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Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Embedded lists
Collapsible tables and lists
Collapsible tables, MOS:COLLAPSE and Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style_(tables). When should lists be collapsed? SilkTork *YES! 13:01, 5 May 2011 (UTC)
RFC: restructuring of the Manual of Style
Editors may be interested in this RFC, along with the discussion of its implementation: "Should all subsidiary pages of the Manual of Style be made subpages of WP:MOS?" It's big; and it promises huge improvements. Great if everyone can be involved. N oetica Tea? 00:33, 25 June 2011 (UTC)
Boldface against MoS#boldface
Manual_of_Style/Embedded_lists seems to be giving the ok for boldface to be used in prose. New York City and the three building titles.
Manual_of_Style_(text_formatting) does not say this is ok, as well as the article the example is taken from, Skyscraper, currently having New York City without boldface.
It seems to me that the prose and list examples merely repeat the text and are boldened in both, something that I am sure I would have removed boldening from if I had known it still was there, as I always took it to simply be for emphasis in the lists MoS so that people could see the differences.
In the discussions that took place in 2006 there seem to only be two people discussing, one says "I did not say that it is OK to bold the items in the list because we have other guidelines that say we only bold the name of the article itself", yet the change was put through with boldface, against MoS.
As it stands now there is nothing in MoS to say that boldface can be used in this manner. I am going to edit out the boldface as it is against MoS#boldface and appears to be a relic of changes made in 2006. If MoS is changed to include embedded lists, then fine. As it stands now it does not support this boldface usage. Chaosdruid (talk) 15:01, 24 August 2011 (UTC)
* That might have been a bit too soon: the top of WP:EMBED says "Please ensure that any edits to this page reflect consensus." MOS:BOLD is actually ambiguous on this. I have posted on its talk page to point out the ambiguity and ask for its resolution. --Stfg (talk) 11:24, 28 August 2011 (UTC)
Last sentence in intro
I think the last sentence in the introduction, "Too much statistical data is against policy", would be better expressed/more grammatically correct as "Having too much statistical data is against policy" or some variation. I didn't want to just suddenly change an MoS page without asking/telling anyone, so... what does anyone else think? —Ugncreative Usergname (talk) 01:36, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
* Good point. Adjusted. SilkTork ✔Tea time 09:24, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
Selection criteria
Please see Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Lists. --Marc Kupper|talk 20:00, 18 August 2013 (UTC)
Discussion on when embedded statistic lists may be excessive
Discussion at: RfC: When is the presentation of statistics, such as with Weather box and Climate chart, excessive?. This concerns use of Weather box and Climate chart in most settlement articles, down to small town and village level. SilkTork ✔Tea time 11:09, 9 May 2014 (UTC)
Definition of an embedded list
The lead currently defines embedded lists as:
* "Embedded lists are lists of links, data or information that are either included in the text of an article or appended to the end of an article."
* My understanding is that there are only two basic types of lists: stand-alone and embedded. That current definition of an embedded list doesn't include a list that's part of a prose article yet not part of the actual text of the article, e.g., a list in an image, a caption, an infobox, a navbox, etc. I think the first sentence should read something like:
* "Embedded lists are lists of links, data or information that appear anywhere within an article that is primarily prose, i.e., embedded lists are any lists that are not stand-alone lists." Sparkie82 ( t • c ) 00:51, 23 September 2014 (UTC)
* I think the line between embedded and stand alone is purposely murky. I've seen the 50/50 or 40/60 split enough to know that what is a stand alone list and what is a prose article isn't always clear. But with that, I don't see any objection to Sparkie's wording. D kriegls ( talk to me! ) 05:33, 23 September 2014 (UTC)
see also sections are not mini-outlines of the article
With regard to the guideline that "the 'See also' section should not repeat links that appear in the article's body or its navigation boxes", let me point to this discussion: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Outlines. Thanks. Fgnievinski (talk) 04:17, 20 November 2014 (UTC)
Currently the Bulleted and numbered lists section includes a list:
* Use numbers rather than bullets only if:
* a need to refer to the elements by number may arise;
* the sequence of the items is critical; or
* the numbering has some independent meaning, for example in a listing of musical tracks.
Since these are sentence fragments, should the punctuation and linkers be removed for brevity (and to set an example)?
* Use numbers rather than bullets only if:
* a need to refer to the elements by number may arise
* the sequence of the items is critical
* the numbering has some independent meaning, (e.g. a list of musical tracks)
Note that grammar is not my specialty... T. Shafee (Evo&Evo) (talk) 09:45, 6 January 2015 (UTC)
Contradictory statements in "Related topics (navigational lists)"
The section is contradictory and unhelpful. It says:
* "See also" lists and "Related topics" lists are valuable navigational tools (...) links in these sections should have been featured in the article. (...) As a general rule, the "See also" section should not repeat links that appear in the article's body or its navigation boxes.
2001:8A0:4304:8101:E981:3FC7:F236:8782 (talk) 12:28, 3 May 2015 (UTC)
* The rule reads: "As a general rule, the 'See also' section should not repeat links that appear in the article's body" Am I really expected to read the entire text of the article, multiple times to look for that thing that is related to the other thing I am reading about. It makes no sense to remove them because we have this hard rule. Look here at this article where the three most common related topics are removed based on this rule. Now I have to read the article multiple times looking for the name of the related subject. I can see not repeating things if the article is a single paragraph. Just as the lede repeats the main text, the "see also" should repeat certain related subjects that are present in the main text. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 00:57, 17 May 2015 (UTC)
* I just noticed this. I guess I'm not the only one who saw this... Dig Deeper (talk) 22:00, 18 January 2016 (UTC)
"See also" content
As the issue may concern the implementation of MOS:EMBED, editors at this talk page are requested to please join us at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Layout for a discussion concerning whether it is acceptable practice to link to Wikipedia templates in the "See also" section. Thanks in advance. -Thibbs (talk) 15:07, 9 July 2015 (UTC)
Links within definition lists?
If you look at the article for The Crucible, there is a giant description list with links to the main articles for the character being described. I know, generally, headers should not contain links. Are these considered headers as far as this rule goes? - Dunc0029 (talk) 22:37, 28 July 2015 (UTC)
Contradiction under the See also section
""See also" lists and "Related topics" lists are valuable navigational tools that assist users in finding related Wikipedia articles. When deciding what articles and lists of articles to append to any given entry, it is useful to try to put yourself inside the mind of readers: Ask yourself where would a reader likely want to go after reading the article. Ideally, links in these sections should have been featured in the article. Typically this will include three types of links:
Links to related topics – topics similar to that discussed in the article. Higher order (i.e. more general) articles and lists – this might include lists of people, list of countries, etc. For example, list of Indian language poets should link to both list of Indians and list of poets. Lower order (i.e. more specific) articles and lists – for example, the Business page navigational list contains links to small business, list of accounting topics, etc.
There is some controversy over how many links to articles and links to lists that should be put in any article. Some people separate the "links to articles" (put in the "See also" section) from the "links to lists" (put in the "Related topics" section), but this is not necessary unless there are too many links for one section alone. Some feel the optimum number of links to lists that should be included at the end of any given article is one or two (or fewer). Others feel that a more comprehensive set of lists would be useful. In general, we should use the same criteria when deciding what list to include as we use to decide what articles to include in the See also section. We have to try to put ourselves in the readers' frame of mind and ask "Where will I likely want to go after reading this article?". As a general rule, the "See also" section should not repeat links that appear in the article's body or its navigation boxes."
There seems to be a contradiction under the See also section. Perhaps I'm reading it wrong, but should links in the see also section be in the article or not be in the article (see below for copy paste of current section with emphasis added in red). ThanksDig Deeper (talk) 21:59, 18 January 2016 (UTC)
* No, these are not contradictory with a particular reading of the word "should" in the first paragraph above. They '"should have been" provided', 'but were not' is the correct implication of that sentence. Your reading of that paragraph would stem from the use of the word "are" or similar. I'm not sure if a rewriting is necessary, but it might be useful to clarify the point. --Izno (talk) 12:34, 19 January 2016 (UTC)
* It's complicated. The best practice works something like this:
* If it's a short article, and the link is in the article, then please don't duplicate the link.
* If it's a long article, and the link is way up towards the top, and the link is really important (i.e., a lot of people will want to find that link), then consider adding it.
* If the link is highly relevant, but not present in the article, then please consider adding it regardless of whether it's in a navbox.
* An uncomfortable fact for editors who love navboxes: In addition to half of our readers being unable to see them at all, we have no evidence that non-editors use them even when they are visible. General user-interface theory suggests that readers are unlikely to find links when the navbox is large, or when it is collapsed. (Note that the problems of a large navbox applies to a large ==See also== section, too: It's fine to have, say, the three most relevant links, but having 30 is useless.) WhatamIdoing (talk) 20:22, 26 February 2018 (UTC)
About the prose example:
I see lots of editorialization and clichés. If I could edit that fragment of text, this is what I'd turn it into (no, I'm not removing anything outside the passage and I'm not making it into serifs):
The Beaux-Arts movement was represented by architects Stanford White and Carrère and Hastings. The Flatiron Building (1902), where Fifth Avenue crosses Broadway at Madison Square; Cass Gilbert's Woolworth Building (1913), a Cathedral of Commerce ; the Chrysler Building (1929), and the Empire State Building (1931) were built in New York City. Architects Raymond Hood and Lever House built clusters of skyscrapers such as the World Trade Center towers (1973) after World War II.
If you think it was right to use peacock words like striking or editorialization such as most notably. See WP:W2W, WP:PUFFERY or WP:EDITORIAL to see why you are wrong.
If you think that alters any meanings or any other things that you think make my thing wrong, provide detailed explanation on how it is all wrong.
Is it wrong to add [citation needed] or cite sources in such examples? Wikipedia isn't a soapbox and should be written from an encyclopedic neutral perspective.
It shouldn't be written like the script for a movie about the history of architecture in the United States in a positive light. It's an encyclopedia, not a tabloid editorial. Write about stuff in a neutral light.
--Turkeybutt (talk) 23:46, 24 August 2016 (UTC)
* I don't think that using Brilliant Prose is antithetical to neutrality.
* This sample feels like a lead, and it would not be normal to add citations to it (nor would it be relevant to add dummy refs to an example). Additionally, if those alleged peacock words are what the sources are saying, then using those words, or identifying a particular work as the work that is "most notable", is exactly what we mean by "neutrality". WhatamIdoing (talk) 20:27, 26 February 2018 (UTC)
Crafting the "See also" section
I'm a little confused about the see also section. I often put links to topics that will probably get integrated into the article later, and articles that seem similar, although that always feels like WP:OR. On the other hand, should the see also list be intentionally crafted to include articles specifically relevant to the user, even if their topics have been mentioned already in the article? I see that "As a general rule, the "See also" section should not repeat links that appear in the article's body", but is it appropriate to just remove the links from the article body? My question is prompted by this edit by. Daask (talk) 01:21, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
* That edit is a bit boggling. It is always better to have the link in the text proper. --Izno (talk) 04:10, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
Of course it's better to have the link in the proper text, but it still is - in the second paragraph of "History" section. I only erased duplicated link from text. , in my opinion is inappropriate to remove links from text for just leaving them in "See also" :) --Wojsław Brożyna (talk) 15:04, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
* Oh, I think I misunderstood your intention and it would have been better to address this on your talk page. I didn't realize there was still a link elsewhere in the content of the article. Then shouldn't Post-left anarchism be removed from the see also list per the guideline quoted above? Daask (talk) 15:13, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
* Yes, it should be removed from see also if it is already in the page elsewhere. --Izno (talk) 16:19, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
Proposal on overly long entries in lists
Please see: Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Lists
Gist: Add brief advice about what to do about excessively large items in lists, to either WP:Manual of Style/Lists or WP:Summary style. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 23:28, 20 November 2018 (UTC)
Commas and post-nominal abbreviations
Please see: Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Biography – Gist: Is "OFM Cap FSA Scot FRHistS" five post-nominals, or three? (Hint: it's three.) These are forms of embedded (horizontal, inline) lists, so watchers of this page may care about the discussion. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 13:35, 23 December 2018 (UTC) | WIKI |
Template:Did you know nominations/Carmo Planetarium
The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 19:52, 9 February 2017 (UTC)
Carmo Planetarium
* ... that the Carmo Planetarium (pictured) in São Paulo, Brazil, opened in 2005, and uses 9,000 optical fibres and 109 lenses to portray the night sky?
* ALT1: ... that the Carmo Planetarium (pictured) in São Paulo, Brazil, opened in 2005, before closing for nearly ten years due to infiltration?
* Reviewed: Sundial cannon
* Comment: It might be possible to merge the DYK with Template:Did you know nominations/Professor Aristóteles Orsini Planetarium if needed. I'm not sure if ALT1 is too negative, and/or it would be worth keeping back for use on April Fools' Day 2017.
Created by Mike Peel (talk). Self-nominated at 08:47, 6 January 2017 (UTC).
* Symbol voting keep.svg This article is new enough and long enough. The original hook facts are cited inline to a reliable source, and being in Portuguese are accepted in good faith. I think ALT1 is too negative, and not funny enough for April 1st. The image is appropriately licensed, the article is neutral, and the Portuguese sources make checking for policy issues hard. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 10:33, 5 February 2017 (UTC) | WIKI |
Practice Plus Group
Practice Plus Group is a healthcare company based in Reading, Berkshire, which is England's largest independent provider of NHS services.
History
Practice Plus Group was founded as Care UK in 1982 and rebranded in 2020. It is owned by Bridgepoint Group.
In November 2023, Practice Plus Group won Laing Buisson's 'Hospital Group of the Year' award.
Private hospitals
Practice Plus Group offers private patient treatment at its hospitals. Its website advertises prices of up to 30% less than other private hospitals. They specialise in hip, knee and cataract surgery.
Their Secondary Care service operates six hospitals, three surgical centres, two musculoskeletal services, two Urgent Treatment Centres (providing direct walk in access for the assessment and treatment of injury and illness on a no appointment basis, or with patients being referred via the NHS 111 service) and delivers ophthalmology services throughout England. Through these centres they treat 80,000 NHS patients each year. The hospitals and surgical centres cover a range of specialties, including orthopaedics, endoscopy, ophthalmology, urology, gynaecology, oral and general surgery. Most centres also offer diagnostic imaging, such as X-rays and MRI, CT and Ultrasound scans.
Practice Plus Group’s Integrated Urgent Care division brings together NHS 111 call centres, clinical assessment, out-of-hours service and other urgent care services.
Prisons
The company is also commissioned by NHS England to provide healthcare in over 45 prisons, from reception health checks on arrival and regular GP services, to help with substance misuse, mental health, chronic or long-term conditions, podiatry, physiotherapy and optometry.
In November 2023 it was reported that a prison doctor employed by Practice Plus Group has refused to prescribe Sarah Jane Baker oestogen, saying they would only prescribe testosterone, which the Free Sarah Jane Baker campaign said "amounts to a medical detransition". A company spokesperson said they were "fully committed to providing appropriate care for trans patients."
Working with the NHS
Practice Plus Group currently delivers more than 70 dedicated NHS services and treats over a million patients every year, meeting a wide range of healthcare needs.
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Turning Down the Noise (expanded web version)
There’s a better way to fix power-quality issues
“Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.”
–Nikola Tesla
For residential AV installations, there are numerous products that are sold with the purpose of protecting AV systems from noise, lock-ups, re-boots, and various power quality issues. Many of these are sold without meaningful data or realworld demonstrations. The popularity of these “solutions” isn’t surprising when people believe that they can buy a magic box to solve their AV noise issues.
The truth is that few to none of these products, alone, can address the root cause of AV system noise, and none are as effective as a properly designed and correctly installed system that provides a robust foundation and environment for optimal performance. I advocate focusing efforts
An amp meter is an invaluable tool in the troubleshooter’s toolbox. on good system design and on addressing the actual causes of AV interference.
In developing my company’s three-part advertising series, called “The Truth,” we wanted to provide a factual education for designers and installers to make the best choices for their individual projects. Looking back, I would have liked to include a section on troubleshooting sound system and video problems in a residential AV installation.
Consider a few basic facts:
1) In a system of interconnected components, you can’t make it quieter than the noisiest part.
2) Dynamic range and gain structure have an impact on how quiet a system can ultimately be.
3) Unbalanced signal interconnects will add any voltage differences between chasses to the signal.
4) Ground rods have absolutely nothing to do with making things quieter.
If the problem is intermittent, or never showed up before, you should investigate all variables that may have changed. Ask questions and put things on a timeline, trying to make associations. For example, if an additional ground was inadvertently added by a seemingly unrelated plumbing change, it could be the result of a pipe hanger hitting a cable shield, creating an additional return path for current flow.
Unless the clues clearly tell you otherwise,
you should always start your troubleshooting at the input to the power amplifier (for video, the input to the monitor). Begin testing the signal path backwards toward the signal source. Your toolbox should have the appropriate test adapters to make this an easy job. For details on how to construct these simple devices, refer to Bill Whitlock’s excellent technical guide on page 13 of www.jensentransformers.com.
One invaluable tool in the troubleshooter’s toolbox (and the easiest way to tell if the noise is from a ground loop) is an amp meter capable of fine resolution. To see if the noise is coming from a ground loop, simply clamp the meter around all signal wires of the path in question. You should always see less than 10mA for RCA cables of decent gauge in lengths less than two feet, and for longer unbalanced runs, you will get hums with as little as 1-2mA. The Fluke 322 has 10mA (0.01A) resolution and is set to go; the Murata ACA 20RM 4 AC3 has 1mA (0.001A) resolution and needs a case. Many times, a stray ground arising through an improperly bonded CATV system, for example, will produce a ground loop that can be diagnosed with the same amp meter.
Careful planning and good system design are critical to an optimally performing AV system. Equally important, however, is being able to diagnose and correct offending factors that somehow manifest in the AV system. A magical box actually does exist. It’s called your toolbox, and it consists of your knowledge and diagnostic gear. Being armed with these tools to solve system noise issues will be a huge benefit to your business, and music to your client’s ears.
Bob Schluter is president and chief engineer for Middle Atlantic Products and its new Exact Power division, in Fairfield, New Jersey.
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Invalid ISBN -> OCLC & ASIN
I'm cleaning up ISBNs tagged as being in error, and came across this:
* (Cannot locate)
I am not finding a 2003 reprint at all, and am not finding ISBNs for the 1924 and 1949 editions. So, I am going to remove the apparently invalid ISBN and provide a link to the other two cataloging numbers I can find. Regards, Keesiewonder 12:21, 2 January 2007 (UTC) | WIKI |
[Web-SIG] Python 3.0 and WSGI 1.0.
Graham Dumpleton graham.dumpleton at gmail.com
Thu Apr 2 13:33:07 CEST 2009
2009/4/2 Graham Dumpleton <graham.dumpleton at gmail.com>:
> Is there going to be any simple answer to all of this? :-(
I am slowly working through what I think I at least need to do for
Apache/mod_wsgi. I'll give a summary of what I have worked out so far
based on the discussions and my own research.
Just so I have a list of things to check off, I include an example
WSGI environment from a request and make comments about each category
of things from it.
First off is CGI HTTP variables.
HTTP_ACCEPT: 'text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5'
HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING: 'gzip, deflate'
HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE: 'en-us'
HTTP_CONNECTION: 'keep-alive'
HTTP_HOST: 'home.dscpl.com.au'
HTTP_USER_AGENT: 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_6;
en-us) AppleWebKit/525.27.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.2.1
Safari/525.27.1'
The rule here from WSGI 1.0 amendments page in relation to Python 3.0 is:
"""When running under Python 3, servers MUST provide CGI HTTP
variables as strings, decoded from the headers using HTTP standard
encodings (i.e. latin-1 + RFC 2047)"""
Which is fair enough and basically what the RFCs say. At the moment I
don't apply RFC 2047 rules in Python 3.0 support in mod_wsgi, so just
need to do that.
An interesting one here to note is HTTP_HOST. The issue with this one
is what would happen for a unicode host name. For Apache an IDNA
(RFC3490) encoded host name has to be used to identify a site with
unicode host name. That is, one uses the IDNA name for ServerName or
ServerAlias directives.
When one gets a request one would actually see the IDNA name for
HTTP_HOST and that only uses latin-1 characters. For example:
HTTP_HOST: 'xn--wgbe9chb01aytce.com'
These resolve in DNS okay:
$ nslookup xn--wgbe9chb01aytce.com
Server: 192.168.1.254
Address: 192.168.1.254#53
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: xn--wgbe9chb01aytce.com
Address: 208.78.242.184
Using HTTP live headers on Firefox can also confirm that that is what
would be sent:
Host: xn--wgbe9chb01aytce.com
My understanding is that if a actual unicode string is given to a
browser, that it should translate it to the IDNA name before use.
Next HTTP header to worry about is HTTP_REFERRER.
There would be two parts to this, there would be the host name
component and then the path component.
We already know from above that for unicode host name it should be the
IDNA name.
For the path component, if the client follows the rules properly, then
if the path uses a non latin-1 encoding, then it should be using RFC
2047 to indicate this so shouldn't have to do anything different and
use same rule as other HTTP headers. For this header we are actually
in a better situation that for URL in actual HTTP request line which
isn't so specific about encodings.
GATEWAY_INTERFACE: 'CGI/1.1'
SERVER_PROTOCOL: 'HTTP/1.1'
Standard stuff which is always going to be latin-1, so encode as that.
REMOTE_ADDR: '192.168.1.5'
REMOTE_PORT: '51378'
SERVER_PORT: '80'
SERVER_ADDR: '192.168.1.5'
Again, latin-1 is okay.
SERVER_SOFTWARE: 'Apache/2.2.9 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.9 OpenSSL/0.9.7l
DAV/2 mod_wsgi/3.0-TRUNK Python/2.5.1'
Again, latin-1 is okay as Apache modules internally can only supply
normal C strings to add stuff to this.
SERVER_NAME: 'home.dscpl.com.au'
Same as HTTP_HOST and if a unicode host name would be IDNA encoded, so
can use latin-1 okay.
SERVER_ADMIN: 'you at example.com'
This is set by ServerAdmin directive. Because in Apache configuration
is effectively latin-1, probably can't even define a non latin-1 email
address. For host part, probably IDNA encoded anyway, so restriction
on latin-1 only perhaps pertinent to user part of email address. So,
latin-1 should be okay.
SERVER_SIGNATURE: ''
Depending on Apache configuration can be server name and version
information or server admin email address. All latin-1.
DOCUMENT_ROOT: '/Library/WebServer/Documents'
SCRIPT_FILENAME: '/Users/grahamd/Sites/echo.wsgi'
These are file system paths, and since the Apache Runtime Library used
for Apache 2.X has a define for whether file system supports unicode,
can say:
#if APR_HAS_UNICODE_FS
charset = "UTF-8";
#else
charset = "ISO-8859-1";
#endif
For Apache 1.3, which doesn't have that define AFAIK, might just have
to assume latin-1, but possibly another way of doing it, or Apache 1.3
might have its own define for it.
PATH: '/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin'
Presume I can use APR_HAS_UNICODE_FS check again even though it is a
combination of paths.
REQUEST_METHOD: 'GET'
Presume they will always use latin-1 for these.
All that is now left is the following, which we have already been discussing.
REQUEST_URI: '/~grahamd/echo.wsgi'
SCRIPT_NAME: '/~grahamd/echo.wsgi'
PATH_INFO: ''
QUERY_STRING: ''
At least I am happy that except for these four, that there shouldn't
be any issues.
I'll keep watching what others come up with in respect of these and
see what consensus develops. :-)
Graham
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La joia
is the debut studio album by Spanish singer-songwriter Bad Gyal. It was released on 26 January 2024 through Universal Music Latino and Interscope Records. The album was produced by a wide array of producers such as Merca Bae, Caleb Calloway, Nely "el Arma Secreta", Scott Storch, el Guincho, Mag, Jasper Harris, Nuviala, Fakeguido, Taiko, and Sky Rompiendo, among others. It features collaborations with Myke Towers, Anitta, Tommy Lee Sparta, Ñengo Flow, Tokischa, Young Miko, Morad, and Quevedo.
After releasing several mixtapes and extended plays (EPs), La joia is Bad Gyal's fifth release overall. It is supported by eight singles: "Sexy", "Sin carné", "Real G", "Chulo pt. 2", "Mi lova", "Give Me", "Bota niña", and "Perdió este culo"; all of them were released between July 2022 and January 2024. The album peaked at number one in Spain, being her highest charting album in the country.
Background
Prior to La joia, Bad Gyal released the three-song EP Sound System: The Final Releases on 9 December 2021. In early 2022, she travelled to Miami to work with different producers for what would become her debut album. She recorded with producers she had worked in previous singles such as Scott Storch ("Zorra" and "Slim Thick"), Supa Dups ("Nueva York (tot*)"), and Nely "el Arma Secreta" ("Judas").
In February 2023, she gave concerts in Barcelona and Madrid at the Palau Sant Jordi and the WiZink Center, respectively. During said concerts, she revealed the name of the album as a "gift for the fans" and shared a potential tracklist, which included possible collaborations with Argentine singer Nicki Nicole and Puerto Rican rapper Ñengo Flow, these collaborations ended up being the non-album single "Enamórate" with the former and the album track "Bad Boy" with the latter. In an interview with V, she commented that "what my fans can expect this year is my debut album that will have songs that'll make them move. It'll have a lot of different genres, and it'll be a mix of styles and experiments [that] I always like to do."
In November 2023, the album was announced to be released on January of the following year through a teaser video uploaded to Bad Gyal's YouTube channel. Later in the year, on 13 December, she announced via her Instagram account, the album's official release date, tracklist, cover, and featured artists.
Promotion
On 22 May 2022, Bad Gyal embarked on a tour titled La Joia Tour, which started with a concert at the Auditori Atrium in Viladecans, Spain. The tour included concerts in several cities in Spain and the United States, as well as different countries of Latin America such as Brazil, Argentina, Chile, and Mexico, as a part of the Primavera Sound music festival.
At the Latin American Music Awards of 2023, celebrated on 20 April 2023 in Las Vegas, she performed "Chulo", making her first musical appearance at an international awards show. Through 2023, she continued performing concerts, later announcing several concerts through Spain, the United States, and Latin America, as a part of La Joia 24 Karats Tour, a continuation of her previous tour.
Singles
The single "Sexy" was released on 14 July 2022. It was followed by "Sin carné", released on 6 October 2022. Both songs entered the songs chart in Spain peaking at numbers 62 and 35, respectively. "Sin carné" was certified gold in Spain. A music video for this song was directed by Manson, who had previously directed the videos for "Candela", "Zorra", and "Aprendiendo el sexo"; and produced by Canada. "Real G", a collaboration with rapper Quevedo, was first teased during a concert in Mexico City and released on 2 December 2022. It peaked at number 12 in Spain and was certified platinum in the country. The music video for the song was directed by Javier Peralvo and produced by Belledenuit.
On 10 February 2023, "Chulo" was released. It peaked at number 16 in Spain, and was certified 3× platinum in that country. A remix for the song, titled "Chulo pt. 2", was released on 21 June 2023 featuring rappers Tokischa and Young Miko. Its music video was directed by Artasans and features the three artists in a limousine "having a wild girls' night out" in Barcelona. The remix was commercially successful in both the United States and Latin America. It peaked within the top ten in several countries, including Chile, Peru, and Nicaragua. It also peaked at number 33 and 89 at the Hot Latin Songs and Global 200 charts, respectively, being her highest-charting single in both charts since "Karmika", a collaboration with Karol G and Sean Paul. Additionally, the remix was certified platinum in the United States and gold in Mexico, being Bad Gyal's first single to be certified in any of the two countries. "Mi lova", a collaboration with rapper Myke Towers, was released on 7 July 2023. The single peaked at number 21 in Spain and was certified platinum in the country. "Give Me" was released on 15 December 2023 and peaked at number 49 in Spain.
"Bota niña", a collaboration with singer Anitta, was released on 12 January 2024 and peaked at number 86 in Spain. The last single of the album, "Perdió este culo", was released along with the album on 26 January 2024. A music video was released for the song, directed by Félix Bollaín and starring Spanish actor Martiño Rivas. "Perdió este culo" peaked at number 15 in Spain.
Critical reception
Writing for Jenesaispop, Jordi Bardaji gave La joia four out of five stars, listing "Perdió este culo", "Mi lova", "Give Me", and "Chulo pt. 2" as highlights. He wrote that in the album, Bad Gyal "stays absolutely true to herself, little by little tightening the nuts, taking a step forward without anyone noticing." In a review for Mondo Sonoro, Pablo Tocino gave the album a score of six out of ten and described it as "concoction with better packaging than content, and with some moments of brilliance that in the end make it worth diving into many generic moments" and stated that it is a "good summary of her career in recent years." In a mixed review, Kitty Empire from The Observer gave the album three out of five stars, calling it "one frisky Latin banger after another". In a negative review for La Vanguardia, Esteban Linés gave the album two out of five stars and described it as "linear and repetitive", stating that Bad Gyal's proposal "swings between different sensory inputs, starting with the visual, then the textual and with the strictly musical input not always in a preeminent place."
Commercial performance
La joia debuted at number two at the Spanish Albums chart, being her highest charting album in the list, surpassing the 2021 EP Warm Up, which peaked at number five. Upon the release of the album, five tracks entered the Spain Song Chart: "Perdió este culo" at 15, "Bad Boy" at 51, "Skit" at 66, "Así soy" at 78, and "La que no se mueva" at 90.
After three weeks at number two and one at number three at the Spanish Albums chart, the album finally achieved the top position in its fifth week, being Bad Gyal's first number one album in her home country. The album was also certified gold in the United States.
Track listing
Notes
* undefined signifies an additional producer
Vocals
* Bad Gyal – vocals (all tracks)
* Myke Towers – vocals (track 2)
* Anitta – vocals (track 4)
* Tommy Lee Sparta – vocals (track 5)
* Ñengo Flow – vocals (tracks 8–9)
* Tokischa – vocals (track 10)
* Young Miko – vocals (track 10)
* Morad – vocals (track 11)
* Quevedo – vocals (track 14)
Production
* Merca Bae – production (tracks 1–2, 9, 14)
* SHB – production (tracks 2, 11)
* Jeremy Ayala – production (track 2)
* Caleb Calloway – production (track 2)
* Nely "el Arma Secreta" – production (tracks 3, 13)
* Scott Storch – production (tracks 3, 13)
* Illa – production (tracks 3, 13)
* El Guincho – production (tracks 4, 7)
* Gabriel do Borel – production (track 4)
* LNK – production (track 4)
* Danny Wolf – production (track 4)
* Mag – production (tracks 5–6, 10)
* Jasper Harris – production (track 7)
* Lil Geniuz – production (track 8)
* Mauro – additional production (track 10)
* Nuviala – production (track 11), additional production (track 12)
* Scar – production (track 11)
* Fakeguido – production (track 12)
* Sohaib Temssamani – additional production (track 12)
* Taiko – production (track 14)
* Sky Rompiendo – production (tracks 14–15)
Technical
* Earcandy – mixing engineering (tracks 1, 3–4, 8–9, 13)
* Mike Fuller – mastering engineering (tracks 1, 3–4, 9, 13)
* Mag – mixing engineering (tracks 5–6)
* Colin Leonard – mastering engineering (tracks 5–6, 10)
* Jaycen Joshua – mixing engineering (tracks 7, 11–12), mastering engineering (tracks 7, 11–12)
* El Guincho – recording engineering (track 7)
* Brian Hernández – mixing engineering (track 14), mastering engineering (track 14)
* Jorge Alamo – recording engineering (track 14)
* Xavier Martínez – engineering (track 14)
* Alejandro Adrián Silva Mateos – engineering (track 14)
* Sergio Vicente – mixing engineering assistance (track 14)
* Esteban Higuita Estrada – mixing engineering (track 15), mastering engineering (track 15) | WIKI |
Enanta’s Q4 Loss Meets Expectations
Enanta Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (ENTA) has reported mixed results for the fourth quarter of Fiscal Year 2021 (ended September 30, 2021). The biotechnology company engages in the research and development of molecule drugs for the treatment of viral infections and liver diseases.
The company has delivered a loss of $1.22 per share, in line with analysts' expectations. It had reported a loss of $1.46 per share in the same quarter last year. (See Enanta stock chart on TipRanks)
Revenues during the quarter stood at $23.6 million, lagging the Street’s estimate of $26.3 million.
While research and development expenses stood at $48.9 million, general and administrative expenses rose 25.4% year-over-year to $8.4 million.
The CEO and President of Enanta, Jay R. Luly, said, “Looking ahead, we expect to make significant advancements across our pipeline and are on schedule to select a new clinical development candidate from our RSV L-inhibitor program by year-end and to report initial data from RSVP in the first half of 2022.”
FY 2022 Guidance
For Fiscal Year 2022, the company expects to incur research and development expenses in the range of $150 million to $170 million. It expects general and administrative expenses to be between $35 million to $41 million.
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Wall Street’s Take
Overall, the stock has a Moderate Buy consensus rating based on 5 Buys, 3 Holds and 1 Sell. The average Enanta price target of $92.78 implies 23.4% upside potential from current levels.
Bullish Investors Sentiment
TipRanks’ Stock Investors tool shows that investors currently have a Very Positive stance on Enanta with 37.4% of investors on TipRanks increasing their exposure to ENTA stock over the past 30 days.
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Nutrition Articles
Spring Has Sprung! Are You in Shape to Shed those Winter Clothes?
The days are getting warmer and it's time to shed those layers of winter clothing. It's also time to shed extra pounds that may have crept on during the colder months.
No matter what the "diet-of-the-moment" claims, there's no magical way to lose weight. What works is to eat less and move more.
Try these spring shape-up tips.
First of all, calories count. A recent study demonstrated that reducing calories is more important for weight management than consuming particular amounts of protein, fat and carbohydrates.
In the study, more than 800 overweight adults followed one of four low-calorie diets made up of varying amounts of protein, fat and carbs. Each diet was high in fiber and low in saturated fat, and subjects were asked to exercise 90 minutes a week. Regardless of the plan followed, subjects lost about 13 pounds in six months and kept off about nine pounds after two years. Lessons learned: Choose a balanced, reduced-calorie eating plan you can stick with long term. And don't forget to exercise.
Set realistic goals. Vowing to "lose 25 pounds" might seem overwhelming. Instead, set a small goal to lose five pounds. Once accomplished, set out to lose the next five pounds until you reach your ultimate goal.
Take it a change at a time. Mastering one small improvement at a time can help you stick with healthy habits. For instance, if you eat a double scoop of ice cream every night, savor a single scoop instead. Once that's routine, make another small change like taking the stairs instead of the elevator. Small changes like these add up to big results for your health and weight.
Trim a little. Except for fruits and veggies, trim your usual portion sizes by about one-third. Pour a little less cereal in your bowl. Save part of your deli sandwich for tomorrow. Take a smaller casserole helping at dinner. You'll be surprised at how satisfied you feel with less food—and fewer calories.
Accentuate the positive. Focus on what you can eat, not what you can't eat. Celebrate spring with a snack of juicy strawberries or try a new recipe for a veggie-filled stir-fry. Be positive about exercise, too—grab a friend and enjoy a walk in the nicer weather.
Substitute, don't eliminate. Shunning favorite foods can make you want them all the more. Instead, try great-tasting, lower-calorie substitutes. For example, squeeze a dollop of reduced-fat mayo on your sandwich or enjoy a scoop of "light" chocolate ice cream for dessert. Occasionally, enjoy a small serving of the "real thing."
Listen to your body. Perhaps the best weight management advice is to eat when you're hungry and stop when you've had "just enough." Our bodies send us these important signals, but often we're too busy or distracted to pay attention. Slow down, enjoy your food and listen to your body's advice. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
International Conference on Low Temperature Physics
The International Conference on Low Temperature Physics (LT) is an academic conference held every three years near the month of September attracting on average well over a thousand participants from all over the world. The LT conferences are endorsed by the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) via its Commission on Low Temperature Physics (C5). The mandate of the LT conferences is to promote the exchange of information and views among the members of the international scientific community in the general field of Low Temperature Physics.
Usually, several other satellite meetings are also held just before or after the LT conferences in neighboring cities such as the International Conference on Ultra Low Temperature Physics series (ULT) as well as other meetings related to the topics listed below. Starting from 1998, the Symposium on Quantum Fluids and Solids (QFT) conference series was decided to be held in all non-LT years.
Topics
The general field of low temperature physics is broad, but usually the LT conferences are divided into five parallel programs:
* A. Quantum Gases, Fluids and Solids
* B. Superconductivity
* C. Quantum Phase Transitions and Magnetism
* D. Electronic Quantum Transport in Condensed Matter
* E. Cryogenic Techniques and Applications
Editions
The conferences are typically held in the following pattern: Europe > Asia > The Americas > Europe. The LT29 Conference was originally planned to be held in 2020, but was postponed two years due to COVID-19.
Prizes
The Fritz London Memorial Prize was created to recognize scientists who made outstanding contributions to the advances of the field of Low Temperature Physics. It is traditionally awarded in the opening session of the LT meeting. The prize is named in honor of Fritz London.
Other prizes awarded in the LT meeting are the Simon Memorial Prize and the IUPAP Young Scientist Prizes in Low Temperature Physics (since LT-25). | WIKI |
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
, Volume 45, Issue 1, pp 33–45
Sibling aggression, hatching asynchrony, and nestling mortality in the black kite (Milvus migrans)
• Javier Viñuela
ORIGINAL ARTICLE
DOI: 10.1007/s002650050537
Cite this article as:
Viñuela, J. Behav Ecol Sociobiol (1999) 45: 33. doi:10.1007/s002650050537
Abstract
In siblicidal species, hatching asynchrony could act to reduce sibling rivalry or promote the death of last-hatched chicks. The pattern of hatching asynchrony was experimentally altered in the black kite Milvus migrans. Hatching asynchrony in control broods was intermediate between those of experimentally synchronised and asynchronised broods. Sibling aggression and wounds on the chicks were more commonly observed early in the nestling period and in synchronous nests. Serious injuries were observed on last-hatched chicks in asynchronous nests, as were observations of intimidated or crushed chicks. Sibling aggression was related to food abundance, but some chicks died at an early age in nests with abundant food (cainism). Cainism was more commonly found in asynchronous nests. For species with facultative siblicide, moderate hatching asynchrony could be a compromise between reducing sibling rivalry and avoiding large size differences between sibs that would result in cainism. Female black kites preferentially fed the smallest chicks and exhibited behaviours to reduce sibling aggression, contrary to observations in other siblicidal species. In a highly opportunistic forager such as the black kite, a strategy may exist to protract the life of all the chicks in the brood, waiting for unpredictable situations of food overabundance. This would induce the appearance of a parent-offspring conflict over brood reduction, reflected in the existence of a possible anticipated response by some of the chicks (cainism) and in the appearance of special behaviours by the parents to selectively feed smaller chicks or reduce sibling aggression. In this facultatively siblicidal species, cainism does not seem to be the final stage of an evolutionary trend favouring the raising of high-quality chicks, but a manifestation of a parent-offspring conflict over brood size.
Key words Hatching asynchrony Sibling aggression Nestling mortality Parent-offspring conflict Milvus migrans
Copyright information
© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1999
Authors and Affiliations
• Javier Viñuela
• 1
1. 1.Departamento de Ecología Evolutiva Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, (C.S.I.C.) José Gutierrez Abascal 2, E-28006 Madrid, Spain e-mail: mcnv109@fresno.csic.es, Tel.: +34-1-4111328, Fax: +34-1-564078ES
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About the new test
Information for participants about how the new Cervical Screening Test is done and who should have the test.
Page last updated: 20 April 2018 (this page is generated automatically and reflects updates to other content within the website)
What is the Cervical Screening Test?
Why has screening changed from 2 to 5 years?
How is the new test more accurate?
How is the Cervical Screening Test done?
Who should have the test?
Why has the age changed from 18 to 25 years for the first test screening test?
What is the Cervical Screening Test?
The Cervical Screening Test is a simple procedure to check the health of your cervix. If you have ever had a Pap test before, the way the test is done will feel the same.
The Cervical Screening Test replaces the two-yearly Pap test for people. If you're aged 25 to 74 you should have your first Cervical Screening Test two years after your last Pap test.
The Cervical Screening Test is more accurate at detecting human papillomavirus (known as HPV). The Pap test used to look for cell changes in the cervix, whereas the new Cervical Screening Test looks for HPV which can lead to cell changes in the cervix (see diagram of the cervix below).
HPV is a common virus that can cause changes to cells in your cervix, which in rare cases can develop into cervical cancer.
Once you have had your first Cervical Screening Test, you will only need to have one every five years instead of every two, if your results are normal.
Why has screening changed from 2 to 5 years?
The Cervical Screening Test is more accurate at detecting HPV. The Pap test used to look for cell changes in the cervix, whereas the new Cervical Screening Test looks for the HPV which can lead to cell changes in the cervix.
Because of this, it is safe for you if your test does not indicate (show) you have a HPV infection to wait five years between tests. Even if your test shows you have HPV it usually takes 10 or more years for HPV to develop into cervical cancer and cervical cancer is a rare outcome of a HPV infection.
How is the new test more accurate?
Although the Cervical Screening Test will feel the same for you, it is more accurate at detecting human papillomavirus (known as HPV).
HPV is a common virus that can cause changes to cells in your cervix, which in rare cases can develop into cervical cancer. By detecting a HPV infection early, it allows your healthcare provider to monitor the infection and intervene if there are any changes to cells in your cervix.
How is the Cervical Screening Test done?
The test is a simple procedure to check the health of your cervix. Your cervix is the opening of the uterus (neck of the womb), and is at the top of your vagina.
If you have ever had a Pap test before, the way your healthcare provider does the Cervical Screening Test will look and feel the same.
The procedure might be a bit uncomfortable, but it shouldn’t hurt. If you experience pain, tell your healthcare provider straight away.
Remember, you can always ask for a female clinician.
Who should have the test?
If you are 25 to 74 years old, have a cervix and have ever been sexually active, you should have a Cervical Screening Test. This includes people vaccinated and unvaccinated for HPV as well as people who identify as lesbian or transgender. For most women your first Cervical Screening Test will be two years after your last Pap test.
If you are turning 25 years old, or are over age 25 and have never had a Pap test before, you should make an appointment with your healthcare provider to have a Cervical Screening Test.
Women under 25 years of age who have previously had a Pap test and are not currently under clinical management for a cervical abnormality do not need to have their first Cervical Screening Test until they turn 25 years of age. If you have symptoms at any age, such as abnormal vaginal bleeding, pain or discharge, you should discuss this with your healthcare provider immediately..
If you have symptoms at any age, such as abnormal vaginal bleeding, pain or discharge, you should discuss these with your healthcare provider immediately.
Why has the age changed from 18 to 25 years for the first test screening test?
Research shows that beginning cervical screening at age 25 years is safe.
The rationale for increasing the screening age from 18 to 25 is:
• Most women and men under 25 years have been vaccinated for HPV and people under 25 have robust immune systems and will clear the infection quickly without treatment.
• Cervical cancer in women under 25 is rare and even after 20 years of screening women under 25 the incidence of cervical cancer in this age group has not reduced the incidence of cervical cancer.
Young people that have previously screened, and had normal test results but are not eligible for the current program because they are under 25 will receive a transition letter from the National Cervical Screening Program (in the first half of 2018) advising of the change to commencement age for cervical screening.
People aged less than 25 years that have previously screened and received an abnormal test result should continue to follow their healthcare providers advice.
If you are experiencing symptoms such as unusual bleeding, discharge and pain, please make an appointment with your healthcare provider immediately.
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Gateway Television
Gateway Television (GTV) is a Pan-African, American-owned subscription TV network based in London. The British-based company Gateway Television is owned by the American company, The Blackstone Group.
GTV held the rights to 80% of league matches for the Premier League.
They also held the rights for the CECAFA Cup.
History
In February 2007, Gateway Communications announced that it would enter the subscription television market. The service was to be rolled out in phases and would launch three channels exclusive to the operator, G-Prime, G-Sports 1 and G-Sports 2. The aim was to be a pay-TV operator for Africa, and one that didn't merely relay European or American content. In March it was decided that GTV would use the Eutelsat W3A satellite to deliver its services, aiming to increase the number of pay-TV subscribers in Africa. The first phase would see its service launched over East Africa, followed by West and Southern Africa. Another drawing point was the buying of 80% of the Premier League matches in order to lure new subscribers.
In January 2009, GTV announced it had gone into liquidation blaming "the current financial and global crisis". | WIKI |
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مخلب
Noun
* 1) claw, nail, talon
* 2) a reaping-hook that has no teeth, an undentate scythe for cutting grass
* 3) butcher's hook
* 4) a sort of surgical instrument
Noun
* 1) chelate | WIKI |
Hello all!
I am trying to add to items to a combobox by using the "enter" key. It does work when I add the first item, but if I manually clear the box and add another items it does not get added to the list.
(1) I click in the combobox and type "hello" and press the "enter" key
(2) I click on the dropdown arrow and see that "hello" is in the list
(3) I select "hello" in the box and erase it, item is still in the list
(4) I type "goodbye" in the box and press the "enter" key
(5) "hello" is still in the list but "goodbye" is not
Here is the code:
Private Sub CopyrightCombo_Keypress(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.KeyPressEventArgs) Handles CopyrightCombo.KeyPress
If e.KeyChar = Microsoft.VisualBasic.ChrW(Keys.Return) Then
Dim CopyrightVar As String
CopyrightVar = CopyrightCombo.Text
CopyrightCombo.Items.Add(CopyrightVar)
CopyrightCombo.Update()
e.Handled = True
End If
End Sub
Funny thing, if I comment the if/end if line and type "hello" the items added to the combobox list are: "h", "he", "hel", "hell", "hello" wich makes sens since the add items is run on every keypress :)
So: I know that my commands for adding items is good, I know that my keypress event is handled properly but not when I specify using the "enter" key. Darn.
Being a newbie I am missing something for sure. Hope someone can help :)
very finny and solution is also very for this try keydown event
Private Sub ComboBox1_KeyDown(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.KeyEventArgs) Handles ComboBox1.KeyDown
If e.KeyCode = Keys.Enter Then
ComboBox1.Items.Add(ComboBox1.Text)
ComboBox1.Text = ""
End If
End Sub
Ho well :) it works! Now I need to understand the difference between keypress and keydown as, to me it should produce the same result. I read that I should use "keyup" so that if the user press the key and leaves it pressed it does not generate multiple entries. I change my code to:
Private Sub CopyrightCombo_Keyup(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.KeyEventArgs) Handles CopyrightCombo.KeyUp
If e.KeyCode = Keys.Enter Then
Dim CopyrightVar As String
CopyrightVar = CopyrightCombo.Text
CopyrightCombo.Items.Add(CopyrightVar)
CopyrightCombo.Update()
End If
End Sub
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OctoAI Embeddings with Weaviate
New Documentation
The model provider integration pages are new and still undergoing improvements. We appreciate any feedback on this forum thread.
Added in v1.25.0
Weaviate's integration with OctoAI's APIs allows you to access their models' capabilities directly from Weaviate.
Configure a Weaviate vector index to use an OctoAI embedding model, and Weaviate will generate embeddings for various operations using the specified model and your OctoAI API key. This feature is called the vectorizer.
At import time, Weaviate generates text object embeddings and saves them into the index. For vector and hybrid search operations, Weaviate converts text queries into embeddings.
Embedding integration illustration
Requirements
Weaviate configuration
Your Weaviate instance must be configured with the OctoAI vectorizer integration (text2vec-octoai) module.
For Weaviate Cloud (WCD) users
This integration is enabled by default on Weaviate Cloud (WCD) serverless managed instances.
For self-hosted users
API credentials
You must provide a valid OctoAI API key to Weaviate for this integration. Go to OctoAI to sign up and obtain an API key.
Provide the API key to Weaviate using one of the following methods:
• Set the OCTOAI_APIKEY environment variable that is available to Weaviate.
• Provide the API key at runtime, as shown in the examples below.
import weaviate
from weaviate.auth import AuthApiKey
import os
# Recommended: save sensitive data as environment variables
octoai_key = os.getenv("OCTOAI_APIKEY")
headers = {
"X-OctoAI-Api-Key": octoai_key,
}
client = weaviate.connect_to_wcs(
cluster_url=weaviate_url, # `weaviate_url`: your Weaviate URL
auth_credentials=AuthApiKey(weaviate_key), # `weaviate_key`: your Weaviate API key
headers=headers
)
# Work with Weaviate
client.close()
Configure the vectorizer
Configure a Weaviate index to use an OctoAI embedding model by setting the vectorizer as follows:
from weaviate.classes.config import Configure
client.collections.create(
"DemoCollection",
vectorizer_config=[
Configure.NamedVectors.text2vec_octoai(
name="title_vector",
source_properties=["title"]
)
],
# Additional parameters not shown
)
You can specify one of the available models for the vectorizer to use. The default model (text-embedding-ada-002) is used if no model is specified.
Data import
After configuring the vectorizer, import data into Weaviate. Weaviate generates embeddings for text objects using the specified model.
collection = client.collections.get("DemoCollection")
with collection.batch.dynamic() as batch:
for src_obj in source_objects:
weaviate_obj = {
"title": src_obj["title"],
"description": src_obj["description"],
}
# The model provider integration will automatically vectorize the object
batch.add_object(
properties=weaviate_obj,
# vector=vector # Optionally provide a pre-obtained vector
)
Re-use existing vectors
If you already have a compatible model vector available, you can provide it directly to Weaviate. This can be useful if you have already generated embeddings using the same model and want to use them in Weaviate, such as when migrating data from another system.
Searches
Once the vectorizer is configured, Weaviate will perform vector and hybrid search operations using the specified OctoAI model.
Embedding integration at search illustration
When you perform a vector search, Weaviate converts the text query into an embedding using the specified model and returns the most similar objects from the database.
The query below returns the n most similar objects from the database, set by limit.
collection = client.collections.get("DemoCollection")
response = collection.query.near_text(
query="A holiday film", # The model provider integration will automatically vectorize the query
limit=2
)
for obj in response.objects:
print(obj.properties["title"])
What is a hybrid search?
A hybrid search performs a vector search and a keyword (BM25) search, before combining the results to return the best matching objects from the database.
When you perform a hybrid search, Weaviate converts the text query into an embedding using the specified model and returns the best scoring objects from the database.
The query below returns the n best scoring objects from the database, set by limit.
collection = client.collections.get("DemoCollection")
response = collection.query.hybrid(
query="A holiday film", # The model provider integration will automatically vectorize the query
limit=2
)
for obj in response.objects:
print(obj.properties["title"])
References
Vectorizer parameters
• model: Model name, default - "thenlper/gte-large".
• vectorize_collection_name: If the Collection name should be vectorized, default - True.
• base_url: The URL to use (e.g. a proxy) instead of the default OctoAI URL - "https://text.octoai.run".
Example configuration
The following examples show how to configure OctoAI-specific options.
from weaviate.classes.config import Configure
client.collections.create(
"DemoCollection",
vectorizer_config=[
Configure.NamedVectors.text2vec_octoai(
name="title_vector",
source_properties=["title"],
# # Further options
# model="thenlper/gte-large",
# vectorize_collection_name=True
# base_url="https://text.octoai.run",
)
],
)
For further details on model parameters, please consult the OctoAI API documentation.
Available models
You can use any embedding model hosted by OctoAI with text2vec-octoai.
Currently the embedding models OctoAI has made available are:
• thenlper/gte-large
Further resources
Other integrations
Code examples
Once the integrations are configured at the collection, the data management and search operations in Weaviate work identically to any other collection. Accordingly, please refer to the following examples, which are model-agnostic:
• The how-to: manage data guides show how to perform data operations (i.e. create, update, delete).
• The how-to: search guides show how to perform search operations (i.e. vector, keyword, hybrid) as well as retrieval augmented generation.
External resources
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Remote cache utilization for mirrored mass storage subsystem
Eitan Bachmat (Inventor)
Research output: Patent
Abstract
A digital computer system includes a master mass storage subsystem and a slave mass storage subsystem which provides mirrored storage for the master mass storage subsystem. One or more host computer systems can access information in the master mass storage subsystem to retrieve information from, and update information stored in, the master mass storage subsystem. When a host computer accesses information in the master mass storage subsystem, the information is cached in the master mass storage subsystem's cache memory, and when the information is updated, the update information will be updated in both mass storage subsystem's cache memories prior to being stored in their respective storage devices. When a host computer wishes to retrieve information, if the information is not in the cache of the master mass storage subsystem, if the information is still in the cache of the slave mass storage subsystem from a prior update operation, the host computer will enable the information to be transferred from the slave mass storage subsystem to the master mass storage subsystem for access by the host computer. Otherwise (that is, if the information is not in the cache of the master mass storage subsystem), the host computer will enable the information to be retrieved from the master mass storage subsystem's storage devices and cached in the master mass storage subsystems's cache memory prior to being retrieved by the host computer.
Original languageEnglish
Patent numberUS6275897
IPCG06F 12/ 08 A I
Priority date17/06/97
StatePublished - 14 Aug 2001
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Stretch or Die: Why Every Guy Should Be Stretching Post-Workout
Stretch or Die: Why Every Guy Should Be Stretching Post-Workout
What happens when you don’t stretch? Nothing. For a while.
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You lift. You get stronger. You improve your diet a bit. You get leaner. You look good. Who needs to stretch? Stretching is for yoga girls and geriatrics. Then you wake up one day and you have a slight pain in your lower back. Nothing major. “Damn,” you say, as you roll out of bed. You instinctively try to stretch it out. Maybe you lean over and touch your toes, which, coincidentally are very far from the tips of your fingers. It helps a bit, so you forget about it. You keep training. In the weight room, you are an animal.
Other people look at you and say your lifts are good. But you start to notice that after sitting all day at work, your lower back is aching. You try to stretch it out. Maybe you put your hands on your lower back and do the old man, hips forward stretch with a sigh, but it lingers. Not the biggest deal, though, because once you get warmed up at the gym, things feel A-okay.
So you forget about it. You keep lifting. You keep getting stronger. You can now squat a small car, which feels good. But one day you’re doing a deep squat and you feel something tweak in your lower back. “Damn it,” you say as you rack the weight. That hurt. You don’t stretch it out this time because it’s hard to breathe. It feels like you need your spine popped back in place.
Something’s wrong.
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What Happened?
At this point, most guys credit this to an unlucky break. “Shit happens,” they might say. “Injury is a part of sport.” But, contrary to this brilliant guy’s wisdom, this could have been avoided.
So what happened here? From a physiological point of view, the hamstrings gradually got stronger and tighter until they started to pull the pelvis down with them. This is called a posterior pelvic tilt and it changes the curvature of the spine.
It also gets continuously reinforced by sitting all day, which also leads to retraction of the hamstring muscles. The lumbar curve vanishes, posture goes to hell, and, under heavy load, this leads to a vertebral herniation.
It’s a story that is unfolds all too often in the weight room because guys refuse to work on their mobility.
Everything seems good—damn good, even—until it isn’t. And it’s understandable, because mobility work is about as exciting as The Twilight Saga. Bottom line: If you want to stay pain- and injury-free, having a strong body is only part of that battle. Having a mobile body is also essential.
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Get Mobile
If you’re convinced to add mobility work into your routine, here are two ways you can go about it.
First, take a yoga class once a week. I know. I know: “Yoga is for the birds.” Trust me, it’s worth it. An hour per week of mobility work will make a difference. As an added bonus, yoga classes are full of cute, open-minded girls. Plus, your presence in any yoga studio will be a welcomed dose of testosterone to what would otherwise be a lot of estrogen. If adding another workout to your week is absolutely out of the question, do mobility intervals.
Since interval training is already a part of your routine (it is, right?), use your recovery time to stretch your three tightest movements. This helps to break up your mobility work into manageable pieces and allows you to utilize what would otherwise be a simple active recovery.
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Your glutes, hamstrings, and hip flexors are likely culprits for your lower body. Your thoracic spine and your lats are a good place to start up top.
Here’s an example:
The Routine
Jogging – Five-minute warm-up jog
Treadmill Sprint – 90 seconds
Mobility Work – Pigeon (Glutes) – 60-second hold and repeat five times
Incline Treadmill Sprint – 90 seconds
Mobility Work – Hamstring – 60-second hold and repeat five times
Force Treadmill Sprints – 50 yards
Mobility Work – Thoracic Extensions on the Foam Roller – 60 seconds and repeat five times
Note: Make sure you’re good to go after your stretches.
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Sometimes a muscle needs to “wake up” a bit after an intense stretch, so the first 30 seconds of the interval can be easier than the subsequent minute.
This is by no means a perfect or exhaustive approach to mobility work; it is the absolute minimum. In fact, any less than this and you might as well get on your knees and pray to Gods of Weightlifting for an injury.
But in order to stay pain-free and continue your progress towards weight room domination, you need to address your mobility.
Rob Sulaver is owner and operator of Bandana Training. For more check out Bandana Training on Facebook. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Tibet Exhibition Center
The Tibet Exhibition Center (西藏展览中心) is an exhibition center in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, China, located at No. 17, Norbulingka Road, Lhasa. The exhibition center is under the Department of Culture of the Tibet Autonomous Region.
History
The predecessor of the Tibet Exhibition Center was the Tibet Revolutionary Exhibition Hall, which was built in 1965 on the east side of the Potala Palace at the suggestion of Vice Premier Chen Yi, with the name of the hall, "Tibet Revolutionary Exhibition Hall", inscribed by the Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, Zhu De.
In 1965, the Tibet Revolutionary Exhibition Hall was formally established, and on August 25, 1965, the hall held an opening ceremony, and for the first time held a large-scale exhibition reflecting the achievements of the revolution and construction of Tibet in the past fifteen years. Later, the museum was renamed as Tibet Exhibition Hall.
In 1985, the "International Traveling Exhibition of Lawson Park's Works" by the American painter Robert Rauschenberg was held in the Tibet Exhibition Hall, and in 1989, the "Ten-Year Achievement Exhibition of Tibetan Literature and Art" was held in the Tibet Exhibition Hall. In 1994, due to the overall reconstruction of the Potala Palace Square, the building in front of the Potala Palace was demolished. In August 1996, the building was renamed as the Tibet Exhibition Center. | WIKI |
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#define SF_RENDERENGINE_H_
#include <stdint.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <EGL/egl.h>
#include <EGL/eglext.h>
#include <math/mat4.h>
#include <Transform.h>
#define EGL_NO_CONFIG ((EGLConfig)0)
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
namespace android {
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
class String8;
class Rect;
class Region;
class Mesh;
class Texture;
class RenderEngine {
enum GlesVersion {
GLES_VERSION_1_0 = 0x10000,
GLES_VERSION_1_1 = 0x10001,
GLES_VERSION_2_0 = 0x20000,
GLES_VERSION_3_0 = 0x30000,
};
static GlesVersion parseGlesVersion(const char* str);
EGLConfig mEGLConfig;
EGLContext mEGLContext;
void setEGLHandles(EGLConfig config, EGLContext ctxt);
virtual void bindImageAsFramebuffer(EGLImageKHR image, uint32_t* texName, uint32_t* fbName, uint32_t* status) = 0;
virtual void unbindFramebuffer(uint32_t texName, uint32_t fbName) = 0;
protected:
RenderEngine();
virtual ~RenderEngine() = 0;
public:
enum FeatureFlag {
WIDE_COLOR_SUPPORT = 1 << 0 // Platform has a wide color display
};
static RenderEngine* create(EGLDisplay display, int hwcFormat, uint32_t featureFlags);
static EGLConfig chooseEglConfig(EGLDisplay display, int format, bool logConfig);
void primeCache() const;
// dump the extension strings. always call the base class.
virtual void dump(String8& result);
// helpers
void flush();
void clearWithColor(float red, float green, float blue, float alpha);
void fillRegionWithColor(const Region& region, uint32_t height,
float red, float green, float blue, float alpha);
// common to all GL versions
void setScissor(uint32_t left, uint32_t bottom, uint32_t right, uint32_t top);
void disableScissor();
void genTextures(size_t count, uint32_t* names);
void deleteTextures(size_t count, uint32_t const* names);
void readPixels(size_t l, size_t b, size_t w, size_t h, uint32_t* pixels);
class BindImageAsFramebuffer {
RenderEngine& mEngine;
uint32_t mTexName, mFbName;
uint32_t mStatus;
public:
BindImageAsFramebuffer(RenderEngine& engine, EGLImageKHR image);
~BindImageAsFramebuffer();
int getStatus() const;
};
// set-up
virtual void checkErrors() const;
virtual void setViewportAndProjection(size_t vpw, size_t vph,
Rect sourceCrop, size_t hwh, bool yswap, Transform::orientation_flags rotation) = 0;
#ifdef USE_HWC2
virtual void setupLayerBlending(bool premultipliedAlpha, bool opaque, float alpha) = 0;
virtual void setupDimLayerBlending(float alpha) = 0;
virtual void setColorMode(android_color_mode mode) = 0;
virtual void setSourceDataSpace(android_dataspace source) = 0;
virtual void setWideColor(bool hasWideColor) = 0;
virtual bool usesWideColor() = 0;
#else
virtual void setupLayerBlending(bool premultipliedAlpha, bool opaque, int alpha) = 0;
virtual void setupDimLayerBlending(int alpha) = 0;
#endif
virtual void setupLayerTexturing(const Texture& texture) = 0;
virtual void setupLayerBlackedOut() = 0;
virtual void setupFillWithColor(float r, float g, float b, float a) = 0;
virtual mat4 setupColorTransform(const mat4& /* colorTransform */) {
return mat4();
}
virtual void disableTexturing() = 0;
virtual void disableBlending() = 0;
// drawing
virtual void drawMesh(const Mesh& mesh) = 0;
// queries
virtual size_t getMaxTextureSize() const = 0;
virtual size_t getMaxViewportDims() const = 0;
EGLConfig getEGLConfig() const;
EGLContext getEGLContext() const;
};
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
}; // namespace android
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Thien Hau Temple (Los Angeles)
The Thien Hau Temple is a Chinese temple located in Los Angeles's Chinatown in California, dedicated to the ocean goddess Mazu. It is one of the more popular areas for worship and tourism among Asian residents in the Los Angeles area. In addition to Mazu, the temple also venerates the martial deity of justice, Guan Sheng Di Jun (關聖帝君) and the wealth deity Fu De Zheng Shen (福德正神).
History
The temple is affiliated with the Camau Association of America, a local benevolent, cultural and religious association primarily serving the local Chinese-Vietnamese refugees from Cà Mau Province, Vietnam. The group also supports Chinese, Vietnamese, and Thai Chinese communities.
The original building of the temple was a former Italian Christian church located within what was formerly Little Italy, the building was purchased and remodeled by the Camau Association in the 1980s. The three main images of Mazu, Guan Yu, and Fu De were imported from Vietnam and dedicated in 1990. Under a strong faith-based community in and outside of Chinatown, the temple was able to raise a great deal of donated money with which to build a larger temple hall. Construction of the new temple was completed and dedicated in September 2005, a memorial hall for the enshrinement of ancestors was consecrated the following month.
Services
Thien Hau Temple is usually festive on the commemoration days of various deities, especially Mazu.
On the eve of Chinese New Year, members from various communities gather to receive blessings and to burn incense in worship of the Deities. Lion dance will be performed and firecrackers are popped in order to ward off any evil spirits. Representatives from over 25 family associations headquartered in Chinatown and other communities are present to light the firecrackers at the stroke of midnight. Since the temple is located within the heart of Chinatown, the temple is often seen as the local "Times Square" to celebrate the Chinese New Year. Many people come to the temple especially during the first week after New Year to receive a blessing for the year. On the concluding day of the New Year celebrations, people come to the temple to pray and beckon Mazu for blessings and protection for the rest of the year.
In recent years, a large number of non-Asian visitors have equaled the number of Asian visitors and congregants who assemble at the temple during the New Year celebration.
On weekends and the 1st and 15th day of the lunar calendar, food is provided to the general public for free (with the option to give a donation to the temple). The temple also holds a Zhong Yuan Festival ceremony in the summer.
In 2020, all services for that year were cancelled for the first time in the temple's history due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The temple reopened to the public on a limited basis in early 2021 under new safety guidelines. | WIKI |
Sweden women's national basketball team
The Sweden women's national basketball team (Sveriges damlandslag i basket) represents Sweden in international women's basketball competition and is controlled by the Swedish Basketball Federation. The national team has entered five EuroBasket Women finals, the first in 1978 where they lost all of their matches and finished in 13th place. At the EuroBasket Women 1987 Sweden finished in 7th place, a feat repeated in 2013. In 2019 Sweden reached the quarter-finals and was ranked 5th, a result that secured a spot in the 2020 Olympic qualifying tournament.
Comparing with earlier decades, Sweden improved significantly during the 2010s. This was much thanks to the "Golden Generation" who won medals in junior championships on both European and world levels.
Current roster
Roster for FIBA Women's EuroBasket 2021.
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* valign="top" |
* Head coach
* 🇮🇹 Marco Crespi
* Assistant coaches
* 🇸🇪 Viktor Bengtsson
* 🇸🇪 Mats Levin
club before the tournament on 17 June 2021
* Legend:
* Club – describes last
* Age – describes age
* } | WIKI |
Norway's Statkraft to acquire 8 hydropower plants in Brazil
OSLO, Oct 26 (Reuters) - Norway’s Statkraft, one of Europe’s largest producers of renewable energy, agreed to acquire eight operational hydropower plants in Brazil’s Espirito Santo state, with a total installed capacity of 131.9 megawatt (MW), the firm said on Friday. Under the agreement, Statkraft Energias Renovaveis (SKER) will take over EDP Energias do Brasil’s shares in EDP PCH, which owns seven of the plants, and Santa Fe Energia, owner of the eight plant. The acquisition will bring Statkraft’s portfolio in Brazil to a total size of about 450 MW and will add to its existing six hydropower plants and four wind farms. “This acquisition is a good fit with our strategy... It also positions Statkraft well for further development in Brazil, a key growth market for Statkraft,” executive vice president Jurgen Tzschoppe said. In Brazil, Statkraft’s ambition is to grow by acquiring and improving assets in operation and by developing new capacity in hydropower, wind and solar power, said the firm. Statkraft owns 81 per cent of SKER, with the Brazilian pension fund FUNCEF owning the remaining 19 per cent. The transaction, the value of which was not made public, is subject to regulatory approvals. (Reporting by Lefteris Karagiannopoulos, editing by Terje Solsvik) | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Talk:heave
* heave
This entry needs cleaning up. The style of the definitions is unusual for Wiktionary and so it should probably be checked to make sure it isn't a copyvio from somewhere. Thryduulf 00:57, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
* I've reworked the verb fairly thoroughly. Widsith 17:20, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
heave to
I was not seeing the nautical usage "heave to" ages ago when I first endeavoured to edit this page.
Example: The ship hove to.
Varlaam (talk) 05:05, 17 July 2013 (UTC)
RFV discussion: July–November 2019
Rfv-sense: broken wind in horses --Gibraltar Rocks (talk) 20:44, 14 July 2019 (UTC)
* heaves seems a lot more common for this. (We have it there, too, with a clearer definition: "A disease of horses characterized by coughing and difficult breathing.") Equinox ◑ 20:49, 14 July 2019 (UTC)
* The singular form may be seen in attributive use, as in “heave line”. --Lambiam 08:39, 15 July 2019 (UTC)
* This challenge came from perennial troll Wonderfool. It doesn't mean that we shouldn't apply our usual standards but since (as I showed) heaves has the meaning, it's clearly not some random made-up sense we'd delete. Well at least we could do see also heaves at, blah blah. Equinox ◑ 22:57, 25 September 2019 (UTC)
* cited. At first I thought this only occurred in "heave line", but I found a couple of instances of "heave horse", and one of "heave remedy". I was unable to find anything other than an attributive use, however. Kiwima (talk) 20:26, 18 November 2019 (UTC)
RFV-passed Kiwima (talk) 01:49, 26 November 2019 (UTC)
(intransitive) : appear
(intransitive) : to become visible, like a ship over the horizon Gradually, the end of summer hove into sight. --Backinstadiums (talk) 10:23, 23 September 2020 (UTC) | WIKI |
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Durga Polyplast Pvt Ltd
It is a well established unit in Haridwar,Uttarakhand India.This unit comes under Durga Groups involved in manufacturing and producing Plastic bottles and Caps for pharmaceuticals and cosmetic Industries. | WIKI |
Concepts → Physical Schema Table
About a physical schema table
A physical schema table is one of several types of entity objects in a physical schema. These object include:
A physical schema table represents the metadata about an entity of structured data. As an entity object in a physical schema, the metadata and properties of a physical schema table also describe how the Loader Service stores the table's data in shared storage and how the Analytics Loader service loads the table in to memory. The metadata includes the following:
Depending on the data source(s) configuration, the following additional table level properties may be available in the Table Editor:
The specified metadata and defined properties for a physical schema table govern the workload for the table in relation to a load job for the table itself or for the parent physical schema as a whole.
Name
A physical schema table name must adhere to the following name validation rules:
• Must be unique to the physical schema
• Must be between 1 and 128 characters in length
• Must begin with an alpha character, lower or upper case
• After the first alpha character, can contain zero or more alphanumeric characters in lower, upper, or mixed case
• After the first alpha character, can contain zero or more underscore (_) or Dollar sign ($) characters
• Besides underscore (_) and Dollar sign ($), cannot contain special characters, symbols, or spaces
Important
The name for a physical schema table name is immutable.
Data Source(s)
A physical schema table requires at least one defined data source. A data source can be a local data file, local data folder, or an existing external data source.
Once selected, the Type property exposes the configurable child properties known as table data source properties. For the Data Source property, you can specify an external data source or LocalFiles. LocalFiles refers to uploaded local data files and local data folders. To learn more about an External Data Source, see Concepts → External Data Source
Here are some of the additional considerations for a table data source:
• Singe-source
• Multi-source
Single-source
A single-source table has exactly one source also known as a single dataset. The Type property determines the dataset type. You use the Data Source property to specify the external data source or local data files and folder.
To learn more, see the following:
Union Files
For the data source types File System and Data Lake, it is possible to specify either a single File or Directory of files. To select a Directory, you must first enable either the Union or Wildcard Union property. The Union property is analogous to defining a multi-source physical schema table that specifies individual datasets as files. In both cases, the Loader Service loads the multiple files in parallel which, in comparison to a sequential loading, greatly reduces the extraction time.
Recommended practice: Add Filename
When using Union Files, enable the Add Filename as a column property and specify the name of the Filename column, such as File_Name. Although duplicative, the column value will allow you to identify the file source, and in turn, track down any data integrity issues with a specific file.
Chunking Files
When the File Type is Text (csv, tsv, tab, txt) and the source files are large, you can also enable chunking and specify the size of the chunks. In this manner, you can reduce the extraction time as the Loader Service chunks the file by the desired size. This is especially helpful when loading text files larger than 1GB.
Warning: Avoid chunking for incremental load
Chunking can greatly improve the performance for loading large files or running queries with large result sets. However, for incremental loads where the number of rows in the load is much smaller than the initial load, chunking can be ineffective.
Multi-source
A physical schema table may have more than one data source. A multi-source table allows a schema developer to union disparate datasets into one physical schema table. For example, a multi-source table may define one source as a File System dataset and another as a SQL Database dataset. For more information, see Concepts → Multi-Source Table.
Columns
A physical schema table column has several properties that determine how the Loader Service extract and stores data as well as how the Analytics Service loads data. To learn more about a physical schema table column, see Concepts → Physical Schema Table Column.
Formula Columns
A table formula column contains an expression that returns a scalar value of a specific data type. As such, the Loader Service computes and persists the physical schema table formula column to shared storage in a Direct Data Mapping file format. To learn more about a physical schema table formula column, see Concepts → Physical Schema Table Formula Column.
Runtime security filters
As a schema developer, you can apply one or more runtime security filters to restrict row access to a table. Any dependent object such as a runtime business view, dashboard insight, dashboard filter, or internal session variables will automatically apply the runtime security filter. To learn more about a physical schema table runtime security filter, see Concepts → Physical Schema Table Runtime Security Filter.
Parent Joins
The physical schema table is the parent table in a join relationship to another entity object in the physical schema or another physical schema within the tenant. By default, the join condition represents a left outer join where the child is on the left side of the join and the parent is on the right side of the join.
A parent table typically has one key column or composite key columns. In both cases, the key column functions as a primary key. Where there is a key column, the join condition typically contains a join operator an = equals join operator.
It is possible to create a join from a child to parent without using defined key column in the parent table. A table without a key column allows for duplicate values. If the parent table contains duplicate non-key rows, the Loader Service randomly selects a parent table row based on the non-key join. To help simulate a key for the parent table, consider using one or more conditions in the join definition such as > greater than and < less than. Multiple join operators may significantly narrow join values from the parent table so as to create row uniqueness. A join condition with multiple join operators requires internal sorting which may require high calculation costs for the join path.
For a parent table with a composite key, remove the unnecessary key column if possible. Otherwise, use the key column with the highest selectivity in the join. To narrow the join range, consider using additional join operators.
Recommended practice
Whenever possible, create a key column or a composite key column for a parent table. Avoid making a join to a parent table that does not have a key column or composite key columns.
Warning
Avoid implicit casting or conversions for disparate data types in a join between a child and parent table. In other words, the child table column and the parent table column should be of the same data type.
Child Joins
The physical schema table is the child table in a join relationship to another entity object in the physical schema or another physical schema within the tenant. A child table typically has a column that serves as a foreign key. By default, the join condition represents a left outer join where the child is on the left side of the join and the parent is on the right side of the join.
Warning
Avoid implicit casting or conversions for disparate data types in a join between a child and parent table. In other words, the child table column and the parent table column should be of the same data type.
Load Filter
For a given physical schema table, you can specify a load filter in the Table Editor. A load filter reduces the number of rows that the Analytics Service loads into memory from shared storage, but does not affect how many rows the Loader Service extract from the data source of the table.
Recommended practice
Create a load filter to help optimize memory use in the Analytics Service for large fact tables. For example, if the Finance team only needs the past 3 months of data in a large fact table, create a load filter for the fact table. Here is an example.
addMonths(OrderDate,-3)
To learn more, see Concepts → Load Filter.
Performance Optimized
When enabled, the Performance Optimized property instructs the Analytics Service to load the physical schema table into memory, and if applicable, apply a specified Load Filter. The Table Editor disables the Performance Optimized property automatically for a physical schema table that uses a Data Lake data source with the Remote Table property enabled.
With a performance optimized table, you can reference the physical schema table in the runtime context of the Analytics Service. This includes the following:
• a physical schema table runtime security filter
• an Incorta Analyzer Table column
• an Incorta Analyzer Table column
• a business schema view column
• a business schema view formula column
• an Incorta Analyzer View column
• an Incorta Analyzer View formula column
• an internal session variable
• a filter expression session variable
• an insight dimension or measure
• an insight formula column
• any insight filter such as an individual filter, a distinct filter, an aggregated filter, or a measure filter)
• dashboard filter such as a prompt, an applied filter, or a filter option
Recommended practice
If a physical schema table is not being used in a runtime context, disable the Performance Optimized property. In this regard, a schema developer may purposefully designate a physical schema table as a non-performance optimized table. For example, a materialized view can read the Apache Parquet files from a non-performance optimized physical schema table. In addition, the SQLi Interface supports querying a non-performance optimized physical schema table via Apache Spark. In these instances, consider using a standardized naming convention to indicate your intentions to users. A table prefix such as npo helps users of external integration tools such as Microsoft PowerBI and Tableau know that the table is queryable, but the performance may be sub-optimal. An example of non-performance optimized table name is npo_tbl_Sales.
Important
After the completion of a successful load job, the following operations are available for a non-performance optimized physical schema table:
• an external integration tool can read the table via the SQLi interface, the sqlApp, and Apache Spark
• a materialized view can read the table using a SQL query or data frame reference
• a physical schema table can reference the table in the context of a PostgreSQL external data source that specifies the Incorta tenant itself as the database
Disable Full Load
The Disable Full Load property is available for a physical schema table only if it has the Incremental property enabled. A schema developer may enable the Incremental property for the data source of the physical schema table. For an incremental load of a physical schema, a physical schema table with the Incremental property enabled observes the related data source configurations such as using a specific file or executing the specified Update Query. For a full load of a physical schema, the Loader Service will exclude a physical schema table with the Disable Full Load property enabled. Typically, a schema developer will perform a table full load at least once before enabling the Disable Full Load property. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Alfred Wilkins
Alfred Daulton Wilkins (1856 — 21 October 1920) was an English first-class cricketer and an officer in the Imperial Forest Service.
The son of Alfred Wilkins senior, he was born in 1856 at Kotri in British India. Wilkins was educated in England at Christ's College, Finchley and later at Tonbridge School, where he played for the cricket eleven and the football thirteen. Following the completion of his education, he returned to India, where he joined the Imperial Forest Service (IFS) in April 1875 as a mail officer in the Bombay Presidency. He was appointed an assistant conservator of forests in the Presidency in 1879, later being appointed deputy conservator of forests in Sindh in 1887. He retired from the IFS in July 1911. While in British India, Wilkins played first-class cricket for the Europeans cricket team on three occasions between 1892 and 1898 in the Bombay Presidency Matches against the Parsees. He scored 15 runs in his three matches, with a highest score of 13. He played in a notable non-first-class match in 1886 at Poona for the North of India against the South, scoring 81 not out and 218 not out. Wilkins retired to England, where he died at Bedford in October 1920. | WIKI |
Category:Public policy in Azerbaijan
Public policy in Azerbaijan, courses of action created and/or enacted, typically by a government, in response to public, real-world problems. . | WIKI |
Wikipedia:WikiProject Olympics/Peer review/1956 Winter Olympics
1956 Winter Olympics
I am submitting this for peer review because I am attempting to get this article to FAC sometime this month. This will be an important FAC as it will set the template for how the rest of the YEAR at Summer/Winter Olympics articles are going to be formatted. I am currently working on creating sub articles for all the events as there are still a ton of red links in the calendar. FA reviewers won't like that. So any help with copy editing, prose, grammar, content, or the like would be much appreciated. User:H1nkles citius altius fortius 16:06, 8 March 2010 (UTC)
* Don't have time right now to read the whole article for spelling etc but here are a few things i've noticed...
* 1) The major comment I'd make, which applies to large sections of the article, is that there are a lot of very short one clause sentences so the whole thing doesn't flow very well (try reading the Organizing section out loud and hopefully you'll see what I mean).
* 2) I think organizing section needs a different title, Organization possibly or perhaps something like Preparation(s)
* 3) Venues section - I assume The Italia Jump was for ski jumping but it doesn't state that
* 4) Start of events section - 4 sports... two new events, should probably use either figures or words not a mixture
* 5) Is it possible to the map with Cortina marked on it that can be found at Cortina d'Ampezzo?
Hope some of those suggestions help, I'll take a more detailed look when I get time. Basement12 (T.C) 17:11, 8 March 2010 (UTC)
* Thanks for your input, your first comment is especially helpful as this was not something I had seen, since I'm so close to the article. I'll definitely try and expand the sentences so they aren't so stuccato and so the flow of the article is enhanced. User:H1nkles citius altius fortius 23:44, 8 March 2010 (UTC)
Parutakupiu
Hey there, H1nkles. Months ago, when you requested a peer review for this article, I began drafting an expansion with sourcing based mostly on the official report. I did not finish this but since you came up with this project-specific peer review, instead of making comments I suggest you check my sandbox and compare my additions and changes with what you already have. Take whatever you feel it could be an improvement to the article. Cheers! Parutakupiu (talk) 22:56, 8 March 2010 (UTC)
* Thank you my friend, you work is wonderful. I've taken some and added it to the article. I'll continue to work through your version of the article and gleen what I can. I'll be sure to give you credit when I post it for FAC. Thank you. User:H1nkles citius altius fortius 23:42, 8 March 2010 (UTC)
* You're welcome! Pity I didn't go further, but I think that job is in good hands ;). Parutakupiu (talk) 00:00, 9 March 2010 (UTC)
Archive
Thank you for your review, I am closing it down and archiving it here. It will also be in the article history section. User:H1nkles citius altius fortius 22:37, 11 March 2010 (UTC) | WIKI |
Aranbanga, Queensland
Aranbanga is a rural locality in the North Burnett Region, Queensland, Australia. In the, Aranbanga had a population of 15 people.
Geography
Aranbanga Creek rises in the centre of the locality and flows west towards Pile Gully. The mountain The Three Sisters at 418 m is in the south-west of the locality. The Johngboon State Forest is located in the south-east of the locality.
The principal land use is grazing, but there is a small area of irrigated crops from a small dam in the centre of the locality.
History
The locality and creek both takes their names from an early pastoral run in the district. In 1852 the Aranbanga run was transferred from George Mocatta to W.T. and G.M. Elliott. The run appears by that name on an 1872 and 1878 maps.
Demographics
In the, Aranbanga had a population of 10 people.
In the, Aranbanga had a population of 15 people.
Education
There are no schools in Aranbanga. The nearest primary and secondary schools are in Gaynah. | WIKI |
Homalopsidae
The Homalopsidae are a family of snakes which contains about 30 genera and more than 50 species. They are commonly known as Indo-Australian water snakes, mudsnakes, or bockadams. They are also known as ular air (lit. "water snake") in Indonesian. They are typically stout-bodied water snakes, and all are mildly venomous. Two monotypic genera are notable for their unusual morphology: Erpeton possesses a pair of short, fleshy appendages protruding from the front of the snout, and Bitia has uniquely enlarged palatine teeth. Cerberus species have been noted to use sidewinding to cross slick mud flats during low tide. Fordonia and Gerarda are the only snakes known to tear their prey apart before eating it, pulling soft-shelled crabs through their coils to rip them apart prior to ingestion.
Genera
* Bitia Gray, 1842
* Brachyorrhos Kuhl, 1826
* Calamophis Meyer, 1874
* Cantoria Girard, 1857
* Cerberus Cuvier, 1829
* Dieurostus Berg, 1901
* Djokoiskandarus J.C. Murphy, 2011
* Enhydris Sonnini & Latreille, 1802
* Erpeton Lacépède, 1800
* Ferania Gray, 1842
* Fordonia Gray, 1837
* Gerarda Gray, 1849
* Gyiophis J.C. Murphy & Voris, 2014
* Heurnia de Jong, 1926
* Homalophis W. Peters, 1871
* Homalopsis Kuhl & Hasselt, 1822
* Hypsiscopus Fitzinger, 1843
* Karnsophis J.C. Murphy & Voris, 2013
* Kualatahan J.C. Murphy & Voris, 2014
* Mintonophis J.C. Murphy & Voris, 2014
* Miralia Gray, 1842
* Myanophis G. Köhler et al., 2021
* Myron Gray, 1849
* Myrrophis Kumar, Sanders, George & J.C. Murphy, 2012
* Phytolopsis Gray, 1849
* Pseudoferania Ogilby, 1891
* Raclitia Gray, 1842
* Subsessor J.C. Murphy & Voris, 2014
* Sumatranus J.C. Murphy & Voris, 2014 | WIKI |
Template talk:Avatar: The Last Airbender
Guest voices
My thought is that "Guest voices" doesn't really belong under the "Characters" section (since guest voices aren't really the characters themselves), but rather under the "Information" section. Any thoughts on this suggestion? Prototime 20:03, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
* I agree. And I moved it. =) (It's mostly because guest voices also stretches out the template box more than I like. --Crisu 22:05, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
Chakra
I started a Chakra link in the Template. It's to give simple info on Chakra in the show which differs from what the Chakra really. Some wanted to just go to Chakra and that's okay for teens/adults but I just wanted something for the average kid to read. Most aren't going to understand the infomation and I wanted to make something for them to make it simple for them. Ebonize Christian 01:05, 2 December 2006 (CT)
Pai Sho + Avatar State
Not good with names. Huh, shouldn't it be the other way around? Eh, anyway though they are nice articles, but considering their categorization (hope I'm spelling it right) I don't think its neccessary to display them in the main template box. They should instead be inserted (as they already are) into a more suitable page. Pai Sho for Iroh, Aang for the Avatar State. We don't have to throw every single page we have in here. Take the Ba Sing Se's page for example, on it's own, its pretty well-organized and referenced, but its not here. Instead, its link fits snuggly into the Earth Kingdom page. ~Father's Wish 14 March 2007 (CT)
* Honestly, my question would tend to be why Ba Sing Se isn't here. Navigational templates are usually pretty all-inclusive, and there's really no reason for this one not to be, in my opinion.--Fyre2387 (talk • contribs) 18:38, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
* Like I said, "its link fits snuggly into the Earth Kingdom page". If ya look at the template, to say the least, its catorgerized. Take Ba Sing Se for example: (Universe)-> Earth Kingdom-> Main Article: Ba Sing Se (its link is in the very first paragraph). For Pai Sho: Iroh-> Main Article: Pai Sho. Then for something like Chakra which doesn't currently have a proper present categorization but has a large amount of information and proves to be a fundemental concept of the show's universe thingie, its link is right up their under Universe. Basically its all about maintaining the organization, which is pretty much how this thing got on FA status, which I'm told is supposed to be a "big deal". ~Father's Wish 17 March 2007 (CT) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Father's Wish II (talk • contribs) 03:52, 17 March 2007 (UTC).
New Character Pages
Shouldn't we start making pages for Mai and Ty Lee? Their discriptions are getting pretty big. I also think way more can be added to their descriptions. Mai and Ty Lee are currently being treated as main characters. One more thing: According to the first trailer for season 3, it shows Mai kissing Zuko and the possibilities of new looks for Ty Lee.
Organisation
You know, the characters part of this template isn't really organised. I put the names in alphabetical order, and it's reversed. Why? Hello 21 12 17:41, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
Websites
Are the other websites really needed? Earth bending master 16:33, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
* No, they aren't. All of the information available on those sites is available here as well. The only one i could see needing a link would be the wikiquote, but that can go on the list page. Rau J16 19:38, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
I try to be nice and help out so that the links to the sites can be found in all Avatar pages without need for repitition but since you guys are so stubborn i am going to keep undoing your changes untill you understand my point. So there! Zero 14 February 2008 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Zero2001 (talk • contribs) 03:49, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
* And we will continue to undo yours. Fansites do not belong in the template and Wikiquote is already provided on the articles. They are not needed. Rau's talk 03:55, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
Fine then remove the fansites but dont remove the wikiquote and wikis because they belong to the WIKI Community. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Zero2001 (talk • contribs) 04:04, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
* Avatar Wikia is a fansite and Wikiquote does not belong in the template. The template is for major and relevant articles inside Wikipedia. Rau's talk 04:09, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
Movie
Just wondering; since the movie haven't its own article yet, shouldn't it be excluded from the template until such time arrives? Additionally, I was wondering if the movie article would be part of the "franchise" section...--haha169 (talk) 19:04, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
Requested move
Template:Avatar: The Last Airbender
Template:Avatar → Template:Avatar: The Last Airbender —
Matching the title of the main article, and gets rid of a title that has been highly contentious in articlespace (Talk:avatar), and also for the second most popular film in history Avatar (film) (Avatar (2009 film))
<IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 05:23, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
* Please list this at Templates for discussion. They specifically do handle all template related issues such as moves and renames. — V = I * R (talk to Ohms law) 09:50, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
* Sorry to bounce folks around, but Requested moves was the correct place to discuss this, assuming discussion was needed at all. Moving a template is no different from moving an article. Either an editor just moves it, or it is discussed at WP:RM. TFD is for deletions and mergers. --RL0919 (talk) 15:25, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
Template look
A debate on how the template should be designed here. Feel free to participate. Jhenderson777 (talk) 14:25, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
Nations
Should the articles Air Nomads and Water Tribe not be included in this template? Jpjacobs.00 (talk) 19:44, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
Regarding template change
I made this version to help simplify the organization. I realize it was a bold edit, and if reverted I would at least like a discussion for it. thank you.Lucia Black (talk) 05:11, 31 August 2013 (UTC) | WIKI |
User:Dantheox/NCAA 1955
The 1955 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament involved 24 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball. It began on March 8, 1955, and ended with the championship game on March 19 in Kansas City, Missouri. A total of 28 games were played.
San Francisco, coached by Phil Woolpert, won the national title with a 77-63 victory in the final game over La Salle, coached by Ken Loeffler. Bill Russell of San Francisco was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player.
Bracket
Kentucky 71 Marquette 90 Marquette 79 Marquette 81 Miami-OH 79 Iowa 82 Iowa 86 Iowa Penn St 59 Penn St 53 Memphis St 55 EAST REGION Princeton 46 La Salle 95 La Salle 73 La Salle 99 La Salle West Virginia 61 Canisius 73 Williams 60 Canisius 73 Canisius 64 Villanova 74 Villanova 71 Duke 73
SMU 79 Bradley 69 Bradley 81 Bradley 81 Oklahoma City 65 Colorado 69 Colorado 93 Colorado Tulsa 59 WEST REGION Oregon St 83 Seattle 80 Seattle 71 Oregon St 56 San Francisco Idaho St 63 Utah 59 San Francisco 57 San Francisco 89 San Francisco 78 West Texas St 66
La Salle 76 Iowa 73 La Salle 63 San Francisco 62 San Francisco 77 Colorado 50 | WIKI |
Feet Speak
Your Foot is Saying… Did you know that your feet speak to your podiatrist? You can consider us the ‘Foot Whisperers’. I know I am poking fun but there is validity to the fact that your feet can shed light on medical conditions that may be affecting the rest of your body. I would like to present a few scenarios in which we can hear your Foot Speak.
You enjoyed a delicious seafood dinner with a glass of wine. Within some hours, something unusual begins to happen to your big toe joint. It becomes red, hot, swollen and painful. Foot Speak: Help, crystals are hurting me! What we hear is that you may be experiencing a gouty attack. Gout is a condition that can be caused by having high amounts of uric acid. Certain foods, like seafood, contain high amounts of purine. When purine breaks down, it becomes uric acid. High amounts of uric acid levels can cause crystals to develop resulting in pain and inflammation to a joint. The most commonly affected joint is the big toe joint.
How about sleepy feet? Have your toes and other parts of your feet felt like they were trying to take a nap? They tingle, with an overwhelming sensation of pins and needles. Foot Speak: Help, I don’t feel the same way like I used to! What we hear is that your nerves are being affected in such a manner which is causing them to respond differently. High blood sugar, vitamin deficiencies and kidney disease are some medical conditions that can cause a nerve disorder known as neuropathy. Neuropathy is a collection of nerve disorders that affect how your nerves detect sensations and control muscle movement.
You might even have been going for your evening walk, your calf muscle cramps up and you have to stop and rest. This is usually happens after you walk about 5 blocks. Foot Speak: Help, I am not getting enough oxygen! What we hear is that your muscles are not getting enough blood, which will result in lack of oxygen. Blockage in your leg arteries can cause this decrease in blood flow. This is known as peripheral arterial disease (PAD). There is a strong connection between PAD and blockage of the arteries in the heart, known as coronary artery disease (CAD).
These were a few examples of systemic conditions in your body that may be identified in the feet before showing signs at their source. We at 1Foot 2Foot work as a team with your primary care & other specialty physicians to remedy these situations with early detection and proper treatment. From head to toes, we aim to have you in tip-top shape, and we won’t tip-toe around it.
My name is Dr. Daria Dalrymple and I am a foot whisperer.
Award-Winning Podiatrists In Suffolk, Virginia Beach, & Hampton, VA
If you live in or around Suffolk, Hampton, Chesapeake, Portsmouth, Newport News, Carrollton, Smithfield, Norfolk, or Virginia Beach, VA, call 757.384.6609 to schedule your appointment with one of our expert foot specialists. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
A. V. Bellarmin
A.V. Bellarmin (born 5 May 1954) is an Indian politician, belonging to the Communist Party of India (Marxist). He was a member of the 14th Lok Sabha, representing the Nagercoil constituency of Tamil Nadu. According to the CPM, He has held responsibilities in the General Workers’ Union, the Fish Workers’ Union and the Union of Construction Workers in Kanyakumari district and fought for the rights of workers. He is a serving member of the District Secretariat of CPM. During his stint as a member of Lok Sabha, he served as member of the Standing Committees on Defense and on External Affairs.
As a part of the standing committee on external affairs, he had championed the cause of Indian migrant laborers working in foreign countries, especially the middle-east. Calling himself as a social activist, Mr. Bellarmin cites the setting up of Kendriya Vidyalaya at Konam in Nagercoil and commissioning of Kuzhithurai bridge on NH47 among his achievements during his tenure as a member of the 14th Lok Sabha. Besides, A.V.Bellarmin has been fighting against sand mining in the coasts of Kanyakumari. In an open letter, he said "Rules have been changed and the private sand mining mafia has destroyed the beaches of southern Tamil Nadu. It is a shame as India is the world's leading reserve for Thorium which is also part of India's 3 stage nuclear power programme - sadly we don't seem to care even as it's looted under the Government's watch. Take a look at a rough estimate into how much of nuclear fuel has already been lost and the figures that emerge are shocking. So why is the Government choosing to turn a blind eye?"
A.V. Bellarmin is contesting for the Kanyakumari Lok Sabha Constituency in the 2014 elections. His poll promises include: setting up of a commercial harbour at Colachel, IT park and rubber research centre in Kanyakumari district and restoration of The Anantha Victoria Marthandam Canal (AVM canal) so that it could be used for transportation of goods between Kanyakumari and Thiruvananthapuram. The AVM canal that runs along the west coast is also expected to boost revenues from tourism, if renovated. | WIKI |
Inject-Assembly - Inject .NET Assemblies Into An Existing Process
This tool is an alternative to traditional fork and run execution for Cobalt Strike. The loader can be injected into any process, including the current Beacon. Long-running assemblies will continue to run and send output back to the Beacon, similar to the behavior of execute-assembly.
There are two components of inject-assembly:
1. BOF initializer: A small program responsible for injecting the assembly loader into a remote process with any arguments passed. It uses BeaconInjectProcess to perform the injection, meaning this behavior can be customized in a Malleable C2 profile or with process injection BOFs (as of version 4.5).
2. PIC assembly loader: The bulk of the project. The loader will initialize the .NET runtime, load the provided assembly, and execute the assembly. The loader will create a new AppDomain in the target process so that the loaded assembly can be totally unloaded when execution is complete.
Communication between the remote process and Beacon occurs through a named pipe. The Aggressor script generates a pipe name and then passes it to the BOF initializer.
Notable Features
• Patches Environment.Exit() to prevent the remote process from exiting.
• .NET assembly header stomping (MZ bytes, e_lfanew, DOS Header, Rich Text, PE Header).
• Random pipe name generation based on SourcePoint.
• No blocking of the Beacon, even if the assembly is loaded into the current process.
Usage
Download and load the inject-assembly.cna Aggressor script into Cobalt Strike. You can then execute assemblies using the following command:
inject-assembly pid assembly [args...]
Specify 0 as the PID to execute in the current Beacon process.
It is recommended to use another tool, like FindObjects-BOF, to locate a process that already loads the .NET runtime, but this is not a requirement for inject-assembly to function.
Warnings
• Currently only supports x64 remote processes.
• There are several checks throughout the program to reduce the likelihood of crashing the remote process, but it could still happen.
• The default Cobalt Strike process injection may get you caught. Consider a custom injection BOF or UDRL IAT hook.
• Some assemblies rely on Environment.Exit() to finish executing. This will prevent the loader's cleanup phase from occurring, but you can still disconnect the named pipe using jobkill.
• Uncomment lines 3 or 4 of scmain.c to enable error or verbose modes, respectively. These are disabled by default to reduce the shellcode size.
References
This project would not have been possible without the following projects:
Other features and inspiration were taken from the following resources:
Inject-Assembly - Inject .NET Assemblies Into An Existing Process Inject-Assembly - Inject .NET Assemblies Into An Existing Process Reviewed by Zion3R on 8:30 AM Rating: 5 | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
LCHFPernille Bjerring
What is LCHF?
As any teacher will probably tell you, you should never start explaining something based on what it is not. So that is exactly what I will do! LCHF is NOT about losing weight through the creation of a deficit of calories. LCHF is NOT about weighing, measuring, and keeping track of every little bite you put in your mouth. LCHF is NOT about feeling hungry and deprived and just wanting to either crawl into a black cave to perish or go crazy in a candy store.
LCHF is about eating real food that keeps you satisfied and is good for you. LCHF is about stabilizing your blood sugar and controlling your sugar cravings. And LCHF is about sleeping better, having more energy and losing excessive weight.
The short version of the explanation is to eat a diet consisting of few carbohydrates and plenty of fat. A somewhat accurate description would be to say that you have to turn the current health guidelines upside down and avoid all grains, starchy vegetables such as potatoes and – of course – sugar.
LCHFfoodpyramid
The nerdy of LCHF
The body needs energy to perform the multitude of processes that together constitute a fully functional organism. Today, for most of us the primary source of energy is carbohydrates that are broken down to glucose molecules – tiny sugar molecules. Every time you ingest carbohydrates, the level of glucose in your blood rises meaning that your blood sugar goes up – and your body’s reaction is to release insulin. Insulin is the hormone that helps transport the glucose into the cells where it is broken down into smaller components while simultaneously releasing the energy that is stored in the chemical bonds. But, the insulin also stimulates the storage of fat in our fat cells – and the more carbohydrates, the more insulin and, subsequently, the more fat storage….
If the intake of carbohydrates is stopped or significantly reduced, no insulin will be released as there is no spike in the blood sugar level that needs regulating. The blood sugar remains stable, one of the most important features of the LCHF diet. Fat, on the other hand, becomes a much more readily available source of energy. The body will adjust to using fat as the primary source of energy, a metabolic state known as ketosis as opposed to glycolysis. In LCHF and ketogenic diet forums you will very often find that there is a lot of interest around the ketosis – how to get to this state and how to measure ketone levels in the blood. However, ketosis is not necessary in order to lose weight and reap the health and wellbeing benefits of the LCHF diet. Just the fact that the blood sugar is stabilized will cause you to feel less hunger and better be able to control those otherwise uncontrollable cravings.
So what can I eat with LCHF?
The principles of LCHF are not complicated at all. Only if you want to make LCHF-versions of your favorite high-carbohydrate foods or your focus is on how to bake delicious LCHF treats, does it become more complex and requires the use of a number of specialty products. I know it can be very tempting to start out with that LCHF brownie but if you’re in this to initially lose some weight or to try if this is a lifestyle for you, I would focus on the basics for a while…..
Anyway, what you should eat is:
• A huge amount of vegetables, preferably primarily vegetables that grow above ground. Below-ground vegetables tend to be more starchy but there are huge differences and many liberal LCHF followers eat some below-ground vegetables.
• Meats – all kinds – including poultry, fish and plenty of eggs. Chose the high-fat content meat – and eat the fatty edge of your steak and the crispy skin of your chicken. This is particularly recommendable if you get meat from grass-fed organic animals as the fatty acids are better distributed in these animals. Also, coming from someone who cares a great deal about animal welfare, they have typically led a better life before they became your dinner.
• Healthy fats from butter (grass-fed, I recommend Kerrygold brand), high-quality oils (olive oil, coconut oil, avocado oil etc.) and avocados.
• High-fat dairy: Cheese, heavy whipping cream, sour cream, full-fat Greek yoghurt
• Some berries and nuts – but be careful, nuts are very energy dense and berries have some carbs.
And what should I avoid?
In general, you should focus on eating whole foods and avoid any kind of processed foods. In addition, some whole foods are very high in carbs and should therefore be eliminated or severely limited. An example of the latter category is fruits. We have grown up to believe that fruits are extremely healthy, the health snack. And they are. Most fruits provide a lot of fiber and vitamins. However, they also break down to sugar in your body and therefore triggers a spike in your blood sugar level. You could say that your body cannot tell the difference between eating fruit and eating candy and cakes. My personal take on fruit is that I consider it a special treat, one that I allow myself in small doses. For a serious weight loss effort, I would avoid fruit and get the same vitamins and fibers from vegetables.
For shopping, I generally use 2 rules of thumb: Don’t buy if 1) it has more than 5 ingredients and 2) more than 5% of the energy is from carbs
Avoid:
• Grains – bread, rice, cereal, pasta. NB! Gluten-free is not the same as low-carb
• Sugar – candy, sodas, sweetened drinks, pastry, cakes etc.
• Beer – equates to liquid bread
• Low-quality fats – margarine, shortening, vegetable oil, sunflower oil, soybean oil
• Artificial sweeteners, light products
Strict, liberal or ?
There are different “schools” of LCHF, of course, like there are different schools of almost any other diet or lifestyle out there. I find that the most common categorization is strict, “Normal” or liberal LCHF. In layman’s terms, the difference is primarily the amount of carbohydrates allowed:
Strict: Max. 20g of carbohydrates per day. This very low amount of carbohydrates makes it somewhat difficult to include a lot of vegetables, dairy, and nuts in your diet.
Normal: 20-50g of carbohydrates per day
Liberal: 50-100g of carbohydrates per day
Even though some people feel the need to weigh, measure and record their food intake, one of the advantages of LCHF is generally perceived to be that you don’t have to. As soon as you get adjusted to the lifestyle, your body will tell you what is enough. However, I do feel that it makes sense to do a little tracking in the beginning, just to know where you are at with your macro nutrients. And if weight loss is a requirement and it is not happening or stalling, keeping track of intake over a period of time makes perfect sense. There are a number of apps that can help you do just that.
The generally accepted best distribution of macro nutrients on LCHF is 5% carbs, 15% protein, and 80% fat. Please be aware that these are energy percentages so it is not like 80% of your food should be fat but rather that 80% of your energy should come from fat. Most weight loss and fitness apps will calculate the energy percentages of a food, a meal or a day’s meals for you.
A shopping rule of thumb for LCHF is to choose foods that have less than 5g of carbs per 100g. In Scandinavia, this is an easy rule to follow as all manufacturers are obligated to declare the contents of fat, protein, and carbs per 100g. It is, however, a little more complex in the US as declarations are typically per serving, and a serving can be any arbitrary weight. A little more math is therefore required.
If you have a little time, approx. 10 minutes, take a look at this video from YouTube: | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Valentine Yanovna Zhubinskaya
Valentine Yanovna Zhubinskaya (17 May 1926 – 2013) was born in Kharkiv, Ukraine. She was a Ukrainian composer, concertmistress, lecturer, and pianist. Zhubinskaya was the concertmistress at Kharkiv State Theatre until 1948, while studying piano under M. Pilstrom and composition under V. Barabashov at the Kharkiv Conservatory. She graduated with distinction in 1949 and did postgraduate studies in Moscow, becoming a lecturer on the piano at Gnessin State Musical College in 1961.
Compositions
Her compositions include:
Chamber
* Romance and Serenade (violin and piano; 1946)
Orchestra
* Piano Concerto (1950)
Piano
* Children's Album (12 pieces; 1946)
* Collection of Children's Pieces (1960)
* Eight Pieces (1960)
* Fifteen Pieces (1969)
* Four Etudes (1946)
* Lullaby and Humoresque (1946)
* Romance
* Russian Variations (1963)
* Sonata (1948)
* Song and Waltz (1946)
* Three Improvisations (1963)
* Waltz (1948)
Vocal
* Children's Songs (1971)
* Cycle of Works by Bulgarian Poets (1962)
* Dobruy Khleb Cycle (chorus; 1972)
* Molodezhnaya (Malykhin; voice and piano; 1968)
* Pesnya o Taimyre (M. Arons; voice and piano; 1947)
* Razvernis Garmonika (A. Prokofiev; voice and piano; 1947)
* Two Ukrainian Folk Songs (a capella chorus; 1948)
* Vremena Goda Cycle for Children (voice and piano; 1959) | WIKI |
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HADOOP-2668 Documentation and improved logging so fact that hbase now requires migration comes as less of a surprise
HADOOP-2643 Make migration tool smarter.
HADOOP-2525 Master changes to prevent looping
HADOOP-2525 Same 2 lines repeated 11 million times in HMaster log upon HMaster shutdown
HADOOP-2616 hbase not spliting when the total size of region reaches max region size * 1.5
HADOOP-2587 Splits blocked by compactions cause region to be offline for duration of compaction.
Patch verified by Billy Pearson
HADOOP-2558 modified CHANGES.txt to indicate that this is an incompatible change.
HADOOP-2558 org.onelab.filter.BloomFilter class uses 8X the memory it should be using
HADOOP-2500 Unreadable region kills region servers
HADOOP-2587 Splits blocked by compactions cause region to be offline for duration of compaction.
Fix bug in TestCompaction in which two mini dfs clusters were being started for the same test.
HADOOP-2478 Restructure how HBase lays out files in the file system (phase 2) Includes migration tool org.apache.hadoop.hbase.util.Migrate
1. … 22 more files in changeset.
HADOOP-2478 test input data.
1. /hadoop/trunk/src/contrib/hbase/src/testdata
HADOOP-2468 TestRegionServerExit failed in Hadoop-Nightly #338
HADOOP-2458 HStoreFile.writeSplitInfo should just call HStoreFile.Reference.write
HADOOP-2458 HStoreFile.writeSplitInfo should just call HStoreFile.Reference.write
HADOOP-2451 End key is incorrectly assigned in many region splits
HADOOP-2441 Fix build failures in TestHBaseCluster
HADOOP-2199 Add tools for going from hregion filename to region name in logs
HADOOP-2430 Master will not shut down if there are no active region servers
HADOOP-2414 Fix ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException in bloom filters.
HADOOP-2418 Fix assertion failures in TestTableMapReduce, TestTableIndex, and TestTableJoinMapReduce
HADOOP-2417 Fix critical shutdown problem introduced by HADOOP-2338
HADOOP-2392 HADOOP-2324 HADOOP-2396 HADOOP-2397
HADOOP-2392, HADOOP-2324:
Chore
- initialChore() now returns boolean
HMaster
- rather than retry in root and meta scanners, return if a scan fails. It will get retried on the next scan. This has two effects: 1) scanners exit more quickly during shutdown and 2) they don't keep retrying to connect to a dead server, allowing them to recover from a server going down more quickly.
- initialScan in root and meta scanners return boolean and do not progress to maintenanceScan until the initial scan completes successfully.
HRegionServer
- speed up region server exit by reordering join's so that we join with threads in the order that we told them to stop
TestTableMapReduce
- remove overrides of heartbeat and thread wake intervals
HADOOP-2396:
HMaster
- move check for null HRegionInfo before first attempt to dereference it.
HADOOP-2397:
- HMaster$BaseScanner.checkAssigned: don't try to split dead server's log if initial startup has completed.
HADOOP-2353:
HMsg
- change toString() to only output the region name rather than calling HRegionInfo.toString()
StaticTestEnvironment
- make logging a bit less verbose
TestHLog
- was writing to local file system and failing on Windows
HADOOP-2392 TestRegionServerExit has new failure mode since HADOOP-2338
HADOOP-2350 Scanner api returns null row names, or skips row names if different column families do not have entries for some rows
HADOOP-2338 Fix NullPointerException in master server.
HADOOP-2365 Result of HashFunction.hash() contains all identical values
HADOOP-2333 Client side retries happen at the wrong level
HADOOP-2321 TestScanner2 does not release resources which sometimes cause the test to time out
HADOOP-2309 ConcurrentModificationException doing get of all region start keys
HADOOP-2295 Fix assigning a region to multiple servers
HADOOP-2261 HTable.abort no longer throws exception if there is no active update.
HADOOP-2287 Make hbase unit tests take less time to complete.
HADOOP-2262 Retry n times instead of n**2 times.
HADOOP-2262 HADOOP-2261 fail fast on non-existing table, change abort to function after commit even if commit was successful
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What is a solenoid valve coil?
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Solenoid Valve Coil is the most important electronic control component in the solenoid valve. It is composed of copper or aluminum wire wound into a hollow form. It converts AC or DC electrical energy into linear mechanical motion to drive the solenoid valve.
This is achieved by placing a ferromagnetic core inside the coil. In the solenoid valve, the ferromagnetic core is called the valve core. When the current flows through the coil, due to the magnetic effect of the current, a magnetic field is generated in the surrounding space, thereby magnetizing the valve core into an electromagnet, and then under the electromagnetic force, the electromagnet further slide upward into the coil, thereby opening the valve port or pilot hole to realize the on-state of the solenoid valve
Main Structure
The conventional structure of solenoid coil includes:
Enameled copper wire
Bobbin
Pin
Yoke
Encapsulation
In addition, according to the actual use, there will be a magnetizing guide ring, a bridge used for rectifying, etc.
1) Enameled copper wire
Copper conductor with a coat of insulating paint on its surface, which is the core material of solenoid coil. Solenoid coils used in valves are designed and tested for continuous service. They all meet the thermal endurance specifications according to IEC 216.
Insulation class Allowable Max. Temp. Rise ℃ Allowable Max. Oper. Temp. ℃
B 90 130
F 115 155
H 140 180
N 160 200
R 180 220
Remarks: This clause does not apply to pulsation operated coils
2) Bobbin
The bobbin is the carrier of enameled wire winding. According to the temperature rise of the coil and the actual use environment, different bobbin materials are selected, such as PA66, PPS, PBT, PET, etc., and a few of them are thermosetting BMC and PT-310
3) Pin
The function of pin is to realize the electrical connection between the internal enameled wire and the external. Similar to the same function, there are pins, terminals, flying leads, etc. Pin material is generally brass, such as H59, H62, H65, of which H62 is the majority.
4) Yoke
It is used to gather the magnetic field lines from the N pole to the S pole, increase the magnetic field strength and minimize the magnetic leakage into the air. A reasonable support structure design is conducive to improving the magnetic field strength. Generally, there are two kinds of support materials: low carbon steel cold-rolled plate and electrical pure iron (DT4C).
5) Encapsulation
It is used to combine coil parts into a whole, which plays a role of waterproof and dustproof. The plastic covered materials include thermosetting plastics and thermoplastic plastics.
Thermoplastic: this kind of plastic is characterized by being soft with the increase of temperature, being molded and hard after cooling. This process can be repeated many times. The thermoplastic coil has good weather resistance and toughness. The most common material is PA66, followed by PA6
Thermosetting plastic: this kind of plastic is characterized by curing at a certain temperature, after a certain time of heating or adding curing agent. The solidified plastic is hard and insoluble in solvent, and cannot be softened by heating. If the temperature is too high, it will decompose. The thermosetting coil has high temperature resistance, small shrinkage and flat shape during injection molding. At present, all the thermosetting materials are BMC, but the content and formula of glass fiber are slightly different
Solenoid coil classification
Classification by application: Pneumatic industry; Hydraulic industry; Household electrical appliances; Textiles industry; Refrigeration industry; Automobile industry; Explosion protection industry, and so on.
Classification by manufacturing process: Thermosetting/Thermoplastic/Non encapsulation;
Solenoid coil performance
Degrees of Protection:
Degrees of protection provided by electrical enclosures (IP Code)， According to standards EN 60529 and IEC 529
The code letters IP (Ingress Protection) followed by 2 characteristic numerals: e.g. IP65.The first figure indicates the degree of protection of the energized parts and internal moving parts against ingress of solid foreign objects. The second figure indicates the degree of protection against ingress of water with harmful effects.
The encapsulation coil can generally reach IP64 or IP65; Water-proof coil can reach IP67
Turns
Measured by coil turns meter, usually the turn’s tolerance follows below standard
Turns Turn tolerance
0～300 0
300～500 ±3 Turns
500～20000 ±0.6%
20000～60000 ±1.5%
Resistance
① unless otherwise specified, the coil resistance value is the resistance value at 20 ℃;
② When the standard resistance value is
When the standard resistance value is ≥ 1000 Ω, the resistance tolerance range is ± 7%
Standard resistance conversion formula when the ambient temperature is not at 20 ℃
R2=R1×(T2+234.5)÷(234.5+20)
T2：Current ambient temperature；
R1: Standard resistance at 20 ℃；
R2：Resistance at current temperature。
Insulation resistance:
The insulation resistance between the power terminal and the grounding terminal shall not be less than 100m Ω under the environment of temperature (15-35) ℃ and relative humidity not more than 85%
Voltage level of insulation resistance measuring instrument:
Rated voltage U (V) Voltage level of insulation resistance measuring instrument
U ≥250
60≤U ≥500
300≤U ≥1000
Grounding resistance:
Use resistance tester to measure the resistance between the grounding terminal and the yoke, and the resistance between the grounding terminal and the Yoke or the metal surface shall be less than 1 Ω.
Coil temperature rise:
① test according to JB / T 6378;
② the temperature rise of coil assembly and the maximum temperature obtained by temperature environment shall not exceed the following table.
Withstand voltage test ：
Use the power frequency withstand voltage tester to apply the test voltage specified in the table below between the power supply terminal and the grounding terminal, set the leakage current to 1mA, apply the type test for 1min, apply the factory test for 1s (test voltage increases by 10%), and there shall be no breakdown, discharge or flashover.
Turn to turn withstand voltage test
Take one as the reference coil, and then take any one as the tested coil. Apply the impulse voltage wave specified in the following table between the two coil terminals or between the head and tail outgoing lines. The test time is 1-3s. Compare the difference between the two oscillation waveforms. The waveforms should be consistent, and the product difference is less than 20%.
Rated voltage U (V) Withstand voltage and Turn to turn withstand voltage test (v)
U ≥1000
60≤U ≥2000
300≤U ≥2500
Corrosion resistance:
Coil integral parts or corresponding metal parts shall be subject to continuous salt spray test for not less than 24 hours in accordance with GB / T 2423.17 or according to customer requirements (such as automobile products). After the test, the metal coating and coating surface shall be free of rust.
Appearance:
No defect such as scar, deformation, crack, bubble, etc.
Tension of power line:
the power line, coil shell and connecting terminal shall bear the following pressure without visible damage.
Rated magnetic cross-sectional area mm² AWG wire gauge Tensile force Rated magnetic cross-sectional area mm² AWG wire gauge Tensile force
0.08 28 8.9 0.75 18 89
0.13 26 13.4 1 104
0.2 24 22.3 1.5 16 134
0.34 22 35.6 2.5 14 223
0.5 20 57.9 4 12 312
Critic Information for a new solenoid valve coil development
1. Working voltage
The frequency shall be provided for AC, and the power difference between 50Hz and 60Hz of the same coil is about 1.2 times, for example: 7.2W for 50Hz and 6.0w for 60Hz; 60Hz for 50Hz coil, and the voltage difference is about 1.095 times, for example, AC220V50HZ and AC240V 60Hz coil are universal)
2. Power or resistance
3. Armature’s Diameter, or Coil’s hole and aperture
4. Working environment: temperature, humidity, indoor or outdoor, protection, etc
5. Connection with external power supply: pin type/leading wire type/standard interface, etc.
6. Application
7. Other requirements: such as environmental protection material requirements or certification
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This is my first instructable, so feedback is aperciated Well, this how my idea was sparked. We have iPads, iPods, and an apple tvs at my house. While riding in the car I had always wished i could airplay to the surround sound. Anyhow this is how to do it.
Step 1: Gathering Materials
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iPod touch or iPad with iOS 4.2 or above And JAILBROKEN
Auxiliary cable 5-10$
Router Free, used an old one
Step 2: Installing Airserver
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1. Go to Cydia
2. Go to sources
3. Add"http://cydia.xsellize.com/
4. Install Airserver
Step 3: Router
Connect both of your devices to the wifi router so they both are on the same network
Step 4:
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Run the Airplay app on the idevice connected to you stereo or video player
Step 5:
Now the video/music should be working.
Thanks for taking your time to view this instruct able.
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ksiles (author)2014-10-24
I don't understand, I see the ipad connected directly, but why the Apple TV if that's the case? Why a router?
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John J. Maresca
John James Maresca is an Italian-American diplomat, business leader, and educator. Maresca has held a number of posts in the US government including Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense and US Ambassador. He has also founded, led, and contributed to a number of prominent NGOs and private sector companies. He served as Rector of the United Nations mandated University for Peace (UPEACE) in Costa Rica until February, 2013.
Early life
John Maresca has a Doctorate (PhD) in International Relations from Geneva School of Diplomacy & International Relations. He graduated from Yale University in 1959 and then went on to pursue graduate work at the London School of Economics. Upon graduation, he served in the US military as a naval officer in North Africa and Europe. He then spent 6 years in early assignments as a career diplomat in the US Department of State.
Government career
Maresca was Chef de Cabinet for two Secretary Generals of NATO, Manlio Brosio and Joseph Luns, in Brussels.
From 1978 to 1985, Maresca held a number of senior posts within the US Department of State. He was Deputy Head of the US Delegation for the Negotiation of the Helsinki Final Act, Head of NATO Political Affairs, Director of Western European Relations, and Deputy Chief of Mission at the US Embassy Paris.
From 1986-1989, Maresca served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Europe and NATO at the US Department of Defense in Washington. He was responsible for all US military activities in Europe, including participation in NATO, US bases, and military relations with the USSR and the Warsaw Pact.
In 1989, Maresca was appointed Ambassador and Chairman of the United States Delegation to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). In this role he was the principal architect of the agreements which formally ended the Cold War and established new institutions for the post-Cold War era, the "Charter of Paris for a New Europe," and the "Joint Declaration of Twenty-Two States," both signed by the heads of State of 33 countries at the Paris Summit of 1990.
In 1992, he was appointed United States Ambassador and Special Representative for mediation of the conflicts in Cyprus and Nagorno Karabakh. In this role, Maresca was responsible for helping to create the so-called "Minsk Group," which since 1992 has been the basic forum for negotiation of a peaceful settlement of the N-K conflict. Following this post Maresca was appointed Ambassador and Special Envoy to open United States relations with the newly independent states of Central Asia and the Caucasus. He helped to establish the principle that the newly independent States from the former USSR were entitled to membership in the OSCE, thus giving them their first direct link with Europe and North America.
Post-Government Activities
John Maresca was a Guest Scholar at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP), Washington from 1994-1995.
After his tenure at USIP, he spent one year as President at the Open Media Research Institute (OMRI) in Prague.
From 1997-99, Maresca Served as Vice President for International Relations, Union Oil of California (Unocal) where he created a single, company-wide corporate social responsibility program which directed millions of dollars toward constructive charitable objectives to countries in need.
In 1999, John Maresca founded the Business-Humanitarian Forum (BHF) in Geneva, Switzerland. BHF is devoted to encouraging business engagement in sustainable development, and developing public-private sector projects in post-conflict and very poor countries of Asia, Africa and Southeastern Europe. He also worked as a Rector in ADA.
University for Peace
In 2007 Maresca was appointed Rector of the University for Peace, and served as such until February, 2013. Headquartered in Costa Rica, the United Nations-mandated University for Peace was established in December 1980 as a Treaty Organization by the UN General Assembly. As determined in the Charter of the University, the mission of the University for Peace is: "to provide humanity with an international institution of higher education for peace with the aim of promoting among all human beings the spirit of understanding, tolerance and peaceful coexistence, to stimulate cooperation among peoples and to help lessen obstacles and threats to world peace and progress, in keeping with the noble aspirations proclaimed in the Charter of the United Nations".
Ambassador Maresca has served and currently serves on a number of boards including the American University of Paris; International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX); Search for Common Ground; National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR); Women and Public Policy Program, Kennedy School, Harvard University; Humanitarian Affairs Review; Commission for Security and Cooperation in the Persian Gulf; American-Iranian Council (AIC); Geneva Centre for Democratic Control of the Armed Forces (DCAF); AIG Silk Road Fund; ISO Senior Advisory Group on Corporate Responsibility; Commission on Business in Society of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC); OECD Secretary General's Round Table on Corporate Social Responsibility.
Personal life
Maresca is married to Dr. Shahidzadeh and they have one daughter, Azadeh. He has one son from a previous marriage. | WIKI |
What Is an Alanine Aminotransferease (ALT) Test?
Medically Reviewed by Minesh Khatri, MD on May 28, 2023
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The alanine aminotransferase (ALT) test is a blood test that checks for liver damage. Your doctor can use this test to find out if a disease, drug, or injury has damaged your liver.
Your liver does a lot of important things for you:
• It makes a fluid called bile that helps your body digest food.
• It removes waste products and other toxins from your blood.
• It produces proteins and cholesterol.
Diseases such as hepatitis and cirrhosis can damage your liver and prevent it from doing its many jobs.
This enzyme is found mainly in your liver. Smaller amounts of ALT are in your muscle, kidneys , and other organs.
Your body uses ALT to break down food into energy. Normally, ALT levels in the blood are low. If your liver is damaged, it will release more ALT into your blood and levels will rise. (ALT used to be called serum glutamic-pyruvic transaminase, or SGPT).
Doctors often give the ALT test along with other liver tests.
Your doctor might recommend ALT if you have symptoms of liver disease or damage, such as:
Here are some reasons you might get this test:
• You've been exposed to the hepatitis virus.
• You drink a lot of alcohol.
• You have a family history of liver disease.
• You take medicine that's known to cause liver damage.
The ALT test can be done as part of a blood panel during a regular exam. If you've already been diagnosed with liver disease, your doctor can use the ALT test to see how well your treatment is working.
You don't need any special preparation for the ALT test. Your doctor might ask you to stop eating or drinking a few hours before the test.
Tell your doctor what prescription drugs or supplements you take. Some medicines can affect the results of this test.
A nurse or lab tech will take a sample of your blood, usually from a vein in your arm. They will first tie a band around the upper part of your arm to make your vein fill with blood and swell up. Then they will clean the area with an antiseptic and place a needle into your vein. Your blood will collect into a vial or tube.
The blood test should take only a couple of minutes. After your blood is taken, the lab tech will remove the needle and band, then put a piece of gauze and a bandage over the spot the needle went in to stop the bleeding.
The ALT blood test is safe. Risks are usually minor, and can include:
• Bleeding
• Bruising
• Infection
• Slight pain when the needle is inserted
• Fainting or feeling dizzy
You should get your results in about a day. A normal ALT test result can range from 7 to 55 units per liter (U/L), but it varies depending on the laboratory used. Levels are normally higher in men.
Slightly high ALT levels may be caused by:
Moderately high ALT levels may be because of:
Very high ALT levels can be caused by:
ALT usually is done as part of a group of liver function tests called a liver panel.
This panel also includes an aspartate aminotransferase (AST) test. AST is another liver enzyme. As with ALT, the levels of AST in your blood rise if your liver is damaged.
Comparing ALT with AST levels gives your doctor more information about the health of your liver. The AST-to-ASL ratio can help your doctor figure out how severe the liver damage is and what might have caused it.
To find out what type of liver disease you have, your doctor might also test the levels of other enzymes and proteins found in your liver, including:
Talk to your doctor to make sure you understand all of your liver test results. Also find out how these results might affect your treatment.
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SOURCES:
American Association for Clinical Chemistry: "ALT."
Mayo Clinic: "Liver Disease: Definition." "Liver function tests."
Medscape: "Alanine Aminotransferase."
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute: "What To Expect With Blood Tests."
Nemours Foundation: "Blood Test: Alanine Aminotransferase (ALT, or SGPT)."
University of Rochester Medical Center: "ALT."
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1. Download the ACS6000 firmware and save the file in C:\ of the local PC - http://www.avocent.com/Support_Firmware/ACS/ACS_6000_Advanced_Console_Servers.aspx
1. Download the ACS6000 firmware and save the file in C:\ of the local PC - http://www.avocent.com/Support_Firmware/ACS/ACS_6000_Advanced_Console_Servers.aspx
2. Run Solwarwinds TFTP server and configure the TFTP Server Root Directory - C:\
2. Run Solwarwinds TFTP server and configure the TFTP Server Root Directory - C:\
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1. Download the ACS6000 firmware and save the file in C:\ of the local PC - http://www.avocent.com/Support_Firmware/ACS/ACS_6000_Advanced_Console_Servers.aspx 2. Run Solwarwinds TFTP server and configure the TFTP Server Root Directory - C:\ 3. Access ACS6000 Serial Console 4. Power cycle ACS6000 5. On ACS6000 during "Hit any key to stop autoboot", press a key and enter the following commands at the shell prompt:
setenv bootfile fl0585010.bin <----ACS6000 firmware
setenv serverip 192.168.10.30 <----TFTP server (Local PC) IP Address
setenv ipaddr 192.168.10.40 <-----ACS6000 IP Address
saveenv
net_boot factory_default
You should see many ###### during the firmware transfering. If you see many T T T T T, transfer timeout, please check your firewall and the port 69 for TFTP. 6. Once completed, it will ask you to type the login username:
Type- Username: root; Pasword: linux
7. After booting, login as root and execute the following at the shell prompt;
recover-flash.sh --doformat --factory_default
reboot
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How to Change the Scrollbar Width on Windows 11 or 10?
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The Scroll bar is a vertical or horizontal bar that appears when you scroll down the page. It is visible to the extreme sides of the screen and occasionally at the bottom.
When the scrollbars are not in use, Windows 11 hides them automatically. However, you can always display Scrollbars in Windows 11 even when they are not used by going to Settings. Moreover, the default scrollbar width may not be sufficient when a person with large fingers touches a scroll bar on a touchscreen computer. They will have little luck moving it up, down, or across.
If you have trouble finding or using the Windows scroll bar, you can change the Scrollbar width on Windows 11 or 10.
In this risewindows article, we will show you how to change the Scrollbars Width in Windows 11 and 10 by editing the registry because there is no option in Windows Settings to adjust the width of the Scrollbars.
How to Change Scrollbar Width on Windows 11 or 10?
Follow the below-mentioned steps to change or adjust scrollbars width in Windows 11 or 10:-
Step 1. First of all, open Registry Editor.
Step 2. Now, browse to the following key from the left side navigation pane once the Registry Editor appears on your computer:-
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics
Step 3. Now, from the right pane of WindowsMetrics, double-click the ScrollHeight REG_SZ to edit it.
Note: By default, the scroll width is set to -225. You can set the value to –500 to double the width. You can, however, enter any value up to –1500. The wider the Scrollbar, the higher the value. Step 4. After that, click on the OK button to save the changes when you enter the desired number in the “Value data” field.
Step 5. Then, double-click on the ScrollWidth REG_SZ and enter the same value that you set in ScrollHeight.Step 6. Next, click on the OK button.
Step 7. Finally, restart your computer to apply the changes.
Now, open the File Explorer and see the Scrollbar if it fits your requirement.
That’s all.
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John Norris (died 1577)
John Norris (by 1502 – 30 January 1577) was an English politician.
He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Downton in October 1553 and April 1554, for Taunton in November 1554, and for Bodmin in 1558. | WIKI |
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I'm making a plugin and I was wondering if there is any built in way to create a form that has dynamic form fields. For example, user clicks a plus button and a new row appears with several other fields that would then be submitted to the backend. I know how to do this using jquery and simply doing it myself but I was wondering if there was an prebuilt method to accomplish this or even if there's a way to include a custom js file for the affected pages.
If there is not, how could I go about accomplishing this?
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I found some stuff on adding js to a layer but I need this js to be added or injected into the admin portion of the plugins page.
To clarify I have found http://www.question2answer.org/qa/9808/adding-javascript-code-to-a-plugin-page which is what I'm sort of looking for but would prefer it to be cleaner (i.e. it's own independent js file located within the plugin folder) assuming this functionality is not already built in.
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Robert F. Dees
Robert Frank Dees (born February 2, 1950, in Amarillo, Texas) is a retired major general in the United States Army. A specialist on national security issues, he was the chairman of the Ben Carson campaign for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016.
He was the vice director for operational plans and interoperability for the Department of Defense. He was also Assistant Division Commander of the 101st Airborne Division; Commander, 2nd Infantry Division, U.S. Forces Korea; Deputy Commander of V Corps in Europe; and Commander, U.S.-Israeli Joint Task Force for Missile Defense. After he officially retired from the U.S. military on January 1, 2003, he worked for the next two years as the Executive Director of Defense Strategies for Microsoft Corporation. In 2005, he became the executive director of Military Ministry, focusing on soldiers coming home from the war with post-traumatic stress. After writing the Resilience Trilogy, he was appointed and currently serves as Associate Vice President of Military Outreach and Director, Institute for Military Resilience, at Liberty University. Dees was also the Defense and National Security Advisor for Republican Presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson. He and wife, Kathleen (née Robinson), serve as volunteer leaders in numerous outreaches to the military, including Military Community Youth Ministries. On December 31, 2015, he was appointed campaign chairman of the Ben Carson presidential campaign, 2016. Following the Carson Campaign, Dees expanded his public speaking about resilience and veterans issues, also becoming a board member on the Lindell Foundation and the Lindell Recovery Network. In August 2019 he became President of the Stone Ridge Foundation whose purpose is "Returning Healthy Veterans to America." In 2020 Dees founded The National Center For Healthy Veterans in Altivistia Va.
Career
Dees graduated from the US Military Academy in 1972, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant of Infantry and awarded a Bachelor of Science degree. He also holds a master's degree in operations research from the Naval Postgraduate School. His military education includes the Infantry Officer Basic and Advanced Courses, the US Army Command and General Staff College, and the Industrial College of the Armed Forces. He was also a Research Fellow at the Royal College of Defence Studies in London and is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Virginia.
Dees served in a wide variety of command and staff positions culminating in his last three assignments as Assistant Division Commander for Operations, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault); Commander, Second Infantry Division, United States Forces Korea; and as Deputy Commanding General, V Corps in Europe, concurrently serving as Commander, US-Israeli Combined Task Force for Missile Defense. He commanded airborne, air assault, and mechanized infantry forces from platoon through division level.
Books
Dees has written a trilogy of books on resiliency. The books in the trilogy are Resilient Warriors, Resilient Leaders and Resilient Nations. He has also written Resilience God Style book and study guide, produced the Resilience God Style nine-week video series which is available on Right Now Media, and developed the Resilience God Style Training Game.
Policies
Dees in 2015 was the "main national security adviser" to presidential candidate Ben Carson. Dees has argued a theme that has been adopted by Carson linking national security to spiritual values. Dees argues in Resilient Nations (2014) that the greatest threat to America is not terrorism or China or Russia but rather the decline of its "spiritual infrastructure.” Dees writes:
* At the height of Roman decadence, good became evil and evil became good .... One can rightly argue that the United States is frightfully close to a similar fate. Prayerfully, it is not too late. | WIKI |
Evolutionary stasis of a deep subsurface microbial lineage
Eric D. Becraft, Maggie C.Y. Lau Vetter, Oliver K.I. Bezuidt, Julia M. Brown, Jessica M. Labonté, Kotryna Kauneckaite-Griguole, Ruta Salkauskaite, Gediminas Alzbutas, Joshua D. Sackett, Brittany R. Kruger, Vitaly Kadnikov, Esta van Heerden, Duane Moser, Nikolai Ravin, Tullis Onstott, Ramunas Stepanauskas
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Sulfate-reducing bacteria Candidatus Desulforudis audaxviator (CDA) were originally discovered in deep fracture fluids accessed via South African gold mines and have since been found in geographically widespread deep subsurface locations. In order to constrain models for subsurface microbial evolution, we compared CDA genomes from Africa, North America and Eurasia using single cell genomics. Unexpectedly, 126 partial single amplified genomes from the three continents, a complete genome from of an isolate from Eurasia, and metagenome-assembled genomes from Africa and Eurasia shared >99.2% average nucleotide identity, low frequency of SNP’s, and near-perfectly conserved prophages and CRISPRs. Our analyses reject sample cross-contamination, recent natural dispersal, and unusually strong purifying selection as likely explanations for these unexpected results. We therefore conclude that the analyzed CDA populations underwent only minimal evolution since their physical separation, potentially as far back as the breakup of Pangea between 165 and 55 Ma ago. High-fidelity DNA replication and repair mechanisms are the most plausible explanation for the highly conserved genome of CDA. CDA presents a stark contrast to the current model organisms in microbial evolutionary studies, which often develop adaptive traits over far shorter periods of time.
Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)2830-2842
Number of pages13
JournalISME Journal
Volume15
Issue number10
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 2021
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• Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
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Bemarivo Special Reserve
Bemarivo Reserve is a wildlife reserve 12 km from Besalampy in the region of Melaky in the north-west of Madagascar. It was created in 1956 and covers an area of 12080 ha. The reserve is known for its fauna especially endemic birds.
Geography
The reserve is located on a coastal plateau in the region of Melaky, about 12 km from the town and commune of Besalampy, and 5 km from the Mozambique Channel coast. It has a warm climate with an average daily temperature of 25 C and the rainy season is from November to February with an annual rainfall of approximately 1000 mm. The Bemarivo River is a tributary of the Sofia River and flows permanently during the dry season unlike the small tributaries of the Marotondro and Ampandra Rivers which are seasonal. The main vegetation is dense, dry deciduous forest, dominated by trees of Cordyla, Dalbergia, Diospyros, Eugenia, Grewia, Cryptocarya agathophylla and Sideroxylon species. Outside the forest, there is secondary savanna with Bismarckia palms, and Tsimanjonotsy and Ranovoribe lakes and marshes. The Sakalava are the dominant ethnic group.
Flora and fauna
The reserve has an impressive number of endemic birds with over twenty-three recorded. Altogether there are seventy-three species of birds, twenty species of reptiles and fifteen species of mammals (including six species of lemurs) are known in this reserve, as well as twenty-four species of reptiles and 194 species of plants. The wetlands are the biggest attraction for birds which include the Madagascar fish eagle (Haliaeetus vociferoides) which is critically endangered and Bernier's teal (Anas bernieri) which is listed as endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Reptiles found in the reserve include the Nile crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus) and the Madagascar Ground Boa (Acrantophis madagascariensis).
Slash-and-burn agriculture is the main threat in the reserve along with fires. | WIKI |
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714 Relationship Between Esophageal Swallow Patterns and Reflux Characteristics in Newborns with Symptoms of Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease
1. F Cresi1,
2. SA Liguori1,
3. E Locatelli1,
4. E Maggiora1,
5. F Savino2,
6. E Bertino1
1. 1Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Department of Paediatrics
2. 2Dep. of Pediatrics, University of Torino, Torino, Italy
Abstract
Background and Aims Transient lower esophageal sphincter relaxations are primarily responsible for GER in healthy infants and plays an important role in preterm and term infants with GER disease (GERD). Gastroesophageal dismotility due to immaturity could also promote impaired swallowing patterns influencing the esophageal clearance. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between esophageal swallow patterns and reflux characteristics in newborns with GERD symptoms.
Methods Esophageal swallow patterns and refluxes were visually evaluated in preterm and at term bottle fed newborns who underwent Multichannel Intraluminal Impedance (MII) analysis for clinical suspect of GERD.
The swallow frequency, the mean Bolus Head Advance Time (BHAT), the mean Total Bolus Transit Time (TBTT) and reflux characteristics (frequency, duration and impedance bolus exposure index) were assessed for each patient.
Pearson correlation was used to evaluate the relationship between swallow and reflux variables; p was set at 0.05.
Results Fifty-four newborns (10 preterm) were enrolled in the study. They had a median(IQR) age of 22(22.5) days, a Gestational age of 37(6) weeks and a postconceptional age of 41.8(4.9) weeks. A significant positive correlation was found between TBTT and IBEI% (r=0.494; p<0.001) and between TBTT and reflux duration (r=0.321; p=0.018).
Conclusions MII is a valid technique to evaluate esophageal bolus transit and refluxes. Our data support that esophageal motor dysfunction due to immaturity affect esophageal swallowing patterns and esophageal clearance time in GERD newborns.
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Trump says Iraq will face sanctions if it expels US troops
After a weekend of issuing threats to Iran, President Donald Trump said he would impose sanctions on Iraq if it decided to expel US troops. Iraq’s parliament voted on a resolution about foreign troop presence in the country Sunday. The expulsion resolution was approved on a partisan vote — more than 150 generally pro-US lawmakers did not attend the session — but it is nonbinding, and the advancement of the resolution into actual policy faces a number of hurdles, including the transitional nature of Iraq’s government, the pro-US lawmakers, and questions of public support for the plan. Nevertheless, Trump lashed out at Iraqi lawmakers Sunday on Air Force One, telling journalists, “If they do ask us to leave, if we don’t do it in a very friendly basis. We will charge them sanctions like they’ve never seen before ever. It’ll make Iranian sanctions look somewhat tame.” Iran faces crippling US-imposed sanctions after Trump withdrew from an international nuclear deal that, among other things, targets the country’s oil sector as well as its ability to trade and acquire currency. Those sanctions have had a devastating effect on Iran, with its currency halving in value, food costs rising by more than 100 percent in some cases, and its economy shrinking as unemployment rises. Frustration with how the Iranian government has handled the situation — particularly in how it rolled out fuel subsidy austerity measures — led to mass protests in late 2019. It is difficult to imagine sanctions becoming worse; similar sanctions on Iraq would exacerbate an already difficult situation in a country facing high unemployment and a government struggling to consistently deliver basic services — not to mention one that still needs assistance fighting the threat of ISIS. Trump did not address those concerns in his threat, instead focusing on the cost of building and operating military installations in the country. “We have a very extraordinarily expensive air base that’s there,” he said. “It cost billions of dollars to build. Long before my time. We’re not leaving unless they pay us back for it.” He did not specify which air base he had in mind, but could have been referring to the al-Asad base, which has hosted both Trump and Vice President Mike Pence. He has also mentioned the base’s cost before, saying in February, “We spent a fortune on building this incredible base. We might as well keep it.” The US did not build al-Asad, but has spent a significant amount both overhauling and operating it since the beginning of the Iraq War. Despite this rhetoric, Trump also noted that he still wants US troops to begin leaving Iraq, saying, “I told you, Iraq, was the worst decision, going into the Middle East was the worst decision ever made in the history of our country ... But we went in and we’re there and we’re pulling out, pulling out of a lot of different areas.” It isn’t clear that Iraq actually will expel US troops, making the future of the sanctions uncertain. If troops are expelled, it also isn’t clear how successful sanctions would be in altering Iraqi policy, particularly given the limited success US sanctions have had in other cases. The president has relied heavily on sanctions in executing his foreign policy, but it isn’t clear that they have influenced behavior. Experts were skeptical about the usefulness of the administration’s sanctions on Venezuela as soon as they were imposed, and the situation there now does not align anymore with US goals than it did when sanctions were put in place last August. Similarly, sanctions on North Korea, Russia, and even Iran have not altered behavior in the manner the US has hoped; in fact, they have resulted in countries developing ways to circumvent the US financial system, such as Russia and Turkey’s agreement to use their local currencies in their mutual interactions, and the EU’s efforts to develop an alternative to the SWIFT system. Should sanctions come down on Iraq, they could push the country to take similar actions — even further embracing Iran. Germany’s Foreign Minister Heiko Maas has said sanctions on Iraq would be “not very helpful,” but Trump has always been one to take his own counsel when it comes to foreign policy. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Samsung is making a stylus styled like a Staedtler pencil
As if nostalgia wasn’t getting a huge boost with the Nokia 3310 today, Samsung has jumped into the fray with its own throwback design: an S Pen that’s built to look like a classic Staedtler Noris pencil. That black-and-gold striped pencil is something many of us grew up with, using it to scribble messages to friends in class before phones were everywhere. Samsung didn’t have much more to say about it during its Mobile World Congress event today — it felt more like a fun teaser than a real product announcement — but all the excitement surround the Nokia 3310 relaunch already attests to the appeal of a modern gadget styled to look exactly like the more primitive stuff we used to use as kids growing up. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Required minimum distribution mistakes can lead to big tax bills
Pulling money from your retirement accounts is trickier than you might expect. A misstep with your so-called required minimum distribution can lead to expensive penalties. Savers typically must start taking out money from their individual retirement accounts once they turn 70½. For 401(k) plans and other defined contribution plans, it's either when you turn 70½ or when you retire, whichever is later. If you've inherited an IRA, you might also be subject to RMDs, even if you're years away from retirement yourself. If you fail to take the amount you are required to take out for the year, you are subject to a 50 percent penalty on the amount you should have withdrawn. "You are forced to take that money out, and you have to understand the rules," said Ed Slott, founder of Ed Slott & Co. "And it's very confusing." The last day to take your required minimum distribution this year is Dec. 29. Many savers are waiting until the last minute, according to Fidelity. As of early November, almost half of its IRA customers had yet to take out any money toward their RMDs for this year. Watch out for these common mistakes if you're still planning to take your RMDs for this year. When looking at your RMDs for the year, take inventory of all of the accounts you own that are subject to these rules, Slott said. This could include IRAs, as well as 403(b) or 401(k) plans. Be careful where you take out that money. You cannot satisfy an RMD from one type of account — say an IRA — by taking money out of another type of account, such as a 401(k), said Slott. "The IRAs have to be taken from IRAs. The 403(b)s have to be taken from 403(b)s," Slott said. But if you have multiple IRAs, you can take the total amount out of any one of those accounts or any combination of those accounts. If you have multiple 401(k) plans, each account will have its own RMD that needs to be withdrawn. Married couples often make the mistake of thinking that because they file a joint tax return, they can also choose which partner's IRA from which to take an RMD. "There's no such thing as a joint IRA," Slott said. "The husband has to take his RMDs from his own IRAs. The wife has to take her RMDs from her own IRAs. They can't take one from the other." Not following the rules can cost you. If a couple messes up and takes both RMDs from the husband's account, for example, the husband takes more out than he has to and consequently pays more tax on that money. At the same time, the wife is subject to the 50 percent penalty on the RMD she did not take from her account. Many savers make the mistake of thinking they can take the RMD from their IRA and convert it to a Roth IRA tax-free, Slott said. But the law prevents you from putting a distribution in another tax-advantaged retirement account. "That has to come out and it cannot be converted or rolled over," Slott said. Something many retirees forget about: You can do a direct transfer in the amount of your RMD from your IRA to a qualifying charity. Savers can accomplish this by using what is called a qualified charitable distribution. Transferring the money directly to charity is more efficient than taking the money out, paying tax on that money and then subsequently taking a deduction for your donation, Slott said. There are restrictions on this strategy, however — it only applies to IRAs, not company plans. You also must be 70½ or older. You may have money in your IRA that you have already paid taxes on, say if you rolled over after-tax funds from a 401(k). You need to include that information when calculating your RMD for your IRA, Slott said. You can find the details on Form 8606 when you do your taxes. "Make sure you get credit for money you've already paid taxes on," Slott said. "Part of your required minimum distribution may be coming back to you tax-free, so don't miss out on that one." Beneficiaries typically still have to pay RMDs on the money they inherit from 401(k)s or IRAs. But RMDs for beneficiaries are calculated differently, so seek the advice of a financial professional to make sure you take out the right amount of money. One area where inheritors frequently get tripped up is Roth IRAs, said Slott. Account owners generally do not have to take RMDs on Roth IRAs. But once they die and the account is inherited by a nonspouse (such as a child or grandchild), they are subject to RMD rules. The RMD will be tax-free for those account owners, but they still need to take the money out, Slott said. If they fail to take the money out, they will have to pay a 50 percent penalty for missing that distribution, he said. The best place to retire is the city you might least expectDon't let surprise medical bills drain your retirementFSA or HSA: How to get the most from your health savings | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
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Speech Therapy: Enhancing Communication Skills in Autism
Speech therapy is a crucial intervention for individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) as it focuses on enhancing communication skills and improving overall quality of life. Autism is a developmental disorder that affects social interaction, communication, and behavior. Many individuals with autism struggle with speech and language development, making it difficult for them to effectively communicate their thoughts, needs, and emotions.
Speech therapy aims to address these challenges by providing structured interventions that target specific areas of communication. Therapists work closely with individuals with autism to assess their current abilities and develop personalized treatment plans to help them improve their speech and language skills.
One Step It Up ABA of Atlanta speech therapy in autism is to improve verbal communication. This includes helping individuals develop the ability to use words and sentences to express themselves clearly and effectively. Therapists may use various techniques such as modeling, prompting, and reinforcement to help individuals learn new words, improve pronunciation, and expand their vocabulary.
In addition to verbal communication, speech therapy also focuses on nonverbal forms of communication such as gestures, facial expressions, and body language. Many individuals with autism have difficulty understanding or using nonverbal cues in social interactions. Speech therapists can help teach these skills through role-playing exercises, visual aids, and other strategies.
Another important aspect of speech therapy in autism is improving pragmatic language skills. Pragmatic language refers to the ability to use language appropriately in different social contexts. Individuals with autism may struggle with understanding social norms, taking turns in conversations, or interpreting sarcasm or humor. Speech therapists can provide guidance on how to navigate these complex aspects of communication through structured activities and practice sessions.
Furthermore; Speech therapy can also help individuals with autism develop functional communication skills such as requesting items they need or expressing pain or discomfort. These basic communication abilities are essential for daily living tasks and can significantly improve an individual’s independence and quality of life.
Overall; Speech therapy plays a vital role in enhancing communication skills in individuals with autism spectrum disorder. By addressing specific areas of need such as verbal communication; nonverbal cues; pragmatic language; functional communication; therapists can help individuals improve their ability to interact effectively with others; express themselves confidently; build relationships; participate more fully in society.
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magneticone asks:
Any idea how to adapt the formula to do a conditional (i.e. comma-separated) merge of the data from multiple columns, in the case that a single row has emails spread over several columns?
You can find magneticone´s question here: How to extract email addresses from a excel sheet
Answer:
Array formula in E2:
=INDEX($A$1:$C$3, SMALL(IF(ISNUMBER(SEARCH("@", $A$1:$C$3)), ROW($A$1:$C$3)-MIN(ROW($A$1:$C$3))+1, ""), ROW(A1)), (SMALL(IF(ISNUMBER(SEARCH("@", $A$1:$C$3)), (ROW($A$1:$C$3)-MIN(ROW($A$1:$C$3))+1)+COLUMN($A$1:$C$3)/1048576, ""), ROW(A1))-SMALL(IF(ISNUMBER(SEARCH("@", $A$1:$C$3)), ROW($A$1:$C$3)-MIN(ROW($A$1:$C$3))+1), ROW(A1)))*1048576) + CTRL + SHIFT + ENTER.
Copycell E2 and paste it down as far as needed.
Every cell containing "@" is filtered into column E.
Concatenate cells in column E
Unfortunately you need some vba code to pull this one off: VBA Join function or maybe not, read this: Concatenate a cell range without vba in excel
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IF(logical_test;[value_if:true];[value_if_false])
Checks whether a condition is met, and returns one value if TRUE, and another value if FALSE
SMALL(array,k) returns the k-th smallest row number in this data set.
ROW(reference) returns the rownumber of a reference
INDEX(array,row_num,[column_num])
Returns a value or reference of the cell at the intersection of a particular row and column, in a given range
COLUMN(reference) returns the column number of a reference
ISNUMBER(value)
Checks whether a value is a number and returns TRUE or FALSE
SEARCH() Returns the number of the character at which a specific character or text string is first found, reading left to right (not case sensitive) | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Helen Keller is a remarkable woman. She was an incredible, brave woman who had inner strength. She was a true hero. Helen Keller was blinded and deaf. However, this did not ruin her spirits or make her a less heroic person.
Despite her blindness, she was able speak and communicate well. She is a dedicated volunteer who has helped many others. She achieved much more than most people could have imagined because of her faith, determination, spirit, and willpower. She was actually admired by many famous people like Alexander Graham Bell, Mark Twain and William James.
Helen Keller, a native of Tuscumbia and Alabama was born on June 20, 1880. Helen Keller was a healthy infant. Helen was nineteen years old when she became blinded and deaf. It believed that it was scarlet fever or meningitis. Her family communicated with Helen by using body language and signs. Helen became more stressed with her own aging and couldn’t communicate well with others. She was very aggressive and threw tantrums, which nobody can help. Alexander Graham Bell, a deaf man, recommended that Anne Sullivan be Helen’s teacher. Helen’s life would be forever changed by this decision. Anne Sullivan, a young teacher and determined person who was blind until she had her successful surgery, was able to make this happen. Anne would teach her student how to behave in everyday situations and academic lessons. Anne and Helen struck up a loving relationship that would last a lifetime. Anne taught Helen the alphabet by having Helen touch the letters of sign language into her hand. Helen began to recognize the letters Anne had written. Helen was determined to continue learning. Anne worked with her eager student to improve finger spelling. Helen was soon able read Braille, write, as well as start speaking. Helen achieved many of her goals with the support of Anne Sullivan, her beloved teacher who was partially blind.
Helen Keller always wanted to go to college. She refused to let her physical disabilities stop her from reaching her goals. Helen Keller earned a Bachelor of Arts at Radcliffe College.
Helen Keller spent most of her adult life advocating for blind and visually impaired people. Anne was her companion and she took Anne on speaking tours. She also wrote articles about their important contribution to society. Her extensive work earned her the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The Story of My Life, one of her other works, is an inspiring book that can be used by both blind and vision impaired people.
Helen Keller is an inspirational figure. She overcame her disabilities and continued to pursue knowledge, despite them. Her dream was possible because she faced no obstacles in her journey. She reached the place she is today because of her perseverance and positive attitude. Helen Keller was a true humanitarian. Her determination and writing skills were well-known around the globe. For centuries, we will remember her remarkable life of eighty seven years. | FINEWEB-EDU |
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= June 16 =
01:53, 16 June 2023 review of submission by Sindrella409
I submitted an article for consideration and it was immediately declined. I don't understand why. The reviewer said the inline citations were insufficient. Jimmy Doom is a Detroit celebrity with over 70 IMDB credits. The sources I cited were our major metropolitan papers and magazines. Can someone please offer additional guidance as to what I'm missing? Sindrella409 (talk) 01:53, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
* @Sindrella409: in articles on living people, every material statement, anything potentially contentious, and all private personal details must be clearly supported with inline citations (to reliable published sources), whereas in your draft there are several paragraphs without any referencing, and the DOB is also unsupported.
* Notability per WP:GNG requires significant coverage in multiple independent and reliable secondary sources. This excludes things said or written by the subject themselves (incl. interviews), as well as any user-generated sources such as IMDb, Discogs, or Goodreads. -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 06:01, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
* Thank you for your help. I appreciate the guidance and will use different sources. I appreciate the input. <3 Sindrella409 (talk) 11:23, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
03:41, 16 June 2023 review of submission by JimmyT1967
I reached the point a few months ago where I felt I was fulfilling all the requirements cited as the reason this article was rejected. The only result was that people started offering to get the article accepted if I paid them to edit it for me. So I let it lie. Here are the facts - the subject of the article has had about 30 books published by mainstream publishers. She has had numerous reviews of her books and articles about them published in mainstream newspapers. She has been interviewed on radio about her books many, many times and has been a speaker at several writers' conferences. And yet, she is not considered a suitable subject for a Wikipedia article by your editors. I would like to know precisely what's missing from my submission rather than vague references to requirements that I haven't met, so that I can fix it without having to pay a self-styled "Wiki expert" for the privilege. JimmyT1967 (talk) 03:41, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
* @JimmyT1967: the first thing to say is, anyone asking for money to help your draft get accepted is likely to be scamming, therefore my advice is to steer well clear of such offers. Needless to say, they have nothing to do with us.
* This draft was previously declined (not rejected) on two grounds: lack of notability, and inadequate referencing.
* Notability doesn't arise from having written many books or articles, or having spoken at many events. It arises, in the case of authors, in one of two ways:
* They meet one or more of the four criteria listed at WP:AUTHOR. --or--
* They have been covered in multiple independent and reliable secondary sources. By 'covered', I mean significant coverage, not just passing mentions. Note that interviews, which you mention, do not count, as they are the subject talking about themselves. Note also that while book reviews might make the books in question notable, they do not necessarily do that for the author, unless they also provide significant coverage directly of them.
* As for referencing, per WP:BLP, in articles on living people, every material statement, anything potentially contentious, and all private personal details must be clearly supported by inline citations to reliable published sources. In your draft, the entire 'Life' section is unreferenced, which is wholly unacceptable.
* These things are, precisely, what is missing from your draft. -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 05:51, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
* In a previous submission, the "life" section was laced with references to places she was born, educated, and worked and that was deemed either insufficient or irrelevant so I took it out. I guess she just isn't famous enough to merit a Wikipedia entry, although I note that books by some of her peers are (although the authors are not), so perhaps I will pursue that avenue. Having said that, it seems to be slightly illogical to feature an author's work without carrying a reference or link to the author. 2001:8003:2830:8A01:55DC:955A:9BCA:984A (talk) 06:16, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
* "Laced with references" yes, in the sense that there were several citations in that section. However, they mostly pointed to the home pages (domain roots) of websites, which is useless in terms of supporting article contents: you must point precisely to the URL that actually corroborates a statement in the article. There were also two apparent citations to other Wikipedia articles, but it is pointless 'citing' Wikipedia as a source on Wikipedia as this creates a circular reference (if you wish to link to an existing article, you do that through wikilinks). -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 06:37, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
07:26, 16 June 2023 review of submission by Katrina masbin
Hi. I want to know that which part of my article had problems? It was about my sources that my article submission was declined? Thank? Katrina masbin (talk) 07:26, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
* @Katrina masbin: the sources do not show that the subject is notable per WP:GNG. -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 07:44, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
08:07, 16 June 2023 review of submission by Tamtrible
I have put a lot of work into this article. It is somewhat similar to, but not the same as, the page of culinary herbs and spices. It has been in limbo because of that similarity, because it was removed when it was in a much earlier stage and I can't move it out of draft space because of this, but people keep telling me to "improve the existing page", but basically the only way I could do that would be by replacing the entire page with my page, and the people who have already edited that page in the past don't want that.
I just want it to be a thing, in some fashion.
Plz help? Tamtrible (talk) 08:07, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
* @Tamtrible: I think we've discussed this quite enough already, don't you? And this draft has been rejected, meaning it's the end of the road for it. I appreciate you've put effort into it, and seeing it stall is frustrating, but that's how it is, I'm afraid. We don't publish articles based on how much effort has gone into them, or how much the creator may wish to publish them, but how suitable they are for inclusion. (And no, you should emphatically not replace the existing article with yours, unless and until you get clear and strong consensus on the said article's talk page first.) -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 08:33, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
* The problem is, the discussions always just go off into limbo. Waiting for input from people who don't give any input, and so forth. This is arguably a better page than the one it is "too similar to" (it's a sortable table instead of just a list), and also arguably a *different* page (focusing more on the plants than on the actual herbs).
* It's not just that I've put a lot of work into this (though that is, indeed, frustrating), it's that I think this is *a better page*, with more information presented in a more useful format.
* If you look at the prior discussions, you'll see a lot of things like "Yeah, I think this is a good page, but what does think?", with no response from said person. Tamtrible (talk) 11:16, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
* I'm sure Valereee will look at this when she has an opportunity as she is one of our best editors regarding food and drink. is another editor interested in food and drink who may be able to do something with this. In the meantime, I have boldly replaced the article with the content from the draft, as I can see some support for this on the talk page, plus the opposition appears weak and vague. If somebody reverts this, we'll discuss what to do then. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 11:25, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
09:04, 16 June 2023 review of submission by Maxclayman
I have added new references and have changed the tone, is this enough for this page to be accepted? Maxclayman (talk) 09:04, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
* You have submitted the draft for review and it is pending, the reviewer will make a determination, and leave you a message either way. 331dot (talk) 09:09, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
* Thank you!! Maxclayman (talk) 09:19, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
* Hi @Maxclayman, some of your sources do not seem to show that Nate has Significant Coverage. A brief mention is not usually enough to establish notability. Your sources should provide in-depth information about Nate, going beyond basic facts or promotional material. From a brief glance it looks like only the first and third source is directly covering Nate- the rest only mention him in passing and are therefore probably not going to count.
* Have a read of Notability (people). It might simply be Too soon for Nate to have an article, despite his laudable activism. Qcne (talk) 09:22, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
* Thank you so much @Qcne ! Maxclayman (talk) 19:20, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
09:12, 16 June 2023 review of submission by RajeshTrip
Why my article is declined RajeshTrip (talk) 09:12, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
* It was not just declined, it was rejected, meaning that it will not be considered further. The reason for the rejection is at the top of the draft. You offer some Wikipedia articles as sources(I think you meant to simply link them, which is done by placing the target article in double brackets like this: India ). Social media accounts are not reliable sources that are independent of the topic. Please read Your First Article and use the new user tutorial to learn more about Wikipedia. Writing a new article is the most difficult task to perform here, some knowledge will help you. 331dot (talk) 09:16, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
11:02, 16 June 2023 review of submission by <IP_ADDRESS>
dear sir, This is official username we are not spam or duplicate, This is official organization, we are just helping the people of determination. so please reinstate it. Thanks <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 11:02, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
* this is absolutely spam. you draft has been rejected and will not be considered further. lettherebedarklight晚安 11:04, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
* so please give me advice what I do now? <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 11:08, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
* do something else. don't try to have an article on this company. lettherebedarklight晚安 11:14, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
* Note also that once you've been blocked (I'm assuming you were editing under User:Gilaniengineering), you should not continue to edit under an IP address, as this could be regarded as block evasion. You must instead appeal your block, as instructed on your user talk page. -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 11:23, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
11:38:57, 16 June 2023 review of draft by <IP_ADDRESS>
Hello, I want help from experienced editors regarding my article on Raimond Magomedaliev. I want to be published. I want two things. 1) I want real help from an experienced editor to make it as perfect as possible. 2) I need review and feedback from that editor <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 11:38, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
* i'm sorry, you cannot ask for an editor to work on your draft for you. lettherebedarklight晚安 16:37, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
* Well at least you could take a look at my draft and review it than...I hope that's not too much to ask. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 14:18, 18 June 2023 (UTC)
* P.S I also updated my draft from the last review. When it was first reviewed my draft was not complete. But it is complete now. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 14:23, 18 June 2023 (UTC)
11:39, 16 June 2023 review of submission by OlifanofmrTennant
So my initial submission was declined saying the article lacked notability. I understand this and was wondering that if the overall article is okay as is such as the formating (headers, subhead). OLI 11:39, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
* Besides notability, the article contains too much trivia. For instance, the appearance section. Carpimaps talk to me! 13:38, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
12:02, 16 June 2023 review of submission by Drumstick21
I created an AfC request for Draft:Icelandic_identity_card without realising that the already exists in the namespace, but with a redirect. Should I edit (paste the draft into) the existing article and remove the redirect or should I wait for the AfC request? If so, how do I cancel the AfC request. Drumstick21 (talk) 12:02, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
* Just wait. If your draft is accepted, the reviewer will handle moving it to the encyclopedia over the redirect. 331dot (talk) 12:39, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
12:14, 16 June 2023 review of submission by Altaf05
please sir hlep me Altaf05 (talk) 12:14, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
* OP blocked. 331dot (talk) 12:38, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
15:59, 16 June 2023 review of submission by <IP_ADDRESS>
plz <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 15:59, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
* this draft is rejected. it will never be considered again. lettherebedarklight晚安 16:38, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
Request on 15:59:30, 16 June 2023 for assistance on AfC submission by BedStuyResident
I recently had an article rejected. I've since made edits based on the feedback and now the article is completed in draft mode. How do I go about resubmitting it? Should I rebuild it in sandbox and go from there?
BedStuyResident (talk) 15:59, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
* Hi @BedStuyResident I am assuming you are asking about Draft:The Sun Rises in The East (2022 film). I added the draft template so you can submit it for review. S0091 (talk) 17:03, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
16:06, 16 June 2023 review of submission by Benmil
Good morning, I need more information about the refuse of this draft. Thank you Best Regards Benmil Benmil (talk) 16:06, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
* @benmil: the refuse here is that your draft as written is essentially an advertisement for the company. this is against the purpose of wikipedia. lettherebedarklight晚安 16:41, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
16:47:07, 16 June 2023 review of draft by Oasis2019
Hi, I'd like to know which are the references that you said were not reliable. Also, should I add general references such as the link to Cambridge University website if I cite it on the article? Thanks
Oasis2019 (talk) 16:47, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
* @Oasis2019: it doesn't look as if this has gone through an AfC review, it was just moved from the main space to drafts, so you should really ask the user who moved it. But since you're here, I've had a quick glance, and although it looks like the content is referenced, much of it isn't really, as many of the citations only point to the website home pages. You need to cite a specific URL which supports a statement made in the article. So if you want to show that this person went to Rhodes University, you need to find a page on their (or some other reliable) website which says so, and cite that, not just point to the RU home page.
* I don't know what exactly you mean by 'general references', but in an article on a living person (see WP:BLP) clear inline citations to reliable published sources are required, general references (where you simply list sources without linking them through specific citations) are not enough. HTH, -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 17:01, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
* Thanks for your help, DoubleGrazing. Very helpful. Do I need to cite a specific URL which supports a statement made like the example you used of Rhodes University? It will be difficult to find on the University website any references about this specific individual. Oasis2019 (talk) 17:15, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
* @Oasis2019: actually, it works the other way around. You shouldn't be writing something, and then trying to find a source to back it up. You should be summarising what reliable published sources say, and citing those sources as you go. Therefore the issue of "difficult to find" sources to support what you've written should never arise.
* Incidentally, where did you get that particular piece of information? -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 17:23, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
* Thanks, I get it. Very helpful again. Oasis2019 (talk) 18:12, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
18:34, 16 June 2023 review of submission by David Gleason
A reviewer stated "Sources are either not independent or not reliable" but this is not correct, some sources are indeed both independent and reliable. How can this incorrect decision be reversed? Thank you David Gleason (talk) 18:34, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
* It isn't incorrect. All the references to the StarLink website would not establish notability as they are primary sources. Blogs are generally not considered reliable sources as they usually lack fact checking and editorial control. Even setting that aside, most of the blog entries seem to be how-to guides, not significant coverage of the topic as to its importance/significance/influence. Please read Your First Article. You should first appeal to the last reviewer directly, you may then use this discussion to convince the community that the decision was incorrect, preferably with arguments based in Wikipedia policies.
* I see this is the only topic that you have edited about recently, after a long absence from editing. If you are connected to this topic, please read about conflict of interest and paid editing for information on required formal disclosures. 331dot (talk) 18:58, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
* I understand that the citations from the AllStarLink website are not independent. (Also please note this article is not about StarLink as you mention. That is a very different system). However, there are a number of other citations that are from independent and reliable sources. Starting at the top of the list for example, the 4th citation is an article in CQ Amateur Radio magazine. This magazine has been in publication since 1945, and has no affiliation with AllStarLink. How is CQ magazine not a reliable and independent source? Thank you David Gleason (talk) 19:52, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
* It might be okay as a source, but the specific piece just tells of the existence of this topic and what it does. I don't see what it says is important/significant/influential about it. And even if valid, that's only one source.
* I again ask if you have a connection to this topic. 331dot (talk) 21:31, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
* Hi, I have been a licensed amateur radio operator since 1986. I have no connection to AllStarLink organization other than as a user of the technology and system. It makes no difference to me financially if there is a wikipedia article on ASL or not. ASL is an entirely free network, that is free to users.
* Going back to the fundamentals, ASL certainly is notable, in the sense that it has about 50,000 users and is used by 1,000's of people every day to talk to each other and to link together 1,000's of amateur radio systems throughout the world. It is not the first or oldest system to do such a thing, but does so in a more powerful and flexible way than the several other older, more simplistic, and less used systems. These older less flexible systems eg. IRLP and EchoLink, are also notable, and do have wikipedia articles, even though I do not believe they have any significantly larger number of independent reliable sources cited.
* As a web developer who maintains wikimedia wiki's on several private web systems (not related to amateur radio) I greatly appreciate the utility that wikipedia provides, as a central resource where the many 10,000's of people who use AllStar and many other amateur radio operators who might want to know more about it can quickly and easily get a clear overview of what it is from one concise wikipedia article, and where people can easily contribute to and expand the content over time. The AllStarLink.org website, wiki, and forums comprise 1,000's of pages of information written by 1,000's of people over 15 years which is a lot of information for potential new users to sort through. It is perfectly logical that such a widely used and notable system should have a short simple wikipedia page explaining what it is in simple terms and within the context of other similar technologies, which as I mentioned do have wikipedia articles even though they are at most equally notable.
* To claim that none of the citations are reliable and independent is just not true. Sure they aren't all the NY Times, but this is a niche hobby, and every one of the citations has valid useful information and are written by sincere people who are supporting a free technology with no financial incentives to do so. There are 1,000's of other such hobbies and interests with wikipedia articles, that serve the larger community by providing a well structured central repository of information in a way that makes it easy to find out more about that hobby or interest and to easily add and contribute to it. I would urge you or any other review to please review the citations more carefully and I believe you will see that AllStarLink is indeed notable, and that this is a free, open and widely used system that is not out to make money. It exists solely for the furtherance of the hobby of amateur radio and it would be an injustice if wikipedia refuses to allow an article to be published. Thank you David Gleason (talk) 22:43, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
* You seem to be under the impression that anything that exists can have a Wikipedia article and that it's enough to merely document the existence of something and what it does. That's not true. Please review the notability criteria if you haven't already. I get that you personally think that this technology is significant as a user of it, but you can't use Wikipedia to promote it. You don't have to have a financial interest in something to promote it, nor does it need to be profit driven for its creators. Personally I don't think 50,000 people is "widely used" but if independent sources discuss that as significant, let's see them.
* Please also see other stuff exists. It could be that these other articles are also inappropriate and are simply unaddressed. You are correct that the EchoLink and IRLP articles have similar issues. IRLP is already marked as problematic, and I will also mark EchoLink as such, thank you. We're only as good as our volunteer editors who we rely on to identify issues with an article or articles. If you want to use other articles as a model or example, use those classified as good articles, as they have been vetted by the community.
* I suggest that perhaps the AllStarLink website have a more concise version of its content on its website. I by no means am the last and only word here, feel free to see what others say. If there is a community consensus to reverse the rejection, then you would be allowed to resubmit it. In the interim I definitely suggest that you remove all content sourced to a primary source. 331dot (talk) 23:34, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
* OK thank you for the feedback. My intent originally was for this article (or perhaps page is a better term) to be a sub-article/page of Amateur radio. Maybe I somehow created it incorrectly. Can you please let me know how to make it a sub-page on the Amateur radio page? There is already a red link on that page for AllStarLink. Thank you David Gleason (talk) 05:20, 17 June 2023 (UTC)
* I would suggest that you discuss any proposed addition to the amateur radio article at Talk:Amateur radio. 331dot (talk) 10:02, 17 June 2023 (UTC) | WIKI |
Salem Community College
Salem Community College (SCC) is a public community college in Salem County in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Salem Community College's main 11 acre campus is in Carneys Point Township. SCC is authorized to grant associate degrees, including Associate in Arts, Associate in Fine Arts, Associate in Science, and Associate in Applied Science certificates. SCC also offers the only degree program in the US for scientific glassblowing.
Salem Community College was founded as Salem County Technical Institute in 1958. Recognizing the college-level caliber of the institute's programs, the Salem County Board of Chosen Freeholders requested approval to grant degree-awarding authority to the institute. The New Jersey Commission on Higher Education evaluated the institute's programs and granted the requested approval. On September 3, 1972, Salem Community College was established. It is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education.
Notable alumni
* Evan Edinger (born 1990), American-born YouTuber based in London
* Paul Joseph Stankard (born 1943), glass artist and flameworker | WIKI |
Learning from the Japanese-American Internment Camps
Principle over Fear and Prejudice
The United States has always been blessed by geography. With large oceans to both the east and west, Americans through much of our history have felt safe from the outside world. Sure, the United States was involved in conflicts much of the time. In the 19th century, this usually involved fights with Native Americans, but only people who lived near the Western frontier line felt directly threatened. And when the United States adopted a more aggressive foreign policy beginning in the late 1800s, the fights were always somewhere else. The United States has not engaged a foreign power in the continental United States since the War of 1812.
This isolation from conflict is one of the reasons why Pearl Harbor was such a shock to the system. Sure, this was a quick air raid 3,000 miles away from the West Coast, but for Americans used to wars that were always somewhere else, it felt far too close to home. As the Japanese then proceeded to capture territory all over the Pacific, it was not unreasonable to think that the West Coast was under threat. For the first time since the Indian Wars, civilians on the American mainland might find themselves in a war zone.
The story of what came next on the West Coast has become more widely known than when I was a child. I did not learn about the Japanese-American "internment" camps - although I prefer the term prison camps - until I was in college. Although the United States did not officially admit any wrongdoing until 1988, it's clear that the country in general was not proud of this particular episode during World War 2. Understandably, people preferred to remember the heroic efforts necessary to defeat the Japanese and the Nazis. We did not want to admit that in a war where democracy and freedom defeated tyranny and racism, the United States put people into prison simply because of their ethnic identity. A country that played an important part in stopping the German death camps had its own concentration camps during the war.
This may sound harsh. Yes, Manzanar was not Auschwitz. Japanese-Americans were held in camps for about three years and then released. They were not being massacred in gas chambers. Most Americans, however, would like to think that the United States is more than just "better than Nazis." The United States is supposed to be a place where rule of law applies equally to all. It's supposed to be a land guided by the principles in the Bill of Rights, a place with due process and where people are innocent until proven guilty. But if you were Japanese-American during World War 2, the United States adopted the "better to be safe than sorry" principle. Since Americans did not know which Japanese-Americans might be disloyal and were a threat to commit acts of espionage or sabotage, President Roosevelt, by executive order, decided to lock 110,000 people up: men, women, children, the elderly, whether citizen or non-citizen.
It is fairly easy to uphold noble legal principles when a country is relatively safe and prosperous. Americans have been content throughout their history to emphasize freedom over security because most of the time, they have not felt threatened from the outside. But then, at the first sign of possible attack or invasion, the Bill of Rights was thrown out the window. It makes one wonder how much Americans have every really believed in those noble principles in the first place.
It is tempting to look back at the internment camps as an anomaly. During this time of unusual stress and fear, the government (and much of the country in general) overreacted. Eventually, the federal government acknowledged that it had done wrong, and hopefully, a similar mistake will not be made again. The problem with this argument is that the internment camps were not particularly unusual or surprising. Ever since significant numbers of Japanese-Americans had begun arriving to the West Coast in the late 19th century, they had faced various forms of prejudice and discrimination: job discrimination and bad work conditions; segregation; restrictions on their ability to immigrate into the country, own land, or become naturalized citizens; and the types of stereotyping and general hostility faced by ethnic minorities throughout American history. Since they represented a small percentage of the overall population, and they were seen by the majority as foreign outsiders rather than "real Americans", Japanese-Americans were especially vulnerable when a country where the majority of them had never lived went to war with the United States.
Some would argue that the internment camps were not a product of racism. Sure, they may have been a mistake, but they were the result of an overzealous desire to be safe. But if this was primarily about safety, then why weren't people of German or Italian descent rounded up (in any significant numbers) too? And how can anyone possibly believe that there was no correlation between the racist laws of the early 20th century and the specific targeting of Japanese-Americans during the war. The simple truth is that the Bill of Rights has never applied equally to all Americans. When the nation was founded, equal rights only applied to white males, and in many states, white males with property. Women were second class citizens, slaves had no rights whatsoever, and Native Americans and (eventually) Mexican-Americans were seen as obstacles to be pushed out of the way. With racial attitudes having improved little by the early 1940s, the internment camps were not an anomaly. If anything, they were the norm. World War 2 merely brought these racist attitudes even more to the surface, and many Americans were happy to support "internment" so that they could confiscate some of the land, homes, or businesses of those (often annoyingly successful) "outsiders." When Japanese-Americans were eventually released, many had to start their lives over.
Fortunately, things have improved since the civil rights movements of the 1960s. Today, people of various Asian backgrounds are often seen as a "model minority," as people who have become on average wealthier than the white majority through a combination of education and hard work. Still, I have been telling my classes for years to be on the lookout for a backlash against Asian-Americans, largely because of this unprecedented level of success. As Jewish people have known for centuries, it can be dangerous to be a successful minority.
As with all ethnic minorities in the United States, there is a long history of prejudice against people of all Asian backgrounds. Some of this lingering prejudice may be bubbling to the surface right now, with the United States attempting to bring under control the corona virus, a disease that originated in China. With tensions building, so are the number of Asian-Americans complaining about hostility, both subtle and overt, being directed toward them from both the government and the general population. Needless to say, prejudice of any kind is disturbing, a fact that is hopefully not lost on all of us. It can be tempting to jump on the bandwagon when another group is being criticized. But if a climate of prejudice and racism is tolerated, then it might be your ethnic, racial, sexual identity, or religious group that is targeted the next time.
I'd like to think that if I were living in California during World War 2, I would have stood up and said that it was wrong to lock up Japanese-Americans. It is almost impossible, however, for me to put myself in the shoes of people living in those times. Would I have rallied around the flag, given in to fear, and/or been influenced by the racial prejudice all around me? Would I have opposed internment but been too scared to say anything about it? Would I have put myself at risk and opposed a policy that had no direct impact on (and might even benefit) me? We are not living right now through anything remotely comparable to World War 2. But this could be a time when those of us not facing hostility at the moment will stand up and be kind to all of our neighbors and call out any racism or prejudice when we see it. In recent years, prejudice against various groups has been bubbling up to the surface once again. Let's not let fear and prejudice get the better of us and lead us back to the mistakes made by our ancestors. Let's have the courage to stand by the Bill of Rights even when we are scared. | FINEWEB-EDU |
Red Stripes
ROM the moment he was made captive near the station on the Big Sandy, the Virginian began looking for an opportunity to escape. He was ferociously angry at himself for venturing outside the station against the advice of the small garrison. Recently arrived from Richmond, he had presumed to know more about red men than did the border people. He had insisted the Indians had abandoned the siege after losing three warriors and having two wounded. And within easy gunshot of the stockade he had been jumped by the Wyandots and hustled away. His captors were from the Lower Sandusky village. Throughout the journey down the Sandy and up the Ohio to the Guyandotte Crossing he had nursed his resentment against the Indians and himself. In the back of his mind was the hope he would find an opportunity to break clear before crossing to the Indian shore. But the Guyandotte was reached and the Ohio was crossed without a minute of carelessness on the part of the raiders. At night the Virginian slept as best he could with a rawhide thong around his waist, from which lines were attached to the waist of a warrior on each side. In addition to this precaution his feet and hands were tied. When canoes were abandoned for forest travel his hands were tied at his back and he was led along by a length of rawhide around his neck. He fell and bruised himself. He was hauled through bushes and was scratched by briers from head to waist. At times the cord tightened, and he was all but strangled.
The leader of the Wyandots was a short, thick-set man. Unlike his followers he wore no paint on his face and his countenance was agreeable and very intelligent. His only attempt at adornment was the red stripe following the backbone from the nape of his neck to his waist. All of his men were similarly painted and in addition were grotesque and frightful because of the patterns masking their faces. The raid had been a failure, and the warriors were in an evil mood. The chief realized that his popularity as a leader would quickly wane did he encounter one more defeat, yet he treated the prisoner kindly once a camp was made. In person he saw to it that the Virginian had water and meat. This consideration led the prisoner to believe that at the worst he would be held in some red village until he could be ransomed.
After he reached the Indian shore several ambitious young men remained behind and did not rejoin the band until the evening of the second day. They brought in two scalps and one prisoner. The chief rejoiced greatly. He would be credited with victory by a slight margin. The horrid proofs of the tragedy were danced with much enthusiasm that evening.
When he found himself by the prisoner the Virginian asked for details.
“We was took by surprize [sic] while setting traps for beaver and otter,” the man explained in a monotonous voice. “I'm Abner Bryant. There was the three of us, Ben an' Tom Durgin an' me. Ben 'lowed he could make a firehole in a clump of willers that no Injun could see. Well, both the Durgins are dead.”
He was a thin, dried-out wisp of a man whose head was thinly frosted by a round number of years. He spoke without emotion, as one who is weary. His acceptance of his capture and the death of his friends smacked of fatalism. The incident was closed and did not interest him. However, he was curious enough to inquire—
“Who might you be?”
“Harry Knight. A fool. Knew more'n my elders at the station on the Big Sandy,” was the bitter reply. “We got three of them. Then I had to go outside the stockade to prove I knew it all and that the Injuns had gone. Now I s'pose I've got to put in a winter in some filthy village.”
Bryant eyed him in mild surprize and asked—
“Know their lingo?”
Knight shook his head impatiently.
“No sense to their jabber. The leader treats me well. I think he likes me.”
Bryant pursed his thin lips and glanced appraisingly at the well-knit figure of the younger man and decided.
“You oughter last three days. They'll manage to keep you alive for two, anyway.”
“Keep me alive?” repeated Knight. “But I ain't sick. Bruised and scratched—”
Bryant broke in:
“Young man, you'n me will be painted black once we git to the Lower Sandusky village. Better they treat us now, the worse they'll treat us when we make the village. I won't need much killing. But you're younger an' stronger. You'll be stubborn an' die hard. I'm nigh to eighty. Forty-odd year ago they'd had a rare time with me. My pride would a held me up. Now they won't git much fun out of my dying.”
“Merciful heavens!” hoarsely whispered Knight, and he turned to stare at the leaping, gesticulating figures circling the scalp poles.
The older man casually explained:
“Of course I tried to git killed along with Ben an' Tom. Didn't have no luck. Chief there is Cap'n Jimmy, his white name. Red name's Little Beaver. If you see the slimmest chance for ducking out, grab it. Don't make over your back track. Strike west an' lose yourself. If you live to hit the Scioto, travel southwest to the Ohio and follow it down to Massie's Station. As a fact you'll prob'ly be overhauled mighty sharp an' sudden. But that's all right if they don't take you alive. That's the prime p'int I always tried to ding into our settlers. Never be took alive. Now see me! Trussed up like this! 'Low I'll raise the chief's dander. Sometimes you can git them mad enough to swing an ax and cheat themselves out of the torture.”
He threw back his head and in the Huron dialect loudly called out:
“Ho! Ho! They say a chief runs back whipped from a red path. They say he throws away his warriors like a foolish man. Has a wolf stepped over his gun and spoiled his medicine? His young men break away and bring two scalps. Where are the scalps Little Beaver has taken?”
The chief stared at him ferociously. A man near-by reached forward and struck him across the mouth.
Bryant philosophically remarked:
“Well, it didn't work that time. Mebbe next time.”
A man brought water in a kettle and held it up for Knight to drink, but gave the old man none. The latter mused:
“Still treating you like a brother. But wait.”
“I'll not wait. I'll try to escape the first time my hands and feet are untied,” muttered the Virginian.
Because of their two wounded men and the loot taken from two cabins on the Sandy the band covered not more than a dozen miles a day. During the three days they traveled up Symmes creek Bryant was loaded with plunder while Knight was compelled to carry nothing. He gladly would have shouldered the old man's burden, but the later explained:
“Best this way. If you git a glimmer of a chance to scoot you'll need all your strength. I couldn't make a race of it if I had half a mile start. I've lived my years an' I've sent a sizable number of them on ahead of me.” He paused and lifted his head the better to watch two men busy with something on the opposite side of the small fire. Then he was whispering, “They're fixing black paint.”
“Black paint!” gasped Knight. “You said I'd be painted black.”
“Not yet. They'll keep you to show at the village. Got to make some showing to offset the men he's lost. The women folks would be mad if a prisoner wasn't fetched in. Here they come. Keep a bold face.”
Two men briskly advanced bearing a bowl taken from some settler's cabin. This was filled with a rough paste made from charcoal and water. The other Wyandots gathered around to witness the ceremony. A man released Bryant's legs and jerked him roughly to his feet.
The old man belligerently demanded:
“Are you women to be afraid of a man about to talk with ghosts? Untie my hands. You are young and foolish men. You do not know how to paint a man who will do you great honor by the way he will die. Are you afraid?”
The Indians approved of this sturdy bearing. He was old, just a shell of a man, but his heart was strong. Little Beaver said:
“He will die very brave. Let him paint himself.”
His wrist thongs were unfastened and his hunting shirt was removed. He rubbed his hands and arms briskly to stimulate circulation. One young man stood behind him and the man holding the dish was before him. With much deliberation he took the fragment of pounded bark, serving as a brush, and began smearing the mixture over his scrawny chest. Little Beaver looked on approvingly.
Wild of gaze, Knight watched the old man calmly decorate himself for the fire. Bryant slowly drew a spiral and informed the interested watchers:
“This is a smoke medicine. It will keep me from choking.”
Those in the background edged closer, ever keen to learn about new medicines. Little Beaver grimly suggested—
“Let the white man draw a medicine that will keep the fire from burning.”
“He will do that after the smoke-medicine is finished,” quietly assured the old man. “Let Little Beaver watch closely and learn about strong medicines. I heard an owl in the woods telling the ghost of my grandfather that Little Beaver's medicine is sick, or asleep.”
Knights understood nothing of this exchange but felt the drama of it. The chief was now glaring malevolently and all were watching the prisoner with the greatest interest. Despite his terrible plight the younger man found himself likening the curious, expectant Indians to inquisitive little children. The comparison was grotesque, yet it persisted. The old man finished the smoke-spiral and held the dripping bark-brush high and sharply called out:
“Look! Look! With sharp eyes and see a strong medicine!”
The gaze of all was lifted to watch the brush, now slowly describing a small circle. With incredible quickness the. thin clawlike hand shot forward and plucked a skinning-knife from a Wyandot's belt and almost with the same movement thrust it deep between the man's bare ribs. Simultaneously the brush was smeared across the face of the next nearest man. It was done and the prisoner was leaping toward the dusky woods before an Indian could make a move. Then Little Beaver threw up his gun and fired just as the prisoner was making cover.
Yelling like wolves, men raced after the fugitive. Knight huskily exclaimed aloud—
“He got clear!”
The old man had worked most cunningly. He had “got clear”—clear of the stake and the flaying knives, and never again could he suffer hurt. Bryant felt nauseated as the chief returned to the fire, carrying the yellowish white scalp.
HERE was no rejoicing over this trophy. Little Beaver respectfully placed it on the fire and directed that the dead warrior be hidden in the ground, or a hollow log, and that the camp be shifted a few miles. It was not a good place for Wyandot men to tarry in. The white man's medicine was about the little opening. It had saved him from the smoke and the coals, even as he had claimed that it would. He had died painlessly and had cheated his captors. He was a very wise old man, and his ghost even now was laughing at them. Around red camp-fires he would be spoken of with great respect.
The camp was moved two miles to a creek. The men were gloomy and dispirited. A strong medicine had worked against success on this path. Once the men decided Little Beaver's medicine was responsible his following would fall off. None sensed this more quickly than the chief himself. Like his men he was in a gloomy state of mind when he took to his blankets. With his belt of rawhide around his waist Knight slept by snatches. Each time he woke up he was overwhelmed by his awful plight. It was so inexorable; so inescapable. The darkness was thinning when the first warrior rolled out and threw dry fuel on the fire. Knight's appearance plainly revealed his state of mind. Unlike Bryant he could not make-believe.
His guards rose and unfastened the thongs running from their waists to the prisoners waist. His feet were untied and he was helped to stand. The men were courteous, even gentle, but now he knew all this was deliberately planned to increase his suffering. He held out his hands for one of the men to unfasten. The Indians had no fear that he could escape; and did he try his disappointment would be their joy. One of his guards released the thong and Knight rubbed his hands and wrists smartly. As he did this he looked for a possible avenue of escape.
The Indians' guns were resting against a pole which was supported by two crotched sticks. If he attempted to run in that direction he would find but few between him and the timber, as almost all the men were around the kettle. But pursuit would be made by the warriors near the guns, which they could snatch up and use with deadly effect before he could reach cover. Had it been broad daylight he might have elected to attempt that course, and to count it success if he was shot off his feet. He had supposed all hope had left him. Now the gloomy woods, just beyond the fire, invited him to make it a race. If he took this direction he must win his way through and around the bulk of the warriors. But if he reached the growth they either would pursue him unarmed, or else lose time in running back across the opening to get guns.
He thought it out and made his decision inside a few seconds of deliberation. The very idea of attempting to do something gave him physical strength. He advanced toward the kettles. Little Beaver followed and overtook him as he halted as if waiting for his breakfast. The chief patted him on the shoulder. Knight met the smoldering gaze and smiled and nodded his head. The Indians averted their gaze to hide their amusement. The white man was believing them to be friendly. With a final pat Little Beaver dropped his hand to his side. Knight's hard fist, starting from his hip, came up with terrific force under the chief's chin and fairly lifted him off his feet. Then with a leap, and a jump to one side, and a left-handed smash in the face of a man he could not dodge, he was bursting through the fringe of bushes and plunging into the gloomy woods.
The complete surprize of it all dazed the warriors some seconds. Then they followed their first impulse, to run down and recapture their man. As they took the woods, whooping and howling, and armed only with their knives and axes, Knight fought against panic and even slowed his gait to prevent a collision with the faintly outlined trees. One of the warriors yelled for the men to secure their guns. Some ran back to do this. It was too dark for those pressing the chase to pick up the trail, and quite to his amazement Knight found himself on the bank of the creek. The infuriated yells and howls suddenly ceased and Knight at once imagined the foe were all but upon him. Still he practised enough self-control to slip into the icy waters of the creek and noiselessly make his way to the opposite bank.
He started at right angles from the stream and soon came to a long, sloping ridge, where there was more light. Up and along the ridge he ran until it did seem as if his pounding heart would burst.
For the first time he ventured to look back. He could discover no signs of pursuit, but he realized he must now sacrifice speed for cunning. Once the light strengthened, the Indians would pick up his trail and follow it at a run. He walked on ledges whenever possible. He took care not to break off twigs and small branches in passing through bush-dotted openings. He was young and in excellent physical condition. He was spurred on by the fear of something worse than death. He kept his back to the sun, and he chased after the sun. Late in the afternoon he came to a stream he knew must be the Scioto.
He did not believe he could lift one foot ahead of the other, but fear told him he must place the river between him and his enemies. On the western bank he told himself he had done all that mortal could; and, flogged on by thoughts of Little Beaver's terrible rage, he walked with staggering steps into the sunset.
With the first light he was continuing his flight and fought pains and aches for several miles before his legs limbered up. Two hours after sunrise he killed a squirrel with a rock and ate the scanty meat raw. Fortunately his mind focused on the fear behind him and he did not take time to realize he might run into another band of Indians at any moment. He entered the rugged hills around Sunfish creek. He was determined to use every hour of light for travel, and fear served as food and drink in keeping him going. Traveling south, he crossed Scioto Brush and Turkey Creek; and everything seemed unreal. Another night and day, and he halted and stared stupidly when he beheld a broad river, which, he knew, must be the Ohio. He was ten miles below the mouth of the Scioto. He had no idea of how and when he had rested, of the meager food of nuts and raw squirsel meat. But he did know he was gazing on the Ohio and the Kentucky shore beyond. His problem now was to cross the river although it was very possible that would mean from pan to fire. He remembered poor Bryant's advice to make for Massie's Station, but he had no idea whether he was above or below it. Nor did he know how much time had elapsed since he struck Little Beaver and escaped from the Salt Creek camp.
He crawled into a thicket of bushes as a befuddling sense of helplessness swept over him. His clothing consisted of a few rags. His moccasins were worn out. His feet and limbs and chest were scratched and torn by the wildness of his flight. As he stared at his poor feet he discovered he was weeping. He fought down the weakness, and was startled into lively perception by a slight splashing noise in the current above his hiding-place. As it sounded at regular intervals and appeared to be drawing nearer he forced his way closer to the bank to stare down through the tangled growth.
He felt as if he were suffocating when he beheld a man in a canoe. The man was dressed like one of the Long Hunters who lighted the Kentucky fire.
“Take me off! Save me!” Knight hysterically called out.
The canoe swerved in to the bank and out of sight.
“I'm a white man! Save me!” he repeated. As he received no response he cried again and again to the same effect.
“Who are you?” asked a curious voice behind him.
He turned in frantic haste and beheld the man, his rifle across his left arm. The man had landed and mounted the bank and gained the rear of the fugitive's position without being heard.
N A recital that was almost incoherent Knight told his story. The man relaxed and rested the butt of his rifle on the ground. As Knight ceased talking the other squatted on his heels and checked off.
“You're Virginny. Catched at the Big Sandy station. White man, named Bryant, was fetched in and got hisself killed. You busted loose. Injuns chasing you. That right?”
“Yes, yes. And we must be going. Set me across, will you?”
“You forgot to say what band of Injuns was it,” prompted the man.
“Little Beaver and his Wyandots. Cap'n Jimmy, the whites call him. Poor Bryant told me. Chief has red stripe up and down his back.”
“That's Little Beaver. All his men have red stripes till they quit his band. My name's Kinsty. I'd like to obleege you. Too much risk. If Little Beaver is on your trail he'd cross into Kentucky quicker'n scat to overhaul you.”
“Good heavens! You're a white man. You don't refuse to help me?” pleaded Knight.
“I'm just saying I ain't going to cross to t'other shore and run the risk of having a Wyandot or Shawnee ax sunk in my head. There's a better way. Twenty-five miles down stream, by the Injun path, is Massie's Station. It's a bit longer by water. Know anybody there?”
“No one. Not a soul.”
“Makes no difference. They'll be glad to take you in.”
“If you won't go with me then set me on the path. I must get somewhere that'll be safe to close my eyes in, and sleep.”
“I'll lead you there,” assured Kinsty.
“Then let's get into your canoe and start now.”
Kinsty shook his head.
“Safer to foller the Injun path. Whose your folks back in Virginny?”
Knight got to his feet and hurriedly told the names of his people. Kinsty worked inland and struck into the old trail. As he walked along in the lead he seemed hungry to be told things and asked many questions about Knight's home life, his friends, and the like. Knight patiently answered the queries, as he had learned this was a characteristic of isolated people. The first four questions a traveler would be asked at a frontier cabin would be: “What's your name? Where you from? Where you going? What's your business?”
Knight talked until weary, and finally complained:
“Can't we push forward faster? Seems like we was holding back.”
“No hurry so long's we got to make one camp. Can't do it on a stretch. Leastways, you can't. Won't do to git tuckered out. You must be good for a long run if jumped by Injuns. You say you can't speak nary a word of red lingo?”
“Not a word.”
Kinsty halted and stared at Knight thoughtfully. Then he announced:
“'Low you're all right and are the man you say you be. But at the first I had a sneaking notion you might be Greeby.”
“The monster who lives with Indians from choice and kills his own people?” exclaimed Knight in a horrified tone. For the renegade's infamous acts had been rehearsed at the Big Sandy station although the man seldom ventured that far up river.
“Now I know you're all right,” chuckled Kinsty. “Only a man who's all right could speak in that way. It was your scratched legs and arms that made me suspicious. Your calling like you did was the first thing to make me suspicious. Greeby is a master hand for yelling from the shore for some one to save his pelt by setting him across the river. Some say he'll wade out in the water and pray to be took off.”
“I'm what I look. A poor, helpless man in need of a friend. Why do we halt? I have many hours of energy left in me if there's a safe bed at the end of the journey.”
“You think so but you'd go kerflummox first thing you know. You got to have victuals. We can't git through tonight anyway. We'll camp here off the trail and I'll shoot something and make a soup. With a full stomach and some sound sleep you'll go through to Massie's mighty fine.”
“If you think best,” sighed Knight. “How far is it to the station?”
“Twenty miles,” replied Kinsty.
“'Bout sixteen miles,” corrected a voice from the bushes.
Kinsty exclaimed under his breath and dropped on one knee and cocked his rifle. Knight warned:
“It's all right. It's a white voice.”
“It's all right after we look him over,” growled Kinsty. “Stranger, whoever you be, show yourself. Both hands up and empty.”
A man stepped into the path between the two men, his arms raised, one holding a long Kentucky rifle. He said: “Here I be. Had to fetch the old gun along. Think I was red?”
“I knew you was white. But keep your hands up. Knight, lift up his hunting-shirt so we can have a peek at his back.”
Knight stared stupidly. The man good-naturedly requested: “Don't waste time. This gun's gitting heavy.” Then to Kinsty, “just what you looking for, mister?”
“A red stripe up and down your back, Mister,” growled Kinsty.
The stranger laughed and exclaimed: “Beats all natur' how every one you meet you sort of think may be that skunk Greeby. Go ahead, younker. My name's Daniels. Been in the bush so long my back ain't very clean, mebbe. But you'll find no red stripe.”
Knight stepped behind the stranger and pulled up the hunting-shirt. The back was that of a very muscular man. Daniels, without being told, slowly turned around, and Kinsty dropped the butt of his gun to the ground and barked—
“All right. But I don't take no chances with a strange white man this far down the Ohio, on either the Injun or the Kentucky shore.”
Daniels chuckled as if it were a good joke. Then he silently surveyed Knight for a bit and briskly decided:
“Feller's half starved. Been running his legs off. Hide barked and scratched most tarnal. He oughter eat and sleep.”
“Just what I was telling him,” agreed Kinsty. “He's most bodacious to be pushing through to Massie's Station.”
“Safe here for the night as he'd be at Massie's. What with Greeby and the Girtys and the Shawnees, the station is fair beset.”
“If they ain't strongly forted he shouldn't go there,” said Kinsty.
“They can stand off the Injuns if white renegades don't lend a hand and play some new deviltry. If Gineral Sinclair l'arned a lesson from Gineral Harmar's defeat last year we'll have peace along this river. If he gits a red ax in the head it'll keep on being death to any one planting corn north of this river. And I'm afraid for Sinclair. Little Turtle and his Miamis are ag'in him as they was ag'in Harmar,” said Daniels.
“I don't think this country will ever be safe for whites,” sighed Knight. “I feel faint. Wish I could eat and sleep and cross into Kentucky and make back to Richmond. I'm mortal tired of the border.”
“Make a fire and I'll fetch in some small game,” said Daniels. “After we've et and rested we'll see what fits the young man's case best.”
He slipped into the growth and Kinsty scooped a shallow hole one side of the path and started a small blaze, feeding it with small pieces of bark until he had a deep bed of coals. Daniels came in with a turkey and some pigeons. He had knocked them over with his ax. The meat was quickly put to roasting.
Knight discovered he was ravenously hungry. He could not wait for the meat to be cooked through. He snatched a turkey leg and ate like a wolf.
“Take your time and don't wolf it in chunks,” advised Daniels.
After they had finished and covered the fire-hole with branches and dirt, with two small apertures for air, Daniels jumped to his feet and announced he would scout for a bit. Kinsty said nothing until the stranger had withdrawn: then he leaned forward and whispered—
“Wish I knew more 'bout him.”
Knight shivered at this suggestion that all might not be right with Daniels.
“He's a white man. He didn't have any red stripe on his back. Could he be one of the Girtys?”
“Not Simon. I seen Simon once. May be George. I'm just as skeered of him as I be of Simon.”
Knight's nerves were unstrung. He groaned and complained, “I thought I'd be all right if I could live to reach the river. Now it looks worse'n it did when I was knocking Little Beaver off his feet. What shall we do? I'm fair wore out just from being afraid of what may happen.”
Kinsty frowned at the threads of smoke escaping from the fire-hole vents, and after a while replied:
“We've got to make sure. He may be honest as we be. But till we know we don't want him behind us, nor scouting off one side. See here: only sensible thing for us to do is to take him to Massie's. If folks there say he's all right no harm's done.”
Knight sadly exclaimed:
“Just let me git out of this country! I vow I'll stay east of the mountains if I ever get back there.”
“Few miles more won't make much difference,” consoled Kinsty. “If we can s'prize that feller and tie his hands and take him down stream we'll soon know if he's all right.”
“He seems to be a pleasant sort of man,” said Knight, now speaking more hopefully.
Kinsty laughed silently.
Then he muttered, “Pleasant? Yes, they can be that. A white man who lives with Injuns from ch'ice can be lots of things. They can wade into the river, with what looks to be blood on their face and arms, and beg for a keel-boat to swing in toward the bank and pick 'em up. No end to the traps they can set. Why, when you first called out I was sure you was bait for the trap that might snag me. Even when I see you, your legs'n arms all scratched and torn, I thought you was fixed up that way to fool me.”
“That's why you kept pestering me about my folks and friends?”
“Zactly. Trying to catch you in a lie, but you rung true. Now, this is what we must do. I'll jump this feller and git the drop. You ties his hands behind him when I give the word. We'll take him through to Massie's. If he's all right he won't feel hard for the way we've used him. If he's a bad one Massie's men will settle him.”
The plan repelled Knight, but he could think of nothing better. He bowed his head in agreement.
Kinsty stirred uneasily and whispered:
“We got to have light. He could kill both of us in this darkness. Light to see to work by.”
He tore the cover off the fire-hole and threw in dry branches and piled on dead limbs until he had a companionable blaze which brightly lighted the small opening where they had camped. In a short time careless steps sounded in the woods and soon Daniels burst through into the light and harshly demanded:
“What be you trying to do? Call down on us all the northwest tribes?”
“No danger,” replied Kinsty. “Younker was in a bad way along of the darkness.”
squatted on his heels, his rifle on the ground beside him. On the opposite side of the fire Kinsty sat cross-legged, his rifle across his knees.
Knight held his breath as he discovered the two men were staring at each other fixedly. He was positive that Daniels had overheard, or had guessed their plan.
Kinsty slowly leaned back and commenced swinging the long barrel of his gun toward the fire. Then with breath-taking quickness the squatting figure straightened out and was flying through the flames to land on Kinsty before the latter could straighten out his legs. Kinsty's rifle went off, the bullet passing close to Knight's head and causing him to cry out wildly.
“Hit him!” gasped Kinsty.
Knight moved around the fire, but the interlocked figures were rolling and twisting so rapidly he had no opportunity to land a blow without running the risk of hittng [sic] the wrong man. He shuddered as he caught the flash of the firelight on two knife blades. Each man had drawn his long butcher knife, and they grunted loudly as they endeavored to give mortal wounds. They revolved, a blur of arms and legs, out of the zone of light and crashed into the edge of the growth. Then sounded a loud groan.
Knight came out of his stupor and sprang to the rifles and snatched up Kinsty's weapon and stood desperately at bay as a figure emerged from the darkness.
With gaping mouth he leaned forward to discover which had survived the terrible duel. The figure entered the light. It was Daniels.
“You've killed him!” yelled Knight. “Put up your hands! Drop that knife!”
The man threw the knife to the ground and picked up a burning faggot. Then he commanded:
“Follow me and take a peek at your friend, who was so cur'ous to see my back. Waving the torch to keep it alive he strode to the edge of the growth. Knight followed, the rifle cocked. Swinging the torch down in a half circle the man invited, “Take a look. What d'ye see?”
The two had torn the clothing almost from each other in their desperate fight. Kinsty, with his hunting-shirt ripped from hem to collar, was lying on his face. A red stripe extended the length of his spine.
Straightening up the man continued:
“Knew him the second I see him. But he didn't know me. He's one of Little Beaver's white Injuns. He's Greeby.”
Knight nearly collapsed.
“Greeby the renegade! Why did he ask about my folks, my home, so many questions about everything?” he cried.
“So's he could pass off for you where your folks was known and you wa'n't. Now we'll pick up a canoe I had hid along here somewheres and cross to t'other shore.”
“He was taking me to Massie's station tomorrow!”
“He was taking your ha'r back to Little Beaver, leaving you dead where he cooked your supper. No more talk. Take his gun, powder horn 'n' knife.”
“Not the knife,” shuddered Knight. “Can you find your canoe in the dark?”
“Why not? It ain't run away. Come, hurry. This light may fetch a parcel of Injuns on our backs.”
“Lord knows I'm grateful, Daniels—”
“Boone. Dan'l Boone. Didn't want to give my name to Greeby till I had a fair chance in a fight. Told him when we was scuffling on the ground. S'prized him so mightily I got home with the knife.” | WIKI |
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Rh the Sádhu, the Bhátu, the Chárana, the Gosáin, the Jogi, the Gora—and their females. Some of these are public beggars, the rest being professional. They are gentle or violent in their clamours as circumstances warrant. They go from house to house and shop to shop, and adopt various expedients to obtain their "due." They sing, dance, philosophise, they cry, curse, and raise a storm, in order to move the hard-hearted Banian. They are more powerful than the police, and certainly more numerous. The respectable ones are also professional. For instance, there is the poetic mendicant, with his harp, his veno, or other ricketty instrument. There is the historical mendicant, with his rag of a Sanskrit or Persian reference book; there are the astronomical, the medical, the moral mendicants, all with their peculiar hobbies and peculiar twangs, always amiable and often instructive. Then there is the friendly mendicant, generally a Mahomedan, who will button-hole you in the streets, discuss with you a variety of subjects, from polite literature to the rates of salt fish, and then, just before parting, startle you with | WIKI |
Roy Farnsworth
Roy Eric Farnsworth (1892-1957) was an Australian rugby league footballer who played in the 1910s.
Playing career
Youngest brother of the famous rugby league footballers: Bill Farnsworth and Viv Farnsworth, Roy Farnsworth was also a noted Half-back with Newtown. Roy enlisted in the Australian Army in World War I in 1915, and although he survived the war he did not play for Newtown again.
In 1919 he turned out for Western Suburbs for a few games, before retiring from the NSWRFL.
Death
Farnsworth died on 19 June 1957 at Concord, New South Wales. | WIKI |
Disability studies
Disability studies is an academic discipline that examines the meaning, nature, and consequences of disability. Initially, the field focused on the division between "impairment" and "disability", where impairment was an impairment of an individual's mind or body, while disability was considered a social construct. This premise gave rise to two distinct models of disability: the social and medical models of disability. In 1999 the social model was universally accepted as the model preferred by the field. However, in recent years, the division between the social and medical models has been challenged. Additionally, there has been an increased focus on interdisciplinary research. For example, recent investigations suggest using "cross-sectional markers of stratification" may help provide new insights on the non-random distribution of risk factors capable of exacerbating disablement processes. Such risk factors can be acute or chronic stressors, which can increase cumulative risk factors (overeating, excessive drinking, etc.) The decline of immune function with age and decrease of inter-personal relationships which can impact cognitive function with age.
Disability studies courses include work in disability history, theory, legislation, policy, ethics, and the arts. However, students are taught to focus on the lived experiences of individuals with disabilities in practical terms. The field is focused on increasing individuals with disabilities access to civil rights and improving their quality of life.
Disability studies emerged in the 1980s primarily in the US, the UK, and Canada. In 1986, the Section for the Study of Chronic Illness, Impairment, and Disability of the Social Science Association (United States) was renamed the Society for Disability Studies. The first US disabilities studies program emerged in 1994 at Syracuse University. The first edition of the Disabilities Studies Reader (one of the first collections of academic papers related to disability studies) was published in 1997. The field grew rapidly over the next ten years. In 2005, the Modern Language Association established disability studies as a "division of study".
While disability studies primarily emerged in the US, the UK, and Canada, disability studies were also conducted in other countries through different lenses. For instance, Germany has been involved with queer disability studies since the beginning of the early 20th century. The disability studies in Germany are influenced by the written literary works of feminist sexologists who study how being disabled affects one's sexuality and ability to feel pleasure. In Norway, disability studies are focused on the literary context.
A variation emerged in 2017 with the first accessibility studies program at Central Washington University with an interdisciplinary focus on social justice, universal design, and international Web Accessibility Guidelines (WAG3) as a general education knowledge base.
History
Universities have long studied disabilities from a clinical perspective, though discussions around the depathologization of disability began following the disability rights movement, which arose in the 1950s. In 1981, the United Nations' International Year of Disabled People brought disability into the public sphere as a human rights issue. Five years later, the Social Science Association's Section for the Study of Chronic Illness, Impairment, and Disability was renamed the Society for Disability Studies, and its journal Disability Studies Quarterly was the first journal in disability studies. The first US disabilities studies program emerged in 1994 at Syracuse University. However, courses and programs were very few. In the 1997 first edition of the Disability Studies Reader, Lennard J. Davis wrote that "it had been virtually impossible to have someone teaching about disability within the humanities". In the second edition, written ten years later, he writes that "all that has changed", but "just because disability studies is on the map, does not mean that is easy to find".
Still the field continued to grow throughout the 2000s. In 2009 Disability Studies Quarterly published A Multinational Review of English-language Disability Studies Degrees and Courses. They found that from 2003 to 2008 the number of disability studies stand-alone studies programs in the US, UK, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada grew from 56 to 108 and the number of degree-granting programs grew from 212 to 420. A total of 17 degrees in disability studies were offered, with 11 programs in the US, 2 in the UK, 3 in Canada, and 1 in Australia.
The 2014 article "Disability Studies: A New Normal" in The New York Times suggests that the expansion in disability studies programs is related to the 1990 passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Those raised after the passage of the ADA have entered colleges and the workforce, as Disability Studies has grown. In a 2014 article, Disability Studies Quarterly published an analysis on the relationships between student run groups and disability studies, from 2008 to 2012. Their article analyzes groups at four different universities and describes how professors have incorporated student activism into their curriculum and research.
Definitions
According to the transnational Society for Disability Studies:
"Using an interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary approach. Disability sits at the intersection of many overlapping disciplines in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences. Programs in Disability Studies should encourage a curriculum that allows students, activists, teachers, artists, practitioners, and researchers to engage the subject matter from various disciplinary perspectives.
* Challenging the view of disability as an individual deficit or defect that can be remedied solely through medical intervention or rehabilitation by 'experts' and other service providers. Rather, a program in Disability Studies should explore models and theories that examine social, political, cultural, and economic factors that define disability and help determine personal and collective responses to difference. At the same time, Disability Studies should work to de-stigmatize disease, illness, and impairment, including those that cannot be measured or explained by biological science. Finally, while acknowledging that medical research and intervention can be useful, Disability Studies should interrogate the connections between medical practice and stigmatizing disability.
* Studying national and international perspectives, policies, literature, culture, and history with an aim of placing current ideas of disability within their broadest possible context. Since attitudes toward disability have not been the same across times and places, much can be gained by learning from these other experiences.
* Encouraging participation by disabled students and faculty, and ensuring physical and intellectual access. Prioritizing leadership positions held by disabled people; at the same time, it is important to create an environment where contributions from anyone who shares the above goals are welcome."
Disability studies and medical humanities
The social model of disability is expanded to chronic illness and to the broader work of the medical humanities. Practitioners are working towards improving the healthcare for disabled people through disability studies. This multi-disciplinary field of inquiry draws on the experiences and perspectives of people with disabilities to address discrimination. Infinite Ability has done some preliminary work in India to introduce disability studies to medical students. The medical humanities movement advocates use of literature in exploring illness, from practitioner and patient perspectives, with graphic medicine as an emerging strategy that combines comics-style medium and illness narrative.
Intersectionality
Feminism introduces the inclusion of intersectionality in disability studies. It focuses on race, gender, sexuality, class and other related systems of oppression that can also intersect with having a disability. From a feminist standpoint, there is a large concern for grasping multiple positions and differences among social groups. Some research on intersectionality and disability has focused on the aspect of being part of two or more stigmatized groups and how these are contributing factors to multiple forms of harassment, the paradox known as "Double Jeopardy".
In academic settings and practices such as gender or women's studies the course work does not always highlight ideals of intersectionality and identity. But Sri Craven highlights the fact that in academia students and professors do not look at history in a culmination of the intersecting identities but rather focus in one perspective. Craven and his colleagues include identities such as disability both mental and physical in an alternative course description to get students and faculty to think about identity, oppression and struggle in a new way.
Race
Recent scholarship has included studies that explore the intersection between disability and race. Christopher Bell's work publicly challenged disability studies to engage with race, calling it "white disability studies". His posthumous volume on Blackness and Disability further developed his analysis. These works engage with issues of neoliberal economic oppression. The 2009 publication of Fiona Kumari Campbell's Contours of Ableism: The Production of Disability and Abledness signaled a new direction of research — studies in ableism, moving beyond preoccupations with disability to explore the maintenance of abledness in sexed, raced and modified bodies. A. J. Withers' work critiques the social model of disability because, among other things, it erases the experiences of BIPOC people, women, trans and queer people and puts forward a more radical model of disability. Similarly, recent work has focused on the intersections of race and ethnicity with disability in the field of education studies and has attempted to bridge critical race studies with disability studies. Other contemporary works, such as literary studies conducted by critic Sami Schalk explore the intersection of disability and race and the use of dis/ability as a metaphor within the genre of black women's speculative fiction. Collectively, these works reflect an effort to deal with complex histories of marking racially "othered" bodies as physically, psychologically, or morally deficient, and traces this history of scientific racism to contemporary dynamics. Empirical studies show that minority students are disproportionately more likely to be removed from class or school for "behavioral" or academic reasons, and far more likely to be labeled with intellectual or learning disabilities. The authors propose a union of critical race and disability studies, DisCrit, as an intersectional approach designed to analyzing the interaction between ableism, sexism, and racism.
In addition to work by individual scholars, disability studies organizations have also begun to focus on disability and race and gender. The Society for Disability Studies created the Chris Bell Memorial Scholarship to honor Bell's commitment to diversity in disability studies. Postsecondary disability studies programs increasingly engage with the intersectionality of oppression. The University of Manitoba offers a course on "Women with disabilities". Several recent masters' student research papers at York University focus on issues related to women with disabilities and people of African descent with disabilities.
Feminism
Feminism integrates the social and political aspects that makes a body oppressed while allowing empowerment to be present in acknowledging its culture. Scholars of feminist disability studies include Rosemarie Garland-Thomson and Alison Kafer. Garland-Thomson explains that these related systems of oppression pervades all aspects of culture by "its structuring institutions, social identities, cultural practices, political positions, historical communities, and the shared human experience of embodiment". Garland-Thomson further describes that "identity based critical enterprises have enriched and complicated our understandings of social justice, subject formation, subjugated knowledges and collective action". Feminism works towards accessibility for everyone regardless of which societal oppressive behavior makes them a minority. Although physical adjustments are most commonly fought for in disability awareness, psychological exclusion also plays a major role oppressing people with disabilities. The intersection of disability and feminism is more common in American history than we think yet it does not show up in media, museums or archives that are dedicated to feminist work. Rachel Corbman, a professor of women's, gender and sexuality studies at Stony Brook University in New York highlights how the influence of lesbian feminist organizations like the Disabled Lesbian Alliance (DLA) are not represented in the archives of literature and documentation of events in the community. The DLA work closely together to fight for visibility, accessibility and acceptance of individuals whether they are disabled, or lesbian or both. Corbman's article highlights the beginning of disability activism during the feminist movement of the 1970s and 1980s and how the intersecting identities enticed new members and activists from across the country to join the cause. Other disability-centered feminist organizations that are part of the feminist archives include the Lesbian Illness Support Group and Gay and Lesbian Blind (GLB). Sara Ahmed elaborates the mental exclusiveness of privilege in "Atmospheric Walls": there is an atmosphere surrounding minority bodies, explaining why an intersectionally privileged person could be made uncomfortable simply by being in the same room as a person of color, or in this case someone with a disability. Feminists and scholars also developed theories that put attention on the connection of gender and disability. Scholars like Thomas J. Gerschick argue that disability plays a big role in processing and experiencing gender, and people with disabilities often suffer stigmatization towards their gender, since their disabilities may make their body representation excluded by normative binary gender representation. Gerschick also argues that this stigmatization can affect the gendering process and self-representation of people with disabilities. Ellen Samuels explores gender, queer sexualities, and disability. Feminists also look into how people with disabilities are politically oppressed and powerless. Abby L. Wilkerson argues that people with disabilities are politically powerless because they are often desexualized, and the lack of sexual agency leads to the lack of political agency. Wilkerson also indicates that the erotophobia towards minority groups like people with disabilities further oppresses them, since it prevents these groups from gaining political power through sexual agency and power.
Gender and sexuality
At the intersection of disability, gender, and sexuality one finds crip theory. Crip theory exists as an interdisciplinary approach to critical disability theory. The term crip theory originates in Carrie Sandahl's article "Queering the Crip or Crippling the Queer?: Intersections of Queer and Crip Identities in Solo Autobiographical Performance". It was published in 2003 as part of a journal issue titled "Desiring Disability: Queer Theory Meets Disability Studies". Christopher Bell's Blackness and Disability; and the work of Robert McRuer both explore queerness and disability.
Since then many books and articles have been written on the topic. Each subsequent piece of scholarship dedicated to crip theory as a topic expands how crip theory is understood.
Most of the literature above is written by individual authors in the United States but there is nothing on there from other countries that depicts disability and sexuality in the same context. Myren-Svelstad, a Norwegian scholar compares two deviant novels in Norway's society, Nini Roll Anker's Enken [the Widow] written in 1932 and Magnhild Haalke's Allis sønn [Alli's Son] written in 1935. They both depict a queer man who is also disabled. The disability being depicted as someone whose mental capacity is significantly different than society's heteronormative view.
* 2006 Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability by Robert McRuer
* 2011 Feminist Disability Studies by Kim Q. Hall
* 2012 Sex and Disability by Robert McRuer, Anna Mollow
* 2013 Feminist, Queer, Crip by Alison Kafer
* 2018 Crip Times: Disability, Globalization, and Resistance by Robert McRuer
* 2018 Disability Studies and the Environmental Humanities: Toward an Eco-Crip Theory by Sarah Jaquette Ray, Jay Sibara, Stacy Alaimo
* 2019 The Matter of Disability: Materiality, Biopolitics, Crip Affect by David T. Mitchell, Susan Antebi, et al.
These communities on their own are topics of numerous deliberations; however, they also often link in significance in many ways. The significance of the movements began to build momentum and most legal recognition in the 1980s. It was only in 1973 that the American Psychiatric Association removed homosexuality from their list of mental disorders. In addition to this, it was about forty years later in 2013 that the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5) changed the listing of transgender to "gender dysphoria".
One of the most notable circumstances where the case of these two minority rights come together was the court case In re Guardianship of Kowalski, in which an accident that occurred in 1983 left 36-year-old Sharon Kowalski physically disabled with severe brain injuries. The court granted guardianship of her to her homophobic parents who refused visitation rights to her long time partner, Karen Thompson. The court case lasted nearly ten years and was resolved by granting Thompson custody in 1991. This was a major victory in the realm of gay rights but also called to attention the validity of rights for those who identified under the queer and disabled spectrum. Numerous support groups emerged from necessity to create safe spaces for those identifying in these specific minority groups such as the founding of the Rainbow Alliance of the Deaf in 1977, the Lesbian Disabled Veterans of America group in 1996 which then became the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Disabled Veterans of America, and the San Francisco Gay Amputees group in 2006.
A 2012 study showed that disability was more common in LGBTQ individuals when compared to heterosexual peers. It was also shown that the LGBTQ group with disabilities were noticeably younger in age than the heterosexual group. In a 2014 study of intersecting identities found that "disabled women whether gay, straight, bisexual or otherwise identifying have a harder time finding romantic relationships due to their socioeconomic status and ability. Drummond and Brotman introduce the idea that the lesbian disabled community face many barriers because of discrimination in the form of ableism, homophobia, racism and more due to intersecting identities and interests.
It is also a large topic of discussion to say that both groups have to undergo the same kind of "coming out" process in terms of their sexual identity, gender identity, and disability identity because of the lasting social stigma. "Coming out" through sexual identity, gender identity, and disability identity is one example of "Double Jeopardy", as they are part of more than one stigmatized group.
Eli Clare writes at the intersection of disability and transgender studies, namely as to how these disciplines can learn from each other. Similarly to how there is a 'coming out' for both transgender people and people with disabilities, there is a lack of bodily privacy both groups are faced with, primarily due to an over-medicalization of the body. Clare also works to make the distinction between bodily and medical truths, where one's diagnosis and medical treatment as a transgender or disabled person does not dictate their embodiment and how they navigate the world. Eventually, Clare reaches the idea of a disability politics of transness, which "delves into the lived experiences of our bodies, that questions the idea of normal and the notion of cure, that values self-determination, that resists shame and the medicalization of identity".
Queer studies, which emerged from women's studies, brings light towards the different kind of oppression queer and transgender people with disabilities have. Queer studies are commonly associated with people with disabilities who identify as "Crip" and is commonly believed that queer politics must incorporate crip politics. Alison Kafer describes a first-person experience of identifying queer and crip both reappropriated terms in Kafer's Feminist Queer Crip. Kafer describes the politics of the crip future and "an insistence on thinking these imagined futures – and hence, these lived presents – differently".
Although many activists with disabilities find empowerment in appropriating the term crip, not all people with disabilities feel comfortable using that identity. There are many different terms used as an alternative to disability, for example Melwood, a nonprofit who uses the term "differing abilities", describes the label disability as "a limitation in the ability to pursue an occupation because of a physical or mental impairment; a disqualification, restriction or disadvantage and a lack of legal qualification to do something, was an inadequate or limiting 'label' for a cross section of people". Because the term disability has a history of inferiority, it is believed by many that substituting the term will help eliminate the ableism that is embedded within it. Susan Wendell describes ableism in society "as a structure for people who have no weakness". This also applies to anyone who has any intersectional disadvantages. Feminism identifies these disadvantages and strategizes how to deconstruct the system that supports marginalizing specific groups of people.
Queer/disabled invisibility and negativity
An aspect of disability studies that is not often talked about is that of the perception of seeing disabled individuals as invisible. Also known as "queer/disabled invisibility". In disability studies the individuals who are disabled who make it into academic course work are usually the ones who struggle not only with being disabled and facing ableist norms of society but they also have to contend with other identities such as being queer, a woman or a person of another race other than the master race of caucasian in America. Queer/disabled invisibility can also come up in forms of negative perceptions about the way a disabled individual is being raised. For instance, queer mothers raising a disabled child are often viewed as the cause of the child's disability. Another example of queer and disabled negativity is highlighted in the life experiences of Josie, a young woman who does not identify as a particular gender, living with a lifelong illness and disability. This young woman describes how she experienced sexism, ableism, homophobia and transphobia in a number of ways at her university, the queer community and medical providers because of her disability. The discrimination the women in these examples is part of the heteronormative, ableistic perspective in societies around the world today but are rarely discussed in the literature or during disability studies courses.
Political economy and social class
Within class comes multiple avenues for intersectionality through disability. Disability looks different from a middle class, upper class, and lower class perspective, as well as through race, gender, and ethnicity. One's social class can contribute to when a person becomes disabled, rather it be sooner or later. For example, where there is poverty we will find disability. This poverty can include social, economic, and cultural poverty. Having a disability can contribute to poverty just as poverty can contribute to having a disability. People with disabilities are more likely to live in poverty and be unemployed than those who do not, resulting in lower socioeconomic status. Some scholars have argued that disability, as it is understood today, is interlocked with class and capitalism. Intellectual disability, as it is understood today, is the product of the industrial revolution as workers unable to keep up with fast-paced factory work were pathologized.
Questioning the social model
The International Association of Accessibility Professionals recognizes six different models for conceptualizing disability: social, medical, cultural affiliation, economic, charity, and functional solutions. Once universally accepted in the field, the social model of disability Since 2009, there has been a developing counter-argument to the social model of disability. In a 2014 Disability Studies Quarterly article, students involved in campus disability groups note that they actively seek cures for their chronic illnesses and "question the rejection of the medical model" of disability. The cultural affiliation model accepts the person's disability completely and uses it a point of pride in being associated with other people in a similar condition. The economic model recognizes the effect of bodily limitations on a person's ability to work, and there may be a need for economic support or accommodations for the person's disability while the charity model regards people with disabilities as unfortunate and in need of assistance from the outside, with those providing charity viewed as benevolent contributors to a needy population. The functional solutions model of disability is a practical perspective that identifies the limitations (or "functional impairments") due to disability, with the intent to create and promote solutions to overcome those limitations. The primary task is to eliminate, or at least reduce, the impact of the functional limitations of the body through technological or methodological innovation. The pragmatism of the functional solution model deemphasizes the sociopolitical aspects of disability, and instead prioritizes inventiveness and entrepreneurship. This is the prevailing opinion behind compliance literature that promotes self-efficacy and self-advocacy skills for people with disabilities preparing for transition to independent living.
The social model has also been challenged for creating a false separation between disability and impairment as impairment, not just disability, is socially constructed. This critique draws on feminist arguments that the assertion that sex is biological but gender is social is a false dichotomy because sex is also socially constructed. This is not a rejection of physical reality but draws attention to the social value put on some values, needs and accommodations and the denigration of others.
Exclusion of cognitive and mental disabilities
There is discourse within disability studies to analyze the construction of mental illness. However, few post-structuralist disability scholars have focused their attention to impairments of the mind. According to Carol Thomas, a reader in sociology at the Institute for Health Research, Lancaster University, this may be because disability scholars have in the past considered only the barriers confronted by people with physical disabilities. The experience of impairment, cognitive disability, and mental illness had been absent from the discussion.
It is unclear exactly which perspective of disability scholarship "psychological impairment" can fall under, and this has led to a hesitation on the part of scholars. Scholars such as Peter Beresford (2002) suggest "the development of a 'social model of madness and distress which would consider impairments of the mind. Yet others may recommend the "embodied approach" to the study of mental illnesses.
With the emergence of Crip theory, Robert McRuer challenges hegemonic, neoliberal capitalism as the agent that drives the dominant cultural and market priorities and further argues that capitalism drives compulsory able-bodiedness. In Feminist, Queer, Crip, Alison Kafer states "My goal is to contextualize, historically and politically, the meanings typically attributed to disability, thereby positioning "disability" as a set of practices and associations that can be critiqued, contested, and transformed."
Mad Studies represents a field that has aimed to address this gap, through examining sanism and sanist oppression.
Notable disability studies theorists
* Peter Beresford
* Michael Bérubé
* James Charlton
* Lennard J. Davis
* Nirmala Erevelles
* Vic Finkelstein
* Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
* Johanna Hedva
* Laura Hershey
* Eva Kittay
* Simi Linton
* Mike Oliver
* Robert McRuer
* Tom Shakespeare
* Anne Waldschmidt
* Irving Zola
* Marta Russell
* Tobin Siebers | WIKI |
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* Delete. WP:NOTPROMOTION. Promotional draft with promotional sources, promoting a non-notable business. SmokeyJoe (talk) 23:48, 25 March 2018 (UTC)
* Declined G11 tagging. Borderline G11, definitely unsuitable promotion. —SmokeyJoe (talk) 23:49, 25 March 2018 (UTC)
* Delete per my G11 tag. Legacypac (talk) 00:20, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
* Delete - As noted, borderline G11, and would be A7 in mainspace. Robert McClenon (talk) 02:24, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
* Comment--Hmm...This is definitely not A7 stuff and IMHO, not G11-able either, esp. in draft-space .And, I say this as someone, who has a much harsher interpretation of G11, than most folks.Anyways, delete because of bleak prospests of notability. ~ Winged Blades Godric 08:22, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
* keep With some editing and additional sources this could become a valid article. Cu rent notability is not relevant here as per WP:NMFD. DES (talk)DESiegel Contribs 07:13, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
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Jonathan Roussel
Jonathan Roussel Toledo (born 16 August 1937, in Yoro) is a Honduran journalist, currently works as host of the radio program Vidrio Molido on Radio Cadena Voces and the television program De Cara al Pueblo in Canal 11.
On 10 May 2013, the Honduran Journalist Association announced that Roussel was to be distinguished with the "Alvaro Contreras" award. | WIKI |
Foreign exchange regulation
Foreign exchange regulation is a form of financial regulation specifically aimed at the Forex market that is decentralized and operates with no central exchange or clearing house. Due to its decentralized and global nature, the foreign exchange market has been more prone to foreign exchange fraud and has been less regulated than other financial markets.
However, some countries do regulate forex brokers through governmental and independent supervisory bodies, for example, the National Futures Association and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission in the US, the Australian Securities & Investments Commission in Australia, and the Financial Conduct Authority in the UK. These bodies act as watchdogs for their respective markets and provide financial licenses to organizations that comply with local regulations.
Objective
The objective of regulation is to ensure fair and ethical business behaviour. In their turn all foreign exchange brokers, investment banks and signal sellers have to operate in compliance with the rules and standards laid down by the Forex regulators. Typically they must be registered and licensed in the country where their operations are based. Licensed brokers may be subject to recurrent audits, reviews and evaluations to check that they meet the industry standards. Foreign exchange brokers may have capital requirements which require them to hold a sufficient amount of funds to be able to execute and complete foreign exchange contracts concluded by their clients and also to return clients’ funds intact in case of bankruptcy.
Each Forex regulator operates within its own jurisdiction and regulation and enforcement varies significantly from country to country. In the European Union a license from one member state covers the whole continent under the Mifid regulation and has resulted in regulatory arbitrage where companies select the EU country that imposes the least controls such as CySEC in Cyprus. Not all foreign exchange brokers are regulated and many will register in jurisdictions that impose low-regulatory environments such as tax havens and corporate havens that form part of offshore banking.
Main regulatory requirements
Client conduct - These insure brokers cannot make unrealistic or misleading claims or promises. It also prevents brokers from advising clients to take risky trade decisions or to enter into positions that are not in their best interest.
Segregation of client funds - These restrictions ensure that the broker can not use any of the clients funds for its operational or other expenses. This regulation requires that all deposits be maintained separately from the broker’s bank accounts.
Reporting and disclosure - These rules insure the broker’s clients are well informed of the status of their account and the risks associated with FOREX products.
Leverage limits - These limits ensure clients maintain an acceptable risk level. As such, firms may not offer increasingly higher leverage to consumers (e.g. 1:1000).
Minimum capital requirements - These restrictions ensure that clients can withdraw their funds at any time including in the event of bankruptcy of the broker.
Audit - Periodic auditing assures the broker financial risk is tolerable and there is no misappropriation of funds. To this end, brokers must submit periodic financial and capital adequacy statements.
Europe
* 🇧🇪 Belgium - The Financial Services and Markets Authority, FSMA (De Autoriteit voor Financiële Diensten en Markten, L'Autorité des services et marchés financiers)
* 🇧🇬 Bulgaria - Financial Supervision Commission of Bulgaria, FSC Bulgaria (Комисия за финансов надзор)
* 🇭🇷 Croatia - Croatian Financial Services Supervisory Agency, CFSSA (Hrvatska agencija za nadzor financijskih usluga)
* 🇨🇾 Cyprus - Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC)
* 🇨🇿 Czech Republic - Czech National Bank, CNB
* 🇩🇰 Denmark - Danish Financial Supervisory Authority, Danish FSA (Finanstilsynets)
* 🇪🇪 Estonia - The Financial Supervision Authority (Finantsinspektsioon)
* 🇫🇮 Finland - FIN-FSA in Finland (Finanssivalvonta)
* 🇫🇷 France:
* Autorité des marchés financiers, AMF (L'Autorité des marchés financiers),
* Banque de France (La Banque de France),
* Credit Institutions and Investment Firms Committee, CECEI (Le Comité des établissements de crédit et des entreprises d'investissement), and
* French Autorité de Contrôle Prudentiel et de Résolution, ACPR
* 🇩🇪 Germany - Federal Financial Supervisory Authority, BaFin (Die Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht)
* 🇬🇷 Greece - The Hellenic Capital Market Commission, HCMC
* 🇭🇺 Hungary - Hungarian Financial Supervisory Authority, HFSA (Pénzügyi Szervezetek Állami Felügyelete)
* 🇮🇸 Iceland - The Financial Supervisory Authority, FME (Seðlabanki Íslands)
* 🇮🇪 Ireland - The Central Bank of Ireland
* 🇮🇲 Isle of Man - The Financial Supervision Commission (FSC)
* 🇮🇹 Italy - Commissione Nazionale per le Società e la Borsa, CONSOB
* 🇱🇻 Latvia - The Financial and Capital Market Commission, FKTK (Finanšu un kapitāla tirgus komisija)
* 🇱🇹 Lithuania:
* The Lithuanian Securities Commission, and
* Bank of Lithuania (Lietuvos banko)
* 🇱🇮 Liechtenstein - The Financial Market Authority Liechtenstein, FMA (Finanzmarktaufsicht Liechtenstein)
* 🇱🇺 Luxembourg - Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier, CSSF
* 🇲🇹 Malta - Malta Financial Services Authority (FSA in Malta)
* 🇳🇴 Norway - The Financial Supervisory Authority of Norway (Finanstilsynet)
* 🇵🇱 Poland - Polish Financial Supervision Authority, PFSA (Komisja Nadzoru Finansowego)
* 🇵🇹 Portugal - Comissão do Mercado de Valores Mobiliários (CMVM)
* 🇷🇴 Romania - Romanian Financial Supervisory Authority, ASF (Autoritatea de Supraveghere Financiară)
* 🇷🇺 Russia:
* FCFR in Russia (Федеральная служба по финансовым рынкам), and
* Centre for Regulation of Off-Exchange Financial Instruments and Technologies, CRFIN (Центр регулирования внебиржевых финансовых инструментов и технологий)
* 🇸🇰 Slovakia - National Bank of Slovakia, NBS (Národná banka Slovenska)
* 🇪🇸 Spain - Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores
* 🇸🇪 Sweden - Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority, Swedish FSA (Finansinspektionen)
* 🇨🇭 Switzerland:
* Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority, FINMA (Eidgenössische Finanzmarktaufsicht, Autorité fédérale de surveillance des marchés financiers, Autorità federale di vigilanza sui mercati finanziari),
* Association Romande des Intermediares Financiers (ARIF),
* Organisme d'autorégulation fondè par le GSCGI, L'OAR-G (Organisme d'autorégulation des gerants de patrimoine),
* PolyReg General Self-Regulatory Organisation (PolyReg Allg. Selbstregulierungs-Verein, PolyReg Association Générale d'Autorégulation, L'OAD PolyReg),
* Swiss Bankers Association, SBA (Schweizerische Bankiervereinigung, Association suisse des banquiers, Associazione Svizzera dei Banchieri),
* Swiss Federal Banking Commission, SFBC (Eidgenössischen Bankenkommission, Commission fédérale des banques),
* Swiss Federal Department of Finance, SFDF (Eidgenössisches Finanzdepartement, Département fédéral des finances, Dipartimento federale delle finanze),
* Swiss Federal Finance Administration, SFFA (Eidg. Finanzverwaltung, Administration fédérale des finances, Amministrazione federale delle finanze),
* Swiss National Bank, SNB (Schweizerische Nationalbank, Banque nationale suisse, Banca nazionale svizzera)
* 🇬🇧 United Kingdom:
* UK Financial Services Authority (FSA UK),
* The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA),
* The Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA),
* Financial Services Compensation Fund (FSCS)
Asia
* 🇦🇿 Azerbaijan:
* State Committee for Securities (Azərbaycan Respublikası Qiymətli Kağızlar üzrə Dövlət Komitəsi), and
* Baku Stock Exchange (Bakı Fond Birjası)
* 🇧🇩 Bangladesh - Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC (বাংলাদেশ সিকিউরিটিজ অ্যান্ড এক্সচেঞ্জ কমিশন)
* 🇨🇳 China - China Securities Regulatory Commission, CSRC (Chinese: 中国证监会为国)
* UAE, Dubai:
* Dubai Multi Commodities Centre, DMCC (مركز دبي للسلع المتعددة),
* Dubai Gold & Commodities Exchange, DGCX (بورصة دبي للذهب والسلع),
* Dubai Financial Services Authority, DFSA (سلطة دبي للخدمات المالية), and
* Emirates Securities and Commodities Authority, SCA (هيئة الأوراق المالية والسلع)
* 🇭🇰 Hong Kong - Securities and Futures Commission (Chinese: 證券及期貨事務監察委員會)
* 🇮🇳 India:
* Securities and Exchange Board of India, SEBI (भारतीय प्रतिभूति और विनिमय बोर्ड), and
* Reserve bank of India, RBI (भारतीय रिज़र्व बैंक)
* 🇮🇩 Indonesia - Commodity Futures Trade Regulatory Agency, CoFTRA (Indonesian: Badan Pengawas Perdagangan Berjangka Komoditi/ BAPPEBTI)
* 🇮🇱 Israel - The Israel Securities Authority, ISA (רשות ניירות ערך)
* 🇯🇵 Japan:
* Financial Services Agency of Japan, FSA Japan (金融庁),
* Japan Securities Dealers Association, JSDA (日本証券業協会),
* Japan Investor Protection Fund, JIPF (j日本投資家保護基金), and
* Tokyo Commodity Exchange, TOCOM (東京商品取引所)
* 🇰🇼 Kuwait:
* Ministry of Commerce and Industry in Kuwait (وزارة التجارة), and
* Kuwait Chamber of Commerce & Industry, KCCI (الكويت غرفة التجارة والصناعة)
* 🇱🇧 Lebanon - Bank of Lebanon (مصرف لبنان, The Banque du Liban)
* 🇲🇾 Malaysia - Securities Commission Malaysia (Malaysian: Suruhanjaya Sekuriti Malaysia)
* 🇵🇰 Pakistan - Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan, SECP (سکیورٹیز اینڈ ایکسچینج کمیشن آف پاکستان)
* 🇵🇭 Philippines:
* Securities and Exchange Commission Philippines (филип. Komisyon sa mga Panagot at Palitan), and
* The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas
* 🇸🇬 Singapore:
* Monetary Authority of Singapore, MAS (Chinese: 新加坡金融管理局), and
* Singapore Exchange, SGX (Chinese: 新加坡交易所)
* 🇰🇷 South Korea - Financial Supervisory Commission (금융위원회, Geumnyung Wiwonhoe)
* 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka - Securities and Exchange Commission of Sri Lanka
* 🇹🇭 Thailand - Securities and Exchange Commission
* 🇹🇷 Turkey - Capital Markets Board, SPK (Sermaye Piyasası Kurulu)
North America
* 🇨🇦 Canada:
* British Columbia Securities Commission (BCSC),
* Canadian Investor Protection Fund (CIPF),
* Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Center of Canada (FINTRAC),
* Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC),
* Ontario Securities Commission (OSC), and
* Ombudsman of Banking Services and Investments (OBSI)
* 🇺🇸 United States:
* Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC),
* Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA),
* National Futures Association (NFA),
* U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (U.S. SEC),
* Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT), and
* Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC)
Middle America
* 🇦🇮 Anguilla - Anguilla Financial Services Commission
* 🇦🇬 Antigua and Barbuda - Eastern Caribbean Securities Regulatory Commission (ECSRC)
* 🇧🇿 Belize - International Financial Services Commission (IFSC)
* British Virgin Islands - BVI Financial Services Commission (FSC of BVI)
* 🇰🇾 Cayman Islands - The Cayman Islands Monetary Authority (CIMA)
* 🇩🇲 Dominica - Financial Services Unit (FSU)
* 🇵🇦 Panama:
* The Securities Market Superintendence, SMV (Superintendencia de Mercado de Valores),
* Ministry of Industry and Commerce, MICI - (Superintendencia de Mercado de Valores)
* St. Vincent and the Grenadines - The Financial Services Authority (FSA)
Africa
* 🇲🇦 Morocco - Autorité Marocaine du Marché des Capitaux (AMMC)
* 🇰🇪 Kenya - The Capital Markets Authority (CMA)
* 🇲🇺 Mauritius - The Financial Services Commission (FSC Mauritius)
* 🇳🇬 Nigeria - The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
* 🇸🇨 Seychelles:
* Seychelles Financial Services Authority (FSA Seychelles), and
* Seychelles Licensing Authority (SLA)
Australia and Oceania
* 🇦🇺 Australia - Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC)
* 🇳🇿 New Zealand:
* Financial Markets Authority (FMA),
* Financial Service Providers Register (FSPR), and
* Financial Services Complaints Limited (FSCL). | WIKI |
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which jogs to and fro from Richmond to Reeth, a village about half-way up the dale.
The little company with whom I rode to Reeth consisted of an old daleswoman and her daughter, and a woodcutter who sprang up soon after we left Richmond. He was an independent sort of a man, as indeed I found all the dalesmen to be. There is a practical equality among them, arising from similarity of position and education, which shows itself in many ways. Farther up the dale, I was told, the servants sit in the same parlour as their master and mistress, and call them, with the simple familiarity of friends, Tom and Mary.
The woodcutter was very talkative. He was employed in cutting down small, or "spring-wood," as he phrased it, used for the purpose of making supports to the cuttings in the lead mines. He was paid 4d. a dozen, but the dozen was reckoned in a curious way. Twenty-four small sticks, or one pole of ten feet, were alike regarded as equivalent to a dozen. He found employment nearly all the year round, and was evidently not badly off. He thought there were not many poor people in the dale—that is, people in want. On the contrary, many poor-looking men were very rich, and had hundreds of pounds in the bank. Those who live near the moor can feed their stock for nothing, live in the barest manner, and save little by little. In describing the dalesmen, we must reverse the line—
"His vices lean to virtue's side,"
for their frugality and prudence too often degenerate into mere avarice and selfishness. The woodcutter spoke of one man, worth £2000, who hired himself as a day-labourer to his brother, because by so doing it cost him nothing to live. I was told of another man who lived at the rate of about £20 a year, and suffered all the anxieties of the wealthy miser. "No one," he was heard to say, "knew what it was to sleep on seven thousand pounds."
From Richmond to Reeth the Swale comes dashing an< sparkling over the stones which lie scattered everywhere in it shallow bed. Right up from its banks, sometimes almost precipitously, the rocks rise clothed with thick woods, while, high above, their scarred and lofty ridges wind circuitousl [sic] up | WIKI |
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Rh the interplay between intelligence and conscience was made very clear; plainly did it appear that without knowledge, and much knowledge, without a judgment trained to nice discrimination, the desire to do right and justice in these days of complex social life must be vain. In this department summaries of experience in reform were added by men who have devoted their lives to seeing the Indian righted, the wretched in cities relieved, the prisoner born to new hope and purpose.
appearance of a new volume of the Synthetic Philosophy after a long enforced interval of rest on the part of its author is an event which merits the hearty congratulation, not only of the avowed disciples of Mr. Spencer in America—a goodly and growing number of our most intelligent thinkers—but also of all friends of scientific and liberal thought.
It is now twelve years since the publication of the Data of Ethics. As was then announced, this volume was issued in advance of the regular order of publication, under the pressure of premonitions of failing health. Similar considerations have impelled Mr. Spencer to leave unfinished the concluding sections of The Principles of Sociology and intervening parts of The Principles of Morality, in order to apply himself to the exposition of the law of Justice, which we have his explicit warrant for regarding as the consummate fruit of his patient study and discriminating thought. The noble volumes which have preceded it are all subsidiary to the practical application of the principles of Justice to the pressing problems of our societary life.
Viewed from the standpoint of the philosophical evolutionist, nothing surely could be more timely than the appearance of this work. The past decade has been an era of crude and rash speculation upon social and political problems. In America, no less than in England, we have need to listen to the voice of one who looks neither to the inventions of a closet-philosophy nor to the chance-suggestions of the political empiricist, but to the eternal laws of Nature for wise counsel and enlightenment upon these vast issues. We have recently listened to enthusiasts who expect to abolish poverty and reform society by the simple panacea of the single tax; we have seen a political party spring into an ephemeral existence based upon the success of a visionary novel—the effort of a professional story-writer to imagine a society constructed on principles as foreign as possible to those illustrated in the existing social order. Another political organization promises to abolish crime and regenerate human nature by the simple expedient of prohibiting the manufacture and sale of alcoholic drinks; and anarchistic agitators would abolish the evils of society by the short and easy method of abolishing society itself. It is refreshing to turn from this array of absurdly inadequate panaceas to the wise and conservative counsels of Mr. Spencer, whose more than seventy years, with whatsoever burdens of physical infirmity they may have afflicted him, have detracted nothing from his logical acumen, his clarity of thought, or lucidity of diction. The first six chapters of the present volume were published in The Nineteenth Century and The Popular Science Monthly in the spring of last year, and their tenor will readily be recalled by the readers of these periodicals. Defining the highest conduct as "that which conduces to the greatest length, breadth, and completeness of life," Mr. Spencer shows that we must seek for the germs of morality in the animal world. He goes further, and shows that human morality is based upon laws which are as universal as life itself, and are active and potent in the development of all living things. The reference to these underlying biological principles runs all through the present volume, and differentiates the treatment of its topics from that of his earlier work, Social Statics, which aimed to cover much of the same ground. Social Statics, however, was not the product of Mr. Spencer's mature thought. He has long been conscious of its imperfections. In the successive volumes of his Synthetic Philosophy he has substituted an exclusively natural or | WIKI |
Tanzania National Archives
The Tanzania National Archives (est. 1962) are the national archives of Tanzania. The headquarters are located in Dar es Salaam on Vijibweni Street in Upanga. They contain more than 8,000 files dating back to German East Africa, files from British-administered Tanganyika Territory, and further records since the country's independence.
History
The oldest holdings in the archive date from the time of German colonial rule. During World War I, German East Africa had been conquered by British troops. In 1920 a British officer discovered, amidst a mass of German-language documents, instructions from the last German governor from 1916, according to which the most important files of the German colonial government should be buried in Tabora and other places to prevent them from falling into the hands of the advancing British. This discovery led to negotiations between the British administration in Tanganyika Territory and the German government. In 1921 the latter agreed to send two representatives to assist in excavating the records. Since then, the recovered documents form the core of the German-language holdings of the Tanzania National Archives.
From 1950 onwards, the British government investigated whether a joint archive service could be set up for the then colonies and protectorates of Kenya, Uganda, Tanganyika and Zanzibar. V.W. Hiller, who was Chief Archivist of the then Central African Federation, was in charge of this investigation, but no further steps were taken. After historian Marcia Wright had examined the condition of the records, she submitted her report in November, 1962. It concluded that the records were threatened by ongoing destruction, as they were kept in a roofless warehouse.
By Presidential Decree No. 7 of December 1962, the National Archives became a division of the Ministry of National Culture and Youth of the newly independent government of Tanganyika. In June 1963 the ministry, supported by UNESCO, commissioned J. R. Ede, a professional archivist, to look after documents worthy of archiving. Ede also initiated steps to set up the National Archives as a government agency. The first director was Michael Cook. He initially endeavoured, under sometimes daring circumstances, to recover and secure files that were stored in the attics of provincial and district administrations across the country.
By Government Notice Number 289 of 1999, the archives were transferred from the Ministry of Education and Culture to the Public Service Management at the President’s Office, and a Records and Archives Management Division was established the same year. The earlier National Archives Act No. 33 of 1965 was replaced by the Records and Archives Management Act. No.3 of 2002. This act stated the main functions of the division, such as efficient keeping of records by all public offices, transfer and preservation of public records of enduring value to the National Archives, public access and storing of every publication produced by the Parliament, government and higher courts of the country.
The Records and Archives Management Department has a division for records management and a second one for archives management. A third division is dedicated to a museum, archives and research relating to the "Founders of the Nation" Julius Nyerere and Abeid Karume.
Location
The archives were initially housed in the basement of a government building known as the Old Treasury, facing the harbour near Azania Front Lutheran Church. In October 1964, the archives moved to a former commercial building in the city centre. Finally in 1984, the National Archives were relocated to buildings specially built for this purpose at Upanga, Vijibweni Street No 7. The National Archives are comprised by their headquarters in Dar es Salaam and six regional branch offices located in Mbeya, Mwanza, Arusha, Dodoma, Tanga, and Singida.
The German-language holdings
The German-language holdings consist of a collection of more than 8,000 files from the administration of German East Africa for the period 1890–1918. Finding aids for these are available. They have been recognized as a UNESCO World Documentary Heritage since 1997.
The German-language holdings initially posed a problem for the archive, as there was initially no one in the archive administration who read German. Michael Cook therefore asked for help from West Germany. After initial difficulties, the German side showed an interest, first commissioning the historian Egmont Zechlin, then staff from the school of archives in Marburg.
This help in sorting and indexing the documents also served to maintain relations between West Germany and Tanzania, at least in the cultural field, since Tanzania had recognized the German Democratic Republic, and the Federal Republic had frozen diplomatic relations and development aid in accordance with the Hallstein Doctrine. Furthermore, part of the colonial records in West Germany had been lost during the World War II, and what was preserved was mostly in the possession of the State Archives of East Germany and was very difficult for researchers from the West to access. The Federal Archives therefore had a significant interest in filming the German-language holdings stored in the Tanzania National Archives.
In this context, the archivist and historian Eckhard Franz and others from the Marburg archives school worked twice over a longer period of time at the Tanzania National Archives in 1967 and 1969. They organized the holdings and made microfiche copies. Since then, further German historians have used the holdings and evaluated documents. The project was subsequentally taken over by the German Federal Archives in 1976.
The other holdings
The Tanzania National Archives also contain
* over 30,000 files from the British administration (Chief Secretary’s Office) from the period 1919 to 1960,
* archives from the former provincial, regional and district administrations. All of these documents are arranged in the National Archives according to provenance and original order. There are 12 finding aids for the files of the provincial administrations and 114 for the district documents.
* documents from Tanzanian ministries, authorities, regions, districts and semi-governmental organizations.
* church archives and private documents from the years 1885-1980.
* a small collection of private papers, e.g. from the Universities Mission to Central Africa (UMCA) and from individuals such as Shaaban Robert, Saadan Kandoro or Kanyama Chiume.
* Newspapers.
* Official gazettes from 1919 to the present.
* a collection of maps and plans from the German and British colonial period up to the period since independence.
* photographs from the German and British period and the period since independence.
* postage stamps 1963–2000.
* a library related to the history of Tanzania. | WIKI |
Roots of Nonlinear Functions
Regula Falsi Method
Regula Falsi
The regula falsi method is a variant of the secant method. Given a continuous real-valued function of a real-variable, f(x), in which one wants to approximate the location of at least one root the regula falsi method proceeds after finding two values such that the function evaluated at the two values has opposite signs, i.e. if a and b are two numbers such that f(a)·f(b) < 0 then a zero of f(x) exists on the interval (min(a,b), max(a,b)).
The fact that a zero of f(x) exists in the interval (a,b) is a consequence of the intermediate value theorem of elementary analysis or from topology using the lemma that the continuous image of a connected set is connected as well as the lemma that a subset of R,(with the usual topology) with more than two points is connected if and only if it is an interval.
The regula falsi iterative procedure uses two estimates as in the secant method to estimate a new estimate, but the estimate which is replaced is the one for which the sign of the function is the same as the sign of the function for the new estimate. The regula falsi method is guaranteed to converge, but convergence may be extremely slow. The iterative process is continued until the halted. In the implementation given below the process is either terminated by the user, or when there is no machine representable number between the two endpoints, or when the function evaluates to zero at the new estimate.
It is best to avoid using the regula falsi method for final convergence to a root. It can be used as a good starting method. The restriction that the two estimates bracket the root such that the function evaluated at the two estimates has opposite signs means that regula falsi avoids the problems associated with having local extrema since it is no longer possible to attempt to divide by zero as in the secant method. Since regula falsi requires initial estimates in which the function evaluated at the initial estimates has opposite signs, it is impossible to use regula falsi to find the zeros of strictly nonnegative functions or nonpositive functions.
There are several comments which should be made in locating a zero of a continuous real-valued function of a real-variable f(x):
• If α is any non-zero real number, then f(x) and α f(x) have the same roots. I.e. you can scale the function f(x) without modifying the location of the roots.
• When the regula falsi method terminates, the final interval is guaranteed to contain a zero of the function. But the final interval could also contain more than one zero of the function, in fact it could contain an uncountably infinite number of zeros.
Function List
• int Regula_Falsi( double (*f)(double), double *a, double *fa,
double *b, double *fb, void *data[],
int (*verify_setup)(double, double, double, double, void**, int*),
int (*terminate)(double, double, double, double, unsigned int, void**,int*),
int *msg)
Locate at least one root of f(x) in the interval ( min(*a,*b), max(*a, *b) ) where *fa = f(*a), *fb = f(*b) and *fa · *fb < 0. The procedure terminates when the user supplied routine terminate() returns a 1 in which case the Regula_Falsi returns a 2. Regula_Falsi returns a 1 if the user supplied routine verify_setup() returns a 0 which signifies that the initial setup has an error. If the user supplied routine verify_setup() returns a 1 or non-zero then the iteration process is started. Regula_Falsi can also terminate with different return values, see the table below.
An example of a user supplied terminate() routine and a user supplied verify_setup() is given below in the routines Regula_Falsi_Terminate and Regula_Falsi_Verify_Setup respectively. Also included below is a routine to setup the array data called Regula_Falsi_Setup.
The return values for the Regula_Falsi are:
Return ValuesDescription
0At least one of the pointer arguments is NULL.
1The user supplied verify_setup() function returned a 0. The user specified error code should be stored at *msg.
2The user supplied terminate() function returned a 1. The user specified termination code should be stored at *msg.
3There is no machine representable number between the two endpoints.
4The function evaluates to zero at the intersection of the secant and the x-axis.
The arguments to Regula_Falsi are:
ArgumentDescription
fA real-valued function of a real-variable, i.e. a function with an argument of type double which returns a double.
aA pointer to one end of the interval for which the function at the endpoints has opposite signs. When Regula_Falsi is invoked, *a is the initial value of an endpoint, on return *a is the final value of the endpoint.
faA pointer to the value of f evaluated at *a, i.e. *fa = f(*a). When Regula_Falsi is invoked, *fa is the user supplied value of f(*a) where *a is the initial value at that endpoint, on return *fa is the final value of f(*a) where *a is the final value at that endpoint.
bA pointer to the other end of the interval for which the function at the endpoints has opposite signs. When Regula_Falsi is invoked, *b is the initial value of an endpoint, on return *b is the final value of the endpoint.
fbA pointer to the value of f evaluated at *b, i.e. *fb = f(*b). When Regula_Falsi is invoked, *fb is the user supplied value of f(*b) where *b is the initial value at that endpoint, on return *fb is the final value of f(*b) where *b is the final value at that endpoint.
dataAn array of pointers of the type void*. The array data is not used by Regula_Falsi directly but only passed to the user supplied verify_setup() and terminate() routines. This allows the user to pass additional information to the terminate() routine so it can determine whether or not to terminate the iteration. The user supplied verify_setup() routine generally only checks that data has no obvious flaws.
verify_setup()A user supplied routine to verify that the input data to Regula_Falsi and to the user supplied terminate() routine met the requirements that both routines function correctly. For a description of the arguments to verify_setup(), see the Regula_Falsi_Verify_Setup routine below which is an example of a user supplied verify_setup() routine. If verify_setup() detects an error, it can store an error code at *msg thus allowing the user to determine the reason for the error.
terminate()A user supplied routine to terminate or continue iterating. For a description of the arguments to terminate(), see the Regula_Falsi_Terminate routine below which is an example of a user supplied terminate() routine. If terminate() returns 1 halt, it can store a halt code at *msg thus allowing the user to determine the reason for the halting.
msgA pointer to an integer. This address is passed to the user supplied routines so that they can return error codes or halt codes.
• int Regula_Falsi_Terminate( double a, double fa, double b, double fb, unsigned int iteration_count, void *data[], int *halt_code)
Regula_Falsi_Terminate() is an example of a user supplied terminate() routine. This function returns a 0 if the process is to continue and a 1 if the iterating process is to halt. The arguments a, fa, b, fb of Regula_Falsi_Terminate() correspond to the dereferenced arguments a, fa, b, fb of the routine Regula_Falsi(), while data is the same, halt_code corresponds to argument msg of Regula_Falsi() and iteration_count is internal to Regula_Falsi().
The return values for the Regula_Falsi_Terminate are:
Return ValuesDescription
0Continue iterating.
1Terminate iterating.
For this routine the data array consists of four pointers:
Data Array IndexDescription
0A (double *) pointer, cast as (void*), to the relative tolerance.
1A (double *) pointer, cast as (void*), to the absolute tolerance.
2A (double *) pointer, cast as (void*), to the lower bound of the region which determines whether to use the relative tolerance test or the absolute tolerance test to determine convergence.
3A (double *) pointer, cast as (void*), to the upper bound of the region which determines whether to use the relative tolerance test or the absolute tolerance test to determine convergence.
4An (unsigned int*) pointer, cast as (void*), to the maximum number of iterations allowed.
If a 1 is returned (halt the iteration) then *halt_code is set to the following values:
Halt CodeMeaning
0The process converges using the relative tolerance test, i.e.
|b - a| / min(|a|,|b|) ≤ relative_tolerance,
where both a and b must have the same sign.
1The process converges using the absolute tolerance test, i.e.
|b - a| ≤ absolute_tolerance.
2The function vanishes at one or both of the endpoints.
3The number of iterations meets or exceeds the maximum allowable number of iterations without converging.
• int Regula_Falsi_Verify_Setup( double a, double fa, double b, double fb, void *data[], int *err)
Regula_Falsi_Verify_Setup() is an example of a user supplied verify_setup() routine. This function returns a 0 if an error was detected and a 1 if no error was detected, i.e. start the iteration process. The arguments a, fa, b, fb of Regula_Falsi_Verify_Setup() correspond to the dereferenced arguments a, fa, b, fb of the routine Regula_Falsi(), while data is the same and err corresponds to argument msg of Regula_Falsi().
For this routine the data array consists of five pointers:
IndexDescription
0A (double *) pointer to the relative tolerance.
1A (double *) pointer to the absolute tolerance.
2A (double *) pointer to the lower bound of the region which determines whether to use the relative tolerance test or the absolute tolerance test to determine whether to halt the iteration or not.
3A (double *) pointer to the upper bound of the region which determines whether to use the relative tolerance test or the absolute tolerance test to whether to halt the iteration or not.
4An (unsigned int *) pointer to the maximum number of iterations allowed.
If a 0 is returned (an error was detected) then *err is set to the following values:
NumberMeaning
1The endpoints agree i.e. a = b.
2The function evaluated at the endpoints has the same sign. In case the function vanishes at an endpoint, the terminate() procedure will terminate the iteration.
3The address of the data array is 0.
4The address of an element of the data array is 0.
5The relative tolerance is non-positive.
6The absolute tolerance is non-positive.
7The lower bound of the region which determines whether to use the relative tolerance test or the absolute tolerance test is not negative.
8The upper bound of the region which determines whether to use the relative tolerance test or the absolute tolerance test is not positive.
• int Regula_Falsi_Setup( double *rel_tolerance, double *abs_tolerance, double *test_region_lower_bound, double *test_region_upper_bound, unsigned int *max_number_of_iterations, void *data[])
Regula_Falsi_Setup() is an example of a program to populate the array data for use in both Regula_Falsi_Verify_Setup() and Regula_Falsi_Terminate() routines after being passed to Regula_Falsi(). In particular,
data[0] = (void *)rel_tolerance,
data[1] = (void *)abs_tolerance,
data[2] = (void *)test_region_lower_bound,
data[3] = (void *)test_region_upper_bound, and
data[4] = (void *)max_number_of_iterations,
where *rel_tolerance is the relative tolerance, *abs_tolerance is the absolute tolerance, *test_region_lower_bound is the lower bound of the region which determines whether to use the relative tolerance test or the absolute tolerance test to determine whether to halt the iteration or not, *test_region_upper_bound is the lower bound of the region which determines whether to use the relative tolerance test or the absolute tolerance test to determine whether to halt the iteration or not and *max_number_of_iterations is the maximum number of iterations to try before terminating the iteration. The array data must be dimensioned at least 5 in the calling routine.
The function, Regula_Falsi_Setup(), returns a 0 if at least one of the arguments is NULL, otherwise the function returns a 1.
C Source Code | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Eigen 3.3.5
Matrix-free solvers
Iterative solvers such as ConjugateGradient and BiCGSTAB can be used in a matrix free context. To this end, user must provide a wrapper class inheriting EigenBase<> and implementing the following methods:
Eigen::internal::traits<> must also be specialized for the wrapper type.
Here is a complete example wrapping an Eigen::SparseMatrix:
#include <iostream>
#include <Eigen/Core>
#include <Eigen/Dense>
#include <Eigen/IterativeLinearSolvers>
#include <unsupported/Eigen/IterativeSolvers>
class MatrixReplacement;
namespace Eigen {
namespace internal {
// MatrixReplacement looks-like a SparseMatrix, so let's inherits its traits:
template<>
struct traits<MatrixReplacement> : public Eigen::internal::traits<Eigen::SparseMatrix<double> >
{};
}
}
// Example of a matrix-free wrapper from a user type to Eigen's compatible type
// For the sake of simplicity, this example simply wrap a Eigen::SparseMatrix.
class MatrixReplacement : public Eigen::EigenBase<MatrixReplacement> {
public:
// Required typedefs, constants, and method:
typedef double Scalar;
typedef double RealScalar;
typedef int StorageIndex;
enum {
ColsAtCompileTime = Eigen::Dynamic,
MaxColsAtCompileTime = Eigen::Dynamic,
IsRowMajor = false
};
Index rows() const { return mp_mat->rows(); }
Index cols() const { return mp_mat->cols(); }
template<typename Rhs>
}
// Custom API:
MatrixReplacement() : mp_mat(0) {}
void attachMyMatrix(const SparseMatrix<double> &mat) {
mp_mat = &mat;
}
const SparseMatrix<double> my_matrix() const { return *mp_mat; }
private:
const SparseMatrix<double> *mp_mat;
};
// Implementation of MatrixReplacement * Eigen::DenseVector though a specialization of internal::generic_product_impl:
namespace Eigen {
namespace internal {
template<typename Rhs>
struct generic_product_impl<MatrixReplacement, Rhs, SparseShape, DenseShape, GemvProduct> // GEMV stands for matrix-vector
: generic_product_impl_base<MatrixReplacement,Rhs,generic_product_impl<MatrixReplacement,Rhs> >
{
typedef typename Product<MatrixReplacement,Rhs>::Scalar Scalar;
template<typename Dest>
static void scaleAndAddTo(Dest& dst, const MatrixReplacement& lhs, const Rhs& rhs, const Scalar& alpha)
{
// This method should implement "dst += alpha * lhs * rhs" inplace,
// however, for iterative solvers, alpha is always equal to 1, so let's not bother about it.
assert(alpha==Scalar(1) && "scaling is not implemented");
EIGEN_ONLY_USED_FOR_DEBUG(alpha);
// Here we could simply call dst.noalias() += lhs.my_matrix() * rhs,
// but let's do something fancier (and less efficient):
for(Index i=0; i<lhs.cols(); ++i)
dst += rhs(i) * lhs.my_matrix().col(i);
}
};
}
}
int main()
{
int n = 10;
S = S.transpose()*S;
MatrixReplacement A;
A.attachMyMatrix(S);
Eigen::VectorXd b(n), x;
b.setRandom();
// Solve Ax = b using various iterative solver with matrix-free version:
{
cg.compute(A);
x = cg.solve(b);
std::cout << "CG: #iterations: " << cg.iterations() << ", estimated error: " << cg.error() << std::endl;
}
{
bicg.compute(A);
x = bicg.solve(b);
std::cout << "BiCGSTAB: #iterations: " << bicg.iterations() << ", estimated error: " << bicg.error() << std::endl;
}
{
Eigen::GMRES<MatrixReplacement, Eigen::IdentityPreconditioner> gmres;
gmres.compute(A);
x = gmres.solve(b);
std::cout << "GMRES: #iterations: " << gmres.iterations() << ", estimated error: " << gmres.error() << std::endl;
}
{
Eigen::DGMRES<MatrixReplacement, Eigen::IdentityPreconditioner> gmres;
gmres.compute(A);
x = gmres.solve(b);
std::cout << "DGMRES: #iterations: " << gmres.iterations() << ", estimated error: " << gmres.error() << std::endl;
}
{
Eigen::MINRES<MatrixReplacement, Eigen::Lower|Eigen::Upper, Eigen::IdentityPreconditioner> minres;
minres.compute(A);
x = minres.solve(b);
std::cout << "MINRES: #iterations: " << minres.iterations() << ", estimated error: " << minres.error() << std::endl;
}
}
Output:
CG: #iterations: 20, estimated error: 8.86333e-14
BiCGSTAB: #iterations: 20, estimated error: 2.10809e-15
GMRES: #iterations: 10, estimated error: 0
DGMRES: #iterations: 20, estimated error: 1.10455e-28
MINRES: #iterations: 20, estimated error: 2.94473e-14 | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
St. Johannis-Harvestehude
St. Johannis-Harvestehude (St. John-Harvestehude), Hamburg, is a neo-Gothic Protestant church, built between 1880 and 1882, and considered one of the best-preserved turn-of-the-century monuments of Hamburg. Contrary to what the name might suggest, the church is located in the Rotherbaum quarter of Hamburg, between the streets of Turmweg and Mittelweg, near the Außenalster.
History
The parish of St. John-Harvestehude was founded on 27 January 1879. The first parish council, presided by the future mayor Dr. Mönckeberg, selected the design of the architect Wilhelm Hauers, out of seven proposals. The "provisorial committee for the construction of a church in front of the Dammthor" had already settled issues of property with the town and could therefore provide capital, so that the works could swiftly be carried out within the years 1880 to 1882.
The architect Hauers designed the church in the spirit of the "Eisenacher Regulativ", of 1861. The result is an architectural composition that is nearly complete in its neogothical sense of art. The pews, chairs and lecterns may be counted among this, as well as the organ prospectus, the terrazzo-floor and the fresci. The spires of St. John are clearly visible, in particular at night, from various parts of the town. The main spire reaches a height of 80m.
The Altar
St. John is entirely focused on Jesus and the Altar, which is wood-carved and gold-plated. The latter, a work of the Hamburg sculptor Neuber, shows the Lord three times:
* 1) In a copy of Leonardo da Vinci's "Communion", titled with the words: "Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavily laden and I will give you rest."
* 2) In the depiction of a group of crucifixion scenes above the Holy Communion, which is a reproduction of the work of the renowned wood carver Tilmann Riemenschneider. It is embroidered with a mandorla.
* 3) On the pediment of the Altar depicted as the Resurrected Christ.
In the above window, Jesus is shown as the Lord, wearing a red toga, holding the keys in the left and the "Book of Life" in the right.
Stained glass
The designs for the glass paintings that have been manufactured in a workshop in Innsbruck, Austria, are the work of artists belonging to the renowned "Nazarene" group around Schnoor von Carolsfeld. They still radiate as brilliantly as they used to do, a hundred years ago, thanks to protective windshields preventing environmental erosion. They illustrate a coherent biblical cycle, beginning on the main entrance's left with three depictions of the Old Testament, proceeding with the "Christmas window" at the crossing, the images of Christ in the Choir, the "Pentecostal window" and, eventually, three pictures dealing with subjects of the New Testament.
The Organ
The organ dates the same time of origin as the church. In 1882, the company Marcussen und Sohn of Apenrade built a duo-manual instrument with 27 resonating voices. It experienced several alterations and was changed for the last time in 1933 by Furtwängler&Hammer of Hannover. The now tri-manual instrument with 49 registers and 3494 pipes has ever since been employed.
After the war, this concert organ was the only one in Hamburg to be of use. In the 1970s, it was thoroughly cleansed and renovated. Then, in 1974, the company Peter of Cologne created a new playing table, for the first time incorporating electronic technology. Thanks to this, the organ is suited for all kinds of musical literature, from prebaroque to modern, and improvisation. | WIKI |
Antony Kamm
Antony Kamm (2 March 1931 – 11 February 2011) was an English publisher, author, historian and cricketer.
Biography
Antony Kamm was born in Hampstead, London, the son of George Kamm, a founder director of Pan Books and his wife Josephine, a biographer and novelist (who was a first cousin of Herbert Samuel). Kamm was of Jewish ancestry.
He was educated at Charterhouse where he captained the 1st XI before his National Service in the Navy. He read Classics for two years before switching to English Literature at Worcester College, Oxford University. He also played hockey and fives for the university. He was a right-handed batsman and wicket keeper who represented Middlesex in two first-class matches in 1952, six for Oxford University (1952–1955; blue 1954) and once for Free Foresters in 1956.
Kamm led a successful career in publishing. His first job was for the National Book League, a charity advocating the benefits of reading, working under Jack Morpurgo, the step-father of the children's writer Michael Morpurgo. He became the editorial director of the Leicester-based publisher, Brockhampton Press, in 1960. In this role, he acquired the rights to the Asterix comic books, launching English editions of them which began in 1968, co-translated by his then wife, Anthea Bell, and Derek Hockridge. He became chairman of the Children's Book Group at the Publishers’ Association, and was a consultant to UNESCO.
During the 1970s, Kamm worked for the Commonwealth Secretariat in London and began to work for Oxford University Press in charge of its children's books division. Kamm wrote several books, especially on Roman history and children's literature. His biography of Scottish engineer John Logie Baird, co-written with Malcolm Baird, was published in 2002. In addition to his writing, he was also a lecturer in publishing at Stirling University (1988–1995).
He married Anthea Bell (1936–2018) in 1957; the couple had two sons, Richard and Oliver (the latter, a journalist at The Times), but subsequently divorced in 1973. His second marriage was to the biographer and children's author Eileen Dunlop (born 1938). Kamm died in Dollar, Clackmannanshire, Scotland. | WIKI |
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OLS Field Name OLS Field Data
Main Title Extreme Clonal Diversity and Divergence in Populations of a Selfing Hermaphroditic Fish.
Author Turner, B. J. ; Elder, J. F. ; Laughlin, T. F. ; Davis, W. P. ; Taylor, D. S. ;
CORP Author Environmental Research Lab., Gulf Breeze, FL. ;Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State Univ., Blacksburg. Dept. of Biology. ;Brevard Mosquito Control District, Titusville, FL.;National Science Foundation, Washington, DC.
Publisher cNov 92
Year Published 1992
Report Number EPA/600/J-93/067; NSF-BSR85-06417;
Stock Number PB93-169019
Additional Subjects Fishes ; Variation(Genetics) ; Hermaphroditism ; DNA fingerprinting ; Satellite DNA ; Nucleic acid hybridization ; Mutations ; DNA probes ; Reprints ; Rivulus marmoratus
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NTIS PB93-169019 Most EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown. Check with individual libraries about paper copy. 08/23/1993
Collation 7p
Abstract
Recombination is unknown in natural populations of Rivulus marmoratus, a selfing hermaphrodite, and genetic variation is likely due to mutation alone. DNA fingerprinting with an array of microsatellite (e.g., (CT)sub 9) and minisatellite (e.g. the 33.15 core sequence) probes reveals very high clonal diversity within samples of 7 Floridian populations, 5 contain about as many clones as there are individuals. There are 42 clones among 58 individual surveyed (mean = 1.4 individuals/clone), a level of genetic diversity unprecedented among clonal animals. Moreover, all of the probes recognize the same clones even though, at high hybridization stringencies, there is little overlap in the fingerprint patterns they generate. This suggests that most sympatric clones differ by multiple and independent mutational steps. In one population studied in detail, the average number of mutational steps separating two clones is estimated at about 9-10, and may be substantially higher. The mutational discontinuities among sympatric clones make it unlikely that they evolved by the accumulation of neutral mutations in populations that are otherwise genetically uniform. The data argue that the mixing of unrelated individuals from different local populations occurs to an extent previously unappreciated and/or that divergence of clones is mediated by natural selection. In confirmed, the latter would be a serious challenge to current ideas on the predominant role of recombination in promoting the evolution of biological novelty. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
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Eric Von Schmidt
Eric Von Schmidt (May 28, 1931 – February 2, 2007) was an American folk musician and painter. He was associated with the folk boom of the late 1950s and early 1960s and was a key part of the Cambridge folk music scene. As a singer and guitarist, he was considered to be the leading specialist in country blues in Cambridge at the time, the counterpart of Greenwich Village's Dave Van Ronk. Von Schmidt co-authored with Jim Rooney Baby, Let Me Follow You Down: The Illustrated Story of the Cambridge Folk Years.
Biography
Von Schmidt's father, Harold von Schmidt, was a Western painter who did illustrations for the Saturday Evening Post. Von Schmidt began selling his own artwork while he was still a teenager. Following a stint in the army, he won a Fulbright scholarship to study art in Florence. He moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1957, where he painted and became part of the coffeehouse scene.
Von Schmidt shared his large repertory of traditional music, passing them along to new performers who were developing a more modern version of folk music. He influenced Tom Rush, with whom he revived and arranged the traditional song "Wasn’t That a Mighty Storm?" about the 1900 hurricane that destroyed Galveston, Texas. When he met Bob Dylan, the two traded harmonica licks, drank red wine and played croquet. Dylan eagerly absorbed von Schmidt's voluminous knowledge of music, including folk, country and the blues. "I sang [Dylan] a bunch of songs, and, with that spongelike mind of his, he remembered almost all of them when he got back to New York," von Schmidt said in The Boston Globe.
Von Schmidt is widely (and erroneously) credited as the author of the song, "Baby, Let Me Follow You Down", which was for years a staple of Dylan's musical catalogue. In a spoken introduction to the song on his 1962 self-titled debut album, Dylan jokingly mentioned that he first "heard" the song from "Rick von Schmidt" and told of meeting him "in the green pastures of Harvard University." In fact, von Schmidt had adapted the song from Blind Boy Fuller and credited Reverend Gary Davis as author of "three-quarters" of the song. His 1979 book about the Cambridge scene is titled after the song.
Among his best known and performed original compositions is the song "Joshua Gone Barbados" which depicts Ebenezer Joshua the head of labor union and head of the government of Saint Vincent (island) vacationing during a time of labor strife leading indirectly to the deaths of three men. The accuracy of Von Schmidt's characterization of Joshua's involvement in the incident has been disputed. Given that Mr. Joshua died poor and remains a revered figure on the island, his depiction in the song is probably less sympathetic than it should be. Nonetheless, the song remains a powerful evocation of the plight of the poor people of Saint Vincent.
In 1963, von Schmidt and Richard Fariña recorded in London's Dobell's Jazz Record store, with Dylan on harmonica. Two years later, The Folk Blues of Eric von Schmidt appeared atop a pile of records on the cover of Dylan's album Bringing It All Back Home.
In May 1964, Dylan visited Von Schmidt at his home in Sarasota, Florida and recorded several songs there, including an early version of "Mr. Tambourine Man". The recordings were released in 2014 as part of Dylan's "50th Anniversary Collection 1964".
In the liner notes for Von Schmidt's 1969 Smash album, Who Knocked The Brains Out Of The Sky? (SRS 67124), notes which also appeared on a cover sticker for Von Schmidt's 1972 Poppy album 2nd Right 3rd Row, Dylan wrote: "Of course we had heard about Eric Von Schmidt for many years. The name itself had become a password. Eventually, after standing in line to meet him, there it was – his doorstep, a rainy day, and he greeted his visitors, inviting them in. He was told how much they liked Grizzly Bear [a von Schmidt song] and he then invited the whole bunch to the club, where he was about to perform the thing live. 'C'mon down to the club' he said – 'I'm about to perform it live.' We accepted the invitation. And that is what his record is. An invitation. An invitation to the glad, mad, sad, biting, exciting, frightening, crabby, happy, enlightening, hugging, chugging world of Eric Von Schmidt. For here is a man who can sing the bird off the wire and the rubber off the tire. He can separate the men from the boys and the note from the noise. The bridle from the saddle and the cow from the cattle. He can play the tune of the moon. The why of the sky and the commotion from the ocean. Yes he can."
Artist
Von Schmidt had a parallel career as a painter, and created album covers for Joan Baez, Cisco Houston, John Renbourn, Reverend Gary Davis, the Blue Velvet Band, Jackie Washington Landron and for James Baldwin's readings. He also created the cover for The Blues Project compendium of white blues performers (Elektra EKL-264, 1964). Von Schmidt illustrated a 1973 book of twenty-five ghost stories called The Haunting of America, by Jean Anderson. In the final 30 years of his life, Von Schmidt recorded only two records, and instead focused on his art career.
Four years before his death, von Schmidt painted his last epic of American history. The canvas' subject was of Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery honoring its bicentennial. He also continued work on his "Giants of the Blues" series of paintings.
Von Schmidt also illustrated numerous children's books including a number of collaborations with Sid Fleischman.
Awards and legacy
Von Schmidt was known for an exuberant musical style that he liked to apply to American folk classics. "Eric's got that wild spirit, and he doesn't water the music down for polite society," Ramblin' Jack Elliott told The Boston Globe in 1996.
Von Schmidt's music has been recorded by Travis MacRae and Jeff Buckley. In 2000, the same year he was diagnosed with throat cancer, he was honored with the ASCAP Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award at an event fittingly held at Club Passim, his old stomping ground when it was named Club 47. The highlight of the event was a reunion of the Jim Kweskin Jug Band including Maria Muldaur, Geoff Muldaur, Fritz Richmond, and, for the first time in over twenty years, Jim Kweskin.
In 1997, he won a Grammy Award for his work on a compilation album entitled Anthology of American Folk Music, Vol. 1-3. He painted up until his death, and completed an epic mural of the Battle of the Alamo.
Von Schmidt was twice divorced and had two daughters. He suffered a stroke in August 2006, and died six months later, at the age of 75.
Compilations
* Come for to Sing, Pathways of Sound, 1963
* The Blues Project, Elektra, 1964
* Folklore Jamboree, Prestige Records, 1964
* The Newport Folk Festival 1965, Vanguard Records, 1965
* Take a Trip with Me: Psychedelic Hits", Prestige Records, 197?
* Bleecker & McDougal: The Folk Scene of the 60s, Elektra, 1984
* Blues in the Bottle, Big Beat Records, 1988
* Troubadours of the Folk Era, Vol. 1, Rhino Records, 1992
* Blues with a Feeling (Newport Folk Festival Classics), Vanguard, 1993
* The Prestige/Folklore Years, Vol. 1, Prestige Records, 1995
* The Prestige/Folklore Years, Vol. 2, Prestige Records, 1995
* The Acoustic Highway Collection: The Road to Country Rock, EMI, 1996
* Blues in the Sun, Vol. 7 (Blues Blue, Blues White): The Bluesville Years, Prestige Records, 1996
* Blues with a Feeling, Part Two, Vanguard Records, 1997
* Washington Square Memoirs: The Great Urban Folk Boom (1950–1970), Rhino Records, 2001
* Evening at Greasy Spoon Diner, P-Vine Records, 2002 | WIKI |
Short-cut to easily clear formatting from text in a Word document
Clearing formatting from a Word document
Clearing formatting from a Word document
Here is a really simple and easy way to clear formatting from text in a Microsoft Word document, for example, when you’ve cut and pasted from a website or another document
Very simply highlight the text, press and hold CTRL then press the ‘space bar’
Highlighting the text can be done easily in one of three ways:
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Talk:Russian battleship Chesma (1886)
Cites in lede
I couldn't find any reference to "Ekaterina-II class" battleships in the body of the article, or indeed the part about the ship being too heavy and the armor underwater. Please do not remove the cites for those unless the same information is also included and cited in the body. Cites in the lede are not prohibited, anyway, just that often they're unnecessary if the lede is properly summarising the article content. Thanks — Amakuru (talk) 13:11, 7 July 2019 (UTC) | WIKI |
Croaghaun
Croaghaun (Cruachán) is a mountain on Achill Island in County Mayo, Ireland. At 688 metres (2,257 ft), it has the highest sea cliffs in Ireland as well as the third highest sea cliffs in Europe (after Hornelen, Norway and Cape Enniberg, Faroe Islands).
Geography
Croaghaun is the most westerly peak of Achill Island, and its highest mountain. Its cliffs lie on the northern slope of the mountain. The cliffs at Croaghaun can only be seen by hiking around or to the summit of the mountain, or from the sea. They are part of a sequence of sheer rock faces which start south of Keem Bay and loop around the uninhabited north-west of the island, by Achill Head and Saddle Head, and east to Slievemore, occasionally dropping vertically into the waters of the Atlantic Ocean.
Nature
The Croaghaun cliffs are home to two families of peregrine falcons (RTÉ, 2008). September and October are the best time to see the fastest creatures on Earth here, as they teach their young to fly. Metamorphic, quartz-laden gems may be observed, along with Mediterranean heathers and the waters of the Atlantic. It is common to see schools of bottlenose dolphins and basking sharks, once a source of revenue for Achill Island (BBC, 2009). Porpoises are found in large numbers. Orcas, humpback whales, and other whales have been sighted. | WIKI |
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178 LUMLEY. of Pari, restoring him in blood, and enacting " that the said John Lumlcy and tlie heirs male of his body should liave hold, enjoy and bear the name, dignity, state and pre-eminence of a Huron of the realm," whereby he became BAltON LUMLEY (a new Barony of that name, in tail male, being thus created) and he was sum. to Pari, accordingly from 5 Oct 1553 to 5 Nov. 1605. K.B., 29 Nov. 1553 ; attending at the subsequent coronation of Queen Mary, being also a commissioner of claims at the coronations of Queen Elizabeth and of James I. He was suspected of treasonable dealings with Mary, Queen of Scots, and was, in 1570 (as also was the Earl of Arundel, his father-in-law) imprisoned ; in Oct. 1686 he was one of the triers(l ) of that Queen, as also in 1002 of the Earl of Essex. He in. firstly, before 1 March 1552, Joan, eldest^') of the two daughters ami coheirs of Henry (FitzaI.an), EahL OK ArUXDBL, by his first wife Catharine, da. of Thomas (GrrT), Mahqukss OF PoltSET. She was one of the si* principal ladies, that sat in the third chariot of stite at the cornation of Queeu Mary, in 1553, She was bur. (with her infant children), 9 March 1676/7, at Cheam, CO. Surrey. He IB. secondly, Elizabeth, da of Thomas (Daucy), 2d Baiion Dairy ok Chichk, by Frances, da. of Richard (RICH), 1st BaHon RICH, Hot/., s.p.s., 11 April 1009, aged 70, and was buried at Cheam afsd( c ) M.I.('>) At his death the Barony of I.umUy {cr. in 1547) became cstinct!?). Inn. -post mortem at Southwark, 30 May 1009. Will (whereby, as also by settlement, he had settled the bulk of his estates on his distant kinsman and heir nude) dated 28 Jan. 1005/0, pr. 1609. His widow was bur. from St. Olive Hart street, London, 1 Feb. 1610,7, at Cheam afsd., M.I.(' 1 ) Will dated 0 Nov. 1010. pr. 1617. ( a ) See vol. iii, p, 7"2, note " a," sub Derby, for the names of the 24 noblemen thus appointed. ( b ) Mary the second da. (the only child of her father who hail issue) m. Thomas (Howard), Duke of Norfolk, and was ancestress of the succeeding Dukes of Norfolk and Earls of Arundel. ( c ) In Camden's " Elizabeth " his zeal, (which apparently exceeded his discretion) for his ancestry is thus alluded to " Had so great a veneration for the memory of his ancestors that he caused monuments to be erected for them in the collegiate church of Chester-on-the-street (opposite to Lumley Castle), in order as they succeeded one another, from Liulphus down to his own time; which he had either picked out of the demolished monasteries, or made new." ( d ) This monument is engraved in " Sandford," p. 423. ( c ) Splandian Lloyd, then aged 40 and upwards, was found tc be his heir, being s. and h. of his only sister Barbara Williams deceased, which Barbara had n, firstly, Humphrey Lloyd, of Denbigh (who </. Aug. 1508, aged 41), and secondly, William Williams, of Cochwillan, co. Carnarvon, This Splandian was consequently the heir in 1609 to the Barony of Lumley as cr. by the writ of 1384, subject to the reversal of the attainder thereof. This Splandian ((. s.p., but his great-grand-nephew and heir, Robert Lumley Lloyd, D.D.. Hector of St. Paul's, Covent Garden (who had inherited from his ancestor, Lord Lumley, the estate of Cheam, in Surrey) laid claim to the Barony, as heir general, to whose petition the committee for privileges replied, 23 March 1723, " That the petitioner had no right to a writ of summons in pari, as prayed by his petition." This resolution was founded upon the previous report. (1) "That by the Act of pari, of 1 Ed. VI. [1547] a new Barony of Lumley was created and limited by express words to John, Lord Lumley, in tail male, and that upon his death without issue male, the said Barony became extinct. (2) That the attainder [1538] of George Lumley is not reversed by the said Act, but remains yet in force, and that the restitution of John, Lord Lumley, in blood only, while the attainder remains unreversed, could not possibly revive the ancient Barony, which was before merged in the crown in consequence of that attainder." The petition of 1723 is given in full in Collins' " liuronics by writ " pp. 373-377. The claim was opposed by the Earl of Scarbrough, the heir male, to whom (on account of this groundless ami apparently wanton opposition) Dr. Lloyd, by his will dated 29 Dec. 1729, leaves the body of Richard "late Viscount Waterford " now in the vault belonging " to our family " at Cheam, with liberty (as he sarcastically adds) " to make such use thereof as he shall think fit." Dr. Lloyd d. Nov. 1730, apparently s.p. His numerous relatives are set forth in Burke's " Extinct Peerage," (sub. " Lumley ") but he appears to have left the (Lumley) estate of Cheam (away from them) to the Duke of Bedford. | WIKI |
Endo's stock tumbles to 14 1/2-year low after drug maker swings to large loss
Shares of Endo International PLC tumbled 6.8% in morning trade Tuesday, hitting the lowest level seen since January 2003, after the drug maker swung to a large loss for the second quarter. The net loss was $1.4 billion, or $6.26 a share, after a profit of $343.6 million, or $1.54 a share, in the same period a year ago. Excluding non-recurring items, such as impairment charges related to the market withdrawal of its opioid Opana ER at the request of the Food and Drug Administration, adjusted earnings per share came to 93 cents, beating the FactSet consensus of 73 cents. Revenue fell to $875.7 million from $920.9 million, beating the FactSet consensus of $832.7 million. U.S. generics revenue was little changed at $563.3 million, above expectations of $525.0 million, but U.S. generics base revenue fell 34% while sterile injectables grew 27% and new launches and alternative dosages rose 70%. Endo's stock has been tumbling recently after disappointing results and commentary from Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. cast a pall on generic drug makers. Endo's stock has shed 20% over the past three months, while the S&P 500 has gained 3.3%. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Lots of people get worked up about orchids, the apogee, or something near it, of floral extravagance. They are plants whose flowers are so potent they can produce lust bordering on obsession. Their seeds, on the other hand, produce disdain. “Dust seeds,” botanists and fanciers alike scoff. Rarely has anyone bothered to take a closer look.
Over the last four decades, a team of German scientists finally did. Four years ago they published the first-ever monograph of orchid seeds, which documents their understated beauty and sometimes surprising complexity with thousands of scanning electron micrographs. Their findings demonstrate that orchid seeds are not as wholly uninteresting as their size suggests.
Even the simplest and smallest have a beautiful textured balloon-like coat that hides the miniscule embryo inside an air-filled cavity:
Special scanning electron microscope technique reveals the air-filled interior and simple embryo. Credit: Barthlott et al. 2014
The cells that construct the seed coat are so truly tiny that you can see (and count!) them. The ridges between them can give the seed a sculpted look.
Credit: Barthlott et al. 2014
An orchid named Vanilla is the source of vanilla extract and vanilla "beans". The seeds of Vanilla and its kin have a flattened blade to help them sail away on the wind, like the wing of a maple seed.
Seed of Epistephium parviflorum, a Vanilla relative. Credit: Barthlott et al. 2014
Something like this thing is what you're eating any time you eat vanilla bean ice cream. These are the tiny black specks.
Another species, Microcoelia obovata, produces seeds covered in tiny hooks. Their object is to secure a home on the bark of new twig, the preferred home of the epiphytic plants.
Seed coat of Microcoelia obovata. Credit: Barthlott et al. 2014
But the orchid Chiloschista lunifera has taken this tactic right up to 11.
Chiloschista lunifera.Credit: Barthlott et al. 2014
The seed coat cells on one end of the seed possess helical wall thickenings. When wetted, they unspool in a tangle that performs the same job as the hooks on Microcoelia .
Chiloschista is interesting for another reason. Although its seeds are elaborate, the plant itself has opted to forgo that most basic of plant organs: the leaf. It's a bundle of green stem-like aerial roots that miraculously sprouts yellow flowers.
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This orchid brought to you by Snidely Whiplash. Credit: Naoki Takebayashi Flickr (CC-BY-SA 2.0)
So why are orchid seeds so miniscule? Answering that question requires a short tour of the plants' unconventional reproductive system.
Orchids are renowned for their extravagantly sculpted, pigmented, and perfumed flowers (although I love orchids, frippery is the word that comes to mind) and keen interest in alternative plant lifestyles (like giving up leaves and living in trees).
One of those alternatives is a reproductive system referred to “lottery pollination”. The grand prize in the lottery is a packet called a pollinium. The pollinium is the plant equivalent of the animal spermatophore – a big package of sperm, or in orchids’ case, pollen (and since pollen makes sperm, it’s a fine distinction in my mind.)
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Pollinium indicated by arrow. Contents indicated by, er, conveniently convergent shape. Credit: Esculapio Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 3.0)
When a pollinator visits an orchid flower, the pollinium has evolved to detach and stick to them, with often comical results.
Credit: Gideon Pisanty Wikmedia (CC-BY-S.A. 3.0)
If all goes according to plan, that pollinator will visit another orchid of the same species. The pollinium will stick to this flower’s strategically-placed stigma. And then all the pollen stuffed inside the pollinium will fertilize all the thousands of awaiting eggs inside a new orchid fruit. You win big, or you win nothing.
As a result of this system, some orchids are going to waiting a long time for fertilization to happen, and consequently, their unfertilized flowers are some of the longest-lasting in the business. They can stay fresh-looking for a month or more, one reason they are so prized as houseplants.
In some ways, an orchid is like a salmon: it makes scores of offspring and doesn’t invest much in any of them. The result is tiny seeds. Most are less than a millimeter across and some are as tiny as the largest fungal spores – just 100 micrometers across.
What’s inside is spartan too. A seed is a plant embryo supplied with a food care package called endosperm to help the embryo get started. In plants like wheat and corn, the endosperm persists in the mature seed and is the source of white flour. (Whole wheat flour also includes the high-fiber seed coat, or bran, and the nutritious plant embryo, or germ).
Orchid seeds almost always lack endosperm. No sack lunch for you, kiddo. Instead, the seeds must find a special fungus with which to partner and germinate, and it is this fungus that supplies a baby orchid with startup food.
In addition, the mother plant boots the seeds out of the nest when the embryos inside are still only a few cells big. In other seeds, the embryos are usually so well developed you can see a tiny version of an adult plant in there, as anyone who’s ever looked inside a peanut has noticed. Orchid embryos are microscopic blobs.
As a result, an orchid seed is stripped down like a broke poker player. There’s an embryo. There’s a seed coat. And that’s about it. But that doesn’t mean they aren’t interesting, beautiful -- or helpless. They have what they need to get the job done.
Reference
Barthlott W., Große-Veldmann B. & Korotkova N. 2014: Orchid seed diversity: A scanning electron microscopy survey. – Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem. – Englera 32. – ISBN 978-3-921800-92-8. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Configuring mavenDeployer from Java
Maven plugin has nice groovy DSL to easily set up a publish task. For example you could do something like the following:
uploadArchives {
repositories {
mavenDeployer {
repository(url: "file://localhost/tmp/myRepo/")
pom.project {
licenses {
license {
name 'The Apache Software License, Version 2.0'
url 'http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt'
distribution 'repo'
}
}
}
}
}
}
Our code base has a number of project that have same configuration for mavenDeployer and so I am trying to create a Gradle Plugin to automatically set this up for each project. As a groovy plugin groovy I was able to do the following:
Upload uploadTask = (Upload) project.getTasks().getByName("uploadArchives");
project.afterEvaluate {
uploadTask.repositories {
mavenDeployer {
repository(url: project.uri(project.rootProject.repoOut))
}
};
uploadTask.getRepositories().withType(MavenDeployer.class, new Action<MavenDeployer>() {
@Override
public void execute(MavenDeployer mavenDeployer) {
mavenDeployer.getPom().project {
name myExtension.getName()
description myExtension.getDescription()
licenses {
license {
name 'The Apache Software License, Version 2.0'
url 'http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt'
distribution 'repo'
}
}
}
}
});
}
I was curious how would one achieve this from Java as I prefer Java to be the language used for the plugin.
I got started with the following, but then I got stuck:
Upload uploadTask = (Upload) project.getTasks().getByName("uploadArchives");
project.afterEvaluate(project1 -> {
MavenDeployer deployer =
(MavenDeployer) uploadTask.getRepositories().getByName("mavenDeployer");
deployer.setRepository(/* How do I set uri!? */);
MavenPom pom = deployer.getPom();
pom.setModel(/*... MavenModel is not in the classpath.. */);
});
The first issue seems that repository method on MavenDeployer is internal and the RemoteRepository class is not on the classpath for some reason either.
Next, it seems that there is no easy way to set up pom without using Closure which is cumbersome to create from Java.
Thoughts?
Any suggestions? Am I looking at this wrong or should I just file an FR on the issue tracker?
It’s added as a convention. So you should be able to get it at like so:
((HasConvention) upload).getConvention().getPlugin(MavenRepositoryHandlerConvention.class).mavenDeployer()
HasConvention is an internal class :frowning:
Simply getting mavenDeployer does not get much further. How about setting the URI and POM details? | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Netflix's first bearish 'death cross' chart pattern to appear in 2 years at the open
Netflix Inc.'s stock chart is set to open with a new bearish "death cross" pattern, as the 50-day moving average is on track to open below the 200-day moving average for the first time since October 2016. Netflix's stock slipped 0.3% in premarket trade. The 50-day MA, viewed as a shorter-term trend tracker, is set to fall to $335.929 at the open from $337.173 on Friday, while the 200-day MA, a long-term trend guide, is set to rise to $336.327 from $336.167. A death cross is seen by many chart watchers as the point where a shorter-term pullback transitions to a longer-term downtrend. Netflix is on track to be the third FANG, or FAANG, stock to produce a death cross, following Facebook Inc. in September and Google parent Alphabet Inc. last week. Amazon.com Inc. and Apple Inc. are still at the very least weeks away. Netflix's stock has shed 9.7% over the past three months while the S&P 500 has declined 4%. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Page:Metamorphoses (Ovid, 1567).djvu/5
Rh
The rage of wrath and jelozie to have no kynd of stay: And that lyght credit to reportes in no wyse should be given, For feare that men too late to just repentance should bee driven. The fable of Ocyroee by all such folk is told As are in serching things to come too curious and too bold. A very good example is describde in Battus tale For covetous people which for gayne doo set theyr toongs to sale. All such as doo in flattring freaks, and hawks, and hownds delyght, And dyce, and cards, and for to spend the tyme both day and nyght In foule excesse of chamberworke, or too much meate and drink: Uppon the piteous storie of Acteon ought to think. For theis and theyr adherents usde excessive are in deede The dogs that dayly doo devour theyr followers on with speede. Tyresias willes inferior folk in any wyse to shun Too judge betweene their betters least in perill they doo run. Narcissus is of scornfulnesse and pryde a myrror cleere, Where beawties fading vanitie most playnly may appeere. And Echo in the selfsame tale dooth kyndly represent The lewd behaviour of a bawd, and his due punishment. The piteous tale of Pyramus and Thisbee doth conteine The headie force of frentick love whose end is wo and payne. The snares of Mars and Venus shew that tyme will bring to lyght The secret sinnes that folk commit in corners or by nyght. Hermaphrodite and Salmacis declare that idlenesse Is cheefest nurce and cherisher of all volupteousnesse, And that voluptuous lyfe breedes sin: which linking all toogither Make men to bee effeminate, unweeldy, weake and lither. Rich Piers daughters turnd to Pies doo openly declare That none so bold to vaunt themselves as blindest bayardes are. The Muses playnly doo declare ageine a toother syde, That whereas cheefest wisdom is, most meeldnesse dooth abyde. Arachnee may example bee that folk should not contend Ageinst their betters, nor persist in error to the end. So dooth the tale of Niobee and of her children: and The transformation of the Carles that dwelt in Lycie land, Toogither with the fleaing of of piper Marsies skin. The first doo also show that long it is ere God begin Too pay us for our faults, and that he warnes us oft before Too leave our folly: but at length his vengeance striketh sore. And therfore that no wyght should strive with God in word nor thought Nor deede. But pryde and fond desyre of prayse have ever wrought Confusion to the parties which accompt of them do make. For some of such a nature bee that if they once doo take Opinion (be it ryght or wrong) they rather will agree To dye, than seeme to take a foyle: so obstinate they bee. The tale of Tereus, Philomele, and Prognee dooth conteyne That folke are blynd in thyngs that to their proper weale perteyne. And that the man in whom the fyre of furious lust dooth reigne Dooth run to mischeefe like a horse that getteth loose the reyne.
Rh | WIKI |
UF Health Cancer Center at Orlando Health
Cancer Types
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Cancer Risk Assessment Questionnaire
It is well known that we inherit physical traits from our parents, but now research has shown that heredity can play a role in the development of cancer. It’s estimated that approximately 5-10% of all breast, colon and ovarian cancer is hereditary. Fortunately, we are now able to identify and help families that have a hereditary form of cancer.
Signs of a Hereditary Form of Cancer
• Cancer diagnosed at a young age (before the age of 50)
• Multiple close family members with the same type of cancer or related cancers (example: colon and uterine cancer)
• Two or more cancer diagnoses in the same individuals (example: breast cancer in both breasts)
• Certain rare cancers or tumors (male breast cancer; adrenal cancer; multiple colon polyps)
Genetic Counseling
There are many issues to consider before undergoing genetic testing. Therefore, individuals that have a personal or family history suggestive of a hereditary form of cancer may benefit from genetic counseling. Genetic counseling provides information to individuals in order for them to better understand their risk to develop cancer. During the genetic counseling session, the counselor can:
• Review the personal and family history
• Assess and explain the risk for a hereditary form of cancer
• Describe the benefits, risks and limitations of genetic testing
• Interpret the genetic test result and explains what it means for the family
Genetic Counseling at UF Health Cancer Center at Orlando Health
Before the initial appointment, it is helpful to know more information about a patient's medical history and their family history. Below is the genetic risk assessment questionnaire. By completing this questionnaire, it will provide us information about your family's history of cancer. It will also help us to learn and understand your health concerns.
How to schedule a genetic counseling appointment:
• Please complete the Cancer Risk Assessment questionnaire
• Keep a copy for your records
• Mail or fax a copy to our office (the mailing address and fax number are in the questionnaire)
• After we receive a copy of the questionnaire, we will review it and then contact you to schedule a genetic counseling appointment
Genetic counseling typically requires up to two visits. During your initial appointment, a genetic counselor will: review your personal and family history; explain hereditary cancer syndromes; review the risks, benefits and limitations of genetic testing; and discuss screening and management plans. If genetic testing is appropriate and desired, the process of genetic testing and/or insurance pre-authorization can be started. The second visit involves disclosure of the results and a discussion of your medical management.
As a service to the community, genetic counseling services are provided at no cost. However, please be aware that the cost of genetic testing is not included with the consultation. It is the patient's and their insurance company's responsibility to cover the cost of genetic testing. During your initial appointment, the genetic counselor will help you in determining if the cost of genetic testing will be covered by your health insurance.
Genetic Testing
Genetic testing is clinically available for most hereditary forms of cancer and usually involves a blood draw. Testing is offered to at-risk individuals, but only after the benefits, risks and limitations of each test are carefully considered. Individuals who undergo testing and are found to have a positive test result are at an increased risk for developing cancer. However, it is important to note that a positive test result does not necessarily mean that an individual will develop cancer.
Genes Affect Families
Because genes are inherited from family members, testing may involve other close members of your family. A genetic counselor can review your family tree and determine which other family members may be at risk of developing cancer. The counselor can help you notify these individuals, if you desire, and counsel them about testing and cancer prevention.
Benefits of Genetic Testing
• Provide cancer risk estimates for affected and unaffected individuals
• Identify the cause of the cancer in the family
• Help family members make medical and lifestyle decisions
Limitations of Genetic Testing
• Not 100% accurate
• Can not tell if or when an individual will develop cancer
• Costly, although an individual’s health insurance may cover the cost
• May not provide information for every individual
Privacy Issues
A federal law prohibits discrimination by health insurance companies and employers based on an individual’s genetic test result or family history. Health insurers may not use genetic information to set eligibility, premium or contribution amounts. Employers may not use genetic information to make decisions involving hiring, firing, job assignments and promotions.
Genetic Counseling at the Cancer Center is dedicated to providing hereditary cancer risk assessment and consultation services.
Contact Information
Phone: 321.841.7299
Fax: 321.843.6634
Email:cancer.genetics@orlandohealth.com
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Unable to excute validate_lab_different_logpath command on vagrant
Hello,
I have performed all steps as mentioned in the task, unable to execute validate_lab_different_logpath command getting an error “validate_lab_different_logpath: command not found”
Could please help.
Task:
Your task for this lab is to change the config file such that:
• mongod sends logs to /var/mongodb/db/mongod.log
• mongod is forked and run as a daemon (this will not work without a logpath)
• any query that takes 50ms or longer is logged (remember to specify this in the configuration file!)
My configuration file:
step 1: root@m103:~# mongo admin --port 27000 -u m103-admin -p m103-pass --eval ‘db.shutdownServer()’
MongoDB shell version v3.6.14
connecting to: mongodb://127.0.0.1:27000/admin?gssapiServiceName=mongodb
Implicit session: session { “id” : UUID(“ca8efbfb-86a6-4349-ab2e-1edf13020a22”) }
MongoDB server version: 3.6.14
server should be down…
2019-09-22T19:09:24.011+0000 I NETWORK [thread1] trying reconnect to 127.0.0.1:27000 (127.0.0.1) failed
2019-09-22T19:09:24.013+0000 W NETWORK [thread1] Failed to connect to 127.0.0.1:27000, in(checking socket for error after poll), reason: Connection refused
2019-09-22T19:09:24.013+0000 I NETWORK [thread1] reconnect 127.0.0.1:27000 (127.0.0.1) failed failed
2019-09-22T19:09:24.013+0000 I QUERY [thread1] Failed to end session { id: UUID(“ca8efbfb-86a6-4349-ab2e-1edf13020a22”) } due to SocketException: socket exception [CONNECT_ERROR] for couldn’t connect to server 127.0.0.1:27000, connection attempt failed
Step 2: my mongod.conf file
root@m103:~# cat /root/mongod.conf
storage:
dbPath: “/var/mongodb/db/”
systemLog:
path: “/var/mongodb/db/mongod.log”
destination: “file”
logAppend: true
net:
bindIp : “127.0.0.1,192.168.103.100”
port: 27000
security:
authorization: enabled
processManagement:
fork : true
operationProfiling:
slowOpThresholdMs: 50
root@m103:~#
step3 root@m103:~# mongod --config /root/mongod.conf
about to fork child process, waiting until server is ready for connections.
forked process: 3425
child process started successfully, parent exiting
root@m103:~#
step4
root@m103:~# validate_lab_different_logpath
validate_lab_different_logpath: command not found
root@m103:~#
Seems all your work is done as root user
You should not use root
You should run as vagrant
vagrant@m103:~$ id
uid=1000(vagrant) gid=1000(vagrant) groups=1000(vagrant)
When you vagrant ssh you are automatically set to vagrant
Did you sudo again?
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I am having a similar problem. What does this error mean? I can confirm that mongod is running on port 27000 and that the m103-admin user exists.
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Hi @Michael_Williams_92594,
Can you please share the command that you are using to launch your mongod process and the details of how the user was created?
There probably might be some issue in those and looking at it will help us debug in a better way.
Thanks,
Muskan
Curriculum Support Engineer
vagrant@m103:~$ mongod --config mongod.conf
Here is my config file:
storage:
dbPath: /var/mongodb/db
net:
bindIp: 192.168.103.100,localhost
port: 27000
security:
authorization: enabled
Hi @Michael_Williams_92594,
Is this your complete configuration file?
Also, in your other post I can see that you have already checked if the user exists and the localhost mapping to IP address 127.0.0.1 is correct.
Can you please share the exact set of commands you are using to create the user and please confirm if the user is created with “root” role on admin database.
Thanks,
Muskan
Curriculum Support Engineer | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
User:Archereau/Société française de statistique
The French statistical society (in French, Société française de statistique, SFdS) is a French learned society founded in 1997, specialized in statistics. Its vocation is to promote the use of statistics, enhance its public understanding, and encourage associated methodological developments.
Publications
The SFdS publishes several scientific journals:
* Journal de la société française de statistique (Journal of the French Statistical Society, J-SFdS), in French and English.
* Statistique et Enseignement in French.
* Statistique et Société in French.
* Case Studies In Business, Industry And Government Statistics (CSBIGS) in collaboration with Bentley University.
Events and Outreach
The SFdS organizes every year the journées de statistiques (JdS).
Awards
* Prix du Docteur Norbert Marx for contributions inepidepiology, public health or health economics.
* Prix Marie-Jeanne Laurent-Duhamel for a PhD thesis from a French speaking statistician.
* Prix Pierre-Simon de Laplace awarded every three years to an accomplished French speaking statistician.
History
The society was founded on August, 6 1997, and was recognized to serve the public benefit by the French administration on December, 3 1998. The SFdS results from the merging of the société de statistique de Paris (SSP), founded in 1860, the association pour la statistique et ses utilisations (ASU), founded in 1969 and the société de statistique de France (SSF) funded in 1976. | WIKI |
Retina Information
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Human eyes, which include a Retina, an iris, and a Cornea, are some of the most delicate and extraordinary organs in the body.
Through entirely biological processes, they are able to detect frequencies of light via miniscule photoreceptors and convert them into impulses that the brain's neurons are able to process. These impulses are transmitted to the visual cortex of the brain and create an image, which is what we “see.”
The Retina is the part of the eye that essentially captures what you are seeing. If the eye were a video camera, the retina would be the film. It's a thin, transparent tissue on the eye's inner surface that is sensitive to light.
Whenever light hits the eye, thousands of different chemicals are released and funneled up the Optic Nerve.
Based on the composition and saturation of these chemicals, the brain is able to determine exactly what sort of light the eye is reacting to, and thus is able to form an accurate picture of the outside world.
Retinas actually serve two purposes though, and only one of them is directly related to sight. When the light travels through the optic nerve, it's sending information to the brain about sight, but this also sends a very different set of chemicals and impulses through what is known as the retino-hypothamalic tract.
The signals are directly related to circadian rhythm, which is the cycle of light and dark in a 24 hour day. All land organisms on earth are attuned to circadian rhythm, and will either sleep when it's dark and become active during the day or vice versa. This section of the brain is relatively simple and similar variations can be seen in most organisms.
The photoreceptors of the eye are made up of two different types: cones and rods. The average human eye holds an impressive 6 million cones, and a staggering 125 million rods.
Cones are found in the macula and are responsible for most of our vision. They are particularly prominent during the day and are the parts of the eye that detect color. Normal humans have three different types of cones that can detect red, blue, and green, but people who are colorblind may be missing one or more of these cone variations.
Rarely, people will be born with more than three types of cones, sometimes as many as six, and will be able to view an entirely different color spectrum than they would normally be able to see. Their vision has been dubbed tetrachromatic.
Rods reside in the macular region of the this as well but are over a hundred times more receptive to light than cones; they are the parts of the eye that process light at night; this is known by most of the world as night vision.
They're also extremely responsive to movement, and if you've ever seen something move out of the corner of your eye, you've experienced your rods in action. All of these processes combine to create our vision.
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Page:Aerial Flight - Volume 1 - Aerodynamics - Frederick Lanchester - 1906.djvu/265
Rh simple expression of like form, and the approximation is greater the less the variation in the value of $$q$$ in the component terms. Now in the present case in any reasonable design $$q$$ is found to lie for every structural component between 1 and 2, so that we shall be justified in assuming the expression $$W_2 = k\ L^q$$ as approximately applicable.
§ 171. The Complete Equation of Least Resistance.—In prop. i. of the present chapter we investigated the conditions of least resistance in the simple case of an aerodrome of fixed weight and sail area. In prop. v. (cors. i. and ii.) we have dealt with the influence of a body resistance independent of the aerofoil area. In the present section it is proposed to generalise and include in the investigation the influence of the weight of the aerofoil as a variable, assuming the form of expression deduced in the preceding section.
It has been shown that the effect of body resistance is to make the resistance at high speeds greater than that at lower speeds; but we know that at low velocities the sail area requires to be increased and that consequently the weight becomes greater and the resistance will be increased on this account, and when the velocity becomes less than a certain value the increase of resistance from this cause will more than compensate for the decrease due to the reduction in the direct body resistance. We may therefore anticipate that the resistance has a minimum value at some definite velocity at which $$A,$$ and consequently $$L,$$ will have some definite ascertainable value. | WIKI |
Can humans eat bones?
Can humans eat bones?
Bone-In Meat Provides More Micronutrients Much like the meat that we eat, bones are living tissues and are therefore rich in vital micronutrients for our bodies. Bones themselves are rich sources of minerals including calcium and phosphorus, sodium, magnesium, as well as other important nutrients.
Who is the top of food chain?
At the top of the system are the apex predators: animals who have no predators other than humans. Help your class explore food chains and webs with these resources.
What is the difference between a food chain and a food web?
A food chain follows one path of energy and materials between species. A food web is more complex and is a whole system of connected food chains. In a food web, organisms are placed into different trophic levels.
What is food web explain with diagram?
A food web is similar to a food chain but larger. The diagram combines many food chains into energy relationships among organisms. Food webs show how plants and animals are connected in many ways. A food web (or food cycle) is a natural interconnection of food chains.
What is a food web easy definition?
A food web (or food cycle) is the natural interconnection of food chains and a graphical representation (usually an image) of what-eats-what in an ecological community. Another name for food web is consumer-resource system.
Is a cow a consumer?
A cow is a consumer because it is unable to produce its own food. Cows must consume plants (which are producers) in order to survive. Cows do not…
What are animals in a food chain?
Animals are the consumers of the food chain. They eat other plants and animals. Some animals only eat plants. Among this group of herbivores are rabbits, mice and cows.
Can humans eat raw meat?
We can digest raw meat (think steak tartare), but we get less nutrients from raw than cooked meats. Cooking food in general, not only meats, make them more digestible and more calories can be extracted from cooked food. Raw meat can make people ill if the meat is contaminated with bacteria.
What is a food chain Grade 7?
Grade 7 Food Chains and Webs. are organisms that take in energy when they feed on producers or other consumers.
Are humans vegetarian?
Although many humans choose to eat both plants and meat, earning us the dubious title of “omnivore,” we’re anatomically herbivorous. The good news is that if you want to eat like our ancestors, you still can: Nuts, vegetables, fruit, and legumes are the basis of a healthy vegan lifestyle.
Where do humans sit on the food chain?
Humans are said to be at the top of the food chain because they eat plants and animals of all kinds but are not eaten consistently by any animals. The human food chain starts with plants. Plants eaten by humans are called fruits and vegetables, and when they eat these plants, humans are primary consumers.
How does the food chain start?
The food chain begins with a producer, which is eaten by a primary consumer. The primary consumer may be eaten by a secondary consumer, which in turn may be consumed by a tertiary consumer. For example, a food chain might start with a green plant as the producer, which is eaten by a snail, the primary consumer.
Is a cow a Heterotroph?
heterotrophs. Heterotrophs are also referred to as consumers. There are many different types of heterotrophs: Herbivores, such as cows, obtain energy by eating only plants.
What are the advantages of food web?
Answer: (1) Members of higher trophic level can feed upon many organism of the lower trophic level of other food chains. (2) Presence of complex food web increases the stability of the ecosystem. (3) It has a trophic levels or populations of different speices.
Why is food chain important?
Food chains are important because they show the intricate relationships in ecosystems. They can reveal how each organism depends on someone else for survival. Food chains also display what happens when a problem occurs and a producer or consumer is lost. Entire communities can collapse.
Can you eat raw chicken?
“Chicken is considered one of the top foods for food poisoning,” Wright explained. “Eating raw chicken only increases your risk for Salmonella and Campylobacter bacteria. There is no safe raw chicken.”
Is a cow a secondary consumer?
In an ecosystem’s food chain, a secondary consumer is any organism that eats primary consumers. Primary consumer examples include cows, insects that eat sap, or sea creatures like plankton or krill – and the birds, fish, coyotes and humans that eat them are secondary consumers.
What is a food chain in an ecosystem?
A food chain describes how energy and nutrients move through an ecosystem. In the food chain, energy is transferred from one living organism through another in the form of food. There are primary producers, primary consumers, secondary consumers and decomposers- all part of the food chain. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
MOVIES: CRITIC'S CHOICE
DAVE, Tim Robbins's character in MYSTIC RIVER (2003), makes the biggest mistake of his life (twice) by getting into the back seat of a car. He plays one of three boyhood friends in Boston whose lives converge again when the daughter of one of them (Sean Penn) is murdered. On the same night, Dave comes home late, telling his wife (Marcia Gay Harden) that he beat up a mugger and is afraid that he may have hurt him badly. The friends, including the policeman (Kevin Bacon) on the case, begin to suspect a connection. And that leads to tragedy. Mr. Penn and Mr. Robbins won acting Oscars; Clint Eastwood directed with dark ''Unforgiven''-style brilliance -- Saturday at 8:30 p.m. and Saturday/Early Sunday at 3:40 a.m. on HBO. There have been drunken department store Santa Clauses at least since the 1947 ''Miracle on 34th Street,'' but in Terry Zwigoff's BAD SANTA (2003), Willie (Billy Bob Thornton) is in a class by himself. He's so callous that after driving a clueless little boy (Brett Kelly) home, he steals passports and money, then just moves in (the grandmother is drugged and oblivious) and -- oh, no! -- opens all the windows on the boy's Advent calendar and eats the chocolates. Willie may not even be a candidate for the usual holiday redemption. John Ritter, in his last film role, is fun to watch as the politically correct store manager who hesitates to fire Willie just for having loud sex in a dressing room -- Saturday at 9 p.m. and Saturday/Early Sunday at 4:20 a.m. on Starz. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Corns & Calluses
Hardened Extra Skin
Oven mitts and heat pads protect your hands or nice countertops from damage by providing a thick, extra layer between the potential damage—the heat—and the vulnerable surface. The thicker the layers are, the better the protection is. The same can be said of your skin. Thin skin in vulnerable to cuts, tears, scrapes, and blisters, while thick skin is better protected. This is why corns and calluses form, though unfortunately, they can be problematic.
Natural, Protective “Oven Mitts”
Your body naturally thickens skin in areas that need it. Frequent friction and pressure can take their toll on skin that’s too thin. Thicker layers, however, are better protected. This is why corns and calluses form on your lower limbs. Rubbing and pressure from footwear and regular walking stimulate the body to thicken the skin in the places that need it, much like putting on an oven mitt to handle hot pans. While this can sometimes be harmless, other times the natural solution can create new problems. Pressure on calluses and corns can be very uncomfortable. These patches can also signal other issues, like biomechanical problems.
The Difference between the Two
Although formed the same way and very similar, these two skin conditions are not the same thing. Corns are small and normally develop on the tops or sides of toes and feet—places that don’t bear weight. They form raised bumps of dry, rough skin. They are normally very uncomfortable to press against. Usually bad shoes are to blame.
Calluses, however, might not be uncomfortable. They are wide and flat, developing in places with high pressure, like the ball of the foot and the heel. A callus may become painful when it is too thick. Calluses look like large, waxy patches. Often they are flaky or rough. If they are too dry, they can crack under pressure.
Diagnosing corns and calluses isn’t difficult. Usually the staff at our Belvidere office can identify them in a simple evaluation. Our team may perform a few tests to rule out look-alike conditions like warts. Once the problem is identified, however, we’ll be able to begin treatments.
Softening the Skin
Treating calluses and corns isn’t difficult. Reducing the pressure and friction on your skin will allow the patches to soften. Sometimes changing your shoes is all it takes. Wear roomy styles that don’t pinch your feet and have plenty of cushioning through the sole. Adding pads might be enough to reduce pressure and friction as well. Custom orthotics can add some extra padding while also correcting biomechanical problems that may have contributed to the issue.
Particularly thick lesions might need to be pared down. Pumice stones can help smooth and grind down thick skin. It may be necessary to remove painful lesions. Never try this at home—you risk cutting healthy skin. Our staff will use a scalpel to trim the excess layers of dead skin. Occasionally, softening medications to slough the extra layers can help as well.
It doesn’t take much to develop thick patches of skin on your feet. You don’t have to live with the discomfort, however. If you’re in Belvidere or the surrounding areas, like Washington Township or Sparta Township, let Pequest Foot and Ankle Specialists help soften your skin for you. Make an appointment with us today. Just call (908) 475-8750 or use the online web request form. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume IX/Origen on Matthew/Origen's Commentary on Matthew/Book XII/Chapter 36
36.  Concerning the Transfiguration of the Saviour.
“Now after six days,” according to Matthew and Mark, “He taketh with him Peter and James and John his brother, and leads them up into a high mountain apart, and was transfigured before them.”  Now, also, let it be granted, before the exposition that occurs to us in relation to these things, that this took place long ago, and according to the letter.  But it seems to me, that those who are led up by Jesus into the high mountain, and are deemed worthy of beholding His transfiguration apart, are not without purpose led up six days after the discourses previously spoken.  For since in six days—the perfect number—the whole world,—this perfect work of art,—was made, on this account I think that he who transcends all the things of the world by beholding no longer the things which are seen, for they are temporal, but already the things which not seen, and only the things which are not seen, because that they are eternal, is represented in the words, “After six days Jesus took up with Him” certain persons.  If therefore any one of us wishes to be taken by Jesus, and led up by Him into the high mountain, and be deemed worthy of beholding His transfiguration apart, let him pass beyond the six days, because he no longer beholds the things which are seen, nor longer loves the world, nor the things in the world, nor lusts after any worldly lust, which is the lust of bodies, and of the riches of the body, and of the glory which is after the flesh, and whatever things whose nature it is to distract and drag away the soul from the things which are better and diviner, and bring it down and fix it fast to the deceit of this age, in wealth and glory, and the rest of the lusts which are the foes of truth.  For when he has passed through the six days, as we have said, he will keep a new Sabbath, rejoicing in the lofty mountain, because he sees Jesus transfigured before him; for the Word has different forms, as He appears to each as is expedient for the beholder, and is manifested to no one beyond the capacity of the beholder. | WIKI |
user70192 user70192 - 9 months ago 65
ASP.NET (C#) Question
Getting a Configuration Value in ASP.NET 5 (vNext)
I am struggling with some concepts in ASP.NET 5 (vNext).
One of those is the Dependency Injection approach used for configuration. It seems like I have to pass a parameter all the way through the stack. I'm probably misunderstanding something or doing it wrong.
Imagine I have a config property named "contactEmailAddress". I'll use that config property to send an email when a new order is placed. With that scenario in mind, my ASP.NET 5 stack will look like this:
Startup.cs
public class Startup
{
public IConfiguration Configuration { get; set; }
public Startup(IHostingEnvironment environment)
{
var configuration = new Configuration().AddJsonFile("config.json");
Configuration = configuration;
}
public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
{
services.Configure<AppSettings>(Configuration.GetSubKey("AppSettings"));
services.AddMvc();
}
public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app)
{
app.UseErrorPage();
app.UseMvc(routes =>
{
routes.MapRoute("default",
"{controller}/{action}/{id}",
defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Index" });
}
);
app.UseWelcomePage();
}
AppSettings.cs
public class AppSettings
{
public string ContactEmailAddress { get; set; }
}
config.json
{
"AppSettings": {
"ContactEmailAddress":"support@mycompany.com"
}
}
OrderController.cs
[Route("orders")]
public class OrdersController : Controller
{
private IOptions<AppSettings> AppSettings { get; set; }
public OrdersController(IOptions<AppSettings> appSettings)
{
AppSettings = appSettings;
}
[HttpGet("new-order")]
public IActionResult OrderCreate()
{
var viewModel = new OrderViewModel();
return View(viewModel);
}
[HttpPost("new-order")]
public IActionResult OrderCreate(OrderViewModel viewModel)
{
return new HttpStatusCodeResult(200);
}
}
Order.cs
public class Order()
{
public void Save(IOptions<AppSettings> appSettings)
{
// Send email to address in appSettings
}
public static List<Order> FindAll(IOptions<AppSettings> appSettings)
{
// Send report email to address in appSettings
return new List<Order>();
}
}
As the example above shows, I'm passing
AppSettings
through the entire stack. This does not feel correct. To further my worries, this approach will not work if I'm attempt to use a third-party library that needs to access configuration settings. How can a third-party library access configuration settings? Am I misunderstanding something? Is there a better way to do this?
Answer
You are entangling 2 different run time resource provider, AppSettings and Dependency Injection.
AppSettings, provides run-time access to Application specific values like UICulture strings, Contact Email, etc.
DI Containers are factories that Manage access to Services and their lifetime scopes. For example, If a MVC Controller needed access to your EmailService, you would configure
public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
{
// Add all dependencies needed by Mvc.
services.AddMvc();
// Add EmailService to the collection. When an instance is needed,
// the framework injects this instance to the objects that needs it
services.AddSingleton<IEmailService, EmailService>();
}
Then, if our Home Controller needs access to your EmailService, we add a dependency on it's Interface by adding it as a parameter to the Controller constructor
public class HomeController : Controller
{
private readonly IEmailService _emailService;
private readonly string _emailContact;
/// The framework will inject an instance of an IEmailService implementation.
public HomeController(IEmailService emailService)
{
_emailService = emailService;
_emailContact = System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.
AppSettings.Get("ContactEmail");
}
[HttpPost]
public void EmailSupport([FromBody] string message)
{
if (!ModelState.IsValid)
{
Context.Response.StatusCode = 400;
}
else
{
_emailService.Send(_emailContact, message);
The purpose of Dependancy Injection is to manage access and lifetimes of services.
In the previous example, in our Application Startup, we configured the DI Factory to associate application requests for IEmailService with EmailService. So when our Controllers are instantiate by the MVC Framework, the framework notices that our Home Controller expects IEmailService, the framework checks our Application Services Collection. It finds mapping instructions and Inject a Singleton EmailService (a descendant of the occupying Interface) into our Home Controller.
Super Polymorphic Factorific - alodocious!
Why is this important?
If your contact email changes, you change the AppSetting value and are done. All requests for "ContactEmail" from ConfigurationManager are Globally changed. Strings are easy. No need for Injection when we can just hash.
If your Repository, Email Service, Logging Service, etc changes, you want a Global way to change all references to this service. Service reference aren't as easily transferred as immutable string literals. Service instantiation should be handled by a factory to configure the Service's settings and dependencies.
So, in a year you develop a RobustMailService:
Class RobustMailService : IEmailService
{
....
}
As long as your new RobustMailService inherits and implements the IEmailService Interface, you can substitute all references to your mail service Globally by changing :
public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
{
// Add all dependencies needed by Mvc.
services.AddMvc();
// Add RobustMailService to the collection. When an instance is needed,
// the framework injects this instance to the objects that needs it
services.AddSingleton<IEmailService, RobustMailService>();
} | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
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