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existing in the case in issue, its discretion ought not to be interfered with."
In State r. Crow, 107 Mo. 341, 17 S. W. Rep. 745, a prosecution for theft of a cow, pieces of ears, and a dewlap cut from a cow, and a hide sold by defendant, were held ad missible to identify the animal stolen and killed, and show that the marks and brands had been mutilated. It has been held that whether articles are too cumbrous for exhibition in court is a question for the decision of the trial judge (Jackson v. Pool (Tenn.), 19 S. W. Rep. 324). And so, although under the Crow case in Missouri, a cow's ears may be exhibited, it might be a grave question whether those of a donkey would be admissible! On a prosecution for maliciously placing an obstruction on a railway track, it was held proper to exhibit a crowbar, left by the side of the track near the place in question, there being evidence that it was found under the defendant's house after his arrest (Mitchell v. State (Ala.), ю South. Rep. 518). It is hard to see how the production and exhibi tion of the article could be any more conclu sive than oral evidence of the facts. The prisoner ought to have put in a plea in bar! So it was held in People 1 Wright, 89 Mich. 70, 56 N. W. Rep. 792, that the clothing of two persons admitted to have been killed by the defendant is admissible on his trial for the murder of one of them, to show how near the parties were to one another when the fatal shots were fired. The most effective exhibition of the cloth ing of a murdered person recorded in litera ture was that of Caesar's toga by Antony, as recorded by Shakspeare : — "You all do know this mantle : I remember The first time ever Cîesar put it on : 'T was on a summer's evening, in his tent, That day he overcame the Nervii. Look! in this place ran Cassius' dagger through : See what a rent the envious Casca made : Through this the well-beloved Brutus stabb'd, And as he plucked his cursed steel away, Mark how the blood of Caesar followed it.
then burst his mighty heart; And in his mantle miirrling up his lace. Even at the base of Pompey's statua. Which all the while ran blood, great Ca.'sar fell. Kind souls! what! weep you when you but behold Our Ciesar's vesture wounded?"
In McGuire 7'. Joslyn, 31 N. Y. St. Rep. 990, an action by a tenant against his land lord for an injury sustained on a common stairway by reason of defective matting, the court refused the plaintiff's request to charge that if the defendant could produce the mat ting substantially in the same condition, his omission to do so might be considered like his omission to produce a witness; the court refused, but charged that the jury might give it such weight as they saw fit. Held, no error. The court said : " The matting was in possession of the defendant, and it was admissible as evidence before the jury." As to experiments in the jury-room, it was held error for the jury to send the constable out of the room, and have him talk in a somewhat loud tone, to test the accuracy of testimony given on the trial; and so in respect to experiments by them to ascertain whether the impression made by a man's foot was shorter in running than in walking (Jim v. State, 4 Hump. 290). In Hays ï'. Railway Co., 70 Tex. 602, an action for running over the plaintiff's foot, it was held error to exclude his boot offered to show the indentations made thereon. The court said : " Physical facts are always admis sible; and when the object itself can be brought into court and exhibited, it is more satisfactory than a description of it by wit nesses that have inspected it outside of court." In Cash Register Co. v. Blumenthal, 85 Mich. 464, the cash register, for the price of which the suit was brought, was exhibited and worked before the jury, and explained by a witness. In a recent murder case in New Jersey, "the defence was that the deceased frac tured his skull by a fall during the alter | WIKI |
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A Music label currently starting up in Fort Worth, texas. Founded by working up singer/ rapper Rodney 'Bluski' Mitchels and Co-Founded by singer/rapper Kenneth 'Cubacan K' Lopez. The curent working symbol is a blu dog on skis. | WIKI |
The Zone Diet Plan Review
What is the Zone diet?
The Zone Diet was created by Dr. Barry Spears. The thrust of his nutritional regime is closely linked to the evolution of humankind.the-zone-diet
The human genes, as is the case with most other large animals, take hundreds of thousands of years to change as their environment changes.
One hundred thousand years is a relatively short period in evolutionary terms. Grains, bread, or pasta did not exist in our diets over 8,000 years ago.
The Zone diet takes this into account and provides a diet plan based on what foods we should eat based on genetics.
The Zone Diet takes into account our genetic makeup. With the Zone Diet, Dr. Sears says1, we consume the fuel our bodies really need for optimum health.
Dr. Sears says that we tend to receive erroneous nutritional information from our friends, family members, weight-loss companies, government bodies and the media. Most typical weight-loss programs aim to cut down on fat.
All this does, says Spears, is to raise the proportion of carbohydrates we are consuming, spiking our insulin level, and making us fat and unhealthy. We would not eat spoonfuls of sugar, but sugar has no fat – it is pure carbohydrate.
Our attempts at fat free chips, low fat cookies and muffins, fat free ice creams, end up giving us more and more carbohydrates, like the person who eats spoonfuls of pure sugar.
Dr. Sears asks us to look around; after 30 years of trying to eat low fat foods we have got fatter, rather than leaner. We have got exactly the opposite result. Over 50% of the UK´s and USA´s populations are overweight.
The more carbohydrates (carbs) we consume the more insulin we secrete. Insulin turns excess carbs into stored fat. Dietary fat does not trigger insulin secretion.
Insulin production can be controlled if we eat low-density carbs, dietary fat, and protein in the right proportions. If we can maintain insulin levels within what Dr. Sears calls a “therapeutic zone”, it is easier to burn off excess body fat – and to keep it off permanently. Dr. Sears says it is possible, through the Zone to improve mental focus, enjoy increased energy and vitality.
Keeping your insulin levels within the therapeutic zone means staying in The Zone – hence, the name Zone Diet.
The Zone Diet: How Does It Work?
The Zone diet restricts calories while encouraging you to change the balance of the foods you eat in order to lose weight. On the Zone diet, you will get 30 percent of your calories from protein, 30 percent from fat, and 40 percent from carbohydrates. The carbohydrates favored by the Zone diet include beans, most fruits, whole grains, and vegetables. In contrast, many diets heavily emphasize carbohydrates and cut back on fat.
Each meal or snack on the Zone diet is carefully balanced so that you eat a small amount of protein along with your carbohydrates. This balance is thought to control insulin levels, which ultimately leads to a thinner you, according to Sears’ argument.
The Zone Diet: Sample Diet
Here is a sample dinner that you might eat on the Zone diet:
• 4.5 ounces lean hamburger meat
• 1 slice low-fat cheese
• 1 slice each of tomato, lettuce, and onion
• 1 piece whole-grain bread
• Small fruit serving
What You Can Eat
This diet is a good one for someone who does not want to give up any of their favourite foods. Nothing is put ‘off limits’ on this diet, however it still does need to stay within the guidelines of the program.
There are no phases or stages on the zone diet which is nice because it creates slightly less confusion and tracking in that regard and you will basically be eating the same type of meals each and every day, making planning quite straightforward.
Carbs:
The diet favours low-glycemic carbohydrate choices and this would include things such as spinach, beans, berries, cucumbers, celery, salsa, green peppers, oatmeal and barley.
Foods like bread, sugar, bagels, rice, pasta, cereals, other white-flour products, dried fruits, peas, mangoes, corn, raisins, bananas, potatoes and carrots are discouraged but you can still eat them if you really want and they fit within your plan (the 1-2-3 requirement).
Protein:
When it comes to protein, the diet recommends eating foods such as fish, low-fat lean meats like chicken, turkey, beef and pork, egg whites, low-fat cheeses, soy products and protein powder.
Fats:
Lastly, on the fat side of things, which is very key with this plan, you will need to consume your fat from sources such as almonds, cashews, avocados, peanut butter, olives and olive oil, salmon and Omega-3 fatty acid supplements.
WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF BEING IN THE ZONE?
Benefits of being in the Zone include:
• Losing excess body fat at the fastest possible rate
• Maintaining wellness for a longer period of time
• Performing better
• Thinking faster
• Slowing down the rate of aging
Controlling diet-induced inflammation is a life-long effort. It is inflammation that disrupts the hormonal communication in our cells that prevents us from reaching peak performance. Making the dietary changes to reach the Zone and stay there may initially appear difficult, but are well worth the effort.
At Zone Labs, we provide the dietary products, continuing education, and personal consultation to make getting into the Zone easier.
How much does it cost?
Online membership is free. A week’s supply of Zone 1-2-3 foods, such as buns and pasta, costs about $70. A package of 14 shakes will run you about $35. “A Week in the Zone,” which will guide you through the diet, is $7.99. And another book, “The Mediterranean Zone,” is $20.
Official Diet Drops – 45-Day (4 ounces)
Contents:Bottle(s) of Hormone Free Diet Drops (with Vitamin B12 Supplement & NO alcohol)
About:Phases of the Official Diet Drops Plan: The dieting plan is divided into 3 phases so as to allow one to measure his or her level of success throughout the entire process.
Here is a brief look at what each of the phases will be like:
1st Phase: The initiation phase of the Diet Drops Plan is concentrated around teaching you how to make proper use of the Diet Drops. The phase really lasts only two days, and you are actually encouraged to eat to your heart’s content while drinking up to one gallon of water per day (no less than half a gallon though).
2nd Phase: Once the first phase has been completed things will be set in full motion. As the phase continues the amount of calories you eat will gradually decrease, allowing you to shed extra fat and continue on your way to a healthy body.
3rd Phase: This is the phase where the plan sets itself apart from the myriad of fad diets saturating the market these days. After 45 days (or when you reach your target weight), you will start to follow the maintenance cycle. In other words, once you have dropped the weight, you will be given the means to keep it that way and prevent yourself from going back to square one. While you are in maintenance mode there is no longer a calorie limit for you to abide by; you will have to drink lots of water and carefully watch what you eat.
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Central Youth Hall
The Central Youth Hall is a social education center located in Pyongyang, North Korea. It opened on 18 May 1989 for the 13th World Festival of Youth and Students.
The building houses a variety of functions including two theatres (2,000 and 600 seats), a multipurpose hall for 1,000, four large meeting rooms for 250 people; in total a total of 760 rooms covering 59,900 sq m. | WIKI |
Saudi Arabia Is Capable of Covering Oil Loss Amid Unrest, U.S. Envoy Says
Saudi Arabia is capable of providing
additional oil production if needed to counter supply
disruptions caused by unrest in the Middle East, James Smith,
U.S. ambassador to the kingdom, said in an interview on
InBusiness with Margaret Brennan. “We do not see, either with a combination of Libya and Algeria , that there’ll be a break in the market such that the
Saudis would not be able to offset that loss with their spare
capacity,” Smith said. Saudi Arabia has increased oil production by 1 million
barrels a day and has the capacity to pump an additional 3.5
million barrels a day, Smith said. Saudi production in February averaged 8.425 million barrels
a day, according to a Bloomberg News survey of oil companies ,
countries and analysts. The kingdom’s capacity is an estimated
11.5 million barrels a day. Crude oil for April delivery fell 70 cents, or 0.7 percent,
to $104.32 a barrel at 12:51 p.m. on the New York Mercantile
Exchange. The contract touched $106.95 on March 7, the highest
intraday price since Sept. 26, 2008, as civil strife spurred
concern that production in the Middle East may be disrupted.
Futures are up 28 percent from a year ago. The U.S. doesn’t see any change in the stability of the
kingdom, Smith said. “Here in Saudi Arabia, there is an ongoing dialogue
between the people and the al-Saud family,” he said. Day of Rage Postings on websites have called for a nationwide Saudi
“Day of Rage” on March 11 and March 20, Human Rights Watch
said on Feb. 28. Regional unrest, which has so far toppled the leaders of
Tunisia and Egypt , has reached Saudi Arabian neighbors Yemen,
Oman and Bahrain, the island-kingdom where a Sunni family rules
the majority Shiite population. “The Saudi’s will look at what’s happening in Bahrain as a
Bahraini domestic issue for them to deal with,” Smith said. To contact the reporter on this story:
Paul Burkhardt in New York at
pburkhardt@bloomberg.net . To contact the editor responsible for this story:
Dan Stets at
dstets@bloomberg.net . | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Advanced Technologies Enable Reuse of 18.1 Billion Cubic Meters of Water
New report shows how utilities and businesses around the world are reusing water, preventing water loss, and creating more water-secure communities
WASHINGTON, May 15, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Utilities and businesses around the world have reused 18.1 billion cubic meters of water since 2019, enabled by solutions from global water technology leader Xylem (NYSE: XYL), the Company revealed in its most recent Sustainability Report. That volume is enough to meet the annual water needs of more than 350 million people, based on global use estimates.1
Reuse is just one part of a broader effort to increase global water security – alongside the implementation of advanced treatment and digital technologies. Water managers are using the innovations to protect water sources, remove contaminants, reduce emissions, and make water infrastructure more resilient.
"Our customers are tackling the world’s toughest water challenges," said Matthew Pine, Xylem President and Chief Executive Officer. "Their results show the impact of scaling proven technology solutions to strengthen water systems. The work they do empowers businesses and communities to become more water-secure."
In 2019, Xylem launched its 2025 Sustainability Goals, including several targeting the positive impact its technology enables for its customers. Since then, Xylem solutions have enabled customers to:
Reuse 18.1 billion cubic meters of water, extending the lifecycle and value of freshwater. In the U.S., a global spirits manufacturer identified opportunities to reuse more than 3,785 cubic meters of water annually.
Reduce non-revenue water in distribution networks by 3.7 billion cubic meters. In Spain, a provincial water utility avoided two major pipeline failures and prevented leaks, saving 25,000 cubic meters of water each year with predictive monitoring and analytics.
Prevent 10.7 billion cubic meters of polluted water from entering waterways. In the U.S., an advanced treatment service is enabling industrial manufacturers to remove heavy metals from wastewater, reduce hazardous waste, and minimize discharge to local waterways.
Reduce water-related CO2e emissions by more than 6.4 million metric tons. In Eastern Europe, a food processor cut energy use by 33 percent with an upgrade to smart aeration technology.
Xylem achieved all four of its 2025 Customer Sustainability Goals ahead of schedule. Building on that momentum, the company has set a bold new target: enabling customers to reduce annual water demand by 2 billion cubic meters by 2030.
"We partner with our customers to advance their sustainability ambitions, creating positive impact in the communities we all serve," said Claudia Toussaint, Chief Sustainability Officer. "This report shows how our commitment to sustainability leadership enhances Xylem’s competitiveness in the marketplace. By embedding sustainability in every aspect of our business and culture, we are empowering our customers and communities to achieve the water security essential to health and economic growth."
Xylem’s impact also extends across its value chain. In 2024, 43% of Xylem’s supplier spending supported partners aligned with WASH4Work, a global initiative focused on expanding access to clean water, sanitation, and hygiene.
About Xylem
Xylem (XYL) is a Fortune 500 leading global water solutions company that empowers customers and communities to build a more water-secure world. Our 23,000 diverse employees delivered revenue of $8.6 billion in 2024, optimizing water and resource management with innovation and expertise. Join us at www.xylem.com and let’s solve water.
View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250515880408/en/
Contacts
Media Houston Spencer +1 (914) 240-3046 Houston.Spencer@xylem.com | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
2012 Southland Conference men's basketball tournament
The 2012 Southland Conference men's basketball tournament, a part of the 2011–12 NCAA Division I men's basketball season, took place March 7, 8 and 10, 2012 at the Merrell Center in Katy, Texas The winner of the tournament received the Southland Conference's automatic bid to the 2012 NCAA Tournament.
Format
Tournament seeding, 1 through 8, was based upon regular-season winning percentage regardless of divisional place in Conference competition. The quarterfinals were broadcast online by the Conference's Internet streamer, SLC Now. The semi-finals were broadcast regionally on SLC TV and nationally on ESPN3 while the championship game was broadcast nationally on ESPN2 and ESPN3. | WIKI |
Association between kidney stones and risk of stroke a nationwide population-based cohort study
Shih Yi Lin, Cheng Li Lin, Yen Jung Chang, Wu Huei Hsu, Cheng Chieh Lin, I. Kuan Wang, Chiz Tzung Chang, Chao Hsiang Chang, Ming Chia Lin, Chia Hung Kao
Research output: Contribution to journalArticle
13 Citations (Scopus)
Abstract
Nephrolithiasis is highly prevalent and has been associated with vascular diseases such as cardiovascular events. Few studies have comprehensively associated renal stones with stroke. This study explored whether patients with renal stones were at a higher stroke risk than those without renal stones. A national insurance claim dataset of 22 million enrollees in Taiwan was used to identify 53,659 patients with renal stones, and 214,107 were selected as age-, sex-, and comorbidity-matched controls for a 13-year follow-up. The relative stroke risk for the RS cohort was 1.06-fold higher than that for the non-RS group (95% confidence interval [CI]=1.01-1.11). Age-specific analysis revealed that the adjusted stroke risk for the RS cohort increased as age decreased, with the highest risk of 1.47-fold (95% CI=1.10-1.96) in patients aged 20 to 34 years, followed by a 1.12-fold risk (95% CI=1.00-1.25) in patients aged 35 to 50 years. Sex-specific analysis clarified that women in the RS group had a 1.12-fold stroke risk compared with women in the non-RS group (95% CI=1.03-1.21). Patients who had undergone >4 surgeries had up to 42.5-fold higher risk of stroke (95% CI=33.8-53.4). The study utilized the national database and demonstrated that patients, particularly women and the younger population, with nephrolithiasis have an increased risk of ischemic stroke development. Patients treated with medication or through surgery for RSs showed steady and higher risks of stroke than those without surgical or medical intervention.
Original languageEnglish
Article numbere2847
JournalMedicine (United States)
Volume95
Issue number8
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2016 Mar 4
ASJC Scopus subject areas
• Medicine(all)
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Lin, S. Y., Lin, C. L., Chang, Y. J., Hsu, W. H., Lin, C. C., Wang, I. K., Chang, C. T., Chang, C. H., Lin, M. C., & Kao, C. H. (2016). Association between kidney stones and risk of stroke a nationwide population-based cohort study. Medicine (United States), 95(8), [e2847]. https://doi.org/10.1097/MD.0000000000002847 | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
ERF Function
Returns the value of the (normal) error function.
Category: Mathematical
Syntax
ERF(argument)
Required Argument
argument
specifies a numeric constant, variable, or expression.
Details
The ERF function returns the integral, given by
E R F ( x ) = 2 π 0 x ε - z 2 d z
Example
You can use the ERF function to find the probability (p) that a normally distributed random variable with mean 0 and standard deviation will take on a value less than X. For example, the quantity that is given by the following statement is equivalent to PROBNORM(X):
p=.5+.5*erf(x/sqrt(2));
The following SAS statements produce these results.
SAS Statement
Result
y=erf(1.0);
0.8427007929
y=erf(-1.0);
-0.842700793 | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Parikh's theorem
Parikh's theorem in theoretical computer science says that if one looks only at the number of occurrences of each terminal symbol in a context-free language, without regard to their order, then the language is indistinguishable from a regular language. It is useful for deciding that strings with a given number of terminals are not accepted by a context-free grammar. It was first proved by Rohit Parikh in 1961 and republished in 1966.
Definitions and formal statement
Let $$\Sigma=\{a_1,a_2,\ldots,a_k\}$$ be an alphabet. The Parikh vector of a word is defined as the function $p:\Sigma^*\to\mathbb{N}^k$, given by $$p(w)=(|w|_{a_1}, |w|_{a_2}, \ldots, |w|_{a_k})$$ where $$|w|_{a_i}$$ denotes the number of occurrences of the letter $$a_i$$ in the word $$w$$.
A subset of $$\mathbb{N}^k$$ is said to be linear if it is of the form $$u_0 + \mathbb{N}u_1 + \dots + \mathbb{N}u_m = \{u_0+t_1u_1+\dots+t_mu_m \mid t_1,\ldots,t_m\in\mathbb{N}\}$$ for some vectors $u_0,\ldots,u_m$. A subset of $$\mathbb{N}^k$$ is said to be semi-linear if it is a union of finitely many linear subsets.
$$ In short, the image under $$p$$ of context-free languages and of regular languages is the same, and it is equal to the set of semilinear sets.
Two languages are said to be commutatively equivalent if they have the same set of Parikh vectors. Thus, every context-free language is commutatively equivalent to some regular language.
Proof
The second part is easy to prove. $$
The first part is less easy. The following proof is credited to Goldstine.
First we need a small strengthening of the pumping lemma for context-free languages:
The proof is essentially the same as the standard pumping lemma: use the pigeonhole principle to find $$k$$ copies of some nonterminal symbol $$A$$ in the longest path in the shortest derivation tree.
Now we prove the first part of Parikh's theorem, making use of the above lemma.
$$
Strengthening for bounded languages
A language $$L$$ is bounded if $$L\subset w_1^*\ldots w_k^*$$ for some fixed words $$w_1,\ldots, w_k$$. Ginsburg and Spanier gave a necessary and sufficient condition, similar to Parikh's theorem, for bounded languages.
Call a linear set stratified, if in its definition for each $$i\ge 1$$ the vector $$u_i$$ has the property that it has at most two non-zero coordinates, and for each $$i,j\ge 1$$ if each of the vectors $$u_i,u_j$$ has two non-zero coordinates, $$i_1<i_2$$ and $$j_1<j_2$$, respectively, then their order is not $$i_1<j_1<i_2<j_2$$. A semi-linear set is stratified if it is a union of finitely many stratified linear subsets.
$$
Significance
The theorem has multiple interpretations. It shows that a context-free language over a singleton alphabet must be a regular language and that some context-free languages can only have ambiguous grammars. Such languages are called inherently ambiguous languages. From a formal grammar perspective, this means that some ambiguous context-free grammars cannot be converted to equivalent unambiguous context-free grammars. | WIKI |
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The mouse endometrium contains epithelial, endothelial and leucocyte populations expressing the stem cell marker telomerase reverse transcriptase
Abstract
STUDY HYPOTHESIS: The mouse endometrium harbours stem/progenitor cells that express the stem cell marker mouse telomerase reverse transcriptase (mTert). STUDY FINDING: We used a mouse carrying a transgenic reporter for mTert promoter activity to identify rare endometrial populations of epithelial and endothelial cells that express mTert. WHAT IS KNOWN ALREADY: Stem/progenitor cells are hypothesized to be responsible for the remarkable regenerative capacity of the endometrium, but the lack of convenient endometrial stem/progenitor markers in the mouse has hampered investigations into the identity of these cells. STUDY DESIGN, SAMPLES/MATERIALS, METHODS: A mouse containing a green fluorescent protein (GFP) reporter under the control of the telomerase reverse transcriptase promoter (mTert-GFP) was used to identify potential stem/progenitor cells in the endometrium. mTert promoter activity was determined using fluorescence microscopy and flow cytometry to identify GFP(+) cells. GFP(+) cells were examined for epithelial, stromal, endothelial, leucocyte and proliferation markers and bromodeoxyuridine retention to determine their identity. The endometrium of ovariectomized mice was compared to that of intact cycling mice to establish the role of ovarian hormones in maintaining mTert-expressing cells. MAIN RESULTS AND THE ROLE OF CHANCE: We found that mTert-GFP is expressed by rare luminal and glandular epithelial cells (0.3% of epithelial cells by flow cytometry), rare CD45(-) cells in the stromal compartment (0.028 +/- 0.010% of stromal cells by microscopy) and many CD45(+) leucocytes. Ovariectomy resulted in significant decrease of mTert-GFP(+) epithelial cells (P = 0.029 for luminal epithelium; P = 0.034 for glandular epithelium) and a decrease in the percentage of mTert-GFP(+) CD45(+) leucocytes in the stromal compartment (P = 0.015). However, CD45(-) mTert-GFP(+) cells in the stromal compartment were maintained in ovariectomized mice. This population is enriched for cells bearing the endothelial marker CD31 (10.3% of CD90(-) CD45(-) and 97.8% CD90(+) CD45(-) by flow cytometry). CD45(-) mTert-GFP(+) cells also immunostained for the endothelial marker von Willebrand factor. These results suggest that the endometrial epithelium and vasculature are foci of stem/progenitor activity and provide a system to investigate molecular mechanisms involved in endometrial regeneration and repair. LIMITATIONS, REASONS FOR CAUTION: The stem/progenitor activity of endometrial mTert-GFP(+) cells needs to be experimentally verified. WIDER IMPLICATIONS OF THE FINDINGS: The identification and characterization of mTert-expressing progenitor cells in the mouse will facilitate the identification of equivalent populations in the human endometrium that are likely to be involved in endometrial function, fertility and disease. LARGE-SCALE DATA: Not applicable. STUDY FUNDING AND COMPETING INTERESTS: This study was funded by National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) of Australia grants (1085435, C.E.G., J.A.D.), 1021127 (C.E.G.), NHMRC Senior Research Fellowship (1042298, C.E.G.), the Victorian Infrastructure Support Program, U.S. National Institutes of Health grant R01 DK084056 (D.T.B.) and the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (D.T.B.). The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.
Type Journal
ISBN 1460-2407 (Electronic) 1360-9947 (Linking)
Authors Deane, J. A.; Ong, Y. R.; Cain, J. E.; Jayasekara, W. S.; Tiwari, A.; Carlone, D. L.; Watkins, D. N.; Breault, D. T.; Gargett, C. E.;
Publisher Name MOL HUM REPROD
Published Date 2016-01-01 00:00:00
Published Volume 22
Published Issue 4
Published Pages 272-84
URL http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26740067
Status Published In-print
OpenAccess Link https://publications.gimr.garvan.org.au/download.php?13853_13556/2016-Deane-Mol Hum Reprod.pdf | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Talk:List of intelligent dance music artists
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Anyone else feel that Daft Punk doesn't belong on the list? I don't have a recollection of every song in their discography, but I can't think of one that falls in the category of IDM. --16bitsocialites 10:56, 05 Feb 2008
I agree. I'd say Daft Punk is fairly typical acid/techno without the glitchy/weird element that characterises IDM. Also: Bjork? Jesus. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 17:42, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
We need WAY more artists. I figured we'd need a list like this to expand interest in the genre, or something like that. --Felixed 19:45, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
Ulrich Schnauss has no business on this list. The wiki page on him doesn't describe him as IDM and I don't think anybody who's ever listened to him would either. (that's not to say he's not a good artist, just not IDM) dzhastin (talk) 19:04, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
--Mikejcosta (talk) 15:06, 16 December 2009 (UTC) Ellen Alien, Modeselektor, Orb, Solvent, Telefon Tel Aviv, Lemon Jelly, Mouse on Mars, Banco De Gaia, might not belong on this list. While all excellent artists, including them would be watering down the very specific genre of IDM.
I disagree, I think at least Mouse On Mars do belong to this list, and a lot of artists are missing. IDM does not really meet any standard, It's more a question of approach than "there must be this glitch or this break in it". It can be weird, naive, deep, minimal, emotional, brutal, with or without broken beat. I think what makes it "IDM" is that it is an evocative, quite complex, aesthetic and both counterintuitive music. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 16:10, 25 August 2021 (UTC)
It just makes me laugh. Some one (always the same guy?) keeps removing Leftfield from this list. Same as 3 years ago. -andy <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 17:36, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
Alphabetizing Proper Names: First or Last name?
Looking at the list, it appears we need to make up our minds as to how solo artists using their proper names are alphabetized. Personally, I've always gone by the first name since band names and monikers would work the same way. I may clean this up in the near future if no one objects. StuOnThis (talk) 18:48, 16 January 2020 (UTC)
* Since no one objected in the last several months, I went ahead and re-alphabetized the list using the first names of proper name entries as most other musical artist lists. StuOnThis (talk) 19:10, 10 September 2020 (UTC) | WIKI |
Here are the daily useful information and facts! !
Effective for Relaxation And Concentration !! What Is Binaural Beat?
GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT, POTENTIAL
Binaural beats are known as atones. When two tones with a difference are presented to the left and right exit of a headphone, A tone is made. Whenever you’d listen to it you’ll hear a beating tone. The mind creates this. In 1839 tones were discovered by Heinrich Wilhelm Dove. Then for a long time, it vanished off the research radar. It was it came back into the public’s interest. This occurred due to the Auditory of the Brain Article of Gerald Oster. Oster discovered that tones may be an excellent instrument for neurological and cognitive research Another thing he believed was the possible diagnostic usage not just for assessing and finding individuals for ailments, but also with hearing difficulties.
He discovered that individuals that endure the Parkinson disease, couldn’t hear the binaural tone, but following a weeklong treatment they could. This proved that the treatment worked. The sensation that’s felt when listening to tones is thought to originate in a portion of the brain stem known as the superior olivary complex. It is believed that a portion of the mind is where our capacity to hear in the capacity and 3 dimensions to track sounds is stored. Are ventral prefrontal cortex, putamen, anterior insula, subcortically, the thalamus, bilateral SII opercular premotor areas, and sensorimotor and cingulate areas. The beat frequency is moved towards by the brainwave when corresponds to also the delta, theta, alpha, beta or gamma assortment of the frequencies.
So if a 330 is reproduced in also the left ear and a 340 is played to the right ear, the mind moves to the beat frequency. The alpha range is related to relaxation, so this binaural tone having had a calming effect. Those are the different waves: 40 Hz Gamma waves – Increased mental activity, including perception, problem solving, fear, and also consciousness 13-40 Hz Waves beta – Active, busy or anxious thinking and also active concentration, arousal, cognition 7-13 Hz Alpha waves – Relaxation, pre-sleep and also pre-wake drowsiness 4-7 Hz Theta waves – Dreams, deep meditation, REM sleep Sleeping, meditating, calming, all of it gets to be simple when using binaural tones.
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Togo’s President Names Trade, Justice Ministers, Radio Togo Says
Togo ’s President Faure Gnassingbe
has appointed new ministers at the West African nation’s Trade
and Justice ministries, state-owned Radio Togo said. Kwesi Ahoomey-Zunu, a presidential aide, was named trade
minister to replace Kokou Gozan, the news service said,
according to a translation published yesterday by the BBC
Monitoring service. Tchitchao Tchalim, a judge, replaces Kokou Tozoun as
minister of justice. Tozoun will move to the country’s media
regulatory agency, according to Radio Togo. To contact the reporter on this story:
Jason McLure in Accra at
jmclure@bloomberg.net To contact the editor responsible for this story:
Andrew J. Barden at barden@bloomberg.net | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
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Rh Job.—Work, occupation. John 'Op (or Jonop).—Policeman. Jolt.—A blow.
Keep one down.—Take a drink. Kick.—Leave.Kick about.—To loaf or hang about. Kid.— A child. Kid, to.—To deceive; to persuade with flattery.
Lob, to.—To arrive. Lurk.—A plan of action; a regular occupation.
Moniker.—A name; a title; a signature. Mug.—A simpleton.
Nail.—Catch. Nark.—s., a spoil-sport; a churlish fellow. Nark, to.—To annoy; to foil. Neck and neck.—Side by side. Nix.—Nothing. Nod, on the.—Without payment.
Pal.—A friend; a mate (Gipsy). Part.—Give; hand over. Pins.—Legs. Pull, to take a.—To desist; to discontinue. Pull off.— Desist. Pull my (or your) leg.—To deceive or get the best of. Punter.—The natural prey of bookmakers (betting men). Push up daisies, to.—To be interred.
Quid.—A sovereign, or pound sterling. | WIKI |
Prevention of cannabinoid withdrawal syndrome by lithium: involvement of oxytocinergic neuronal activation
by
Cui SS, Bowen RC, Gu GB, Hannesson DK, Yu PH, Zhang X.
Neuropsychiatry Research Unit,
Department of Psychiatry,
University of Saskatchewan,
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada S7N 5E4.
J Neurosci. 2001 Dec 15;21(24):9867-76
ABSTRACT
Cannabis (i.e., marijuana and cannabinoids) is the most commonly used illicit drug in developed countries, and the lifetime prevalence of marijuana dependence is the highest of all illicit drugs in the United States. To provide clues for finding effective pharmacological treatment for cannabis-dependent patients, we examined the effects and possible mechanism of lithium administration on the cannabinoid withdrawal syndrome in rats. A systemic injection of the mood stabilizer lithium, at serum levels that were clinically relevant, prevented the cannabinoid withdrawal syndrome. The effects of lithium were accompanied by expression of the cellular activation marker Fos proteins within most oxytocin-immunoreactive neurons and a significant increase in oxytocin mRNA expression in the hypothalamic paraventricular and supraoptic nuclei. Lithium also produced a significant elevation of oxytocin levels in the peripheral blood. We suggest that the effects of lithium against the cannabinoid withdrawal syndrome are mediated by oxytocinergic neuronal activation and subsequent release and action of oxytocin within the CNS. In support of our hypothesis, we found that the effects of lithium against the cannabinoid withdrawal syndrome were antagonized by systemic preapplication of an oxytocin antagonist and mimicked by systemic or intracerebroventricular injection of oxytocin. These results demonstrate that oxytocinergic neuronal activation plays a critical role in the action of lithium against the cannabinoid withdrawal syndrome in rats, thus providing a potentially novel strategy for the treatment of cannabis dependence in humans.
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What are the Advantages and Fields of Applications of Diffractive Optical Elements?
What are the Advantages and Fields of Applications of Diffractive Optical Elements?
Diffractive optical elements or DOEs shape and divide the laser beams in an energy efficient way. You can use it in a number of applications with minimal light loss. DOEs are useful in patterning the light in work areas for custom illumination. This article enlists the benefits of Diffractive Optical Elements and applications.
Benefits of DOE
1. They are extremely Precise
Highly precise diffraction structures with the modern production methods and years and years of manufacturing experience can make all the difference
1. They are also Energy efficient
The laser beams are shaped and split to control the intensity
1. They are truly Versatile
The refractive optics are replaced or combined with the diffractive optics
1. They are Customer specific as well
The diffractive optical elements are customized in a way that it suits your specific applications
1. They are extremely Flexible
DOEs let the user to control the phase across the aperture accurately and make complicated intensity profiles.
Applications of DOE
1. Laser material processing
Here the laser beams are shaped and split during the cutting, welding, soldering, scoring and drilling.
1. Biomedical devices
Here the diffractive optical elements are used for the purpose of medical laser treatments and diagnostics instruments.
1. LIDAR or LADAR applications
Here the optical distance and speed are measured with the help of laser beams.
1. Lithography and holographic lighting
Here the beam homogenization is used in the structured pupil illumination, mask projection systems, homogenous field illumination for normal as well as highly tilted planes.
1. Optical sensors
Here DOEs are used as distance and position sensors and motion detection
1. Communication
DOEs are used as beam splitters, wavelength selection, and Silicon photonics application as well.
Categories of DOEs
1. Beam shapers
This lets you modify the intensity and phase profiles of the lasers. With the in phase manipulation of input beams, you can achieve the flawless intensity profiles in the output beam. This needs reliable and accurate knowledge of the input beam and phase profile. The performance is optimized where it can be used in the laser material processing in the lithography and holographic lighting field. This can also be used in biomedical devices and optical sensors.
1. Beam splitters
This divides a single incident laser beam into numerous non-overlapping beams. The intervals, intensity ratios and symmetrical distribution can be selected freely and are set by microstructures of beam splitters with accuracy and high repeatability. The diameter, divergence angles and laser energy are kept constant. Then, the laser energy is better distributed for multiple channel processing, improving the efficiency and performance. This makes LIDAR ideal for color separation, material processing etc. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
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List of highways numbered 5B
The following highways are numbered 5B:
United States
* Nevada 5B.svg Nevada State Route 5B (former)
* NY-5B.svg New York State Route 5B
* Oklahoma State Highway 5B.svg Oklahoma State Highway 5B | WIKI |
Piccadilly Cinema
Piccadilly Cinema(s), formerly Piccadilly Theatre and Forum Cinema (The Forum), and also known as The Piccadilly, is a cinema located on the corner of O'Connell Street and Childers Street in North Adelaide, South Australia.
1940: original architecture
The cinema was built for D. Clifford Theatres Ltd. (owned by Dan Clifford) as the Piccadilly Theatre in 1940, in art deco / moderne style, with elements of Jazz style and Streamline Modern, for instance its chevron-shaped windows. The building and interiors were designed in 1939 by Greg Bruer, Jack Evans and James Hall (Evans, Bruer, & Hall), in association with Sydney architects Guy Crick and Bruce Furse. The design was similar to Clifford's Vogue Theatre in Kingswood (opened 1939 ), but with some additional features. Work commenced in February 1940, and was completed by October that year.
Its name was chosen by Clifford, for its association with the busy traffic hub of Piccadilly Circus in London, as well as the Adelaide Hills town of Piccadilly, a place where many English people had settled in the colony of South Australia. Clifford was familiar with the area, having lived on Mount Lofty. A large mural based on a design of Piccadilly Circus by F. Millward Grey, commissioned by Clifford and reproduced by Frank Hussey, adorned the wall above the circle staircase in the lounge foyer, measuring 10 ft by 9 ft. The cinema, which had cost £26,000 to build, was built by local builder R. J. Nurse, of Norwood. In a newspaper article announcing the opening, the architectural details of the cinema are described in some detail, including the ventilation system provided by the specially-designed windows and vents on the roof. The report says "One of the outstanding features of the theatre is the circuitous stair hall leading from the upper foyer to the circle". It describes cream-coloured walls, maroon seating and curtains, and a rubber covering over the floor which include a large red star.
It was announced on 22 October 1940 that Mr. A. G. Harrison, who was general manager of Clifford Theatres and had been responsible for the design and installation of the lighting in the new theatre, would be the manager of the Piccadilly. The gala opening of the cinema took place on 23 October 1940, raising a total of £108, to be divided among the Red Cross Society, the Fighting Forces Comforts Fund, and the Adelaide Children's Hospital. The films First Love, starring Deanna Durbin, and Missing Evidence were shown, along with Cinesound and 20th Century Fox newsreels and fashion forecasts by Vyvyan Donner. The event was attended by the architects and their wives, luminaries of the film industry, and other eminent people.
The Piccadilly was considered the flagship of the Clifford Circuit.
1940s: change of ownership
Clifford's death in 1942 led to Greater Union acquiring the Clifford Theatre Circuit in March 1947. The purchase price of £300,000 for the 22 suburban and regional cinemas was "believed to be the largest motion picture transaction ever made in Australia". The Clifford name was retained as a tribute to the entrepreneur, South Australian staff were retained, and his sister Mary Gordon took over operations. In the 1951–52 edition of Film Weekly Motion Picture Directory, Piccadilly Theatre is listed as being operated by the Clifford Theatre Circuit, with a seating capacity of 1,437.
Greater Union renamed the Piccadilly as the Forum Cinema (aka "The Forum" ) on 2 March 1967, celebrated by screening the American comedy It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World in 70mm film. Greater Union renovated the theatre, changing or hiding many of its original features, including the mural, which was covered with a printed image of a Roman forum on a wooden panel, fixed to the wall by drilling through the mural.
The Forum was closed in February 1983, and Bob Wallis of Wallis Cinemas bought the building in the same year, in order to save it from being demolished.
1980s: heritage listing
The building is heritage-listed on both the South Australian Heritage Register and the Register of the National Estate. It was listed on the national register on 21 October 1980, noted for both its architectural and environmental significance, and on the state register on 11 September 1986.
1990: conversion to multiplex
In September 1989 a Heritage Agreement was entered into between the proprietors of the property and the State Heritage Branch of South Australia to turn the single auditorium of the original theatre into three smaller theatres in line with 1980s practice. The agreement involves the dismantling and storage of the upper circle balcony on site to be returned if ever the theatre were returned to a single auditorium. Plans were also to involve the incorporation of original materials into the refurbished structure.
Wallis converted the old single-screen picture palace, which had a 1400-seat capacity across its upper and lower level, into a multiplex with three screens, The former balcony became screen one, and screens two and three occupied the former orchestra level. The cinema reopened in 1990 as Piccadilly Cinema.
2022 refurbishment
The cinema closed for a major renovation on 6 June 2021. The A$2 million refurbishment has been carried out IA Design and Premier Building Solutions, with the cinema set to reopen on 15 December 2022. A documentary film is being made by Scarlett Media to coincide with the reopening, which includes people's reminiscences of their experiences at the cinema. During the refurbishments, some original features were discovered that had been since covered up, such as the mural of Piccadilly Circus, and terrazzo tiling under a floor that had been carpeted in the 1980s. They were also able to restore a 35mm film projector that had been in storage, which could be used for retrospectives and special events. Restoration of the mural required professional expertise, which was provided by Artlab Australia. In February 2023 the team spent weeks removing embedded metal fixings and injecting adhesives into the loose plasterwork in order to stabilise it, before restoration work could begin. Piccadilly Circus was officially unveiled in late March 2023.
Apart from the interior refit of the theatres, installation of a lift and other features, a new licensed food and drinks lounge space will replace the shopfronts O'Connell Street, where the original candy bar was situated, and there will be a replica of the original sign atop the building. It is intended that the venue can also host live music on weekends sometimes, and, in the future, arts festival and other events.
Location and ownership
The cinema's street address is 181–193 O'Connell Street, with the building situated on the corner of O'Connell Street and Childers Street in North Adelaide.
The company that owns it is registered as Piccadilly Cinemas, and its trading name is Piccadilly Cinema. It is part of the Wallis Cinemas family-owned chain.
Recognition
In 2021, the online platform Flicks included the Piccadilly in its list of "The 25 most beautiful cinemas in Australia".
The cinema was featured in a photographic exhibition called Now Showing... Cinema Architecture in South Australia, held at the Hawke Centre's Kerry Packer Civic Gallery in April/May 2024. | WIKI |
An atlas of where proteins are found in cells - Body of knowledge
ONE of the most important concepts in biology is compartmentalisation. Different organs do different jobs within bodies. Different tissues do different jobs within organs. Different cells within tissues, likewise. And within cells, different organelles—as subcellular components such as nuclei, mitochondria and Golgi bodies are known—are also specialised for particular functions. Each of these levels of organisation has, over the years, been catalogued in what have come to be known as atlases, beginning in 1543 with Andreas Vesalius’s “De Humani Corporis Fabrica” (On the Fabric of the Human Body), the founding text of modern anatomy. Upgrade your inbox and get our Daily Dispatch and Editor's Picks. The latest level of detail is to look at different proteins within organelles. Proteins are the molecules that do most of the work within a cell. They range from things like actin and myosin, which collaborate to flex muscle cells—and thus the muscles of which those cells are part—to the enzymes of the Krebs cycle, which disassemble glucose to release the energy therein. The Cell Atlas, a database launched on December 4th at a meeting of the American Society of Cell Biology, records which proteins are found in which organelles. The result, like “De Humani Corporis Fabrica”, is both pleasing to the eye and important to the field. Proteins located together are likely to work together, so knowing a protein’s whereabouts within a cell will help researchers to determine its job. The authors of the Cell Atlas, led by Mathias Uhlen of the Royal Institute of Technology, in Stockholm, have pinned 12,051 proteins down in this way using immunofluorescence. This technique employs specially created antibodies (protein molecules, produced by immune-system cells, that bind specifically to a particular target protein) to hunt down that target within a cell. The antibodies themselves have fluorescent tags attached to them, so that they will glow when exposed to ultraviolet light. By applying these tagged antibodies to cells from 22 human-cell lines derived from a range of original tissues, the atlas’s authors gave themselves the best possible chance of detecting a particular protein in cells of at least one line. That done, each sample was examined microscopically to determine which of the 13 generally recognised organelles each protein appeared in. This, being quite a task (and not one easily delegated to automatic optical-recognition systems), was carried out in part by a bunch of 120,000 enthusiastic amateurs. The example in the picture is of the distribution of a protein (tagged green) called ZNF554. This belongs to a group, the zinc-finger transcription factors, whose job is to activate and regulate genes. As the picture shows, ZNF554 is restricted to the cell’s nucleus. Within that nucleus there are several places which glow particularly brightly, and where it is therefore particularly abundant. These are the nucleoli—zones where genes are especially active. (The red areas are the cell’s microtubules. These act as its skeleton and are tagged in all Cell Atlas pictures, in order to outline a cell’s limits.) What fraction of human proteins the Cell Atlas currently covers is open to debate. The number of protein-coding genes in the human genome is currently reckoned at 19,628. Some genes, however, can yield more than one protein—either because they may be read in more than one way, or because their messages to the protein-manufacturing parts of a cell may end up edited in different ways. This means the actual number of proteins that can exist from time to time in the body exceeds the number of genes, probably by at least 50%. The Cell Atlas, then, is by no means the last word on the matter of where proteins are found. But it is a good start. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
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mdcat: Markdown to text
I realize that I'm more-and-more using cat to look at Markdown files. This means the files are sometimes poorly formatted and have a lot of extra Markdown specifics included. I decided to do a simple shell function to create a markdown cat (mdcat). To create this I rely on two programs: markdown (I use the one from discount, though any program that takes in a files as arguments and outputs HTML should work) and html2text. The function ends up being extremely short:
function mdcat()
{
cat $* | markdown | html2text
}
function mdmore()
{
mdcat $* | more
}
function mdless()
{
mdcat $* | less
}
That's right, one line is all that's needed. So this ends up being a convenience function to save me typing more than anything else.
Limitations (see below)
It's worth noting that this isn't exactly ideal. Piping into mdcat doesn't work, for instance. So things like this that you'd expect to work don't.
grep "Some text" README.md | mdcat
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Wikipedia:Peer review/Excel Saga/archive1
Excel Saga
I've really whipped this article into shape over the past few days, and especially the past twenty-four hours. Nevertheless, I'm concerned that I might have too many images, and that either the quantity or quality of my secondary sources are lacking. What I know is a problem, however, is the lack of explicit and substantial information on production and Rikudou's and Nabeshin's sources of inspiration--I'm working on these. If you can come up with any other suggestions, I would be much obliged.--Monocrat 06:20, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
* I have added production notes.--Monocrat 20:30, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
* Expand on the comment "The twenty-sixth, "Going Too Far," was intentionally made to be too controversial for public broadcast." - It seems interesting, and since your source isn't a website cannot be immediately researched further. Perhaps add a Controversy section for that.
* Expand on the comment "Both versions recount, but in different ways" - I would like to see a specific section dealing with the main differences between the anime and the manga. Perhaps keep the basic plot that both follow in the "Plot" section, while having two additional subsections to show how the mediums differ in the story telling. "Anime to Manga comparisons" are something that the vast majority of our articles are lacking, and it would be nice for you to be one of the few to remedy that.
* Needs some pictures from the manga. - The manga came first, and yet the entire article only shows pictures for the anime.
* Get rid of superficial references. - Don't add more references that you actually need. For example, "...published in the United States by VIZ Media.[5]" does not need to be referenced as it is common obtainable knowledge. Go through and ask yourself if people are really going to doubt some of your referenced comments. Don't need to clutter it with numbers any more than you have to.
* Add a picture of the logo for the infobox - This is just personal preference really, but I like for the infoboxes to contain a logo or a manga/anime cover instead of a screenshot.
* Make sure all Japanese words are in italics - It's just a standard rule for foreign words. I noticed hanami wasn't and I fixed that but there may be others.
* while Aliens, Gundam, Rose of Versailles, Dragon Ball, and Sailor Moon all are notable references - That list of references is mentioned twice. Fix that.
* Avoid such terms such as "one reviewer" - Just say who the reviewer is. People don't want to have to dig through the references to see who it is you're quoting.
* Side notes for related articles
* I believe you should remove the quotation marks「」around the kanji for List of Excel Saga episodes. I realize that you copied the style from the OMG list, but in OMG the quotation marks are actually part of the title. If you notice on List of Planetes episodes, the quotation marks are not used. However, I've never actually seen the series, so maybe the quotation marks are official after all.
* Please try to add pictures for everyone at Characters of Excel Saga. One thing I use Wikipedia as a resource for is to figure out characters' names when I forget them, and without pictures that's really tough.
* Hope all this helps. :) --SeizureDog 22:39, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
* Thanks! I'll take care of the superficial reference, the Japanese quotation marks, and trim the first list of anime references (I think it's important to leave some in the lead). Regarding pictures: I have no scanner to capture the manga, so I'm stuck with the covers, I'll put in anyway--that's a really good point you raise. I previously had a screenshot (essentially the logo) from the Japanese opening of the show, but I took it down because I thought the Japanese would be user-unfriendly, and because I didn't think it (or the English equivalent) captured the essence of the show or its star as well does the current infobox photo. Plus I wanted one with more of Hyatt in it. It's a problem, though, I admit. RE "Going Too Far," I have thought of making a section or paragraph about it; I'll think on that. Anyway, I've long been concerned about putting into relief the differences between the media, but I'm just not sure how to do it without gutting other sections or being irredeemably redundant, and finding sources is another issue: the manga simply hasn't attracted the critical attention of the anime. Perhaps changing the phrasing you cite might be acceptable? :) I think I'm on the opposite end of the question of reviewer's names: unless the name (say, ANN) lends extra weight to the statement, or the statement is really sweeping, it seems to me that names just clutter the prose. Of course, my method my cause a different frustration. I'll see what I can do.--Monocrat 01:08, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
* I've taken care of most of your suggestions, I think. I've expanded the discussion of "Going Too Far" and included a photo under "Anime development." I've replace the pictures in "Characters" with manga covers, in addition to your smaller concerns. Let me know what you think.
* I was more interested in the logic of the creation of "Going Too Far". Was it just for the hell of it? Did he suffer any consequences for its creation? Wasting an entire episode's budget on something he knew wouldn't be aired seems like it might have brought him some flak.
* [[Image:ExcelSagaLogo.gif]]
* What about using the logo in the infobox?
* "I think I'm on the opposite end of the question of reviewer's names: unless the name (say, ANN) lends extra weight to the statement, or the statement is really sweeping, it seems to me that names just clutter the prose." I completely agree with you, but that's exactly the problem. If the review's source can't lend support to the statement then it probably shouldn't be cited at all.--SeizureDog 05:07, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
* I really can't speak definitively to that: there's nothing to suggest that motivation or the motivation for the whole "experiments" idea in the English secondary sources, online or official, and I can't read Japanese well enough to bother going that route. :) RE sources, note that I said "extra weight." While they're not in the same league as ANN, I think they're the best available, but I'll do some more digging. On the logo, I don't think it goes well with the infobox. I don't mind the suggestion, but is there a particular reason for the preference for logos?--Monocrat 05:36, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
* RE:LOGOS It's simple standardization. Currently, most anime pages use an image the includes the title in some fashion.
* RE:BESTTHEREIS That link does not specifically apply to reviews though. It applies to using such sources for pop culture news, a major difference. Citing statistics (e.g. sales, score on ANN) is preferred to single unnoteworthy reviews. If you're going to quote someone who doesn't matter, make sure you're quoting a lot of people who don't matter. --SeizureDog 11:05, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
* Fair points on both, though I think the cited policy is inclusive of reviews, with news being a prominent example--such are the perils of interpretation. I've changed the infobox photo and added the names of the websites/organizations the reviews came from. It seems to me that even in the case of ANN, who cares who wrote the thing? Fair compromise? Like I said, I'll see if I can find other well written reviews to cite.--Monocrat 14:09, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
* This article is impressive and has certainly come a long way. I'll just add a few notes before I go to bed:
* First off, I only know the anime well, so disregard anything I say that makes no sense in regard to the manga.
* The anime and manga are both treated quite well now, however, I find the parallel structure of the article sometimes confusing. Personally, I would have separated the two a bit more.
* The "plot" section and the "characters" section still overlap significantly - not surprising, since what little plot there is is mostly character-driven. I don't know what can be done about that, though.
* I think the "anime adaption" section is a bit short - but most of the info of the anime is spread out over the rest of the article, especially the lead. Maybe air dates, DVD release dates, etc. should be recounted there in greater detail, since the lead should only summarise the article and not contain info not found elsewhere.
* "Critical reception" is good, and I know you've had a hard time finding really notable reviews - but more notable reviews would be better. A bit of authoritative analysis would be better still, but I don't think that even exists.
* On a related note, some sales figures and/or tv ratings would be nice (I know that can be immensely difficult to locate, but keep it in mind).
* You extensively cite the source material - I wouldn't go to such lengths citing each plot point from the anime directly with a footnote, which breaks up the reading flow somewhat. Maybe these can be used given as general references? The manga cites are worth it for the ISBN numbers alone, though. However, you might still leave these in since FAC reviewers seem to love inline cites.
* That's it. Good work otherwise, and most of these points are stylistic anyway, making them largely personal preferences. Maybe I'll add more tomorrow. -- grm_wnr Esc 00:14, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
* Thanks again! These are good suggestions. I think I've found some overlap and anime references I can trim. I'll try to drive home in the rest of the anime and manga references that I'm citing the ADV notes or Oubliette, not the source work itself. I'll also add more information I found today on manga sales figures.--Monocrat 00:49, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
* Okay, yesterday I looked at the general structure, today I'm going into a bit more detail (Note: This is a refactoring zone, in which I add notes as I think of them, at least until someone replies).
* Lead
* "Excel Saga is a manga series by Rikudou Koushi[1] and a comedy anime based on it which is directed by Shinichi Watanabe." — maybe you should drop the "which is", and also note that is is an anime TV series (not a movie or OAV) right from the start.
* "Although the manga and anime differ in subplots, minor characters and other details, both versions recount the attempts of ACROSS, including the title character, Excel, to conquer the city of Fukuoka, Fukuoka, as a first step towards world domination." — very long and complicated sentence, should be broken up. Also assumes the reader knows what an ACROSS is. Maybe something like "...attempts of a nefarious secret society called ACROSS, ..."?
* "frequently breaking the fourth wall" — "breaking the fourth wall" most often means directly addressing the audience. I don't think that happens in Excel Saga, at least not "frequently" (it's done in a roundabout way in the first episode, with Excel realizing that Rikdo is her original creator, but even then it's not really that explicit). It's about the presentation: For someone who doesn't know that Nabeshin is the avatar of the director, he's simply another enigmatic character (Note: Puni Puni Poemy does break the 4th wall frequently, with Poemi calling Nabeshin "director" and the like). Note that I don't say that the statement "Excel Saga breaks the forth wall" is wrong, I just don't think the matter is clear enough for a brief statement in the lead, and I'd say that Excel Saga is very self-referential instead, which is beyond doubt.
* "especially Fist of the North Star, Space Battleship Yamato, and Super Sentai." — while I understand that the whole list of parodies formerly at that position was excessive, the three mentioned now are not really all that special - FotN in particular has only one episode, making it no more special than Gundam or Aliens. The "especially" makes the three seem more important than they really are. Suggestion: Change "especially" to "among them".
* "ADV Films produced the English-language version of the anime,..." — I noticed a significant omission - the anime was shown on MTV in Italy, dubbed in Italian, no less (at least, it:Excel Saga says so, but I don't read Italian well). It also ran on Canal Plus in France (fr:Excel Saga), which, knowing the French, implies to me that there is a French dub as well. Ep. 26 wasn't shown in France - did it air in Italy? Please find out. Add information on any dubs, translations, releases and showings (an aside: I don't known if it was shown on US TV - if it wasn't, note it is only available on DVD, if it was, note where and when) worldwide, and do the same for the manga. A new section called "worldwide releases" may be appropriate. Also, the "English version" obviously can't have extras - the DVD on which said version is sold has.
* The lead no longer mentions Puni Puni Poemy. Maybe that isn't really necessary, but neither does the rest of the article, it's only in the series box at the very bottom. I think that the spinoff is worth a brief mention somewhere.
* Plot
* "athwart" — okay I guess, but the word seems really odd to me compared to the rest of the article, which is written in a more informal tone.
* "what might be Ilpalazzo's for Hyatt" — Is there a word missing here? The rest of the semicolon'd list are complete sentences.
* "Looming subplots include the mysteries surrounding Dr. Shiouji's parents" — Shiouji is not mentioned previously. He either needs to be introduced properly, or a more radical solution adopted: Maybe the characters section should come before the plot section, and the first two paragraphs of the plot sectioned trimmed accordingly. At least, that would take care of some of the overlap.
* Characters
* "sprawling array of secondary characters" — I don't consider the secondary cast of Excel Saga particularly large (The main cast, however, undoubtedly is). It's normal for an episodic series to introduce one or two one new one-off characters in each episode. That should be toned down.
* "demonstrates a radically different persona" — the Il Palazzo article says that in the manga, his second persone isn't actually all that different.
* "Elgâla causes Excel much frustration, chiefly for her seeming lack of an internal monologue" — It's not her lack of internal monologue that's frustrating, it's that she has a lot of monologue, but it's always external - at least, that's what I infer, not being familiar with the manga.
* "suddenly dying and reviving in quick succession—another major running gag, but she is noticeably Ilpalazzo's favorite." — I think her being Ilpalazzo's favorite has little to do with her dying, at least not explicitly. The sentences should be separated.
* "The Daitenzin are as follows:" — I have nothing against a brief listing, but neither the previous nor the following section are in list form.
* The "other characters" section needs to distinguish more clearly between anime and manga. It does so for the Will, the Puchuus and Nabeshin, but not for Pedro, That Man or Key. Also, I would say that Pedro is in fact a more central character than, say, Shiouji or the Ropponmatsus, so I wouldn't start the section with "a wide array of minor characters", especially since you immediately go on to say "of varying importance" anyway. In short, you divide by affiliation initially, but continue to call all non-affiliated characters "minor", which isn't entirely correct. Also, noting that some characters in the manga are entirely unimportant is a bit superfluous, I think - every fictional work contains unimportant bit players, that needn't be specifically mentioned.
* to be continued... -- grm_wnr Esc 12:16, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
* I was planning on adding references to Puni Puni Poemy and other international versions in the main article, under Production. Perhaps you're right that "Characters" should come before plot--I'll think on this. Reading fourth wall makes me think it's appropriate (Excle on at least two occasions criticizes giving other characters better cuts, on several occasions talks about being a character and what the production staff are doing, and then there's Nabeshin per se), but I'll think more on it.--Monocrat 12:56, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
* Okay, I'll continue the list here for clarity. The fourth wall thing is debatable, I have no strong feelings against it either.
* Production
* "...neighborhood trash collection days. In addition to inserting Fukuokan sayings, ..." — The switch between generally Japanese issues and Fukuokan specialities is really abrupt. The two points need to lead into each other.
* Anime adaption section — As I said, maybe a few basic facts from the lead need to be restated here.
* "While perhaps the most notable parody of another work in the manga" - I'd switch the order of that sentence, starting the section about the anime with what is most important on the manga really threw me off track (I originally thought the anime section had ended after only one paragraph).
* "authorization scenes" — I'd like to see more of an explanation of what that actually means. It is explained, but I don't think it's entirely clear to a reader without prior knowledge that an anime representation of Rikudo appears and gives the following episode his personal stamp of approval (more or less voluntarily).
* "voice actors (声優, Sēyū?)" — Ah, the Seiyū thing. I'm not of the opinion that there's a real difference between "seiyū" and "voice actor", though I know that this is a permanent issue in fan circles. At the very least, I'd leave out the Kanji - this is not a name, only a technical term. The compromise solution I propose is "... prominent voice actors, including ..." (note the link target).
* Speaking of names, isn't the really 100% super correct name for the band "Excel♥Girls", not "Excel Girls"?
* "the twenty-sixth episode, "Going Too Far," never aired" — as said above, make sure that it never aired in any country, or change "never" to "in its original run on TV Tokyo".
* The image caption "Excel's rage, gone too far." — I really like that caption, but be prepared for someone taking objection to it. Have a good explanation ready.
* Critical reception
* Generally, a feeling that I think I read in several reviews was that the show started out great, then became stale after the mid point (with two rehash episodes for only one season being an indication of running out of ideas), but returned to strength in the last few episodes. I'll try to find the reviews in question.
* "Jessica Calvello was able to capture Mitsuishi's Excel perhaps too well, damaging her vocal cords" — should be noted earlier (under "production", if you add more on international versions there), it has more to do with the dubbing than with the critical reception.
* A bit more on the manga would be good, but I think you're already working on that with sales figures etc.
* I'm done for now, but maybe I notice a few more points. Stay tuned, I know I will ;) -- grm_wnr Esc 14:30, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
* I think I've addressed most of these points--and thanks for them! I've side-stepped the seiyuu thing altogether: the actors themselves are linked, so one can find it there. I moved the point about "Black Jack," expanded the description of the authorization scene, smoothed the transitions you note, and tweaked the "gone too far" caption. I'll try to add the sales and international version information.--Monocrat 15:36, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
* I've added a section on international editions. Let me know what you think.--Monocrat 00:27, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
* I like it. However, I have given the section a rather heavy copyedit, most notably separating by anime and manga and not by English and all other languages. Have a look at it now, I think it just flows better that way. -- grm_wnr Esc 01:05, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
* I was going to go through and change these things myself, but since there is a peer review running I might as well suggest changes here instead.
--Squilibob 00:57, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
* 1) "Although they differ in subplots and other details" could be "Although the manga and anime differ in subplots and other details" just because that is better prose.
* 2) "Excel Saga the anime is very much an absurdist, gag-based comedy, and is very self-aware, relying on appearances from the original author, the director, and other members of the production crew." This sentences is almost personified, so I think it could be changed to something like "The anime adaption of Excel Saga is an absurdist, gag based comedy that has appearances from the original author, the director, and other members of the production crew."
* 3) "its humor likened" does not make sense, how about "its humor which was likened" or "its humor which is likened"
* 4) "Excel Saga the anime" is used twice in the lead. It isn't the name of the anime so it should be either "Excel Saga, the anime," (with commas) or "The anime adaption of Excel Saga" as I mentioned in point 2.
* 5) What is an Oubliette? It is mentioned in the lead but not explained in detail. Then it is linked for the first time later in the article.
* 6) "ACROSS is lead by Lord Ilpalazzo, who justifies his by saying that "[c]onquering one city is a reasonable plan that allows some leeway for setbacks,"" He justifies his what? I don't understand.
* 7) Menchi is mentioned first as a pet. Many people think he is a cat, I think it should be mentioned that he is a dog straight away.
* 8) "Ropponmatsu, their robotic colleague (colleagues in the anime)" The characters page uses : to explain the Ropponmatsu Units 1 and 2 and something similar could be used such as linking "(colleagues in the anime)". The reader should be able to click something to find out why there are multiple Ropponmatsu instead of searching through the article(s) to find out why. The older one is called "Ropponmatsu 1" the first time she is mentioned but is called "Ropponmatsu Unit 1" later on the page and on the characters page. It is never stated that they are the same person.
* 9) "Broadly speaking, most the characters in Excel Saga the anime" In my opinion I would only use "Broadly speaking" in informal writing. This is another instance of "Excel Saga the anime" remembering that the reader believes that the real title is "Quack Experimental Anime Excel Saga" and that it is referred to in short as Excel Saga. Commas or rewrite as in point 4.
* 10) "the two storylines: the ACROSS-Daitenzin storyline and the Pedro-Nabeshin subplot" This is the first time the reader is informed of the subplot. That subplot spans the entire series but is yet to be mentioned. The reader is now thinking "who is Pedro? So there's a Pedro-Nabeshin subplot?" I think that the Pedro story should be mentioned under Plot especially since the Pedro family is again only touched on briefly under Other characters section.
* 11) "Initially the sole minion of, Excel approaches her work with an excess of determination and enthusiasm but a lack of foresight and understanding, always trying to win the praise and affection of Ilpalazzo" The first part of that sentence was stalled with a comma and Ilpalazzo, the subject of that statement is not directly linked to a continuation of that statement. Needs rewording.
* 12) "it is clear that he has from severe mental problems" should be "it is clear that he has formed severe mental problems" but I would rather "it is clear that he has developed severe mental problems" but either is fine.
* 13) I would link the first instance of running gag though it is not necessary.
* 14) "but seems both unaware of this and to hold her senior in high regard", I would say "but seems to be unaware of this and in contrast to Ilpalazzo, hold Excel in high regard" because it is a little more obvious about who likes/dislikes who.
* 15) "ancient civilization of Solaria" Perhaps it could be mentioned that this civilization is fictional. Also, the article is using American English. Does the American English spelling of civilization use a z or an s? I looked it up on Wikitionary but it doesn't say.
* 16) "As noted earlier, " I think this statement is also informal. Personal preference though.
* 17) "dei ex machina" I don't understand what this means. I wonder how many readers will.
* 18) "In the this class too" Typo that should have been proofread and fixed before submitting this article to any kind of review process.
* 19) "There are, of course, also the anime's Puchuus" I think this is informal language, see earlier points, etc.
* 20) "with whom Nabeshin has unfinished business." Should the unfinished business be explained?
* 21) Where do the spoilers end? I think that endspoiler should be used somewhere
* 22) ”and he made Excel Saga as a way 'to laugh off that view." Three different sets of quotation marks? What is going on in this quote?
* 23) "neighborhood trash days" Needs to be explained briefly or just changed to "neighborhood trash collection days"
* 24) "called by Anime News Network" and "Anime News Network (ANN) puts it in the same class as" "ANN is of the opinion" Only the second instance is linked and has (ANN). A website is being personified this time. How about "It was written on the Anime News Network review that". Same goes for Gline, DO and any other websites.
* I'll take care of the informal and unclear language, the latinism, the (sadly numerous) typos, and the other minor concerns, although I think some errors you flag are stylistic differences rather than grammatical problems ("its humor likend..." especially).
* "Civilization" is indeed the American form.
* To be frank I don't share your concerns about personification per se, but I see how some of the text you cite could at once be improved and address your points. I don't, however, see the problem in personifying the reviews' websites (see earlier discussion), especially since the review is written for and on behalf of the organization.
* "Oubliette" is used in two different senses here: the hole down which Excle is dropped by Ilpalazzo, and the collection of notes appended by VIZ to the manga. The first usage warrants a wikilink, but occurs in the article after the second usage. "Oubliette," the hole, is more accurate than "hole" as a description of the device Ilpalazzo uses. Since it's wikilinked and in lower case in the text, I don't see the problem.
* Good point about naming the anime in the lead.
* Thanks for the thorough reading and suggestions! --Monocrat 01:45, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
* I think I've addressed all of your points, though I'm holding off on dealing with the references as you suggest. I've also left "As noted ealier." I'm afraid, though, that I don't understand your point about the Pedro-Nabeshin subplot: it is addressed in the "Plot" section (third paragraph).--Monocrat 05:56, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
* Oh I apologize, I skipped that paragraph and the one after it for some reason. Glad to help with the minor changes that were made though.--Squilibob 10:19, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
* Concerns about general readability
* This article looks like it's come a long way, but I think there's still several major things that need to be done to improve the quality. First and foremost, the article uses an overabundance of long, complicated (and in some cases run-on) sentences. This is compounded by trying to explain the details of the anime and manga in parallel. I for one found the article rather confusing to read through. I would recommend writing plot summaries primarily oriented toward either the manga or anime, and then listing differences in a separate paragraph. There's also some poor grammar here and there. I will try to go through later and bring up specific examples. Basically, the writing style needs to be made more crisp and concise so that it's not a headache to read. Having said that, keep up the good work. ReMarkAble 04:06, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
* Thanks! And sorry for the late response: I was out of town this weekend. Clarity between the anime and the manga is a difficult matter, because the two are similar is most ways, differing only here in there. My worry about having a dedicated "Differences" section is that it would degenerate into a trivia paragraph: Hyatt's origins, Kabapu's eyes, Ilpalazzo's illness. But I'll reflect more on that. And my writing does have a tendency towards the long-winded and the odd typo, but I try to fix them whenever I find them--but I think I'm too close to the text. I look forward to your examples!--Monocrat 03:04, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
* If you're using Firefox, use the find as you type feature to find "," and press the highlight button. So many commas! Looks like Christmas lights! --Squilibob 04:46, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
* I've tried to break large sentences apart and remove or shift parenthetic statements requiring commas (mostly in the lead and the Characters and Plot section). I'll give it another pass in a day or so.--Monocrat 17:36, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
* Looks like you've made some good progress in improving the overall readability. I went ahead and made a number of small grammar and structure fixes in the latter half of the article. I think the character descriptions could still use some restructuring, but I don't feel like tackling it at the moment. ReMarkAble 00:53, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
* I noticed you cleaned up the line about Kabapu's name origin, which is a good improvement, however, I think this part right here should be included as it was: "the mascot of the 1989 Asia-Pacific Expo held in Fukuoka to celebrate the centennial of the city's official [Meiji era] charter." Otherwise, we don't know that it relates to Fukuoka, which is the whole point of having the reference. ReMarkAble 17:14, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
* Done, but reworded a bit. Thanks for catching that!--Monocrat 17:19, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
* By the way, is there any particular reason why you chose to do character bios in paragraph format rather than the "bullet point list" style that's common in many other anime/manga articles? As I read over those three paragraphs it just seems like it doesn't flow well. It's also hard to pick out individual names from the jumble of text. Sorry if this issue has already been hashed over and I missed it, but what do you think of possibly reorganizing to use that kind of format? Example: Character Name (キャラクタの名前 Kyarakuta no Namae) - Bio info blah blah nani nani nantoka nantoka... ReMarkAble 02:18, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
* Well, I suppose it was principally 1) a revolt against the tyranny of the character list on anime articles, 2) a way to curb my tendency towards cruft. Plus, I simply love having the images of ACROSS and the Daitenzin on opposite corners of the screen and surrounded by text. Nevertheless, I somewhat share the concern about flow, especially in the "Department of City Security" section: it was previously in list form, but Grm_wnr thought it stuck out and did a good job rewriting it. But it's still a lot of names in quick succession. Would it perhaps help if I were to remove the Japanese names? I'm unsure as to how necessary they are in the main article, since they're in Characters of Excel Saga. --Monocrat 02:46, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
* I do like the fact that the format sets this article apart from the slew of other cookie cutter anime/manga articles. After comparing the main Excel Saga article with the Characters article, I agree that it would probably improve the overall flow considerably to cut out some of the more unnecessary details and then link to the Characters article. Basically, anything that can streamline what's otherwise a rather cumbersome section would help justify the current format. I do think it would be nice if we could get it whipped into shape as it is now, since this article could then serve as a template for others who want to break out of the mold. ReMarkAble 06:46, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
* I don't know about cumbersome: It seems to be cutting close to the bone as it is. The only text I can identify as coming close to being trimmable fat in that section is some of the discussion of the Ropponmatsus, mention of the bit characters, and discussion of the "Owner" and Dr. Iwata. All of these, perhaps could go into a "Differences" section, which I increasingly think is necessary. Thoughts?--Monocrat 03:47, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
I have to say this is very impressive. I would like to see some mention of dojins, official and unofficial. It would be also useful to have a separate section on 'Excel Saga' manga. Is the manga named 'Excel Saga' or 'Municipal Force Daitenzin'? I find this confusing. I would also suggest adding a few more screenshots with some main characters, like Hyatt (Excel Saga), Kabapu or Shinichi Watanabe. Last but not least, the category could use cleanup: as a rule of thumb is category A is included in categories B,C, and so on, there is no need to mention those categories again in the article (thus the article should have only one cat: Excel Saga). Same goes for subarticles. Once those changes are done I anticipate supporting this article in FAC. Good job!--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 19:39, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
* Thank you for the compliment! I'll try to clarify the relationship between Rikudou's earlier work, the manga and the anime a little more. It might not be possible to create a another section solely for the manga, but I'll see what I can do to address the concern. I'm afraid I don't understand your concern about categories: all of the categories there are meant to sort Excel Saga by genre and medium. Also, if the lead is to stand on its own as an article, mentioning the genres seems important. Regarding images: I would like to do so, but I'm not comfortable uploading many more fair-use images. Nevertheless, I plan to change the infobox's image to one with Excel, Hyatt and Elgala. I might add another featuring Nabeshin and That Man, but we'll see. Also, I've removed the Excel Saga image from the navigation template, per fair use policy (point nine).--Monocrat 20:03, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
* I think I've addressed some of your concerns. Regarding the categories: I've removed the coding for "Anime series" and "Manga series" per your suggestion, but they keep showing up on the page. I'm at a loss.--Monocrat 01:15, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
* Those categories come with the infoboxes, infobox animanga/Manga and infobox animanga/Anime. Removing them would probably break a number of other articles. -- grm_wnr Esc 08:47, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
* Thanks for figuring that out! Any thoughts on alphabetizing the categories? Do you think I should remove the "Comedy anime" and "Comedy manga" tags to clean things up a bit? --Monocrat 22:31, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
* On the raw number: I think eight categories are not excessive (though I wouldn't add any more). On the subcategories: I always thought Categorization/Categories and subcategories (specifically the "TOPIC ARTICLE RULE") was a good rule of thumb and applies here. -- grm_wnr Esc 23:45, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
* Looks much better. Will you add something on dojins? I think they are important - they are after all one of the biggest differences between comics market and fandom in Japan and elsewhere.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 16:07, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
* I'm afraid I don't anything about dojins working off of Excel Saga, nor much about the Daitenzin dojinshi Rikudou made, apart from its existence. In short, no, because I can't. :) --Monocrat 16:15, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
* I have added a brief footnote about some of the Excel Saga-related dojinshi that Rikudou himself has published. To find dojinshi by others, I'd have to read Japanese better than I do! :) I hope that's satisfactory. --Monocrat 01:05, 20 June 2006 (UTC) | WIKI |
Author Topic: Weird thing with Microsoft SAPI (Read 413 times)
gonz23
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Weird thing with Microsoft SAPI
« on: 23 Dec '17 - 16:32 »
Hello. My problem is not BASS related, but audio related, but as this forum is very helping I post it here, in case anyone knows something about it, because it is something very intriguing.
I'm trying to implement a chat between two people with Microsoft Text to Speech in Windows 10 with Delphi, and trying that one voice sounds in the left channel and the other one in the right. I read something about IAudioEndPointVolume but I thought that for starting WaveOutSetVolume would be simpler. And in the beginning it worked flawlessly, I first took the current volume with WaveOutGetVolume, then set only the left channel volume, speak one people and then the other channel and people, and finally restoring the master stereo volume.
But in some point the app crashed with an error, and after solving that error that I don't remember which was, but it wasn't related with this problem, but happened when this kind of dialogue was taking effect, after that all the voices I try in this app in particular sound only through the left channel. If I try the same voice in another app, it sounds right in stereo. This happened with the AV-receiver audio device as default. If I change to the speakers device my app sounds well in stereo too, but returning to the AV-receiver it sounds again in the left channel. The curious thing is that if I make a copy, file per file, all the same of all the app folder in another folder, the same app sounds well in stereo with the AV-receiver. I've even reinstalled Nvidia drivers with a correct (default) setup, and the thing persists. Of course windows restarting does nothing.
I can't only think that the crashing did something in the Microsoft speech engine that is stored anywhere that is pointing to the app folder. I'm afraid that I'll have to study the IAudioEndPointVolume stuff but if anyone knows what can be happening, thank you very much.
saga
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Re: Weird thing with Microsoft SAPI
« Reply #1 on: 23 Dec '17 - 17:16 »
What you observed is that Windows remembers all volume options per application (identified by its executable name) and per device; You need to go to the Windows mixer and reset the options for your application there while it's running. One good example why you absolutely shouldn't solve a problem like this on the sound device level.
gonz23
• Posts: 22
Re: Weird thing with Microsoft SAPI
« Reply #2 on: 23 Dec '17 - 18:33 »
Ok thank you very much. I guess the issue wouldn't happen with IAudioEndPointVolume, cheers.
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Sarnia 2/26 Battery was the name of a Canadian football team in Ontario Rugby Football Union. The team played in the 1940 season. The ORFU had several teams disband due to the war in 1940, and Sarnia 2/26 Battery was one of the teams quickly recruited for the 1940 season (at the instigation of Lt. Hugh Sterling.)
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Bickenhill
Bickenhill is a small village in the civil parish of Bickenhill and Marston Green, in the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull, in the West Midlands county, England, on the eastern fringe of the West Midlands conurbation. Bickenhill is also a ward and was within the historic county of Warwickshire. Birmingham Airport is also located within the civil parish.
History
The settlement is of Anglo-Saxon origin, and historically the parish included the manors of Church Bickenhill, Hill Bickenhill, Middle Bickenhill, Marston Culy (now Marston Green), and Wavers Marston.
The manor of Bickenhill was held by Edward the Confessor, by Alward, and then by Turchil. The manor was recorded as Bichehelle in the Domesday Book of 1086. The descendants of Turchil, the Arden family, settled in the area and adopted the surname 'de Bickenhill,' though spelt differently. The name developed into de Bickenhill in the 13th century. In 1295, Alice de Langley gave herself the title Lady of Bickenhill. A manor then developed in Bickenhill and by the 15th century, there were two manors. It is believed that both manors shared rights by the end of the century. The manors no longer existed by the end of the 16th century.
The parish of Bickenhill also included Lyndon (or Lyndon Quarter), a detached portion of the parish two miles west. Lyndon was transferred from Bickenhill to Solihull in 1874. Its northern section was later transferred to Birmingham in 1931, while the south became part of Olton, now a suburb of Birmingham. In 1928, Marston Green became a separate ecclesiastical parish, and in 1932, part of Elmdon was added to Bickenhill.
The parish maintained a rural setting in the 19th century but began to develop in the early 20th century into a populous area due to the industrial revolution. No railway station was opened near the village until Birmingham International at Birmingham Airport opened in 1976. The M42 motorway and the busy A45 road run close by to the east and north of the village respectively. Junction 6 of the M42 is known as the Bickenhill Interchange.
It became part of the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull in 1974.
In 2001 there was a possibility that a replacement for Wembley Stadium might be built in the West Midlands. A campaign urging Londoners to oppose the plan used posters with an image of a young footballer saying "One day I'll play at Bickenhill".
Parish
The parish of Bickenhill and Marston Green covers the villages of both Bickenhill and Marston Green. Also in the parish are Birmingham Airport, the National Exhibition Centre, and the National Motorcycle Museum. In the 2011 census the parish population was 7,153, an increase from the 2001 Census figure of 6,583. Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council maintain a waste recycling centre in the parish. The civil parish was renamed from Bickenhill to Bickenhill and Marston Green in 2014.
The parish is crossed by two major roads: the M42 and the A45. The A45 is referred to locally as the Coventry Road.
Village
The village of Bickenhill is south of the A45 road (whereas the rest of the parish is north of the A45). The Church of England parish church of Saint Peter is Norman and was built in 1140; it is grade I listed. The toponym 'Bickenhill' is derived from the Old English meaning 'Bica's hill', with it spelt as Bichehelle in the Domesday Book of 1086. The majority of the older houses in Bickenhill village are Georgian or Victorian.
In 2003, a proposal was announced to build a second runway at Birmingham Airport which would have reportedly have involved demolition of between 100 and 150 buildings in the Bickenhill conservation area.
The centre of the village is a Conservation area, and in a response to the Planning Inspectorate in 2019 Solihull Council described its value as "High" and said that it "has a focal building in the grade 1 listed mediaeval parish church on locally high ground at the heart of a group of historic and other buildings typifying an English midlands village. This includes the grade 2 listed Grange Farm and several buildings on the Local List of Heritage Assets, served by narrow sinuous lanes with enclosing banks and hedgerows, beyond which are many surviving fields and paddocks often representing an historic layout".
Páirc na hÉireann, off Catherine de Barnes Lane, is the primary venue for Gaelic games in the West Midlands. It has three full-size Gaelic Athletic Association pitches with eight changing rooms, bar area and car-parking.
Nearby villages include Catherine-de-Barnes, Hampton in Arden and Meriden.
Governance
The two main local authorities responsible for the parish are Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council and Bickenhill Parish Council. The Parish Council is responsible for maintaining facilities such as churchyards, cemeteries and parks in the parish and its offices are located at a park near Marston Green.
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The Tatra 70 was the successor of the large model T31, which was manufactured at the Tatra factory located at Nesselsdorf in 1931.
This luxury vehicle had a water-cooled six-cylinder OHC engine with a capacity of 3406 cc and brakepower of 65 hp (48 kW). The engine camshaft was driven by a Bevel,which gave power to multiple dry clutch discs and a 4-speed gearbox to the rear wheels. The achievable maximum speed of this approximately 2,400-kilogram (5,300 lb) car was 110 km/h (68 mph). The chassis had a central tube construction ; the foreground is a rigid axle with overhead Transverse leaf spring and a rear swing axle with half transverse leaf springs was installed. The wheels were designed as slices.
There were mixed 4- and 6-seater sedan bodyworks. Until 27 April 1932, 50 vehicles were manufactured.
The Tatra 70 A 1934 appeared as a successor to the Type 70. Its engine and drivetrain were in line with the concept of type 70, however, the displacement was increased to 3845 cc and the performance was increased to 70 hp (52 kW). Thus, this 2,450 kg (5,401 lb) heavy car reached a top speed of 130 km/h (81 mph).
Up to 28 August 1936, about 70 vehicles were manufactured. On 23 May 1947, a T70 car built after WWII from spare parts of another car was given to Czechoslovakian President Edvard Beneš. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
ms sql server data masking
SQL Server Data Masking :
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DataMasking.sql
Masking data can be done through updating the confidential information in the database like SSN , Password,Username etc with some other values.
To mask the entire data quickly , its good to create table with list of the tables and columns which you need mask and run the generic statements to generate the update scripts on the table.
But updating the primary key value is diffcult task as we need to update the foreign key references as well.
Below procedure will update the primary key and all the related foreign keys.
Note: this procedure will not mask the table references where the PK is identity
Mostly we don't need to mask the identity values as all are auto generated values.
Steps involved in the below procedure :
1. Add an identity column to the primary key table
2. check the primary key datatype if its charecter datatype then it will append 'MASK' to the value its going to update
3. drop all the foreign keys
4. update all the foreign keys with the primary key table newly added identity columns value while referring the primary key value in the primary key table
5. update the primary key value with the newly added identity column
6. adds all the foreign keys which are dropped before in step:3
7. drop the newly added identity column in the primary key table which is added in step :1
4 comments:
1. solved my purpose....
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2. Also can be done through SSIS as in http://geekswithblogs.net/Compudicted/archive/2012/03/01/creating-a-custom-ssis-data-flow-component---an-example.aspx
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1. Thanks Arthur. I am still working on this to develop a module with sql scripts.
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Colombia ’s central bank should
continue its $30 million-a-day program of dollar purchases until
the end of December, beyond its current May 31 end date, Finance
Minister Mauricio Cardenas said. Cardenas said he will make the recommendation at the
central bank’s policy meeting this month. “This will be a very important theme at the next board
meeting,” Cardenas said. “My position is that we should
continue the program of buying international reserves in the
same terms and conditions until year-end.” The central bank said Jan. 28 that it will buy at least $30
million a day, bringing purchases in the foreign-exchange market
to $3 billion between February and May. Cardenas has said
repeatedly that government intervention can help weaken the peso
toward its “equilibrium” level of about 1,900 per U.S. dollar. The currency has strengthened 22 percent since the start of
2009, the best performer after the Chilean peso among 24 major
emerging market currencies tracked by Bloomberg. The peso
weakened 0.1 percent to 1842.80 per U.S. dollar today. Industrial output fell 11.5 percent in March from a year
earlier, the biggest decline since 2009. Cardenas said the drop
was a “statistical effect” caused by the Easter holidays, and
that output would have grown 0.5 percent without the greater
number of public holidays. The April industrial production
figures will be “good” he said. Cardenas chairs the central bank’s seven-member policy
committee, which next meets May 31. The central bank has cut its
policy rate 2 percentage points over the last year, as
industrial output slumped and the annual inflation rate fell to
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126 A.3d 246
Jovan Maurice BRICE v. STATE of Maryland.
No. 1620,
Sept. Term, 2014.
Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.
Nov. 25, 2015.
Julia C. Schiller (Paul B. DeWolfe, Public Defender, on the brief), Baltimore, MD, for appellant.
Gary E. O’Connor (Brian E. Frosh, Atty. Gen., on the brief), Baltimore, MD, for appellee.
Panel: WOODWARD, HOTTEN, FREDERICK J. SHARER (Retired, Specially Assigned), JJ.
WOODWARD, J.
Jovan Maurice Brice, appellant, was arrested on August 2, 2011, and charged with illegal possession of a regulated firearm. On July 18, 2014, appellant was convicted of that charge after a jury trial in the Circuit Court for Harford County. Thereafter, appellant was sentenced to five years in prison, with all but three years suspended and five years of supervised probation.
On appeal, appellant presents four questions for our review, which we have slightly rephrased:
1. Did the trial court err in refusing to ask, during voir dire, the police witness questions?
2. Did the trial court err in permitting the admission of testimony about an alleged prior bad act?
3. Was the evidence sufficient to sustain the conviction?
4. Was there probable cause for a traffic stop for a violation of Section 21-604 of the Transportation Article?
We conclude that the trial court erred in refusing to ask the police witness questions and, accordingly, reverse the judgment of the circuit court. Because we answer question three in the affirmative, we will remand the case for a new trial. For the guidance of the trial court on retrial, we shall address the remaining questions.
BACKGROUND
On August 2, 2011, appellant was charged with illegal possession of a regulated firearm. Prior to trial, on June 6, 2012, appellant filed a motion to suppress the evidence obtained as a result of a traffic stop. The circuit court held a hearing on appellant’s motion that same day. At the hearing, Deputy Keith Jackson of the Harford County Sheriffs Office testified on behalf of the State. Deputy Jackson testified that, on the evening of July 21, 2011, he was conducting surveillance of a gas station. The surveillance was in response to a series of recent robberies that had occurred at local gas stations. Deputy Jackson observed appellant, who fit the description of the robbery suspect, pull up to the gas station in a Cadillac. When appellant exited the convenience store at the gas station, he paused by the door and looked around for a few seconds. This behavior seemed odd to Deputy Jackson, so he followed appellant as he drove away from the station.
Deputy Jackson followed appellant’s car for approximately five to six minutes, at which point appellant made a right hand turn from Main Street to Courtland Street without using a turn signal. At the time appellant made the turn, Deputy Jackson was directly behind him at a distance of about one car length. Appellant’s turn “kind of took [Deputy Jackson] off balance.” Deputy Jackson then activated his emergency equipment and conducted a traffic stop.
Deputy Jackson approached the vehicle and saw that appellant was the only occupant. He asked appellant for his license and registration, which appellant produced. At that time, Deputy Greg Jordan and Colonel Javier Moro arrived on the scene as backup. Deputy Jackson returned to his vehicle to run appellant’s information while the other officers remained with appellant. While running appellant’s information, Deputy Jackson noticed the other officers begin to close in on appellant. Deputy Jackson stopped his investigation and went to assist them. Appellant was taken out of the car, placed in handcuffs, and seated on the shoulder of the road. The officers conducted a search of the vehicle and then released appellant with a traffic warning.
A jury trial was held from July 16, 2014 through July 18, 2014. Deputy Jackson took the stand and testified to the same general information that was presented at the suppression hearing with a few additional details. He testified that, when the search of appellant’s vehicle was conducted, Deputy Jordan found a clear sandwich baggie under the driver’s seat that contained a metallic handgun magazine. Colonel Moro testified that he was one of the two officers who came to assist Deputy Jackson during the traffic stop of appellant. Colonel Moro stated that he had removed appellant from the car because Deputy Jordan saw appellant “making some movements.”
Deputy Gregory Young then testified that Deputy Jackson told him about appellant’s traffic stop during a lunch conversation. As a result of this information, Deputy Young initiated a firearms investigation into appellant. An online case search indicated that appellant had two convictions from 2002 and 2006 for possession of a controlled dangerous substance (not marijuana). Deputy Young decided that a search and seizure warrant should be obtained for appellant’s residence based on that information.
On the morning of August 2, 2011, the Special Weapons and Tactics team entered and searched appellant’s apartment pursuant to a search warrant. Appellant was the only person present inside the apartment. During the search, a Lorcin .380-caliber handgun was found inside the pocket of a jacket hanging in appellant’s closet. Officers also found a box of 9mm Browning cartridges and a pistol magazine with eight live cartridges. Deputy Young testified that the firearm recovered was classified as a regulated firearm. He further testified that anyone convicted of a charge that carries a statutory penalty of more than two years is prohibited from possessing a regulated firearm. The statutory penalty for each of appellant’s two previous convictions of possession of a controlled dangerous substance (not marijuana) was four years.
Appellant was advised of his Miranda rights and indicated that he understood his rights and would speak to the investigators. See Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436, 86 S.Ct. 1602, 16 L.Ed.2d 694 (1966). Special Agent Alan Boroshok testified that he and Agent Anthony Tolomeo conducted an interview with appellant during the search of his apartment. Appellant told the agents that he received the pistol magazine from his cousin in 2004 and bought the ammunition at Walmart. According to Agent Boroshok, appellant said “that he acquired the handgun from what he termed a junkie in the White Marsh area. [Appellant] made a trade for an eight ball of crack cocaine for it.” Appellant told Agent Boroshok that he had the gun for seven years, but had never actually shot it. Appellant admitted that he had wiped down the gun.
On July 18, 2014, appellant was convicted of illegal possession of a regulated firearm.
DISCUSSION
I. Voir Dire Questions
Voir dire is ‘“the process by which prospective jurors are examined to determine whether cause for disqualification exists.’ ” Moore v. State, 412 Md. 635, 644, 989 A.2d 1150 (2010) (quoting Dingle v. State, 361 Md. 1, 9, 759 A.2d 819 (2000)). “Voir dire is critical to assure that the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution and Article 21 of the Maryland Declaration of Rights guarantees to a fair and impartial jury will be honored.” Stewart v. State, 399 Md. 146, 158, 923 A.2d 44 (2007) (italics added). In general, “[a]n appellate court reviews for abuse of discretion a trial court’s decision as to whether to ask a voir dire question.” Pearson v. State, 437 Md. 350, 356, 86 A.3d 1232 (2014).
A. Waiver
Before trial, appellant submitted voir dire questions for the Court to ask the prospective jurors. Included within his proposed voir dire were two questions concerning police officer testimony, which read as follows:
14. Would any of you be more or less likely to believe a police officer or deputy solely because he is a police officer or deputy?
15. Would any of you be more likely to believe the testimony of a police officer or deputy as opposed to that of the accused?
During voir dire, the trial court posed seventeen questions to the prospective jurors and then individually questioned the jurors who had responded affirmatively to any of the court’s questions. The court’s questions did not include appellant’s Questions 14 and 15 (“police witness questions”). At the conclusion of the questions for the entire jury pool, but before individual questioning, the court asked counsel if they wished to approach “for any reason.” The prosecutor said ‘"Yes” and addressed the court about several of his proposed voir dire questions that had been omitted. The court then asked, “Anything from the defense, [defense counsel]?” Defense counsel replied, “No, Your Honor.” The court then asked one of the prosecutor’s requested questions. After that, the court and counsel proceeded to individually question the jurors in the jury room.
Appellant argues that the trial court abused its discretion in denying his requested police witness questions, because “[w]hen requested to do so, in a case where there will be substantive testimony from police, the trial court is required to ask prospective jurors on voir dire whether they would favor o[r] disfavor the testimony of police officers.” (Italics added). Appellant asserts that “the State’s entire case rested on the testimony of police officers,” and thus a new trial is warranted for failure to give the requested questions. The State concedes that, if appellant had “brought his requested ‘police witness’ question^] to the attention of the trial court in a timely fashion, it would have been proper for the trial court to ask the question[s].” The State contends, however, that the trial court properly exercised its discretion in declining to ask the questions, because appellant initially gave an explicit waiver of those questions.
The first issue that this Court must address is whether appellant expressly waived his right to have the police witness questions posed to the jury venire. Maryland Rule 8-131(a) states: “Ordinarily, the appellate court will not decide any [ ] issue unless it plainly appears by the record to have been raised in or decided by the trial court____” Rule 8-131(a) requires a defendant to make “ ‘timely objections in the lower court,’ ” or “ ‘he will be considered to have waived them and he cannot now raise such objections on appeal.’ ” Breakfield v. State, 195 Md.App. 377, 390, 6 A.3d 381 (2010) (quoting Caviness v. State, 244 Md. 575, 578, 224 A.2d 417 (1966)).
Maryland Rule 4-323(c) governs, among other things, objections made during voir dire and jury selection. The Rule provides:
[I]t is sufficient that a party, at the time the ruling or order is made or sought, makes known to the court the action that the party desires the court to take or the objection to the action of the court. The grounds for the objection need not be stated unless these rules expressly provide otherwise or the court so directs. If a party has no opportunity to object to a ruling or order at the time it is made, the absence of an objection at that time does not constitute a waiver of the objection.
Md. Rule 4-323(c). “We have held that it is sufficient to preserve an objection during the voir dire stage of trial simply by making known to the circuit court ‘what [is] wanted done.’ ” Marquardt v. State, 164 Md.App. 95, 143, 882 A.2d 900 (quoting Baker v. State, 157 Md.App. 600, 610, 853 A.2d 796 (2004)), cert. denied, 390 Md. 91, 887 A.2d 656 (2005). “An appellant preserves the issue of omitted voir dire questions under Rule 4-323 by telling the trial court that he or she objects to his or her proposed questions not being asked.” Smith v. State, 218 Md.App. 689, 700-01, 98 A.3d 444 (2014). If a defendant does not object to the court’s decision to not read a proposed question, he cannot “complain about the court’s refusal to ask the exact question he requested.” Gilmer v. State, 161 Md. App. 21, 33, 866 A.2d 918, vacated in part on other grounds, 389 Md. 656, 887 A.2d 549 (2005).
“Generally, a waiver is the intentional relinquishment of a known right, or conduct that warrants such an inference.” Brockington v. Grimstead, 176 Md.App. 327, 355, 933 A.2d 426 (2007) aff'd, 417 Md. 332, 10 A.3d 168 (2010). Waiver “extinguishes the waiving party’s ability to raise any claim of error based upon that right.” Id. “Thus, a party who validly waives a right may not complain on appeal that the court erred in denying him the right he waived, in part because, in that situation, the court’s denial of the right was not error.” Id.
In the instant case, appellant did request the police witness questions in his written proposed voir dire. However, after the court intentionally omitted them from the voir dire, appellant waived his right to the requested questions by defense counsel responding “No” to the court’s request for any further comment or objection to the voir dire questions that had been asked. Cf. Booth v. State, 327 Md. 142, 180, 608 A.2d 162 (holding that plain error review was not required, because defense counsel “affirmatively advised the court that there was no objection to the [jury] instruction.”), cert. denied, 506 U.S. 988, 113 S.Ct. 500, 121 L.Ed.2d 437 (1992). Defense counsel’s response was more than “the simple lack of an objection;” he “affirmatively advised the court that there was no objection.” Booth, 327 Md. at 180, 608 A.2d 162. Such statement was an “explicit waiver.”
B. Retraction of Waiver
Midway through the trial court’s individual questioning of the prospective jurors, defense counsel realized that the court may not have posed his proposed police witness questions to the entire venire. The following exchange occurred:
[DEFENSE COUNSEL]: Hearkening back to Juror number 27 who has been excused for cause, that juror stated that she was not asked the police officer question, so to speak, as to whether or not she would give more or less weight to the testimony of a police or law enforcement person simply because of that status. I, frankly, sitting out there, I thought you had asked that question in general, and right now that is sort of up in the air because it wasn’t by chance asked. I think we should simply complete this process and everybody that survives we would ask them one last question. Right now I’m not sure whether the Court asked it because she brought it up, and she seemed to be sort of tuned in on that very issue.
Specifically it would be my questions 14 or 15, or any combination of those, and I think they are pretty standard statewide.
THE COURT: I did not ask that question, and here is the reason I did not. In light of my reading of Pearson v. State, the Court indicated that the judge need not ask the panel whether they know someone else who has either served as a law enforcement officer or is affiliated in some way. However, in light of the question that I asked about any member of this panel serving as a law enforcement officer or otherwise, anyone who answered that question and would come back here and who indicates that they have, I do ask that question, as I did with Juror number 27, I believe it is. Not 27, Juror number—the young man that was two years with the Ocean City Police Department.
[PROSECUTOR]: Juror 15.
THE COURT: Juror number 15. He is the only one that indicated he personally has served in law enforcement, and I did ask him that question.
[DEFENSE COUNSEL]: Your Honor, maybe I’m just missing something, but was a question put out there that asked a prospective juror if they would be more or less likely to believe the testimony of a law enforcement officer simply because the witness was a law enforcement officer? I think that is more direct.
THE COURT: I did not ask that question simply because my reading of Pearson v. State limits the query to questions relating to either a constitutional or statutory reason for disqualification of a juror, and that question appears to relate more to helping an attorney, whether it’s for the State or the defense, determine how to exercise their peremptory challenges.
If, however, an individual juror who indicates that they are a police officer comes back here and indicates that as a law enforcement officer, that they have served in that capacity, that’s a question that I would ask them.
[DEFENSE COUNSEL]: I am going to look over Pearson, but for now, I most respectfully take exception and would ask that the Court hold in abeyance its final decision as to whether to propound that final question once we get a qualified group before we start exercising chal- . lenges. Thank you, Judge.
[PROSECUTOR]: Your Honor, if I can just address that.
THE COURT: Certainly.
[PROSECUTOR]: First of all, as far as Juror 27, the jury sheet does indicate that the juror’s spouse is a retired police officer. So that would have been before counsel.
As far as that particular question and the procedure for it, my concern is that that question should have been asked to the panel as a whole, not narrowing the panel down and then reasking that question, because, again, it would impact how strikes would have been exercised, and also potentially the size of the panel if we would even have a sufficient panel to choose from or would end up with a sufficient panel to choose from.
So I think if the Court decides that question should have been asked, I don’t think we can go back and reask it at this point.
THE COURT: I think it’s probably prudent for me to rule on the request at this point rather than to wait until after we’ve queried the remaining jurors.
I am going to deny the request to pose that question to the remainder of the panel. Some jurors have already been excused, and I do believe for the reasons I have already stated that the question is not really relevant with respect to strikes for cause, and with respect to issues relating to peremptory challenges, nothing in terms of the selection process at this point means that the remaining jurors are subject to a bias on that point. And with respect to the exercise of peremptory challenges, I believe Pearson quite adequately addresses that in light of this Court’s decision not to ask that question of the entire panel.
[DEFENSE COUNSEL]: This is the Court’s final ruling?
THE COURT: That’s the final ruling, yes.
[DEFENSE COUNSEL]: I would most respectfully except. Thank you.
(Emphasis added).
At the time that defense counsel requested the police witness questions, the trial court had completed the individual questioning process through Juror number 30, and the court had excused ten jurors for cause. Another seven jurors had mentioned possible hardships, but had not been excused. Given that there were at least fifty-nine jurors in the initial venire, there were twenty jurors who had not been struck, plus twenty-nine jurors yet to be questioned at the time of defense counsel’s request. The court needed twenty-eight jurors remaining after voir dire before beginning peremptory strikes to ensure that it would not run out of jurors.
After denying defense counsel’s request for the police witness questions, the trial court then returned to questioning the remaining jurors individually. Of the next twenty-four jurors, seventeen were questioned, two of whom were struck for cause. At the conclusion of voir dire, but before commencing with jury selection, the court and counsel agreed to excuse eleven jurors based on various hardships. Thus, out of fifty-four jurors, twelve were struck for cause, eleven were excused for hardship, and thirty-one were left for jury selection. The court had enough jurors after individual questioning that it did not need to individually question the remaining five jurors, Juror numbers 55 through 59.
At that time, defense counsel again raised the issue of the requested police witness questions:
[DEFENSE COUNSEL]: Before we go out, one last gasp from the defense on the police officer question. The defense’s proposed voir dire. I would inquire at this point if it’s not in evidence, I want to move it into evidence, and I would ask that the Court propound question number 14, and perhaps question number 15, or a combination of them to the remaining members, and I will say no more.
THE COURT: Just so the record is clear, defense voir dire questions numbers 14 and 15, correct?
[DEFENSE COUNSEL]: Yes, Your Honor.
THE COURT: They read as follows: 14 reads, “Would any of you be more or less likely to believe a police officer or deputy solely because he is a police officer or deputy?” Question 15, “Would any of you be more likely to believe the testimony of a police officer or a deputy as opposed to that of the accused?”
In ruling on your question, I am going to deny the request to pose that to the panel at this point given that when the objection was originally raised, we had already excused some jurors for cause, so the entire array was not asked that question. However, jurors that responded to the question whether they are affiliated with a law enforcement agency or employed by a law enforcement agency, and I gave descriptions of the types of law enforcement agencies, that being a Sheriffs Office, police department, prosecutors’ office, correctional facility, parole or probation agency, or any other type of law enforcement agency, and I added whether it’s state or federal. That is defense’s voir dire Question four, which was paraphrased. That question was put to the entire panel in this case.
I believe in light of Pearson v. State, that was sufficient to ask the panel at the outset, but the request to ask only a portion of the panel follow-up questions that had no bearing on their relationship to law enforcement or relevant to the proceedings at hand were proffered to the Court.
(Emphasis added).
Although appellant initially waived his right to the police witness questions, defense counsel later made two attempts to retract that waiver. The State argues that “the trial court was not required to allow [appellant] to retract the earlier waiver.” We disagree.
“Ordinarily, when a party has waived a right and then retracts his waiver, the effect of the retraction is to revive the right, subject to the doctrine of equitable estoppel.” Brockington, 176 Md.App. at 355-56, 933 A.2d 426. The doctrine of equitable estoppel
“lies at the foundation of the law of waiver because estoppel arises as a result of the voluntary conduct of one party, whereby he is precluded from asserting a right as against another person who has, in good faith, relied upon such conduct and has been led thereby to change his position for the worse.”
Id. at 356, 933 A.2d 426 (quoting Arnold Bernstein Shipping Co. v. Tidewater Commercial Co., 84 F.Supp. 948, 952 (D.Md. 1949)). “[CJonsistent with the equitable estoppel principles, the court has discretion to reject a party’s retraction of a waiver if by its timing the attempted retraction would interfere with the administration of the court’s business or would amount to a trial tactic, aimed at manipulating the judicial process.” Brockington, 176 Md.App. at 357, 933 A.2d 426.
The State makes several arguments for why the trial court was correct in refusing to allow appellant to retract his express waiver. We will address these arguments in turn.
1. Effect on the use of strikes
The State argues, as it did before the trial court, that the untimely retraction of the waiver would have affected how the prosecutor exercised his strikes. Specifically, the State contends that the prosecutor “might have chosen to oppose defense counsel’s motions to excuse, or opposed the excusing of other jurors, had he known that there would be additional voir dire questions that could result in excusing additional member[s] of the venire panel.” We are not persuaded.
At the time that defense counsel first asked for the police witness questions, the trial court had granted three of defense counsel’s motions to excuse jurors for cause, two of which were over the State’s objection. The State made no specific argument at trial about how it would have approached voir dire differently in this case. During voir dire, the prosecutor only said that, “it would impact how strikes would have been exercised.” The prosecutor provided nothing further beyond this ambiguous assertion. In the instant appeal, the State also does not point out any specific jurors in this case that it would have approached differently, nor identify any particular argument that it would have made. It is mere conjecture that the prosecutor may have acted differently if the prosecutor knew that the police witness questions were going to be asked later in the voir dire process.
2. Questioning of original venire and size of the remaining jury pool
When the trial court denied defense counsel’s request for the police witness questions, it did so saying: “I am going to deny the request to pose that to the panel at this point given that when the objection was originally raised, we had already excused some jurors for cause, so the entire array was not asked that question.” The fact that some jurors had already been excused without hearing the police witness questions is irrelevant, because those jurors were struck for cause on other grounds. Therefore, their answers to police witness questions would not have mattered.
Additionally, the State argues that having a sufficient pool of jurors was a concern. The trial court, however, never mentioned that as a reason for denying the request. Nevertheless, the record shows that there were plenty of jurors available. The jury pool was large enough that the trial court was able to excuse eleven jurors for hardship after the individual voir dire questioning had concluded. Moreover, the court stopped short of interviewing every juror individually, because by the time the court had questioned through Juror number 54 out of a venire of at least fifty-nine, there were enough jurors to begin peremptory strikes. The size of the jury pool at the time that the issue of the police witness questions was raised was more than sufficient to allow for the questions to be asked without a fear of running out of jurors.
3. Manipulation of the judicial process
The State cites to fears over “gamesmanship” and trial tactics that are “aimed at manipulating the judicial process.” Brockington, 176 Md.App. at 357, 933 A.2d 426. The actions of defense counsel in this case suggest nothing of the sort. On the contrary, defense counsel clearly wanted the police witness questions included in the voir dire, given their inclusion in his proposed voir dire that was submitted to the court at the beginning of the trial. Furthermore, it would appear that the lack of an initial objection from defense counsel was a simple oversight on counsel’s part. Juror number 27 noted that a police witness question had not been asked and then added that she would be biased in favor of the testimony of police officers. Because of Juror number 27’s statement, defense counsel raised the issue of the police witness questions. Defense counsel stated to the court: “I thought you had asked that question.”
There is nothing in the record to suggest that counsel was attempting to game the system by waiting until midway through voir dire to request the police witness questions. A reasonable defendant in appellant’s shoes would want to know if jurors were biased in favor of the testimony of police officers. Withholding those questions for part of the voir dire process would only put appellant at risk. It is clear from the record that defense counsel mistakenly thought that the police witness questions had been given from the outset, and only brought the issue up later when he was alerted by a juror that the questions had not been posed to the venire. This is not a case in which the retraction of appellant’s waiver would have constituted “manipulating of the judicial process.” Id.
In sum, because the retraction of appellant’s waiver (1) would not have prevented the selection of a jury from the venire remaining at the time of the retraction, (2) would not have prejudiced the State in its approach to voir dire, and (3) would not have amounted to a trial tactic “aimed at manipulating the judicial process,” we conclude that the trial court abused its discretion in not permitting such retraction. See id. Given that appellant should have been allowed to retract his waiver, we must now determine whether the court abused its discretion in refusing to ask the police witness questions.
C. Mandatory Voir Dire Questions
“In Maryland, the sole purpose of voir dire is to ensure a fair and impartial jury by determining the existence of cause for disqualification, and not as in many other states, to include the intelligent exercise of peremptory challenges.” Stewart, 399 Md. at 158, 923 A.2d 44. “The manner of conducting voir dire and the scope of inquiry in determining the eligibility of jurors is left to the sound discretion of the judge.” Washington v. State, 425 Md. 306, 314, 40 A.3d 1017 (2012) (italics added). Trial courts may decline to ask voir dire “[questions which are not directed at a specific ground for disqualification, which are merely ‘fishing’ for information to assist in the exercise of peremptory challenges, which probe the prospective juror’s knowledge of the law, ask a juror to make a specific commitment, or address sentencing considerations.” Id. at 315, 40 A.3d 1017. The Court of Appeals has
identified two broad areas of inquiry that may reveal cause for a juror’s disqualification: (1) examination to determine whether the prospective juror meets the minimum statutory qualifications for jury service, and (2) examination to discover the juror’s state of mind as to the matter in hand or any collateral matter reasonably liable to have undue influence over him.
Id. at 313, 40 A.3d 1017. The latter category consists of “ ‘biases directly related to the crime, the witnesses, or the defendant.’ ” Id. at 311, 40 A.3d 1017 (quoting Dingle v. State, 361 Md. 1,10, 759 A.2d 819 (2000)).
The Court of Appeals has held that, “where a principal part of the State’s evidence is testimony of a police officer diametrically opposed to that of a defendant,” it was reversible error for the trial court to refuse to ask: “Is there anyone here who would give more credit to the testimony of a police officer over that of a civilian, merely because of his status as a police officer?” Langley v. State, 281 Md. 337, 338, 349, 378 A.2d 1338 (1977). In Bowie v. State, the Court went further and held that it was reversible error for trial court to refuse to ask: “Do you believe that a police officer will tell the truth merely because he or she is a police officer?” and “Would any of you be more or less likely to believe a police officer than a civilian witness, solely because he or she is a police officer?” 324 Md. 1, 6, 11, 595 A.2d 448 (1991). The Court in Bowie held that Langley was dispositive, even though in Bowie, the defendant did not testify at trial and thus there was no testimony “diametrically opposed” to the officers’ testimony. Id. at 9-10, 595 A.2d 448. “At the heart of the issues presented in Langley [and] Borne ... is whether it is appropriate for a juror to give credence to a witness simply because of that witness’s occupation, or status, or category, or affiliation.” Moore, 412 Md. at 652, 989 A.2d 1150 (internal quotation marks omitted). Thus Maryland caselaw has established that, when there are police officer witnesses for the State, police witness questions requested by a defendant are mandatory. See Bowie, 324 Md. at 11, 595 A.2d 448; Langley, 281 Md. at 349, 378 A.2d 1338.
The Pearson case relied upon by the trial court stands for the proposition that
where all of the State’s witnesses are members of law enforcement agencies and/or where the basis for a conviction is reasonably likely to be the testimony of members of law enforcement agencies, on request, a trial court must ask during voir dire: “Have any of you ever been a member of a law enforcement agency?”
Pearson, 437 Md. at 367, 86 A.3d 1232. The Court in Pearson also held that, upon request, a trial judge must ask: “Do any of you have strong feelings about [the crime with which the defendant is charged]?” Id. at 363, 86 A.3d 1232 (alterations in original). Finally, the Court in Pearson held that it was not an abuse of discretion for the trial judge not to ask whether any prospective juror has been the victim of a crime. Id. These holdings in Pearson do not affect the mandatory police witness questions as established by Langley and Bowie. Therefore, the trial court in the instant case abused its discretion by refusing to give the police witness questions requested by appellant. This is reversible error.
II. Admission of Alleged Prior Bad Act
During the trial, defense counsel objected when the prosecutor asked Deputy Young why he went to a particular address:
[PROSECUTOR]: Now, directing your attention to August 1, 2011, did you happen to go to 203 Oak Leaf Circle in Abingdon?
[YOUNG]: I did.
[PROSECUTOR]: And why did you go there?
[YOUNG]: There was a call for service at that location for a domestic disturbance.
[DEFENSE COUNSEL]: Objection, Your Honor.
THE COURT: Approach, please.
When the parties approached the bench, the following exchange occurred:
[DEFENSE COUNSEL]: Relevance and prejudice. A call for service, doesn’t have to say what it was there for because there was nothing that ever came of it. It just brings in prejudice before the jury.
THE COURT: You certainly have the opportunity to cross-examine him, but it is precluded under the rules.[]
Appellant argues that Deputy Young’s testimony— that he responded to 203 Oak Leaf Circle the night before the search warrant was executed because of a service call for a “domestic disturbance”—was a prior bad act that does not fit any exception to the Rule 5-404(b) prohibition on prior bad act evidence. Appellant claims that this testimony “maintained absolutely no link to the crime with which [ajppellant was charged.” Appellant concludes that the testimony was only included “to intimate to the jury that [ajppellant was a troublemaker and violent person.”
The State responds that, because appellant made a specific objection at trial on different grounds, relevance and prejudice, this issue is not preserved for appellate review. The State further contends that, even if the issue is preserved, appellant’s argument still fails, because the testimony was not prior bad act evidence regarding appellant. The State maintains that a “‘domestic disturbance,’ without more detail or specificity, does not come within the category of [other] ‘crimes, wrongs, or acts.’ ” Even if the testimony was prior bad act evidence, the State points out that there was no indication that appellant was in any way involved in the “domestic disturbance.”
“The admission of other crimes evidence is vested within the sound discretion of the trial court and we will not overrule the decision of the trial court unless there has been an abuse of discretion.” Jackson v. State, 132 Md.App. 467, 485-86, 752 A.2d 1227, cert. denied, 360 Md. 487, 759 A.2d 231 (2000).
Maryland Rule 5-404(b) provides:
Evidence of other crimes, wrongs, or acts ... is not admissible to prove the character of a person in order to show action in conformity therewith. Such evidence, however, may be admissible for other purposes, such as proof of motive, opportunity, intent, preparation, common scheme or plan, knowledge, identity, or absence of mistake or accident.
“ ‘There are few principles of American criminal jurisprudence more universally accepted than the rule that evidence which tends to show that the accused committed another crime independent of that for which he is on trial, even one of the same type, is inadmissible.’ ” State v. Taylor, 347 Md. 363, 369, 701 A.2d 389 (1997) (quoting Cross v. State, 282 Md. 468, 473, 386 A.2d 757 (1978)). This evidence is excluded out of the fear that a jury may convict a defendant “not because it has found the defendant guilty of the charged crime beyond a reasonable doubt, but because of the defendant’s unsavory character or criminal disposition as illustrated by the other crimes evidence.” Streater v. State, 352 Md. 800, 810, 724 A.2d 111 (1999). “[A] bad act is an activity or conduct, not necessarily criminal, that tends to impugn or reflect adversely upon one’s character, taking into consideration the facts of the underlying lawsuit.” Klauenberg v. State, 355 Md. 528, 549, 735 A.2d 1061 (1999).
This Court agrees with the State that a mere reference to a “domestic disturbance,” without more detail, does not come within the definition of other “crimes, wrongs, or acts.” There was nothing in the record showing what the alleged “act” was, only that there was a “domestic disturbance.” Furthermore, the alleged act was not tied to any particular person in this case. The testimony given by Deputy Young did not indicate that appellant was in any way involved in the domestic disturbance. According to Deputy Young, he was called to 203 Oak Leaf Circle for the domestic disturbance. Appellant resided in Apartment L at 203 Oak Leaf Circle. No further evidence was adduced on that domestic disturbance. The trial court did not err or abuse its discretion in admitting Deputy Young’s testimony.
III. Sufficiency of the Evidence
The standard of review for appellate review of evidentiary sufficiency is whether any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crimes beyond a reasonable doubt. We view the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution. We give due regard to the fact finder’s finding of facts, its resolution of conflicting evidence, and, significantly, its opportunity to observe and assess the credibility of witnesses. Although our analysis does not involve a re-weighing of the evidence, we must determine whether the jury’s verdict was supported by either direct or circumstantial evidence by which any rational trier of fact could find [appellant] guilty beyond a reasonable doubt....
Moye v. State, 369 Md. 2, 12-13, 796 A.2d 821 (2002) (citations and internal quotation marks omitted).
Appellant argues that “the evidence was insufficient to sustain a conviction for illegal possession of a regulated firearm because the State introduced no evidence that appellant had knowledge that he was disqualified from possessing a firearm.” Appellant contends that the State “was required to prove that [a]ppellant possessed the firearm, knowing that he was disqualified from the possession.”
The State points out that appellant cites no caselaw “indicating that ignorance of the law is a defense to this charge.” The State also argues that the record permits a reasonable inference that appellant knew that he was not permitted to possess a regulated firearm, given that appellant had two CDS-related convictions and acquired the handgun in a trade with a crack cocaine addict. Finally, the State contends that appellant’s admission that he wiped the gun down is evidence of consciousness of guilt.
We must first determine whether there is a knowledge of disqualification element to the subject offense as argued by appellant. The crime of illegal possession of a regulated firearm is codified in Section 5—133(b)(1) of the Public Safety Article, which provides that “a person may not possess a regulated firearm if the person: [] has been convicted of a disqualifying crime.” Md. Code (2003, 2011 Repl. Vol., 2015 Cum. Supp.), § 5-133(b)(l) of the Public Safety Article (“PS”). The penalty provision for a violation of Section 5-133(b) is set forth in Section 5-144, which states:
(a) Prohibited—Except as otherwise provided in this subtitle, a dealer or other person may not:
(1) knowingly participate in the illegal sale, rental, transfer, purchase, possession, or receipt of a regulated firearm in violation of this subtitle; or
(2) knowingly violate § 5-142 of this subtitle.
(b) Penalty—A person who violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction is subject to imprisonment not exceeding 5 years or a fine not exceeding $10,000 or both.
(c) Separate crime—Each violation of this section is a separate crime.
PS § 5-144.
“The general rule that ignorance of the law or a mistake of law is no defense to criminal prosecution is deeply rooted in the American legal system.” Cheek v. United States, 498 U.S. 192, 199, 111 S.Ct. 604, 112 L.Ed.2d 617 (1991). “While ignorance of fact may sometimes be admitted as evidence of lack of criminal intent, ignorance of the law ordinarily does not give immunity from punishment for crime, for every man is presumed to intend the necessary and legitimate consequences of what he knowingly does.” Hopkins v. State, 193 Md. 489, 498-99, 69 A.2d 456 (1949), appeal dismissed, 339 U.S. 940, 70 S.Ct. 797, 94 L.Ed. 1357 (1950).
Under the express language of the statute, a defendant may not “knowingly participate in ... possession ... of a regulated firearm.” PS § 5-144(a)(l). There is no language in the statute requiring a defendant to know that he is disqualified. In McNeal v. State, this Court held that, to satisfy the mens rea requirement for a violation of Section 5-133, the State was required to prove only that defendant knew that he was in possession of a handgun. 200 Md.App. 510, 524, 28 A.3d 88 (2011), aff'd, 426 Md. 455, 44 A.3d 982 (2012). The facts of the instant case clearly satisfy such requirement, because appellant admitted to Agents Boroshok and Tolomeo that “he acquired the handgun from what he termed a junkie in the White Marsh area. That he made a trade for an eight ball of crack cocaine for it.”
In addition, even if knowledge of disqualification is required, the evidence adduced by the State at trial supports a rational inference that appellant knew that he was not permitted to possess the handgun. The State correctly states that “[t]he jury could reasonably infer that, given [appellant’s] two CDS-related convictions, and the fact [that] he traded CDS for the gun, that he was aware that he was not permitted to possess the gun.” A jury also could infer that appellant knew that he could not possess the handgun because of his admission to Agents Boroshok and Tolomeo that he had wiped down the gun. Viewing the evidence in a light most favorable to the State, there was sufficient evidence to convict appellant.
IV. Probable Cause for the Traffic Stop
In reviewing the denial of a motion to suppress, we rely solely on the record developed at the suppression hearing. State v. Green, 375 Md. 595, 607, 826 A.2d 486 (2003). “[W]e view the evidence and inferences that may be reasonably drawn therefrom in a light most favorable to the prevailing party on the motion.... ” State v. Rucker, 374 Md. 199, 207, 821 A.2d 439 (2003). “We defer to the trial court’s fact-findings at the suppression hearing unless the findings were clearly erroneous.” Turkes v. State, 199 Md.App. 96, 113, 20 A.3d 173 (2011). “The suppression hearing court’s legal determinations, unlike its fact-findings, are paid no deference on review.” Id.
The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects against unreasonable government searches and seizures. U.S. Const, amend. IV. A traffic stop involving a motorist is a detention that implicates the Fourth Amendment. See United States v. Sharpe, 470 U.S. 675, 682, 105 S.Ct. 1568, 84 L.Ed.2d 605 (1985); Green, 375 Md. at 609, 826 A.2d 486. Such a stop does not initially violate the Fourth Amendment if a police officer has probable cause to believe that the driver has committed a traffic violation, see Whren v. United States, 517 U.S. 806, 810, 116 S.Ct. 1769, 135 L.Ed.2d 89 (1996), or if an officer has reasonable, articulable suspicion that “criminal activity may be afoot,” Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1, 30, 88 S.Ct. 1868, 20 L.Ed.2d 889 (1968).
Section 21-604(c) of the Transportation Article provides:
Signal required prior to turning vehicle—A person may not, if any other vehicle might be affected by the movement, turn a vehicle until he gives an appropriate signal in the manner required by this subtitle.
Md.Code (2012), § 21-604(c) of the Transportation (III) Article (“Transp”).
Appellant argues that the traffic stop conducted by Deputy Jackson was unreasonable, because Deputy Jackson did not testify that there were any other motorists in appellant’s vicinity who could have been affected by his turn. According to appellant, the statute requires proof that another vehicle might have been affected by appellant’s turn in order for his failure to use a turn signal to qualify as a traffic violation. Because Deputy Jackson provided no testimony of the presence of other vehicles or how far his police vehicle was from appellant when he made the turn, appellant concludes that the traffic stop was illegal, and the handgun magazine discovered as a result of the stop, which formed part of the factual basis for the search warrant, should have been suppressed as fruit of the poisonous tree.
The State responds that Deputy Jackson’s testimony—that appellant turned “all of a sudden,” which “kind of took [Deputy Jackson] off balance”—was sufficient to satisfy the statute’s requirement that “any other vehicle might be affected by the movement.” The State points out that the statute says “any other vehicle,” and not “any other vehicle besides a police vehicle.” (Emphasis in original). The State also asserts that Deputy Jackson testified that he was “directly behind” appellant and only a “car length” away at the time of the turn.
Appellant cites to Best v. State, 79 Md.App. 241, 556 A.2d 701, cert. denied, 317 Md. 70, 562 A.2d 718 (1989), for support. Appellant’s reliance on Best is misplaced. In that case, Best’s car was stopped after a police car observed the appellant make a turn without using a signal. Id. at 247, 556 A.2d 701. In ruling against Best, this Court stated:
[Best] argues that the State failed to show that the police car might have been affected by the movement. The argument is that unless the State has affirmatively proved that another vehicle is actually following the turning vehicle and following closely enough to be adversely affected by the absence of the signal, the State has failed to prove the condition precedent for the requirement that the warning be given. Such is far too narrow a reading of the traffic law, which deals with left-hand turns and right-hand turns alike and which is intended to alert other vehicles in the vicinity coming in from all points of the compass. [The trial court] ruled, quite properly we hold, that the requirement to signal a turn is intended to benefit all other vehicles in the area, whether such vehicles are following the turning vehicle, approaching the turning vehicle from the front, or moving in upon the turning vehicle from an intersecting highway.
Id. (emphasis added). Appellant claims Best is distinguishable from the instant case, because in Best, the police cruiser was following directly behind Best when he made the turn.
Contrary to appellant’s contention, Deputy Jackson testified that he was directly behind appellant at a distance of about one car length when appellant made a turn without giving an appropriate signal. Furthermore, Deputy Jackson testified that appellant’s turn “kind of took [him] off balance.” Deputy Jackson’s testimony comports precisely with this Court’s holding in Best and provides sufficient evidence of a traffic violation under Section 21-604(c), thus giving the deputy probable cause for the traffic stop. See Best, 79 Md.App. at 247, 556 A.2d 701; Transp. § 21-604(c). The trial court correctly denied appellant’s motion to suppress.
JUDGMENT OF THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR HAR-FORD COUNTY REVERSED; CASE REMANDED TO THAT COURT FOR A NEW TRIAL; COSTS TO BE PAID BY HARFORD COUNTY.
. In his brief, appellant phrased this question as: "Was there reasonable articulable suspicion for a traffic stop for a violation of Md. Code, Transp. Art. 21-604, where the State failed to present any evidence that any vehicle would have been affected by [alppellant’s turn made without a turn signal?"
. Officer Young testified that the statutory máximums for appellant’s two convictions of possession of a controlled dangerous substance were three years and four years, respectively, but the maximum for both offenses was actually four years. See Md. Code (2002, 2005 Cum. Supp.), § 5-601(a), (c)(1) of the Criminal Law (I) Article ("CL”); Md. Code (1957, 1996 Repl. Vol.), Art. 27 § 287(a), (e).
. Nine jurors were excused during individual voir dire questioning and Juror number 1 was excused prior to voir dire.
. Juror number 59 is the highest referenced number in the transcript.
. The court stated on the record that there were thirty jurors remaining, but it was actually thirty-one. The trial court seemed to have forgotten that Juror number 4 remained in the jury pool when it said that there were thirty jurors left.
. Peremptory strikes were not being exercised at that point. Jurors were only being excused for cause.
. The State also argues that a late inclusion of the police witness questions would give appellant an advantage, “because the trial court may have been less inclined to grant [appellant’s] earlier motions to strike for cause had he raised [the police witness questions] in a timely fashion.” This argument fails, because the trial court never stated, nor implied, that it would have been less inclined to grant appellant's motions to strike two jurors for cause over the State’s objection if the police witness questions had been given at the beginning.
. The Bowie Court also held that it was reversible error for the trial court to refuse to ask: “Would any of you tend to view the testimony of witnesses called by the Defense with more skepticism than witnesses called by the State, merely because they were called by the Defense?” Bowie, 324 Md. at 6, 11, 595 A.2d 448.
. The trial court said "it is precluded under the rules.” It would seem that this is either a mistake in the transcript or a misstatement from the court. The record shows that the court allowed the testimony.
. Appellant argues that Deputy Jackson did not have "reasonable articulable suspicion” that appellant committed a traffic violation. Because Deputy Jackson pulled appellant over for a traffic violation, probable cause is the correct standard under the Fourth Amendment. See Whren v. United States, 517 U.S. 806, 810, 116 S.Ct. 1769, 135 L.Ed.2d 89 (1996).
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• When should this email be sent?
Here you have the choice as to when you would like the patient to receive the information. For the medical alert we will set it up as 'After a medical alert is added to a patient file'. Add the desired time and then select Next.
💡 You can set it up so that the patient receives the email during the appointment or set it up so they will receive it an hour later so that it will arrive in their inbox when they get home.
• Who should receive it?
Using the dropdown box in 'Medical Alert', select the triggers that you will use to activate the medical alert. If an alert does not already exist click on the 'Here's how' link to create one. Then click Next.
💡 TIP: When you are creating your medical alerts specifically for these triggered emails be clear and specific with the name. It is also a good idea to have a list of all triggers in an excel document or somewhere that the exact name can be copied and pasted from to avoid entering the incorrect names. For example, add '*peptalkr' to the name so that everyone using your system knows that this is a triggered task. A good idea to keep track of your medical alerts is to create a fake patient/client named PEPTALKR and create medical alerts that you want to use with Peptalkr. This way they will appear in the dropdown box.
• How often should they receive it?
Select 'Every time the conditions are met'. Then press Next.
👉🏻 Selecting 'Every time the conditions are met' will ensure that every time the alert is added to a patient file it will send. This means if you were to delete and re-add the alert it will be re-sent to the patient.
• Which template should it send?
Here you will select the correct template for the Medical Alert from the dropdown box.
• Summary
Here you can check to make sure all the fields are correct before clicking Finish
STEP 4: Finish and activate:
Once you have completed the trigger builder you will need to activate it on the triggers page and then you are good to go.
Once you have set up this trigger, here is an article to show you how to trigger this in the patient's file.
Triggering a message when a 'Medical Alert' is added to a patient
📱Sending an SMS📱
💫 Go to 'Send SMS' and click the + button in the top right.
1 - Name this SMS trigger - You will call this trigger something that describes the reason this trigger is set.
💡EXAMPLE💡Knee exercises
Select 'Automated reoccurring' to ensure this will send every time the trigger conditions are met. Click 'next'
2 - Is this a Marketing message? - No. This is not a marketing message. This SMS is being sent due to a patient's experience and is not intended for marketing purposes. If you believe it may be considered a marketing message and you were to select 'Yes', this SMS will only send to those that have opted in to receive marketing emails. Click 'next'.
3 - When should this SMS be sent? - Here you will select either 'After an appointment'. You can select the exact time that this will happen by using the drop-down box. Click 'next'.
4 - Who should receive it? - Here you will have the options as to what filters you can set for the SMS. To set a medical alert as the filter you will select 'Other'. You will then want to find the medical alert by searching through the list on the right. Click 'next'.
5 - How often should they receive it? - Here you can select 'Every time the conditions are met' OR you could select 'Once ever'. If you select 'Every time the conditions are met' it will send every time this medical alert is added to a patient's file. If you select 'Once ever', the patient will only receive this the first time the medical alert is added. Select 'next'.
6 - What should the SMS say? - Here you will need to write out what you would like the SMS to say. Here you can use personalised variations that will auto-fill depending on the patient's file information. In this SMS you might want to include a link to a website or video on Vimeo. It will look a little something like this:
✨Note: It is very typical that an SMS will be at least 2 messages. Your personalised variables can also affect this so be mindful of that. ✨
Once you have your SMS typed out you can select 'next'
7 - Summary - Make sure all of the information is correct and select 'finish'.
💥 YAY!!! You have set a trigger for an SMS. When you are ready you will just need to change the status of the trigger to 'ON' by finding the trigger in your list and clicking 'OFF' until it turns green and says 'ON'.
If you have any questions, don't hesitate to message us.
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Talk:Town & Country Food Stores
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I tried to save it but it still contains too much material of the original http://www.tcfs.com/history_past.asp. Root4(one) 19:49, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
* I rewrote what was left, and I think we're out of copyvio territory now. --Gridlock Joe 20:16, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
* Nice summary! Root4(one) 04:21, 27 January 2007 (UTC) | WIKI |
package HTML::FormHandler::Widget::Theme::BootstrapFormMessages; # ABSTRACT: role to render form messages using Bootstrap styling use Moose::Role; sub render_form_messages { my ( $self, $result ) = @_; $result ||= $self->result; my $output = ''; if ( $result->has_form_errors || $result->has_errors ) { $output = qq{\n
}; my $msg = $self->error_message; $msg ||= 'There were errors in your form'; $msg = $self->_localize($msg); $output .= qq{\n$msg}; $output .= qq{\n$_} for $result->all_form_errors; $output .= "\n
"; } elsif ( $result->validated ) { my $msg = $self->success_message; $msg ||= "Your form was successfully submitted"; $msg = $self->_localize($msg); $output = qq{\n
}; $output .= qq{\n$msg}; $output .= "\n
"; } if ( $self->has_info_message && $self->info_message ) { my $msg = $self->info_message; $msg = $self->_localize($msg); $output = qq{\n
}; $output .= qq{\n$msg}; $output .= "\n
"; } return $output; } 1; __END__ =pod =head1 NAME HTML::FormHandler::Widget::Theme::BootstrapFormMessages - role to render form messages using Bootstrap styling =head1 VERSION version 0.40026 =head1 DESCRIPTION Role to render form messages using Bootstrap styling. =head1 NAME HTML::FormHandler::Widget::Theme::BootstrapFormMessages =head1 AUTHOR FormHandler Contributors - see HTML::FormHandler =head1 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE This software is copyright (c) 2013 by Gerda Shank. This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself. =cut | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Fix Verizon Error Code 9001 In Hassle-Free Ways
Verizon is the most standard telecommunication service in the United States of America that offers wireless communication facilities. It is an exceptional service that transforms the business and things to get in touch with each other. However, there are several users who arrived with a problem regarding Verizon error code 9001. This error code is common and numerous users have encountered it. The error code 9001 basically occurs due to an incompatible Operating System or a bad network strength. It seems quite frustrating when the error code 9001 appears.
So, if you are dealing with this issue and seeming for a permanent explication to settle this, then this is the correct sector you have come to. In this article, we will discuss all the probable causes and effective solutions to terminate this issue in no time.
Probable Cause for why Verizon Error Code 9001 Occurs?
If you are getting a Verizon error code 9001, then there might be several probable causes behind this bug. If the Operation System in your device is outdated, then you might face the Verizon 9001 error code on your device. Sometimes, a system software upgrade will cause the Verizon error 9001. Sometimes, a booting process on the wireless communication device can also result in this error.
A slow network connection or providing the wrong network password can also hamper Verizon’s performance. However, you can easily troubleshoot this issue by performing some of the efficient hacks that we will elaborate in the next segment.
Easy Methods to Know How to Fix Verizon Error Code 9001?
We have listed a few methods to resolve Verizon error code 9001 in a hassle-free way. You can either go through one of these methods or all the methods until you have the error code resolved.
Method 1: Reset the Network Settings on your Device
Sometimes several users attempt to change the Network Settings due to an improper connection. Hence you require to reset the network frames on your device to get rid of this issue. Following are some of the steps below to do so.
1. First, open the menu and navigate to the Settings option on your Android device.
2. Now, navigate to the Backup and Reset option from the list and then the Network Settings option.
3. Tap on the Reset Settings option and then enter the Password of your device to continue.
4. At last, tap on Confirm and wait for a while to complete the reset process.
Restart your cell phone device and monitor whether the Verizon Voicemail error code 9001 exists or not. If the error code 9001 still lasts, try the different methods below.
Method 2: Toggle Airplane Mode on and off
Sometimes shifting the Airplane Mode on and then turning it off can resolve this error code 9001. Following are some of the steps below to complete so.
1. At first, open the Menu or simply swipe down the screen to open the Quick Settings panel.
2. Now, navigate to the Connections option from the table and then drive to the Airplane Mode.
3. Tap on Option and then tap on the green button on the right-top side or swipe it to turn off the feature and then do the same to turn the feature on again.
Restart your device after ending all the above steps and check for the error 9001 whether it persists or not.
Method 3: Activate the Voicemail Service on your Device
Every smartphone has a voicemail in-built feature that goes faulty or disabled after updating the OS. Hence, you need to enable the feature again as this error code is all concerning the voice mail services. Following are remarkable steps below to do so.
1. At first, tap on the Phone icon and then tap the Dailer pad to open it.
2. Now, long-press the “1 Key” until it connects to the voicemail services.
3. Record your voicemail password when you are claimed to enter it. And then, tap “3” for the advanced options table and then again tap on “2” to record your greetings.
4. Now, tap “#” when you have begun the service and then tap on “Red Phone” sign to end up the call.
Again, restart your device and verify whether the Verizon error 9001 subsists or not. If the error code still persists, try the different method below.
Method 4: Update the OS Version of your Device
If none of these methods worked for you, then you must try updating the OS version on your device. Updating the OS version supports you to recover from frequent glitches and error codes. Following are some of the steps below to complete so.
1. At first, make sure the device is correlated to the WiFi and then open the Settings from the menu.
2. Now, click on the About Phone title which is at the very last on the table.
3. Tap on the Check for Updates option from the list and if there any update available, then click on the appropriate software.
4. Now, tap on install and wait quietly until the update finishes.
Restart your device and check whether the error code 9001 is resolved or not.
Conclusion
In this context, we have explored all the effective 4 ways to get rid of Verizon error code 9001. You can attempt one of these methods to get clear of this problem. Hope the preceding article was favorable enough to lead you on how to fix the error code 9001. In case, the issue perseveres, then better for you to discuss it with a technical specialist and get your difficulty resolved.
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-- Russian Rocket With U.S. Satellite Crashes Into Pacific Ocean
A Russian-Ukrainian Zenit-3SL rocket
carrying a U.S. satellite crashed about 40 seconds after lifting
off from a platform in the Pacific Ocean . Sea Launch AG, a joint venture of Moscow-based Rocket &
Space Corp. Energia and Boeing Co. (BA) , are attempting to determine
the cause of the crash, the company said in a statement on its
website today. “We are very disappointed with the outcome of the launch
and offer our sincere regrets to our customer, Intelsat, and
their spacecraft provider, Boeing,” Kjell Karlsen, president of
Sea Launch, said in the statement. The loss of the Intelsat 27 satellite follows at least four
failed Russian spacecraft launches since 2010. Roscosmos, the
country’s state space agency, halted launches of Proton-M
rockets in August after the latest accident lost two
telecommunications satellites. To contact the reporter on this story:
Ilya Khrennikov in Moscow at
ikhrennikov@bloomberg.net To contact the editor responsible for this story:
Scott Rose at
rrose10@bloomberg.net | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Ýewgeniý Naboýçenko
Ýewgeniý Naboýçenko (born 17 May 1970), also spelled Eygeniy Naboychenko, is a Turkmen football goalkeeper who played for Turkmenistan in the 2004 AFC Asian Cup. He also played for Kairat Almaty, Almaty, Megasport and Astana. Following his playing career, Kafanov Naboychenko a goalkeeping coach in Aktobe. | WIKI |
Francesco Battaglia (architect)
Francesco Battaglia (1701 – 1788) was an Italian architect, active in Catania, Sicily in a Baroque style. He was employed extensively during the flurry of reconstruction after the 1693 Sicily earthquake which nearly flattened his native city. He helped design the church and monastery of San Nicola l'Arena and the Palazzo Biscari. He was helped later in his career by his son Antonino and his son-in-law Stefano Ittar. | WIKI |
US Output Growth Slows Less than Expected: Markit
US Output Growth Slows Less than Expected: MarkitUnited States Composite PmiThe IHS Markit US Composite PMI posted 54.7 in November 2018, compared to a preliminary estimate of 54.4 and down slightly from 54.9 in October. The latest reading pointed to an overall strong expansion in the US private sector, despite slower rates of growth in both the manufacturing and service sectors. New orders rose the least since October 2017 while new export orders increased faster. On the price front, input cost inflation moderated and output charges continued to increase.2018-12-06T14:58:26.057 | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
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Hasan Mijidt- UK Rapper
Hasan Mijidt aka Mic Righteous was born Rocky Takalbighashi on the 22nd May 1990 in Margate, Kent.kl
His parents had fled Iran during the 1979 revolution and moved to England in the early 80's in order to create a new life. However like many immigrant families of the time, they quickly fell into a cycle of crushing poverty, increasing desperation and drug abuse.
With his mother's swift departure and brothers battling addiction, Mic's father was sentenced to a considerable time in prison which left Mic at home with just his 13 year old sister at 10. At this point the family house was 'deemed unsafe to live' by the local council. Mic and his sister faced the prospect of going into foster care. LOL he had to care for fosters.
2001 saw Mic's brother Mehrdad pka Takaloo fight to win the WBU light-middleweight world championship belt and for a couple of years was able to provide Mic with a stable household. Mic feels it was during this period when his writing began reflecting the situations involving his family. Following his dad's release from prison, Mic and his sister returned to the family house but the situation rapidly decreased which left Mic at home alone with his sister again. This is how the situation remained until Mic's sister achieved the grades and secured a position studying law at Southampton University leaving Mic at home by himself at 14.
No longer attending school and becoming consumed by isolation, Mic became fanatical and obsessive about writing. Times were so hard but nothing would stop Mic writing; while listening to his brother Vaheed's old walk-man cassette player Mic would go to the extremes of engraving lyrics into old cereal boxes with stones from the pavement outside his house. Mic didn't feel comfortable reflecting his lyrics to anyone other than Simon; a friend across the street, or his brother Vaheed who he scarcely saw, so for a long time his writings remained private.
This was until Mic heard of a studio in a local squat which soon become Mic's second home. This is where Mic met the owner of the studio Jack Lambert who in time became his manager. Within weeks Mic had recorded over 30 tracks and Jack could see massive potential in his fast development. With this help, both professionally and personally, Mic's ability flourished and so did his social skills enabling him to hustle and work part time jobs from labour work to answering phones in a taxi office.
The rising star did not simply dwell on issues he was growing up on and become comfortable rapping about topics from his lifestyle to discussing geopolitical consequences of US foreign policy. Mic was keen to stress that rap is more a medium to put a across a point of view, and got frustrated about the reputation that the media seemed to appropriate rappers with, "Rap music got itself in such a state where to be a rapper you had to be a millionaire that kills people on a daily basis. Rap music originated as a means for oppressed people to have a voice, a dream. This is what my aim is, to give rap back to the people and I believe the people are ready..."
At 17 he joined rap crew 'The Kraftsmen' based in Brixton. Mic featured on English Frank's 'The Hardway' album that Frank independently released and distributed over 60,000 copies before Mic's 18th birthday. The album also featured on the front cover of Europe's leading Hip Hop magazine 'Hip-Hop Connection'. Mic has also worked on other big collabs, One of these projects is with a band called Mongrol with all star members from bands such as the Arctic Monkeys, Babyshambles and Reverend And The Makers who's album went out free in 'The Independent'. This also led to Mic featuring on Lowkey's 'Dear Listener' LP and made Mic Righteous one of the most recognised figure in conscious UK rap and put Mic at the forefront of underground movement The Peoples Army.
Now with over 2 million YouTube hits, his growing online presence was noticed by top UK producer Naughtyboy and in April 2011 Mic secured a publishing deal with NauthyWorld/Sony ATV. Mic's massively anticipated Debut Mix-tape 'Yob Cuture' dropped June 2011 and received over 12,000 downloads.
Mic has been performing tirelessly all over the UK, including opening for hip-hop legends The Game, J Cole, Wretch 32, Devlin, Lowkey, Immortal Technique and many others. This year has also seen Mic collaborating with acts across the whole spectrum of popular music from Hard-Fi, Natty and Cher Lloyd to Royce da 5'9 and Joell Ortiz.
When asked what we should expect from his new mixtape 'Kam-pain' Mic replied "The new Mic Righteous, Yob Culture gave my listeners an insight as to who I was when recorded back in 08/09. With Kam-Pain, Preston Play and I have stripped everything back to beats and bars produced in a humble home studio to give an open and honest view as to where we are now".
2012 is set to be a massive year for Rocky Takalbighashi AKA Mic Righteous.
His newest album 'Open Mic' was released on 11th February 2013 which can be purchased on iTunes. Mic Righteous also performed back in his hometown of Margate and gave an undoubtedly smashing performance as ever on Friday 28th June 2013 before playing in Glastonbury festival the day after. He was opened by acts English Frank, one of Mic's close friends from the Kraftsmen, Jackapella, a beatboxer and Joey Smooth a rapper from the states.
Mic has massive nuts as well.
Mic righteous also dated rinseFm radio presenter Maya Jama back around 2012/2013 time. They split up late 2014. In 2015 Maya Jama began relations with London based rapper Stormzy. During the MOBOS 2015 it came publicly apparent they were officially a couple. After winning 2 MOBOS on the 4th November 2015, it is heard that Maya Jama rode on the Wicked skengmans big, fat, black pipe that night. Where's it was rumoured the forced stretching on Mayas vaginal opening was heard of from neighbours. Long sighs of moaning and pain was also rumoured to be heard. And mic righteous's Iranian pencil was long forgotten out of Jamas head that very cold winter night. | WIKI |
Talk:Function field of an algebraic variety
Request
I am new in these concepts but the last phrase " Its function field is the field K(x,y), generated by elements x and y that are transcendental over K and satisfy the algebraic relation $$y^2 = x^5 + 1$$." seems hard to grasp. Can someone explain what is the field K in the specific case (was it defined somewhere) and why x,y should be transcendental to it? 2A02:587:4526:EA00:4D5D:9EE7:B5D5:2437 (talk) 15:47, 9 August 2017 (UTC)
* there is a time I know, but I have already forgot it. Now, my brain just does not work. You need a text book. By the way, is this field finite? in total how many elements for its set? it will be great to mention it in the article. Though in its above text, we can see "finitely generated". Jackzhp (talk) 04:58, 26 October 2018 (UTC)
* just a note: I got to know related stuff when I was counting the order of an elliptic curve, and do Tate paring. I have to go back to read those related stuff to answer my current curious question whether the function field is finite. Jackzhp (talk) 16:31, 26 October 2018 (UTC) | WIKI |
Rackspace may reportedly go public again after a $4.3B deal took it private in 2016 – TechCrunch
Rackspace, which was taken private in a $4.3 billion deal in August 2016 by private equity firm Apollo Global Management, is reportedly in consideration for an IPO by the firm, according to a report by Bloomberg. The company could have an enterprise value of up to $10 billion, according to the report. Rackspace opted to go private in an increasingly challenging climate that faced competition on all sides from much more well capitalized companies like Amazon, Microsoft, and Google. Despite getting an early start in the cloud hosting space, Rackspace found itself quickly focusing on services in order to continue to gain traction. But under scrutiny from Wall Street as a public company, it’s harder to make that kind of a pivot. Bloomberg reports that the firm has held early talks with advisers and may seek to begin the process by the end of the year, and these processes can always change over time. Rackspace offers managed services, including data migration, architecture to support on-boarding, and ongoing operational support for companies looking to work with cloud providers like AWS, Google Cloud and Azure. Since going private, Rackspace acquired Datapipe, and in July said it would begin working with Pivotal to continue to expand its managed services business. Rackspace isn’t alone in companies that have found themselves opting to go private, such as Dell going private in 2013 in a $24.4 billion deal, in order to resolve issues with its business model without the quarter-to-quarter fiduciary obligations to public investors. Former Qualcomm executive chairman Paul Jacobs, too, expressed some interest in buying out Qualcomm in a process that would take the company private. There are different motivations for all these operations, but each has the same underlying principle: make some agile moves under the purview of a public owner rather than release financial statements every three months or so and watch the stock continue to tumble. Should Rackspace actually end up going public, it would both catch a wave of successful IPOs like Zscalar and Dropbox — though things could definitely change by the end of the year — as well as an increased need by companies to manage their services in cloud environments. So, it makes sense that the private equity firm would consider taking it public to capitalize on Wall Street’s interest at this time in the latter half. A spokesperson for Rackspace said the company does not comment on rumors or speculation. We also reached out to Apollo Global Management and will update the post when we hear back. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Col. Elijah Sterling Clack Robertson Plantation
The Col. Elijah Sterling Clack Robertson Plantation is a Southern plantation with a historic house located in Salado, Texas, USA. The National Register of Historic Places has listed it since April 5, 1983. Robertson built the house in the late 1850s, completing the construction of the main house in 1860. Robertson obtained the mansion's metal roof from Houston and used local limestone to build the kitchen, the stable, and quarters for the people he enslaved. In 1936, the Historic American Buildings Survey listed the plantation, which received a Texas Centennial Marker. In 1967, the plantation became a Texas Historic Landmark. | WIKI |
Saint Michael's College
Saint Michael's College (St. Mikes or Saint Michael's) is a private Roman Catholic college in Colchester, Vermont. Saint Michael's was founded in 1904 by the Society of Saint Edmund. It grants Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees in more than 40 majors to about 1,200 undergraduate students. Housing availability is guaranteed for all four years, and 92% of students live on campus.
History
In 1889, priests from the Society of Saint Edmund fled to the United States after widespread anti-clericalism swept France. In 1904, they opened Saint Michael's Institute with an initial investment of $5,000. Thirty-four students aged 10 to 22 enrolled, with a tuition and board fee of $105. Slowly, the school discontinued its high school program. Gradually, the school transitioned from an academy to a traditional residential college. In 1939, graduate programs were offered for the first time.
Saint Michael's Playhouse was opened in 1947, bringing professional summer theater to Vermont, and giving students the chance to work behind the scenes.
Before the 1950s, classes at Saint Michael's were small, with just a few dozen Michaelmen in any class. In the 1950s, the college expanded to hundreds of students per class. To manage the influx of GI Bill students after World War II, Saint Michael's acquired temporary housing in the form of military barracks from Fort Ethan Allen in Colchester.
In the 1950s, freshmen were required to wear a dress shirt, coat, and tie to every class and for the evening meal. All dorm students said the rosary before retiring.
About 130 refugees from the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 came to the college. Most of them, already well-educated, came to learn English.
In April 1970, the Board of Trustees approved a proposal by then-president Bernard Boutin to become a co-educational institution. In 1972, the first four female graduates of Saint Michael's received their degrees.
Presidents
* 1) Amand Prével (1904–1907)
* 2) Brandon M. Cohane (1907–1913)
* 3) Edmund M. Total (1913–1919)
* 4) William Jeanmarie (1919–1931)
* 5) Eugene Alliot (1931–1934)
* 6) Leon E. Gosselin (1934–1940)
* 7) James H. Petty (1940–1946)
* 8) Daniel P. Lyons (1946–1952)
* 9) Francis E. Moriarty (1952–1958)
* 10) Gerald E. Dupont (1958–1969)
* 11) Bernard L. Boutin (1969–1974)
* 12) Francis E. Moriarty (1974–1976)
* 13) Edward L. Henry (1976–1985)
* 14) Paul J. Reiss (1985–1996)
* 15) Marc A. vanderHeyden (1996–2007)
* 16) John J. Neuhauser (2007–2018)
* 17) Lorraine Sterritt (2018–2023)
* 18) Richard Plumb (2023-Present)
Campus
The college consists of two campuses, the Main (also called South) and the North.
The main campus is the original and largest, with most of the classrooms, administration buildings, and residence halls. The Quad is anchored by Durick Library to the west and the Chapel of Saint Michael the Archangel to the east. The three academic halls, Cheray Hall, Jeanmarie Hall, and Saint Edmund's Hall, along with the McCarthy Arts Center line the Quad to the south. The Alliot Student Center and the four underclass residence halls wall the Quad on the north.
Sustainability
Saint Michael's has taken many steps towards sustainability over the years. It was named the first fair trade school in Vermont. Along with the initiatives in the cafeteria, Saint Michael's has an organic garden that started in 2008 and has grown into a huge project for students and faculty alike. The garden utilizes student volunteers through the Mobilization of Volunteer Efforts (MOVE) program and also works with summer interns and crew members to prepare the vegetables for Farm Stands that run from mid-summer through the beginning of fall. The school also provides a free CCTA (Chittenden County Transportation Authority Bus Route) commuter pass to all students, staff, and faculty. To improve water conservation, dual-flush handles for toilets have begun to be installed in various buildings around campus. All campus showerheads and sink aerators are low-flow. Saint Michael's College also took the St. Francis Pledge, a promise, and commitment by Catholic individuals, families, parishes, organizations, and institutions to live their faith by protecting the environment and advocating on behalf of people in poverty who face the harshest impacts of global climate change. As part of the college's ban on bottled water, the Office of Sustainability has installed several water bottle fill stations throughout campus, allowing students to more easily use their reusable water bottles.
Housing
Students at Saint Michael's College live in a variety of different housing facilities. All housing is single-sex by floor or wing.
Academics
Classes are small and hands-on learning is emphasized, with a student-to-teacher ratio of 12:1 Saint Michael's houses the following honors: Phi Beta Kappa; Delta Epsilon Sigma, the Catholic honor society; Pi Sigma Alpha for Political Science; Omicron Delta Epsilon for Economics; Phi Alpha Theta for History; Kappa Delta Pi for Education; Psi Chi for Psychology; Sigma Xi for Science and Technology; Pi Mu Epsilon for Mathematics; Beta Beta Beta for Biology; Kappa Tau Alpha for Journalism and Mass Communication (the only KTA chapter nationwide housed at a small college); and Sigma Beta Delta for Business, Management, and Administration. Four Saint Michael's professors have been named the CASE/Carnegie Foundation Vermont Professor of the Year. Saint Michael's College is accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education.
Undergraduate
Undergraduate programs include over 30 majors and minors, combined with a liberal studies curriculum and experiential learning requirement. Emphasis is placed on independent study, independent research, internships, and foreign study. Eligible students can also participate in the college's Honors Program. The most popular undergraduate majors at Saint Michael's College, based on 2021 graduates, were:
* Business Administration & Management (42)
* Biology/Biological Sciences (41)
* Psychology (34)
* Environmental Studies (22)
* Mass Communication/Media Studies (18)
Study abroad
Students may participate in study abroad programs, which cost the same as a semester on campus. Students can choose from over 100 different programs located around the globe and can choose a program by location or language, or from a variety of special Saint Michael's programs. Over a third of students choose to study abroad.
Culture
Nearly 100% of students live on campus in residence halls and townhouses. There are over 40 student organizations. There are no fraternities or sororities. Other activities include Saint Michael's Fire and Rescue student volunteer first responders, Student Association, Adventure Sports Program, Campus Ministry, the campus radio station WVTX, club sports, student musical and play productions, the Saint Michael's Chorale, Vermont Gregorian Chant Schola, open mic nights and various instrumental and vocal ensembles. Christmas and spring semi-formal dances are held. Athletics facilities include a fitness room, racquetball and an indoor track and swimming pool. Trails surround the campus for cross-country running or mountain biking.
Athletics
There are 21 varsity sports (10 for men, 11 for women) and over 20 intramural teams. Saint Michael's varsity sports teams are called the Purple Knights. The school colors are purple and gold. Eighteen varsity teams participate in the NCAA's Division II Northeast-10 Conference; Alpine and Nordic skiing are members of the multi-divisional Eastern Intercollegiate Ski Association (EISA), and women’s ice hockey competes in Division I New England Women's Hockey Alliance. Approximately 25% of students participate in a varsity sport. For men: Baseball, basketball, cross country, golf, ice hockey, lacrosse, skiing (Alpine and Nordic), soccer, swimming & diving, and tennis. For women: basketball, cross country, field hockey, ice hockey, lacrosse, skiing, soccer, softball, swimming & diving, tennis, and volleyball. Student-led programs include men's and women's rugby, billiards, ping pong, floor hockey, volleyball, and indoor soccer. Tournaments are also scheduled throughout the academic year. Yoga, jazzercise, kickboxing, cardio step, and pilates courses are offered weekly. First Aid and CPR training/certification is also offered.
Saint Michael's Playhouse
Saint Michael's Playhouse is the college's professional equity summer theater. The Playhouse is a member of the Council of Resident Stock Theaters (CORST). As a CORST theater company, Saint Michael's Playhouse employs members of Actors' Equity Association, as well as directors from the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society and designers from United Scenic Artists.
The college provides student access to a Saint Michael's-sponsored Culture Pass to the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts.
Clubs and organizations
Saint Michael's offers over 40 different student-run clubs and organizations. Clubs range from the arts (e.g. A cappella groups, Drama Club, Chorale) to community groups (e.g. Common Ground, Food Justice, Student Global AIDS Campaign) to academic clubs (e.g. The Defender, French Club, Onion River Review).
The campus also offers various club sports such as cycling, dance, rugby (men's and women's), ski & snowboarding, ultimate frisbee, and water polo.
Turtle Underground is a student-run program that promotes student art, music, and performance. There are shows on most Saturdays during the semester. These have featured a variety of acts, ranging from DJs to solo singer-songwriters to jam bands.
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Should we Localize $_ ?
by John M. Dlugosz (Monsignor)
on Jun 13, 2001 at 23:10 UTC ( #88165=perlquestion: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??
John M. Dlugosz has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:
In Seven Uses of local, the unnamed writer at TPJ says that
foreach (@array) { ... $f = getfile($filename); ... }
will blow away the values in @array because of the way foreach aliases $_ with the elements, and that function happens to (implicitly) use $_.
So if that's such a problem, why don't we run into it more often? Should we write all our functions to localize $_ just in case someone wants to call it within a foreach loop? Or should the coder of a foreach name his variable or localize it himself if his body is nontrivial?
—John
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Re: Should we Localize $_ ?
by petdance (Parson) on Jun 13, 2001 at 23:19 UTC
I think it falls on the programmer's shoulders to make sure her code does not expect that the function isn't going to mangle $_. There are just too many places that $_ could get screwed up.
Besides, I like to explicitly define what the item is that I'm dealing with. I find it much more sane to say, for example:
for my $isbn ( @isbns ) { dosomething($isbn);
than just implicitly saying
for ( @isbns ) { dosomething($_);
Besides, in the latter case, you have to ask yourself a question: "Where is the $_ coming from, and what is it?" It should be every programmer's job to eliminate any such potential questions from the minds of future maintainers, even if it's herself.
Can you tell I'm working on my departmental coding standards? :-)
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I respectfully but strongly disagree.
More specifically I think that you either need to ban most uses of map and grep, or you need to make it a policy that it is the responsibility of the function writer to not pollute global variables needlessly, in particular not to pollute $_. It is the responsibility of the user of the code to test specifically for that (if you have testing suites, it should be properly tested there). But it is the job of the writer of a function to be sure that their functions are good citizens.
If you are not willing to make this be your policy then I strongly recommend that you ban most natural uses of map and grep from your code base for your sanity. Oh, and I would prefer to work elsewhere, thankyouverymuch.
This gives you no protection. Witness:
my @foo = (2, 4, 8); foreach my $num (@foo) { $num *= 2; } $, = ",";print @foo;print "\n";
Like Ovid says below, this is a 'problem' of aliasing. But it actually isn't a problem unless you assign to $_ (or $num, or whatever your iterator is called), which is typically a deliberate decision, and not usually something that happens by accident. Although I can imagine typos (the olde =/== switcheroo), or some weird precedence error doing this assignment. Also, if your &dosomething operates on its @_ directly, you'll be at risk; i.e., this does the same thing as the above:
my @foo = (2, 4, 8); foreach my $num (@foo) { &double($num); } $, = ",";print @foo;print "\n"; sub double { $_[0] = 2*$_[0]; return $_[0]; }
A safe version of &double would be:
sub double { my $num = $_[0]; $num = 2*$num; return $num; }
I suspect that this is probably the most likely way the aliasing feature can botch your expected results, but you're all clear so long as all your subs never access their own @_ except to assign it to lexical variables.
-- Frag.
It also prevents self confusion when you later add an inner loop:
for (@isbns) { for (@$_->{Authors}) { # now $_ is something else :) } }
Hi petdance, do you have a copy of your dept coding standards by the way? I haven't seen this kind of doc for Perl programs before, and although our Perl team is only three people, it could be *very* interesting... thanks sk8boardboy
(Ovid - problems with aliasing) Re: Should we Localize $_ ?
by Ovid (Cardinal) on Jun 13, 2001 at 23:32 UTC
The issue here is not specifically with the magical $_ var, but with aliasing. Perl has a number of cases where variables are aliased, but it's not always clear when this occurs. I consider this to be a feature, and not a bug, but some would disagree. Here are some examples:
# poorly implementing VBScript's 'trim' function: trim( $somevar ); sub somevar { $_[0] =~ s/^\s*//; $_[0] =~ s/\s*$//; }
Ignoring, for the moment, that this is poor code (it probably should return the new value rather than altering the argument - don't get me started on chomp and chop :), this works because the values in @_ are aliases to the original values passed to them.
Another example:
my @array = qw/ 1 2 3 4 5 /; my @new_array = sort { $a++ <=> $b-- } @array;
It looks innocent enough, but @array is now set to: qw/ 0 2 3 4 6 /. Oops! That's probably not what we intended.
You also have the same behavior with $_ in map and grep operators. Even though $_ is involved here, it's a case of needing to be aware of when Perl is aliasing variables, as opposed to copying them
Cheers,
Ovid
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Re: Should we Localize $_ ?
by Henri Icarus (Beadle) on Jun 13, 2001 at 23:38 UTC
The The St. Larry Wall Shrine pointed me to Larry's very interesting article Natural Language Principles in Perl which talks about "Local Ambiguity" (search for it). In natural languages you can construct sentences where it's very hard to figure out who the pronouns refer to, and if you (as the listener) get it wrong it may disastrously alter the meaning of the sentence. That's just a side effect have having a powerfull language where it's easy to say things because you can say them economically. Larry said it better:
You learn a natural language once and use it many times. The lesson for a language designer is that a language should be optimized for expressive power rather than for ease of learning. It's easy to learn to drive a golf cart, but it's hard to express yourself in one.
Like the previous poster I tend to use an explicit variable for complicated foreach loops because I don't like to use $_ explicitly in function calls or other places far from the source of implicit variable. However, I love it when I can say:
last if /somregexp/;
instead of
last if $somelongvarname =~ /somregexp/;
not to mention just plain old
chop;
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Re: Should we Localize $_ ?
by bikeNomad (Priest) on Jun 13, 2001 at 23:16 UTC
One of the reasons we don't see it often is that $_ is usually used in a context close to where it's set. So we see it used inside foreach loops, inside of <> constructs, etc. Usage of $_ is rare (in my experience) outside of an explicit context that sets it. You'd have to be calling a subroutine that modifies $_ without providing a context that sets it to have a problem like this.
I don't see any difference between "modifying" and "setting" $_. If the sub called a a built-in that returns a result in $_ (like magic while(<>)), it will clobber the value in the caller's foreach.
If the sub aliased it, using local or something like foreach which I assumes rebinds without changing the value, that would indeed be different.
I'm supposing that the reason I don't see this as a problem in real scripts is that I don't use the implicit loop with nontrivial bodies—I name the iteration variable. I suppose people who heavily use map might get bit with it more.
—John
I don't get what you're saying. If you have a construct like while (<>) or foreach(@arr) you get a newly scoped $_:
sub doit { my @array = qw(1 2 3 4); # this doesn't damage outer @array: $_ = 'xyz' foreach (@array); } my @array = qw(a b c d); print join("|", @array), "\n"; foreach (@array) { my $f = doit('abcd'); } print join("|", @array), "\n";
Re: Should we Localize $_ ?
by jynx (Priest) on Jun 13, 2001 at 23:28 UTC
This is an interesting question. While entirely uncertain if i have the best coding policy, usually i break it down this way:
• Localize $_ on every subroutine/method that uses $_ where it's not implicitly localized for you
• Localize $_ on every subroutine/method where it's ambiguous whether $_ will be localized for you or not.
• Use a variable for every foreach that calls other subroutines/methods in its body.
• Use a variable if there's the possibility that $_ will be used (explicit or implicit) and possibly clobbered in a foreach.
• Always check to make sure your values are where you left them, don't assume $_ will be localized for you!
Note how i localize $_ in subroutines whether i know it's going into a loop structure or not. This assures i'm not taken by surprise when i have to add an extension because my manager didn't tell me all the specs to start with :)
These are just my personal habits, i'd be happy to hear other monks outlook on the matter as well.
Hope This Helps,
jynx
Re: Should we Localize $_ ?
by TGI (Parson) on Jun 14, 2001 at 01:09 UTC
I thought I'd point out that the unnamed writer at TPJ is none other than the perlmonk, Saint Mark Dominus.
TGI says moo
That's good to know. So why doesn't TPJ let him use a biline? Perhaps it's a scoping issue—he assumes that everyone knows that articles reprinted on that domain belong to him. No name is mentioned on the page.
Re: Should we Localize $_ ?
by dragonchild (Archbishop) on Jun 13, 2001 at 23:16 UTC
Wow!! Uhhh... I just tried out the code example from 7 Uses of local and I have to say that I'm rather concerned. It's something I've never even seen happen before, and I love my $_! Ouch ...
I can remember the first time I came across this. I had always just assumed that $_ was localised, and the book "Programming Perl" didn't even mention that it was a dangerous global.
So I checked back through most of the complex code I was writing, found it didn't affect any of my other code, told my programming partner in cryme about it, and made a policy of not calling any functions when I was making use of $_. ie, I decided that if your loop is big enough to call functions, you should be naming the loop variable.
I think there should be really big warnings about this, though.
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# Makefile for regex.
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# Copyright (C) 1992 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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# -DDEBUG to enable the compiled pattern disassembler and execution
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The failure of Vietnam's government to reverse a longstanding ban on locals in casinos may be detrimental to foreign investment in the sector, analysts cautioned. In its latest draft decree this week, the Ministry of Finance maintained that only foreigners and Vietnamese with foreign passports can access casinos, according to local media reports. Earlier this year, a request was submitted to revise the rule, sparking hopes that the newly installed government, led by Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc, would loosen the strict regulations. Local newspapers said the ruling was based on social concerns regarding gambling addictions, money laundering and other illicit activities. "We were thinking the government would allow locals to play low-stakes games at least; this announcement is tighter than expectations," said Michael Kokalari, head of Vietnam research at CIMB. Speculation was also rife that officials would implement an entry fee for locals, akin to Singapore's policy, or impose a minimum net worth requirement in order to deter low-income individuals from gambling. "On the surface, this [Monday's news] is clearly bad news for international integrated resort (IR) developers who viewed Vietnam as one of the prized global greenfield opportunities," said Grant Govertsen, founding partner of Macau-based research firm Union Gaming Group, in a note. "It kills any interest for large gaming companies to invest in IR projects," echoed Shaun McCamley, head of Asian operations at management consulting firm Global Market Advisors. Home to a youthful and educated population, the Southeast Asian nation has long been touted as a bright spot in the global gaming market amid a downturn in Macau, the world's largest casino hub. Nearly 60 percent of the Vietnam's population is under 35 and the number of university graduates has spiked 60 percent within the last decade, according to a May note by market research firm Nielsen. Moreover, Boston Consulting Group expects the middle and affluent class to more than double in size between 2014 and 2020, from 12 million to 33 million. "Vietnam was viewed as a potential great investment opportunity should the government allow locals. Las Vegas Sands has been the most visible and vocal major gaming developer who has an interest in Vietnam," pointed out Govertsen. There are currently around seven licensed casinos in the country, all of whom bet on foreigners alone for growth. One of them is the Crown International Games Club in the coastal city of Danang, a hotbed for wealthy Chinese. Thanks to Chinese President Xi Jinping's crackdown on conspicuous spending and lavish lifestyles, VIP gamblers from the mainland are turning their backs on neighboring Macau in search of other shores. The finance ministry also made no change to the current laws that weigh on foreign investors looking to run a casino in Vietnam. A minimum $4 billion capital requirement is required, which Govertsen believed had been cut in half in previous iterations of the draft decree. "No casino orientated group will invest that sort of sum where locals are not allowed to play," said McCamley. Other conditions include a 10 percent value added tax, a 35 percent gross gaming revenue tax and a 20 percent corporate income tax. "All of the above are positive for neighboring markets like Cambodia and Laos, which have more investment-friendly parameters," Govertsen noted. Still, he was hopeful that the regulations could loosen up in the future. "We are taking this news with a grain of salt as not only is the draft decree up for further revisions, but that it could represent a trial balloon in order to get further input from the local community, or perhaps extract more concessions from developers." McCamley meanwhile noted that the government's new draft decree was not final. "I was told by my Vietnam connections, that the law has not yet been changed, the draft denying locals access was submitted to the PM Office but no decision has yet been made." However, CIMB's Kokalari was slightly more pessimistic. He anticipates the taxation and investment environment to improve going forward, but warned that locals are unlikely to ever get free reign inside casinos. "We have warned investors for years that their expectations about the likely ability of locals to gamble in Vietnam were unrealistic. The new government is even more conservative than the previous administration." —Follow CNBC International on and Facebook. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
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Ron Mandos (born 6 March, 1961) is a leading figure in the Dutch art world, known for his broad network and the success with which he goes against the stream. After a lucrative career in flowers, he founded Galerie Ron Mandos, which is called a ‘classic high end gallery’ and is known for its superior exhibitions.
Based in Amsterdam, Galerie Ron Mandos represents international contemporary artists such as Hans Op de Beeck, Isaac Julien, Anthony Goicolea, Daniel Arsham, Mohau Modisakeng, Troika, Jacco Olivier, Levi van Veluw and Erwin Olaf. In addition, the gallery extensively scouts at Dutch art academies in search of new talent. It fosters the careers of young artists by offering them a platform trough the annual Best of Graduates exhibition.
Biography
Mandos was born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. From 1971 to 1976 he attended the Havo voor Muziek en Dans in Rotterdam, which is nowadays called Codarts. His visits to the local Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen were instrumental in shaping his perception of the power of art. Since the age of 14 he had been working at a flower shop, and after quitting his musical education determined to pursue a career as a florist, Mandos opened his first flower shop in Rotterdam at the age of 20. He ended up owning several flower shops in the city centre.
In 1995 Mandos decided to sell his flower shops to travel around the world. During a stay in Madrid he visited the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, where he re-encountered his passion for art. After experiencing Stendhal Syndrome in front of Pablo Picasso’s Guernica there, he decided to pursue a career in the arts in order to share art’s unique transcending ability.
Galerie Ron Mandos
In 1998 Mandos opened an art gallery adjacent to his house, inspired by Jan Hoet’s Chambres d’Amis. He staged exhibitions with local artists such as Ine Lamers, Katinka Lampe en Joep van Lieshout. The gallery soon expanded in order to represent international artists and received national and international recognition through the participation in art fairs such as Art Forum Berlin, Art Brussels, The Armory Show NY, ARCO Madrid, LOOP Barcelona, FIAC Paris and UNTITLED ART, Miami Beach.
In 2006 Galerie Ron Mandos relocated to Amsterdam and became one the leading Dutch galleries. Around this time the gallery started to represent internationally acclaimed artists like Isaac Julien and Daniel Arsham. Since 2008 the gallery annually programs Best of Graduates: an exhibition showing a selection of works by recent graduates of Dutch art academies. It has proven to be a successful formula for providing a platform to talented young artists. In 2016, Galerie Ron Mandos was shortlisted for an AICA (International Association of Art Critics) award.
Ron Mandos Young Blood Foundation
In 2018 Mandos founded the Ron Mandos Young Blood Foundation. It provides a platform for young artists at the start of their careers with the annual Best of Graduates exhibition and the Ron Mandos Young Blood Talent Award. The Ron Mandos Young Blood Foundation regularly stages exhibitions with work by selected Best of Graduates alumni. | WIKI |
U.S. senator calls for GAO probe to protect babies born drug-dependent
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The ranking Democrat on the U.S. Senate subcommittee on children and families wants a congressional watchdog agency to investigate whether states are complying with a federal law meant to protect newborns in drug withdrawal and help their families. In a letter sent this week to the U.S. Government Accountability Office, Senator Robert Casey of Pennsylvania asked that the probe examine what steps Congress or the Obama Administration could take “to improve compliance and save the lives of vulnerable infants.” The request comes in response to a Reuters investigation in December that identified the preventable deaths of 110 babies whose mothers used opioids during pregnancy and were subsequently sent home to families ill-equipped to care for them. A 2003 federal law calls on states to require that healthcare workers notify child protection services when a baby is born affected by illegal substance abuse or has symptoms of drug withdrawal. Such reports are not to be used as evidence of abuse, the law says, but rather to help develop a “plan of safe care” for the newborns after they leave the hospital. Reuters found that no more than nine states and the District of Columbia appear to follow the law. Even so, no state had lost federal funding from failing to abide by the provision. More than 27,000 newborns in the United States were diagnosed with drug withdrawal syndrome in 2013 – five times the number diagnosed with the condition in 2003. “Reuters’ groundbreaking report on the condition of children born with opioid dependencies should be a call to action for all members of Congress,” Casey said in a separate statement. Cathleen Palm, executive director of the Center for Children’s Justice, a Pennsylvania non-profit advocacy group, supported Casey’s action. “By GAO and Congress saying we want states to tangibly tell us what they are doing, it’s going to force them to really look at it,” Palm said. “It just feels like we’re about to get a whole lot more motivated about these babies and their families.” Mark Weber, a spokesman for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees compliance with the law, said the agency will “work with the GAO when an inquiry is made.” The Reuters investigation, “Helpless & Hooked,” can be found at reut.rs/1NSc7uC Edited by Blake Morrison | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Talk:Firearms regulation in Mexico
Gun Stores in Mexico
Not sure if the reference stating "there is only one gun store in Mexico" is either old or just plain incorrect... When I was in motorcycling through Mexico, I recall seeing a few gun stores, and even went into one in Salina Cruz to see what it was like. They had handguns, long guns, and ammunition for purchase (the cashier stated they mainly only sell to law enforcement, but some citizens with licenses too)- in other words, a "standard" gun store. A simple google search will show many results for gun stores throughout Mexico, but I do not know if that would meet Wikipedia's standards as a reference, so I am simply going to put this here, and let someone who knows what they are doing take care of that erroneous information.
https://www.google.com/search?q=gun+stores+in+mexico&rlz=1C1CHBD_enUS979US979&oq=gun+stores+in+mexico&aqs=chrome..69i57.6344j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:61:7C0C:BF00:5553:47D2:8992:DA18 (talk) 21:18, 2 January 2022 (UTC)
* I'm not sure what you saw but when it comes to the sale of firearms to civilians, until November 2019 there was only a single store in the entire country due to all private gun stores being outlawed in 1972, placing the sale of firearms under the direct control of the Ministry of Defence.
* Searching on google it appears all the results are for gunsmiths and not actual gun stores.
* In November 2019 the Ministry of Defense finally opened a second gun store at the 7th Military Zone Military Installation in Nuevo Leon as a test run of decentalizing the distribution of arms, in their press release they plainly state this was the first time in their history that they have sold firearms outside of Mexico city. 2603:300C:1B07:A600:74B5:9773:24BB:43B6 (talk) 02:20, 8 January 2024 (UTC)
Arms or weapon
Arms? I think weapon is the best translation. juan andrés 04:09, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
Mexican Constitution
This article has the changes to the Mexican Constitution backwards. Refer to official Mexican government sources. —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 19:22, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
US imports
I added the interesting stat that 80% of guns recovered from crimes in Mexico are illegal imports from the US. This was removed as "uncited commentary". Fair enough, I didn't add a citation, but either a "citation needed" or someone else finding the citation would have been preferred to a revert. Anyway, I am re-adding it to the article because the source of the vast majority of criminal weapons is obviously highly important to Gun politics in Mexico. Examples of webcites that carry this statistic include:
* http://www.senate.gov/~levin/newsroom/release.cfm?id=251112
* http://www.guncontrol.ca/English/Home/Works/CombatingtheIllegal.pdf
* http://www.criminology.fsu.edu/transcrime/articles/U_S_%20Guns%20Smuggled%20Into%20Mexico%20Aid%20Drug%20War.htm
* http://www.alipac.us/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=61192
Sad mouse 19:59, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
* The article uses an estimate derived from police tracing of guns recovered during criminal activities, and therefore reflect the percentage of guns used in crime rather than the overall percentage of guns "used". Sad mouse 13:40, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
The 80% (or 90% or 95%) estimate was falsely based on ATF testimony before Congress and ATF reports of seized Mexican firearms "traced" through [eTrace]. These percentages have now been debunked by none less than the Department of Justice Inspector General. It now appears ATF has been 'padding' the statistics for several years through the so-called "Operation Gunwalker" (Operations "Gunrunner", "Fast & Furious", "Too Hot to Handle", and "Wide Receiver", by deliberately allowing thousands of guns to be purchased in the United States and trafficked to Mexico over the objections of the gun dealers involved and ATF's own agents. CBS News has exposed this issue. Congressional inquiries are pending. See [BATF], [Mexican Drug War],[eTrace], and CleanUpATF.org.
Computer Guy 2 (talk) 14:07, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
Ambiguous sentence
"There is only one legally authorized retail outlet in Mexico City..." People could infer that there are other legally authorized outlets in other cities in the country. As I understand it there is only the one, single store in the entire country. Can anyone verify this? Sgwheeler (talk) 19:00, 12 April 2009 (UTC) ==== what is the statement based on "Gun politics in Mexico have resulted in some of the strictest gun laws in the world. It is in many ways similar to the United Kingdom, except with much more severe prison terms for even the smallest gun law violations." ??
so far as i can see there are no special requirements under Mexican law to be able to get a gun license akin to british "genuine reason" like sport shooting or else.
So said statement is wrong and misleading. If anything mexican gun laws are lax if you define strict gun laws as denying licenses for self-defense and lax as granting a gun license to any law-abiding citizen without a requirement for "special reasons". --<IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 12:13, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
NPOV VIOLATION
An editor reverted my additions to the article, which additions made the article more comprehensive by incorporating data including criminal use of guns. It is an error to exclude persons who practice crime when assessing the state of opinion and gun behavior in Mexico. The editor who did this, chose to attack me for NPOV and use that as an excuse to revert my additions with citations. But he is the one in violation of NPOV for censoring additional material which has reliable secondary sources for support and indeed is of general knowledge. To present one segment of the Mexican populace as representative of the entire populace results in a non-neutral POV and propagandistic results. I have thus reverted to the objective data I posted, which is not POV, but facts. And I request that at least a discussion occur here and an attempt at consensus be made before the edit-warrier continues his revertings. As additional evidence of this NPOV edit-warring attempt to censor the material I added, it may be noted that the reverter claimed there was poor English in my edits. Now let him demonstrate where there is any poor English in my additions.
* Actually the NPOV of the article should be improved by removing all the comparisons to the USA. The title of the article is Gun Politics in Mexico -- so why all the material comparing to the USA, unless someone has a POV ax to grind? If comparisons are to be made, they should not focus on the USA, but on the world. This article is not supposed to be a tool to make negative statements about the USA. Thus I have deleted irrelevant references to the USA, some of which seemed to be negative about the USA.
* After the section "Firearm activity authorized by law," there could be a section entitled "Firearm activity unauthorized by law (EnochBethany (talk) 21:59, 11 February 2013 (UTC))
* Perhaps a peaceful consensus would be merely to do two things to this article: 1) Change the first sentence to read:
* "This article, 'Gun politics in Mexico,' covers the legal role firearms play as part of society within the limits of the United Mexican States, without regard to illegal or criminal activity." Then the additions I made to encompass illegal activity can be deleted. The second thing to do is to leave the references to the USA out. (EnochBethany (talk) 03:05, 12 February 2013 (UTC))
* EnochBethany, the article can have a section where it details the unlawful proliferation of firearms in the country, such as it exists in the Gun politics in Honduras article. There, you, I or any other editor can state things like "Despite its restrictive approach to private ownership of firearms, Mexico suffers from ongoing gun violence and gun-related crime. 80 percent of all homicides are attributed to the use of a firearm. While automatic weapons are only authorized to be in the hands of military and law enforcement personnel, these type of weapons have prevailed in Mexican territory and remain in the hands of civilians, including criminals, due to their smuggling from other countries and the existing unlawful market of firearms."... and so on and so on. You can give a thorough analysis and state the facts of all the unlawful/criminal activity involving firearms in that section. Putting something like "In order to get a gun in Mexico, an excessive amount of paperwork is required by SEDENA. It's good to know that criminals ignore these strict rules and simply acquire their guns in the black market" is not, in any way, encyclopedic/Wikipedia standards. Thanks. --Usfirstgov (talk) 03:39, 12 February 2013 (UTC)
"Of course those who watch Spanish language news have no misconception that criminals commonly carry firearms and kill persons in Mexico, regardless of paper laws. - there is no article at the link that says this. " except for criminals who commonly ignore the law, carry guns, and shoot them wherever and whenever they so choose. - the linked article doesn't say this, the editor is using it as an argument for his edit - this is what we call original research, see WP:NOR. "except in the common case of criminals who get need no permission from the government, yet carry and use guns quite commonly." (ctrl-click)"> - basically the same thing. And "
As an alternative, a person may choose to ignore the law and privately buy guns and ammunition without regard to the law. - oops, forgot to sign this last night. I've deleted these 3 bits of original research. Dougweller (talk) 10:13, 13 February 2013 (UTC)
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Please revise article to clarify "except", "Exception" and the like
It is hard to know what the editors mean when they write like "a .38 is excepted," "there is an exception for 38 super," etc. One can't tell if the particular gun is allowed or not allowed. Is the exception from what is permitted or from what is prohibited??? (PeacePeace (talk) 04:35, 3 July 2018 (UTC)) | WIKI |
-- Holcim Gets Approval for Port Land Near Planned N.Z. Plant
Holcim Ltd. (HOLN) , the world’s second-
biggest cement maker, got approval from New Zealand’s foreign
investment regulator to lease port land near a proposed plant. The value of the lease of the 2.3 hectares of land near
Timaru on New Zealand’s South Island wasn’t disclosed in the
approval notice posted on the Overseas Investment Office
website . The lease agreement is with PrimePort Timaru Ltd.,
which is 71 percent owned by the Timaru District Council. Holcim New Zealand plans to build a cement storage facility
on the site, which is a “critical part” of development of a
new cement plant near Oamaru, about 49 miles south, it said in
its application. In October, Holcim said consideration of the
new project by its Swiss parent isn’t expected until late 2012
because of deteriorating global economic conditions. Holcim, which makes about half of New Zealand ’s cement, has
been considering the project since 2006 to replace its ageing
Westport plant. To contact the reporter on this story:
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Four Springs Capital Trust Announces $40 Million Convertible Preferred Investment from Guggenheim Investments
Strategic Investment from Global Asset Manager with $243 Billion in Assets under Management
LAKE COMO, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Four Springs Capital Trust (“Four Springs” or the “Company”), a real estate investment trust that invests in single-tenant net lease real estate, announced today that funds managed by Guggenheim Investments, the global asset management and investment advisory business of Guggenheim Partners (“Guggenheim”), have acquired $40 million of Series E Preferred Shares of Four Springs (“Convertible Preferred Shares”). As part of the transaction, the Company’s Board of Trustees will be increased from seven to eight members, and Greg Kranias of Guggenheim Investments will join the Company’s Board. In addition, Matt Settle of Guggenheim Investments will be designated as an observer to the Company’s Board.
Proceeds from the $40 million Convertible Preferred Share issuance to Guggenheim will be used by Four Springs for: (i) the acquisition of additional net lease properties in the Company’s pipeline; (ii) repayment of a portion of the Company’s debt under its credit facility led by KeyBank N.A.; and (iii) working capital and other general corporate purposes.
Bill Dioguardi, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Four Springs, commented, “We are excited to announce an investment of $40 million from Guggenheim, a leading global investment firm, and are thrilled to have a strategic capital partner of the caliber of Guggenheim.”
“We believe there will be tremendous synergies between our two organizations that will enable us to execute on our growth strategy and create value for our shareholders,” added Coby Johnson, President and Chief Operating Officer of Four Springs.
Greg Kranias of Guggenheim Investments said, “We were attracted to Four Springs by their successful track record of investing in net lease real estate and the high quality portfolio they had assembled with their disciplined investment approach. We are confident that the Four Springs management team will be able to leverage their robust net lease investment platform to grow Four Springs into a leading net lease REIT and deliver attractive returns to its shareholders.”
About Four Springs Capital Trust:
Four Springs Capital Trust is a private real estate investment trust focused on acquiring a diversified portfolio of retail, industrial/warehouse and healthcare properties net leased to investment grade and other creditworthy tenants under long-term leases. For more information about this announcement, please contact Jodi Hopkinson at (732) 749-7351 or jhopkinson@fsctrust.com .
About Guggenheim Investments
Guggenheim Investments is the global asset management and investment advisory division of Guggenheim Partners, with $243 billion 1 in assets across fixed income, equity, and alternative strategies. Guggenheim focuses on the return and risk needs of insurance companies, corporate and public pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, endowments and foundations, consultants, wealth managers, and high-net-worth investors. Guggenheim’s 275+ investment professionals perform rigorous research to understand market trends and identify undervalued opportunities in areas that are often complex and underfollowed. This approach to investment management has enabled Guggenheim to deliver innovative strategies providing diversification and attractive long-term results.
1 Guggenheim Investments total asset figure is as of 9.30.2017. The assets include $11.6bn of leverage for assets under management and $0.4bn for assets for which Guggenheim provides administrative services. Guggenheim Investments represents the following affiliated investment management businesses: Guggenheim Partners Investment Management, LLC, Security Investors, LLC, Guggenheim Funds Investment Advisors, LLC, Guggenheim Funds Distributors, LLC, Guggenheim Real Estate, LLC, GS GAMMA Advisors, LLC, Guggenheim Partners Europe Limited and Guggenheim Partners India Management.
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Source: Four Springs Capital Trust | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Trump advisor: Take a long view on the markets, but stay bullish
For investors considering the effects of a Donald Trump presidency, take a long, but bullish view, said senior Trump advisor Peter Navarro. "Everything Mr. Trump's going to do points in the direction of growth, and that will point in the direction of a higher bull market." Within Trump's first 100 days in office, the incoming president will lower taxes, conduct a comprehensive review of all federal regulatory activity and stop the war on the energy industry, Navarro told CNBC's "Squawk Box. " "From a growth point of view, cutting that corporate tax from 35 percent down to 15 percent – if you simply do that, you get a 30 percent increase in net earnings to corporations which is very, very bullish," Navarro said. Trump will also issue a Reaganesque moratorium — or temporary halt of activity — "on all new regulations that don't threaten public health or safety," Navarro said, in order to conduct a proper review and determine where to cut costs. Navarro said Trump's third defined policy measure, stopping "the war on oil, natural gas, shale [and] clean coal," will enable the United States to lower energy prices and in turn become more globally competitive in the energy sector. The Trump advisor addressed his candidate's controversial stance on global trade, calling him a "free trader" and touting stability. "He seeks nothing more than to rebalance this economy by increasing our exports at the margin and decreasing our imports," Navarro said. At the end of the day, Navarro contended that Trump's plan will bring up corporate earnings and stock prices by focusing on two fundamental corporate aspects: "competition and choice." "He has a Day 1 plan, an 100-day plan, and he will move forward like an army attacking these problems ... and … many of those can be done at the White House level," Navarro said. Trump became the president-elect Wednesday morning after a stunning upset in which the Republican candidate won the pivotal swing states of Florida, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Ohio over his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Wrecking Ball
A wrecking ball is a heavy steel ball suspended from a crane that is used for demolition work.
Wrecking ball may also refer to:
Albums
* Wreckin' Ball, an album by The Hub (1994)
* Wrecking Ball (Emmylou Harris album) (1995)
* Wrecking Ball (Dead Confederate album) (2008)
* Wrecking Ball (Bruce Springsteen album) (2012)
* Wrecking Ball Tour, promotional tour 2012
Songs
* "Wrecking Ball" (Neil Young song) (1989)
* "Wrecking Ball" (Miley Cyrus song) (2013)
* "Wrecking Ball", a song by 4Him from The Basics of Life
* "Wrecking Ball", a song by Agent 51 from The Red & the Black (2003)
* "Wrecking Ball", a song by Amelia Curran from Hunter, Hunter (2009)
* "Wrecking Ball", a song by Aubrey O'Day (2012)
* "Wrecking Ball", a song by Springsteen originally written and performed during the 2009 Working on a Dream Tour, later released on the 2012 album
* "Wrecking Ball", a song by Chris Pureka from How I Learned to See in the Dark (2010)
* "Wrecking Ball", a song by Creeper Lagoon from Take Back the Universe and Give Me Yesterday (2001)
* "Wrecking Ball", a song by Crooked Fingers from Dignity and Shame (2005)
* "Wrecking Ball", a song by Five Finger Death Punch from The Wrong Side of Heaven and the Righteous Side of Hell, Volume 2 (2013)
* "Wrecking Ball", a song by Frankmusik from Do It in the AM (2011)
* "Wrecking Ball", a song by Gama Bomb from The Terror Tapes (2013)
* "Wrecking Ball", a song by Gary Allan from Living Hard (2007)
* "Wrecking Ball", a song by Gillian Welch and David Rawlings from Soul Journey (2003)
* "Wrecking Ball", a song by Grace Slick from Welcome to the Wrecking Ball! (1981)
* "Wrecking Ball", a song by Halfcocked from Occupation: Rock Star (2000)
* "Wrecking Ball", a song by Harvey Danger from Where Have All the Merrymakers Gone? (1997)
* "Wrecking Ball", a song by Helix from Half-Alive (1998)
* "Wrecking Ball", a song by Iko from Ludo Says Hi (2009)
* "Wrecking Ball", a song by Interpol from Our Love to Admire (2007)
* "Wrecking Ball", a song by Kaiser Chiefs as B-side track of the initial release of "I Predict a Riot" (2004)
* "Wrecking Ball", a song by Joe Walsh from Analog Man (2012)
* "Wrecking Ball", a song by Lifehouse from Smoke & Mirrors (2010)
* "Wrecking Ball", a song by The Limousines from Hush (2013)
* "Wrecking Ball", a song by Loaded from The Taking (2009)
* "Wrecking Ball", a song by Mother Mother from O My Heart (2008)
* "Wrecking Ball", a song by Much the Same from Survive (2006)
* "Wrecking Ball", a song by Papa Vs Pretty from Heavy Harm' (2010)
* "Wrecking Ball", a song by Sidewalk Prophets from Live Like That (2012)
* "Wrecking Ball", a song by Slaid Cleaves
* "Wrecking Ball", a song by Smile Empty Soul from 3's (2012)
* "Wrecking Ball", a song by Terri Clark from Roots and Wings (2011)
* "Wrecking Ball", a song by Viva Voce
* "Wrecking Ball", a song by Vixen from Rev It Up (1990)
* "My Wrecking Ball", a song by Ryan Adams from Ryan Adams (2014)
Literature
* Wrecking Ball Press, a UK small-press publisher
* Wrecking Ball, a novel by Christiana Spens
* Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Wrecking Ball, a children's novel by Jeff Kinney
Other uses
* Wrecking Ball (Overwatch), a fictional, playable character in the 2016 video game Overwatch
* Frank Paul the Wrecking Ball, nickname for New Zealand professional rugby league player Frank-Paul Nu'uausala
* Wrecking Ball Brewpub, business establishment in the historic Kriegshaber House in Inman Park, Atlanta
* Wrecking Ball, a playable character from the video game series Skylanders | WIKI |
KPRI
KPRI (91.3 FM) is a community radio station licensed to serve the community of Pala, California, United States. The station is owned by the Pala Band of Mission Indians. The station began operating under program test authority in December 2010 and received its broadcast license on February 3, 2011.
The station is branded and only referred to on-air as "Rez Radio 91.3". Rez Radio broadcasts a mixture of local public affairs programming and music for the community of Pala. The primary mission of Rez Radio is to be a contact point in case of an emergency to pass information to the listeners. The station has broadcast local softball games, Native American language lessons, and locally produced music, and other items of interest.
The station manager is John Fox, a veteran of the San Diego, and Los Angeles radio community at stations including B100, KCBQ, KEZY, KFWB, and KOLA.
History
The original push to build a radio station on the Pala Indian Reservation came about in 2007 in response to the need for better communication throughout the reservation during the wildfires (see Witch Fire) in San Diego. Pala Tribal Council leader Kilma S. Lattin approached the Tribal Council with the plan and secured funding. The station received its original construction permit from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on January 29, 2009.
The station was assigned the call sign KUUP by the Federal Communications Commission on March 30, 2009. While still under construction, the station was assigned new call sign KOPA on May 6, 2009. The call sign was changed to KPRI on March 23, 2018 with the initials standing for "Kupa Pala Rez Indians". Kupa is the name of the ancestral home near Warner Springs of the majority of the Pala tribe.
The station applied to the FCC for its license to cover on December 3, 2010, and the FCC accepted this application for filing on December 6, 2010. This application was amended on January 12, 2011, and on February 3, 2011, the FCC issued the station its broadcast license. KOPA signed on as "Pala Rez Radio 91.3" on February 3, 2011.
Initially the station featured a mix of music, talk radio, and cultural programs. Lattin hosted a talk show called "The Pala Nation" and hired John Fox as station master.
Select programming and IDs, including hourly time checks are spoken in Pa'enexily, the traditional language of the Cupeños. | WIKI |
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Computing/Archive 11
Article alerts are back!
You can now view article alerts for all of computing at WP:COMP/AA, and see the transcluded list on the WP:COMP main page. --Pnm (talk) 05:18, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
* I discovered today WP:COMP/AA had only listed pages tagged directly using WikiProject Computing. I modified the templates so they'd populate, too. After the next run, WP:COMP/AA should show the Software-, Comp Sec-, and Windows-tagged articles, too. --Pnm (talk) 21:33, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
Is this Article Ready?
Is this Glary utilities article ready? Can someone please help it if not? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Anish9807 (talk • contribs) 05:23, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
Ses7
My A1 speedy deletion tagging of this article was declined, so you're my next hope of determining what this (apparently machine-translated) article is about. Does anyone recognise the concept? The text references encryption, but I can't tell whether it is supposed to be a method, a tool, or something else. Googling the title has produced nothing apparently relevant. Gonzonoir (talk) 13:59, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
* Having had a quick look at it the next step is WP:AfD. Notability hasn't been established and it looks unlikely it ever will be. Dmcq (talk) 14:15, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
* That would be my hunch; I just don't want to write an AfD rationale that boils down to "I don't understand what this article is on about" if that's a function of my ignorance rather than of the article's lack of clarity.
* If anyone here is able to write (at least) a one-sentence lead explaining what this subject is, we can at least use that to check for notability and sources more effectively than is possible from the title alone. Gonzonoir (talk) 14:27, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
* Translation says "Wikipedia consensus is that an unedited machine translation, left as a Wikipedia article, is worse than nothing", which various discussions on the village pump confirms. The onus is on someone to establish it is worth keeping if they want it, not on other editors to prove it should be removed. Dmcq (talk) 14:40, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
* Sure. Well, consider this part of my compliance with WP:BEFORE. I'll go to AfD with the article if nothing we could use to salvage it is forthcoming soon. Gonzonoir (talk) 14:52, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
* Try a WP:Proposed deletion first. It's unlikely to be controversial, and it saves you and others a lot of work. --Pnm (talk) 15:10, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
* Oh yes sorry that's what I should have said. I normally do a prod instead of asking for a quick deletion but yes this one does look like quick deletion was appropriate. Dmcq (talk) 15:41, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
Tablet personal computer requested move
As an FYI, there is a move discussion currently taking place relating to Tablet personal computer at Talk:Tablet_personal_computer. --Labattblueboy (talk) 18:56, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
Punch cards
Punched card has been nominated for renaming, see Talk:punched card. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 05:09, 12 January 2011 (UTC)
Operator-precedence grammar
I'd like to edit the Operator-precedence grammar article. It seems to me that the "References" and "External links" sections should be at the bottom of the page, and the section that now follows them should be wikified (section headings and such). If the material is from external sources, those should be acknowledged. Also, something could be done about the introductory sentence.
I'm not sure how to go about editing the article, since it's in the scope of WikiProject Computing and WikiProject Computer science. I'm a computer scientist with a special interest in parsing. Should I just go ahead and start editing, or would you prefer to edit it yourselves? -- UKoch (talk) 15:08, 20 January 2011 (UTC)
* just go ahead and edit it. WP:BOLD. Kevin Baastalk 16:06, 20 January 2011 (UTC)
* Welcome to Wikipedia! You are now a member of the "yourselves" to which you refer. The article definitely needs improvement. Please edit away. --Kvng (talk) 15:42, 21 January 2011 (UTC)
* Thanks for the clarification; I've started editing. Remaining issues are being discussed on the talk page of WikiProject Computer science. -- UKoch (talk) 20:33, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
Argus (monitoring software) needs a complete rewrite to talk about a different software!
I know it sounds crazy, but that's precisely what we need to do here. "Argus" is an obvious name for network monitoring software, so it's no surprise that it was used (probably independently) for two completely independent applications: I don't have the time to rewrite the article right now, and anyway, it should be easier for someone who is experienced with writing software or who knows this software. If nobody wants to rewrite the article, it should simply go to AfD again. But I would like to avoid this because it's bound to lead to confusion. Hans Adler 22:38, 26 January 2011 (UTC)
* 1) Argus (1) is a GPLed network monitoring application written in C. It is discussed in a number of reliable sources but does not have a Wikipedia article.
* 2) Argus (2) is a free network monitoring application written in Perl, distributed under a licence that does not permit redistribution of modified software. Last time I looked it was not discussed in a single reliable source. That's what our article is about, and it survived an AfD in 2009 due to confusion with (1).
* Your explanation sounds perfectly clear to me, so I would suggest just renominating it for deletion. —Ruud 17:15, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
* In fact, it seems you were to only person proposing to keep the article the previous time causing the non-consensus? —Ruud 17:20, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
* There is an article about Argus (1). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audit_Record_Generation_and_Utilization_System —Aggplanta (talk) 19:50, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
* Splendid! Then I will just turn this article into a redirect to Audit Record Generation and Utilization System. If anyone objects it will have to go to AfD again. Hans Adler 20:15, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
Cleanup/Enhancement Required Section
The list of articles is missing the cleanup required section; say for e.g. Chaos computing requires some. – Deb ‖ Poke • EditList ‖ 05:20, 28 January 2011 (UTC)
RISC OS coordination
WikiProject RISC OS was recently created. --Pnm (talk) 00:57, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
* What use is WikiProject without a large group of participants? (Rhetorical question) —Ruud 01:06, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
* Discussion going on here: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_RISC_OS --Pnm (talk) 02:57, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
* Yes, over there <- :) --Flibble (talk) 04:09, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
* Apologies for jumping the gun on this, rather than following the methodical process which had begun. With hindsight, I should have posted on here back in Dec 2010, when the parent project was identified. Please accept my apologies for not making members of this project aware. On to the project... It's evident that the user base is small. Despite this usenet thread, few RISC OS users seemed confident enough to join the discussion on Talk:RISC OS. As Flibble says, "if we hadn't moved forward any momentum in doing this work would be lost." However, if necessary, the project can be taken down and considered for creation again in the future. However, if retrospective approval could please be granted, that would be a considerate response from the members of WP:COMP. Thanks. --trevj (talk) 10:53, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
* And ought it to be formally proposed, too? trevj (talk) 11:40, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
* I don't think that's an absolute requirement, but probably just a wise idea to get some more input from the community. WikiProjects tend to "die" unless there is reasonably sized group of very active participants and many more which participate once in while. As even the Computing project is not a particularity active one, it's probably better to do the RISC OS work from with this project. That's probably going to give you more visibility than keeping the discussion on another page. —Ruud 13:24, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
* You're right, the discussion could be moved here. I agree that it would then have more visibility. There should be more interest from other RISC OS users once the word has been spread a bit more in the press, , and online. Regarding the lack of a proposal, we could seek to recover from the failure to follow good practice. Is there anyone here who's previously been involved in applying the adopted policies for establishing a new project? Thanks. --trevj (talk) 14:17, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
* Sorry for my confusion, that should read just good practice as the page is referring to Wikipedia policies! --trevj (talk) 14:24, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
Category:Punch card
Category:Punch card has been nominated to be renamed. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 04:53, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
Help on Crash Bandicoot (video game) Graphics section
I'm working towards getting the Crash Bandicoot (video game) page to Good Article status and have been using recently released information by programmer Andy Gavin here: http://all-things-andy-gavin.com/2011/02/04/making-crash-bandicoot-part-3/ I came to this WikiProject for assistance because the linked page mainly consists of the computing aspect of the game's production, an area that I'm rather not familiar with. I was hoping that with your help, we could build the Graphics section of the article to a reasonable length and level of comprehensibility. I've already gotten a decent start on the section, but I didn't know what else from the page to add to it out of fear of the section becoming overlong or hard to understand. Thank you for your time. Cat's Tuxedo (talk) 05:08, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
Category:Computer and telecommunication standards
Per a recent CFD discussion, Category:Computer and telecommunication standards is to be split into Category:Computer standards and Category:Telecommunications standards. Any assistance by the members of this project in implementing this outcome would be greatly appreciated. Thank you, -- Black Falcon (talk) 18:44, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
Vector Pascal
It would be helpful if someone familiar with computer programing could take a look at this article. The primary author has been copy-pasting from sources and adding links that are a bit advert or spammy. I did some clean up earlier, but most of my edits were undone. I'm not even sure if the article is notable and wonder if it belongs at AfD or should be merged/redirected. Any input would be helpful! Regards, P. D. Cook Talk to me! 04:20, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
Z3 first working computer dispute
There is a disagreement at Talk:IEEE 754-1985. One editor wants to keep 'The Zuse Z3, the first working computer,' in the history section and another has put 'The Zuse Z3, a computing machine built ca 1941,' in. Could someone come and give their thoughts one way or the other and resolve please. Dmcq (talk) 13:11, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
* I think I have demonstrated that the two main planks of the argument against the Z3 are bogus (ie that Turing-completeness does not require either conditional branching or a writeable program store). However, the WP:NOR folks will be all over that - and we need some references to prove that what I'm saying (which is logically entirely obvious) can be backed up. SteveBaker (talk) 14:45, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
* After reading some sections of "Konrad Zuse’s Legacy: The Architecture of the Z1 and Z3", I would have to agree with the editor who favours "computing machine". Especially as the Z3 is only mentioned in passing in this article, I would follow the lead sentence "This paper provides a detailed description of the architecture of the Z1 and Z3 computing machines that Konrad Zuse designed in Berlin between 1936 and 1941." and not go into the many issues described in the section "The Invention of the Computer" here. —Ruud 22:26, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
* Avoiding the use of "first" is critical as especially in trying to name "the first computer" unless all the appropriae modifiers preceed it. Historians of technology, have pretty much agreed about the difficulty and thus avoid "first." To many of us, it wasn't a computer, until its instructions were stored in primary memory along with data as described in the EDVAC Draft Report by Von Neumann describing the stored program computer we all know and love. A computer was built by this or similar recipe at Manchester and ran the first 16 word program from its memory in this fashion 6/21/48. . Please, please, please reserve the word "computer" to be what is known by the general public as a "computer". Harvard architecture is sometimes used to mean the data and program were in separate and independent stores. Z3, was an impressive relay, tape controlled, calculating device. Most of the early computing devices were calculators with varying methods of control e.g. ENIAC was programmed with wiring, like IBM card equipment, but eventually someeone, Clippinger I believe, figured out how to control it by putting the operations in the constants memory. Some of us don't consider ENIAC a computer, but that's our problem. Cgordonbell (talk) 03:35, 13 April 2011 (UTC)
Proposal to merge Software license agreement into Software license
I'd appreciate more input on this merge discussion. It began in 2006 and I'd like to get it closed, but there isn't consensus for a merge or a rationale for disambiguating the topics. --Pnm (talk) 18:26, 12 February 2011 (UTC)
Individual hackerspace articles nominated for deletion
A number of hackerspace articles were nominated for deletion February 8: --Pnm (talk) 20:53, 13 February 2011 (UTC)
* Kiberpipa
* HACP (hacker)
* Helith
* TOG (hackerspace)
* 091 Labs
The "Cleanup" Database
Is it going to be "cleaned up" itself at some point? I wanted to try to help with some of the articles, but I'm now having difficulty browsing it.
Certainly, not all of these pages are still tagged, are they?
Or what?
--Mooshykris (talk) 03:51, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
* I'm guessing you're looking at WikiProject Computing/Cleanup listing? It looks like it's almost a year out-of-date. There's a more manageable list at . What kind of cleanup/topics interest you? Maybe I can help you find some articles to work on. --Pnm (talk) 05:14, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
* Well, I'm new to the project. I just joined a few days ago :). I was just looking for a good place to start. Anything that's a good starter would work.
* Also, just if it may help, as for known skills. I am a CompTIA A+ and Network+ Certified Student, studying for Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator, so I have at least average knowledge in general computing and networking hardware, and networking protocols. If that helps.
* --Mooshykris (talk) 15:59, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
Programming language deletion
There are currently a number of articles on programming languages up for deletion (WP:AFD) and deltion review (WP:DRV). I don't have an opinmion yet on whether they should be kept or deleted, but participants of this project might be interested. —Ruud 10:16, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
Avatar usage under discussion again
See Talk:Avatar_(Hinduism) where it is requested that the move done by 2010 move request be undone, moving the Hindu concept to primary in place of the disambiguation page. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 03:13, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
* This strikes me as WP:LAME --Kvng (talk) 19:44, 20 February 2011 (UTC)
More entries for real-time operating systems (or embedded systems.)
Hi, I have noticed that the operating system entries are not quite complete for real-time and embedded categories.
I, for one, tried to create an entry for "T-Kernel" which was deleted for "speedy deletion" or whatever and is now trying a draft for peer review in
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Zephyrusjp/T-Kernel
This was suggested by The_Blade_of_the_Northern_Lights to whom I posted an inquiry in "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:The_Blade_of_the_Northern_Lights" earlier.
Anyway, my point is repeated here.
Now, for real-time OS, Wikipedia has only these "entries" (taken from at the end of "VxWorks" entry, and I think it is very insufficient. It doesn't seem to have all the names in the "list of real-time operating systems." even.
List of entry names at the end of VxWorks:
BeRTOS · ChibiOS/RT · cocoOS · Contiki · DNIX · DSOS · eCos · Embedded Linux · ERIKA Enterprise · EROS · FreeRTOS · FunkOS · Integrity · Junos · LynxOS · MenuetOS · MQX · MERT · Nano-RK · Nucleus RTOS · OpenComRTOS · OS-9 · OSE · PikeOS · pSOS · Prex · QNX · RMX · RSX-11 · RT-11 · RTEMS · RTLinux · RT-Thread · SINTRAN III · Symbian · Talon DSP RTOS · THEOS · ThreadX · TNKernel · TPF · TRON · µC/OS-II · VRTX · VxWorks · Windows CE
I sort of doubt whether we should include Windows CE in real-time category, but it is listed already anyway.
I wonder if there is an interest in bumping up the coverage of embedded real-time OSs in WikiPedia.
For that matter, a peer review of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Zephyrusjp/T-Kernel is appreciated. But for this particular page, I will try to get some comments from users of T-Kernel in Singpore, Vietnam and Germany to see if they have some comments to improve the entry. So maybe the page goes through quick revision in the next several days. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zephyrusjp (talk • contribs) 06:35, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
* I don't completely understand what you're trying to do. I have reviewed and improved your article draft. It seems like it is ready to go into the wiki as a stub or start class article. I'm not sure why someone thought it was spam. --Kvng (talk) 19:02, 20 February 2011 (UTC)
Use of Italic title for creative works incl. software
Following a recent edit, I've been questioned regarding the italicizing of titles. WP:ITALICTITLE states:"Use italics when italics would be used in running text; for example, taxonomic names, the names of ships, the titles of books, films, and other creative works, and foreign phrases are italicized both in ordinary text and in article titles. [my italic emphasis]" I note that the Doom game titles are italicized, but web browsers generally don't seem to be. The italics decision was made in Jul-Sep 2010, so if it applies to software, does it need retrospective application? --trevj (talk) 13:53, 16 February 2011 (UTC) (That was supposed to read "web browsers generally don't seem to be.") --trevj (talk) 15:39, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
* Good question. Comparing a game to a movie, one should italicize them, comparing it to a regular piece of software, it should not. I think the difference if between a name and a title. Software has name, a movie has a title. Do games have a name or a title? I think this differs per game, but that would lead to inconsistencies. In conclusion, I do not know. —Ruud 14:25, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
* So, regular pieces of software aren't classed as creative works - but games might be? I've posted a link here at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Video games. --trevj (talk) 15:37, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
* In general, video games are considered to be equivalent to litterary works like books or movies. Even games that have very little to no story content and are based on real-life things such as sports, like Pong. Now minigames - games within games - are different. 陣 内 Jinnai 15:53, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
* What about board and card games? (Settlers of Catan vs. Poker) Intutively I'd say the first could be italicized, while the second should probably not be, but giving a rational explanation for that could be more difficult. —Ruud 16:17, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
* Looking at some article on a well-known technology blog, it seems their practice is to italicize the names of games, but not of other software. —Ruud 16:08, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
* All of that's enough to convince me. Thanks for all the research. --trevj (talk) 19:09, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
* I concur with that. --Pnm (talk) 01:25, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
Assistance needed for Magnolia CMS page
This note refers to the Wikipedia page for Magnolia CMS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnolia_(CMS) and the revised draft of the article on the talk page at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Magnolia_%28CMS%29
At the outset, I would like to note that I am the CTO of Magnolia and therefore closely associated with the CMS project. The above page was originally tagged with a COI/advertising notice, and I'd like to rewrite it to remove these tags. I've already confirmed with other editors (refer talk page above for thread) that the sources cited in the revised draft satisfy Wikipedia's notability requirements, and I was directed here to WikiProject Computing for further advice.
I'd like advice from Computing project editors on what further changes should be made to the article draft to have the COI/ad tags removed. Please feel free to edit the draft directly or to post your suggestion to the article talk page as listed above. Your feedback and advice will be very much appreciated.
Bkraft (talk) 12:22, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
Editorial dispute at Comparison of platform virtual machines
I would like to request editorial assistance in arriving at consensus on the appropriate state of the article Comparison of platform virtual machines. Please see the discussion so far. Psuedonym 03:54, 21 February 2011 (UTC)
* This seems to be a clueless editor at work (not the poster of the comment above, but the other editor). Some additional assistance to convince him of fail to comprehend what is being discussed here would be appreciated. —Ruud 20:59, 21 February 2011 (UTC)
Logo licensing for OS infobox and WikiProject Computing template
In connection with the RISC OS coordination, a non-free bitmap logo has been uploaded for use within RISC OS. Because non-free content isn't allowed outside of Main Namespace, can anyone please recommend a suitable licensing arrangement whereby the logo author can retain rights against inappropriate use but permit inclusion within WikiProject Computing (or direct me elsewhere to ask this)? Note also that, in disussion with the logo designer/copyright holder, the draft wording for a revised SVG logo for the RISC OS article is in this. Thanks. --trevj (talk) 00:37, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
* If the copyright holder is not willing to release it under a free licence, such as CC-BY-SA, it will not be possible to use the image outside of a very small number of main space articles. Now depending on your definition of "inappropriate use" CC-BY-SA + moral rights might be acceptable to the copyright holder. —Ruud 00:53, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
* Thanks for your advice on this. I'd considered a derivative image and that may be one way forward. Anyway, I've made User:Richard Hallas aware of this thread, so we'll see what happens. Thanks. --trevj (talk) 01:19, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
* In that case it might also be good to already be aware that CC-NC (non-commercial use only) and CC-ND (no-derivatives) are not considered free licenses on Wikipedia. —Ruud 01:33, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
Netbook and Subnotebook
Reading those articles, I can't tell the difference between those types of computers. Can you describe it? (in those articles, of course, not here) --<IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 14:52, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
* A netbook is a cheap low power small portable computer, a subnotebook is a small portable computer which tries to approach the power of a notebook or laptop, an ultraportable is an attempt at a high power small portable computer that is quite expensive. So... you could say that a netbook is a low-end cheap subnotebook, and an ultraportable is a lighter-smaller-much more expensive subnotebook. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 21:27, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
* There's a good referenced and hard-to-miss description of the situation in the lead of the Netbook article, "In the short period since their appearance, netbooks have grown in size and features, now converging with new smaller, lighter notebooks and subnotebooks..." --Kvng (talk) 21:45, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
aXXo GA reassessment
One of the articles under this project, aXXo, is having its good article status reassessed, and may be delisted. Feel free to comment on the review at Talk:AXXo/GA2. Swarm X 21:01, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
microSD and miniSD
MicroSD and have been proposed to be merged into Secure Digital, see Talk:Secure Digital. There's been little discussion about it (only two editors commented), but MiniSD has already been redirected to that article, so it's a WP:BOLD merge.
NOTE: The redirects of have already been retargetted to, without having actually merging the article first. (I think it should be done after the article has been merged... since the article still exists)
<IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 21:23, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
.rdo move?
I'm wondering if moving/retitling .rdo to Raster Document Object would raise any flags with the folks here? Seems like most file format articles are not titled as their filename extension -- e.g. Wikiredirects for .swf, .bat, .xls, etc. Or I guess maybe RDO (file format) might also be appropriate? Thanks ... Woodshed (talk) 23:59, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
* Went ahead given no objections after two weeks. Woodshed (talk) 20:35, 11 March 2011 (UTC)
Cryptography FAR
nominated Cryptography for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here.Smallman12q (talk) 18:54, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
Shared source talk
There's some recent talk over at Shared source which may be of interest. TBH I'm not very familiar with different licensing arrangements, so it'd be helpful to read others' views. Thanks. --trevj (talk) 10:06, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
Category:POSIX web browsers
Category:POSIX web browsers is the subject of an ongoing discussion here. Input from this WikiProject's members would be appreciated. Thank you, -- Black Falcon (talk) 19:01, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
Device driver: Do we want a section on "Device Driver installation help — end user"?
I'd like some eyes and opinions on Device driver, please.
On 8 February 2011, user Matt8163 added a section to this article on "Device Driver installation help — end user".
This section looks kind of spammy to me. It was immediately removed by user <IP_ADDRESS>, with the note "this was advertising, and deceptive at that", and then immediately restored by Matt8163.
I just removed it again, and Matt8163 immediately restored it again.
Could people please take a look at this? Discussion at [].
Thanks for your attention.
-- <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 15:11, 5 March 2011 (UTC)
* I think, noted links may be useful, so this section may be restored. --Tim32 (talk) 21:26, 6 March 2011 (UTC)
Need help at Chorded keyboard
I have been editing Chorded keyboard recently (I'm doing WikiGnoming - I'm not an expert in these things - but I do happen to own one and used a photo of it in the lede of the article).
There is an IP editor there who admits to being the 'inventor' of one of the keyboards described there (the "Chordite"). I have carefully explained our conflict of interest guidelines and I hoped that he'd be reasonable and back-off from editing the article henceforth.
The device he's been working on seems pretty non-notable to me (less than 500 ghits, no RS's)...so when combined with COI concerns, I removed the section describing it - leaving a note on the Talk page to explain why. He put it back - I re-removed it...you know the story! I fear it's not going to end well!
However, he quite reasonably points out that a number of the other keyboards described in the article are just as non-notable as his. It seems really unfair to remove references to his keyboard solely because of his COI. But WP:NOTE and WP:RS also apply here - so there is ample reason.
I could use some backup from other editors - both to add gravitas to my pleas for him to steer clear of the article, and to go through the devices listed in the article establishing notability and reliable sources for each - and removing the obviously non-notable ones.
It is in the nature of chording keyboards that these are often somewhat experimental devices - only a few have ever made commercial inroads and it is clear that many of those described there are not commercially manufactured.
Help! SteveBaker (talk) 04:03, 7 March 2011 (UTC)
* (In reading the following, it should be borne in mind that I'm relatively new to Wikipedia policies.)
* Your statment on the Chorded keyboard talk page about "WP:COI says that you mustn't edit articles in which you have a "conflict of interest" [...]" isn't exactly true. It currently states "[...] if you have a conflict of interest avoid, or exercise great caution when [...]" My understanding is therefore that those with a potential conflict of interest are not prohibited from editing. If their potential COI is declared, then their edits should be treated in good faith. WP:PROMO, also referred to on that talk page, is perhaps more relevant.
* And when you state "Additionally, since you invented the thing - you fall foul of "original research" restrictions (WP:NOR being the relevant policy)", again I don't think this is quite correct. The original research is referring to new material or conclusions, etc. In this case, it could be something like citing sales figures for a product, where such figures have not been published elsewhere.
* I think the best course of action for the editor in question would be to propose an edit for review, as suggested at WP:AVOIDCOI. Such an edit should contain a number of cited references which can be verified as per WP:SOURCE. In doing this, the editor will possibly elevate the quality of this section of the article. (But for inclusion in Wikipedia, the product would still also be required to be notable under WP:NOTE.)
* So in summary, perhaps the following could be done (in order to appear less biased against the inventor of this product):
* Put a note on the talk page stating your intention to move all products of questionable notability to the talk page (within a reasonable time period).
* Do so, unless such sections have been improved by the inclusion of verifiable references which demonstrate their notability.
* Systematically research notability for each such product, adding references and reinstating within the article page if/when suitable sources are found. --trevj (talk) 15:37, 7 March 2011 (UTC)
* I'm "the editor in question." As I explained to Steve Baker, the policy page on notability makes clear that all editing of CONTENT for notability is wrong and wrong headed. The notability criterion is to be applied only to whole pages. You can argue "this page should be deleted entirely" but you can't properly argue that this or that content within the page should be deleted. Also, as you point out, Steve Baker has misread several other policy pages which matter I will address in detail when I get time" 15:15, 22 March 2011 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk)
Citation templates now support more identifiers
Recent changes were made to citations templates (such as citation, cite journal, cite web...). In addition to what was previously supported (bibcode, doi, jstor, isbn, ...), templates now support arXiv, ASIN, JFM, LCCN, MR, OL, OSTI, RFC, SSRN and Zbl. Before, you needed to place id (or worse http://arxiv.org/abs/0123.4567), now you can simply use 0123.4567, likewise for id and http://www.jstor.org/stable/0123456789 →<PHONE_NUMBER>.
The full list of supported identifiers is given here (with dummy values):
Obviously not all citations needs all parameters, but this streamlines the most popular ones and gives both better metadata and better appearances when printed. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 02:39, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
Proposed welcome template in beta testing
* The proposed welcome template is now in place.
* Are there any template experts with some free time around here, please?
* The "Talk" link doesn't seem to work, despite the code being directly copy/pasted from here (where my tests worked OK, at the bottom of that page).
* If not, I can ask at WP:WPT. --trevj (talk) 12:51, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
List of AMD FX-series microprocessors
List of AMD FX-series microprocessors has been prodded for deletion. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 05:39, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
Source Code
The usage of is under discussion. It currently redirects to source code. The discussion is at Talk:Source Code (film). <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 04:53, 12 March 2011 (UTC)
Adding Software Categories
I want to add an article for a piece of software somewhat like SurveyMonkey, that collects, stores and summarises surveys and their results. I can find no general software category labelled, say, Data Collection. Since the expanded list of software categories is not easily accessible as HTML using the edit tab can someone please tell me where to find the list, so that I can verify that what I need is not already present. Assuming that a category is not present how can one add it? Thanks for your help. SewerCat (talk) 20:01, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
* Category:Data collection exists, although such a software program might also be better categorized under a subcategory such as Category:Polling. You might also want to investigate other categories such as Category:Computer data and if the software is web-based, Category:Web services and Category:Semantic Web. --Tothwolf (talk) 03:32, 15 March 2011 (UTC)
Android
The use of the pagename Android is under discussion, see Talk:Android_(operating_system). <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 02:40, 18 March 2011 (UTC)
Image:Kasparov v Deepblue.gif
File:Kasparov v Deepblue.gif has been nominated for deletion. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 03:02, 18 March 2011 (UTC)
Computer science papers released under a free license
See Village_pump_(miscellaneous). Please comment there. Dcoetzee 11:05, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
Alex Barnett
Is the inclusion of this article (See: Talk:Alex Barnett) under the auspices of WikiProject Computing a mistake? He's a cricketer. Maybe his name is similar to someone else? --Selket Talk 16:10, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
X38/X48 chipsets do support 16 GB RAM, shall we add a note to the table?
Hi folks,
I´m using my Intel Q9550S in an X38 chipset based motherboard (Asus PEE3 Deluxe - BIOS: 1502) with 16 GB of RAM. The PC runs Win 7 Ultimate mostly, but it dual boots to PC-BSD.
With this mobo I´m using four 4GB Corsair XMS3 sticks (CMX8GX3M2A1333C9). DRam freq.: 533MHz, FSB-DRAM: 5:8, CL: 7, tRCD: 7, tRP: 7, tRAS: 20, tRFC: 86, CR: 2T. With tweaking I can increase the memory performance to 666MHz, but I do not do that as I use this PC to run several Virtual Machines and I prefer stability.
So the important fact is that Intel X38 Chipsets unofficially supports up to 16GB RAM. Should we update the “Core 2 chipsets” table to add unofficial amount of RAM supported by certain chipsets? For a fact I know X38 and X48 are happy with 16 GB of RAM.
I imagine that back on 1997 Intel only had 2GB DDR3 memory modules, so they tested and certified this chipset for up to 8GB configurations only.
Regards, ofbarea — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ofbarea (talk • contribs) 17:34, 27 March 2011 (UTC)
Anchor usage
WP:HEAD recommends use of anchor to avoid breaking section links [...] within the same article and from other articles. A quick look at some articles using this template seems to indicate sporadic usage (I've only inspected a handful of articles with 'system' in their title). What do people here think about the use of anchors? Note: the talk archives here don't reveal much relevant discussion, although some other Projects have discussed them.
There's further info at WP:ANCHOR, including WP:TARGET, which recommends leaving a hidden comment.
--trevj (talk) 10:47, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
* Is the use of anchors something we think worthy of recommendation?
* Would the use of TLAs (or slightly longer abbreviations) be suitable?
* Use of visible anchor seems potentially useful, perhaps in combination with including an informal or abbreviated description within the section heading
* I know it would all be a bit of a hassle, but if it reduces the likelihood of broken links developing over time, perhaps it could be worthwhile.
* The disadvantage of anchors is that they very easily get broken, I haven't looked at visible anchor yet though. They can be very useful for redirects, I certainly create redirects to to a section instead of the whole/top of the article on a regular basis. In article text itself I would only use anchor links if they naturally fit into the text (e.g. no "click here to..." or "see below" links). —Ruud 16:23, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
* Yes, I'm thinking more of targeted redirects than to other sections within the same article. (And I agree wholeheartedly with your "click here" comment: perhaps HTML containing this should be completely ignored by HTML.next!) Redirects to a named section heading are no less easily broken than anchors created using templates. In either case, a comment on the target page should ideally be added when creating a link to it from elsewhere. This is something which is probably unrealistic to expect the majority of editors to do (and I don't actually think I've ever done it myself). Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be any way of listing targeted redirects, i.e. which articles link to sections (or anchors); which means it's difficult to check if an edit breaks anything. Anyway, I just thought that including anchors (with comments) within articles may assist in edits involving the renaming of sections, i.e. the anchor names mustn't change, and links to them wouldn't break as long as they used the defined anchors rather than the section headings. Please note that I'm not proposing any radical policy here but wanted to toss the idea around amongst a wider audience than just WP:RISCOS. Thanks. --trevj (talk) 18:09, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
Number representation
Hi all, coming from Redirects for discussion/Log/2011 March 4 I am sort of surprised that we really don't have a suitable article to redirect to. I've been looking what the most reasonable article is to create. I'm thinking of something like number representation system which would be a sort of summary style article, or possibly a list of number reprensentation systems? That would leave the called for redirect still hanging. Something like number representation (computer science) which could be a summary style article, looking at integer representation, signed/unsigned, endianess, floating point representation, big number representation etc? What do you guys think? Martijn Hoekstra (talk) 20:28, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
* There's Computer numbering formats, but that needs some work. Also, Signed number representations. —Ruud 20:35, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
* ouch, that certainly needs work, if not a complete rewrite, but would at least be suitable as a redirect target for the discussion. There are also floating point number, binary notation etc. etc. that all discuss something related, but don't do the overview. Thanks for the help. Martijn Hoekstra (talk) 20:52, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
== RFC on the inclusion of a table comparing SI units and Binary prefixes ==
Notice: An RFC is being conducted here at Talk:Hard diskdrive#RFC on the use of the IEC prefixes. The debate concerns this table which includes columns comparing SI and Binary prefixes to describe storage capacity. We welcome your input
--RaptorHunter (talk) 18:12, 10 April 2011 (UTC)
Article for review
I have an article on my user page that I would like reviewed and feel free to edit. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:JLRedperson/HP_Business_Service_Automation The article is about HP Business Service Automation software to complement the BMC Control Manager article, the Tivoli Service Automation Manager article and the Severa article. All feedback to improve the article are most welcome.JLRedperson (talk) 23:34, 10 April 2011 (UTC)
Notability tag on Eldad Matityahu bio
I have written a basic bio of Eldad Matityahu, the founder of Net Optics. Other editors have now twice added a notability flag, without commenting on the talk page. I removed the flag myself the first time, after increasing the number of references from 2 to 11, with an explanation on the article's talk page.
I'm reluctant to remove the flag myself again without any discussion or input from others, but I believe notability is not a problem. The article is based on 11 independent citations. Several are general profiles about Eldad. Coverage also ranges beyond his role as an entrepreneur -- including his interest in classic cars and his philanthropic endeavors.
Could somebody take a look and remove the notability flag if you agree, or else share your views in the thread I started on the article's talk page? Thanks, -RonnyG1 (talk) 21:14, 1 September 2012 (UTC)
Memory management
A crying shame to leave this important topic next to abandoned by experts; see talk: Memory management for list of shortcomings. Compare this poor article to memory protection, memory address or memory barrier to feel the difference. Incnis Mrsi (talk) 11:08, 2 September 2012 (UTC)
* For such an 'abandoned' article, it's had more activity in the past year than any of those other three. Actually, they're all in need of attention. — Sowlos (talk) 16:36, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
Request expansion of doubly linked list article
I looked up doubly linked list, expecting to find at least a section on time complexity and perhaps a section discussing the benefits and drawbacks compared to alternative datastructures. Instead it's a long stretch of pseudocode for all the operations, in marked contrast to the more descriptive style of the other datastructure articles I've looked at. Anyway, I feel that this article needs some work, and as I'm not qualified to do it, I thought I'd let you know.
<IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 08:05, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
* Ouch. That article has been in need of work for at least three years. — Sowlos (talk) 16:26, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
F Connector
The article F_connector is listed under the Wikiproject:Computing along ComputerGraphics. This article is unrelated to both projects and I am going to remove it unless anyone objects to it. NECRAT Speak to me 05:07, 5 September 2012 (UTC)
Delete key
I have a smoldering edit war with. Because he made a bulk revert but is not willing to substantiate all his changes, the preferred way to stop it is a third party intervention. See talk: Delete key. Incnis Mrsi (talk) 06:35, 18 August 2012 (UTC)
* I threw some gasoline on the fire. See the article talk page. Dementia13 (talk) 16:34, 11 September 2012 (UTC)
Assessment
As you many of you have probably noticed, there is a huge backlog of unassessed articles. Most of them should probably be marked as Stub or Start-class and Low importance, but of course a human has to at least skim over it. To ease the work, I made this: User:Kephir/gadgets/rater. It massively speeds up assessment by 1) adding a "Rate" dialog which can fill the assessment templates with pre-defined values and 2) changing links in unassessed articles' categories from talkpages to articles themselves. The user interface needs a bit polishing, but it's quite usable now. All you need to do is install it, jump into Category:Unassessed Computing articles or Category:Unknown-importance Computing articles, and assess, tag issues, or nominate for deletion if necessary. Maybe the backlog will disappear eventually. (On a related note, does every one of you get 403 when following any link to the toolserver script?). Keφr (talk) 12:29, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
* Thanks for the heads-up. I installed your script, it looks pretty neat so far! Yes I also get a 403. • Jesse V.(talk) 14:39, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
* I just sent an email to enwp10 about that toolserver problem. Hopefully he'll figure it out. • Jesse V.(talk) 05:59, 29 August 2012 (UTC)
* I found this: Wikipedia_talk:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team/Index. Still, there probably should be a more informative message… Keφr (talk) 11:39, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
Assessing as Stubs
Question: can I use a semi-automatic tool to automatically assess the article as a Stub if the article contained a Stub tag? In other words, would everyone be all right if the WikiProject tag in an article's Talk page contained |class=Stub if the article contained a Stub tag? At least for this WikiProject, I want to make sure that the two are compatible. I believe they are, but I just wanted to confirm. • Jesse V.(talk) 05:12, 1 September 2012 (UTC)
* I think some bots do this already; but needs to be set in this case. If you want to do this, go ahead; automatic assessment is better than none. However, it would be much better if actual humans looked through these articles, identified issues, tried to judge notability and dealt with them as appropriate. Keφr (talk) 11:27, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
Shell (computing)
Please, spend several minutes looking on the talk: Shell (computing) case. I do not see substantial objections to my proposal, but still am not sure whether should I proceed despite an "unsubstantial" one. Incnis Mrsi (talk) 12:45, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
* Any more participants from here? There are already 3 users favouring, by various degrees, a reconstruction of the "article", and one user fervently opposing it. Not still an overwhelming majority, given some disagreements between "reconstructors". I am tired to deal with demagogy alone, trying to reach a mutually acceptable solution. Incnis Mrsi (talk) 15:45, 11 September 2012 (UTC)
* I have contributed. --Kvng (talk) 22:00, 11 September 2012 (UTC)
ptree
currently redirects to Phylogenetic tree, but based on google results it seems that the Solaris utility by this name is significantly the more notable topic. We don't currently have an article on the utility, but we do have one on the related Linux utility pstree, so I have suggested at the ongoing RfD retargetting "ptree" there. Your comments on this suggestion, and/or the redirect in general would be most welcome at Redirects for discussion/Log/2012 September 17. Thryduulf (talk) 15:48, 17 September 2012 (UTC)
Article title consistency for software development methodologies
I notice some inconsistencies in the titles of some articles: I think the best thing would be to rename V-Model to V model and Dual Vee Model to Dual-V model. i.e. only use a hyphen for the compound adjective. But I thought I'd raise the issue here to see what people thought.
* Waterfall model - seems right to me
* V-Model - I disagree with the capital M
* Dual Vee Model - more unnecessary capitalisation and are we going with V-model or V model or vee model?
Yaris678 (talk) 12:48, 28 September 2012 (UTC)
Computing-related info and references
I've been presenting new information to add to computing-related articles using The Mobile Wave as a reference. I think the book has some useful info to add to articles or can be used as a reference to support existing info and I'm searching for help to do this. I'm here on behalf of MicroStrategy, which is a company founded by the book's author and where I work. If anyone is interested, I've posted requests at the iOS, iPad and Cloud computing pages. Also, I'm keen to hear any ideas of where the book might be useful to add new information that isn't otherwise included in Wikipedia pages. Thanks, --Rkrueger (talk) 17:00, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
* Adding information from reliable sources is always appreciated. I thank you for declaring your background, though be careful to avoid a conflict of interest. Be sure to write encyclopedically and from a neutral point of view. Just be sure to familiarize yourself with WP:RELIABLESOURCES, WP:NPOV, WP:COI, and WP:VERIFY. Other than that, feel free to look around and see what other articles you can improve (see WP:BOLD). If you have any questions please let us know. Thanks. • Jesse V.(talk) 17:45, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
* Also see WP:REFSPAM. I have removed the references from ENIAC. After taking look at the referenced pages on Amazon, it didn't seem provide any substantial coverage compared to the references already present in the article. —Ruud 19:40, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
Request for adding a page to this WikiProject
I would like to submit the following page to the Computing WikiProject: Incentive-centered design Jmc242 (talk) 03:27, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
* You can do so by adding WikiProject Computing to the talk page (which seems to have been done by someone already.) —Ruud 17:26, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
9223372036854775808
(263) is presently a redirect to Power of 2. The redirect has been nominated for deletion at Redirects for discussion/Log/2012 October 9 where your comments would be welcome. I'm leaving this note here as<PHONE_NUMBER>854775808 appears to be the limit of a 64-bit signed integer, so members of this project may see utility in it. Thryduulf (talk) 11:06, 9 October 2012 (UTC)
Stagnant articles
I have generated a list of 500 most stagnant articles tagged as belonging to this project. Please take a look, judge notability and deal as appropriate. Keφr (talk) 05:59, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
* Sorry, but why just not add "|needs-attention=yes" to WikiProject Computing? — Dmitrij D. Czarkoff (talk•track) 09:55, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
* Because that would be a lot of edits, and the interested people watch this page already? The list ends on articles that have not been edited in two years, and the talk page report is even worse (bots, vandals, vandal bots, casual contributors and casual vandal bots probably skew the statistics in the article space). Keφr (talk) 14:02, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
* By the way: it's . And this is one of the reasons I made Rater. </shameless_self_promotion> Keφr (talk) 16:14, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
* This is a goldmine of low-hanging fruit, to mix metaphors. Cheers! Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) (talk) 10:57, 10 October 2012 (UTC)
Category:Software Defined Storage companies
Category:Software Defined Storage companies, which is within the scope of this WikiProject, has been nominated for deletion. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you.. -- Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 11:36, 10 October 2012 (UTC)
Merging the articles on UNIX signal
Some time ago I've suggested merging several tens of articles on Unix signals into one parent page (Unix signal). All of these articles are mostly composed of redundant trivia that would benefit from the merge by being mentioned only once, and stuff that probably should not really be here (see WP:NOTMANUAL and WP:N). So far, I've got mostly negative feedback for this idea, though there was very little discussion about whether the articles actually infringe the Wikipedia guidelines - the responses were mostly 'I don't like it, don't touch'.
Do you think it's really worthwhile to merge these articles or should I just leave them alone? 1exec1 (talk) 23:45, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
* Well, like I said it already in the linked discussion: I agree that the merge should happen for the reasons stated. I think that if the content is to stay, it should be probably put into a list article, like List of Unix signals. Keφr (talk) 04:06, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
* I would prefer a table within Unix signal, as I see no reason for a standalone list. — Dmitrij D. Czarkoff (talk•track) 10:07, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
* Agreed. — Sowlos (talk)
* Well, I do see a reason for a standalone list: article length. Notice that these signal articles do not contain just the signal name and description, but also some explanation of context in which they are typically sent. I think that if this information is trimmed down to the most essential bits and properly sourced, it may be argued that it should be kept. But that would take some space (in the visual, if not the data size sense). Keφr (talk) 13:48, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
* The table in Unix signal doesn't unduly increase article length and the article already provides context for the signals. As said above, most of the context provided in each article is redundant (only being provided to recreate the context of the main article). Don't get me wrong, I love the idea of separate articles for each Unix signal, but that's due to my own bias for Unix. Objectively speaking, there's not enough content to justify stand alone articles nor enough third party sources to meet WP requirements for stand alone articles. Much of what I see in those articles are WP:OR, depending on header files for citation. — Sowlos (talk) 04:53, 6 October 2012 (UTC)
* Looking at one signal SIGBUS it looks a little too long to be merged into a table, you could make an article with one section per signal.--Salix (talk): 06:14, 6 October 2012 (UTC)
* But first, it is sourced only with a Usenet post, and second, that would create a lot of short sections, and these are evil. A definition list would be more appropriate. I suggest:
* Take the content from the articles;
* Trim it down to properly sourced material and compile a list;
* Decide on where it should be put.
* Keφr (talk) 06:23, 6 October 2012 (UTC)
* After thoroughly analysing all the articles I can only say that the amount of material that doesn't violate WP:OR, WP:N or WP:NOT is extremely low. Actually, if we went by the letter of the guidelines, we'd need to delete all these articles and just leave the table at Unix signal. Of course, I'm not saying that this is appropriate solution. I've compiled a list of the signals here. The list is not long - it could perfectly replace the List of signals section at Unix signal. A separate article is not needed in my opinion. Any opinions? 1exec1 (talk) 11:21, 6 October 2012 (UTC)
* I think it's still a little long and possibly could be worded more concisely, but it'd be happy to see it - as is - in Unix signal. It's better than much of what's already there. — Sowlos (talk) 12:38, 6 October 2012 (UTC)
* I think a table is still preferable to a list. There are traditionally more than two columns of information used in describing signals. [ http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?signal+7]. — Sowlos (talk) 13:00, 6 October 2012 (UTC)
* Exactly what I had in mind. I think I have seen shorter standalone lists, but right now a separate article does not seem necessary; though it may become if the list is expanded (with sources, hopefully). As for having a table, I can see a point here; the default action taken could be put into a column, but numbers probably should not, as they are very platform specific (for all I know). Though tables do not appeal to me visually very much… Keφr (talk) 14:30, 6 October 2012 (UTC)
* After some though, I agree with Sowlos that having table is worthwhile. Even not counting the signal numbers, we have enough tabular information for 3 columns. We could include the standard in which a signal is defined as the fourth column. An unrelated benefit of a table is that it would use less space compared to a list in this case.
* Anyway, it seems that there's clear consensus on the primary question about whether the Unix signals should be merged into single article. For now, I'll use definition list for the signals as this is more convenient. The list could be converted into a table later. 1exec1 (talk) 14:57, 6 October 2012 (UTC)
* By the way, the page currently has size of less than 15k characters. The Wikipedia guideline on article size quotes 30k-50k as the size when part of the content should be moved into a separate article. Thus I don't think doing this for the list of signals would be worthwhile even if the list was expanded several times. 1exec1 (talk) 16:12, 6 October 2012 (UTC)
Is nested virtualization a notable topic?
Based on a cursory Google search, I think nested virtualization (running a VM inside a VM/hypervisor on top of a hypervisor) is notable enough for a section in the virtualization article, but what about an individual article?--Jasper Deng (talk) 01:51, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
* If enough WP:RSs cover the topic. WP:N. — Sowlos (talk) 02:29, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
* It's quite a tough call; I can probably find various reliable sources that mention it at least in passing. However, the amount of weight in the sources I found given to this topic is borderline.--Jasper Deng (talk) 03:30, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
House style for pseudocode?
Do we have any house style for pseudocode? As an example take the following from linked list
function insertAfter(Node node, Node newNode) if node = null newNode.next := newNode else newNode.next := node.next node.next := newNode
This is less than ideal, in particular the if condition action aspect. This seems to follow quirks of C and C-derived languages (the missing then and fi or endif) but without the similar grammatical fences (the parentheses around the condition and compound statements) that C uses. As such the two are merged together. I'm tempted to re-write it in a clearer manner but surely that is something standardised by now? Crispmuncher (talk) 02:29, 22 October 2012 (UTC).
* See MOS:PSEUDOCODE. My personal preference it to write pseudocode in a form that is—within reason—grammatically correct, i.e., by including the, but omitting the or end if if it doesn't impair readability (especially the latter could be considered strange without an accompanying .) —Ruud 03:44, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
Merge proposal for Speech signal processing
Hello everyone. I just noticed that we have an article on Speech processing and on Speech signal processing. These look like exactly the same topic to me, and I have proposed a merge. The discussion is at Talk:Speech processing if anyont would like to take part. Best — Mr. Stradivarius on tour (have a chat) 05:41, 26 October 2012 (UTC)
Chuck Colby
Our article on Chuck Colby confuses me. If he really did invent all this stuff, why is his BLP unsourced? If he's faking it, it's an elaborate hoax, since his personal web site contains images of real-looking contemporary coverage of his supposed inventions. Either he's one of the greatest innovators of our time, or someone who's very good at faking it. Can anyone enlighten me, and/or fix the article? Gigs (talk) 02:08, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
Notability question
Hi! Would anyone mind checking into the notability of MacPaw and CleanMyMac? Does it meet GNG? Even if it meets GNG, is it still notable? Have similar articles actually established a precedent, or do they merely exist (regarding OTHERSTUFF)? Also the reviews at CleanMyMac need to be elaborated so it's not merely a directory/praise list. What did they say about them?
If MacPaw is deemed notable on EN then I would like to request for articles on it to be made on the Ukranian and Russian Wikipedias, but if not then I will not. WhisperToMe (talk) 21:30, 9 November 2012 (UTC)
World's first high-level language?
The article on the Address programming language claims that it is the world's first high-level programming language. If true, this would an important distinction. However, all of the sources I can find are in Russian; and the article itself was probably translated from the Russian or Ukranian articles (unattributed). Are there any English-language publications that address this claim? RockMagnetist (talk) 23:35, 9 November 2012 (UTC)
Request for comments: Establish standards for version history tables in software articles
I'd like to introduce the Template:Version template to Wikipedia with the goal to establish one standard for version history tables (or lists). It simplifies creation of release histories, standardizes release stages and makes the content more accessible.
Please comment on the template talk page (there already is some discussion). Thanks for your contribution. --Jesus Presley (talk) 02:01, 28 November 2012 (UTC)
Choosing a feature set in software comparison articles
There's an edit warring in the referenced article about whether to include a certain feature into the comparison. I advised them to seek consensus but am unsure of how to seek it in this case. The feature is of course covered in RS'es. And there doesn't appear to be any policies, guidelines or even prior discussions on how to decide whether a feature is "notable" to be comparing on. — Vano 22:17, 28 November 2012 (UTC)
Embedded computer emulators
Can an article called Embedded computer emulators be made ? It should include:
* Palm OS emulator
* Aemulor
* Elbrus Technologies x86 emulator (emulator for running x86 programs on ARM)
<IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 10:24, 10 December 2012 (UTC)
* I'm not sure that Embedded computer emulators (or even embedded computer emulator, per WP:SINGULAR) would be the best title to include such subjects. Would the two other products listed meet the general notability guideline? -- Trevj (talk) 11:47, 10 December 2012 (UTC)
* it depends on how far you take the article content, if just covering the above it probably just meet notability guidelines but if you extend it to include other emulators it would pass notability but it best to decided what emulators would be included before creating the article, to be hones ti say this might suit better under virtualization, in essence that is what emulators are virtualization of a specif system but doing it within itself rather than in virtual machine Andrewcrawford ( talk - contrib ) 12:44, 10 December 2012 (UTC)
* How about starting by improving Emulator and then split it off to a new article if it becomes necessary? -—Kvng 16:00, 16 December 2012 (UTC)
Proposed revision: Continuous Controls Monitoring
In support of the Wikipedia Improvement by Supported Expert Revision Project - NJIT Workgroup on Information Literacy and Learning (WILL), I am proposing a revision to a stub article on Continuous Controls Monitoring (CCM) in which the current definition needs improvement beyond its rudimentary information, supported by reliable sources.
Target Article: (2012, November 21). In Wikipedia. Retrieved November 21, 2012 from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_controls_monitoring
Current Definition: “Continuous Controls Monitoring (CCM) is the techniques involved in continuously monitoring and auditing an IT system. Typically CCM solutions will be applied to Enterprise Resource Planning systems such as SAP."
I am proposing a significant re-write by eliminating the use of same word references, expanding upon the lack of explanation of what controls and continuous terms are, and referencing industry expert published content.
In developing my definition, I plan on referring to industry expert reference literature such as:
1. ISACA (2010, October 1). Monitoring Internal Control Systems and IT. Rolling Meadows, IL. ISACA.
2. Senft, Sandra. Gallegos, Frederick. Davis, Aleksandra. (2013, July 18). Information Technology Control and Audit. Boca Raton, FL. CRC Press
A proper definition should highlight the importance for organizations to operate and monitor IT system controls, helping readers by improving their understanding of the topic, and potentially give them a good starting point when researching ways to improve their organization's IT governance.
Christian-NJITWILL (talk) 02:10, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
* It is not necessary to ask permission to edit - see WP:BOLD. Your contribution was definitely an improvement. Thanks. I have made some further minor improvements. -—Kvng 16:09, 16 December 2012 (UTC)
FreeDOS 32
FreeDOS 32 is up for deleting. Is this notable enough to write a stub for? -- <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 20:51, 24 December 2012 (UTC)
* Probably not but it doesn't deserve to be deleted either. -—Kvng 21:09, 29 December 2012 (UTC)
Internet Top Level Country Domains
There is an ongoing debate on the Northern Ireland Talk Page about what Top Level country domains should be listed. At present the infobox lists .uk, .ie and .eu, but this is disputed. The infobox also has a note saying ".uk is assigned to the United Kingdom of which Northern Ireland is a part, .ie is assigned to Ireland of which Northern Ireland is a part, and .eu is assigned to the European Union of which Northern Ireland is a part. ISO 3166-1 is GB, but .gb is unused"
I would like to ask if anyone has any knowledge of matters relating to Internet top level country domains and if they could please add their insights to the ongoing discussion. Myself and a few others believe it is inappropriate to claim that .ie is Northern Irelands internet domain, because .ie was assigned to a different country (the Republic of Ireland), whilst others say it was assigned to the whole island and point to the fact that the organisation that runs the domain, does welcome people from Northern Ireland to purchase domains too.
Any additional input on the talk page is most welcome. Thank you BritishWatcher (talk) 11:37, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
* SEO Ireland: Domain names and Northern Ireland - both .uk, .ni, .ie and .eu are used, .uk being the official one (i.e. used by governmental institutions). So they all should be included. — Vano 10:09, 5 January 2013 (UTC)
Eighth Generation Consoles
I'm looking for additional outside opinions into the inclusion or exclusion of Video Game Consoles into the 8th Generation article. I have started a new section here and am requesting outside comment. Talk:History_of_video_game_consoles_(eighth_generation). Thank you. -Kai445 (talk) 07:21, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
Commons ENIAC images
Happy New Year, all! { I've just created a batch request for a few hi-res US Army images relating to ENIAC. It may come to nothing because there are so few, but I thought those here might have some useful comments to make over at Commons. Cheers. -- Trevj (talk) 12:09, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
* Say... is there a Commons:Commons:WikiProject Computing (obviously, if there is, it isn't at that name) ? -- <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 06:04, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
WikiProject Sinclair
I have started a proposal to group together related articles about the works of Sir Clive Sinclair. Please take a look at the proposal at WikiProject Council/Proposals/Sinclair and see if you support it. -- Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 11:48, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
HDMI Connection
My question is: I connected the HDMI to TV and to computer about a week ago and was able to see computer screen on TV screen, also to connect to Internet and watch Netflix. Since about 2 to 3 days ago it is not connecting...Why? — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 15:50, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
* This page is for discussing the project that helps improve computing articles on Wikipedia. You probably won't find anyone on Wikipedia who can answer your question. Find a knowledgeable friend or a local dealer. -- Ritchie333 (talk) <sup style="color:#7F007F;">(cont) 17:04, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
Next Unit of Computing
Hello. I created the article "Next Unit of Computing". Please expand the article as appropriate. Thank you. Axl ¤ [Talk] 10:57, 18 January 2013 (UTC)
"T-carrier"
FYI, a reorangization of the data communications articles is being discussed at Talk:T-carrier (and User talk:TCBallister/User talk:John F. Lewis) you may be interested in participating -- <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 02:37, 21 January 2013 (UTC)
"DNA computing (2013)"
FYI, there's a note at WT:MED about the title for DNA computing (2013) -- <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 09:37, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Computing/to do
This doesn't exist. Background: I was looking to enhance and include WikiProject RISC OS/to do (thanks, Mabdul) within WikiProject Computing, but thought WikiProject Computing/to do would be the logical place to start before moving onto the task force. -- Trevj (talk) 11:13, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
* 1) Is a project-wide to do list perhaps located elsewhere?
* (All I found was Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Computing/Archive 2)
* 1) Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Computing/Computer networking task force/to do is present, although apparently not included within WikiProject Computing - could it be used for tagged task force articles?
* 2) WikiProject Companies seems to work well (although no task forces are included)
* 3) Template:WPBannerMeta/hooks/todolist seems to contain the appropriate information
* 4) If/when the main project to do list is included, can we also include task force lists such as WikiProject RISC OS/to do and Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Computing/Computer networking task force/to do?
* (The latter is noted as a talk page and should maybe be moved to WikiProject Computing/Computer networking task force/to do.)
Advertising check
Someone put a Advert tag on Cray XK7, an article I wrote. I won't remove it since I was the one who created the article, could someone please take a look and provide a second opinion or suggestions of what sounds like advertising? Thanks, James086 <sup style="color:#006400;">Talk 16:32, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
* Didn't exactly look like an advert to me! Removed. -- Trevj (talk) 18:57, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
* FWIW, I don't think that reads like an ad, though the person who put that notice there probably balked at all the "This company has this configuration" sections. To my eye, the article is awfully technical and your average reader would have a hard time understanding it. But I don't think it looks like an ad. — KieferSkunk (talk) — 19:01, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
* Thanks guys, I'll try to make it a little less technical. Much appreciated. James086 <sup style="color:#006400;">Talk 07:21, 26 January 2013 (UTC)
Why doesn't transistor count mention RAM chips and flash chips?
The amount on flash chips is pretty impressive. Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 18:57, 27 January 2013 (UTC)
* I don't believe it's an intentional omission. I've inserted an empty section for the information. -—Kvng 01:19, 28 January 2013 (UTC)
Series on IDEF modelling languages
About three years ago I created a small series Wikipedia articles on IDEF modelling languages from IDEF0, IDEF1X, IDEF3, IDEF4, IDEF5 to IDEF6. Two days ago without any discussion a new user changed all names, claiming Original name is just an acronym. However, in my opinion these original names are the real names; both in the original documents and in third party sources. Now I have requested to restore the original names, and would like to ask for your expert opinion on this matter at Talk:Integration_DEFinition. Thank you. -- Mdd (talk) 20:54, 28 January 2013 (UTC)
* Since there is some confusion over what the acronyms stand for and therefore I presume these things a primarily known by their acronyms, I support using the acronyms as titles. The recent change to titles that include a parenthetical acronym is definitely not an improvement (see MOS:TITLES). I suggest you revert the moves and direct further discussion here. -—Kvng 23:20, 28 January 2013 (UTC)
* Thanks for your response. I already started a move procedure with the discussion on Talk:Integration_DEFinition. I took the liberty to copy/paste your comment to there. -- Mdd (talk) 01:10, 29 January 2013 (UTC)
Portal:Computer networking
Portal:Computer networking has been nominated for deletion. But it seems to be leaning towards merger with Portal:Computer science (this is a different portal from Portal:Computing) -- <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 06:05, 9 February 2013 (UTC)
* Portal:Information technology and Portal:Telecommunication are also under consideration as merge destinations. There does not appear to be a consensus yet. -—Kvng 15:37, 12 February 2013 (UTC)
The Comment Group
I just created a stub on China's premier hacking collective, known in the West as The Comment Group or Byzantine Candor. This could be worth a nomination for WP:DYK if expanded. – Fayenatic L ondon 22:06, 12 February 2013 (UTC)
HARDWARE articles
the hardware articles under this project are really starting to suffer. the hardware task force is semi-inactive, and most articles haven't been touched in months!!! there have been major advances, and additionally, some look like people just backed a dump truck full of specs, and dropped them into the article, whether the article needs them or not! i'm slowly getting some fixed up, but there is alot of work to do, and i'm only one wikipedian. Aunva6 (talk) 05:16, 15 February 2013 (UTC)
Ivy Bridge (microarchitecture): Missing Mobile Processors
In the main article titled "Ivy Bridge (microarchitecture)" the specifications of some new Ivy Bridge mobile processors released in Q1'13 are missing from the "Mobile" table - viz:
i5-3380M 35W/2.9 GHz 3.6 GHz Turbo 3MB cache Q1'13 i5-3340M 35W/2.7 GHz 3.4 GHz Turbo 3MB cache Q1'13
I realise it is difficult to keep up with new Intel releases, but I notice that Dell is now offering these processors as standard in its M4700/M6700 Workstations.
Powellar (talk) 21:09, 15 February 2013 (UTC)
XML lists
The title of the page List of XML schemas is wrong. It's the same thing as List of XML markup languages, only grouped by purpose. Also, the title "List of XML markup languages" is iffy because it can be read as "list of extensible markup language markup languages" which makes little sense. A better title would be e.g. "List of XML-based markup languages", possibly omitting the word markup. I don't have the time to work on these right now (if ever), so feel free to be BOLD should you be inclined so. Wipe (talk) 02:00, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
* There are two other Editors who agree with you. I have put up merge banners. -—Kvng 21:06, 29 December 2012 (UTC)
* merge is desirable but name of final article is not that clear.
user Andy Dingley in Discussion 'List of XML Schemas' pointed that language is only one: XML. I do agree. Mostly in the list there are 'applications (projects) using XML schemas', I believe. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 05:17, 26 February 2013 (UTC)MS
"Post-PC era"
FYI, the naming of "Post-PC era" is up for discussion, see Talk:Post-PC era -- <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 05:22, 20 February 2013 (UTC)
Including company names in Backend as a Service article
Hello. I recently worked on behalf of Kinvey, a Backend as a service (BaaS) provider, to update the BaaS article. My original draft of the article included a list of prominent BaaS providers, which became a bit of a spam magnet and was subsequently removed (background on this here). I still think there are good grounds for including the largest providers, however, and have provided my rationale here.
There's been quite a bit of discussion, but we've yet to reach a consensus on how to deal with this situation. I'm hoping that some editors from WP:Computing might be able to take a look, and see if they have any thoughts about how to handle this. Thanks! ChrisPond (Talk · COI) 20:44, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
* Symbol confirmed.svg Done. ChrisPond (Talk · COI) 13:41, 26 February 2013 (UTC)
mobile devices
can we clarify on what is used for an have some examples on that — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 13:29, 26 February 2013 (UTC)
Needs more salt
This arical needs a little more salt. Just saying. 2+2=4 — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 19:36, 6 March 2013 (UTC)
Proposed split of TRS-80 article
Hi there,
I've proposed a split of the TRS-80 article; one covering the original-architecture machines (Model I, III and 4) and one for the history and use of the brand, which was subsequently applied to many unrelated architectures.
I'd appreciate any feedback before going ahead with anything, and WikiProject Computing seemed like a good place to get an interested cross-section of opinion.
More details and discussion can be found at Talk:TRS-80/Archives/2015. Thanks. Ubcule (talk) 15:56, 11 March 2013 (UTC)
Transformation
Please see WT:PHYSICS, where a discussion on creating an article on "transformation" is occurring. -- <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 21:42, 16 March 2013 (UTC)
Datalink security AFC
(Originally posted here by Martijn Hoekstra) Hi folks, I came across Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Network Interface Layer Security, and was wondering what you think (and if you think something strongly, remember to be bold). The format as it stands seems to be less than ideal. I think this might best take place as List of data-link vulnerabilities, which we don't have yet, and creating a separate article for each vulnerability (like the ARP spoofing we already have). I'm far from a network specialist, and the taskforce here might be better equipped to decide what's best here. Zaminamina Eh Eh Waka Waka Eh Eh 20:35, 25 March 2013 (UTC)
Style of LSR and LPR
Hi all,
after a style change of LSR there's a discussion on wether to keep the change and use it for LPR too, revert it or develop an alternative design for both. Some constructive feedback for the discussion would be welcome.
Furthermore you're invited to leave a vote for your favourite design or express your opposition against the others. -- Patrick87 (talk) 14:27, 26 February 2013 (UTC)
* I like LSR because it is clear, simple and puts the page name in by default if none is entered. I will vote, too. Synergee (talk) 02:03, 27 March 2013 (UTC)
Agenda Microwriter
There seems to be no mention of the Agenda Microwriter in the text on personal digital assistants I have seen to date. This British invention was a bulky but pocketable machine with very useful software and twenty six folders each nominated to a letter of the alphabet. It was made in Mitcham, Surrey, England and was very robust. Its key feature was a seven key "shorthand" keypad (not qwerty) that claimed (largely justifiably) to be learnt in two hours. The keypad allowed a full character set (I believe the full ASCII set but I would need to dig in my garage to be sure)and built-in software included a very competent word processor with mailmerge and letter layout, tabs etc, a spreadsheet and the capacity to make rapid notes in the dark for those competent with the keyboard. The screen was small and monochromatic showing only characters. The battery was capable of business use with only one charge a week in my experience. I have two dead ones in my garage and miss them terribly. The total onboard memory was (I believe) 32 kilobytes but cards added a further 64 or 128 kilobytes of memory. The 64 kilobyte version was capable of holding around 1000 notes and addresses and was fully operational as a pda except for the lack of telephone utility. I do not have records of when I bought these machines, but they were certainly roughly contemporary with the Psion Organiser.
As a general comment on what we have lost in the rush to mobile telephony I would suggest that many of the characteristics of a good pda (general search facility, proper word processing, direct printing, functioning spreadsheets) are only now being recovered (ref perhaps the Note II) but reviewers seem obsessed with the colour, Facebook, HDTV capabilities of these machines at the expense of telling us whether good facilities exist on them for serious business use. The staff in telephone shops are largely unable to indicate the capabilities of the machines they sell unless they personally have that machine in their pocket. — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 11:33, 26 March 2013 (UTC)
* Do you mean the article at Microwriter? I've just created a redirect there from . -- Trevj (talk) 12:55, 26 March 2013 (UTC)
File:Xfce-logo-big.png
File:Xfce-logo-big.png has been nominated for deletion. (are we allowed to use LGPL images?) -- <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 22:48, 31 March 2013 (UTC)
Computer, Analog computer, Slide Rule, ...
"Computer" begins with this definition "A computer is a general purpose device that can be programmed to carry out a finite set of arithmetic or logical operations. Since a sequence of operations can be readily changed, the computer can solve more than one kind of problem."
The Wikipedians controlling the Slide rule page think that a slide rule is a "mechanical analog computer". That claim, of course, fails to meet the programmable definition.
Then looking at Category:Analog computers there would seem to be a number of difficulties. Not only the many that cannot be programmed (Astrolabe for example, but also those specific to one kind problem (fire control computers such as the Torpedo Data Computer for example).
If the Antikythera mechanism (listed as an analog computer), which models some part of the cosmos, is a computer, then my wrist watch, which models a very small part of the cosmos, must be a computer.
There is also in Computing the very odd claim that the Jacquard loom was "one of the first programmable devices". Programmable devices have existed for thousands of years - generally referred to as "automata". See, for example Hero of Alexandria. A 10 minute mechanical play is executing a program; his cart is specifically described as "programmable". The loom should be replaced with the cart!
Mechanical computer links to Adding machine as an example. Adding machine states An adding machine was a class of Mechanical calculator. Sigh.
Besides definitions, a taxonomy is needed. There are not that many objects - all should be listed in a taxonomy - thus ending computer/calculator debates for individual items. All too hard for me -- I'll check in again next year! — <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 03:09, 1 April 2013 (UTC)
OS field in infobox
I posted this over at Template talk:Infobox information appliance, but I don't imagine too many people watch that page. I ask because there's been some back-and-forth about this at ThinkPad. Any advice or opinions?
Is the OS field intended to reflect the OS the computer was sold with, the one the vendor supports, or all OSes the box is capable of running? I ask because many (most?) computers are sold with MS Windows, the vendor only supports MS Windows, but they are capable of running linux, various flavors of bsd, etc. I would lean toward only listing the OS the vendor supplies, otherwise it's a lengthy list, but then what about computers that are sold with no OS? Kendall-K1 (talk) 15:07, 4 April 2013 (UTC)
WikiProject Apps Proposal
A proposal for a WikiProject Apps has been made at WikiProject Council/Proposals/Apps. As WikiProject Computing is a related WikiProject, members of this WikiProject are invited to join the discussion. Thank you. XapApp (talk) 02:19, 8 April 2013 (UTC)
Comments requested at relevant RfD
At Redirects for discussion/Log/2013 March 31 there is a discussion that would benefit from input from editors knowledgeable about computer networking. Thanks, Thryduulf (talk) 11:17, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
* Relisted here. The redirect isn't interesting any more, but there could be a better use based on comments and history so comments are welcome. ~ Amory ( u • t • c ) 13:26, 9 April 2013 (UTC)
Discussion at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2013_April_8#Category:Apps
You are invited to join the discussion at Categories_for_discussion/Log/2013_April_8. Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) 07:10, 15 April 2013 (UTC)
Forensics expert needs regarding possible COI editing
I reverted some possibly-useful but seeminly-WP:Conflict of interest-editing on Computer forensics. Please see the discussion on Talk:Computer_forensics.
Please read the editor's contributions and if appropriate, undo my reverting of his edits. davidwr/ (talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail) 19:07, 16 April 2013 (UTC)
* Also this edit on Digital forensic process needs scrutiny. The revert was complex due to 2 subsequent edits. Feel free to revert to [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Digital_forensic_process&oldid=550673156 the version right before mine] if the COI content should be kept. davidwr/ (talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail) 19:24, 16 April 2013 (UTC)
Titan (supercomputer)
Hello,
I performed a brief FAC review of Titan (supercomputer) at Featured article candidates/Titan (supercomputer)/archive1, but it could do with some more input. Is anybody here interested?
Thank you. Praemonitus (talk) 23:01, 20 April 2013 (UTC)
Documenting the 1980s, an information "black hole"
According to GNG and NOTE, Wikipedians generally look for references in 3rd party materials. As we go back in time, such mentions were increasingly expensive to product, print and archive. I recently heard that the entire recorded history of mankind prior to 2002 is equal to 2 years of current output.
I bring this up because it seems we repeatedly come up against examples of things that are very well know and widely used, yet are almost undocumented. The early history of video games is a good example. Many games that were widely played do not appear to have ever been documented in a form that meets normal GNG. Many of these are documented today, but only on self-hosted pages. These too fail GNG.
In the current era of rampant deletionism, this presents a problem. The net is alight with examples from this era in history being brought to AfD and killed off by bureaucrats who are unaware of the history (nor should they be) and apply the letter of the law. I ran into this myself with the Star Trek (text game) article, which quickly turned sour for no apparent reason. In that case I was able to find mentions in snippets in magazine ads, but had that not happened, the article would have been deleted. This is a game that ran on millions of computers and is know to practically anyone that used a computer from about 1975 to 1985.
Has anyone put any thought into this issue? I am vaguely aware of efforts to allow a wider selection of materials in support, ones that would otherwise fail GNG, but I am unaware of the specifics or whether or not they have been successful. Are there any mainstream efforts in this area? Any other advice that might be offered?
Maury Markowitz (talk) 16:39, 28 April 2013 (UTC)
* My advice is to become familiar with WP:AfD procedures monitor the following:
* Technology AfD
* Computing AfD
* -—Kvng 17:58, 1 May 2013 (UTC)
* I was going to blow this off Kvng, but in practice this appears to be entirely practical. The list on tech, for instance, was only a few pages long. Maury Markowitz (talk) 14:14, 2 May 2013 (UTC)
* Any other similar lists I might want to look at? I'm not sure how to find the list of all these sub-lists of AfD Maury Markowitz (talk) 14:23, 2 May 2013 (UTC)
* I've run into this myself and can sympathize. I think third party materials are important and it is reasonable to require independent sources, but as long as they are independent, the sources don't necessarily have to top-tier like Byte or Dr. Dobbs Journal of Computer Calisthenics and Orthodontia. Gamer's magazines will sometimes run articles on historical video games. Role-playing mags can have articles on RPG video games. Institutions like the Smithsonian and the Computer history museum have had retrospectives on the most popular games and sometimes amass a good archive in the process of creating these retrospectives. I know in the late 70's and 80, there were a whole host of hobbyist magazines and newspapers, like the Silicon Gulch Gazette, that reported on hardware and software topics. But where those hoobyist pubs would be archived, I have no idea. Thoroughly searching those self hosted sites will sometimes reveal scans of magazine articles on the game in question. --Mark viking (talk) 20:07, 1 May 2013 (UTC)
* But the problem is that AfD is policed by bureaucrats who tend to strictly apply book requirements for meeting GNG. The rule of thumb I've always used, and you espouse above, is never good enough. What do we do in those cases? Maury Markowitz (talk) 13:09, 2 May 2013 (UTC)
* I have sympathy with the issues, one particular related discussion being Articles for deletion/Cyber Chess. This is a '90s game but on a minority platform. Obviously there were plenty of RSes available in the day but getting archived copies isn't always easy. I think that Mark viking's suggestion of scans on WP:SPSes is useful. There's always the risk that such sites won't be available in the future, but if an editor has read and incorporated (as a source) content in a reliable source then others should assume good faith and not question such inclusion from printed sources without good reason. -- Trevj (talk) 00:25, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
* I certainly don't mind the SPS's as a solution, but I've actually seen them argued for rejection because they are copyvio! Maury Markowitz (talk) 00:59, 7 May 2013 (UTC)
* That sounds like nonsense! I don't see how a copyvio on Wikimedia servers would be caused by an external link to a site including a scanned magazine article. Are editors rejecting such citations able to link to a policy showing that such linking is unacceptable? -- Trevj (talk) 13:05, 7 May 2013 (UTC)
VisualEditor is coming
The WP:VisualEditor is designed to let people edit without needing to learn wikitext syntax. The articles will look (nearly) the same in the new edit "window" as when you read them (aka WYSIWYG), and changes will show up as you type them, very much like writing a document in a modern word processor. The devs currently expect to deploy the VisualEditor as the new site-wide default editing system in early July 2013.
About 2,000 editors have tried out this early test version so far, and feedback overall has been positive. Right now, the VisualEditor is available only to registered users who opt-in, and it's a bit slow and limited in features. You can do all the basic things like writing or changing sentences, creating or changing section headings, and editing simple bulleted lists. It currently can't either add or remove templates (like fact tags), ref tags, images, categories, or tables (and it will not be turned on for new users until common reference styles and citation templates are supported). These more complex features are being worked on, and the code will be updated as things are worked out. Also, right now you can only use it for articles and user pages. When it's deployed in July, the old editor will still be available and, in fact, the old edit window will be the only option for talk pages (I believe that WP:Notifications (aka Echo) is ultimately supposed to deal with talk pages).
The developers are asking editors like you to join the alpha testing for the VisualEditor. Please go to Special:Preferences and tick the box at the end of the page, where it says "Enable VisualEditor (only in the main namespace and the User namespace)". Save the preferences, and then try fixing a few typos or copyediting a few articles by using the new "Edit" tab instead of the section [Edit] buttons or the old editing window (which will still be present and still work for you, but which will be renamed "Edit source"). Fix a typo or make some changes, and then click the 'save and review' button (at the top of the page). See what works and what doesn't. We really need people who will try this out on 10 or 15 pages and then leave a note VisualEditor/Feedback about their experiences, especially if something mission-critical isn't working and doesn't seem to be on anyone's radar.
Also, if any of you are involved in template maintenance or documentation about how to edit pages, the VisualEditor will require some extra attention. The devs want to incorporate things like citation templates directly into the editor, which means that they need to know what information goes in which fields. Obviously, the screenshots and instructions for basic editing will need to be completely updated. The old edit window is not going away, so help pages will likely need to cover both the old and the new.
If you have questions and can't find a better place to ask them, then please feel free to leave a message on my user talk page, and perhaps together we'll be able to figure it out. WhatamIdoing (talk) 01:10, 7 May 2013 (UTC)
* Correction: Talk pages are being replaced by Flow, not by Notifications/Echo. This may happen even sooner than the VisualEditor. WhatamIdoing (talk) 14:43, 7 May 2013 (UTC)
File:CPT 4200 Cassette Tape Selectric Word Processor.png
File:CPT 4200 Cassette Tape Selectric Word Processor.png has been nominated for deletion -- <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 03:52, 12 May 2013 (UTC)
WP Computing in the Signpost
The WikiProject Report would like to focus on WikiProject Computing for a Signpost article. This is an excellent opportunity to draw attention to your efforts and attract new members to the project. Would you be willing to participate in an interview? If so, here are the questions for the interview. Just add your response below each question and feel free to skip any questions that you don't feel comfortable answering. Multiple editors will have an opportunity to respond to the interview questions, so be sure to sign your answers. If you know anyone else who would like to participate in the interview, please share this with them. Have a great day. –Mabeenot (talk) 21:20, 15 May 2013 (UTC)
liblogging article
Hello, I am relatively new to Wikipedia and wanted to help improve the information on Computer data logging. I had written an article on liblogging, but it is not sure if it meets the notability requirements. User Deb helps me avoid creating a bad article, but he is not sure on the references I could provide. So he suggested I try asking here. As usual for logging-related projects, there is not much public discussion and mentioning of them, even though the drive very important applications. Liblogging is the only active project providing a simple API for RFC 3195 logging and is included in all major distros. There are some other BEEP libraries (RFC 3195 is based on BEEP), but they offer a much larger scope and support RFC 3195 as an "example", which means they are heavy for someone just interested in implementing RFC 3195. This as some quick background. I have listed some of the more important references to it at User_talk:Deb (the posting with the URLs). I would appreciate if you could tell us what you think. Many thanks in advance! Logfreak4712 (talk) 11:11, 12 May 2013 (UTC)
* First of all, thanks for your efforts in adding material about computer logging infrastructures. Logging is not considered 'exciting' by many, but it is essential. I took a look at the references you mentioned. The osdir link is a dead link; the content was apparently deleted. The beepcore link just lists liblogging, and following the link gives a short description. The comments on RFC 3195 lists liblogging. The M. Schuette presentation lists liblogging. I consider the M. Schuette presentation, the comments on RFC page and possibly the beepcore.org page as reliable sources. But unfortunately none of them go into any detail about the library. Given the general notability guidelines, per WP:GNG, for an article to survive AfD, multiple in-depth independent reliable sources are needed. Thus my best guess is that these sources would not be enough, because they are not in-depth.
* However, the library is verifiable and the fact that it is listed as an example implementation in comments for RFC 3195 makes it somewhat notable. I'd suggest adding liblogging to the Implementations section of the article Reliable Event Logging Protocol as a useful open-source example of an RFC 3195 implementation. I agree that BEEP is not a good fit. For what it is worth, I think this is a worthy library and agree that infrastructure projects like this don't get much press, which leads to systemic bias against inclusion in WP. Still, those are the notability rules these days and we have to work with them. Thanks, --Mark viking (talk) 17:04, 17 May 2013 (UTC)
File:LG-WebOS.png
File:LG-WebOS.png has been nominated for deletion -- <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 07:14, 18 May 2013 (UTC)
Category:Computer pioneers
Category:Computer pioneers has been nominated for deletion. This has subcategories, which is not discussed in the nomination -- <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 07:59, 22 May 2013 (UTC)
Touch user interface
I went to the page Touch user interface, expecting to see content about, say, touchscreen oriented interfaces (such as say, Android, iOS, Windows 8), but instead see this strange article about haptic feedback that seems disjointed and all over the place.
Given how important these types of interfaces are becoming, am I the only one thinking that this clould be a candidate for a total re-write, with your help of course? ViperSnake151 Talk 18:58, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
* The article seems to cover a different concept: interfaces that communicate with users using touch, rather than interfaces which use touchscreens as an input method. Having said that, it does seem to be a bit short on references, and a bit all over the place. The TUI concept isn't really covered all that well. — daranz [ t ] 19:37, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
Machine code
An important concept which definitely needs more eyes. I have an impression that I talk mainly with myself and IPs at talk: Machine code for last three years. But I actually did not deal with the topic for about twenty years. Incnis Mrsi (talk) 07:30, 25 May 2013 (UTC)
Removal of categories by Dekart
I am concerned about [ recent drive-by recategorization of articles] by user:Dekart (notified), who did not appear to be collaborative earier. Especially damaging thing is a mass removal of Category:Operating system technology. [ One instance], which was obviously wrong on its both sides, I opted to revert. But there are many others which require a review. Incnis Mrsi (talk) 12:30, 26 May 2013 (UTC)
* Please check Categorization: "...This means that if a page belongs to a subcategory of C (or a subcategory of a subcategory of C, and so on) then it is not normally placed directly into C." This was the reason why I removed Category:Operating system technology from several articles. For example, article Shell (computing) belongs to Category:Command shells, which in turn belongs to Category:Operating system technology. This is why Shell (computing) shouldn't be present in Category:Operating system technology directly, so I removed it from there. Dekart (talk) 15:46, 26 May 2013 (UTC)
* Some of your edits are of this type and are within policy, but none of your recent edits have any edit summary, and that is not OK. Please explain your edits in each article you change. And as Incnis Mrsi pointed out, you made an obvious error in Operating system shell. In writing an edit summary, you could have likely caught this bug. Thanks, --Mark viking (talk) 16:01, 26 May 2013 (UTC)
* I know what is over-categorization and cope with it frequently at Wikimedia Commons, as well as (formerly) in Russian Wikipedia as early as in 2006. The important word is is not normally placed. You should think, not push, in such cases as . Even if it is included to category:Linux drivers which is a sub-sub-subcategory of category:Operating system technology, “driver” is a part of the latter on its own right. Not because some driver are Linux drivers, which is a subcat of Linux kernel, one type of kernels, which finally is a subcat of “technology”. Just think whether do you improve things or break them. Incnis Mrsi (talk) 16:20, 26 May 2013 (UTC)
* I don't agree with this. The article Device driver belongs to Category:Device drivers, which in turn belongs to Category:Operating system technology. So, Device driver don't need to be itself in Category:Operating system technology. As an example, please see Applied mathematics, it belongs just to Category:Applied mathematics, and not to Category:Mathematics Dekart (talk) 20:15, 26 May 2013 (UTC)
* Oops, I missed that. As Mark viking said, edit summaries could avoid this misconception. HotCat has the manual save mode, activated with (++) link, where you can add an own text to the (precomposed) edit summary. Incnis Mrsi (talk) 05:33, 27 May 2013 (UTC)
* Thanks for information! I will do this in my future categorization changes. Dekart (talk) 19:57, 27 May 2013 (UTC)
* +1 for edit summaries! ~KvnG 02:07, 30 May 2013 (UTC)
Saw your signpost
A while back Cisco ASA got deleted. I followed the rabbit hole of suspicious AfD participants and found a somewhat large conspiracy to reduce, discredit, and eliminate coverage of Cisco products and boost Avaya/Nortel products. Some of you might have followed the controversy at the time I made my findings public, which resulted in the deletion of the mostly-defunct Wikiproject Nortel. In any case, I have a userfied draft at User:Gigs/Cisco ASA. One of the issues with a product such as this is that even though it's a very popular and important flagship product for Cisco in the SMB space, there isn't a whole lot of in-depth coverage that's easy to find on the web. Anyway, help would be appreciated bringing that draft back to article space, with improvements in its scope and coverage. Gigs (talk) 15:29, 12 June 2013 (UTC)
* Thanks for willing to help, although I would say the proposed article is borderline. Most of the proposed article is a table of detailed product specs sourced to a Cisco promotional web page listed as retrieved in 2008. Wikipedia is not a buying guide. One can always get the latest specs directly from the company site, so these product litanies are either just redundant or out of date. Have they really not improved in five years? And stating that it is "popular" "important" or "flagship" is an opinion, which generally does not comply with Wikipedia guidelines (and "flagship" is idiomatic, to be avoided). Cisco is a public company, so if these products really are so important, then you should be able to, say, dig out some of the annual reports from Edgar and say "this product line accounted for $37 bazillion in revenues in 2008 and $47 bazillion in 20012" What we need more in my opinion, is the historical narrative saying how the products evolved over time. Those go best in an article of a combined product line, which can always be split apart when it gets too big. One approach would be to do this with the Cisco PIX article, updating the ASA section there and adding citations until it needs to be spun out. Although that article itself could use much help with the inline links and uncited assertions.
* Also not sure of the exact events to which you refer, but perhaps what some might call a "conspiracy" might be called "consensus". There was indeed some fans of Avaya and those pages still could use some cleanup. And yes, gaps in other coverage also need filling in. Need to get as much collaboration as we can, thanks. W Nowicki (talk) 17:41, 12 June 2013 (UTC)
iOS 7
Hi! I know it's not really in your remit, but I'd appreciate a little extra input into what is now becoming an edit war on the iOS 7 article regarding the inclusion of a proportionally large criticism section. I have opened a talk discussion there, yet IP editors keep re-adding the section despite a lack of reliable sources, and the fact that it causes extreme bias. I don't know whether semi-protection is warranted, but it'd be good if some people could help back me up; I don't want to fall foul of 3RR, so I can't protect it myself any more. Thanks! drewmunn talk 10:24, 14 June 2013 (UTC)
"Cue sheet"
The usage of Cue sheet is under discussion, see Talk:Cue sheet (computing) -- <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 00:21, 20 June 2013 (UTC)
""
The usage of is up for discussion, see talk:digital currency -- <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 03:54, 28 June 2013 (UTC)
sspec and hyperthreading in tables
In List of Intel Core i5 microprocessors and several similar articles, there is a column for sSpec. As far as I can guess, that is a part number. That information is of little use in these tables. OTOH, it would be good to indicate if the CPU is hyperthreaded in the table. Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 01:40, 19 July 2013 (UTC)
FYI: Very popular computing article - RAID
http://stats.grok.se/en/201307/RAID Christian75 (talk) 18:23, 22 July 2013 (UTC)
TeamQuest Corporation Needs Updated
I work in the marketing department at TeamQuest Corporation and our profile is out of date. Would someone be able to update our page with current information? I can provide the necessary edits - no marketing, sales, or promotions - just getting the facts correct. Thanks! Trixie321 (talk) 13:38, 26 July 2013 (UTC)
WikiProject Websites support
Does anyone know why WikiProject Websites is "supported by" WikiProject Computing? Websites don't seem to be a particularly technical topic. It seems like if WikiProject Websites is to be a sub-project of someone, WikiProject Internet would be a better candidate. Please post your thoughts below. ~KvnG 20:53, 28 July 2013 (UTC)
* I agree that WikiProject Internet would be a better (in the sense of more specifically applicable) candidate for a parent project of WikiProject Websites. All websites are based upon HTTP or HTTPS, which ultimately depend on IP, the basis for the Internet. --Mark viking (talk) 21:08, 28 July 2013 (UTC)
Data Center
The page references obsolete ASHRAE Thermal Guidelines. The guidelines stated are from the 2004 version (68 - 77deg F and 40 -55%Rh). The current version is dated 2011 and the recommended ranges are now 64.4 - 80.6 degF and 41.9 degF dewpoint - 59 degF dewpoint capped at 60% Rh.
Thanks, Terry Rodgers, CPE, CPMP and ASHRAE TC9.9 member.<IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 02:26, 2 August 2013 (UTC)
* I have copied this comment to Talk:Data_center. ~KvnG 18:31, 4 August 2013 (UTC)
RFO - leads to maze of links, no useful information
Apologies in advance if this is unreadable; it appears that my attempt to disable "visual editor" didn't work....
I attempted to look up RFO and guessed that the second to last meaning was relevant. The text of this is "Reason for Outage, a term related to network outage in system administration." Both of the terms I've italicized were links; both turned out to be redirects to the same place, which was Downtime. This page did not even use the term "reason for outage", which I suspect of being a semi-technical term in the context of analyzing system uptime. I checked the two redirects. It appears that Network outage used to be a real page, but was merged into downtime on 30 Dec 2007. Looking at the Downtime page it appears to say very little specific about network outages. And as for what I really wanted - nothing except the expansion of the TLA on the disambiguation page.
I hope someone knowledgeable would like to write this. I can't volunteer; if I knew what the client who wanted an RFO wanted, I wouldn't have been looking it up. Kobnach (talk) 04:07, 7 August 2013 (UTC)
WikiProject Cellular devices
-- <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 05:23, 16 August 2013 (UTC)
Missing topics page
I have updated Missing topics about Computers - Skysmith (talk) 12:09, 29 August 2013 (UTC)
* , just wondering if this is part of this WikiProject? XOttawahitech (talk) 20:18, 30 August 2013 (UTC)
Red Screen of Death
I made a promise to myself to never nominate an article twice for WP:AFD, but I fail to see anything redeeming for this one. The topic is trivial, there are barely any sources available (only to confirm its existence, and only in Windows Vista). IPs keep adding rumours, original research and unsourced "personified fear" bullshit while admins and regulars stand still and watch it degenerate into a pile of unreferenced trivia. Please, someone put this page out of its misery. Keφr 18:39, 1 September 2013 (UTC)
* I've simply redirected it, per Talk:Blue Screen of Death. It's almost all WP:OR and doesn't seem to meet WP:GNG, but could be a search time so deserves a redirect. -- Trevj (talk) 10:42, 3 September 2013 (UTC)
Merger of Docear and SciPlore MindMapping
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Docear. -- Trevj (talk) 10:30, 3 September 2013 (UTC)
Seeking community feedback regarding the Chakra (operating system) article...
Hello,
As Chakra_(operating_system) is noted on its talk page as being supported by WikiProject Computing, I would like to offer folks an opportunity to share their feedback on an ongoing thread at Talk:Chakra_(operating_system).
Thanks in advance for your time and attention,
--Kevjonesin (talk) 00:16, 15 September 2013 (UTC)
Proposal to rename Portal:Computer programming to Portal:software development
A discussion is in progress to rename Portal:Computer programming to Portal:software development. Comments are welcome. Bwrs (talk) 19:00, 17 September 2013 (UTC)
Making the title field optional
I've opened up a discussion here about that template parameter. <font color="#666666">« Ryūkotsusei » 01:32, 29 September 2013 (UTC)
Changelog and operating system differences
There is a discussion that concerns policy on history of Operating System articles and possible violations of WP:CHANGELOG here if anyone wants to get involved. Thanks ツ Jenova 20 (email) 11:22, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
Separate article for smoke testing software?
For half a year now, the article section Smoke testing has had a tag on it, because it doesn't really fit into the rest of the article (which is about blowing smoke through pipes to see if they leak). Any input is welcome. Q VVERTYVS (hm?) 09:40, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
Encoding and display of typographic marks
There's a discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Typography about the information concerning Unicode and HTML representations (and other details), which appear in many (most?) of our articles about marks/glyphs, eg. ¶, Ampersand, and most of the other contents of Diacritical marks and Punctuation marks.
Please give feedback there, on whether or how this information should be kept (and if so in what form it should be standardised), or whether it falls afoul of WP:NOTHOWTO (or other guidelines) and must be deleted (or moved). Thanks. –Quiddity (talk) 05:51, 11 October 2013 (UTC)
Announcing WikiProject Open, and an invitation
Hi, I'd like to let members of this WikiProject know about WikiProject Open, a currently-forming project dedicated to the concept of openness. Thus far, members are mainly interested in content, e.g. open education and open access publishing, more than software. But we would love to have some input and involvement from the F/OSS community as well. Please check out our WikiProject pages, especially the planning page. There you will find info about two webinar online meetings we're holding this week. In addition to editing our pages or commenting on the project's talk page, I hope you're able to join in and chat with us in person. -Pete (talk) 04:52, 13 October 2013 (UTC)
VisualEditor
Help with technical details are invited, and specifically there's discussion about merging, and use of "WYSIWYG" at Talk:VisualEditor. Widefox ; talk 23:47, 22 October 2013 (UTC)
Rocket Software
Perhaps some of you can have a look at the set of articles associated with this--see Template:Rocket Software. It's a whole bunch of articles, all of them in need of serious improvement. Drmies (talk) 02:18, 23 October 2013 (UTC)
Help on Passive optical network
Is there an active editor that could help with Passive optical network? I tried to start converting some at-large web links into citations and removing some uncited assertions. An anonymous user keeps changing it back, and has not responded on the talk page. Do not want to edit-war, so should we propose a semi-protect or something? Thanks. W Nowicki (talk) 22:13, 16 October 2013 (UTC)
* The path of least resistance there is probably just to try again in a couple months. ~KvnG 14:57, 26 October 2013 (UTC)
TV tuner card/Video capture card
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Video capture card. -- Trevj (talk) 12:22, 29 October 2013 (UTC)
Created category for Streisand effect
I've gone ahead and created the category for Category:Streisand effect.
* Category:Streisand effect
Please feel free to populate it with related articles.
Discussion is welcome at Category talk:Streisand effect.
Thank you for your time,
— Cirt (talk) 18:44, 11 November 2013 (UTC)
Commons category Computer simulation needs diffusion
The Commons category Computer simulation currently has over 800 files that would benefit from a more fine-grained categorization. --<font style="font-family:Monotype Corsiva; font-size:15px;"> Daniel Mietchen (talk) 21:10, 12 November 2013 (UTC)
Portal:Technology for featured candidacy
I've nominated Portal:Technology for featured candidacy. Comments would be appreciated, at Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:Technology. — Cirt (talk) 01:58, 20 November 2013 (UTC)
* Portal:Technology
Talk:United States v. Microsoft Corp.
The move request has been relisted. Please join in discussion to improve consensus. --George Ho (talk) 21:38, 23 November 2013 (UTC)
Requested Articles
Hi, Requested Articles is encouraging WikiProjects to have a look at their relevant section at RA. For this WikiProject, that is here. Thanks, Mat ty. 007 19:25, 28 November 2013 (UTC)
Timeline of computing: A great way to do computing history. Some additions.[
This is one of my favorite ways to understand history. I like the timeline and want to help. Olson is misspelled-- it is Ken Olsen. The quote date is unclear. Teletype is a trade name and trademarked. There are a lot of other minor errors, but this is probably the best form to do history so that every item on it will point to a Wikipedia entry.
Don't make it any smaller... make it bigger. Scrolling horizontally for more time would be nice. Scrolling vertically for more categories is also necessary.
Can I urge someone to take the entries of my timeline and add them to this one? My timeline is an excel sheet has 500 plus entries accessible here. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/gbell/Computer_History_Timeline_BC-2013_Gordon_Bell.htmCgordonbell (talk) 06:01, 9 December 2013 (UTC)
Techcrunch article: How Hackers Beat The NSA In The ’90s And How They Can Do It Again
Here is a possible article:
* Ferenstein, Gregory. "How Hackers Beat The NSA In The ’90s And How They Can Do It Again." (Archive) Techcrunch. June 28, 2013.
Where would this go? WhisperToMe (talk) 08:15, 15 December 2013 (UTC)
Retrocomputing
I'm asking here too, in order to get the discussion going. I have to take issue with the current state of the category Category:Retrocomputing. It includes Wikipedia articles for several computing systems that were in use from the 1970s to the 1990s, but are not in use any more. The reason for this issue is that the computing systems themselves are not "retrocomputing" - they were the cutting edge of technology when they were released, and the vendors did not think "people will fondly remember these half a century in the future", they sold them as new products. Labelling them as "retrocomputing" retcons their entire lifetime as hobbyist toys rather than actual computers, and retconning itself should be avoided. With this logic, every computer a couple of decades old becomes "retrocomputing". In my opinion, "retrocomputing" should be specifically used to mean running software for old, legacy, obsolete computing systems today (or old, legacy, obsolete software for modern computing systems today), not for the systems themselves. Is this the right place to ask? What are your thoughts about this? <font color="#CC0000">J <font color="#00CC00">I <font color="#0000CC">P | Talk 19:55, 16 December 2013 (UTC)
* Yeah, I agree. A list could potentially be made of "Systems often used by retro-computing-people" or something like that, with sources attached, but tagging an old computer system with "retrocomputing" as a category doesn't work IMHO.--Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) 20:05, 16 December 2013 (UTC)
* Good, thanks. I'll allow more time for discussion, and if a consensus is reached that the category is improperly applied, I'll start removing the category links from the computer articles. <font color="#CC0000">J <font color="#00CC00">I <font color="#0000CC">P | Talk 20:10, 16 December 2013 (UTC)
* Having had no other replies for two days, I went out and removed the category "Retrocomputing" for all articles not specifically about retrocomputing, i.e. running software on legacy hardware today. Legacy hardware itself doesn't count as "retrocomputing". <font color="#CC0000">J <font color="#00CC00">I <font color="#0000CC">P | Talk 20:00, 18 December 2013 (UTC)
Image question
Have a look at this image I added to the article Emulator. It's a screenshot of a modern Fedora PC running UAE, which in turn is running Wzonka-Lad, which in turn is running Tetris. I have lately started to feel that the image doesn't really show off nested emulation that much. The reason is that the emulated AmigaOS desktop occupies less than one-fifth of the real Linux desktop (although the Game Boy screen occupies almost a third of the AmigaOS desktop). This is particularly problematic in the thumbnail. What are your opinions? I haven't found a way in E-UAE to make the emulated pixels double-size (or quadruple-size in fact, as it's a two-dimensional image), so should I crop the picture to better show off the AmigaOS desktop? <font color="#CC0000">J <font color="#00CC00">I <font color="#0000CC">P | Talk 19:53, 19 December 2013 (UTC)
* I agree that there's room for improvement in that image. In the context of the article with other screenshots, I think it is still useful. The AmigaOS window is probably small because it is a lower-resolution display. If you want to balance it out better, you will need to retake it using a lower display resolution setting for the host system.
* Also, why not discuss this on the Emulator talk page? ~KvnG 15:29, 4 January 2014 (UTC)
Tense for older Internet Explorer software articles?
Articles for older versions of Internet Explorer, such as Internet Explorer 5, Internet Explorer 3 and Internet Explorer 2, refer to the browser in past tense: "...was a graphical web browser". My question is: Should software no longer officially supported or downloadable be referred to in past or present tense? Hey mid (contribs) 22:09, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
* In my opinion, no, it should not. Software doesn't just vanish off the Earth when it becomes no longer supported or downloadable. <font color="#CC0000">J <font color="#00CC00">I <font color="#0000CC">P | Talk 11:04, 1 January 2014 (UTC)
* At some point we do use past tense. For instance, MS-DOS is discussed in the present tense but 86-DOS is in past tense. I don't know that there's a clean rule for knowing where that point is. ~KvnG 15:51, 4 January 2014 (UTC)
JavaScript
has been proposed to be renamed, see template talk:JavaScript -- <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 06:58, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
Mac Pro GAR
Mac Pro, an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for a community good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Someone not using his real name (talk) 23:02, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
Framework Benchmarks
Seems like the comparison article on web frameworks should include information from here:
http://www.infoworld.com/t/java-programming/surprise-java-fastest-server-side-web-apps-230565
and the related:
http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/
It's not as comprehensive as the current Wikipedia articles, but the results are pretty remarkable. — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 15:46, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
qgs
Would somebody care to write a page about the *.qgs file format used by QGIS. I would be interested in what is hidden in that file and I can't find any information anywhere. There are similar pages for Shapefile, which is used by a few GIS programs. --Tobias1984 (talk) 17:50, 18 January 2014 (UTC)
* Information on this file format is hard to find. There is a dtd that may or may not be current and gives the XML structure, but for the full semantics of the elements and attributes, one probably needs to browse the source. But for the purposes of a WP article or a section in QGIS, these are both primary sources (no pun intended) and if using them one would need to be careful about original research. --Mark viking (talk) 18:36, 18 January 2014 (UTC)
* Thanks! I also couldn't find any easily digestible information. I will just wait until somebody makes a blog post or something. --Tobias1984 (talk) 18:44, 18 January 2014 (UTC)
Wikidata
We just started a new project over at Wikidata: d:Wikidata:WikiProject Informatics. I hope some of you will take the time to visit or participate! For those of you that haven't heard: We are trying to centralize data about everything that is on Wikipedia. That way all languages benefit from accurate information and we can provide dynamic pages based on what the user is interested in (e.g. List of all CPUs build between 1991 and 1993) --Tobias1984 (talk) 19:50, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
Focused Project (Proposal) for Cloud Computing
A new project proposal has been created for Cloud Computing; in addition to bringing the Proposal here to the larger WikiProject Computing group, I would love feedback and opinion from the group as to the viability of such a (new) Project. In my opinion the massive topic of Cloud Computing requires larger focus and organization by a committed set of editors beyond just a Task Force within "Computing" but admittedly I am a "WikiNewbie" - thoughts and opinion appreciated! JohnWooten (talk) 12:55, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
* I would support and participate in a cloud computing task force. I don't think a new WikiProject on this is warranted. ~KvnG 14:24, 22 January 2014 (UTC)
"Comparison of..."
I see we have numerous list articles that are not properly titled in my opinion. Take for example Comparison of Nvidia graphics processing units. It's lead only says "This page contains general information about Nvidia's GPUs and videocards based on official Nvidia specifications." That's not really an explicit comparison is it? Sure the reader can compare them after looking at the specs, but that's not the same as Wikipedia providing some comparison. I'm guessing such pages were titled "comparison" because there is this typical web convention out there that putting products in a table is more or less comparison, e.g. the http://ark.intel.com database allows the user to select multiple similar products it will provide a comparison by diffing the spec tables (i.e. it highlights what's different) (See example). But Wikipedia "comparison" lists don't really provide such a service, they're really: here's a [big] list/database of products together with their main specs (which you can use to compare individual items yourself if you want to and are prepared to do some footwork of your own). So I think all of these should renamed to just "List of ..." I'll add some move requests to the affected articles with pointers to this centralized discussion shortly. Someone not using his real name (talk) 16:30, 13 January 2014 (UTC)
* Move-requested: Comparison of Nvidia graphics processing units, Comparison of AMD graphics processing units, Comparison of Intel graphics processing units. More to come. Someone not using his real name (talk) 16:42, 13 January 2014 (UTC)
* Support. Popping over from the WikiProject Lists. I've never seen these "comparison" lists until know. I don't see any reason they shouldn't use the more standard "List of..." title. <font color="#153E7E"> D kriegls (<font color="#7d5515">talk to me! ) 22:36, 13 January 2014 (UTC)
* Procedural NOTICE discussion spread over 4 talk pages. If you want a multimove discussion, please use the appropriate template and close the 3 separate discussions on the article talkpages, if you want separate discussions, please close your centralized discussion -- <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 06:56, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
* I've moved all three of these, as there were no substantial objections to the moves in any of these discussions. You may treat the others as uncontroversial. The IP is correct, however, that the best approach would have been to simply make a multimove and notify WikiProjects of that discussion. --BDD (talk) 18:02, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
Review of Article Rating
Hey Folks,
I don't if this is the right place, but since we reworked the Article for OpenMediaVault I think its time to rethink the rating. Where do I request that the rating is checked again? As of now its only rated start-class which clearly shouldn't be anymore since the rewrite. --Davidh2k (talk) 14:33, 25 January 2014 (UTC)
* Either here or at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Computing/Assessment is fine. I've taken a look and found that the article doesn't clearly make a C grade. I've added a couple tags suggesting improvements. ~KvnG 15:31, 4 February 2014 (UTC)
Microsoft Surface
Microsoft Surface currently covers RT1 and Pro1 (mostly just RT1), but we have separate articles for Surface 2 (RT2) and Surface Pro 2. Shouldn't these all exist in (be merged to) the series article, Microsoft Surface, or should RT1 and Pro1 be split off into separate articles? -- <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 18:11, 7 February 2014 (UTC)
* A merge sounds good to me but it will require significant reworking of Microsoft Surface to accomplish. Are you up for doing the work? ~KvnG 15:04, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
* Not at the moment, I'm focusing on the Olympics articles for the next while. -- <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 05:25, 13 February 2014 (UTC)
Cloud Comuting
FYI, there's a proposal to create a wikiproject on cloud computing, see WikiProject Council/Proposals/Cloud Computing -- <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 05:26, 13 February 2014 (UTC)
Invitation to User Study
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Reader feedback: Question in Greek.Μπορ...
''Question in Greek. Μπορώ να συμβάλλω μεταφράζοντας άρθρα που έχουν σχέση με τεχνολογία και τους υπολογιστές; Γιατί γνωρίζω για υπολογιστές και τεχνολογία. Η πηγή μου θα είναι η Αγγλική και η Ελληνική wikipedia. Να κάνω μεταφράσεις από την Αγγλική στην Ελληνική σαν συνεισφορά. Same Question in English May I contribute in articles that relate with technology and computer? Βecause I know a few about computers and technology. My Source will be English and Greek wikipedia. I would like to contribute by translating from English to Greek. I’m a native Greek Speaker and Lower of Cambridge Certificate in English.'' Great, you're welcome! --Rezonansowy (talk • contribs) 13:35, 15 February 2014 (UTC)
Heise just broke all links to h-online.com - link archive.org versions as archiveurl=
Heise just took down the H Online archive (the English-language version of Heise). This has broken a pile of reference links. I've just fixed OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice, about to fix Apache OpenOffice ... This is the search for links there's thirty-odd. This does NOT cover links inside reference templates ... may have to go through Google.
Thankfully most seem to be on archive.org. I'll start, but if others can dive in then that would be most helpful - David Gerard (talk) 19:49, 26 January 2014 (UTC)
* As I expected, a HUGE number in references: Google for site:en.wikipedia.org+link:h-online.com. Argh. Are there tools for this job? - David Gerard (talk) 00:07, 27 January 2014 (UTC)
* Er, this link is a little less scary, 131 results: . I'm going through these ... slowly and tediously ... To fix cite web, you need to add <tt>archiveurl=</tt> and <tt>archivedate=</tt> - don't forget to preview - David Gerard (talk) 00:15, 27 January 2014 (UTC)
* OK, think I've got all the links in main article space - David Gerard (talk) 13:05, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
* ... and evidently I didn't get them all, as I've found more since. Can anyone think of a search (on Wikipedia or an external search engine) that will reveal links the above searches didn't? - David Gerard (talk) 19:48, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
* ... And now the old h-online article links are all working again. Cheers to Heise :-) At least we have the archive copies linked ... - David Gerard (talk) 21:55, 16 February 2014 (UTC)
Popular pages tool update
As of January, the popular pages tool has moved from the Toolserver to Wikimedia Tool Labs. The code has changed significantly from the Toolserver version, but users should notice few differences. Please take a moment to look over your project's list for any anomalies, such as pages that you expect to see that are missing or pages that seem to have more views than expected. Note that unlike other tools, this tool aggregates all views from redirects, which means it will typically have higher numbers. (For January 2014 specifically, 35 hours of data is missing from the WMF data, which was approximated from other dates. For most articles, this should yield a more accurate number. However, a few articles, like ones featured on the Main Page, may be off).
Web tools, to replace the ones at ~alexz/pop, will become available over the next few weeks at popularpages. All of the historical data (back to July 2009 for some projects) has been copied over. The tool to view historical data is currently partially available (assessment data and a few projects may not be available at the moment). The tool to add new projects to the bot's list is also available now (editing the configuration of current projects coming soon). Unlike the previous tool, all changes will be effective immediately. OAuth is used to authenticate users, allowing only regular users to make changes to prevent abuse. A visible history of configuration additions and changes is coming soon. Once tools become fully available, their toolserver versions will redirect to Labs.
If you have any questions, want to report any bugs, or there are any features you would like to see that aren't currently available on the Toolserver tools, see the updated FAQ or contact me on my talk page. Mr.Z-bot (talk) (for Mr.Z-man ) 05:00, 23 February 2014 (UTC)
Network traffic
Network traffic is currently a disambiguation page, but it appears to be a WP:DABCONCEPT situation. I propose that there should be an article at this location on the broad concept of network traffic, summarizing the relationship between the different aspects of network traffic linked on the page. I would also suggest merging the stub article on network traffic control to that title, unless or until enough material exists to justify a distinct article. bd2412 T 03:28, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
* I support this proposal. ~KvnG 17:18, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
Computer Business Review
It's being removed from articles because it has been "blacklisted", e.g.. Please opine at WP:RS/N if this is a good course of action. Someone not using his real name (talk) 14:36, 1 March 2014 (UTC)
Thunks
The article on thunks was at some point split into three articles, each on a different narrow application of thunks, apparently on the belief that they were unrelated concepts. This was wrong. What should have been done, IMO, was to add the missing historical background that showed how they were related. During the next week I would like to recombine the articles, trim some detail, and add this missing explanation. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 10:51, 1 March 2014 (UTC)
* Basically done. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 22:23, 8 March 2014 (UTC)
Merge proposal: Optical head-mounted display and Smartglasses
Please weigh in on the Talk:Smartglasses page. thanks. --Animalparty-- (talk) 10:43, 15 March 2014 (UTC)
"Boutique computer"
I have no idea what a "boutique computer" is, but I found the term in five Wikipedia articles, and now they are all red links. Google reveals that many pages use the term and presume that the reader knows what it means. Can the links be made blue links? Michael Hardy (talk) 23:45, 6 March 2014 (UTC)
* (I am amazed when I look at a WikiProject's talk page's edit history and find it edited only once or twice a week rather than hourly like the one I often post to. Maybe the world will end before anyone sees this posting. Michael Hardy (talk) 23:45, 6 March 2014 (UTC))
* I have seen your posting but am unable to help with this. ~KvnG 15:35, 18 March 2014 (UTC)
* Take a look at a site like Tom's Hardware http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/s/boutique+computer/
* A boutique computer is broadly one where the price and performance or performance/price ratio are seen as taking second place to fashion statements, such as exotic case materials, fashionable names or gimmick features. Sometimes unusually high performance (especially graphics) can be seen as "boutique", where such a feature is added in excess of anything that would be credibly needed in a small machine used in the typically mobile laptop scenario.
* Some makers (Apple, Sony) have traditionally catered to the boutique market. Others, Dell for one, have mostly sold "mainstream" kit, with a boutique range on top. Andy Dingley (talk) 15:45, 18 March 2014 (UTC)
Debian RfC
There is a request for comments that may be of interest on the Debian talk page. Opinions from uninvolved editors would be very much welcome. Please note that this has been to the Dispute resolution noticeboard (DRN) and the Arbitration Committee (ArbCom).. --Guy Macon (talk) 16:29, 24 March 2014 (UTC)
Definition of Graph database
I was referred to this page by Talk:Graph database. I have the following suggestion to improve the article. But I am not sure, if I'm supposed to write it here or at the Talk:Graph database page.
In my opinion the definition of "graph database" is slightly biased. The line "A graph database is any storage system that provides index-free adjacency." is referenced from a marketing web-side. Most of the graph databases listed later do not fulfil this definition, i.e. Titan is undoubtedly a graph databases, but uses a different storage with indexes. I more fitting description can be found. I think the term was coined in
Graph Databases Adrian Silvescu, Doina Caragea, Anna Atramentov Artificial Intelligence Research Laboratory Department of Computer Science Iowa State University Ames, Iowa 50011
and they do not speak about index-free adjacency, but use the term "link". Fceller (talk) 09:47, 23 March 2014 (UTC)
* It should probably be handled on the article talk page. Or better yet in the article itself. ~KvnG 12:55, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
* Ok, I will post a proposal there, thanks <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 10:19, 28 March 2014 (UTC)
Microsoft FAR
I have nominated Microsoft for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Indrian (talk) 04:56, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
i am a Liberian in my country cassava is highly produce but much is not done with it because the ideas needed to make into another thing is lacking. i really want to know what can possibly be produce out of cassava — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 09:53, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
Living Computer Museum: help requested on Commons
I'm guessing that someone on this project can help with more precise IDs on some of the photos at Commons:Category:Computers in the Living Computer Museum. In particular for File:LCM - 1960s Teletype computer printer 01.jpg, I'm not even sure exactly what it did (I think it was a card reader/printer, but it's got a keyboard so maybe it was a card punch as well). - Jmabel | Talk 18:03, 5 April 2014 (UTC)
* Better pictures of the same machine are in the teleprinter and Teletype Corporation articles; Looks like a model 33 ASR. ASR-33 Teletype terminal IMG 1658.jpg --Mark viking (talk) 18:48, 5 April 2014 (UTC)
* That is not an ASR-33. The configuration is different. But thanks for the term "teleprinter", I'd quite forgotten that.
* In any case, there are a large number of images in the category I linked that could use better ID; as always in a wiki, if you know the details on something, it's probably more useful to edit it than to reply here. - Jmabel | Talk 23:25, 5 April 2014 (UTC)
* It is at least very similar to an ASR 33. Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 01:19, 6 April 2014 (UTC)
* It looks like it is the same as this, which says it is an ASR 33. Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 01:22, 6 April 2014 (UTC)
* Yes, that (and the picture Mark added) are both ASR-33s. The picture I linked (but did not show, and will now show for comparison) is rather different. - Jmabel | Talk 17:20, 6 April 2014 (UTC)
* Ah, well that one is an ASR-35. I don't have an RS, but Google images quickly verifies that guess. The other teleprinter in that LCM collection is the ASR 33--Mark viking (talk) 19:09, 6 April 2014 (UTC)
* Thanks, yes then the ASR-35 is the one I couldn't identify. - Jmabel | Talk 04:18, 7 April 2014 (UTC)
I spent many hours on ASR 33s. These are my hands on one. The knob on the lower right had three positions. IIRC, the center position (up) was off, to the right connected it to a dedicated phone line to the mainframe, and to the left was to use it offline. The blank panel on the right of some had equipment to dial a phone to make a modem connection, but I don't remember if those were ASR 33s or a different model number. Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 23:14, 6 April 2014 (UTC)
Talk:United States
All input welcome. /Cheers <sup style="color:green;">walk <i style="color:green;">victor falk</i><i style="color:green;">talk</i> 03:26, 9 April 2014 (UTC)
Tagging talk pages of ISO 3166-1 country code TLDs
A few moments before this posting I read the .co article's talk page and found the WikiProject Computing template. After visiting the talk pages of .ph, .sg, and a few more articles without the said tag, I tagged them with the template. Can I be permitted to tag all other articles under the ISO 3166-1 navbox whose talk pages have none of this tag yet? Thanks, Japanese Rail Fan (talk) 14:33, 15 April 2014 (UTC)
Real thing, or non-notable neologism
Hello, I happened upon the article on Autojay today and was hoping an eagle-eyed member of WikiProject Computing could determine whether or not this is a real concept, or just a non-notable neologism. Thanks, Cyphoidbomb (talk) 22:36, 19 April 2014 (UTC)
* Made-up, as far as I can tell. PRODed - David Gerard (talk) 07:27, 20 April 2014 (UTC)
Adrianne Wadewitz deletion discussion notice
There is an ongoing deletion discussion taking place now about whether or not to have a biographical article about Adrianne Wadewitz on Wikipedia.
* 1) Adrianne Wadewitz
* 2) Articles for deletion/Adrianne Wadewitz
The discussion is at Articles for deletion/Adrianne Wadewitz.
For those newer to Wikipedia, you may wish to read Articles for deletion and Notability.
— Cirt (talk) 15:15, 20 April 2014 (UTC)
Deletion discussion for Wiki Education Foundation
* 1) Wiki Education Foundation
* 2) Articles for deletion/Wiki Education Foundation
There is a deletion discussion ongoing for article Wiki Education Foundation.
Discussion page is at Articles for deletion/Wiki Education Foundation.
— Cirt (talk) 18:29, 23 April 2014 (UTC)
Proposed deletion of FTP servlet
The article FTP servlet has been proposed for deletion  because of the following concern:
* No references, notability not established
Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. SJK (talk) 21:07, 27 April 2014 (UTC)
Coupling (computer programming) vs Cohesion (computer science)
It seems to me that as Coupling and Cohesion are closely related terms, they should be categorized the same way. It seems odd, then, that Coupling is titled "Coupling (computer programming)" while the Cohesion article is titled "Cohesion (computer science)". I see an edit in the Coupling article changing the title from "Coupling (computer science)" to "Coupling (computer programming)", citing that 'programming' represents a "more accurate parenthetical disambiguation". I don't see any name changes for Cohesion's article, except for the change from "Cohesion" to "Cohesion (computer science)", although the talk page does contain a suggestion that "computer science" be changed (to "software engineering"). This seems a fair change, as I must agree that the "computer science" classification is probably not the best. Then, should Cohesion be changed to "Cohesion (computer programming)" to match the Coupling article, or should both be changed to disambiguate as "(software engineering)"? --<IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 10:05, 9 May 2014 (UTC)
EDVAC or IAS?
The captions to these photos say that they are the EDVAC but they look like the IAS machine to me. Can anyone confirm? Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 02:47, 10 May 2014 (UTC)
* This CACM article says that this is the IAS. Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 03:10, 10 May 2014 (UTC)
Invitation to Participate in a User Study - Final Reminder
Would you be interested in participating in a user study of a new tool to support editor involvement in WikiProjects? We are a team at the University of Washington studying methods for finding collaborators within WikiProjects, and we are looking for volunteers to evaluate a new visual exploration tool for Wikipedia. Given your interest in this Wikiproject, we would welcome your participation in our study. To participate, you will be given access to our new visualization tool and will interact with us via Google Hangout so that we can solicit your thoughts about the tool. To use Google Hangout, you will need a laptop/desktop, a web camera, and a speaker for video communication during the study. We will provide you with an Amazon gift card in appreciation of your time and participation. For more information about this study, please visit our wiki page (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Finding_a_Collaborator). If you would like to participate in our user study, please send me a message at Wkmaster (talk) 22:30, 10 May 2014 (UTC).
Proposed deletion of Lightweight design
I have WP:PRODed the article Lightweight design. This seems to be about a bit of computing terminology that the article's creator has invented.
Feel free to delete the Proposed deletion/dated tag if you think this deserves wider discussion.
Yaris678 (talk) 10:01, 12 May 2014 (UTC)
File Allocation Table split
Over the past year, several editors have noticed that File Allocation Table is a bit large in the middle. A proposal to split out some of the detailed technical and historical content has been on the talk page for at least 3 months with nothing but support expressed by other editors. I started to implement the proposal but work has now been halted due to objections from. I'd appreciate a bit more review and discussion on this. Please visit Talk:File_Allocation_Table. ~KvnG 22:51, 15 May 2014 (UTC)
* There has been no additional input so I've opened an WP:RFC on this requesting a simple yes/no answer. Comments from all editors are welcome. Please visit Talk:File_Allocation_Table ~KvnG 14:42, 20 May 2014 (UTC)
Smart variables
Is this notable? It has been prodded by an IP. Bearian (talk) 17:36, 27 May 2014 (UTC)
World's most power computer
At the bottom of pages such as IBM 7030 Stretch there is a navigation box, and a link to World's most powerful computer, but it just goes to Mainframe computer. As far as I know, there is no article detailing the record most powerful computer through history. I think such an article would be good - give the timeline, details, and comparisons of the machines. With references to why it was the most powerful at the time. Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 03:24, 16 June 2014 (UTC)
Leaflet For Wikiproject Computing At Wikimania 2014
Are you looking to recruit more contributors to your project? We are offering to design and print physical paper leaflets to be distributed at Wikimania 2014 for all projects that apply. For more information, click the link below. Project leaflets Adikhajuria (talk) 14:47, 22 May 2014 (UTC)
Here's the information that we need to provide if we want a WP:COMP leaflet. Please feel free to fill stuff in if you have time. I will volunteer as point of contact if there is some help from other WikiProject members towards bringing this together. ~KvnG 15:17, 4 June 2014 (UTC)
Deadline for this is 1 July. ~KvnG 16:22, 25 June 2014 (UTC)
AfC submission - 26/06
Draft:Data consolidation. FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 15:45, 26 June 2014 (UTC)
KoodibooK
Could someone take a look at KoodibooK. It has been marked as an orphan & I'm wondering if it meets the notability requirements - but I'm not very familiar with this area.— Rod talk 13:07, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
Kleargear AFD deletion discussion notice
* 1) Kleargear
* 2) Articles for deletion/Kleargear (2nd nomination)
Discussion about whether or not to delete article for Kleargear, discussion at Articles for deletion/Kleargear (2nd nomination). — Cirt (talk) 20:32, 4 July 2014 (UTC)
AFD question
The project page has a list of articles for deletion. If I have nominated a computing-related article for deletion, should I update the project page, or will a bot update the page? Robert McClenon (talk) 21:29, 7 July 2014 (UTC)
* The article in question is AjoChhand Machine, which is being discussed at Articles for deletion/AjoChhand Machine. Robert McClenon (talk) 21:35, 7 July 2014 (UTC)
SiSense
I have started a short article about SiSense, the company I work for. I am working to stay well inside the boundaries of Wikipedia's policies, and have consulted a number of independent reliable sources, and have worked to keep the article neutral. If anybody has feedback, suggestions, or concerns about the article, please let me know, or improve the article as you see fit. I also expect to add short sections about SiSense's history and technology in the coming week. -<IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 09:55, 17 July 2014 (UTC)
Listing Open Source as a sub-topic of free software
See Category:Free application software A new subcategory for open source Inetbiz (talk) 08:49, 20 July 2014 (UTC)
AfC submission - 20/07
Draft:Nimrod (programming language). APerson (talk!) 19:35, 20 July 2014 (UTC)
* I declined it: all secondary sources are self-published. Actually, I am not entirely sure they are secondary – they might as well be from language's developers. — Dmitrij D. Czarkoff (talk•track) 00:05, 21 July 2014 (UTC)
Articles for Deletion/SQRL
This is a notice that the article SQRL, which may be within the scope of your WikiProject, has been nominated for deletion. If this is of interest to your members, their input would be appreciated. <font style="color: #0077BE">0x0077BE [<font color="#0033BE">talk/<font color="#0033BE">contrib] 14:43, 23 July 2014 (UTC)
Help with GDDR5 page
Can someone help me with the GDDR5 page? I am not an extremely proficient Wikipedian, but I have a passion for computer hardware. I'm trying to improve the page but my edits are being reverted and I don't understand why. Thanks for any assistance, Jchap1590 (talk) 00:36, 25 July 2014 (UTC)
registered memory and UDIMM
Registered memory has a link to UDIMM, but that just links back to the article. There either needs to be an article about UDIMM or this article needs to explain it. Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 06:30, 28 May 2014 (UTC)
* I've done some work on this. The link was to Unbuffered memory which redirects to Registered memory and I don't think requires a separate article.
* I also discovered Fully Buffered DIMM which may make Registered memory largely redundant but I'm not sure and the article is not clear whether there's a difference between buffered and registered memory. ~KvnG 14:11, 1 June 2014 (UTC)
* Thanks - I didn't know what UDIMM was. Certainly doesn't need its own article. Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 17:54, 1 June 2014 (UTC)
* UDIMMs are not simply unbuffered DIMMs. They are ECC memory that is unbuffered. Registered (same as saying "buffered") are called RDIMMs. As the article says, "In normal registered/buffered memory, only the control lines are buffered, whereas in fully buffered memory, the data lines are buffered as well." unbuffered non-ECC memory are simply called "DIMM" and are identified by the number of pins (240-pin DIMM for DDR3 SDRAM, for example). Here is a useful source: http://www.servethehome.com/unbuffered-registered-ecc-memory-difference-ecc-udimms-rdimms/ Jchap1590 (talk) 01:10, 25 July 2014 (UTC)
A navbox for file system management
I assembled a file system management navbox in my user sandbox. Would anyone care to share some feedback?
* Is this useful?
* Are the categories sensible?
* Are sought links easy to find? (Sometimes I question the usability of larger navboxes.)
* What did I miss?
* Is this likely to be helpful to users, especially those exploring foundational concepts in computing?
Thank you!
—Ringbang (talk) 19:55, 4 August 2014 (UTC)
* I have a couple questions:
* Which articles do you propose to add this to?
* What is file system management?
* ~KvnG 13:40, 8 August 2014 (UTC)
iBeacon article is entirely inaccurate
iBeacon is not a physical product. It is part of Apple's iOS 7 mobile device operating system. iBeacon is a collection of protocols that tells the device what to do with incoming BLE signals, and it also allows the device to wake up any apps to which that signal is relevant.
The article claims that iBeacons are the same thing as BLE beacons, which is false. Although they have similar names, iBeacon and BLE beacons are different things. BLE beacons are wireless transmitters that send out BLE signals within an approximately 200-foot radius.
Suggested correction: Update the iBeacon article to be factually correct, and make a second article for BLE beacons that is also factually correct.
Main source: http://www.businessinsider.com/faq-beacons-and-apples-ibeacon-system-2014-7
There are other sources that can confirm this information. The iBeacon = beacon misconception is very common given the non-expert coverage from the business media, and it's very important that Wikipedia be factually correct in addressing each thing.
<IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 14:09, 1 August 2014 (UTC)
* I have posted a copy of this to Talk:iBeacon. ~KvnG 13:43, 8 August 2014 (UTC)
Please help evaluate a draft article at AFC
Please take a look at Draft:.dbf and review it for acceptability into mainspace. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 13:12, 15 June 2014 (UTC)
* This is a welcome contribution. It is a notable topic. It is common to see primary sources in technical topics. It is currently documented in Dbase. There is plenty of precedence for stand-alone articles on individual file formats: see List of filename extensions (alphabetical) and List of file formats.
* I have made some improvements to the draft and resubmitted it. ~KvnG 14:20, 8 August 2014 (UTC)
Algorithm examples
See Talk:Algorithm examples for a discussion on the naming and use of this article -- <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 05:19, 9 August 2014 (UTC)
RFC related to ISO 8601
Members of this WikiProject may wish to comment on the RFC Talk:ISO 8601. Jc3s5h (talk) 23:51, 9 August 2014 (UTC)
Tech help required to improve categories
Please see Village pump (policy) and User:Paradoctor/CatVisor if you are willing and able to assist this innovative WP project move along it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you, IZAK (talk) 22:56, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
"Orange Boxes" for sending false CID (Caller ID) Information and the use of "*69" to retrieve CID
If I receive spoof or false CID information from an "Orange Box" or other device at home (Verizon) and then were to dial *69 after the calling party, and I, had both hung up, would the information I received be the genuine name and phone number, or would this *69 information also be false? *69 is a feature that Verizon (land-line) offers for retrieving name and number information for the call most recently received by me. RFRules (talk) 16:16, 22 August 2014 (UTC)
Windows 9
I'm not hardly ever a computing editor, mainly stick around baseball and pro wrestling, with occasional edits to gaming. So, I don't know this project's precedent on creating new articles for new OS's, in particular for new Windows OS's. But I thought I'd point out that Windows 9 is starting to get significant coverage by CNET, PC Gamer, ZDNet. All talking about an upcoming preview for Windows 9 (codenamed "Threshold") set for release this fall (Sept. 30 is the date I keep seeing), ahead of a full release set for Spring 2015. These facts considered, it seems weird to me that no Windows related article makes mention of this. The Windows 9 article doesn't exist, even as a redirect. Can someone that has more knowledge from this project figure out if an article is warranted and if so start it? Thanks. <span style="font-family:Oswald, sans-serif;text-shadow:1px 1px 1px #69b3e7;color:#fd0;"><font color="#041e42">CRRays <font color="#041e42">Head90 | <font color="#041e42">#RaysUp 18:44, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
The usage of is under discussion, see WP:RFD for the disucssion -- <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 05:55, 21 September 2014 (UTC) | WIKI |
Maria Temnitschka
Maria Temnitschka (born 1961 in Lower Austria) is an Austrian artist. At the beginning of her artistic career Maria Temnitschka designed and created jewellery and objects made of metal. Later she reoriented to painting - at first abstract, since 2000 figurative representation. Her preferred techniques are oil painting, drawing, experimental photography, object art.
Life and Work
From 1980 to 1984, Maria Temnitschka studied metal design under Carl Auböck at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. She later studied painting under Adolf Frohner and Gerhard Müller at the University of Applied Arts in 2002-2006 and graduated in 2006 with distinction.
Since 2009 she has been teaching at the University of Applied Arts.
She is a member of the Künstlerhaus, Association of Austrian Artists, and IG Bildende Kunst.
The theme of decay is a recurring motif in Maria Temnitschka's work. Her preference for industrial, outdated architecture is well known and manifests itself in many images on this subject.
Exhibitions (selection)
Trade fair participations: Int. Art Fair Kyiv, "Art Bratislava", "Art Karlsruhe" 2007-2010, Roter Salon (D), "Liste Köln", "Kunst Zürich", Art Austria 2012-2018, Art Vienna.
* 2004 FEMINA, Columned Hall of Parliament Vienna
* 2005 The essence, MAK Vienna
* 2005 REAL, Kunsthalle Krems, Lower Austria
* 2005 New Century Artists, Soho, New York
* 2006 Up and Down, Galerie Hrobsky, Vienna
* 2007 Erweiterte Stadtlandschaften, Gallery Pendel, Waidhoven/Ybbs, Lower Austria
* 2008 3 Positionen, NÖ Dokumentationsarchiv, St.Pölten, Lower Austria
* 2009 Unter der Brücke, Gallery Schlesinger, Zurich
* 2009 Ortung, Uni Campus, Danube University Krems
* 2009 Pure Painting, Gallery ArtAffair, Regensburg Germany
* 2010 Unter der Brücke, Gallery Hrobsky, Vienna
* 2010 Contemporary Art Interchange Exhibition, Kurashiki City Art Museum/Japan
* 2011 Lost in time, Artothek Lower Austria Kunstmeile Krems
* 2011 the best works of the biennial of drawing pilsen, Gallery of Slovak Union of Visual Arts, Bratislava
* 2011 k/haus 18, Positionen der Malerei Artemons, Upper Austria
* 2012 Ortung, ÖBV, Vienna
* 2012 Celle - Sarajevo transit, Collegium Artisticum, Sarajevo/BIH
* 2013 KulturpreisträgerInnen 2013, Lower Austria Documentation Archive, St.Pölten
* 2013 Zeichnung/Zeichnung, Künstlerhaus, Vienna
* 2013 Transalpin Vis Arte, Zurich
* 2013 lost in time, Gallery Schlesinger, Zurich
* 2014 CELLE: DIE WELT, Künstlerhaus, Vienna
* 2014 Die Würde des Künstlers, Celle-Performance, MUSA Vienna
* 2014 WARWAS Celle-Performance, HGM Vienna
* 2015 TierFREUDen, Exhibition and performance (with K. Seidner and F. Mendelssohn), Sigmund Freud Uni, Berlin
* 2016 on the way, Galerie Nothburga, Innsbruck
* 2017 lost in thought, Galerie Schafschetzy, Graz
* 2017 der Schein trügt, Budapest Galéria und MAMU Gallery, Budapest
* 2019 IBIDEM Bilder von Büchern, Galerie in der Schmiede, Linz Pasching (together with Judith Baum)
* 2020 Altes Eisen, Hrobsky Gallery, Vienna
* 2020 Alles war klar, Künstlerhaus, Vienna
* 2022 Schrott, Hrobsky Gallery, Vienna
* 2022 Altes Eisen, blaugelbe Viertelsgalerie, Zwettl, Lower Austria
Prizes and awards
* 1994 Project funding from the BMUK and the Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs
* 2006 Appreciation Award from the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Culture
* 2007 Scholarship of the Emanuel and Sofie Fohn Foundation
* 2008 Project funding Art'ist (graduate funding of the University of Applied Arts)
* 2010 State Scholarship for Fine Arts
* 2011 Design of the new Medal of Honour for the Künstlerhaus
* 2013 Project funding for the Cultural Office of the City of Vienna
* 2013 Recognition Award of Lower Austria
* 2022 Schiele Art Award 2nd place
Collections
* Federal Ministry for Education and Art- BM f. Unterricht und Kunst
* Lower Austria State Government
* Austrian Association for Psychotherapy
* Würth Сollection
* City Museum Wiener Neustadt / Lower Austria
* Lower Austria State Museum
* Collection of the University of Applied Arts
* Danube University Krems / Lower Austria
* City of Vienna
* National Bank of Austria - Oesterreichische Nationalbank
* Cocca Collection
* Österreichische Beamtenversicherung
* Federal Chancellery Austria - Bundeskanzleramt Österreich
* Artothek Niederösterreich | WIKI |
2018–19 Norwich City F.C. season
The 2018–19 season was Norwich City's third consecutive season in the Championship. During the season they participated in the Championship, FA Cup and EFL Cup.
The season covered the period from 1 July 2018 to 30 June 2019.
Pre-season friendlies
On 16 May 2018, SC Paderborn announced a pre-season friendly with Norwich City was to take place on 15 July. The club themselves confirmed the SC Paderborn friendly on 17 May, whilst also announcing a friendly with Union Berlin. Other friendly opponents include King's Lynn Town, Lincoln City, Crawley Town, Luton Town and Charlton Athletic.
Matches
On 21 June 2018, the league fixtures were announced.
FA Cup
The third round draw was made live on BBC by Ruud Gullit and Paul Ince from Stamford Bridge on 3 December 2018.
EFL Cup
On 15 June 2018, the draw for the first round was made in Vietnam. The second round draw was made from the Stadium of Light on 16 August. The third round draw was made on 30 August 2018 by David Seaman and Joleon Lescott. The fourth round draw was made live on Quest by Rachel Yankey and Rachel Riley on 29 September. | WIKI |
TY - JOUR T1 - Evaluation of IL-17A rs2275 913 G>A and IL- 17F rs 763780 T>C genes polymorphism in women with breast cancer TT - بررسی پلی مورفیسم های ژنی IL-17A rs2275913G>A وIL-17F rs763780T>C در زنان مبتلا به سرطان پستان JF - FEYZ JO - FEYZ VL - 25 IS - 5 UR - http://feyz.kaums.ac.ir/article-1-4401-en.html Y1 - 2021 SP - 1255 EP - 1264 KW - Breast cancer KW - polymorphism KW - IL-17A KW - IL-17F N2 - Abstract Background: Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women around the world, in which mostly is seen in women over 50 years old age. IL-17 which has the main role in responding to inflammation plays role in the early stages of tumorigenic and primary tumor formation. Epidemiological studies have shown that IL-17 is associated with the risk of cancer. This study aimed to investigatory the relationship between single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the IL-17-A rs2275913 G>A and IL-17 F rs763780 T>C genes in women with breast cancer this study. Materials and Methods: In this research 50 patients and 50 healthy samples were studied as a control group. After genomic DNA extraction, genotype determination of rs2275913 and rs763780 polymorphisms was performed by Tetra- ARMS-PCR method and finally the results statistically were analyzed. Results: In the current research GG, AG and AA genotype frequencies of IL-17A gene in patient and normal samples were [12(24%), 23(46%),15(30%)] and [21(42%), 27(54%), 2(4%)] respectively, (GA vs GG/AA, OR= 1.49, 95% CI: 0.61-3.67, AA vs GG/GA, OR= 13.12, 95% CI: 2.55-67.46). Also the frequency of an allele in patient and normal population was detected 53% and 31% respectively. IL-17A-197A allele in comparison with G significantly increased risk of breast cancer (OR= 2.510, 95% CI: 1.408-4.473). No significant difference was observed between IL-17 F 7488 T>C gene’s polymorphism and breast cancer’s incidence (OR= 1/000, 95% CI: 0.24-4.24). Conclusion: The results indicated that IL-17A rs2275913G>A polymorphism was associated with breast cancer in women, which could be effective in the treatment and clinical management of this disease. In contrast, IL-17F rs763780T>C polymorphism did not showed significant association with the susceptibility of breast cancer. M3 ER - | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Talk:Shannon switching game
A Picture, Please
A picture or three would be tremendously useful. Kilyle 13:07, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
Original Gale Game design
I formerly only knew the design as implemented here, where the players do not short and cut, but instead always connect points (with each player having his own set of points). Yes, this representation is equivalent to that of the Shannon Switching Game, but, at the first glance, the playfields looks very different.
Maybe someone could come up with a depiction of the Gale Game as I (and probably also a number of other people) know it, and then even write a short explanation why they are equivalent? I mean, it's obvious for me, but that doesn't count as a proof (at least that's what my math teacher told me :-)). --Klaws (talk) 13:05, 14 September 2011 (UTC)
Where was this game first described?
I have been looking for a paper of Shannon describing this paper for a while, and couldn't find it.
Does anyone know which paper it was? יובל מדר (talk) 12:31, 20 October 2013 (UTC)
* The first published reference was in Martin Gardner's column in the Oct. 1958 Scientific American, where he described a machine Shannon built in 1951 for playing Gale (which he called Bird Cage). Gardner didn't cite any sources. I have a few of Shannon's papers from 1949-1950, and there's no mention of the game in any of them. Maybe because it didn't lead to anything useful or proveable.Sbalfour (talk) 18:02, 15 January 2017 (UTC) | WIKI |
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What Trampoline Exercise Reduces the Stomach?
by Nicole A. Carlin
Jumping up and down on the trampoline is not just child's play -- it's a serious calorie-burning exercise. Exercising on the trampoline can burn as many calories as running a six-minute mile, if you keep a consistent jumping pace. Burning calories with a trampoline exercise routine will help you to shave fat from your entire body, including your stomach.
Dangers of Stomach Fat
According to Harvard Health Publications, stomach fat causes a greater health risk compared to fat on other parts of your body. Stomach fat -- also called visceral fat -- lies between the internal organs and contributes to an increased risk for heart disease, diabetes, stroke and some types of cancer. Extra calories in your diet and genetics dictate where you'll store fat in your body, but Harvard Health Publications warns that women with a waist size of 35 inches and 40 inches for men are in the danger zone.
Spot Reduction Myth
Unfortunately, it's impossible to reduce one specific part of your body -- often called the "spot reduction myth." In order to shave fat away from your stomach, you'll first need to create a calorie deficit by eating a low-calorie diet, exercising regularly or a combination of the two. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends performing vigorous cardiovascular exercise for at least 75 minutes per week to maintain your current weight. Up the ante by jumping on the trampoline for 150 minutes per week to burn more calories and shave fat from your entire body, including your stomach.
Trampoline Exercises
Simply bouncing or jumping up and down for your allotted workout time will contribute to weight loss. To increase the intensity and burn more calories, however, try running or sprinting in place on the trampoline or perform tuck jumps, raising your knees as high as you can with every jump. To specifically target the stomach muscles, add a twist as you jump. Pull your knees toward your chest as you jump -- and twist your upper body to the right. On the next jump, twist your upper body to the left. Continue to jump, twisting your upper body from side to side.
Tips and Considerations
Before every trampoline workout, ensure that your muscles are warmed up first. Perform five to 10 minutes of walking in place or very light bouncing on the trampoline to elevate your heart and respiration rate. Warming up your muscles before you amp up your exercise intensity decreases your risk of muscular or joint injury. Set up the trampoline in a space where you have enough room to jump freely and wear supportive fitness clothing and shoes. After you finish exercising on the trampoline, cool your muscles down with five to 10 minutes of light bouncing or walking in place.
About the Author
Published author, yoga teacher and health and wellness expert Nicole Carlin has written professionally since 2005. Her two non-fiction books "Chakra Detox" and "Hot Yoga, Hotter Sex" reflect the rigorous academic knowledge she brings to the wellness industry. Carlin holds a Bachelor of Arts in psychology and a Master of Arts in sexuality.
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Talk:History of BMW motorcycles/Archive 1
What about the C1 scooter thing? I think it's deleted now, but should it not be mentioned (even if it makes "real" BMW riders go puce with rage!)? :) See http://www.bmw.co.uk/features/C1/index.html if they haven't removed it yet ... <IP_ADDRESS> 12:07, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
This article needs tense cleanup. In places it's discussing events in the distant past using present tense. Quicksilver 12:58, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
I have cleaned up the tense, revised some of the grammar and added the C1 info. The 80's Kid 16:18, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
Categories: should this really be in the BMW Vehicles category? Shouldn't it go in the Motorcycles category, and perhaps BMW Motorcycles sub-category? -- Pi3832 14:45, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
Discussion of the difference between the airhead and oilhead would be useful -- as well as the other modifications, which I recall were rather substantial, made at the same time. At a minimum, the year the air-to-oil shift in R-bikes should be noted. MrRedwood 03:40, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
After discussion of the Paralever and Telelever suspensions, shouldn't there be an item for the Duolever (recently developed front-end suspension for K-series bikes)? --Davecampbell 02:27, 25 July 2006 (UTC) (2002 R1150RTP)
* Feel free to write it! Bob Palin 14:46, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
I agree that the title should be BMW motorcycles or Motorcycles. Not many people on in he US know what motorrad means. Also, I agree with the Duolever suggestion. -- Rodendahl 16:09, 15 July 2006 (CDT)
Cleaned up a tad of vandalism. Jdos2 23:58, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
* It might help if BMW devotees forsook their light blue and white T-shirts for a minute and understood a few simple things. BMW has rarely been an innovator. It may have developed the hydraulic fork - the jury is still out on that. It did not develop the Earles fork ( Ernie Earles did that), the Telelever (Motodd-Saxon did that), the Duolever (Hossack did that) or the Paralever (Magni at MV Augusta did that). The flat four K arrangement was first used by Ariel. The R32 was a mishmash of Indian front fork, ABC engine and FN gearbox/final drive. BMW is not an innovator! Next, for a six year period, two BMW factories operated. One in Baveria and one in Eisenach in Soviet controlled Germany. BMW did NOT cease production after WWII. (Only US controlled BMW ceased production). The first motorcycles made by BMW were the Helios and the Flink, they predate the R32. Facts, rather than fiction will make this a better article. And if you carry those facts rather than fiction into other articles, you will only improve Wikipaedia! M-72 13:33, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
* Hiding within a cloak of Anonymity, user M-72 again lashes out at others — masking a deep-seated sense of cultural and personal inferiority. Waratah-9 15:29, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
* And just where is your user page Waratah-9? I don't believe that i have a sense of cultural inferiority, but I'm sure that you can correct me! As to personal inferiority- Yes, I have a small dick! I've gotten over it. Have you? M-72 16:58, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
Images and text flow
I just removed some blank lines that had been added to get text to flow around some images. Using blank lines is futile because what you are doing is fixing the problem for your browser, with your thumbnail size settings, with your screen resolution. Anyone else with different settings will see a completely different result. Summary: It is highly unlikely that anyone will see the article in exactly the same way that you do.
If it is really important that text and image are separated from each other then you can use one of a number of templates or break commands:
or will make sure that the following text will start after all other images and text have been displayed on both sides of the page
* as above but only clears the text and images on the left side of the page.
* as above but right side.
However, I have never been able to get to work so I tend to use the following HTML code: I have added this on the page after the K-series engine section and just before the Model Designation section. This is where I removed the series of blank lines and I assume it is what the orginal editor was trying to achieve.
IMHO these breaks/clears should only be used when absolutely necessary, but they are a useful tool when used sparsely and appropriately. --Cheesy Mike 08:44, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
The roundel/propeller myth
This article states, that BMW's "... logo, a roundel representing an aeroplane propeller in the blue sky ..." Alas, this is not quite true.
In Mobil Tradition Live, published by BMW Motorrad, Issue 01.2005, in an article written by Dr. Florian Triebel, and entitled "The origin of the BMW logo — fact and fiction,"[spam://jeff.dean.home.att.net/roundel-myth.pdf] the myth of the spinning propeller as the origin of the BMW logo was put to bed as the myth it is. Here is the summary of a long article:
* "Taken together, all this evidence excludes the possibility that BMW managers in 1917 based the design for their company logo and trademark on the propeller interpretation. All the available sources suggest that the BMW logo was developed on the basis of the company logo and trademark originated by Rapp Motorenwerke. They suggest that the purpose of the blue and white areas was to focus attention on Bavaria as the origin and production site of the products. In fact, the propeller myth only surfaced as late as 1929. It’s likely that the new interpretation was intended to support the marketing efforts for the aero-engine product range. However, the fact is that this interpretation has developed its own authority and tradition by virtue of being recounted and disseminated over a period of 75 years."
Accordingly, I corrected this information. Jeff dean 23:17, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
* Way to be bold, Jeff. --Evb-wiki 00:19, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
Remove the irrelevant and unhelpful
I'm going to take out "after World War I, the Treaty of Versailles banned any German air force, so the company turned to motorcycle engine design and manufacturing" since it's highly misleading (not to say needlessly insulting). Almost every manufacturer in every country stopped war production once the war was over, both in WWI and WWII. There is no shame (or relevance) in BMW having done so and becoming strikingly successful in two new fields. TomRawlinson 18:49, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
* I disagree. Setright inter alia makes a point of this as does BMW itself. See http://www.bmwmotorcycles.com/bikes/history_content.jsp?t=year&y=1919&d=1910 M-72 04:46, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
* You're right in one sense, BMW (bizarrely) make this claim themselves, almost in a fashion reminiscent of some quite bitter inter-war Germans.
* However, the passages I changed had to be re-written, since they'd been lifted straight from the article you've referenced, breach of copyright. TomRawlinson 18:10, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
Citations for obscure "facts"
M-72 makes many valuable and interesting claims in numerous motorcycle-related articles about arcane matters and then issues them as facts without citations. In spite of this, it appears that we all accept whatever he submits to be accurate. Because of the importance of the claims, I would like to see citations for these items when inserted — either in the article or related discussion pages — so I and others can consult those sources and inform ourselves better. Jeff dean 14:12, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
* Jeff, I'll be very glad to see you finally make submissions of all your unverified Blue and White statements, Even better remove your sock-puppet frauds from all motorcycle articles. For M/C suspension you might like to read Foale. A major work. For anything else I need to know what languages you are fluent in? English, especially American English is NOT the lingua franca of the mortorcycling world. M-72 09:02, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
* I would like to see better evidence that BMW is the largest manufacturer of police motorcycles. The article cited is simply a BMW press release. I don't believe that a claim by a manufacturer is sufficient to verify market position. In the meantime I have toned down the world leader claim. --Cheesy Mike 17:47, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
* The test for inclusion in the encyclopaedia is verifiability, not truth (strange though that may sound!). There are various tests of Reliable Source, but a claim by the manufacturer is certainly acceptable. You'd need something pretty well-researched even to challenge and set beside it under Wikipedia Neutral Point of View. The US-centric point of view screamed from some parts of this article. BMW motorcycles dominate the police market all over the world, with the possible exception of only two places that manufacture their own, the US and Japan. (And they're even making big inroads there!). It barely needs saying that it is quite unacceptable to suggest that other manufacturers have serious safety related problems in their products. TomRawlinson 18:34, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
* Verifiability vs. Truth. Yes, I understand that, I just don't think that an article about a company should take press releases published by that same company as verified content, let alone truth. A manufacturers own claims would certainly fail the neutral point of view if used as the source of a claim made in that article. This article shouldn't use absolute adjectives like "largest" and "dominant" if the only source about the manufacturers market is their own figures. --Cheesy Mike 19:26, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
* The Wikipedia policy that covers this is at WP:RS. In a nut-shell, sources that have a number of editors, all presumably interested in "the truth" are acceptable, whereas the "self-published" or "blogs" are not. I would not trust a salesman (or the company that he represents) further than I could throw him, however, for this purpose, press-releases or brochures are pretty much not to be argued with. The danger is that the encyclopaedia ends up reading very anodyne and rather like a gushing sales-leaflet. Unfortunately, any other result is going to offend someone, and risks legal action from the very, very well-funded. Remember, there may be a real vandal comes after you and, if you bully me into acquiescence, something will get left on the page that is commercially damaging to BMW. The Wikipedia Foundation is not going to risk paying for your mistakes. If statements impugning the safety of certain other motorcycles were to re-appear in this article, I can and will fetch an adminstrator to deal with the culprit.
* As to "largest" or "dominant" in the police market, you rather have me over a barrel. In order to include that statement, I need a WP:RS that uses those very words, and I might not have one. However, what I've told you is true and is a well-known fact. If you're really unhappy about it, put after my statetment, and it will appear (in small super-script letters) as "citation needed". (entering may have the same effect?). Our successors will battle over this one, but I'm quite sure it's already been said in fairly well regarded books by fairly well-regarded authors, and references will eventually appear. (Such books are normally worse than brochures, but sometimes we have to simply grin and bear it). TomRawlinson 19:22, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
Ever been to Chin or India? Or any other part of Asia? BMWs are NOT the common police motorcycle. The sheer volume of indigenous police motorcycles in China alone makes BMWs's claim farcical. The claim may be "well-known", but that does not make it a fact. M-72 23:41, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
K-Series or K Series?
The article uses both K-Series and K Series, I think it should be one or the other. This is IMHO a language thing however, so I leave it to the native speakers (I don't care either way). --<IP_ADDRESS>
Timeline or series
The article repeats information a lot, once organized in the timeline, once in the series description, it should be one or the other. ("These new F 800 Series motorcycles are powered by [...] a belt drive system that is very similar to the belt drive found on the now defunct F 650 CS." vs. "[F 800 S and F 800 ST] also feature a belt drive system similar to what was in use on the F 650 CS.")
I think I prefer the series, as this can also pull in some techincal stuff like Duolever. --<IP_ADDRESS>
gss-600.jpg
Your change on BMW motorcycles might not be the best thing to do: The picture you replaced was defected by someone who is a bit pissed at the moment, but should easily be fixed by a non-IP (eg. you). Could you please have a look at Gss-600.jpg, restore the valid version and decide then whether DK-MIL-POL2.jpg is a better choice? Thanks. --<IP_ADDRESS>
* I'm not quite sure, what this inquery is precisely about. Image:Gss-600.jpg is flagged as a duplicate of Image:Vech-r32.jpg, which is already used on BMW motorcycles. Earlier versions is also blanked so it's probably not a new thing.
* Since Image:Vech-r32.jpg is already used on BMW motorcycles, i decided to use the image, i originally uploaded to Commons, because i needed in an article about the danish military police.
* Also may i suggest that we continue this discussion on Talk:BMW motorcycles, where i have also copied your comment and my reply.
* --Hebster 16:27, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
* Erm... are we talking about the same pictures? One shows two R 1200 GS, the other one a bike from the middle of the 17th century. Why should they be flagged as duplicates?
* Rats, User:Staeckerbot must be mad, it is the one who marked this. It's not, the pictures are blanked, so identical. Doh.
* Anyway, I guess both might be of good use in this article. --<IP_ADDRESS>
* Well Image:Gss-600.jpg seems to be in order again, so i have put that one back on, in stead of DK-MIL-POL2.jpg.
* --Hebster 22:00, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
Please Revert User:Jeff dean's Changes
The following pictures were already flagged for speedy deletion because User:Jeff dean set them to the same nothingness. Please recreate the pictures from history.
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Apologies
My apology to all for my Wikibehaviour last week. It was uncalled for. Jeff dean 23:50, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
Thumbnail sizes
Once again I have removed the thumbnail size from the image in the K bikes section. It doesn't need a size on it. Rodendahl says on my talk page that if the thumb tag is removed the caption disappears. That is standard image behaviour, but removing the size doesn't affect the caption - just look at all the other images. Removing the size from a thumbnail lets it be displayed at the size specified in a user's preferences page. As for the image in the R bikes section which has a pixel size attached to it - the one of the 4 cylinder heads - that is to show off the detail. Personally I would be in favour of removing the size off that image as well. --Cheesy Mike 03:39, 16 June 2007 (UTC)
* I have reverted the most recent change of this thumbnail as vandalism. The editor in question has been requested to discuss his misgivings here rather than arbitrarily revert the article and he has ignored those requests. Let us not forget that Wikipedia has a policy that is called into play for this situation. (see WP:MOS) Trusilver 05:11, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
* This editor was not familiar with where he should discuss the difference of opinion until now. It was not a refusal of choice. It was ignorance. Now that I have found it, I would like to point out that the /*K series*/ section has been singled out for a change of the thumbnail size. If anyone is going to enforce image guidelines, then that enforcement should be applied equally to the entire article and not to one just one section. I have looked at the image guidelines and found that many places in the article do not follow it to the letter and yet it does not distract from the article as a whole. Calling the change back to what the author intended vandalism, does nothing but inflame the situation. It is a difference of opinion NOT vandalism and it was not as arbitrary as the singling out just one section of the article for this tit-for-tat. Rodendahl 05:30:56, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
* Didn't know where to discuss it? Tell you this himself did he? Because stop me if I'm wrong, but looking over the individual's entire edit history, he never once suggested anywhere that he was unaware of where to discuss this article. I have a pretty decent tolerence when it comes to the assumption of good faith, however when someone makes multiple reverts after being asked to please discuss it on the talk page and then leaves a derogatory and confrontational edit summary, THAT is when what would normally be a good-faith misunderstanding becomes vandalism. As such, I stand by the revert as vandalism.
* Honestly, you people need to start talking to each other rather than spending two days reverting each other's edits over such a trivial issue. A few dozen words can save two weeks of edit wars, I have seen it a hundred times before. Cheers. Trusilver 00:45, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
* I told the truth. Believe me or not it won't change what was true. Again you inflame by using words like derogatory and confrontational rather than focus on the issue of arbitrary selection of one section's edits. I wonder if you are trying to push my buttons and sucker me into being exceeding unprofessional. Well I won't. It's not worth it. It is time to move on and put this where it belongs, behind us. Rodendahl 17:03 17 Jun 2007
Rodendahl just changed all the image sizes (other than the logo and "headline" image) to be consistent. That is a good move and fully in line with WP:MOS recommendations. I certainly don't concur with any assertion that what he did was vandalism and am disappointed by the bad feeling that was created as a result. --Cheesy Mike 14:20, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
Trademark / Roundel
Lets not perpetuate the BMW Logo propeller myth. The BMW elaborates on the factual history of the logo, as does The BMW Trademark article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 842U (talk • contribs) 14:48, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
* The article mentioned doesn't have any form of reference or citation. IMHO until it does, it is not to be believed. --Cheesy Mike (talk) 14:37, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
Hey Mike, fine then, but where is the substantiation on the "propeller" story. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 842U (talk • contribs) 17:59, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
* BMW can't even get its own story right about its origins regarding BMW and BFW so why should we believe any version of the "roundel theory" without proper documentation. M-72 (talk) 20:29, 17 December 2007 (UTC) | WIKI |
Modulation of spontaneous activity in the overactive bladder - the role of P2Y agonists
C. Fry, John Young, R. Jabr, C. McCarthy, Y. Ikeda, A. Kanai
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Abstract
Spinal cord transection (SCT) leads to an increase of spontaneous contractile activity in the isolated bladder that is reminiscent of an overactive bladder syndrome in patients with similar damage to the central nervous system. An increase of interstitial cell number in the suburothelial space between the urothelium and detrusor smooth muscle layer occurs in SCT bladders and these cells elicit excitatory responses to purines and pyrimidines such as ATP, ADP and UTP. We have investigated the hypothesis that these agents underlie the increase of spontaneous activity. Rats underwent lower thoracic spinal cord transection and their bladder sheets or strips, with intact mucosa except where specified, used for experiments. Isometric tension was recorded and propagating Ca2+ and membrane potential (Em) waves recorded by fluorescence imaging using photodiode arrays. SCT bladders were associated with regular spontaneous contractions (2.9±0.4 min-1); ADP, UTP and UDP augmented the amplitude but not their frequency. With strips from such bladders, a P2Y6-selective agonist (PSB0474) exerted similar effects. Fluorescence imaging of bladder sheets showed that ADP or UTP increased the conduction velocity of Ca2+/Em waves that were confined to regions of the bladder wall with an intact mucosa. When transverse bladder sections were used, Ca2+/Em waves originated in the suburothelial space and propagated to the detrusor and urothelium. Analysis of wave propagation showed that the suburothelial space exhibited properties of an electrical syncitium. These experiments are consistent with the hypothesis that P2Y-receptor agonists increase spontaneous contractile activity by augmenting functional activity of the cellular syncitium in the suburothelial space.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)F1447-F1454
JournalAmerican Journal of Physiology - Renal Physiology
Volume302
Issue number11
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Publication statusPublished - Jun 2012
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GOP says Pence won the VP debate before the debate even happened
Mike Pence won the vice presidential debate before it happened, according to a post on the Republican National Committee's website. The page seen around 7:20 p.m. ET declared Indiana Gov. Pence "the clear winner" of the vice presidential debate against Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia. The debate starts at 9 p.m. ET. It said Republican Donald Trump's running mate had "top moments" talking about the economy and Hillary Clinton's "scandals." It also featured other pre-loaded posts titled: The RNC took down the post at about 7:30 p.m., and the page loaded as a 404 error. It read, " What do Hillary Clinton and this link have in common? They're both 'dead broke.'" The RNC did not immediately respond to a request for comment. After the post, a Clinton spokeswoman joked that she was not sure how she would spend the next few hours. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
The Smartest Stocks to Buy With $250 Right Now
For the past 19 months, Wall Street and investors have enjoyed an epic stock market rally. Since the widely followed S&P 500 bottomed out on March 23, 2020, the benchmark index has doubled in value. It's the strongest bounce-back rally from a bear market bottom in history.
Yet, value can still be found. As long as you approach your investments with a long-term mindset, a number of great companies can be scooped up today at what may look like bargain-basement prices years from now.
Further, you don't need a mountain of cash to begin or further your journey to financial freedom. If you have $250 ready to be invested that won't be needed for emergencies or to cover bills, the following companies are some of the smartest stocks you can buy right now.
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BioMarin Pharmaceutical
The first exceptionally smart buy with $250 is biotech stock BioMarin Pharmaceutical (NASDAQ: BMRN). Though it's significantly underperformed the broader market over the past couple of years, brighter days may lie ahead.
To start with the basics, BioMarin is a healthcare company. As a general rule, healthcare stocks tend to be unaffected by the ebbs and flows of the U.S. economy and stock market. Since we don't get to choose when we get sick or what ailment(s) we develop, there's a fairly steady stream of demand for drugs, devices, and healthcare services year-round. Essentially, patients don't stop needing care just because Wall Street or the U.S. economy hits a rough patch.
Aside from being in a highly defensive sector, BioMarin is special because it targets ultra-rare diseases. Although developing treatments for small patient pools is risky, the reward is bountiful. The company often contends with minimal or nonexistent competition, and the high list prices it passes along on brand-name drugs rarely face any pushback from health insurers.
At the moment, BioMarin has a half-dozen Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved therapies, many of which are still growing sales by a double-digit percentage. For example, sales for Vimizim, Naglazyme, and Brineura have grown by 30%, 16%, and 16%, respectively, through the first half of 2021. Combined, these double-digit sales drivers have accounted for 64% of BioMarin's net product revenue this year.
But Wall Street should also be excited about two late-stage candidates that have a good shot at U.S. approval. The first is BMN 111, a treatment for achondroplasia in children that's been approved in the European Union and is marketed under the name Voxzogo. Though estimates vary wildly, peak sales for BMN 111 should easily top $500 million.
The second drug hopeful is hemophilia A candidate BMN 270, which is better known as Roctavian. Though initially rejected by the FDA due to a lack of data concerning its long-term efficacy, BioMarin should have all the necessary data for an FDA review in 2022.
Between these two drug hopefuls and the company's existing product portfolio, a doubling in sales over the next five years is a distinct possibility. This is all the more reason to buy into the BioMarin Pharmaceutical growth story.
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GrowGeneration
A second smart stock investors can buy right now with $250 is hydroponic and organic retail gardening chain GrowGeneration (NASDAQ: GRWG).
The GrowGen story is really all about cannabis. According to marijuana analytics company BDSA, weed sales in the U.S. are expected to grow by an annual average of 14% and eventually hit $47.6 billion by 2026. This represents the bulk of global cannabis sales, which BDSA estimates will be at $62.1 billion in 2026.
The great thing about the U.S. pot industry is that the federal legalization isn't necessary. Although marijuana's Schedule I classification at the federal level creates some annoying operating inefficiencies -- cannabis cannot be transported between states (even legal states) -- it hasn't stopped 36 states from legalizing pot in some capacity. With the Department of Justice maintaining a hands-off approach, individual states are free to regulate their own cannabis industries, which is allowing direct and indirect players to thrive.
GrowGeneration may well be the premier ancillary marijuana stock to own. GrowGen's rapidly expanding retail and wholesale operations cover everything from hydroponics, soil and nutrient options to lighting, fans, and humidifiers. In other words, it's perfectly positioned to help growers of all sizes maximize their yields in a rapidly growing market.
What's made GrowGen so intriguing is the company's inorganic growth focus. Although same-store sales growth has consistently ranged between 48% and 73% over the past eight quarters (ended June 2021), management has leaned on acquisitions to expand the company's reach. As an example, GrowGen's garden-center count more than tripled at the end of June from the prior-year period. While acquisitive-based growth can lead to higher costs in the near term, GrowGen shouldn't have any issue translating these buyouts into beefier long-term profits.
What investors should really like about GrowGeneration is the shellacking the company's stock has taken since the beginning of the year. With federal legalization hopes once again placed on the back burner, GrowGen's shares have been more than halved. But at its current valuation, investors now have a chance to scoop up shares at less than three times Wall Street's forecasted sales for 2022. With the company firmly profitable on a recurring basis, the time to pounce is now.
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Freshpet
A third and final smart stock investors can buy right now that offers plenty of "paw-tential" is natural pet food and treat manufacturer and retailer Freshpet (NASDAQ: FRPT).
The pet industry's growth rate is dwarfed by the likes of cloud computing, cybersecurity, and even cannabis. But when it comes to consistent, recession-resistant growth, the pet industry is about as steady as it gets.
According to data from the American Pet Products Association, the number of U.S. households owning a pet has grown from 56% in its first survey back in 1988 to 70% in its 2021-2022 survey. This equates to 90.5 million households that are on pace to spend almost $110 billion on their furry, feathered, and scaled family members this year.
Perhaps even more impressive is the fact that year-over-year spending on companion animals in the U.S. hasn't declined for over a quarter of a century. No matter how steep the recession or terrifying the crisis, pet owners will continue spending big bucks to ensure the health and well-being of their animal family. And at the top of that spending budget is pet food and treats.
Just as grocery stores embraced the organic and natural food movement in the 2000s, companies like Freshpet have come to realize that pet owners will pay a higher price if they can purchase better quality food and treats for their dog or cat. Incidentally, higher price points are yielding better margins for Freshpet.
Although the company has a burgeoning online presence -- e-commerce sales have skyrocketed in the wake of the pandemic -- most of its sales originate in brick-and-mortar stores. At the retail level, the dollar velocity of Freshpet's wet and dry dog-food brands is the highest among more than a dozen other pet-food brands in the United States.
In plainer English, Freshpet is seeing its pet food fly off the shelves faster than its peers. For the time being, the company has approximately 40,000 of its Freshpet fridges in retail stores.
What's even more amazing is how quickly Freshpet's sales have grown, considering that it's still relatively early in its advertising ramp up, which is designed to increase brand awareness.
This is a company on the cusp of recurring profitability that could reasonably deliver sustainable sales growth of 20% to 40% annually through the midpoint of the decade. Suffice it to say, Freshpet belongs in investors' portfolios.
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Characterizing the Unknown
Posted on August 17, 2023
We often encounter very open-ended research questions. Clients regularly ask us to perform chemical characterizations of ill-defined materials, namely to support the remediation of fouling problems in industrial systems. To figure out the chemical make-up of an unknown substance, we offer certain key steps:
For liquid, solid, and semi-solid samples, the first step is to try and break down the material composition into 3 main bins:
• Inorganic solids
• Water and dissolved aqueous species
• Organic material
The isolation of inorganic solids can be accomplished by reflux-boiling solvent extractions (such as Dean-Stark), which allows for the removal of organic matter and water. The bulk of the compositional information on the inorganic fraction can then be obtained by Inductively Coupled Plasma / Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS) which gives an elemental breakdown of the inorganic components and X-Ray Diffraction (XRD) which provides crystallographic data.
One of the most robust techniques for evaluating the water content in a sample is Karl Fischer titration, namely because of its selectivity. This method is based on the oxidation of a sulfite into its corresponding sulfate with iodine, which requires the consumption of water. The analyzer measures the quantity of iodine consumed through the titration and relates it to the water content in the sample based on the reaction stoichiometry.
The analysis of dissolved aqueous species requires the isolation of the water phase (gravity separation, filtration, centrifuging). The dissolved species can then be identified by different methods, such as ICP-MS, IC, LC-MS, or solvent extraction followed by GC (for dissolved organic compounds).
Lastly, the organic material in the sample can be characterized after extracting the sample with a hydrophobic or amphiphilic solvent, and analyzing the extract by GC-MS.
This suite of analyses offers significant insight in the chemical composition of a given material. However, some other techniques could be better suited to a targeted compound of interest, and analytical plans should be adjusted accordingly.
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Hopkins L. Turney
Hopkins Lacy Turney (October 3, 1797 – August 1, 1857) was a Democratic U.S. Representative and United States Senator from Tennessee.
Biography
Turney was born in the Smith County settlement of Dixon Springs, Tennessee. As a youth, he was apprenticed to a tailor. He served in the Seminole War in 1818. Subsequent to this he studied law, and passed the bar examination and began a practice in Jasper, Tennessee. Later he moved to Winchester, Tennessee, continuing the practice of law. He owned slaves. He was first elected to the Tennessee House of Representatives in 1828.
He married Teresa Francis, the daughter of Miller Francis and Hannah Henry, in 1826. She was born December 9, 1809, and died September 5, 1879. Hopkins and Teresa were the parents of nine children.
Their son Peter Turney (September 22, 1827 – October 19, 1903) was Chief Justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court from 1870 to 1893; and served as governor of the U.S. state of Tennessee from 1893 to 1897.
He was then elected to the U.S. House, serving three terms in that body from 1837 to 1843, the 25th through 27th Congresses. Subsequent to this he was elected by the Tennessee General Assembly to the U.S. Senate, returning to Washington, D.C., after a two-year hiatus and serving one six-year term in that body, where he was chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Retrenchment for four years and the U.S. Senate Committee on Patents and the Patent Office for two before returning to his law practice, which he engaged in until shortly before his death. He is buried in Winchester. | WIKI |
Can we host and access datasets on the local storage of an RStudio Connect server?
Greetings,
Apologies if this has been addressed elsewhere: having problems finding it if so.
We have RStudio Connect deployed on a server, and many of the assets we will be publishing to rsconnect will need access to different slices of a large dataset which is more-or-less stored as an HDF5 file.
I was wondering if we could host this HDF5 file on the local HD of the server that is serving rsconnect, and have our published assets reference that dataset by its local path on that server.
Could we, for instance, copy the file somewhere in RStudio Connect's Server.DataDir directory, and then have our assets (1) detect if they are running within RStudio Connect; and (2) conditional on that rig up a path to the HDF5 file in the Server.DataDir, or something similar like that?
For instance, if we assume Server.DataDir is kept to its default value of /var/lib/rstudio-connect, could I just have our server admin drop my data.h5 file in there and do something like this somewhere in a shiny app I want to deploy to rsconnect?
if (Sys.getenv("R_CONFIG_ACTIVE") == "rsconnect") {
h5.path <- "/var/lib/rstudio-connect/data.h5"
} else {
h5.path <- "/somewhere/on/my/laptop/data.h5"
}
dat <- rhdf5::h5read(h5.path, "foo/A")
If not, is there something else we could do along those lines? We wouldn't need any type of security / user access restriction around accessing that particular hdf5 file, and the assets we publish to rsconnect would not need to modify/write that file either.
I'm not the admin of the server, so can't play with different flavors of what I'm asking / proposing here, so any insight anyone can provide that I could pass along would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
-Steve
Hey @lianos ! Great question!! Our usual recommendation for this type of thing is to create a top-level directory at the root of the server (i.e. /my-data) and house the data there. This ensures that you do not hit the process sandboxing that Connect utilizes for processes.
We have an article written that addresses this topic in more detail. I hope it helps!! Please feel free to ask if my response or this article prompt any more questions! :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes: (You want the section on "Absolute References," I suspect. Also, I believe this article pre-dates pins, which are useful for small datasets)
Oh, nice! Thanks for the speedy reply, this Persistent Storage article you linked is super helpful.
I'll let you know if we run into any bumps in the road.
Thanks again!
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Crime and its repression
Crime and its repression (Das Verbrechen und seine Bekämpfung) is a book that was originally published in 1903 and written by Gustav Aschaffenburg. It was translated to English in 1913. It investigates the underlying causes of crime and advises on different methods of punishment and deterrence. It was highly influential in the domain of criminal psychology and widely used as educational literature among universities for decades after its publication.
Aschaffenburg's career
Aschaffenburg did his medical studies in various cities, including Heidelberg, Strassburg, Freiburg, Berlin and Würzburg. After finishing his studies he did several internships under for example Professors Ball, Charcot and Pierre Marie in Paris as well as in Vienna under Professor Krafft-Ebing. This helped him gain a scientific stance enabling him to publish books such as Crime and its repression. After that, he became an assistant to a scholar called Kraeplin in Heidelberg and this time particularly pushed his interest in the field of criminology. His time as Kaeplins assistant in Heidelberg was a major inspiration and influence in writing the book. Heidelberg was seen as an ideal place for the studies of criminology due to its demographic situation and its position as a leading institution in the area. Due to the lack of medical faculties and universities in the area, Heidelberg became a main place for counseling for a total of three penal institutions. Heidelberg's status later proved as an advantage to Aschaffenburg when writing the book, as it increased his reputation and gave him more practical experience. The close connection to rural as well as urban areas, such as Mannheim, was also an advantage for his criminology studies. At the time Aschaffenburg was writing Crime and its repression he was already working in a prison in Halle, where he served as the head of medical service. Aschaffenburg himself also stated that the book was inspired by the lack of criminal sociology and biology knowledge that he saw in many lawyers and criminal judges throughout his career.
The evolvement of criminal psychology
One of the first implementations of psychology on criminal justice regulations was the so-called Constitutio Criminalis Carolina of 1532. It was impactful in the early modern era in most of the German speaking parts of Europe and built the base for the criminal justice system Aschaffenburg would later analyse in his book. A few hundred centuries later in the early half of the nineteenth century many scholars from different disciplines such as psychology and law started to pick up interest in the psychological causes of criminal behaviour establishing the field of criminology. In Germany the main contributors included police officials, medical doctors, prison administrators, law experts, judges and many more. Legal experts and medical doctors tended to study more the individual, whereas moral statisticians were more interested in the social causes of crime. Aschaffenburg would eventually combine both of these focuses in his book. Overall scholars at the time more or less focused on a bibliographical approach concentrating on an individual's lifespan leading up to the criminal event. Considering an individual's life leading up to the criminal event is in accordance with Aschaffenburg's approach as later described in Crime and its repression.
After the early half of the nineteenth century there was a shift in legal regulations towards more lenience for criminals who were mentally ill. In 1879 the possibility to send a criminal to an asylum for observation was implemented. This brought psychiatrists closer to the courts and resulted in more psychological approaches towards criminology over the 19th century. Psychologists around this timeframe also benefitted from the rising acknowledgement of natural sciences among the German society. From 1875 onwards, the field of criminology managed to establish itself as an independent field of science. This context made the base to enable psychologists like Aschaffenburg to publish their books coming from a psychologically focused perspective.
In his earlier publications, the scholar Cesare Lombroso reasoned that criminals possess certain physical characteristics. In his opinion there was an anthropological type of a person who would be born a criminal, something that Aschaffenburg would argue against later on. Around the same time, around 1880, the novel penal reform movement established itself. Franz von Liszt was one of the main figures pushing for a reform of the criminal justice system. He and his colleagues were aiming for a scientific approach to identify the causes of crime in order to protect society better. This scientific approach was necessary to build the base for the new penal reform. Aschaffenburg also argued for a reform of the criminal justice system to protect society in accordance with Liszt. But in contrast to Liszt, he focused more on protecting already convicted individuals and helping their rehabilitation. Later on, Lambroso published his book L'uomo delinquente and in the late 19th century Lambrosos publications became a major influence in the field of criminal psychology. Lambroso later on admitted that born criminals only made up around one third of all criminals, moving more towards Aschaffenburg's opinion. Prison doctors across Europe, including Germany, disproved said anthropological theories in the 1890s with the help of their own case studies. The most prominent people in the movement of criminal psychology, which was gaining momentum in the beginning of the 20th century, neither believed in "born criminals" nor did they reason for an isolated moral defect. Aschaffenburg was in line with these perspectives and published his book around this time.
Content
Aschaffenburg discusses crime, analyzes its causes and advises on how to prevent crime. His statistical analysis focuses on Germany as the main area of interest, but from time to time he manages to draw comparisons and conclusions from other European countries. In his analysis he makes use of methods and findings taken from various scientific fields such as forensic medicine, psychology, criminology and statistics. Aschaffenburg divides the causes of crime into social and individual causes. The section around social causes revolves around seasonal fluctuations in crime, race and religion, occupation and location. He also analyzes the influence of substance use, as well as prostitution, gambling, superstition and economic and social conditions. The individual causes are classified in upbringing, education, sex and domestic status. The author also discusses mental and physical characteristics of criminals and goes into the relationship between mental illness and criminology.
Aschaffenburg manages to make links between the major themes he identifies. The seasonal fluctuations in crimes for example, especially those of sexual nature, can be explained by changes in ones psychological balance according to the author. But fluctuations of crimes, he reasons, are also closely linked to fluctuations in the consumption of substances across the year. Aschaffenburg generally attributes alcohol a big role in influencing criminal behaviour. He not only discusses the effect of alcohol on the criminal individual, but also focuses on children of alcoholics. Other substances are not discussed in much detail, especially because Aschaffenburg sees them as non-relevant because of their expensive nature.
Demographic factors are discussed as both, social and individual causes, and make up a major part of the book. Aschaffenburg discusses the anonymity and greater opportunities that attract criminals to cities. He also writes a lot about the economic and social influence of criminals and admits that for example political circumstances can severely impact crime rates. The effect of race especially is closely tied to economic situations and thus no conclusion could be drawn according to the author. Age plays a role in the sense of morality and responsibility, Aschaffenburg concludes. The author also analyzes sex differences, and a prominent theme is the relationship between sex and prostitution. According to the author, prostitution constitutes the only outlet woman have for their criminal tendencies. Aschaffenburg manages to explain the links between lower education, difficult social position and economic poverty and dependence. In his analysis of physical characteristics he concludes that many things that were seen as indicators of crime are actually not predictive of criminal behaviour. Instead he looks in more details at the mental characteristics criminals show. The author then concludes that mental illness should be addressed as well, as it is rooted in the same circumstances as crime, such as social difficulties. Aschaffenburg concludes that neither individual nor environmental causes alone turn an individual into a criminal, but more the complex interaction between both.
In the last chapter of the book the author starts off with emphasizing the importance of investigating causes of crime. He sees that importance reflected in the high recidivism rates, the increasing crime rates and the general social damage that is done to society via criminal behaviour. Aschaffenburg advocates for prevention in form of physical, mental and economic support. He also strains how important it is to reduce alcohol abuse and to support children growing up in difficult social circumstances to break generational cycles. The author also gives his opinion on different methods of punishment, responsibility issues and probation. He also discusses the advantages and disadvantages of alternative methods such as vocational labour. Aschaffenburg generally advocates for prevention, such as increased education, rather than punishment which doesn't solve the issue at the root. He also reasons for individualization of punishment over fixed sentences and explains why judges need to take a close look at an individual life before making a judgement.
Reception
Crime and its repression is an originally German book that was translated into English in 1913 and reprinted in 1968. These two events helped the book gain more prominence on a broader scale. The book established itself as one of the most widely used educational books of criminology up until the 1930s, especially in the US. The book was one of Germany's first full criminal reviews and that made it exceptional for its time. It sparked public interest in the topic of crime's causes and prevention. The considerate collection of data and Aschaffenburg's ability to generalize was the scientific basis needed around the beginning of the 20th century. This basis, combined with consistent and effective propaganda, such as by Tighe Hopkins, pushed the increase in attention towards criminal psychology among the public.
The book was especially well received for its careful approach of analyzing statistics and making use of a progressive method. Many reviews praise the author for his objective, scientific method and his care for exceptionally detailed analyses. Many of Aschaffenburg's conclusions drawn in Crime and its repression based on carefully collected and verified data could debunk several theories that were discussed in the domain of criminology at the time of publishment. Reviews from the US praise the author for his sharp way of reasoning and conclude that his statements focused on Germany can easily be transferred to the US. In particular, his opinions about juveniles involved in court trials found much support among the academic community. Aschaffenburg was commended for the amount of psychological insight these sections showed. Especially the proposal of individualization of punishment was perceived as rather novel and progressive and Aschaffenburg was one of the leading advocates for this proposal. An additional factor that made Crime and its repression so novel and impressive for reviewers from journals about political and social sciences for example, was the emphasis that was laid upon the search for causes of criminality itself. Aschaffenburg's eagerness to actually identify the causes of criminal behaviour and treat the problem at the root was well received by scholars around the world.
The same reviews often criticize the lack of reference to the US, where some of Aschaffenburg's proposals were already implemented. Scholars strain that Aschaffenburg could have easily turned to some states in the US as an example discuss the effectiveness of indeterminate sentences, probation as well as parole regulations and prisoners aid societies. After the book was published, Gustav Aschaffenburg continued to practice in a psychiatry in Cologne and kept on publishing various educational books on criminology and psychology. He also published his first own magazine called "Monatszeitschrift", the first edition was sold in April 1904. He became one of the most influential forensic psychologists of his time, especially in Germany and the USA. After having to flee from nationalsocialism in the 1930s, he became a professor at the Johns-Hopkins University in the USA.
Criminal psychology in Germany across the 20th and 21st century
Since the publication of the book, criminal psychology has seen a very dynamic development across the 20th century. In the beginning of the 20th century it experienced a rapid increase in popularity, partially due to the effort of Aschaffenurg and his book. The leading scholars of this movement were psychiatrists and lawyers up until the mid 20th century. The main efforts in the early 20th century were targeted at the combination of social and individual causes of crime, such as in Crime and its repression. In the Weimar years in Germany, the trend in criminology drifted away from sociological causes and focused increasingly on anthropological approaches. This was an approach that was not shared by Aschaffenburg's perspective as presented in Crime and its repression. Later on, under Nationalsocialism criminal biology got promoted. That included the firm belief in heredity of criminal behaviour and a lack of scientific reasoning. Heredity of criminal behaviour was something that was carefully analyzed by Aschaffenburg in his book. As opposed to his stance in Crime and its repression, heredity of criminal behaviour was generalized and misused around this time. Supported by the broader academic community, this approach became the basis for many of the crimes committed under the cover of criminology, such as forced sterilization or euthanasia programmes. Many renowned scholars, including Aschaffenburg himself or Max Grünhut for example expressed their disapproval and fled the country, contributing to the broader export of knowledge in the domain of criminal psychology. After 1945, criminologists in Germany started refocusing on the less drastic parts of criminal psychology and a shift towards the relationship between society and criminal behaviour became visible, something that Crime and its repression advocated for. Criminal psychology in the 21st century follows Aschaffenburg's basic concept from 1903, as explained in Crime and its repression, in the way it combines social and individual factors when assessing criminals. | WIKI |
Gøteborg
Etymology
Borrowed from.
Etymology
Borrowed from.
Usage notes
* The Wikipedia article uses the Swedish spelling, which does not reflect Norwegian practice.
Etymology
Borrowed from.
Usage notes
* The Wikipedia article uses the Swedish spelling, which does not reflect Norwegian practice. | WIKI |
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64 Brederoo was dead; Coster and Hooft became silent; gradually the old breach was healed, and the Academy and Eglantine united in the "Amsterdamsche Kamer," for which a new theatre was built, and opened in 1638 with the performance of Vondel's Gysbrecht van Amstel.
But the year 1620 marked not only the close of the "quarrel of the players," but the end of the first movement towards the creation of a new drama. Hooft, Brederoo, and Coster had certainly done much to raise the serious drama above the level of "rederijkers'" work, as may be clearly seen by comparing their plays with those of writers for the Brabantian Chamber such as Kolm and De Koning. Still, they had not succeeded in creating a drama at once poetic and dramatically interesting. The popular plays continued to be tragi-comedies—plays half history, half morality—and farces. Van der Eembd's Harlemse Belegeringh and Sophonisba (1620), Jan Harmensz. Krul's Diana (1628), Jacob Struys's Romeo en Juliette (based on Baudello's novel, but showing no acquaintance with Shakespeare's play), H. Roelandt's Biron (1629), are the names of one or two through which the present writer has struggled without finding much to reward the trouble. The style varies between bombast and utter banality. Roelandt's Biron has the brag of Chapman's hero, but not the lofty poetic eloquence. The best popular plays are the farces, often unspeakably coarse. The scholarly drama, on the other hand, passed from Hooft to Vondel,—a great lyrical poet certainly, but not | WIKI |
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Treatment Options at the End of Life
by Elizabeth L. Cobbs, MD, Karen Blackstone, MD; Joanne Lynn, MD, MA, MS
Quantity versus quality
Often, the available choices involve a decision whether to accept the likelihood of dying sooner but to be more comfortable or attempt to live slightly longer by receiving aggressive therapy that may increase discomfort and dependence. For example, a person dying of severe lung disease may live longer if placed on a mechanical ventilator (a machine that helps people breathe). However, most people find being on a ventilator very unpleasant and often require heavy sedation.
Some dying people and their families feel that they must try any treatment that might prolong survival, even when hope for gaining more than a little time is unrealistic. Such treatment often sacrifices the person’s last few days to side effects without gaining quality time, causes discomfort, entails substantial costs, and burdens family members. In many cases, as a person nears death, the focus of care should shift entirely to providing comfort measures to ensure that the dying person does not suffer and has every opportunity to experience the closure that honors the life lived. Personal philosophy, values, and religious beliefs become more important when such decisions are made by and for a dying person.
Feeding tubes
Food and water given through tubes (artificial nutrition and hydration) do not usually make a dying person feel better (see Loss of appetite) or live significantly longer. Feeding tubes may cause discomfort and even make death occur sooner. Side effects of feeding tubes include pneumonia, swelling caused by an accumulation of fluid (edema), and pain. If undesired, these measures can be prohibited by advance directives or by decisions at the time when tube feeding might otherwise be used.
People who are debilitated or who have severely wasted away may live for several weeks with no food and minimal hydration. Family members should understand that stopping fluids does not result in the person’s immediate death and ordinarily does not hasten death when the person simply is uninterested in taking or unable to take fluids by mouth.
Resuscitation
The act of trying to revive a person whose heart and breathing have stopped (resuscitation) includes measures such as chest compressions, rescue breathing, drugs, and electrical shocks. Resuscitation is the only treatment provided automatically in the hospital unless specifically decided otherwise in advance (called a do-not-resuscitate [DNR] order—see Do-Not-Resuscitate (DNR) Orders). Resuscitation efforts can be prohibited by advance care planning, whether a formal advance directive (see Advance Directives) or an agreement between the patient (or a person designated by the patient to make health care decisions if the patient is unable to make decisions) and the doctor. Once decided, the doctor writes the needed order in the patient’s medical record.
Because resuscitation at best returns people to the state they were in before their heart stopped, it is not beneficial for people who are coming close to death, for whom the stopping of their heart is simply the final event. Such people are overwhelmingly unlikely to respond to resuscitation. The very few who do respond survive only briefly and often without return of full consciousness.
The decision to forgo resuscitation makes sense for most people expected to die soon, and such a decision need not weigh heavily on the family.
Location
Often, dying people and their family members may prefer to have the final days at home—a familiar, supportive setting—and not in a hospital. For people who are at home, this usually requires a reminder to all caregivers not to call an ambulance when symptoms indicate the approach of death (see When Death Is Near). For people who are in the hospital, staff can help families arrange for the person to go home with all necessary treatments for comfort, such as drugs and a hospital bed. If hospitalization is preferred, or is unavoidable, it is especially important to have the person’s decisions regarding undesired interventions documented.
Making choices known
People usually do best when they discuss their wishes for end-of-life care well in advance of a crisis that makes such decisions urgent. Such early discussions are very important because, later on, illness often prevents people from explaining their wishes. Family members are often reluctant to decline life-prolonging treatment without clear prior direction from the ill person. This process of making decisions in advance for end-of-life care is called advance care planning, and it can result in legally enforceable advance directives (see Advance directives). Advance directives should be in writing and comply with legal requirements whenever possible. People should also have Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST—see Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST)) documents. These documents are similar to advance directives in that they reflect the person's wishes regarding care. They are different from advance directives in that they are medical orders written by the person's doctor.
However, even without written documents, a conversation between the patient, family, and health care practitioners about the best course of care gives substantial guidance for care decisions later, when the patient is unable to make such decisions, and is much better than not discussing the issues at all.
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Sigurður Bjarnason
Sigurður Bjarnason (born 1 December 1970) is an Icelandic former handball player and handball coach who competed in the 1992 Summer Olympics.
In 1991 he switched from UMF Stjarnan to the German Bundesliga side TV Großwallstadt. In 2001 he reached the German cup final with HSG D/M Wetzlar.
In 2003 he became the coach of his former club UMF Stjarnan, where he won the Icelandic Men's Handball Cup in 2006. | WIKI |
lumpkin
Etymology
After Tony Lumpkin, an ignorant young man in Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer (1771; first performed 1773).
Noun
* 1) A clumsy, heavy, stupid, silly or blundering person. | WIKI |
Scoti
Scoti or Scotti is a Latin name for the Gaels, first attested in the late 3rd century. It originally referred to all Gaels, first those in Ireland and then those who had settled in Great Britain as well, but it later came to refer only to Gaels in northern Britain. The kingdom to which their culture spread became known as Scotia or Scotland, and eventually all its inhabitants came to be known as Scots.
History
An early use of the word can be found in the Nomina Provinciarum Omnium (Names of All the Provinces), which dates to about AD 312. This is a short list of the names and provinces of the Roman Empire. At the end of this list is a brief list of tribes deemed to be a growing threat to the Empire, which included the Scoti, as a new term for the Irish. There is also a reference to the word in St Prosper's chronicle of AD 431 where he describes Pope Celestine sending St Palladius to Ireland to preach "ad Scotti in Christum" ("to the Scots who believed in Christ").
Thereafter, periodic raids by Scoti are reported by several later 4th and early 5th century Latin writers, namely Pacatus, Ammianus Marcellinus, Claudian and the Chronica Gallica of 452. Two references to Scoti have been identified in Greek literature (as Σκόττοι), in the works of Epiphanius, Bishop of Salamis, writing in the 370s. The fragmentary evidence suggests an intensification of Scoti raiding from the early 360s, culminating in the so-called "barbarian conspiracy" of 367–368, and continuing up to and beyond the end of Roman rule c. 410. The location and frequency of attacks by Scoti remain unclear, as do the origin and identity of the Gaelic population-groups who participated in these raids.
By the 5th century, the Gaelic or Scottish kingdom of Dál Riata had emerged in the area of modern Scotland that is now Argyll. Although this kingdom was destroyed and subjugated by the Pictish kingdom of the 8th century under Angus I, the convergence of Pictish and Gaelic languages over several centuries resulted in the English labelling Pictland under Constantine II as Scottish in the early 10th century, first attested in AD 920, viewing the Picts as speaking a Gaelic tongue. The growing influence of the English and Scots languages from the 12th century with the introduction of Anglo-French knights and southerly expansion of Scotland's borders by David I saw the terms Scot, Scottish and Scotland also begin to be used commonly by natives of that country.
Etymology
The etymology of Late Latin Scoti is unclear. It is not a Latin derivation, nor does it correspond to any known Goidelic (Gaelic) term the Gaels used to name themselves as a whole or a constituent population group. Several derivations have been conjectured, but none has gained general acceptance in mainstream scholarship.
In the 19th century, Aonghas MacCoinnich proposed that Scoti came from Gaelic sgaothaich, meaning "crowd" or "horde".
Charles Oman (1910) derived it from Gaelic scuit, meaning someone cut off. He believed it referred to bands of outcast Gaelic raiders, suggesting that the Scots were to the Gaels what the Vikings were to the Norse.
More recently, Philip Freeman (2001) has speculated on the likelihood of a group of raiders adopting a name from an Indo-European root, *skot, citing the parallel in the Ancient Greek skotos (σκότος), meaning "darkness, gloom".
Linguist Kim McCone (2013) derives it from the Old Irish noun scoth meaning "pick", as in "the pick" of the population, the nobility, from an Archaic Irish reconstruction *skotī.
An origin has also been suggested in a word related to the English scot ("tax") and Old Norse skot; this referred to an activity in ceremonies whereby ownership of land was transferred by placing a parcel of earth in the lap of a new owner, whence 11th-century King Olaf, one of Sweden's first known rulers, may have been known as a scot king. | WIKI |
Mattis to brief Trump on Syria military options
The Pentagon is presenting a series of military options — including strikes against air defenses, grounding Syrian aircraft and targeted strikes against those responsible for the recent chemical weapons attack — to the White House, per NBC News. Secretary of Defense James Mattis is expected to go over those options with Trump today at Mar-a-Lago. The move follows reports that the U.S. actually saw a Syrian aircraft carry out the chemical weapons attack that has led President Trump to consider retaliatory military action agains the Assad regime. NBC News reported that U.S. military officials saw the aircraft on radar, and watched as the bombs were dropped. Meanwhile, Secretary of State Tillerson told reporters Thursday that the U.S. is prepared to lead an international coalition to oust Assad, and that "those steps are underway." He also noted that, "clearly with the acts that he has taken it would seem there would be no role for him to govern the Syrian people." Trump isn't going public with any plans yet, though. He told reporters on Air Force One: "I don't want to say what I'm going to be doing with respect to Syria." | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Talk:Padroni, Colorado
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My home town has it's own wiki page! My family owned the biggest property in that town with a total of 6 acres. I lived there for all my young childhood and had to move out when I was around 10 years old back in 1999. Everyone was jelous of the Mekeel family. But I was known as Chris Brackner, my and my brother had different last names than our mother and step father. I think everyone hated Dan. I remember the lazy summer days of going up to the canal to take a swim. I regret always being scared to jump of the pole, but I often jumped off the bridge. And then the crawdad fishing. Some days we'd catch a whole bunch of them critters and eat them for dinner. I miss my home town. MewSkitty 02:11, 26 March 2007 (UTC) | WIKI |
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SAP BTP Destinations
What is a Destination in the SAP BTP?
In the SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP), a destination is a configuration setting that defines the connection details for a remote system or service. It provides the necessary information for applications deployed on the SAP BTP to access external systems or services, such as an on-premise SAP system or a cloud-based service.
A destination typically includes the following information:
• Target URL: The URL of the remote system or service that the application needs to access.
• Authentication settings: The user credentials or authentication token required to authenticate the application with the remote system or service.
• Proxy settings: The proxy server details, if the remote system or service is behind a proxy server.
• Other connection parameters: Any other configuration settings required to establish the connection with the remote system or service.
Destinations can be created and managed in the SAP BTP cockpit, which is the central management console for the SAP BTP. Applications deployed on the SAP BTP can then access the destinations through APIs or libraries, which provide a simplified way of accessing external systems and services without requiring developers to handle the low-level details of the connection.
Destinations can be used in a wide range of scenarios, such as integrating on-premise SAP systems with cloud-based services, accessing data from external databases or APIs, or connecting to third-party systems or services. They provide a secure and flexible way of connecting to external systems and services, while also providing centralized management and monitoring capabilities.
What are the advantages of Destinations?
Advantages of Destinations in the SAP BTP include:
1. Centralized connection management: Destinations store connection information to external systems or services in a central location, making it easier to manage and maintain (blogs.sap.com). This centralization simplifies the process of updating connection details, as changes made to a destination are automatically propagated to all applications using it.
2. Security and authentication: Destinations handle authentication methods and credentials, ensuring that connections to external systems are secure and authorized (blogs.sap.com). By storing credentials securely within the destination, you can reduce the risk of unauthorized access to sensitive data.
3. Reusability and consistency: Destinations can be shared across multiple applications, promoting reusability and consistency of connection configurations (help.sap.com). This reduces the need to duplicate connection details in multiple places, minimizing the risk of errors and inconsistencies.
4. Flexibility: Destinations can be created at both the subaccount and application levels, providing flexibility in managing access to external systems (help.sap.com). This allows you to control which applications have access to specific external systems, and simplifies the process of granting or revoking access when needed.
5. Integration with SAP Cloud Connector: Destinations can be used in conjunction with the SAP Cloud Connector to securely connect cloud applications to on-premise systems (blogs.sap.com). This enables you to leverage the full potential of the SAP BTP in hybrid scenarios, where cloud applications must interact with both cloud services and on-premise systems.
Overall, Destinations in the SAP BTP provide a convenient, secure, and flexible way to manage connections to external systems, simplifying the integration and development processes for cloud applications.
What is the difference between a destination and the Cloud Connector?
The SAP Cloud Connector and a destination are both used in the SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) to enable connectivity between on-premise systems and cloud-based services. However, they serve different purposes and work at different levels of the connectivity stack.
The SAP Cloud Connector is a software component that runs on a customer's on-premise system and provides secure communication between the on-premise system and the SAP BTP. It establishes a secure tunnel between the on-premise system and the SAP BTP, allowing applications running on the SAP BTP to access on-premise resources through the tunnel.
On the other hand, a destination is a configuration setting that defines the connection details for a remote system or service. It is used to enable applications running on the SAP BTP to access external systems or services, such as an on-premise SAP system or a cloud-based service.
In other words, the SAP Cloud Connector enables connectivity between the on-premise system and the SAP BTP, while a destination enables connectivity between the SAP BTP and external systems or services. The SAP Cloud Connector is used to establish a secure communication channel, while destinations are used to specify the details of the connection to the target system or service.
In summary, the SAP Cloud Connector and destinations are complementary components that work together to enable secure and flexible connectivity between on-premise systems and cloud-based services in the SAP BTP.
What is the difference between the services "destination" and "connectivity" in the SAP BTP?
In the SAP BTP Cloud Foundry environment, the Connectivity service and the Destination service work together to enable secure communication between your applications and external systems or services. They provide similar functionality as the Connectivity service of the Neo environment, but the functionality is split into two separate services.
The Connectivity service provides a connectivity proxy that you can use to access on-premise resources (answers.sap.com). It enables communication between your cloud applications and on-premise systems through the Cloud Connector (learning.sap.com). The Connectivity service is responsible for handling the actual connection and data transmission between the cloud and on-premise environments.
On the other hand, the Destination service is responsible for retrieving and storing the technical information about the target resource (destination) that you need to connect your application to a remote service or system (answers.sap.com). It acts as a storage place for destination info, such as URL, protocol, and credentials (blogs.sap.com).
In summary, the Destination service stores the connection information, while the Connectivity service handles the actual connection and data transmission between your cloud applications and external resources, especially on-premise systems. Both services are required to use the Cloud Connector and securely connect your applications to external resources (answers.sap.com). | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
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Creating Android Lens Blur Depth Viewer
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Topics: JavaScript, Android Lens Blur
Going from an update to the Android camera app to a 3D viewer on the browser, in a few hours and using JavaScript.
The latest update to the Android camera app provides images with embedded depth data. With a bit of engineering and tinkering with an hex editor, a text editor, some JavaScript and a browser, it's easy to get a 3D model representing the original image.
A bit of reverse engineering
A few weeks ago (April 2014) google updated the Android camera app, with a revamped UI and a few nice additions, amongst which there's Lens Blur, a new camera mode to take pictures with depth. It uses a bit of optical flow and other computer vision algorithms to estimate depth out of a picture and video taken with a bit of upwards movement. The resulting image can be used afterwards to perform an effect of shallow depth-of-field, by clicking the area of the picture that you want focused, and specifying the radius of the blur for the blurred parts.
@mrdoob was asking on twitter where that extra depth data was stored, because he couldn't find it in the filesystem. I trust his computer ma skills so if he doesn't find a file he's looking for, it's because it's not there. So where is the depth data stored? The logical answer is "together with the image file, somewhere inside it". So let's all set sail for treasure!
First thing: get a picture taken with the new app to test. I actually had to wait for a while to get the update, but there were several pictures already on the web. They are and look like regular JPEG files.
A few years ago I used to work a lot with MJPEG streams and weird video formats based on JPEG sequences with boundaries, so I'm pretty familiar with the JPEG structure of blocks. Using HexFiend to get an idea of the layout of the contents of the file and start working on a loader, extracting pieces and decoding from base64 content that looked promising.
Using Hex Fiend to analyse the file
Finding the depth map
Using XMLHttpRequest to load the image as a byte array, we can split it by boundaries, and work with each chunk depending on its content. Some content is binary data, but other is simply a XML-formatted string. There's a couple of interesting blocks of metadata: one contains info about the picture and how it was taken, another info about the actual depth metrics. And contain a base64-encoded string with the depth map.
Extracting blocks of information using JavaScript
The depth map is a grayscale PNG, with the same dimensiones as the original image. It can be easily extracted and used as source of an image element to display in the browser.
That's where we can start creating a nice little library to extract depth images from Lens Blur pictures.
From image to mesh
The next logical step is to use the color image and the depth image to reconstruct the 3D scene which picture was taken. To do that seems pretty straightforward: we can create a point-cloud, each point being a pixel from the color image. We go over all pixels in the color image and for each pixel we create a vertex where:
As said, the depth map is a grayscale image, so each pixel has 256 possible values: depth is encoded as any of those discrete values and it has to be remapped to the right values.
The first result of turning depth into mesh
At this point we have the first version of the 3D player, which looks boxy and really not quite right.
Correct mesh reconstruction
First thing, the depth doesn't look correct because it's not stored as a linear value. There are two possible ways XMP stores depth data: RangeLinear and RangeInverse. These are two ways of encoding the distance. The header -and the google documentation- states that is RangeInverse, so the value once read from the byte has to be transformed using ( far * near ) / ( far - value * ( far - near ) ). The far and near value are available on the GDepth header.
Transforming depth in RangeInverse format (take 1)
JavaScript - library
var ar = img.height / img.width;
var v = new THREE.Vector3();
for( var y = 0; y < h; y++ ) {
for( var x = 0; x < w; x++ ) {
v.x = ( x - .5 * w ) / w;
v.y = ( y - .5 * h ) / h;
p = Math.round( ( ( -v.y + .5 ) ) * ( img.height - 1 ) ) * img.width * 4 +
Math.round( ( ( v.x + .5 ) ) * ( img.width - 1 ) ) * 4;
var dn = imageData.data[ p ] / 255;
var rd = ( far * near ) / ( far - dn * ( far - near ) );
v.z = -rd ;
}
}
That way the depth is correctly expanded, but there's still something amiss.
It looks allright but still is not correct
Again, @mrdoob comes to the rescue suggesting that the reconstructed geometry should look more like a pyramid section rather than a cube. And of course makes perfect sense, since the camera behaves as a perspective transform matrix. Thanks to @kcimc code from kinect reconstruction, I was able to correctly reconstruct the scene, by multiplying x and y by a factor of z.
Transforming depth in RangeInverse format (take 2, correct)
JavaScript - library
var ar = img.height / img.width;
var v = new THREE.Vector3();
for( var y = 0; y < h; y++ ) {
for( var x = 0; x < w; x++ ) {
v.x = ( x - .5 * w ) / w;
v.y = ( y - .5 * h ) / h;
p = Math.round( ( ( -v.y + .5 ) ) * ( img.height - 1 ) ) * img.width * 4 +
Math.round( ( ( v.x + .5 ) ) * ( img.width - 1 ) ) * 4;
var dn = imageData.data[ p ] / 255;
var rd = ( far * near ) / ( far - dn * ( far - near ) );
v.z = -rd ;
v.x *= rd * 1;
v.y *= rd * ar;
}
}
There's more code in this loop, but mainly takes care of sampling the colour of the image, and to track the farthest and closest depth value to place the object in the scene correctly once reconstructed.
Correctly restored point cloud of a maneki neko soy dispenser
Adding more rendering modes
Once the point cloud is working, the rest is easy. A plane can be created to have as many vertices as necessary, and those vertices displaced by the xyz values reconstructed from the depth map. That plane can then be shown as wireframe, or as a textured solid object.
Wireframe model of a reconstructed scene
Textured, though, shows the problem of using the already blurred image from Lens Blur: some parts are blurry even though we don't want them to be. But considering that the Lens Blur app applies blur at the user's command, it makes sense that there's an original image also embedded in the file. And there is, it's in the GImage:Data node. We can use that one to reconstruct an unblurred scene.
A bit of blurring of the depth map, using StackBlur also help smoothing the reconstructed depth, because most of the images have plenty of artifacts from the method used to calculate depth.
Bad Motherfu**er reconstructed and textured
The rest are finishing touches: a better UI with text and progres indicator, some default example images, a few controls to tweak stuff around.
Adding the Sketchfab exporter
I also thought it would be useful to export the model once reconstructed. Taking the THREE.ObjectExporter class, it was easy to add an exporter for the basic geometry.
The guys at @sketchfab suggested adding an uploader to their site. There were a couple of samples of code.
First step, trying the basic .OBJ uploader. That worked pretty easily. It revealed a couple of bugs in the reconstruction of the mesh: basically there were some NaN position that three.js ignores, but sketchfab considers 0.
Second step, since the basic geometry is pretty boring, and we have the diffuse map, so how to upload it? It requires a zip file with an .obj file, the texture, and a .mtl file to describe the material.
First, I asked @Sejnulla for a sample of an exported file from Maya. Then, modified the THREE.ObjectExporter to add the required material strings. Using zip.js to compact the three files into a single one, and uploading it to @sketchfab. Done!
Maneki neko showing 3D depth of field using Wagner
Here are a couple of examples of meshes generated from an Android Lens Blur image and uploaded directly to SketchFab from the browser.
The bird house model is captured, processed and uploaded directly from an Android phone.
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Brainfuck Question
Why do I get a Perl error in this brainfuck program?
When I run the following Brainfuck program (source)...
>+>++>+++>++++>+++++>++++++>+++++++>++++++++>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<<<<<<<<[>>>>>>>>+.<<<<<<<<]
... through the interpreter I use (a small one written in Perl) it does not what it is supposed to do ("you'll find that it loops forever and prints out each character, starting with space (32), in ASCIIbetical order"), but instead prints out, looping:
Wide character in print at (eval 1) line 1, <> chunk 1.
Yes, the code contains redundancies. It is autogenerated from, out of all things, Haskell.
Answer
Your interpreter likely uses a Perl function such as “chr” to convert cell values to characters upon output, and does not limit cell values to [0;255].
While this can be useful in some calculations, the Brainfuck output is normally bytes, whereas Unicode codepoints are usually encoded as UTF-8, and even if not, those above 255 need more than one byte anyway, naturally.
I'm sure you first do get all those characters, and only then the warnings, once the cell value gets too big. Maybe, if you let it run for a loooong time, the cell values wrap around (at 32767, or 2147483647 probably), then you have negative values, and eventually 32 again, repeating the cycle. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Alfred Darling
Alfred Darling (1862–1931) was an engineer and a key member of the loose association of early film pioneers dubbed the Brighton School by French film historian Georges Sadoul.
Biography
Darling began to manufacture film equipment at his engineering works at 25 Ditchling Rise, Brighton after carrying out repairs for Esmé Collings. His clients included George Albert Smith and James Williamson. In 1897 he took out a patent, jointly with Alfred Wrench, for a camera with a variable shutter and a claw pull-down mechanism. In 1899, on a commission from Charles Urban, he produced the Biokam, a film-making system for amateurs using 17.5mm film. His 35mm film equipment was widely used during the early years of cinema development. | WIKI |
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sake of the Khilafat, for the sake of the Punjab. There is no guilt about your word or work. Yours is the purest sacrifice untainted by anger or hate. Let me confess to you that your spontaneous and loving res- ponse all-over India has convinced me that God is with s. No other?proof of our struggle being one of setf- purification is needed than that lacs of India's women are actively helping it.
Having given much, more is now required of you. Men bore the principal share of the subscriptions to the Tilak Swaraj Fund. But completion of the Swadeshi programme is possible only if you give the largest share. Boycott is impossible, unless you will surrender the whole of yonr foreign clothing. So long as the taste persists, so long is complete renunciation impossible* And boycott means complete renunciation * We must be prepared to be satisfied with such cloth as India can produce, even as we are thankfully content with' such children as God gives us. I have not known a mother throwing away her baby even though it may appear ugly to an outsider. So should it be with the patriotic women of India about Indian manufactures. And for you only handspun and handwoven can be regarded as Indian manufactures. During the transition stage you can only get coarse Khadi in abundance. You may add all the art to it that your taste allows or requires. And if you will be satisfied with coarse Khadi for a few months, India need not despair of seeing a revival of the fine rich and coloured garments of old which were once the envy and the despair of the world. I assure you that a six months' course of self-denial will show you that what we to-day regard as artistic is only falsely so, and that true ait
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1 Know ye not, brethren, for I speak to them that know the law,) that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth? 2 For the woman who hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband is dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband. 3 So then if, while her husband liveth, she is married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband is dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man. 4 Therefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit to God. 5 For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit to death. 6 But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead by which we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter. 7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? By no means. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. 8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of lust. For apart from the law sin was dead. 9 For I was alive apart from the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. 10 And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be to death. 11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me. 12 Therefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. 13 Was then that which is good made death to me? By no means. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful. 14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. 15 For that which I do I understand not: for what I would, that I do not; but what I hate, that I do. 16 If then I do that which I would not, I consent to the law that it is good. 17 Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. 18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not. 19 For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. 20 Now if I do that which I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. 21 I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. 22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: 23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. 24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? 25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them who are in Christ Jesus, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. 3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: 4 That the righteousness of the law may be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. 5 For they that are according to the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are according to the Spirit the things of the Spirit. 6 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. 7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. 8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. 9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if the Spirit of God dwelleth in you. Now if any man hath not the Spirit of Christ, he is not his. 10 And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. 11 But if the Spirit of him that raised Jesus from the dead dwelleth in you, he that raised Christ from the dead shall also give life to your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you. 12 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. | WIKI |
Bolivia–Israel relations
The Plurinational State of Bolivia and the State of Israel first established a diplomatic relationship with each other in 1950, two years after the Israeli Declaration of Independence and one year after Bolivia recognized Israel's sovereignty. Both countries enjoyed generally stable and close ties until the beginning of the 21st century, when successive Bolivian governments became vocally opposed to Israeli military operations against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Under the Bolivian political party Movement for Socialism, which has governed the country on a near-continuous basis since 2006, Bolivia has adopted an increasingly pro-Palestinian stance at the United Nations with regard to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, eliciting a negative response from the Israeli government.
In 2009, after an uninterrupted 59 years, Bolivian president Evo Morales severed the country's government-level ties with Israel for the first time, decrying the Palestinian death toll in the Israeli military's "Operation Cast Lead" in the Gaza Strip. However, their economic ties and visa waiver program for travel remained intact. Following the outbreak of the 2014 Gaza War, Morales designated Israel as a "terrorist state" and cancelled the Bolivian–Israeli visa waiver agreement, which had been signed in 1972, while also promising to cut bilateral economic ties and ban all Israelis from visiting Bolivia. In 2019, Morales resigned from the presidency under pressure from the then-ongoing Bolivian protests and was succeeded by Jeanine Áñez of the Social Democratic Movement, after which Bolivia restored diplomatic relations with Israel and several other countries. In 2020, the Movement for Socialism party returned to power under the presidency of Luis Arce, who severed the country's ties with Israel on 31 October 2023, decrying the Palestinian death toll in the Israel–Hamas war. , there are no official diplomatic relations between Bolivia and Israel.
1949: Bolivia recognizes Israel's sovereignty
Bolivia officially recognized Israel in February 1949 and relations were officially established in 1950. The first official visit by one of the two countries was made by the Bolivian Minister of Finance Quadro Sanchez who came to Israel along with the President of the Central Bank of Bolivia Paz Anzeana from Istanbul at the invitation of the Israeli government.
1950s: Bolivian–Israeli diplomacy begins
In 1957, Bolivia accredited Walter Guevara-Arze, its ambassador in Paris, as chargé d'affaires in Israel. On 29 November of that year, Guevara-Arze presented his credentials to the President of Israel, Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, thus formally establishing diplomatic relations between Israel and Bolivia.
During the military coups that took place in Bolivia between 1964 and 1982, close ties existed between Bolivia and Israel. Israel sold Uzi submachine guns, ammunition and aircraft to Bolivia, and in return Bolivia supported Israel on the international stage.
In August 1964 the Commander of the Bolivian Armed Forces, General Alfredo Ovando Candia, visited Israel along with other senior Bolivian military personnel.
2009: Bolivia severs relations with Israel
Following Operation Cast Lead in 2008–2009, Bolivia severed relations with Israel and expelled the Israeli ambassador Shlomo Cohen as well as seven members of the diplomatic mission, after the decision of President Evo Morales of the leftist Movement for Socialism party that came to power in 2006. Following the decision, the leader of the Jewish community in the country, Abraham Levi, stated that the Bolivian government "has taken a position of a terrorist group, supporting Hamas and not accepting the arguments of the Israeli government." Morales was considered an ally of former Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, who also severed diplomatic ties with Israel following the operation.
In 2010, Israeli exports to Bolivia amounted to about $6 million, and imports from Bolivia to Israel about $3 million.
2014: Bolivia cancels visa waiver program with Israel
Following Operation Protective Edge in 2014, Morales declared Israel a "terror state" due to the IDF's activity in the operation that year. As a result of the decision, the visa waiver that had been in place between the countries since the agreement signed between them in 1972 on the subject was cancelled. Morales also promised to prohibit Israelis from visiting Bolivia.
2019: Bolivia restores relations with Israel
On 28 November 2019, Bolivian Foreign Minister Karen Longaric announced the country's intention to resume diplomatic relations with Israel. The Israeli Foreign Ministry welcomed the decision. This move came after Morales' resignation from the presidency, as he demonstrated pro-Iranian and anti-American positions, distancing himself from the Western world since taking office, after receiving political asylum in Mexico following widespread protests against his government, breaking into his home, and placing a bounty on his head. It also renewed the visa waiver for Israelis touring Bolivia.
On 4 February 2020, for the first time in a decade, a delegation from the Israeli Foreign Ministry met with Bolivian President Jeanine Áñez, Foreign Minister Karen Longaric, cabinet members, and legislators in the capital La Paz.
2023: Bolivia severs relations with Israel
Following the 31 October 2023 attack on Jabalia during the 2023 Israel–Hamas war, the Bolivian government announced that it was severing diplomatic ties with Israel. Foreign Minister Freddy Mamani called Israel's response "disproportionate" and President Luis Arce described the actions as "war crimes", with the Bolivians calling for an immediate ceasefire. | WIKI |
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The discography of Aqua, a Danish-Norwegian dance-pop group, contains three studio albums, two compilation albums, three remix albums and 22 singles. | WIKI |
Wikipedia:WikiProject Stagecraft/Breakdown
This is a quick concept of what I think should be the breakdown of articles related to stagecraft. Feel free to add things I'm missing, as I'm a squint, I'm sure I'll miss imporatant details in other departments. Perhaps this will allow us to come to a consensus regarding form and structure for stagecraft related articles. Morydd 18:49, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
Theater
(Make sure there are appropriate mentions of stagecraft and links where needed)
Categories
Stagecraft - General Terms, multi-discipline/dept. articles, catch-all Theatrical professions - descriptions of the trade or job Theatrical occupations - people and organisations
Departments
Each department divided as such:
* Electrics
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* Wardrobe
* Audio
* Props
* Management
* FOH
* Jargon
* Positions
* Titles
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Upper Tüchersfeld Castle
The ruins of Upper Tüchersfeld Castle (Burgstall Oberntüchersfeld) are all that remains of a high medieval castle that once rose high above the valley of the Püttlach in the church village of Tüchersfeld in Germany's Franconian Switzerland. It was built on a spur of the Mittelberg and was one of two castles in the village, the other being the Lower Tüchersfeld Castle.
The site or burgstall of the hill castle lies at a height of in the centre of the village of Tüchersfeld in the municipality of Pottenstein in the Upper Franconian county of Bayreuth in Bavaria.
History
Through the village of Tüchersfeld once ran a medieval road (Altstrasse), which wound its way from Gräfenberg via Hiltpoltstein and Obertrubach to Gößweinstein. In Tüchersfeld it crossed the Püttlach valley and then continued via Oberailsfeld and Waischenfeld to Hollfeld. The castles were probably built to control the road and river crossing.
The first historical records of the castles date to the 13th century, when a Friderici quondam de Thvchervelt was mentioned on 26 November 1243, they were probably built just before this.
The Bishop of Bamberg, Berthold of Leiningen, acquired one of the castles on 27 May 1262; from whom he bought it, is not known. It is likely that this was the castle of Frederick of Tüchersfeld. Seven years later, the bishop acquired the second castle there from Duke Louis of Bavaria and Count Palatine of the Rhine, as a gift. However, the Duke must first have had to redeem the castle from Count Frederick Truhendingen, who at the time held it in fief. Prior to Truhendingen, Burkhard of Ahorn was the fief holder. The lords of the castle were the dukes of Bavarian dukes whose possessions in Tüchersfeld and Pottenstein came from the estate of Counts of Schweinfurt.
Ownership of the second castle was disputed. Henry, Duke of Bavaria and Count Palatine of the Rhine, laid claim to the fortress. In a treaty dated 26 February 1287, however, he renounced the castle in Tüchersfeld. From then on, both castles were in the hands of the Bishopric of Bamberg. In the episcopal Urbarium A of 1323/27 was added: "Tvchersuelt et Tvchersuelt ambo Castra sunt episcopi" (both castles in Tüchersfeld are the bishop's).
In the episcopal Urbarium B of 1348 for the first time a distinction was made between Upper Tüchersfeld, which stood on a narrow rock pinnacle, and Lower Tüchersfeld.
Even before the entry in Urbarium of A 1323/27 Burgoberbach Tüchersfeld was already the seat of a minor Bamberg office or Amt. No later than 1386, a court chamber (Kastenamt) was established at the castle and a Walter Hauger of Rattelsdorf was recorded as the Steward (Kastner) of Tüchersfeld. This office had moved by 1399 to Waischenfeld.
At that time, the castle consisted of two parts, an episcopal administrative castle (Amtsburg) that from 1442 was always referred to as a schloss, and the "Upper House" (Oberhaus), which probably stood on the northern part of the rock reef. The Upper House was an episcopal fief and was owned by the family Groß of Trockau. Eberhard Groß was mentioned in 1422, he owned half the castle estate at the Upper House. In 1429 a half of the Upper House was owned by Jorg Groß.
From 1445, the Upper House was apparently destroyed; an enfeoffment deed to the brothers, Sittig and Hans Groß, in that year talks about the "Upper House of Tüchersfeld called the burgstall [= "castle site"]". The castle was apparently destroyed during the Hussite wars in 1430, and subsequently referred to in documents as a burgstall, the name for a castle that had been virtually levelled. In addition, in other enfeoffments to Sittig Groß from 1461, reference is made to a house that he is supposed to have built; whether this house stood on the castle site is not known. Sittig Groß had to sell the ruins of the Upper House in 1480 to his nephews, the brothers Andrew, Fritz and Jerome of Seckendorff-Rinhofen. "for reasons and the needs of his body to pay for its nourishment". A year later, the flattened castle was back in feudal possession of Albert, James, Eberhard and Michael Gross; and it was owned by the family until 1628. The part of the castle called the Upper House was apparently not rebuilt after its destruction by the Hussites, only the site continued to be enfeoffed by the bishop
Today
The site of the old castle is covered in dense woodland in places; only the southern tip of the rock reef is free of large trees. This rock tower is now a viewing point and is accessible on a metal ladder. Very little of the original castle has survived. At the entrance to the southern tip of the reef, steps may be seen that have been hewn out of the rock in a small through cave. On the castle plateau a few foundation wall remains can be seen.
Conservation
Described by the Bavarian State Office for Monument Protection (BLfD) as a "medieval burgstall", the protected monument bear the identity D-4-6234-0037.
Literature
* Rüdiger Bauriedel, Ruprecht Konrad-Röder: Mittelalterliche Befestigungen und niederadelige Ansitze im Landkreis Bayreuth. Ellwanger Druck und Verlag, Bayreuth, 2007, ISBN 978-3-925361-63-0, p. 138.
* Gutav Voit, Walter Rüfer: Eine Burgenreise durch die Fränkische Schweiz – Auf den Spuren des Zeichners A. F. Thomas Ostertag. 2nd edn. Verlag Palm & Enke, Erlangen, 1991, ISBN 3-7896-0064-4, pp. 192–196.
* Rainer Hofmann (rev.): Führer zu archäologischen Denkmälern in Deutschland, Band 20: Fränkische Schweiz. Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart, 1990, ISBN 3-8062-0586-8, pp. 218–219.
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Even logging is disabled, the change of the refresh interval still logged(Low)
Started by BenYeeHua, February 02, 2014, 03:37:16 PM
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BenYeeHua
Even logging is disabled, the change of the refresh interval still logging.
This is a low priority bug.
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I just trying to reduce the hard disk usage on the netbook, after I disabled the logging, clean up the log.
I changed the refresh interval (governor), and found that it is logged into the log.
Anyways, this is a low priority bug.
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Just a question, when governor (with a 100ms refresh interval) is restraining the software, the CPU usage increased to 5% CPU usage, it is on a Atom CPU.
So did this is normal, as it is a Atom CPU?
Anyways, if it is not restraining, the CPU usage is normal, like <0.01%. ;)
Jeremy Collake
Thanks.. Yea, that log event is so infrequently issued, if ever, that I missed this. I'll be sure to fix it!
Software Engineer. Bitsum LLC.
BenYeeHua
Yup, roger.
And also someone has asking for a setting to enable delay writing(buffer then write) the log, to prevent performance hit for I/O. :)
Jeremy Collake
It already does that, and uses low priority I/O to write to the log. It also marks the file as 'temporary', which causes the OS to cache writes to it in RAM before committing to disk much longer than a regular file.
Software Engineer. Bitsum LLC.
Jeremy Collake
The refresh rate log entry when log is off is fixed. Build 6.7.0.43+
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