text in the userbox, then surely you should be changing the category to which it belongs. That category places you as a user who is "in the UK"... "Wikipedians in the UK". I chose this box because it reflected my position at the time. Consensus was reached to change the wording to better reflect the category it placed the user in. You are not in the UK, yet your use of this userbox adds you to that category. So I ask you again: are you in the UK? --Mal 10:53, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
* You can't fault him (or me, or anyone else affected) for not complaining when it was changed "ages ago" and for not "submitting a vote", because in order to know to do this, you have to have been 'watching' this page and/or the template. If you weren't watching them then you wouldn't have known until you chanced upon it, as happened to me. You speak of a "consensus" but I see action was taken after only three votes had been cast. Do you seriously call three votes a consensus?? I have now removed the categorisation that was incorrect. Gsd2000 12:31, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
* By the same token, you cannot fault me, or any of the others, for changing the wording of the userbox. As Hayter states, it makes sense that if you have the userbox on your userpage, you would be interested in it. Steve has mis-categorised himself, though I don't know if you are resident in the UK. If you are, then my suggestion to you would be to use/create a userbox which more accurately reflects your position.
* A vote was taken on all the categories that denote Northern Irish people (in sports, film etc) and consensus was reached that all the categories be renamed to ".. from Northern Ireland" .. or the more non-sensible "Northern Ireland X". This consensus was reached by a vote of 2 for and 1 against. Yet it was accepted. I was not aware of the vote, as I was not active in Wikipedia at that time. Yet, after having had a couple of categories I created renamed, I have accepted this for now (until such time as I propose another vote). I can't remember the consensus reached on this issue... 4 to 1 I think? Which is a stronger vote than for all the Northern Irish cats. --Mal 23:44, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
* Actually I put it back, because I would be guilty of the same crime that I am accusing Setata747 and Hayter of. I also note that in Category:Wikipedians_in_the_United_Kingdom, the first sentence is as follows: "Wikipedians 'from' the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland." Gsd2000 13:03, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
* The "crime" being..? --Mal 23:44, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
* First, it's common sense to keep an eye on templates you use on your page, for vandalism as much as anything else. Expecting this from users isn't unreasonable. Second GSD, both you and I have referenced the original edit of this template by Deano. He added . When this was done, he added this template to Wikipedia:Userboxes/Location/United Kingdom. Clearly, it was created as a location indicator. Steve, you've accused me of vandalising this template by changing it, but userboxes are changed all the time, usually to make them better and/or clearer. Since this is a location indicator, ex-patriates using it are mis-categorising themselves and it's because of the phrase, "comes from" which would suggest the userbox is designed to reflect nationality. This doesn't make them stupid - it's a problem with the use of the phrase. Changing it to "lives in" may temporarily cause some people's userpages to display incorrect information, but these people are already categorised in error and I would suppose that the majority will likely want to remove the userbox upon finding out, because they're using the wrong template. This change of text, and the proposal I made on the other talk page, are for clarity and simplicity; not because I don't like the naming convention and whilst I welcome thought-out criticism of the proposal, I resent being called a vandal because I have attempted to better a part of Wikipedia. - Hayter 14:16, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
* I didn't mean you intentionally vandalised anything, I just think people have rushed in and changed something without actually thinking about the consequences. Given the disparity between categorisation and text in the box, you have three options:
* (i) leave as is, and put up with a few errors (anyone who sees me categorised as a Wikipedian in the UK can quickly disabuse themselves of that idea by following the link to my user page.
* (ii) change the categorisation of the user box
* (iii) change the text
* The primary consideration when making this decision is which decision will cause least disruption to existing users of the box. And since it is my firm belief that most users display a box for its text rather than the categorisation that goes with it, I think option (ii) is the one that should be chosen. You should only choose option (iii) if you genuinely believe people place the user box there to categorise themselves rather than for the pretty coloured box on the user page. — SteveRwanda 14:31, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
* I consider that the primary consideration is the logical categorisation of the userboxes: it adds you to the category "Users IN the UK" and is included in the WP page as Userboxes/Location. The text should reflect these facts. --Mal 23:46, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
* I also resent being told I haven't considered this, especially since there is extensive documented discussion of this beginning as far back as Feb 21st. But that's me and a side issue. I believe people place the userbox there to categorise themselves AND for the pretty coloured box on the userpage. This isn't an OR situation. I might want a userbox that says I use a mac, but the relevant one includes the category "Wikipedians who own Macs" which isn't true. In such a situation, I wouldn't use the template. I'm not saying there are not people who are happy to be miscategorised so long as their userpage looks nice, but I would say they are a minority. You disagree. So in the absense of a referendum, logic must take precedent and logic says most people would wish things to be correct rather than incorrect. Usage of this template on an ex-pat's page is the latter. - Hayter 15:17, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
* Logic says most people would wish things to be correct rather than incorrect. Quite right, but you still have to pick your method of correction, i.e. option (ii) or (iii) above. If, as you say, people pick their user boxes for text AND category, I would assume they have a flick through the available options, scan the text, and pick on that basis. They will then either check the categorisation and say Oh no, it's wrong. Better pick another box, or they will assume that the categorisation they're getting with their chosen box is correct. Very few people will look first at the categorisation, decide it fits and then put up the box even though the text says the wrong thing (either that, or they both come from AND live in the UK, so don't care either way). So I still say option (ii) - change the categorisation of the box - is less disruptive. And I apologise again for any implied vandalism or lack of thought on your part. I try not to deal in personal attacks. Cheers — SteveRwanda 15:46, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
* If, as you say, people pick their user boxes for text AND category, I would assume they have a flick through the available options, scan the text, and pick on that basis. They will then either check the categorisation and say "Oh no, it's wrong. Better pick another box"
* It might interest you to know that both the category and text reflected my position as being resident in the UK at the time I chose to add the userbox to my userpage. --Mal 23:50, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
* Given that Deano created this userbox for locational puposes, changing the category to or something similar would not "fix" or better this location template, but entirely change its purpose. This is the sort of action you earlier classed as vandalism and GSD has mistakenly become so enraged about. Changing the text to better reflect the purpose of the template is a correction. Changing the category is not. - Hayter 16:04, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
* What Deano did or didn't intend when creating the box, is entirely irrelevant to debates about the purpose it now serves, and the intention users had when adding it to their pages. Users do not own their contributions. Please refer back to my argument that more people chose this box because of its text than its category. Unless you can refute that, there is no valid reason to change the text. — SteveRwanda 17:25, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
The purpose it now serves is the same purpose it served when it was created and even if it wasn't, you haven't proved that that's the case therefore there is no reason to disprove it. Of the six people that have commented on this (myself, you, GSD, Mal, Scjessey, MartinRe), only two have indicated that they oppose it. And now that there's User British2, I don't see why you're persisting with this lopsided argument. The userbox purpose is to show location and as such, the burden is upon you to prove that the majority of users use it for another purpose. Until you can do so, the assumption must be that the majority use it for the correct purpose, if for no other reason than the majority of British people actually do live in the UK and so have 'accidentally' used it correctly. - Hayter 19:34, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
If you don't live in the UK and aren't proud of where you come from...
Use this. User British2
Not only does it have the correct phrasing, but it has the correct category as well. - Hayter 15:20, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
* It doesn't mention anything of not being proud of where you come from! lol Perhaps the text should read "I'm British but I hate it!" --Mal 23:53, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
* One would also wonder as to the logic of someone specifically selecting a userbox that marks himself as being British, if they are not proud of the fact. --Mal 23:54, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
* Mal - this kind of thinking explains why you have acted the way you have done regarding this whole silly issue. You (and Hayter) have not been considerate of others' opinions, believing that "you know best" for everyone. I happen to be British and I am neither proud nor ashamed of it. The reason I actually put this on my page was after another Wikipedian asked where I was from - a reasonable question. Not where I was from and whether I was proud of it. I find it is actually against the spirit of Wikipedia to make statements of the form "...and proud of it". We are all supposed to be neutral editors here, not people espousing particular points of view. Gsd2000 00:01, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
* : On the contrary, I believe I have acted wholly in the interest of people - particularly the majority of the people who are likely to use this template. I have no problem with whether you are proud or not of where you come from. Personally, I have used a "Proud of.. " template on my userpage, though I wouldn't mind if it was decided that such userboxes be removed as I do understand with, and partially agree with, your point of view on that score. I resent and strongly disagree with your accusations. --Mal 00:18, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
Hayter - re the creation of User British2. Even though I completely disagree with the "consensus" (coup d'etat more like) here, and the fact that you then changed the template wording, creating an alternative template is what you should have done at the very start - as one of the people who agreed with you suggested you do in his reservations. That's the least you should have done, and is just being polite, at the end of the day. Had you done so, in all likelihood I would have changed my page accordingly and you wouldn't have heard a peep out of me. I took umbrage at the manner in which you and your chums went about this, and then the apparent arrogance of your responses, suggesting it was up to people affected by this change to create their own userbox. Gsd2000 00:15, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
* I take umbrage at the manner in which you and your chum have gone about constantly reverting this template after consensus was reached. For myself, I was only interested in the accuracy and logic of the matter. I have had to change and/or create userboxes in the past due to changes and discussions regarding a couple of other userboxes. You have suggested that, had Hayter or me or whoever, approached this in a different manner, then you would have accepted the consensus. Does that indicate that you are willing to do this then? --Mal 00:23, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
* Yes, because at the end of the day one side has to let the other have their way. I still believe that this template should be kept in line with the other countries of the world and its original wording; we could carry on reverting each others' changes but life is far too short for that. NB I had actually reverted it before spotting the new template created by Hayter, I'll leave it for someone else to revert back though. I won't revert it again. I have updated my user page. I just hope that the next time any of you decide to do something similar you either think better of it, or you go about it in a different manner. Finally - please, none of you, for God's sake, touch User British2. :) Gsd2000 00:34, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
* People keep going on about accuracy and logic, but no one has answered my question, which is central to the whole debate about correcting accuracy - which will cause more disruption to users, changing the text or changing the category? I think there's absolutely no doubt that it's the text that's more significant. Certainly that disrupts me more, which is why I got in this silly argument in the first place. So until you can prove to me that more people use this template who LIVE in the UK but don't COME FROM there than come from but don't live there, then the template stays as it is (or maybe with a changed category, I'm not bothered about that either way). There's some logic for you. — SteveRwanda 05:55, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
* Firstly, we went about it in the same manner as hundreds of articles are adjusted: by discussion and consensus. You are still incorrectly categorised Steve, and the category will remain as is. The wording will be changed to reflect the category. Once I have moved to the USA, I will probably end up using the same userbox as GSD2000 - the User British2 one. Thanks to Hayter I think, for setting it up. As for "until you can prove to me that more people use this template who LIVE in the UK but don't COME FROM there than come from but don't live there".. I think you have misunderstood the logic. The userbox is for people who are currently located in the UK - not necessarily for only those who "live there but don't come from there". As a British Citizen, I both live there and come from there. I suspect that is probably the case with the vast majority of people who use this template. I would imagine that the users who actually currently reside in the UK vastly outnumber the ex-pats.. though that is not the point in any case. --Mal 08:06, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
* Yes, but do users of this box who reside in the UK but AREN'T British outnumber ex-pats who aren't? I severely doubt it. So let's stop this silly argument once and for all, leave the userbox as it is (since 4-2 out of hundreds of people affected does not constitute consensus, and the status quo should therefore prevail) and get on with writing decent articles and doing what Wikipedia is supposed to be there for. SteveRwanda 08:15, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
* And PS - I'm well aware that I'm wrongly categorised at the moment, and maybe I'll change the box on my page at some point, or maybe I'm 'in spirit' in the UK anyway, but this debate isn't about me, it's about others like me who might not notice the fundamental change to the way they're represented on their user pages for weeks on end. Danke schon und guten Nacht. — SteveRwanda 08:34, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
* I can't see how your question about those who reside in the UK and aren't British vs. ex-pats is relevant, with all respect. The majority of the people who use this box are likely to be those who reside in the UK AND are British.
* You say that a consensus of 4-2 is not enough, but I've pointed out to you that categories pertaining to Northern Irish people and things were all renamed to ".. from Northern Ireland" with a vote of only 2-1... and it was voted on at a more 'official' level (CfD). Also, I think Hayter pointed out that the consensus arrived at before yourself and GSD came on board was 4-1.. making it now 4-3. Though, since GSD is now using a different userbox, I assume its de facto 4-2. --Mal 10:08, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
* Argggh, can't we just move onto something else??? I really don't understand your position at all. If you don't like the logic of the box, change it in the LEAST DISRUPTIVE way possible. The argument that category is more significant than text in a user box is nonsense. As you say, The majority of the people who use this box are likely to be those who reside in the UK AND are British. For them, it makes no difference whether the box says 'comes from' or 'lives in', although presumably most signed up to the 'comes from' form knew they were doing so and that's what they wanted. The only people for whom this debate is really relevant are those who are partially misclassified by the current box - i.e. British expats abroad (such as myself), or foreigners living in Britain. I would suggest none of the latter category have the box on their page, whereas a few - who knows how many - like myself, will be from the former category, not realising the categorisation error. (Haven't I said all this before?). Please just give this up - it's obvious there will be no resolution to our argument and it's clearly vastly less radical just to leave the box alone. — SteveRwanda 10:54, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
* Your argument has lost what merit it had in the first place amid your irrational speculation. You cannot say any more than Mal or I can, what people thought or are thinking without evidence. Given that there is none, your argument is now baseless. Foreigners living in Britain can use this userbox and not be misclassified at all, given that it is a location and not a nationality indicator. And with the creation of User British2, there is no rational reason for you to object to this. Altering your page to that one is the most logical course of action. I can do it for you, if you want. Asking one to "give up" because you are intent on pursuing a flawed conclusion is ridiculous besides which, now that GSD is using British2, you are the only one that remains outspoken in opposition to this change. Take a step back and consider why. - Hayter 12:21, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
* Hayter - I tried resisting my temptation to comment but I can't. Although I am now using British2, that was only because I got fed up. Steve provides a very cogent and rational argument, that you and your cohorts have not really responded to. The evidence is in front of your eyes - two British expats who discovered too late that they were now labelled as UK residents. If there are two of us, there are in all likelihood more. The fact is that both sides have rational arguments, someone is going to have to give in, but you might try adopting a more polite tack, considering that what you have done has caused disruption to ex-pats like myself and Steve. The onus is on you to do your best to help those affected, in the most polite manner - as the 'agree with reservations' chap hinted above. Don't attack our arguments as "flawed" and "irrational" because they are not. Gsd2000 12:39, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
* "those who are partially misclassified by the current box - i.e. British expats abroad (such as myself), or foreigners living in Britain" - those who are British ex-pats abroad are fully misclassified - not partially.
* "two British expats who discovered too late that they were now labelled as UK residents." Perhaps a more careful inspection in the future would be in order? --Mal 12:44, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
Least Disruption
Since this seems to be your sticking point Steve, let me address it for a final time. I apologise if the following sounds condescending, but it has all been said before, by others as well as I.
* The template is a location indicator. Let us assume most people are smart enough to realise this and are not as you imply, ignorant to the inclusion or meaning of a category.
* Even when looking at those who may have mistaken it for a nationality indicator, it is more than likely that the majority are in fact, in the UK, given that this is where most British people can be found. Thus, changing the text does not misrepresent this majority.
* There is possibly, a minority besides yourself who mistook this template for a nationality indicator and used it accordingly whilst living outside the United Kingdom. This minority is probably unaware of the purpose of the template. If they were, they would not use it, realising that it miscategorises them. This minority would likely appreciate the ability to substitue a template with an incorrect category for a template with a correct category. This minority has a number of options to choose from, not the least of which is User British2.
* You propose that the path of least disruption is to change the category, but this is literally to change the meaning of the template beyond refinement of the existing purpose as I did in the first place. This is the sort of action you referred to two days ago as vandalism. Your contradiction aside, it is not illogical to suppose that there are people living within the UK who use this template despite not being British. In fact is is more than not illogical, it is not incorrect. See Ganesha who is Indian but lives in the UK and so uses this location template.
* To change the Category places all of the people who use this template in a different one to what they were in when they added this userbox to their page. For some the new category may be correct, but it is still an entirely different one.
* To change the category miscategorises people such as Ganesha.
* To change the text means that the aforementiontioned and hypothetical minority have userboxes on their pages that show text which is incorrect for them. But given that their use of the userbox already displays incorrect text on their page (see bottom and listed categories), this is merely a brighter sign that they are using the wrong template.
You have accused me of changing the meaning of this template. When it was explained to you that I had not done so because the template was already a location indicator, you claimed that the original purpose of the template was secondary to what most people use it for. This is perhaps a fair point and worthy of discussion, except you have not contradicted the logical supposition that the majority of people use it for the reason it was created. Your entire argument favouring a change of category is based upon your unsupported claim that most people don't really care about the category, so long as the text is okay. This is an opinion, not an extrapolation and as such is weightless in considering what would cause least trouble. I repeat, with exasperation rather than antipathy, you are being unreasonable in refusing to consider logical reasoning over your own opinion. - Hayter 12:56, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
Protection
I have protected the template under the original wording of "comes from". I have done so due to the edit warring on the template at present. Although I do not endorse the protected version (or infact any version), the edit warring that was taking place is unacceptable, and atleast 3 members who have recently reverted qualify for blocks under 3RR. I therefore request that the following takes place: Although no-one need follow my advise and anyone may request unprotection at any time, I think it is nessary for these concerns to be addressed before this page is unprotected. Thanks! Ian13/ talk 16:51, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
* Discussion of the overall matter.
* Discussion of possible versions to be used.
* Discussion (not just a straw poll) of which to use and how to progress forward.
* Please also note I have removed the catagorisation to assist in content disucssions. Ian13/ talk 16:56, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
* So in effect this means that not only is the userbox inaccurate for me, but also am I no longer categorised as a person living in the UK..?
* That would seem to suit SteveRwanda quite nicely. Ho hum. --Mal 10:16, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
* I am calling for a discussion - edit warring is not acceptable. You are also able to join a catagory without using a userbox, or make your own. Ian13/ talk 13:58, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
* Okay, very little discussion, but the page seems less active, so I am unprotecting and we will see. If edit war does start again, I will protect until a full conclusion for which version to use has been reached here. Ian13/ talk 09:12, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
* I've failed to respond because of my bulleted summary posted shortly before it was locked. I'm awaiting a response.
* That, and I've been busy with the 6 Nations. :D - Hayter 12:11, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
* I am not reverting this currently, but will do so if there is no response from the one user who objects - the one who is wrongly categorised by the use of this userbox, though likes to change the wording to suit his own position. "You are also able to join a catagory without using a userbox, or make your own." — I chose this userbox for the specific reason that it categorised me as a person who lives in the UK. Perhaps your suggestion would best be served to the sole user that disputes the use of this userbox. --Mal 05:42, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
* Having mulled this over, I still disagree with the suggestion to change this template, because (a) for every other country except those in the British Isles, Template User XXXX gives you a template that says "comes from XXXX" (b) the original wording was "comes from" (c) users are more likely to look at the template wording rather than any categorisation in deciding whether to use templates (d) as pointed out above by Ian13 (who I know is not arguing for or against either side) you are also able to join a category without using a userbox, or make your own (e) the "majority" claimed above is statistically insignificant to the point of being misleading (f) there is an argument that "location" equates better with "lives in", but it does not - you can be located in France (on a day trip to France, sitting in an internet cafe editing Wikipedia) but still live in England. Finally, Mal, you should give Steve time to respond, and not accuse him of wishing to "change wording to suit his own position" - lets remember that it is you and Hayter who wish to change the wording. Steve just wants it back to the version that he originally signed up to. Mal, I frankly don't see why you can't add the category to your user page and be done with it. Gsd2000 11:33, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
* there is an argument that "location" equates better with "lives in", but it does not - you can be located in France (on a day trip to France, sitting in an internet cafe editing Wikipedia) but still live in England. - There is no argument on this point - the point being made is that "lives in" equates better to location than "comes from" and if you cannot make the distinction then we have a problem. This is the most asinine argument you have put forth so far - only the most anal of Wikipedia users will a)edit the encyclopaedia whilst on a day trip to France and b) alter their userpage to reflect their temporary location. - Hayter 15:09, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
* Again with the personal attacks. I'm just addressing one of your two core arguments, and showing that it is not necessarily so. In the spirit of the debate that Ian requested, can you please address my points a) to f) and not the person making the points? Gsd2000 00:24, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
* I attacked your argument, not you. But regardless,
* A - We're not discussing every other template, we're discussing this one. Of course the conformity argument could be made and I acknowledge that, but every other UK country template is currently the way I would have them, so it goes both ways. This is a dead end as far as debate goes.
* B - The original wording is misleading regarding the purpose of the template - that's why I changed it. If something is broken, you fix it - you don't declare that to be the new grade for working.
* C - This is an unsubstansiated claim. You may be right but you have no way to prove or even indicate that this is the case.
* D - This does not counter anything either Mal or I has said. It's a superfluous point, as this debate regards the wish of people to display a userbox. Do you suggest that people use the userbox in its current form and add another, different category at the same time, 'balancing out' the error?
* E - I have only ever claimed there was a "stated majority" (and have pointed this distinction out a number of times now) and have freely admitted its shortcomings. Nevertheless, it is the only indicator we have at the moment and.
* F - Asinine. As I said.
* - Hayter 10:10, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
* Here's another way of looking at it, which I would like all contributors to this debate to consider. The phrase "comes from" is ambiguous. In colloquial usage, it could mean "this user is coming to you from.. XXXX", or it could mean "this user originally comes from". The reason for changing the wording becomes obvious then, because of the category and the ambiguity.
* GSD, I don't see how I'm not "giving Steve time to respond". He is changing the wording to suit his own position by the way. I don't see how that can be disputed. I just want to change the wording back to the version that I originally signed up to. Frankly, GSD, I don't see why you don't just create a different userbox, reflecting your position more accurately, and have done with it. Oh .. hang on .. you did!
* Finally, here's another thing that you may want to consider. Assuming, for the minute, that the user box wording is changed as I would like to see it, then I will be removing this particular userbox (if I remember!) from my user page once I start living in the USA again (later this year). --Mal 06:34, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
* This is my last contribution to this debate as it's wasting my time. My position is clear:
* The box is not a location indicator, since its original text doesn't imply anything about location. Just because you think it is and Deano may or may not have intended that when creating it, it isn't one now, or it only half is.
* You've shot yourself in the foot, Mal, by saying "I just want to change the wording back to the version that I originally signed up to" - well so do I, and since this box was up and running for 2 months with the original wording "comes from" and only 10 days after it was changed to "lives in", the prior version should have precedence.
* All other user country boxes say "comes from". Why should the UK be different? User Rwanda doesn't exist so I could have created it to suit my own position of living there, but I chose not to since that would be counter to existing Wikipedia conventions. Please consider doing the same here.
* Time to move on to other things, folks. — SteveRwanda 08:50, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
Judging by your actions to this point, I doubt your position would be the same if the current version was not how you would have it. In fact I'd guess you'd keep reverting it "till the cows come home." But that aside, you claim that "The box is not a location indicator... or it only half is," suggesting confusion on your part. You say that the original purpose of the template is irrelevant which is disputed, but even if it didn't matter, you're still basing this on the assumption that you know best when it comes to what people use this for. You don't. And don't say Mal and I assume the same because we don't - our edits are based on the logic of clarifying the purpose of the template, not because we think we can read minds better than you. Mal's reference to the original wording whilst perhaps not as clear as it might have been, was I believe, in reference to the category wording, which you seek to ignore. Your apparent refusal to engage in good faith discussion is divisive. I don't say this because I disagree with you, but because i take issue with the nature of your contribution to this discussion. I disagree with some of what scjessey said about this, but I feel his interests lay with what was the best course of action for those using and those who will use the template(s). I disagree almost entirely with what GSD says but I believe his a-f points were an attempt to address the issue and convince people of a point, rather than extend the argument into eternity or push it to one side behind a veil of practical superiority. Sadly, it appears whether fairly or unfairly, that your latest contributions, however you may have started out, are these negative things I have detailed. You have seemingly ignored the bullet points I took time to lay out, specifically for your benefit, and you have not engaged with GSD's raised points, instead stubbornly clinging to the entirely unfounded argument that most users are currently using this to reflect nationality rather than location. As I have said, it may be that you are right but we currently have no way to tell and so the best path to resolution of this issue is via logic, rather than assumptions. I truthfully hope I'm wrong, but it seems you are sticking on this because it was revealed you were in error, rather than that you want to find the best solution for everyone. - Hayter 14:05, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
* I don't know what people intended, and neither do you. our edits are based on the logic of clarifying the purpose of the template - only the purpose according to you. As you say, neither of us knows the box's true purpose for most people so we have to leave it as it is. Ian13 has removed the contradictory logic of the box now also, and that had nothing to do with me, so in effect the argument about the contradictory logic of the box is now removed. I truthfully hope I'm wrong, but it seems you are sticking on this because it was revealed you were in error, rather than that you want to find the best solution for everyone. — SteveRwanda 15:29, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
* Oh, come on Steve, such responses do nothing but reinforce what may be a misperception on my part. If I'm wrong in my assumption about you then act in a manner which reflects that.
* In the absence of contradictory evidence (and there is none), it must be assumed the current purpose of the template is the same as when it was created. Given Deano's actions upon creating it, that purpose is plain. Because you are currently using it incorrectly does not indicate that most other people are and even if it did, that does not alter its purpose. Because I use a scalpel to mark out drill points on a wall does not change the fact that it was made to slice people up. The illogicality of your argument notwithstanding, the same is true for this template. - Hayter 16:01, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
* Please. You're not acting any better than I am and we're just going round in circles here. Let's just decide how we're going to get out of this mess. I don't agree with your arguments and it's unlikely you can say anything to change that. Likewise, it seems you won't agree with me either, even though I'm suggesting the box's usage is implied by what it says, which is rather more logical than saying its usage was defined by one bloke who made an error when creating it. But anyway. What do we do? Ian31 suggested putting something in the box itself to try and draw other users into the debate. Does that seem reasonable? How about, as a temporary template:
Category:Wikipedians in the United Kingdom
— SteveRwanda 16:20, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
* Obviously, the link here would have to work. Not quite sure why it isn't at present. — SteveRwanda 16:32, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
* The link won't work here, because it is a link to the page it is on. Ian13/ talk 17:20, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
That sounds workable. Though a straw poll should perhaps be discouraged, I'd recommend a new section on this page with an agreed summary of both arguments included so, for simplicity's sake, people can more easily declare their support for one position over the other, or if need be, present a new POV. Failing that, another option is to include a single summary of my point with the options of support or oppose below. Whichever direction is taken, I feel that clearly listing people's thoughts with reasoning in such a manner is the best way to handle this, but we should work out how it'll be done before posting the notice to prevent another page-length being filled with the same points as above by others. - Hayter 19:31, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
* I agree with the disputed wording tack and a summary of the arguments. However, I'm still not sure how this is going to get resolved without resorting to straw polls, as any contribution to a discussion for or against the change will effectively end up being exactly that. Presumably we should all agree on a length of time that the debate should be open (one month at least, I say), and accept the tally of votes for or against the proposal after that time. I know WP isn't a democracy, but short of arbitration I don't see how this will work. Gsd2000 22:33, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
* The very fact that there is confusion is one of the reasons I supported keeping the wording as "lives in" or similar, in line with the category. I would suggest that a template called "User United Kingdom" is more logical to use for this purpose, and a separate userbox for ex-pats seems logical. That's what I plan to do once I have moved to the USA, as I've said before: I will have become an ex-pat by then. --Mal 08:34, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
* Respectfully, we know what you think... how are we going to resolve this? Gsd2000 22:18, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
Resolution
How about this? Template talk:User United Kingdom/usagepoll We get it sorted there then set up a link here so it's all nicely contained. - Hayter 11:21, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
* As long as you also ask for further reasoning by supporters as to why they feel like they do, I feel that would be a suitable way to seek a resolution. Ian13/ talk 12:09, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
* I've changed the wording of the page to present the problem in a more neutral fashion - the page should not be 'location-centric' since it is also disputed whether this is really a location box or not. I've also increased the number of potential solutions to three, since that's how many there are: (1) Do nothing (2) Change the category (3) Change the text. The page isn't active yet (hence Mal's vote is a little premature), so let's try and get this right before it is. And please don't bite my head off if you disagree with any of the changes I've made. Let's work round this in a friendly manner! — SteveRwanda 15:26, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
* Oh, and another thing - we haven't established the ground rules of how long to run the poll and how to interpret the results of this exercise yet, which could cause a failure of resolution. I'm not sure the best way to proceed - maybe Ian13 can advise as a 'neutral' voice... I do think that if there aren't a sufficient (whatever that means) number of responses, bearing in mind around 200 users use this box, then none of us have a mandate to change the box, therefore solution 1 would have to default, even though it's not really ideal. — SteveRwanda 15:32, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
* How do you mean the page shouldn't be location-centric. Since that's the point of contention (whether it is or isn't), shouldn't the page be focused on it? - Hayter 17:04, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
* All I meant was that the debate is whether the box reflects nationality or location. Therefore the wording 'This is a location box' and 'This is not a location box' doesn't really sum up the two sides equally. I did think afterwards that maybe you deliberately left the other one saying 'This is a location box' before Mal changed it so it could be edited by me, so it wasn't really location-centric after all... Anyway, that notwithstanding, what do you think of the way the usagepoll page looks now? Let me know your views... — SteveRwanda 08:50, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
* I've changed the titles to 'Opinion X' rather than 'Solution X' and included the solution below in bold, simply because all the arguments are presented as fact (as you'd expect). With them all labelled as solutions, it looks as though the people who came up with the poll (us) have agreed on the facts and just can't agree on the best solution. I've also included a note saying signatures w/out reasoning may be discounted, simply for a bit of further security against this becoming a simple straw poll, and I've removed your comments, Mal, because it might look dodgy if people are voting before the thing begins. You can still find it at this edit if you want to ust cut n' paste.
* As it stands, I'm reasonably happy with the way it is. Beyond that then, I suggest it runs for a fortnight (a month is too long for it to be disrupted, I feel), and we have a 'gentleman's agreement' to respect the poll, not only in keeping with its decision (even if it's by a slim cut), but in leaving the opinions of people to themselves. Others can debate with each other if they want, but we've already got our arguments on the page and they're pretty clear on our positions already. A question is one thing, but I shouldn't go after and try to convince someone who's said they agree with Op 1, for instance.
* Apon the poll's completion, I'd also suggest that this page be archived, not only because of the size of it due solely to this topic, but because leaving it hanging out in the open is liable to restart the debate all over again at a later venture, no matter what the outcome. - Hayter 15:25, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
* If everyone aggrees, I am prepared to moderate this vote under the following terms:
* Only people who have had the userbox one their page before 1 Apr 2006 00:00UTC, or have been acticley involved in its content, are allowed to vote (to prevent sockpuppetry).
* As I deem appropriate within my neutral role (or any other neutral person for that matter who takes this role), no action will be taken unless until a satisfactory number of votes exist to pass one 'option'.
* And that a neutral message is allowed indicating the poll on the template or elsewhere, but otherwise no 'spamming' is to occur (i.e. one user posting more than 3 messages on user talk pages or elsewhere noticable), and should this occur, corrective action will be taken to prevent a one-sided vote including, where appropriate, vote annulment.
* Vote cancellations and counts are only to be preformed by neutral parties, and that should a voter have a discripency with a vote (ie. illegibility to vote because of time they have used the box) it is to be raised on the talk page or privately and preformed by a neutral party.
* People are to have their comments respected, if that's what they feel, then they are entitled to that opinion, and others are not to try and convince them of something they oppose.
* And finally, this poll is unnofficial and non-binding, however we ask people respect it for the time being to ensure progress is made.
* Should anyone disagree with my proposals then please just ignore them, and should anyone disagree with me taking such a role, once more ignore me. Ian13/ talk 16:48, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
* Sounds good for the most part, but if no action is taken at the conclusion (say due to a roughly even vote), then this won't get resolved. - Hayter 17:14, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
* Well, I think if it were an equal vote, no matter what terms it could be hard to resolve via that conclusion, however I have reconsdered my statment to until. Ian13/ talk 17:18, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
* Can I also suggest a Change Catagory option is added to the poll. Ian13/ talk 17:18, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
* I have also changed the poll layout to use bullet points instead to improve readability, all are welcome to change, modify, revert or otherwise dissemble. Ian13/ talk 17:37, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
* I'm happy to accept the above rules, and the 'gentlemen's agreement' mentioned by Hayter. However, before the poll gets underway I think we still need somehow to clarify what will happen in the event of roughly equal numbers voting for 2 categories or if hardly anyone bothers to vote at all. I would argue that the template as it stands now should then be retained as a no consensus, but since that would be an outcome closer to my position than others' I'll not push it too hard and wait for more opinions. — SteveRwanda 16:48, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
* Well, to me that would say there is no consensus to change. If few voted, then obviously they don't see any change as important/don't care about a change. If it were roughly equal, then we would either continue the poll untill some consensus does appear or try to evaluate which issues are most important. The thing is if there is no consensus, no matter what straw poll, it would be hard to move on. We can give it a blast and see what happens, but personally in my view, it is better to leave things as they are (and have been for months) than change if there is uncertainty, and yes that may be to some peoples advantage, but atleast people would be keeping what they signed up for until a majority wants that changed to somethnig else. Then again, people may see me as bias, but I am expressing my views here to try and reach a resolution. Ian13/ talk 17:01, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
* I agree with the gentlemen's agreement. Two weeks is fair, though I would probably opt for a month. However, I have a strong suspicion that it'll be 2-2! In case it is a draw, I believe the final arbiter as to what to do should be Ian13, because he's spent a good deal of effort trying to get us kiddies to resolve the issue. Gsd2000 01:26, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
* Sorted, and I have noted it above. Thank you for your support in me, and I will aim to be as fair as possible. I still feel the change catagory option would be important (or atleast logical) (done!), but if everyone agrees we can start the poll for 2 weeks and see how it goes. Ian13/ talk 10:18, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
Category:Wikipedians in the United Kingdom
* Any good? Ian13/ talk 10:51, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
* Looks OK, and I guess it will draw people's attention with that tiny text. One thing I've noticed, according to the rules above, Hayter isn't allowed to cast a vote since as far as I can tell he's never had the offending box on his userpage... And Gsd2000 removed the box a couple of weeks ago in exasperation at what was happening. So the vote could end up 1-1, not 2-2! Do we make an exception there or what? — SteveRwanda 11:36, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
* Since Gsd2000 has had the box on their page (and probably removed it due to this dispute), and would probably restore this box should the poll go their "way", I think it would be fair that they are allowed to vote. Hayters involvement also makes me feel they should cetrainly be allowed a vote. I have reworded as appropriate. Ian13/ talk 11:47, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
* I only just saw this. Phew! Yes I absolutely will restore this user box should the vote go "my" way. Gsd2000 13:10, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
* Let's go then! Ian13/ talk 11:57, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
* I thought we agreed it would run for a fortnight? Which would take us to 21 April. I've changed the page appropriately. — SteveRwanda 12:29, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
* Whoops, sorry, my bad... Ian13/ talk 12:33, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
Please all get voing then, to ecourage others to do so. Ian13/ talk 12:33, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
* Uh, should you be able to vote for two different options? - Hayter 15:00, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
* Not sure - Ian13 said you could in the box at the top of the page, and Gsd2000 did so... I followed for that reason. — SteveRwanda 15:30, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
* Well, I said you could, because the objective of this is to find out what the community as a whole would most accept, therefore since a user may be quite happy with 2 options, I saw it as fair that users should be entitled to vote for 2. I think we are trying to find what a majority would accept as a workable solution. Ian13/ talk 21:26, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
* I'm also not wild about the fact that only two of the proposals have an 'issues' section. Since it's running now, it obviously can't be changed and I'm not going to challenge whatever decision is reached, but with the formatting and this, the page is quite different since I last checked it two days ago and said I was happy with it. I assumed a final check would be run by both arguing parties before it was put out to vote. - Hayter 18:20, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
* Gah! Sorry if I've managed to offend anyone, it just became difficult to ensure everyone was happy. Obviously, I personally think you can add issue/reason points as long as you don't change the proposal itself (i.e. remove cat.). I tried to turn the page into bullet form, and keep every point that was there to save users reading big lumps of text, so I could only work with what there was. But I won;t object to some work on it. Ian13/ talk 21:21, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
For reference, I hereby deem a suitable amount of valid votes have been placed for the poll to close as scheduled (21st April), providing a tie or vote of no consensus does not emerge. Ian13/ talk 14:01, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
* Just to note, votes for 'my position', which could be either Solution 2 or Solution 4, now total 11 different people, which is equal to the votes for 'Hayter's position' (Solution 3 only). Probably not too much to be done but it feels a bit like the Tories winning a seat because Labour and the Lib Dems split the remaining votes! We'll see how it pans out in the remaining week anyway. — SteveRwanda 14:41, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
* You may also want to note that the Tories, Labour and the Lib-Dems get only one vote from each constituent. You can't, as a voter, vote for more than one party in an election. --Mal 08:15, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
* Good point! — SteveRwanda 08:58, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
* I know what you mean - just to make my final task of deciding which wins that little bit harder. ;) Ian13/ talk 16:37, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
Spot the difference
These userboxes, taken from the page Userboxes/Location/United Kingdom:
--Mal 08:21, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
* Aye, but outside of the United Kingdom area they are mostly comes from, so the argument works both ways. Ian13/ talk 12:58, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
* And so that's clear:
{| style="background:none" !Code !Result
* user United Kingdom||
* user United Kingdom||
* user France||
* user Germany||
* user USA||
* user Burkina Faso||
* user Australia||
* user USA||
* user Burkina Faso||
* user Australia||
* user Australia||
* user Australia||
* }
* }
* All nation states. Consistent. Works both ways! — SteveRwanda 08:52, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
Perhaps, but this userbox is listed specifically on the Location page. --Mal 00:50, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
Who cares?
Whatever your opinion on userboxes (and I'm personally all for them), the debate surrounding this single template is pretty appalling, quite frankly. I'm fairly flabbergasted why Wikipedians have such a crisis in personal identity. The debate regarding this template does nothing, I repeat, nothing to further the Wikipedia project as whole, and the vast amount of energy and effort that's gone into such discussion is ridiculous. When you consider the massive task facing, for example, WikiProject Stub sorting, and there are users deliberating the correct wording of a category for Wikipedians....Sorry, but it seems far too self-referential for a project that was never supposed to be self-referential.
I have the template on my userpage, and will continue to do so, but I'm not voting in the straw poll. Nuge | talk 14:07, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
* Tell me, how is your post furthering the Wikipedia project? If you don't care, don't contribute. Noone's forcing you to vote. Oh, and your pomposity is all the more ridiculous, given that you have on your userpage a statement that you read broadsheet newspapers. Get a life! Gsd2000 00:04, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
* You both miss the point, and make an irrelevant one (I don't see what my other userboxes has to do with this). Also, 'Get a life!' is a well-worn and unoriginal personal attack.
* I'm not trying to be pompous, I'm simply of the belief that all this focus and effort on self-contained community stuff is detracting from more important work that needs to be done. I do care, that's why I posted, and why I contribute to WP; and why it's frustrating to see what I feel is somewhat misguided endeavour. Nuge | talk 18:33, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
* I would tend to agree, and it worries me how deeply I got involved in this, but as with all WP debates I was convinced I had an airtight principle to defend, which went beyond what happened with this individual box. When a large number of users transclude a userbox onto their pages, they're using it to indicate soemthing about themselves to the entire Wikipedia community. In my case I wanted to indicate that I was from the UK (without resorting to unncecessary statements such as being 'proud'). For other users to be able to alter those boxes on the basis of a straw poll of 2% of the users of the box is therefore (IMHO) wrong, and a principle worth arguing, since those users are then altering what someone chose to say about themselves.
* I've agreed to abide by the result of this election but I will still say the principle should hold. Personally I will be supporting compulsory subst-ing for user boxes if such a debate comes up as this whole business has tainted my WP experience and made me fall out with two fellow Wikipedians over almost nothing! — SteveRwanda 18:57, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
* Atleast this dispute should make community progress. If everyone can walk away with a little more insight on handling their opinions, then progress has been made which can later benifit encyclopedia editing. Ian13/ talk 13:49, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
One of each?
Could we not have one userbox template for 'comes from' and one for 'lives in'? I understand that people may want one or the other; however some people might want to show both statuses. -- Joe Talk!Esp 18:16, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
* Of course, and that will happen irrespective of this poll. The only reason there's an issue is because people already have this box on their page and changing the text could affect them without their realising it. — SteveRwanda 08:58, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
* Joe, see User British2. Steve and I agree that there should be seperate userboxes for each purpose, but we disagree on the purpose of this one. Once it gets sorted out, either User British2 will serve as the alternate (denoting nationality), or a new one will likely be set up (denoting location), depending on the result of the poll. - Hayter 18:01, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
Talk page is in categories?
Why is this talk page included in so many categories? I appreciate that I probably added to the problem by inserting infoboxes, but this needs fixing! (I'll do my bit later if nobody else gets around to it!) --Mal 00:50, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
* Fixed. Just need to subst them and remove the category (probably what everyone ought to be doing anyway). It was indeed by adding all those userboxes that this page got falsely categorised... Kind of adds to my argument about people being categorised without realising it just by adding a user box, but never mind! — SteveRwanda 07:40, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
lol Fair enough Steve. :) --Mal 09:35, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
Poll results
I have closed the poll (a little late), and have attempted to reach a conclusion as to which proposal passes. This result is non-binding, but does at present hopefully properly represent the community.
I declare that from what is presented on that page (any evidence to suggest some votes are invalid/vote swinging will lead to it being judged again) proposal 3 "wins", and that the text should be changed to 'This user lives in the United Kingdom'.
It has also been brought to my attention of a split between keeping the text the same (2 & 4), which could possibly have lead to proposal 3 passing unfairly. For judging purposes, I counted these by merging the votes of the concerned categories (removing the dupliates where people had voted for both). I would like to note, that should these be seen as the same aim - they still do not pass.
Another note, is that many choose the passed solution on the basis they see themselves, for example, as British, and not UKish. I would therefore urge a possible review of the working of the British/Irish... templates.
Ian13/ talk 18:50, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
* I didn't notice the duplicates on the vote before, so the real results were 17 to 19. That is very close. I still have no clue why people would change the text of a userbox? After all that is why people choose a userbox to begin with. The userbox's category is rarely noticed by the average user. I still hold to my belief that there was only two items to vote on, the first was to change the userbox text the other was to keep the userbox text as is. With the latter having sub options that resulted in taking attention away from what was really happening. Other people have noted that it is a common wiki feature to have the to signify that the person comes from, I just don’t see any reason why we have to change the text? I can't stress this enough, people get the userbox’s for what they say... Don't you? p.s. what is "vote swinging"? -- UKPhoenix79 08:31, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
* I agree with you completely about the foolhardiness of changing the text of a userbox (especially now the British Isles are different to every other country in the world), but nevertheless, the voting options were agreed on by the disputing parties and a vote was conducted. However, I hope the two or three individuals that sparked this off realise that many people did actually disagree with what they did, and that this will be the last time they see fit to change the semantics of a user box. Gsd2000 12:56, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
* Let it drop, GSD. We've argued about the original meaning, we've argued about the current usage, we've argued about how best to resolve it and now that we have agreed on a method and agreed to abide by the results of that method and that method has been played out to its conclusion, what makes you think you have a podium to lecture Mal and I on how we conduct ourselves about Wikipedia? Even by combining two different proposals to make one, #3 still won out, meaning that the majority of people who voted agreed with my reasoning. When politicians win elections by 51%, they don't apologise to those who voted for someone else or feel they shouldn't run again because of it. This is the last word I'll say on this regardless of any response you might make but part of a "gentleman's agreement" as discussed earlier is accepting a result with good grace. The majority of voters disagreed with you. Sure, some people who voted for any of the proposals seemed to do so under short-sighted vision, but that was foreseeable. We agreed to abide by the results of the poll. I assumed that meant putting a halt to the debate and refraining from sniping at each other once it had finished. - Hayter 21:17, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
* I'm not exactly sure what your problem is, Hayter, and I do not like your bullying tone ("let it drop"). I was replying to someone who seemed not to be accepting the result, indicating that I did not agree with it but that was the result. I was also offering a concluding thought that given the acrimony the text change to a userbox caused, and the great amount of time and effort to resolve it, that people who wish to do the same in future will think twice first. If you view this as sniping or an attempt to reopen the debate - which it patently was not - that's not my problem. I did not attempt to change the result and I did not personally insult anyone. You do not own this talk page, and I shall have my say if I wish to. Gsd2000 21:36, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
* I think it should be known the only example I found of a user attempting to change someones vote was from the change-the-text opinion, and what with the edit war, this has not been the nicest page. I hope we can all consider it over now - and that any further content discussion later will be done so peacefully. I do ask however that this poll is not used as an outright reason to revert. Ian13/ talk 09:39, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
Looking at the text on this page and the edit war that ensued I included this in the Lamest edit wars listings! Realize that this is not an attack on anyone. I just find it funny (and I also cannot believe) that a simple user box has caused so much passion and mental anguish for so many people :( Personally I am very simple when it comes to my user boxes... I go by what it says... I would have thought that most if not all users out there do exactly the same thing, but this weird edit war has proven me wrong. I’m glad that this got resolved, unfortunately now I have no interest in having this user box any more. Yet, I’m happy that others find it more useful to them. I just never thought that someone would change he text of a user box enough to change its meaning. But looks like I’m in the slim minority and that’s fine by me :) Have fun out there and in a few months try to look back on this occurrence as a silly moment that occurred with your experience on Wikipedia. -- UKPhoenix79 05:40, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
* I see you stated on Lamest edit wars, a page devoted to "the most petty things" that "It only got resolved by a straw poll vote"... yes, a poll in which you not only voted, but contributed your opinions not once, but twice, going so far as to say about your viewpoint "I can't stress this enough"! So I hope you are also laughing at yourself here. :-) ps I have now subst-ed my userboxes so that I never become embroiled in a debate like this again. Gsd2000 15:12, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
* I would suggest we all go for a drink somewhere to try and put this silly nonsense behind us, but I don't live in the UK, so that won't be possible [[Image:Smile-tpvgames.gif]] — SteveRwanda 12:40, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
I see the debate continues here in a way. A few points then, from my own perspective, in attempt to answer some peoples' apparent misunderstanding of it.
"I still have no clue why people would change the text of a userbox?": UKPhoenix - it was changed to better reflect the apparent reason it had been created - to remove ambiguity.
"Other people have noted that it is a common wiki feature to have the to signify that the person comes from, I just don’t see any reason why we have to change the text?": The point of this is that the phrase "comes from" is ambiguous. One of the things that this whole debacle has highlighted is that the other userboxes are also, as you pointed out, ambiguous.
"especially now the British Isles are different to every other country in the world": GSD - the British Isles are not a country.
"I hope the two or three individuals that sparked this off realise that many people did actually disagree with what they did, and that this will be the last time they see fit to change the semantics of a user box.": It could be argued of course, that it was yourself and Steve that sparked the whole thing off. Most others were either happy with the changes (and the changes were made to the regional useboxes with no resistance), or were blissfully unaware: the change, I feel, was subtle but necessary.
As for not changing the semantics of a userbox in the future, I will personally change the semantics of any userbox or article or category etc, that I feel deserves it. If I can be persuaded that my edit was in error, or that consensus is against me, I will abide by that. In that sense I agree with Hayter when he asks "what makes you think you have a podium to lecture Mal and I on how we conduct ourselves about Wikipedia?" --Mal 21:35, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
* We have already been put up for public ridicule by UKPhoenix (somewhat hypocritically, I felt) - lets not embarass ourselves any further by prolonging this silly debate. The vote is closed, and the wording change stays. And with that... I am unwatching this page in order to not get embroiled in any more of this nonsense. Gsd2000 21:53, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
* Yes, and can we please remain civil. Ian13/ talk 16:02, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
* It was only after I made my vote that I looked over this templates history and the discussion that I realized how silly this is... and yes Gsd2000 I did laugh after you pointed out that I became involved with this discussion also :) So I’m glad that I only made a few comments involving this template... The discussion still goes on and I'm still finding it funny... But realize that I am in no way laughing at anyone in particular. Just coming from someone, now looking in to this whole convoluted situation makes me realize how serious the discussions became over such a small thing. I do hope that you also realize that in no way was this meant to ridicule, but to allow you to sit back and laugh at the silliness of this whole mess (c:= -- UKPhoenix79 06:33, 26 April 2006 (UTC) | WIKI |
Maculauger
Maculauger is a genus of marine snails, gastropod mollusks in the family Terebridae, subfamily Terebrinae.
Species
Species within the genus Maculauger include:
* Maculauger alveolatus (Hinds, 1844)
* Maculauger campbelli (R. D. Burch, 1965)
* Maculauger castigatus (A. H. Cooke, 1885)
* Maculauger cinctellus (Deshayes, 1859)
* Maculauger kokiy Pacaud & Lesport, 2020
* Maculauger minipulcher (Bozzetti, 2008)
* Maculauger sudchinensis Malcolm, Terryn & Fedosov, 2020
* Species brought into synonymy:
* Maculauger pseudopertusus (Bratcher & Cernohorsky, 1985) : synonym of Maculauger kokiy Pacaud & Lesport, 2020 | WIKI |
Francavilla Fontana
Francavilla Fontana (Francavillese: Francaìdda ) is a town and comune (municipality) in the province of Brindisi and region of Apulia, in southern Italy. It is also called the town of the "Imperiali", after the Imperiali, a family of feudal lords who ruled the town from the end of 16th century until the 18th century. With a population of 36,358, in 2017, it is the third municipality of its province after Brindisi and Fasano. Its one of the many towns in south Italy where the Greek dialect Griko is spoken.
History
The name Francavilla has French-Norman origins: "Franca" (tax-free) and "villa" (town). The specification Fontana ("fountain") alludes to a vision of the Virgin Mary witnessed by Prince Filippo d'Angiò, who hence declaring the town a tax-free haven, according to the local legend.
Geography
Francavilla is located in the Altosalento, on the last Murge's hills, and it is equidistant, about 35 km, from Taranto and Brindisi. The municipality borders with Ceglie Messapica, Grottaglie, Latiano, Manduria, Oria, San Marzano di San Giuseppe, San Michele Salentino, San Vito dei Normanni, Sava and Villa Castelli.
Main sights
* The massive square Castle (Palazzo Imperiali) of the Imperiali family, to whom, with Oria, it was sold by St. Charles Borromeo in the 16th century for 40,000 ounces of gold, which he distributed in one day to poor and plague-infected people in Milan.
* Mother Church, built from 1743 over a former Angevine construction.
* Torre dell'Orologio (watchtower), built in 1750.
Transport
The town, 18 km east of Taranto-Grottaglie Airport, is served by the SS7 "Appia" highway. The local railway station is a junction point between the lines Taranto–Brindisi, owned by the national company FS, and Martina–Lecce, owned by FSE. It is served by regional and, on the Taranto-Brindisi line, by long-distance trains also.
Sport
The local football club is the Virtus Francavilla, that has its home ground in John Paul II Stadium.
People
* Ottaviano Andriani (b. 1974), marathon runner
* Cosimo Caliandro (1982–2011), middle-distance runner
* Clementina Forleo (b. 1963), judge
* Giuseppe Renato Imperiali (1651–1737), cardinal
* Michele Imperiali Simeana (1736–1782), prince
* Giacomo Leone (b. 1971), long-distance runner
* Francesco Ribezzo (b. 8 May 1875, died Lecce, 19 October 1952), glottologist - the science of tongues or languages; comparative philology, particularly the dialect of F. Fontana
Twin towns
* 🇮🇹 San Giovanni al Natisone, Italy | WIKI |
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Talk:Nervo (DJs)
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L1ght5h0w (talk) 23:36, 14 May 2012 (UTC)
* The end of the 2011 and the 2012 sections need to be rewritten, as it appears they were copied from another site.
* "In August, NERVO signed with Wilhelmina Models, one of the most prominent agencies in the fashion industry worldwide." had a reference linking to Wilhelmina Models' page on Facebook, which I highly doubt is a reliable source to check if they really are one of the most prominent agencies.
* I have marked source 14 (another Facebook source) as needing verifying.
* I have replaced the Facebook source.--Soulparadox 16:03, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
name change
Now they are known as just Nervo not The Nervo Twins. Move all to Nervo (duo) werldwayd (talk) 19:30, 13 August 2012 (UTC)
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Nervo discography
Support split - The sections related to creative works associated with this artists combined with one another take up more than one third of the page, and should be split to a new article entitled Nervo discography. --Jax 0677 (talk) 18:51, 19 April 2016 (UTC)
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Year of birth is not 1987
The girls graduated Year Twelve in 1999, which puts their birth year in the range 1981–1984. I know it's common for female performers to lie about their ages, but encyclopedias don't have to follow suit. The 1987 year should be removed until the correct year is known. Binksternet (talk) 20:53, 25 April 2017 (UTC)
* Someone posting from a Croatian IP said they were born in 1983. For what that's worth. Binksternet (talk) 22:38, 25 April 2017 (UTC)
Okay, I just removed the birthday of 18 February and the derived birth year of 1987. The Forbes piece said that the twins were 27 years old in 2014, but it was not investigating their early history, so their ages are not so reliable. Instead, the piece was about how highly paid they are. And the piece did not supply 18 February as their birthday. Other sources give other dates and years such as this one that says 17 February 1982 for Miriam, and this one that says they have two birthdays: "We almost have the same birthday." But here Olivia's birthday is also the 17th of February in 1982, and Musicbrainz which agrees with that date. In the December 2009 – January 2010 issue of SOMA magazine, the twins are reportedly 27 years old, which would put their birth year at 1982. Binksternet (talk) 16:37, 22 May 2017 (UTC)
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Requested move 6 August 2018
The result of the move request was: no consensus to move the page to the proposed title at this time, per the discussion below. If a move to Nervo (band) might be warranted, please feel free to introduce that suggestion in a new move request. Dekimasu よ! 06:55, 15 August 2018 (UTC)
Nervo (DJs) → Nervo (group) – DJs does not sound like an appropriate ambiguator for a pair of music producers. Group is more appropriate to use, regardless of each of the members' roles in such a music group. 2601:589:8000:2ED0:6D47:2D6F:5943:572F (talk) 17:44, 6 August 2018 (UTC) --Relisting. Dreamy Jazz talk | contribs 21:45, 12 August 2018 (UTC)
* Oppose. Reliable sources call them DJs, or a duo, but they rarely, if ever, call them a group. Her Campus says duo and DJs, Billboard says "DJ-duo", Magnetic Mag calls them DJs and "DJ duo", The Nocturnal Times calls them DJs, and Digital Journal calls them DJs. Binksternet (talk) 18:51, 6 August 2018 (UTC)
* Oppose. either DJs, or put back at Nervo (band). In ictu oculi (talk) 19:41, 6 August 2018 (UTC)
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Fontaine-l'Évêque Castle
Fontaine-l'Évêque Castle (Château de Fontaine-l'Évêque, also known as Château Bivort) is a castle in Fontaine-l'Évêque, province of Hainaut, Wallonia, Belgium.
History
The castle was first constructed here by Nicolas de Fontaine in the 13th century. Nicolas's sister, wife of Baudouin de Hennin-Liétard, inherited it, after which it went on to become the property of renowned families such as the Hamals, Herzelles and Rodoans. In the 17th and 18th centuries the castle was completely restored and was given a more refined interior. In the 19th century the Bivort de la Saudée family renovated the castle once more. | WIKI |
Goldman Sachs nears deal to sell its fintech app: source
(Reuters) - Goldman Sachs (GS.N) is in advanced talks with several financial companies to spin off its three-year-old app, Simon, which sells complex financial products to retail investors, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters. Several companies, including JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM.N), Barclays Plc (BARC.L), HSBC Holdings Plc (HSBA.L), Credit Suisse (CSGN.S), Wells Fargo & Co (WFC.N) and insurer Prudential Financial Inc (PRU.N), have shown interest in the app, which is expected to be valued at about $100 million, the source said. Simon, or Structured Investment Marketplace and Online, is part of Goldman’s web services platform, Marquee, which offers risk management and analytics tools to clients. Goldman’s shares were up 2.1 percent at $223.71 in mid-day trading. Reporting By Aparajita Saxena in Bengaluru; Editing by Arun Koyyur and Anil D'Silva | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Tacuba metro station
Tacuba is a station of the Mexico City Metro. It is located in the Tacuba district of the Miguel Hidalgo borough, to the west of downtown Mexico City. It lies along Lines 2 and 7.
The station logo depicts three flowers, as its name comes from the Nahuatl language word tlacopan, that which means "land of flowers". It refers to the ancient Tepanec kingdom of Tlacopan that existed in the area in pre-Columbian times.
This transfer station was previously the terminal for Metro Line 2 and opened for service along that line on 14 September 1970. Service was extended westward along Line 2 from Tacuba to Panteones and Cuatro Caminos on 22 August 1984. Line 7 opened up through Tacuba on 20 December 1984. The station transfers not only to Line 7 but also to a nearby mini-bus base, which serves boroughs Azcapotzalco and Miguel Hidalgo. Within the station facilities there is a cultural display and an information desk.
Nearby
* Mercado Tacuba, market
Line 2
* North: Calzada México-Tacuba, Tacuba
Line 7
* East: Calzada México-Tacuba and Golfo de Bengala, Tacuba
* West: Golfo de México and Golfo de Bengala, Tacuba | WIKI |
03. Other BOM elements history, location, navigator, screen
There are a handful of other Browser Object Models that we will briefly go over here.
Screen
The window.screen object obtains information about the user's screen.
availHeight, availWidth
Width and height of the available screen (excluding taskbars).
height, width
Width and height of the available screen (with taskbars).
colorDepth
Number representing the bit depth of the color palette on user's screen.
Navigator
The window.navigator object is used to query a number of elements about the visitor's browser and environment.
language
Determine language of browser.
appName
Check name of browser.
geolocation
Returns geolocation object used to locate user's position.
onLine
Determines if user is online.
platform
Which platform user is using (OS X, Windows, Linux).
cookieEnabled
Determines whether cookies are enabled.
javaEnabled()
Check if user's Java is enabled.
Location
The window.location object provides information about the current URL.
hash
Returns anchor part of a URL.
host
Returns hostname and port number of URL.
pathname, port
Returns path or nort number of URL.
hostname
Returns hostname of a URL.
origin
Returns protocol, hostname and portname of a URL.
assign()
Loads new document.
reload()
Reload current document.
replace()
Replace current document.
History
The window.history gives you information regarding the user's history. Due to security concerns, we can't directly access which URL's our users have visited, but we may find other parameters.
length
Return the length of the user's history.
back(), forward()
Move the user forward or back a page.
go()
Loads specific URL from history list.
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David Tang, Fashion Retailer and Raconteur, Dies at 63
SHANGHAI, China — David Tang, the founder of Shanghai Tang, a global chain of flashy emporiums of Chinese-inspired clothing, accessories and home furnishings, and a prominent writer and raconteur in Hong Kong and Britain, died on Tuesday in London. He was 63. Shanghai Tang confirmed his death. The Financial Times, for which Mr. Tang wrote a weekly advice column, said the cause was cancer. Mr. Tang was born into affluence in Hong Kong on Aug. 2, 1954; his grandfather Tang Shiu Kin founded the city’s dominant Kowloon Motor Bus Company in 1933. David was sent to the Perse School, a boarding school in Cambridge, England, when he was 13. He then studied philosophy at King’s College in London and law at Cambridge before returning to Hong Kong. From the start he showed an uncommon entrepreneurial talent, creating a series of sophisticated and highly successful start-ups in Hong Kong, among them Shanghai Tang; the Pacific Cigar Company, with plush hideaways for cigar lovers; and the exclusive China Club, made up of elegant dining rooms at the top of a former bank building downtown, with décor featuring a collection of Mao-era Chinese art. Mr. Tang also dabbled in oil exploration along the Chinese coastline and gold mining in Africa and Australia. He opened high-end restaurants in London and elsewhere. And he was sought out by multinational companies to join their boards, in part because of his connections in an economically expanding China. He became a prominent adviser to companies like Blackstone, Tommy Hilfiger and British Airways. Mr. Tang said in 2012 that his founding of the Pacific Cigar Company in 1992 had been a formative experience in tapping into East Asia’s increasingly prosperous elite. Appreciating that cigar lovers tended to be affluent but that cigar smoke was not always so loved by others, he set up clubs where cigars, wine and fine food could be enjoyed far from any crowds. He also obtained the exclusive right to import Cuba’s famous Habanos cigars. Mr. Tang later sold much of his stake in Pacific Cigar but was still the company’s chairman at his death. He founded Shanghai Tang in 1994, initially as a Hong Kong emporium to showcase lifestyle, fashion and home products that drew on the glamour of Chinese styles of the 1920s and ’30s and gave them a more contemporary gloss. The first store, catering to tourists, soon became one of a chain: Dozens of outlets opened worldwide, from Bangkok and Singapore to London and New York. Richemont, the Swiss luxury group and owner of such brands as Chloe, Van Cleef & Arpels and Cartier, took a stake in Shanghai Tang in 1998 and went on to acquire full ownership in 2008. But despite attempts to position the company as a Chinese luxury brand, Shanghai Tang began to lose popularity in China; its offerings apparently failed to resonate with shoppers there. In July, Richemont announced that it had sold the company to Alessandro Battagli, an Italian businessman, for an undisclosed sum. Known for mingling with A-listers and royalty, Mr. Tang was reputed to have the best address book in London. An accomplished pianist who could recite poetry by heart, he formed close friendships with celebrities like the actor Russell Crowe and Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York. He was a confidant of the supermodels Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell. In his column for The Financial Times, which appeared on weekends, he dispensed advice on social etiquette and entertaining while peppering his answers to inquiries with outrageous anecdotes about his own experiences and those of his rich and famous friends. When a reader asked how to request that friends turn on the central heating in their country home when accepting visitors, he responded: “Arrive in some mountaineering gear with goggles resembling Captain Scott, and say you are practicing to go to the Antarctic and would prefer, for assimilation, to keep all your clothes on for drinks and dinner. If your feeling cold were still to go unnoticed, blow into your gloved hands, shake like a jelly in a high wind and remark that your friend’s house provides perfect conditions for training.” In his final years, Mr. Tang became an increasingly caustic critic of how Beijing and its chosen leaders of Hong Kong had suppressed calls for greater democracy. When the territory’s chief executive, CY Leung, began his annual policy address last year by mentioning democracy but failed to follow through on how he might achieve greater pluralism, Mr. Tang went to the city’s Foreign Correspondents’ Club and delivered a blistering speech. “Whoever wrote that for the chief executive, if he himself did not write it, must be a comedian, or perhaps a monkey who accidentally typed up those words on a typewriter,” he said. Mr. Tang continued to start businesses. In 2011 he set up ICorrect, a website intended to help celebrities correct misinformation about them. Two years later he opened Tang Tang Tang Tang, another upper-middle-market boutique in Hong Kong, selling everything from $100 rice cookers to $180 cashmere ties. He was knighted in 2008 for his charitable work. In an interview with The Financial Times in 2010, Mr. Tang said he would like to be remembered by a Hilaire Belloc quote: “When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.” Mr. Tang’s survivors include his wife, Lucy, and two children, Victoria and Edward, from his first marriage, to Susanna Cheung, an actress, which ended in divorce. Mr. Tang’s death came a week before what he hoped would be his farewell party. He had sent a bittersweet invitation asking friends to join him at the Dorchester hotel in the luxurious Mayfair neighborhood of London. “He was sitting in his hospital bed to the last, making detailed plans for how it would run,” said Ewan Venters, chief executive of Fortnum & Mason, the British luxury department stores. “I had a wonderful chat with him about who would and would not make the list. 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* "The building was finished being constructed in 1864." - Consider "Construction of the building was finished in 1864"
* ✅ --Doug Coldwell (talk) 08:50, 19 June 2020 (UTC)
* "and some valiant firemen. [6]" - Remove the extraneous space after the period
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* Link patent models at the first point where you discuss models in the prose
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* "nineteenth century" - hyphenate
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* "The patent office could loan out the rejected models to museums and other organizations, the increase in litigation made their preservation important and militated against such transfers." - This sentence is confusing me. Can it be rephrased? Also, I think Patent Office should be capitalized at all points when you're referring to the bureau
* ✅ --Doug Coldwell (talk) 10:04, 19 June 2020 (UTC)
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* Does Campbell have an OCLC?
* ✅ --Doug Coldwell (talk) 10:14, 19 June 2020 (UTC)
* Ref 8 the date should be October 26, 1877, not June 2006. I'd recommend setting it up as a cite journal or cite periodical, with the journal/periodical name being The Engineer. Also, I don't think the comma in "Superintendent, of Models" is needed.
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Ring (mathematics)
In mathematics, a ring is an algebraic structure in which addition and multiplication are defined and have similar properties to those familiar from the integers. The branch of mathematics which study rings is called ring theory.
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Definition A ring is an abelian group (R, +), together with a second binary operation * such that for all a, b and c in R,
<math>a * (b*c) = (a*b) * c</math>
<math>a * (b+c) = (a*b) + (a*c)</math>
<math>(a+b) * c = (a*c) + (b*c)</math>
and such that there exists a multiplicative identity, or unity, that is, an element 1 so that for all a in R,
<math>a*1 = 1*a = a</math>
Many authors omit the requirement for a multiplicative identity, and call those rings which do have multiplicative identities unitary rings. Similarly, the requirement for the ring multiplication to be associative is sometimes dropped, and rings in which the associative law holds are called associative rings. In this encyclopedia, associativity and the existence of a multiplicative identity are taken to be part of the definition of a ring.
The symbol * is usually omitted from the notation, so that a * b is just written a'b.
Examples
• The motivating example is the ring of integers with the two operations of addition and multiplication.
• The rational, real and complex numbers form rings, in fact they are even fields.
• If n is a positive integer, then the set Zn of integers modulo n forms a ring with n elements (see modular arithmetic).
• The set of all continuous real-valued functions defined on the interval [a, b] forms a ring (even an associative algebra). The operations are addition and multiplication of functions.
• The set of all polynomials over some common coefficient ring forms a ring.
• The set of all square n-by-n matrices, where n is fixed, forms a ring with matrix addition and matrix multiplication as operations.
• If G is an abelian group, then the endomorphisms of G form a ring, the endomorphism ring End(G) of G. The operations in this ring are addition and composition of endomorphisms.
• If S is a set, then the power set of S becomes a ring if we define addition to be the symmetric difference of sets and multiplication to be intersection. This is an example of a Boolean ring.
First consequences
From the axioms, one can immediately deduce that
<math>0a = a0 = 0</math>
<math>(-1)a = -a</math>
<math>(-a)b = a(-b) = -(ab)</math>
for all elements a and b in R. Here, 0 is the neutral element with respect to addition +, and -x stands for the additive inverse of the element x in R.
An element a in a ring is called a unit if it is invertible, i.e., there is an element b such that
<math>ab = ba = 1</math>
If that is the case, then b is uniquely determined by a and we write a-1 = b. The set of all invertible elements in a ring is closed under multiplication * and therefore forms a group, the group of units of the ring. If both a and b are invertible, then we have
<math>(ab)^{-1}=b^{-1}a^{-1}</math>
Constructing new rings from given ones
• If a subset H of a ring (R,+,*) together with the operations + and * restricted on H is itself a ring, then it is called a subring of (R,+,*).
• The direct sum of two rings (G,+,*) and (H",#,•) is the set G×H together with the operations
(g1,h1)^(g2,h2) = (g1+g2,h1#h2) and
(g1,h1)(g2,h2) = (g1*g2,h1h2).
• Given a ring R and and ideal I, the factor ring is the set of cosets of R/I together with operations gI+hI=(g+h)I and (gI)(hI)=ghI.
Glossary and related topics
See Glossary of ring theory for more definitions in ring theory.
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How To Pick The Best IEM Earbud Tips
Even the most expensive pair of earbuds can sound bad if you don’t use the right ear tips. They may not come bundled with the buds, so here’s how to pick them.
Have you ever wondered what the best IEM earbud tips out there are?
Answer:
Ear tips can make or break the experience of using earbuds as they not only affect the comfort, but also the sound of the device.
Getting them to properly seal off the ear canal is the most important step towards optimal sound quality, but it isn’t the only aspect to consider.
Material and shape also play a big role in the overall experience.
The ear tips are an easily overlooked bit of earbuds, but they’re arguably the most important part for getting the proper sound.
They might not be as impressive as drivers or as innovative as many of the cool new features that most earbuds come with, but they have the power to make or break the product as a whole, more so than any non-essential flashy feature could. After all, a whole plethora of problems can occur if you don’t use the best earbud tips for your ears.
The most obvious example would be the earbuds slipping out or causing pain, but an improper fit can also fail to isolate sound and even reduce the audio quality in many ways.
This is why finding the best earbud tips for your ears is imperative.
Manufacturers aren’t oblivious to this: it’s the reason they package their earbuds with ear tips of multiple sizes and sometimes even multiple materials. But this doesn’t mean you’re stuck with the tips that the earbuds come with. Ear tips can be bought separately.
We’re going to take you through all the kinds of ear tips out there to give you an idea of what might work best for you.
IEM vs Earbud
Before we get to that, we need to make sure we’re on the same page.
Namely, we want to discuss the difference between IEMs (in-ear monitors) and earbuds, so as to clear up any misunderstandings before they even arise. Feel free to skip this part if you’re only here for the explanation on ear tips, but keep in mind that what we’re about to say could save you loads of headaches in the future.
According to some, the difference between earbuds and IEMs boils down to the way the device is placed in the ear. This distinction sees earbuds as devices that rest in the outer ear. They’re one-size-fits-all and don’t provide the level of noise isolation and stability that’s on par with IEMs.
They’re also typically all plastic, so comfort isn’t their strong suit. Furthermore, they don’t feature any tips, so to speak of earbud tips in this context would be pointless.
By contrast, in-ear monitors are devices that have ear tips which are placed directly into the ear canal. Provided that the ear tip is right for the ear canal in question, this results in superior noise isolation, a better bass response, and a more stable fit; for most people, this is also the more comfortable option of the two.
If you dig deep enough, you’ll even find mention of canalphones, which are in-ear monitors/earbuds that go further down the ear canal. Here at Earbudszone, we don’t subscribe to this nomenclature for two simple reasons: it’s inconsistent and irrelevant.
Not only do the various articles cataloging these distinctions disagree on some of the definitions but, more importantly, manufacturers simply don’t use them. They use the term earbuds to mean all these things (or in-ear headphones, in some cases). So it would be foolish for us to expect this arbitrary knowledge from our readers.
If you saw an ad on YouTube for Raycon earbuds, how are you supposed to know that these are supposed to be IEMs? For that matter, we’ve never heard the term true-wireless IEMs being used. It’s always true-wireless earbuds, but according to these definitions, we’d only have true-wireless IEMs.
This is why, in this article and all other articles on this website, we use the term earbuds to avoid any confusion. Should a device being reviewed happen to rest on the other ear or go further down the ear canal (which rarely happens), that’s something that will be addressed in the review.
Now that we got that out of the way, let’s take a look at what kind of earbud tips there are.
Ear Tip Materials
The first defining feature of ear tips is the material used to make them.
The two most commonly used materials for making ear tips are silicone and foam, although other less popular alternatives do exist.
Silicone Tips
Silicone tips have the benefit of longevity and are also easier to maintain. They can be washed in water with impunity. Silicone is also unlikely to cause an allergic reaction (rubber ear tips are notorious for this, which is why they’re not a popular material).
However, silicone isn’t great at isolating noise. This can work in your favor if you like to stay aware of your surroundings, for example when you’re jogging. But it can also be undesirable if you want to drown out the outside world and completely immerse yourself in music, for example in public transportation.
Just know that using silicone ear tips while exercising can cause the tips to become slippery due to sweat, which can potentially make them slip out of your ear, so there are always both pros and cons.
Foam Tips
In many ways, foam tips are the exact opposites of silicone tips. They aren’t as easy to use since they’re much more difficult to wash and need to be replaced after a while, no matter how conscientious you are about maintaining them properly.
On the flip side, foam makes for a more comfortable fit, as the material can adjust to the contours of your ear canal over time. As far as noise isolation is concerned, foam is king. It highlights the punchiness of the bass, although in some cases it can also negatively affect the high treble.
If you want no interruptions while enjoying your music, it far outdoes silicone, although the occlusion effect it has – i.e. how you hear your voice while your ears are plugged up – can be weird, especially if you plan on doing any talking while wearing these earbuds.
Other Tips
In addition to silicone and foam tips, other noteworthy mentions are Comply foam tips and hybrid ear tips.
Hybrid tips feature both foam and silicone. They’re relatively obscured and aren’t found much outside of some Sony models, but aftermarket versions do exist.
As for Comply foam tips (foam tips manufactured by the company Comply), they feature dynamic memory foam and are generally softer and more comfortable than regular foam tips, although they still suffer from the same downsides.
Ear Tips Shapes
The second defining feature of ear tips is shape. According to their shape, ear tips are defined by how many flanges they have.
For the most part, we make the distinction between these three types of ear tips:
• Single flange
• Double flange (or bi-flanged)
• Triple flange
Single flange ear tips feature a single piece of silicon or foam to seal off your ear canal. Foam tips only ever come with a single flange, which some don’t take to be a flange at all since it can have different shapes. In any case, the point is that there is only a single piece of whatever material is used. This is by far the most popular ear tip shape and it works well with most earbuds.
Double flange ear tips feature two flanges, a smaller one and a larger one. They still come in various shapes, but far fewer than can be found with single flange tips. Their biggest strength lies in the fact that they can provide a better seal than their single flange cousins, thus improving the bass response and strengthening the noise isolation.
Nevertheless, you should only look at double flange alternatives if single flange tips simply don’t allow for a proper fit, since these offer a far narrower selection of shapes and sizes.
Triple flange ear tips double down on this idea of better bass response and improved noise isolation, but this is again only if you can even fit them inside your ear. Some people don’t have ear canals deep enough to accommodate them, and even those who do won’t always find them to be comfortable.
There are ear tips out there with unique shapes but each member here is in a category of its own, so there isn’t much we can say about the group as a whole.
And, of course, if none of the other options suit you, you can always get custom-fit ear tips. No two ears are alike, even when they belong to the same head, so custom-fit tips offer a way for folks who otherwise simply cannot stand the discomfort of using earbuds to give them a try.
This is easily the most expensive route to take, but if you’ve got the money and are willing to spend it on comfort, there are companies out there that will mold ear tips specifically for your ears.
How Ear Tips Affect Sound
The most important thing needed to attain the desired sound quality on any pair of earbuds is a proper seal. If the seal isn’t good, you may as well toss out the earbuds. Just try to put the wrong ear tips on and you’ll see what we’re talking about. This is why ear tips are so important and why you must look at aftermarket solutions if the ones that came bundled with the deice simply don’t do it for you.
But the material also affects sound quality. We’ve already mentioned how the insulatory properties affect the bass – silicone lets some of it escape while foam directs all of it inside the ear, making the bass tighter and punchier. However, foam has also been known to have a negative effect on the highs.
Unfortunately, the effect ear tips have on sound quality isn’t a hot topic of research, so we don’t know the exact reason why this happens. There are claims out there that the foam absorbs some of the high treble. We can neither confirm nor deny this. However, we can refer to the tests done by Tyll Hertsens for InnerFidelity.
In this article, Tyll measured the frequency response of different ear tips using a dummy to get some objective clues regarding the way tip material affected the audio. Interestingly enough, these tests didn’t show any impactful changes in the frequency graphs between Comply foam tips and silicone ones. On the contrary, he found that triple flange tips cause the most discernable change in the frequency response.
This led him to conclude that the material itself doesn’t affect the highs, but rather the way the earbuds are inserted into the ear. The tests ran aren’t comprehensive enough to dismiss the complaints various people have had with foam tips, but they are something to consider.
How to Insert Foam Tips
The anatomy of foam ear tips is simple: there’s a plastic inner tube and there’s the surrounding foam.
If you squish the foam while inserting the earbuds, it elongates. Then when you put the earbuds into your ears, the excess foam can deform, causing a part of it to block out the tube. This obstruction will inevitably affect the sound in some way, which is how Tyll rationalizes the negative effect foam tips are perceived to have on the high treble.
To avoid this issue, we need to make sure that the tube isn’t shorter than the foam. This can be accomplished by pushing the foam back. Once the tube is longer than the foam, the possibility of something obstructing its exit becomes far less likely.
This method was proposed specifically for Comply tips, but if the hypothesis is correct, it should work to clear all foam tips of the bad rep they get by some users. To this end, some users have even proposed cutting off the excess foam of the tip or installing the tips backward.
Conclusion
We can tell you the pros and cons of different materials and shapes used for making ear tips but, unfortunately, we cannot tell you which ones will work best for you. All ears are different so this is something you have to decide for yourself.
Some earbuds are designed to be pushed further inside the ear canal, some less so. Unfortunately, the only way to find out which would work for you is to try them out.
Once you do this, however, you need to be honest with yourself.
If the earbuds are causing pain or discomfort, don’t put up with it or hope it will get better on its own just because your friends don’t have that issue when using the same model. In this case, the pain/discomfort is letting you know there is a problem that needs addressing.
Changing the ear tip can help sometimes. This is why knowing the benefits of different ear tips can help guide you in the right direction. But there will also be cases where certain earbuds will simply not be right for some people.
Ultimately, it’s a trial-and-error exercise. We hope this article will help simplify this process, but after a certain point, all we can do is wish you luck!
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Oracle CLOB not support by any prosessor in NiFi
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Hi,
I have an Oracle table that has a CLOB. I can't pull them back using any of the processors that I try. Any way around this other than using SQOOP?
NiFI version 1.2.0.3.0.1.1-5
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NiFi processors should be able to handle CLOB, can you please provide an error that you received and which processor it came from?
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Hi @David Sheard, @Bryan Bende, @Steven O'Neill,
Myself and a colleague of mine noticed a similar behaviour with BLOB's and a legacy Oracle database we were using (Community link here). To extract the data we built an external Java program (jdbc + ResultSets) to get the BLOB bytes and write files to disk for NiFi ingestion. Alternatively, using NiFi's ExecuteScript processor and Groovy's database helper libraries the entire process can be managed through NiFi (or whatever scripting language you are comfortable with). Whichever of the above techniques you choose, you will still have to maintain your own business logic to manage your delta records. Not the most elegant solution but we just could not get the bundled NiFi processers to play nicely with the Oracle BLOB's.
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Thanks for the feedback.
We used both QueryDatabaseTable and ExecuteSQL. The CLOB is large and our quick and dirty workaround is to create a view but I had to limit the column to 1000 (see below) as the processors still had an error with the max 4000 that Oracle could handle (converting a CLOB).
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Vaping is something we’ve all heard about, seen, or done. It is becoming incredibly popular as new vaporizers and vaping equipment comes out almost daily. This, along with its seamless ease of use, has given rise to a culture of vaping that is propelled ever-forward as new products evolve and enhance the vaping experience. This pervasive and convenient aspect of vaping can sometimes distance us from the basic and fundamental facts about vaping, like how exactly it works, and what goes into the vapor we have grown to covet so much.
But with a bit of basic knowledge, we can, as consumers, take back this consciousness. And, as such, we can give ourselves the power to be informed about the vapes we love, and indeed why we love them.
What is in Vape Vapor
What is Vaping and How Does it Work?
Vaping refers to the act of inhaling the vapor produced by a vaporizer or electronic cigarette. It has been viewed as, among other things, an alternative to smoking since many vape liquids (e-juices) can contain nicotine, THC, and CBD, while eliminating the necessity of using traditional combustion-heating smoking methods.
But how does vaping actually work, and how is vapor produced? Whether a dry herb vaporizer, concentrate vaporizer, or an e-liquid vaporizer, all vaporizers fundamentally work based on the same principle – producing vapor instead of combusting material to produce smoke. While e-liquid vapes use a wick and heated coil to heat e-liquids to the point it turns into vapor, dry herb and concentrate vapes rely on convection and/or conduction heating methods to either directly or indirectly heat the vaping material to the point of producing vapor.
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What’s in Vape Smoke?
This question in itself is a bit of a misnomer, since when we vape the substance that is produced is actually vapor, as we’ve discussed above. If we start with dry herb vapes, then, it might seem contrary to say that a dry substance can produce a vapor, but this is indeed the case. Dry herbs are heated by one of the two heating methods mentioned above, or a mixture of the two, to a temperature just below the substances boiling or combustion point without directly burning it.
The vapor produced in a dry herb vape contains all of the things you want in your dry herb, like THC, CBD, or other cannabinoids, but deliver it in the form of vapour rather than smoke. The compounds in your initial product will not be lost or prove ineffective during the vaping process, which of course is exactly why vaping is such an attractive idea.
E-liquid vapor, then, consists of e-liquid turned into the form of vapor. E-liquids usually consist of just a few ingredients to carry flavors and nicotine.
These flavors make vaping pleasant and fun, but what goes into making these delicious flavours? In addition to the flavors themselves, e-liquids are also made by mixing the flavorings into propylene glycol and vegetable glycerin by using a solvent. These are transferred into the vape liquid, vaporized, and then inhaled as vapor.
Of course, it’s important to consider that these risks have mainly been theorized, and there are currently many ongoing studies aiming towards finding concrete evidence of these problems and their causes.
Can Vaping Produce Smoke?
Under normal circumstances a vape will not produce smoke. But if we take apart this sentence, what are ‘normal’ circumstances? Well, if you are using a quality vape, dry herb or concentrate or otherwise, and if you are practicing appropriate vaping practices (not over-filling your oven and properly cleaning your device, for example) then you should never have a close encounter of the ‘smoke’ kind.
However, the risk of your vaporizer producing smoke can increase under certain circumstances, and indicates a potential issue with your device or vaping practices, and is not indicative of the act of vaping overall. There can be a few causes for vapes producing smoke:
• An over-packed oven can create a situation in which your product gets heated to a high enough temperature to cause combustion
• Trying to vape with a low amount of e-liquid in your tank can cause the remaining liquid to burn rather than turn to vapor
• Debris near an important part of the heating element, usually caused by not cleaning the oven sufficiently, can cause the debris to combust and produce smoke
How To Prevent Smoke in your Vape
Of course, no one wants to encounter smoke in their vapor, it’s just simply counter-intuitive. But there are a few good practices to get in the habit of doing, no matter what kind of vape you have, that can help prevent this from happening. Maybe the best initial advice to follow is to start with a good quality vape in the first place. A reliable and trusted brand, like Storz and Bickel, for example, take the quality of their products seriously, in this case to the point of making them medical-grade. A brand that puts this much effort into the quality of their products will contain sophisticated heating mechanisms with acute temperature range control.
Moreover, the right accessories could make all the difference. If you’re concerned that you might over-pack your oven and cause your product to come too close to the heating element, maybe dosing capsules are right for you. And, surely, a wear and tear kit is an excellent way to ensure that you have the tools to keep your vape clean and in perfect working order. It’s also important to remember that vapes age, and replacing key components, like your cooling unit, will ensure that your device doesn’t overheat. Treating your unit with the respect and love it deserves, and doing everything to keep it running the way it should is the best way to avoid smoke production. So remember to take care of your vape so it can continue to do that which it was meant to do! | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Poll Finds Over Half of Americans Support Physician-Assisted Suicide For Terminally Ill « CBS Detroit
ANN ARBOR More than half of Americans continue to support physician-assisted suicide for terminally ill patients with less than six months to live, according to the Truven Health Analytics-NPR Health Poll. Truven Health Analytics was formerly the health care business of Thomson Reuters Truven Health Analytics and NPR conduct a monthly poll to gauge attitudes and opinions on a wide range of health issues. The survey asked respondents to share their views on physician-assisted suicide. The results were compared with data compiled from the same poll questions asked a year ago and found that 55 percent of Americans support physician-assisted suicide in the case of a terminally ill patient with less than six months to live the same proportion of those who supported it a year ago. Of those who said they did not support physician-assisted suicide for the terminally ill, 23 percent said a physician should be allowed to provide the patient's family members with the means to end the patient's life if requested by the patient or family, up slightly from 2011. When asked their thoughts on physician-assisted suicide in cases when a patient is experiencing severe pain or severe disability, but is not terminally ill, 29 percent said they supported physician-assisted suicide unchanged from 2011. Twenty eight percent of respondents who did not support physician-assisted suicide for patients experiencing severe pain or disability said a physician should be allowed to provide patients or their family members with the means to end the patient's life if requested by the patient or family – a slight decrease from 29 percent in 2011. As medical science advances, it is becoming more capable of maintaining a life, even perhaps beyond the wishes of the patient and their family, said Raymond Fabius, M.D., chief medical officer at Truven Health Analytics. While this subject is difficult to discuss, it will be increasingly relevant as time passes. The Truven Health Analytics-NPR Health Poll is powered by the Truven Health Pulse Healthcare Survey, the nation's largest and longest-running independently funded, nationally representative telephone poll that collects information about health-related behaviors and attitudes and healthcare utilization from more than 100,000 US households annually. Survey questions are developed in conjunction with NPR. The figures in this month's poll are based on 3,017 participants interviewed from July 1-13, 2011 and 3,006 participants interviewed from October 1-11, 2012. The margin of error is 1.8 percent. More at www.truvenhealth.com. Please log in using one of these methods to post your comment: You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out / Change ) You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out / Change ) You are commenting using your Google+ account. ( Log Out / Change ) Connecting to %s Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email. Watch & Listen | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Samsung Galaxy Tab–How To Disable Samsung Keypad Key Tone
If don’t like the key tone when using the Samsung Keypad of your Samsung Galaxy Tab and is having hard time finding how to disable it, this post will give you a little help.
If you try to disable the key tone through the Samsung Keypad settings, you will notice there is no such option.
The option is hidden in the Sound settings.
Look under the Feedback section and you will notice that Audible touch tones is enable.
Uncheck the Audible touch tones and that will disable the keypad tone.
Now you have a silent Samsung Keypad.
However, do note that disabling the key tone for DioPen Chinese IME is through the DioPen Chinese IME Settings.
7 comments:
Kevyn said...
any idea why I do not have the first option to disable the keypad tone?
Alex Siow said...
Hi Kevyn, do you mean you do not have the "Audible touch tones" option when you go to the "Sound settings" as shown in the 3rd picture?
I have verified that this option is available for both Android 2.2 Froyo and 2.3 Gingerbread version of Samsung Galaxy Tab 7".
Kevyn said...
yes that's what I mean. Samsung told me it's a Verizon issue. But somehow, in my 2 hrs of messing around with it, the clicking is gone. I have no idea what I did, but not going to question it at this point.
Of course, the outsourced Samsung rep had me do a factory reset which only resulted in loss of whatever I had on the tablet. Which fortunately, wasn't much.
thanks for the reply
Alex Siow said...
Can't think of a reason why Verizon would want to remove the option.
Is it possible for you to send me a screenshot of what you see in the "Sound settings" of your tab? Would like to compare it with mine.
You can send it to deinfotech73@gmail.com.
Zandra Solomon said...
How can i disable the diopen chinese ime?
Alex Siow said...
Hi Zandra, I guess your Tab's input method might have been set to DioPen Chinese IME. You can change the input method by going to the "Settings" screen. Select "Language and keyboard". On the "Language and keyboard" screen, under the "Text Settings" section, select "Select input method". Change to the input method you prefer (e.g. Samsung keypad).
Andrew Matthews said...
Thank you alex the clicking was sending me nuts now it so much nicer for me and people around me Andu Matthews | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
What can you remember about the chapters we heard yesterday?
Can you still remember your answers to these questions?
- What was the first thing that mum saw when she arrived home?
- What was mum’s reaction when she saw grandma? What words did the writer use? (‘giggled and gaped and looked as though she was going to faint’)
- Describe George’s dad.
- Why was dad so impressed?
- What words did dad use to show he was impressed? (colossal, gigantic, tremendous miracle)
- What did dad do?
- Why didn’t grandma like what was going on?
- What were the family’s different views of grandma?
- What was dad’s plan?
- Why was there a problem with making the medicine? How did dad sort it out?
- What do you think about dad?
Look at the slides below. Ask an adult for some help if you do not understand fully.
Can you change the sentences below so that they are written in first person? | FINEWEB-EDU |
Acute hyperoxia induces systemic responses with no major changes in peripheral tissues in the Senegalese sole (Solea senegalensis Kaup, 1858)
Marina Machado*, Diogo Malheiro, Ana Couto, Jonathan M. Wilson, Matthew Guerreiro, Rita Azeredo, Jon Christian Svendsen, António Afonso, Renata Serradeiro, Benjamín Costas
*Corresponding author for this work
Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review
Abstract
Senegalese sole Solea senegalensis is currently farmed in recirculation aquaculture systems that often involve water reoxygenation, which in turn may cause acute or prolonged hyperoxia exposures. In order to understand the impact of acute hyperoxia on the fish immune system and peripheral tisues such as gills and gut, Senegalese sole juveniles (30g) were exposed to normoxia (100% O2sat) as control and two hyperoxic conditions (150 and 200% O2sat) and sampled at 4 and 24 h. Fish haematological profile, total and differential blood
cell counts and plasma immune parameters were analysed. Histomorphology
and immunofluorescence analyses of gills and intestine were performed,
respectively, whereas head-kidney samples were used for assessing the
expression of immune-related genes. Results indicate that acute hyperoxia
exposure may reduce fish erythrocyte and haemoglobin levels. Moreover,
decreases in total leucocytes numbers, circulating lymphocytes, monocytes, alternative complement pathway activity and expression of cyclooxygenase-2 were observed in fish exposed to hyperoxia. In contrast, hyperoxia did not induce major effects on gill histomorphology nor in the protein content of ion and glucose cotransporters as well as a macrophage marker (V-ATPase) in the intestine. Although the activation of humoral mechanisms and immune-related genes were not dramatically affected by acute hyperoxia, the compromised immune cell status and the reduction of some inflammatory indicators are issues to consider under acute hyperoxia conditions
Original languageEnglish
JournalFish and Shellfish Immunology
Volume74
Pages (from-to)260-267
ISSN1050-4648
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2018
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Madhuca longifolia
Madhuca longifolia is an Indian tropical tree found largely in the central, southern, north Indian plains and forests, Nepal, Myanmar and Sri Lanka. It is commonly known as madhūka, madkam, mahuwa, Butter Tree, mahua, mahwa, mohulo, Iluppai, Mee or Ippa-chettu. It is a fast-growing tree that grows to approximately 20 meters in height, possesses evergreen or semi-evergreen foliage, and belongs to the family Sapotaceae. It is adaptable to arid environments, being a prominent tree in tropical mixed deciduous forests in India in the states of Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Kerala, Gujarat, West Bengal and Tamil Nadu.
Uses
It is cultivated in warm and humid regions for its oleaginous seeds (producing between 20 and 200 kg of seeds annually per tree, depending on maturity), flowers and wood. The fat (solid at ambient temperature) is used for the care of the skin, to manufacture soap or detergents, and as a vegetable butter. It can also be used as a fuel oil. The seed cakes obtained after extraction of oil constitute very good fertilizer. The flowers are used to produce an alcoholic drink in tropical India. This drink is also known to affect animals. Several parts of the tree, including the bark, are used for their medicinal properties. It is considered holy by many tribal communities because of its usefulness.
The leaves of Madhuca indica (= M. longifolia) are fed on by the moth Antheraea paphia, which produces tassar silk, a form of wild silk of commercial importance in India. Leaves, flowers and fruits are also lopped to feed goats and sheep. The seed oil of 'Madhuca indica' can be utilize to synthesize polymer resin. In one of the attempts, it has been used to prepare alkyd type of polyurethane resins, which are used as a good source of anticorrosion organic coatings.
The Tamils have several uses for M. longifolia (iluppai in Tamil). The saying "aalai illaa oorukku iluppaip poo charkkarai" indicates when there is no cane sugar available, the flower of M. longifolia can be used, as it is very sweet. However, Tamil tradition cautions that excessive use of this flower will result in imbalance of thinking and may even lead to lunacy.
The alkaloids in the press cake of mahua seeds is reportedly used in killing fishes in aquaculture ponds in some parts of India. The cake serves to fertilise the pond, which can be drained, sun dried, refilled with water and restocked with fish fingerlings.
Mahua Flowers
The mahua flower is edible and is a food item for tribals. They use it to make syrup for medicinal purposes.
Mahua flowers are rich in total sugars, out of which reducing sugar are present in high amount. The flowers are also fermented to produce the alcoholic drink mahua, a country liquor. Tribals of Surguja and Bastar in Chhattisgarh and peoples of Western Orissa, Santhals of Santhal Paraganas (Jharkhand), Koya tribals of North-East Andhra Pradesh, Bhil tribals in western Madhya Pradesh and tribals of North Maharashtra consider the tree and the mahua drink as part of their cultural heritage. Mahua is an essential drink for tribal men and women during celebrations.
Mahua fruit are an essential food of Western Odisha people. The tree has a great cultural significance. There are many varieties of food prepared with its fruits and flowers. Also, Western Odisha people used to pray to this tree during festivals. The liquor produced from the flowers is largely colourless, opaque and not very strong. It is inexpensive and the production is largely done in home stills.
Mahua flowers are also used to manufacture jam, which is made by tribal co-operatives in the Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra.
Apart from that there is another company located in Wardha district of Maharashtra," Sevagram Agro Industries" who are dealing in Mahua products at very large scale and exporting innovative products such as seed oil and Mahua Jam to Arab countries.
In many parts of Bihar, such as villages in the district of Siwan, the flowers of mahua tree are sun-dried; these sun-dried flowers are ground to flour and used to make various kinds of breads.
Literature
Wine prepared from Madhūka flowers (Madhuca longifolia) finds mention in several Hindu, Jain and Buddhist literature works. It also finds mention in Ayurveda Samhitas which lists it among several different kinds of wine.
"Kali who is seated on a red lotus in full bloom, her beautiful face radiant, watching Mahākāla, who, drunk with the delicious wine of the Madhuka flower, is dancing before her.."
Sacred tree
Madhūka tree is the sacred tree of various temples in South India, including Irumbai Mahaleswarar Temple, Iluppaipattu Neelakandeswarar Temple, Tirukkodimaada Senkundrur at Tiruchengode, and Thiruvanathapuram. The Tamil saint-philosopher Thiruvalluvar is believed to have born under an iluppai tree within the Ekambareshwarar Temple at Mylapore, and hence madhūka remains the sanctum tree of the Valluvar shrine built within the Ekambareshwarar temple complex.
Mahua Oil
* Average oil Content: 32.92 to 57.53%
* Refractive index: 1.452
* Fatty acid composition (acid, %) : palmitic (c16:0) : 24.5, stearic (c18:0) : 22.7, oleic (c18:1) : 37.0, linoleic (c18:2) : 14.3
* Elements : Carbon (C), Calcium (Ca), Nitrogen (N), Magnesium (Mg), Phosphorus (P), Sodium (Na)
Trifed, a website of the Ministry of Tribal Affairs, Government of India reports: "Mahua oil has emollient properties and is used in skin disease, rheumatism and headache. It is also a laxative and considered useful in habitual constipation, piles and haemorrhoids and as an emetic. Native tribes also used it as an illuminant and hair fixer."
It has also been used as biodiesel.
Other names
* Other botanical names: Bassia longifolia L., B. latifolia Roxb., Madhuca indica J. F. Gmel., M. latifolia (Roxb.) J.F.Macbr., Illipe latifolia (Roxb.) F.Muell., Illipe malabrorum (Engl.) Note: the authentic genus Bassia is in the Chenopodiaceae. The names B. longifolia and B. latifolia are illegitimate.
* Varieties:
* M. longifolia var. latifolia (Roxb.) A.Chev. (=B. latifolia (Roxb))
* M. longifolia var. longifolia
* Vernacular names:
* Santali:matkom
* Bengali:mohua
* Oriya:"Mahula" "ମହୂଲ"
* English: honey tree, butter tree
* French: illipe, arbre à beurre, bassie, madhuca
* India: moha, mohua, madhuca, kuligam, madurgam, mavagam, nattiluppai, tittinam, mahwa, mahua, mowa, moa, mowrah, mahuda (Gujarati-મહુડા)
* Marathi: "Mahu" and "muvda" in Pawari local tribal lang (Nandurbar, Maharashtra) / "Moha"
* Rajasthan: "dolma" in mevadi and marwari
* Sri Lanka: මී mee in Sinhala
* Tamil: iluppai (இலுப்பை),
* Telugu: vippa (విప్ప),
* Myanmar: ကမ်းဇော်
* Nepal : Chiuri (चिउरी)
* Synonymous names for this tree in some of the Indian states are mahua and mohwa in Hindi-speaking belt, mahwa, mahula, Mahula in Oriya and maul in Bengal, mahwa and mohwro in Maharashtra, mahuda in Gujarat, ippa puvvu (ఇప్ప) in Andhra Pradesh, ippe or hippe in Karnataka (Kannada), illupei or இலுப்பை in Tamil, poonam and ilupa in Kerala (Malayalam) and mahula, moha and modgi in Orissa (Oriya). | WIKI |
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44 about to deal a blow with her battle-axe. (Plate I.) To my surprise, I recognized this as a fragment from the frieze of the Mausoleum, twelve slabs of which were removed from the castle at Budrum by Lord Stratford de Redcliffe, in 1846, and are now in the British Museum. I could get no information as to how this fragment found its way into the Museum in Constantinople. The figure is, I think, finer than any on the slabs in the British Museum, and the surface less defaced than most of them.
I also noticed here the head of a serpent in bronze, said to have been broken off from the cele- brated triple serpent of the Hippodrome. It is rather coarsely executed and deficient in style; the eyes, of which only the sockets remain, have been inlaid in silver or precious stones. There is also a curious plate, with silver figures raised in relief, representing Diana seated, holding in her left hand her bow, and wearing a mantle ornamented with stars: horns rise straight from the top of her head. Below are two grotesque figures, holding, one, a lion, the other a tiger in a leash: both these figures have horns. On each side of Diana is a dog, and above her, on the right, a turkey, and on the left a parrot. This is of the late Roman period.
The few fragments of sculpture which have been found in Constantinople itself of late years, seem to be all Byzantine, and of little interest as works of art, though they are curious for details of costume. A sepulchral relief of this class in white marble may be seen lying in the garden of the British Embassy, in digging the foundations of which it was discovered. I | WIKI |
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210 Robert S. Vessey succeeded Governor Crawford in 1909, and Crawford was elected United States senator.
Each of the governors of South Dakota has been supported by an efficient corps of state officers, all of whom have made creditable official records, except William W. Taylor, state treasurer in 1891-1895. At the end of his term he found himself about $150,000 short in his accounts, and
upon the advice of a firm of Chicago attorneys, he carried away the remainder of the state money, aggregating $367,000, in the belief that the state would compromise with him. Finding after several months that a compromise could not be effected, he surrendered and served a term in the penitentiary. | WIKI |
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Rh may find it in Boston or Philadelphia. Murder and theft were very common a hundred years ago; now the former crime is quite as rare as in the United States, and as for the latter, it is even more so. Nearly all the stealing in the islands is done by Chinese or other foreigners, and not by the natives."
Our friends passed near the court-house, which bore a marked resemblance to an American town-hall in a prosperous town, and stood at the edge of a well-kept garden. The Doctor remarked that courthouses and jails were some of the adjuncts of all civilized lands, and therefore they were needed in Hawaii as well as elsewhere. "But I am told," he continued, "that the majority of the inmates of the jail at Honolulu are of other races than the Hawaiian, and that Americans and English form a good proportion."
A little way beyond the courthouse our friends met a man carrying two covered baskets slung at the ends of a short pole which rested on his shoulder. Frank turned to the guide and asked what the man was carrying.
"He's a poi peddler," was the reply, "and I wonder you have not met one before, as there are many of them. He peddles poi, and the people buy it to eat."
He then explained that poi is the national dish of the islands, and is made from the taro-root, which is the Sandwich Island form of the potato. He pointed out a taro-garden, and said that there were many such gardens in and around Honolulu, as the natives did not consider a home complete without one.
The taro-root is baked in an underground oven, and then mashed very fine, so that it would be like flour if the moisture were expelled. After it has been thoroughly mashed it is mixed with water, and in this condition is ready for eating. It has an agreeable taste when fresh, and most foreigners like it upon the first trial. For native use it is allowed to ferment; when fermented it suggests sour paste to the | WIKI |
Santa Fe Indian School
Santa Fe Indian School (SFIS) is a tribal boarding secondary school in Santa Fe, New Mexico. It is affiliated with the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE).
History
The Federal Government established the SFIS in 1890 to educate Native American children from tribes throughout the Southwestern United States like Laguna Pueblo, Santo Domingo Pueblo, San Felipe Pueblo, and Zuni Pueblo just to name a few. The purpose of creating SFIS was an attempt to assimilate the Native American children into the wider United States culture and economy. In 1975, the All Indian Pueblo Council (AIPC) was formed. It was the first Indian organization to utilize the laws in place to contract an education for their children. Eventually, the AIPC was able to leverage complete control of the school and curriculum. In 2001, with the passing of the SFIS Act, the school took ownership of the land. The school resides on the form of a trust, which is held by the nineteen Pueblo Governors of New Mexico. These acts allow for complete educational sovereignty of the school, by the Pueblo.
Indian Boarding Schools origins
The original concept of the Indian Boarding School began as a social experiment predating the Civil War. Around the 1860s, the United States Federal Government created "day schools" to educate children about Western civilisation. They were ineffective in this process because the students did not retain the knowledge acquired at school. A factor in knowledge retention was the students returning home. After discovering this method of education was ineffective, a different approach was taken.
In the 1870s, the concept of Indian Boarding Schools came into fruition. Army Lt. Richard Henry Pratt was charged with overseeing seventy-two Native American prisoners who fought against the Army; he tested his version of the social experiment that was previously attempted on the children. Pratt desired to mold the "savages" into "civilized" people. Pratt taught the Native American prisoners how to speak English and educated the Native Americans on European society and religion. After this educational experience, sixty-two of the Natives went to the Hampton Institute in Virginia. Deciding to extend the experiment further, Pratt was able to convince Native American families to allow their children to attend his boarding school.
Richard H. Pratt founded the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in 1879; the difference being, unlike day schools, Carlisle was located over a thousand miles away from the reservation. The Carlisle Indian Industrial School was the first boarding school specifically for Native Americans. The reasoning behind positioning the school a great distance from the reservations was that Pratt believed distance would help break the ties to Native American culture. He has been quoted as saying, "In Indian civilization I am a Baptist, because I believe in immersing the Indian in our civilization and when we get them under, holding them there until they are thoroughly soaked.".
Pratt desired to remove the children from their Native roots, and he was harsh in the actions he took. Being that Pratt was from the Armed Forces, his background dictated how he operated the school. The students were forced to cut their hair, a symbol of their pride. One boarding school student was quoted as saying, "[Long hair] was the pride of all Indians. The boys, one by one, would break down and cry when they saw their braids thrown on the floor. All of the buckskin clothes had to go and we had to put on the clothes of the White Man". The students were stripped of all traces of what their culture was, such as: their long hair, their clothing, and their native language. The same student went on to say, "This is when the loneliness set in, for it was when we knew that we were all alone. Many boys ran away from the school because the treatment was so bad, but most of them were caught and brought back by the police". Having to deal with the oppression of the school and lack of contact from their families, the students were struck with a feeling of loneliness.
Reformation of Indian Boarding Schools
Changes to the system of the Indian Boarding School took place over the 20th and 21st century. The school system reformed to its current iteration. In the 1920s, Hubert Work, the U.S. Secretary of the Interior, authorized an investigation on the conditions of Indian Boarding Schools; the group reported their findings in the Meriam Report that highlighted the failures of the boarding school system. In the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt, a shift in Federal Native American policy began when President Roosevelt established the Indian New Deal with the purpose of protecting the Native population residing within the United States. The cornerstone of the Indian New Deal was the Indian Reorganization Act in 1934. This act allowed for the Native Americans to construct their own constitutions and govern themselves. In the same year, the Johnson–O'Malley Act was passed to fund Native American education.
In 1966, the Rough Rock Demonstration School was opened. The school was on Navajo land, and was the first boarding school controlled by the Indians. Seeing the success of the Rough Rock Demonstration School, a report was filed in 1969 entitled "Indian Education: A National Tragedy, A National Challenge", which stated that the U.S government's assimilation policy "has had disastrous effects on the education of Indian children". Following this report, the Indian Education Act of 1972 established the Office of Indian Education. The Indian Self Determination and Educational Assistance Act, established in 1975, gave the American Indians the opportunity to legislate "self-determination through community-based schooling". In 1990, the Native American Languages Act granted language rights to Native Americans. The Esther Martinez Native American Languages Preservation Act was established in 2006, which created programs for Native American Language immersion. These changes brought reform the Indian Boarding Schools needed.
The Federal Government established the Santa Fe Indian School (SFIS) in 1890 to educate Native American children from tribes throughout the Southwestern United States. The purpose of creating SFIS was an attempt to assimilate the Native American children into the wider United States culture and economy. In 1975, the All Indian Pueblo Council (AIPC) was formed. It was the first Indian organization to utilize the laws in place to contract an education for their children. Eventually, the AIPC was able to leverage complete control of the school and curriculum. In 2001, with the passing of the SFIS Act, the school took ownership of the land. The school resides on the form of a trust, which is held by the nineteen Pueblo Governors of New Mexico. These acts allow for complete educational sovereignty of the school, by the Pueblo.
The Studio School
In 1932, Dorothy Dunn established "The Studio School" at the Santa Fe Indian School. It was a painting program for Native Americans, which encouraged students to develop a painting style that was derived from their cultural traditions. Dunn left in 1937, and was replaced by Gerónima Cruz Montoya of Ohkay Owingeh, who taught until the program closed in 1962, with the opening of the Institute of American Indian Arts. Tonita Peña had been an instructor at the school in the 1930s.
Notable alumni of The Studio School
Notable alumni include:
* José Vicente Aguilar
* Harrison Begay
* Crucita Calabaza
* Pop Chalee
* Cecil Dick
* Joe Herrera
* Jack Hokeah
* Allan Houser
* Oscar Howe
* Eva Mirabal
* Gerald Nailor, Sr.
* Jose Encarnacion Peña
* Oqwa Pi (Abel Sanchez)
* Quincy Tahoma
* Pablita Velarde
* Rufina Vigil
* Sybil Yazzie
Demolition and restoration
Since officially taking control of SFIS, the nineteen Pueblo Tribes began to take action in demolishing and renovating SFIS in the early 2000s. In 2008, the SFIS razed eighteen buildings. Some preservationists were upset by the demolition. School officials stated: "After completing various assessments over the past five years, the Santa Fe Indian School exercised its sovereign authority and due diligence to take action by demolishing buildings to remove the imminent health, safety, and security threats to protect the students and staff of SFIS, including the general public". There was questioning of whether or not SFIS had the right to raze the buildings. After reviewing the different laws and regulations, the sovereignty overruled the Historic Preservation Acts; the Pueblo were able to demolish the historic buildings without retribution. The Pueblo stated the buildings being torn down contained asbestos. They did not have the funds to repair the buildings and maintain them.
The demolition of these historic buildings, in turn, had many benefits for the Tribes. "A Pueblo governor reportedly called the demolition of the buildings "a spiritual cleansing" for his people". "Spiritual cleansing" was desired by the Pueblo Tribes after years of attending Indian Boarding Schools and assimilating to different ideals. The restoration of the school contributed to enhancing and reviving the overall cultural experience of the school. The rebuilding of the school was a collaborative design build project between Albuquerque offices of Flintco Construction and ASCG. To create a welcoming, home-like environment, SFIS included fireplaces in the dorms and classrooms. SFIS believes creating a familiar environment will prevent students from becoming homesick and possibly reduce the dropout rate.
Today there are 624 students enrolled at SFIS in grades 7-12. Out of 624 students, 155 commute and 469 live in the dorms. The school is currently 54% girls and 46% boys. The Nineteen Pueblo Tribes were the most influential in the construction of the school; they made sure the architecture reflected their traditions and contained elements of typical Pueblo architecture. "A crucial factor in the project's success was sighting the school buildings to replicate a pueblo village while preserving views with religious significance… The buildings radiate out from a central plaza that is the focus of the site design". The design was constructed with the intention of facilitating student comfort. The project had nineteen owners, each a governor of one of the Nineteen Pueblo Tribes. These owners had conflicting views of the project goals increasing the project difficulty, but enhancing the project's outcome. Joseph Abeyta, the Director of the SFIS at the time, believed that these new renovations were their chance to take back ownership of the school and what it represents. They would ensure the school "would reflect and sustain their culture". These desires were fulfilled through the design of the project. The buildings were built in adobe style. The dorms and some classrooms contained fireplaces similar to the ones from their homes. SFIS has round rooms, to stimulate spirituality. These aspects tie together to produce the SFIS of today. With further construction and planning in the future, SFIS has a need to develop a reliable planning system.
Governance
There are 19 indigenous pueblos in the State of New Mexico these pueblos elect a board of seven members, and this board governs the school.
Education goals of SFIS
The goals of SFIS are to educate the students by clarifying what they must accomplish, supported by an education of Native American culture as the foundation. "The Santa Fe Indian School remains a pivotal institution and educational training ground for the development of Indian students and their communities". The strong relationship the school has with its tribal communities and parents is a fundamental aspect of the SFIS experience. With enhancing the educational experience and developing a new style of teaching, SFIS is looking to capitalize on the opportunities at hand and incorporate more technology into their plans.
Agriscience
One important initiative is a branch of CBE called Agriscience, which works closely with several Pueblo communities to engage students in all aspects of farming and agricultural practices through regular community visits. They learn about their culture and science while also practicing the design and management of sustainable agriculture systems.
Senior honors project
Another branch of CBE is the Senior Honors Project (SHP). The SHP is designed to teach seniors necessary project skills in a way that helps their community address current problems. Victoria Atencio's SHP is a particularly relevant example. For her project, Honoring Mother Earth, she explored ways of reducing our impact on Earth by going back to traditional ways and focusing on renewable/alternative energy sources, enabling us to become a more sustainable community. She worked with the school's Green Team to teach her peers about more sustainable options.
Campus
There is a dormitory for middle and high school students. | WIKI |
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List of operas by Richard Strauss
The German composer Richard Strauss (1864–1949) was prolific and long-lived, writing 16 operas from 1892 up until his death in 1949. Strauss "emerged soon after the deaths of Wagner and Brahms as the most important living German composer", and was crucial in inaugurating the musical style of Modernism. His operas were dominant representatives of the genre in his time, particularly his earlier ones: Salome (1905), Elektra (1909), Der Rosenkavalier (1911) and Ariadne auf Naxos (1912). His earliest work, Der Kampf mit dem Drachen (comp. 1876), was a juvenile sketch, and is sometimes not counted as part of his operatic oeuvre; his final opera, Des Esels Schatten (Strauss) (comp. 1947–1949), was unfinished at his death and completed by Karl Haussner in 1964. | WIKI |
Talk:Nokia 808 PureView
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This article sounds to me like marketing blabla or just a repetition of PR stuff. No real explanation of the oversampling technique or algorithms used. And Panasonic already used a multi-aspect sensor for years, no need to glorify it in this entry. — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 22:36, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
First version + sample images search done
Yeah. Tagremover (talk) 08:18, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
Other details
No mention has been made of the stereo audio capable of recording distortion free up to 140DB? This article focusses on the image capture abilities only. The Audio is an important part to video and should be mentioned in the video section. Also is this an article purely on the camera or about the phone itself? The title is the phone model yet the article purely focusses on the camera and not the other details about the phone. — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 04:29, 24 April 2012 (UTC)
* So add to the article then instead of just complaining!!!! Vexorg (talk) 03:24, 26 April 2012 (UTC)
Sorry - Wikipedia newbie and terrible at English :) I might give it a crack. — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 05:09, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
Not a 1-group lens !
I think you mean no relative movements among the elements. That's just a simple 'prime' (not zoom : fixed-focal-length) lens - (NB In some primes, the front element doesn't move while focussing eg 'Internal Focussing' in Nikon terms). In terms of '5 elements in 3 groups', usually groups are defined by air-spaces between them. Elements within a group are cemented together. (I don't think we need consider liquid-filled gaps or Gradient-index_optics here - they're extremely rare).
Best link I've seen for the PureView Lens is PureView The Tech Behind Nokia’s Salvation - SlashGear. Looks like 5 elements, 5 groups and the text says "a complex five-lens assembly with a range of aspheric surfaces".
Please correct this here, and in Tessar. NB They are calling it 'Tessar', but I doubt if even the marketing departments would call a fixed lens 'Vario-Tessar' - zoom is purely a software function - digital zoom !
--<IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 05:06, 24 June 2012 (UTC)
shiftable fixed-focus lens ?
This seems self-contradictory - focussing is the primary movement of a lens. Sharpness to HD standards requires focussing. Shift has a specific meaning, and I doubt if Nokia are into Perspective control. If they were, I'm sure shift would be implemented in software, with an offset in the sensor region, similar to the way zoom is done by scaling a sensor region. It's a great idea for a hack or firmware upgrade, though - I should maybe patent it, but this would count as public disclosure !
I suppose you mean non-zoom; fixed-focal-length, with auto-focus and perhaps with optical Image stabilization ?
--<IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 05:57, 24 June 2012 (UTC)
* Answers:
* Vario-Tessar: Just names/brands: Vario- sometimes called, especially in early refs, its now mainly called Tessar, which is better: Changed.
* 1-group lens: You are wrong:
* Name by Nokia, see refs
* Cemented: Term exactly fits to (old) metal mounted elements: Plastics are mostly molded, especially small lenses as in compact cams/phones: ZEISS: "Lenses used in mobile phones are made from plastic and pressed in a mold." Refreshed deleted content.
* A lens-group is:
* a close, mechanical stable, fixed alignment of elements
* often, but not needed, seen by the designer and/or working together as an optical unit.
* Fits all
* Shiftable fixed-focus lens: Contradictory statements 1-group <-> autofocus: See unit focusing lens. And: Explains the construction better.
* Tagremover (talk) 05:46, 5 September 2012 (UTC)
Oversampling HD video?
I.e downscaling 41mpx to 1080p extremely highly unlikely. would require a huge processor. — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 18:05, 7 November 2012 (UTC)
* In fact, the 34 MP (16:9 aspect ratio) are downsampled to 1920 by 1080 pixels up to 30 times per second. Yes, the co-processor does exactly that. --<IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 22:34, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
*Was* largest and highest resolution - what's changed after?
* The 808's sensor was the largest <...> and highest resolution sensor in a cameraphone at the time of its launch
What is changed, why it 'was', and not now the same record-holder?
What model holds the record thereafter?
Thanks! <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 01:10, 17 May 2013 (UTC)
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Suggesting to remove useless Honor link
And add links to important Sharp Aquos R7 and Sony Xperia Pro-I. Your opinion on that? Spacedrone808 (talk) 11:47, 9 March 2023 (UTC)
* What is the significance of those devices? Indrek (talk) 13:46, 9 March 2023 (UTC)
* They provide better resolution and match Nokia more closely than mentioned honor. Spacedrone808 (talk) 20:46, 9 March 2023 (UTC)
* The reason for mentioning the Honor View 20 is that it was the first phone with a higher-resolution sensor than the 808. This is significant because it shows for how long the 808 remained the sensor resolution champion. Same with the Lumix CM1 and sensor size.
* I don't think adding links to the Aquos R7 and Xperia Pro-I would add anything of value to the article, though. Just because they have sort-of-similar specs (though the Sony seems to have 12 MP sensors) doesn't mean they merit inclusion. Indrek (talk) 14:19, 11 March 2023 (UTC)
* 808 is still resolution champion if we compare images pixel wise. Bigger MP numbers don't mean anything. Plus all Quad-bayer sensors tend to soften picture and awful noise reduction algorithms make things even worse. Spacedrone808 (talk) 06:50, 12 March 2023 (UTC)
* That may be true, but in that case there seems to be even less reason to mention the phones you suggested. The Honor View 20 at least has the distinction of being the first to surpass the 808 on megapixel count. Indrek (talk) 07:46, 13 March 2023 (UTC) | WIKI |
Thermal Imaging in Wildland Firefighting
With training, many years of practice and maybe just a little bit of crazy, generations of wildland firefighters have approached fires measured in acres or thousands of acres and thought, “I can do that!” They have battled fires from the air and on the ground, often in poor visibility and with limited support. Now, with the emergence of thermal imaging in wildland firefighting, working conditions on the ground and information gathering from the air can be greatly enhanced.
Used properly, thermal imagers can help crews more effectively monitor fire conditions, place personnel in key areas to create control lines, enhance safety during firefighting and improve the control of prescribed burns. Firefighters can also use thermal imagers to enhance their safety when navigating through smoke and maintain accountability even when separated by distance and poor visibility. The advent of smaller thermal imagers, longer operating times and alkaline battery packs have made the technology more applicable to wildland firefighting.
Monitoring the flank and head of the fire from the air – With a thermal imager, the fire’s location and progress will be evident from an aerial position, regardless of daylight or smoke conditions. This enables precise monitoring of fire progress that would not otherwise be possible. Accurately sizing-up a fire lets command properly deploy resources and to make more effective stops on otherwise growing fires. Many times, the flank or head of the fire are obscured in heavy smoke, particularly in wet areas or in the presence of green fuels. With the thermal imager, accurate assessment of the fire and spread can be obtained regardless of smoke conditions. The ability to monitor fire progress in low light means crews can begin operations earlier in the day and end later in the evening, increasing efficiency.
Placing and monitoring personnel – Especially in large operations, the placement of limited personnel is critical to gaining control. With the enhanced visibility that thermal imaging provides, firefighters can be placed in key locations where control lines must be constructed. Proper placement enhances the ability of firefighters to protect exposures, including structures, threatened habitats and critical infrastructure. As ground crews deploy, airborne supervisors can monitor their locations and ensure a coordinated and effective response. Ground and air crews can effectively deploy thermal imagers. Equipping ground crews can let them monitor fire conditions in their immediate area providing more localized, advanced warning than might otherwise be possible.
Monitoring dangers and extinguishing hot spots on the ground – With proper training on image interpretation, firefighters can use thermal imagers to monitor fire movement on the ground and in the trees above them. The direction and volume of fire brands can be tracked and monitored with a thermal imager. With practice, firefighters can identify snags, thereby improving safety on the job. During mop up, crews with thermal imagers can scan burned areas to ensure that the fire is out and better prevent the opportunity for flare-up or rekindle.
Managing prescribed burns – Controlled burns are critical to reducing the fuel load to improve manageability of wildland fires. Using the images on thermal imagers, firefighters involved in prescribed burning can monitor the direction of fire spread and manage mop up more effectively. This provides information that enables them to protect exposures and keep these burns in a controlled state.
Navigation – When firefighters travel by ground during active wildland fires, their vision may be obscured by smoke. Thermal imagers used from a vehicle can assist the driver in navigating safely through thick smoke, avoiding fixed hazards as well as firefighters on foot. Firefighters on foot can use a thermal imager to help identify safer travel routes based on terrain or fire movement. This can help crews move safely and effectively when smoke obscures their vision. Thermal imagers also provide an effective means of night vision. Since a thermal imager does not register light, its picture is fairly consistent regardless of daylight conditions. This can extend firefighting operations and enhance crew safety by providing clear views of surrounding terrain and potential escape routes.
Firefighters should be aware that thermal imaging technology is not a replacement for basic tactics. For example, there may be times in mop-up when a thermal imager cannot detect a hidden heat source, such as when the heat exists deep within a tree trunk. There may also be times when the image on a thermal imager appears inconclusive to the user.
Most thermal imagers on the market today were designed to operate inside a structure. These imagers are equipped with a wide field of view so that when entering a residential room, a structural firefighter can see much of the room in one quick glance. While this is a benefit to a structural firefighter, it can serve as a detriment to a wildland firefighter.
The side effect of a wide field of view is a limitation of distance. All thermal imagers have a detection range. This typically defines the size of a heat target – three feet by three feet, for example – and a distance at which the target can be detected. While there are numerous variables to account for, understand that the farther away you are, the more likely it is that something can be missed by a thermal imager. This is not to say that you need to be within a certain distance (handheld thermal imagers are commonly used from the air); rather, you should simply practice with it and get a feel for what the technology is telling you.
Thermal imagers can be used to improve operations in a wide variety of wildland firefighting operations, from the air and on the ground. While the dangers faced by wildland firefighters are different than those faced by structural firefighters, the thermal imager is a tool that can benefit firefighters in both types of incidents. By first understanding how a thermal imager can be employed during a wildfire response, then practicing with it on a regular basis, firefighters can improve their personal safety as well as team effectiveness. Remember the 10 Standard Firefighting Orders and 18 Watch Out Situations (http://www.fs.fed.us/fire/safety/10_18/10_18.html) are the bible of wildland firefighting and thermal imagers should only be used to enhance the decision-making process.
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MICRO COMB
Micro-combs - optical frequency combs generated by integrated micro-cavity resonators – offer the full potential of their bulk counterparts, but in an integrated footprint. They have enabled breakthroughs in many fields including spectroscopy, microwave photonics, frequency synthesis, optical ranging, quantum sources, metrology and ultrahigh capacity data transmission. Here, by using a powerful class of micro-comb called soliton crystals, we achieve ultra-high data transmission over 75 km of standard optical fibre using a single integrated chip source. We demonstrate a line rate of 44.2 Terabits s−1 using the telecommunications C-band at 1550 nm with a spectral efficiency of 10.4 bits s−1 Hz−1. Soliton crystals exhibit robust and stable generation and operation as well as a high intrinsic efficiency that, together with an extremely low soliton micro-comb spacing of 48.9 GHz enable the use of a very high coherent data modulation format (64 QAM - quadrature amplitude modulated). This work demonstrates the capability of optical micro-combs to perform in demanding and practical optical communications networks.
Download PDF Introduction The global optical fibre network currently carries hundreds of terabits per second every instant, with capacity growing at ~25% annually1. To dramatically increase bandwidth capacity, ultrahigh capacity transmission links employ massively parallel wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) with coherent modulation formats2,3, and in recent lab-based research, by using spatial division multiplexing (SDM) over multicore or multi-mode fibre4. At the same time, there is a strong trend towards a greater number of shorter high-capacity links. Whereas core long-haul (spanning 1000’s km) communications dominated global networks 10 years ago, now the emphasis has squarely shifted to metro-area networks (linking across 10’s–100’s km) and even data centres (< 10 km). All of this is driving the need for increasingly compact, low-cost and energy-efficient solutions, with photonic integrated circuits emerging as the most viable approach. The optical source is central to every link, and as such, perhaps has the greatest need for integration. The ability to supply all wavelengths with a single, compact integrated chip, replacing many parallel lasers, will offer the greatest benefits5,6.
Micro-combs, optical frequency combs based on micro-cavity resonators, have shown significant promise in fulfilling this role7,8,9,10. They offer the full potential of their bulk counterparts11,12, but in an integrated footprint. The discovery of temporal soliton states (DKS—dissipative Kerr solitons)10,13,14,15,16,17 as a means of mode-locking micro-combs has enabled breakthroughs in many fields including spectroscopy18,19, microwave photonics20, frequency synthesis21, optical ranging22,23, quantum sources24,25, metrology26,27 and more. One of their most-promising applications has been optical fibre communications, where they have enabled massively parallel ultrahigh capacity multiplexed data transmission28,29,30.
The success of micro-combs has been enabled by the ability to phase-lock, or mode-lock, their comb lines. This, in turn, has resulted from exploring novel oscillation states such as temporal soliton states, including feedback-stabilised Kerr combs29, dark solitons30 and DKS28. DKS states, in particular, have enabled transmission rates of 30 Tb/s for a single device and 55 Tb/s by combining two devices, using the full C and L telecommunication bands28. In particular, for practical systems, achieving a high spectral efficiency is critically important—it is a key parameter as it determines the fundamental limit of data-carrying capacity for a given optical communications bandwidth2,3.
Recently17,11, a powerful class of micro-comb termed soliton crystals was reported, and devices realised in a CMOS (complementary metal-oxide semiconductor) compatible platform2,3,8,9,31 have proven highly successful at forming the basis for microwave and RF photonic devices32,33. Soliton crystals were so-named because of their crystal-like profile in the angular domain of tightly packed self-localised pulses within micro-ring resonators (MRRs)17. They are naturally formed in micro-cavities with appropriate mode-crossings without the need for complex dynamic pumping and stabilisation schemes that are required to generate self-localised DKS waves (described by the Lugiato-Lefever equation34). The key to their stability lies in their intracavity power that is very close to that of spatiotemporal chaotic states17,35. Hence, when emerging from chaotic states there is very little change in intracavity power and thus no thermal detuning or instability, resulting from the ‘soliton step’ that makes resonant pumping more challenging36. It is this combination of intrinsic stability (without the need for external aid), ease of generation and overall efficiency that makes them highly suited for demanding applications such as ultrahigh-capacity transmission beyond a terabit/s.
Here, we report ultrahigh bandwidth optical data transmission across standard fibre with a single integrated chip source. We employ soliton crystals realised in a CMOS-compatible platform31,32,33 to achieve a data line-rate of 44.2 Tb/s from a single source, along with a high spectral efficiency of 10.4 bits/s/Hz. We accomplish these results through the use of a high modulation format of 64 QAM (quadrature amplitude modulation), a low comb-free spectral range (FSR) spacing of 48.9 GHz, and by using only the telecommunications C-band. We demonstrate transmission over 75 km of fibre in the laboratory as well as in a field trial over an installed network in the greater metropolitan area of Melbourne, Australia. Our results stem from the soliton crystal’s extremely robust and stable operation/generation as well as its much higher intrinsic efficiency, all of which are enabled by an integrated CMOS-compatible platform.
Results Experiment A schematic illustrating the soliton crystal optical structure is shown in Fig. 1a, with the physical chip shown in Fig. 1b and the experimental setup for ultrahigh bandwidth optical transmission in Fig. 1c (also see Methods and Supplementary Note 1). The micro-resonator had an FSR spacing of 48.9 GHz and generated a soliton crystal with this spacing (~0.4 nm) over a bandwidth of >80 nm when pumped with 1.8 W of continuous-wave (CW) power (in-fibre, incident) at 1550 nm. The soliton crystal micro-comb was generated by automatically tuning the pump laser to a pre-set value. The primary comb and generated soliton crystal states are shown in Figs. 2a and b. Figure 2c demonstrates the stability of the soliton crystal comb generation by showing a variation in individual tone powers of < ± 0.9 dB over 10 different generation instances through wavelength sweeping (from 1550.300 to 1550.527 nm). This demonstrates the repeatability of turn-key micro-comb generation from this integrated CMOS-compatible device.
Fig. 1: Conceptual diagram of a soliton crystal micro-comb communications experiment. figure1 a. Illustration of the soliton crystal state used in this paper. We infer from the generated spectrum that the state was a single temporal defect crystal across the ring. The state had a characteristic ‘scalloped’ micro-comb spectrum, corresponding to the single temporal defect crystal state. b Photograph of the fibre-optic packaged micro-ring resonator chip used for soliton crystal generation. The full chip is 5 mm × 9 mm, of which we use devices and access waveguides on ~ ¼ of the area. The AUD $2 coin (20.5 mm diameter) shown for scale is similar in size to a USD nickel or a 10 Euro cent coin. Inset is a microscope image of the ring resonator element, with a scale bar. Visible distortions are due to an overlayer of glue from the fibre array. c Experimental setup. A CW laser, amplified to 1.8 W, pumped a 48.9 GHz FSR micro-ring resonator, producing a micro-comb from a soliton crystal oscillation state. The comb was flattened and optically demultiplexed to allow for modulation, and the resulting data optically multiplexed before the subsequent transmission through fibres with EDFA amplification. At the receiver, each channel was optically demultiplexed before reception. ECL edge-coupled laser, WSS wavelength-selective switch, Rx receiver. | WIKI |
ALLERGIC ASTHMA Natural Cures
Allergic asthma is a pathology of breath system caused by allergens. We analyze below natural treatments for allergic asthma, causes and official
medical treatments.
Mechanisms wich underlie this disease are due to reaction of immune system caused by inhalation of allergens, to which body is sensitive. They cause
inflammation of bronchs. Allergens are represented by pollen, dust, mites, pet hair.
Most people do not complain of any problems in presence of these factors in environment in which they live and breathe. Instead, asthmatics suffer
from an abnormal and excessive reaction of immune system due to genetic and hereditary predisposition.
The effects of this sensitivity affect bronchs, structures of breath system essential for airflow into lungs. They become inflamed, making breathing
difficult. Typical symptoms of this condition are usually chronic and present with a sudden narrowing of airways (bronchospasm) and excessive
production of mucus. The two phenomena make breathing difficult. In fact, they create a "hunger" for air (dyspnea). This causes wheezing, with a
typical whistling or rattle and coughing that makes breathing even worse.
Cause of asthma lies in a disordered release from mast cells of biochemical mediators (histamine, cytokines IL4-IL5-IL 13-IL17 and VEGF - vascular
endothelial growth factors) that cause and accentuate asthma attacks. The aforementioned ailments disappear to administration of natural
remedies for allergic asthma.
In event of crisis, allergic asthma is treated with bronchodilator drugs and corticosteroids, sprayed with inhaled dispensers. Steroids in children
increase both the risk of diabetes and high blood pressure or blood clots (https://academic.oup.com/aje/article-
abstract/190/3/403/5902909) Leukotrienes are a class of drugs for oral use that can help relieve asthma symptoms. Unfortunately they have
many side effects. Specific immunotherapy with allergenic extracts (vaccines) is a treatment that allows you to gradually train immune system to
allergic reaction, reducing number and intensity of acute episodes. However, it can have side effects with reactions ranging from sneezing, stuffy nose
or hives until more severe reactions with swelling of the throat, asthma, tightness in the chest (anaphylactic shock).
"Biological" drugs can also be used, but these too are burdened by significant side effects (itching, appearance of spots and blisters on the skin,
changes in blood pressure and heart rate and breathlessness). Other important side effects concern increased risk of infections of all kinds: in
particular they can cause reactivation of an underlying tuberculosis or of hepatitis B and C, contracted in the past.
However, there is a natural cure for allergic asthma, effective and without side effects, which uses action of phytotherapeutic products like
Calendula Officinalis and Rhodiola rosea, which have an anti-inflammatory, anti free radical, disinfectant action, normalizing microcirculation.
Together with other natural products, like flavoproteins and coenzymes, they contribute effectively and not harmful to restoration of mast cell
metabolism. Then, they gradually provide a natural remedy for allergic asthma. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
PCR-IMS detection and molecular typing of Cryptosporidium parvum recovered from a recreational river source and an associated mussel (Mytilus edulis) bed in Northern Ireland
C Lowery, P Nugent, JE Moore, BC Millar, X Xiru, JSG Dooley
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Abstract
PCR-IMS was used to detect Cryptosporidium spp. in environmental water samples in Northern Ireland which had previously tested negative by a conventional IFA staining method. Oocysts of C. parvum detected in river water and final treated sewage effluent collected from various sites along the river Lagan were identified as genotype 2 (animal origin) based on polymorphisms observed at the thrombospondin related adhesion protein gene locus. Similarly, genotype I (human origin) oocysts of C. parvum were detected in the marine filter feeder mussel, Mytilus edulis, collected from the shores of Belfast Lough. Detection of the human genotype of Cryptosporidium in mussels destined for human consumption identifies the organism's serious potential as a foodborne pathogen. This work highlights the possible value of monitoring filter feeder systems, in conjunction with specific molecular epidemiological tools, as an alternative monitoring system for the parasite within the aquatic environment.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)545-553
JournalEpidemiology and Infection
Volume127
Issue number3
Publication statusPublished - Dec 2001
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The family was conceived by Groening shortly before a pitch for a series of animated shorts with the producer James L. Brooks. Groening created a dysfunctional family and named the characters after members of his own family, substituting Bart for his own name. The shorts became a part of The Tracey Ullman Show on April 19, 1987. After a three-season run, the sketch was developed into a half-hour prime time show and was an early hit for Fox, becoming the first Fox series to land in the Top 30 ratings in a season (1992-1993).
Since its debut on December 17, 1989, the show has broadcast 423 episodes and the twentieth season commenced airing on September 28, 2008. The Simpsons Movie, a feature-length film, was released in theaters worldwide on July 26 and July 27, 2007, and has grossed approximately US$526.2 million worldwide to date.
The Simpsons has won dozens of awards since it debuted as a series, including 24 Emmy Awards, 26 Annie Awards and a Peabody Award. Time magazine's December 31, 1999 issue named it the 20th century's best television series, and on January 14, 2000 it was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The Simpsons is the longest-running American sitcom and the longest-running American animated program. Homer's annoyed grunt "D'oh!" has been adopted into the English lexicon, while The Simpsons has influenced many adult-oriented animated sitcoms.
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200px|thumb|right|[[Monopoly (game)|Monopoly: The Simpsons Edition]] The popularity of The Simpsons has made it a billion-dollar merchandizing industry. The title family and supporting characters appear on everything from t-shirts to posters. The Simpsons has inspired special editions of well-known board games, including Clue, Scrabble, Monopoly, Operation, and The Game of Life, as well as the trivia games What Would Homer Do? and Simpsons Jeopardy!. Several card games such as trump cards and The Simpsons Trading Card Game have also been released.
Numerous Simpson-related publications have been released over the years. So far, nine comic book series have been published by Bongo Comics since 1993. The Simpsons and Bart Simpson comics are also reprinted in the United Kingdom, under the same titles, with various stories from the other Bongo series reprinted in the main Simpsons comic. The comics have also been collected in book form; many other Simpsons books such as episode guides have also been published.
Collections of original music featured in the TV series have been released on the albums Songs in the Key of Springfield and Go Simpsonic with The Simpsons. Several songs have been recorded with the purpose of a single or album release and have not been featured on the show. The best known single is "Do the Bartman", which was co-written by Michael Jackson, and became an international success, topping the UK Singles Chart for three weeks, and being certified gold by the BPI. In the United Kingdom, "Deep, Deep Trouble" was released as a follow up to "Do The Bartman". The albums The Simpsons Sing the Blues and The Yellow Album contained cover versions of songs, as well as some originals.
As a promotion for the The Simpsons Movie, twelve 7-Eleven stores were transformed into Kwik-E-Marts and sold The Simpsons related products. These included "Buzz Cola", "Krusty-O" cereal, Pink doughnuts with sprinkles, and "Squishees".
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Many episodes of the show have been released on DVD and VHS over the years. When the first season DVD was released in 2001, it quickly became the best-selling television DVD in history, although it was later overtaken by the first season of Chappelle's Show. In particular, seasons one through ten have been released on DVD in the U.S. (Region 1), Europe (Region 2) and Australia/New Zealand/Latin America (Region 4) with more seasons expected to be released in the future. | WIKI |
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