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Relentless Recurrence
Relentless Recurrence is the third studio album by the Taiwanese black metal band Chthonic, released in 2002. The album was only available in Taiwan until its re-release in 2007 by SPV with revamped packaging, including English translations.
A music video was released for the song "Onset of Tragedy" and was the band's first music video.
Track listing
* English version
* Chinese (traditional) version
Personnel
* Chthonic
* Freddy Lim – lead vocals, erhu
* Jesse Liu – guitar, backing vocals
* Doris Yeh – bass, backing vocals
* Vivien Chen – keyboards
* A-Jay – drums
* Production
* Jan Borsing – sound engineer | WIKI |
Lactic Acidosis, Metformin Induced
Too High
Step 1: View clinicals
A 61 year old african-american woman presents with nausea, vomiting, and confusion for 3 days, which markedly worsened today. There was no history of fever, headache, trauma, or urinary or bowel symptoms. She was in apparent good health immediately prior to this, with her only comorbidity being type 2 diabetes mellitus for 5 years, which was well controlled on metformin 850 mg twice a day alone. Her random capillary glucose is 100 mg/dl. Her full blood count, liver function tests, amylase and lipase, urinalysis, ecg, chest x-ray and plain CT brain are found to be normal.
Step 2: Order all relevant investigations
Renal Functions & Electrolytes
Urea: 30 mg/dL (0 - 50) Creatinine: 1.2 mg/dL (0.5 - 1.5) Na+: 140 mmol/L (135 - 145) K+: 3.7 mmol/L (3.5 - 5) Cl-: 105 mmol/L (95 - 110) Ca++: 2.25 mmol/L (2.12 - 2.57)
Arterial Blood Gases
pH: 7.15 (7.35 - 7.45) paCO2: 30 mmHg (35 - 45) paO2: 80 (> 75 on room air) HCO3: 10.1 mmol/L (22 - 26) ABE: -16.7 (-2 to +2)
Toxicology Screen
Salicylates: not detectable Ethylene Glycol: not detectable Methanol: not detectable
CPK, Lactate, Ketone Bodies
CPK: within normal limits Serum Lactate: 7.6 mmol/l (0.5 - 2.2) Serum Ketone Bodies: not detectable
Step 3: Select appropriate management
Dialysis
Stop Metformin
IV Antibiotics:
Benzodiazepines
Score: ★★☆ | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
-- Azerbaijan in Talks With European Banks on $17 Billion Refinery
Azerbaijan has held talks with
European banks including BNP Paribas (BNP) , Societe Generale (GLE) ,
UniCredit and Credit Agricole (ACA) to obtain funding for a $17
billion refinery and petrochemicals complex, an official said. The banks expressed interest in the project that will be
built near the capital city of Baku, Tofiq Qahramanov, vice
president of the State Oil Co. of Azerbaijan, or Socar, said
today by phone. Of the total amount, 30 percent to 40 percent will be
provided by the state and the rest by foreign lenders, he said. Construction of the oil and gas refineries will start in
the middle of 2013. It will process 10 billion cubic meters of
natural gas and 10 million metric tons of oil a year, Qahramanov
said. The refinery, which will be commissioned in 2017, may use
Russian and Kazakh oil as well as Azeri crude, he said. To contact the reporter on this story:
Zulfugar Agayev in Baku at
zagayev@bloomberg.net To contact the editor responsible for this story:
Hellmuth Tromm at
htromm@bloomberg.net | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Talk:Preferred Roaming List
PCS is CDMA.. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk • contribs) 23:39, 14 January 2007 (UTC-7)
technical
In the section on "PRL Structure," the paragraph starting with "Each system table entry" and ending with "...service from that system" contains too much jargon. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 14:31, 5 August 2008 (UTC) | WIKI |
Logstash or Spark -- Elasticsearch
Hi there!
I was searching on Google and this forum but I am still undecided.
I would like to develop a system which collects logs from several servers and then analyze them.
I thinked about Beats to collect logs (and maybe Logstash to parse logs or whatever) and Elastic as a centralized store. Then, I would use Spark for reading from ES and processing data to create some machine learning models.
But, during the previous search, some people use Spark to preprocess the data before to write into ES. Why do not they use Logstash for that? Is Spark better than Logstash?
Is there any way to know a possible bottleneck in this kind of steps?
Welcome!
Very good. Elasticsearch has built-in ingest pipelines I'd recommend instead of adding Logstash.
Just note that we do have a built-in machine learning feature (available on cloud or with a commercial license) which does that out of the box to perform things like anomaly detection for example. So may be you don't need to reinvent the wheel.
I guess that Spark is more for computing things where Logstash is built to parse, enrich and load single events one by one. Logstash is an ETL. Spark is an analytics engine. Not the same purpose...
Thanks for your early reply,
Just note that we do have a built-in machine learning feature (available on cloud or with a commercial license) which does that out of the box to perform things like anomaly detection for example. So may be you don't need to reinvent the wheel.
Yes, I used it during the 30 days trial license, but I would like to use Spark (or others) for more flexibility. I mean, I would like to have the possibility to get the data out from ES.
I guess that Spark is more for computing things where Logstash is built to parse, enrich and load single events one by one. Logstash is an ETL. Spark is an analytics engine. Not the same purpose...
Ummm, I am overwhelmed... It is not clear for me what I have to use. I know there is a Spark-ES connector and I tried it yesterday. Is not it the best solution? :frowning:
I don't know it. Probably that if you want to run a "Spark job", that's the best option.
I'd probably start from Apache Spark support | Elasticsearch for Apache Hadoop [7.12] | Elastic | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
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Rh newly invented pistons of Stoelzel and Bluemel patented in 1815. It was introduced into Great Britain and France about 1830. There were at first only two pistons—for a whole tone and for a half tone—from which there naturally resulted gaps in the chromatic scale of the instrument. The use of a combination of pistons (see and ) fails to give acoustically correct intervals, because the length of tubing thus thrown open is not of the theoretical length required to produce the interval. A tube about 4 ft. long, such as that of the B♭ cornet, needs an additional length of about 3 in. to lower the pitch a semitone; but, if this cornet has already been lowered one tone to the key of A♭, the length of tube has increased some 6 in., and the 3-in. semitone piston no longer adds sufficient tubing to produce a semitone of correct intonation. To the performer falls the task of concealing the shortcomings of his instrument, and he therefore corrects the intonation by varying the lip tension. At first the cornet was supplied with a great many crooks for A, A♭, G, F, E, E♭ and D, but from the explanation now given, it will be readily understood that they were found unpractical for valve instruments, and all but the first two mentioned have been abandoned. The history of the cornet is a record of the endeavours of successive musical instrument makers to overcome this inherent defect in construction. The most ingenious and successful of these improvements are the following:—(1) The six-valve-independent system of Adolphe Sax, designed about 1850, by which a separate valve was used for each position, thus obviating the necessity of using combinations of pistons. This theoretically perfect system unfortunately introduced great difficulties in practice, the valves being made ascending instead of descending, and each piston cutting off a definite length of wind-way from the open tube, instead of adding to it. The system was eventually abandoned. (2) The Besson Registre giving eight independent positions, afterwards modified as the (3) Besson compensating system transpositeur, patented in England in 1859, which was considered so successful that the idea was extensively used by other makers. (4) The Boosey automatic compensating piston, invented by D. J. Blaikley, and patented in 1878, a very ingenious device whereby when two or more pistons are used simultaneously the length of the air column is automatically adjusted to the theoretical length required to ensure correct intonation. (5) Victor Mahillon’s automatic regulating pistons (pistons régulateur automatique) produced about 1886, the result of independent efforts in the same direction as Blaikley, and equally ingenious and effectual. Finally we have (6) more recently the Besson enharmonic valve system (fig. 3) with three pistons and six independent tuning slides which give the seven positions independently, thus realizing in a simple effectual manner all that Sax strove to accomplish with his six pistons. The enharmonic valves give all notes theoretically true; there are in addition separate means for adjusting each of the first six lengths, for although these lengths are theoretically correct there are always certain modifying conditions connected with brass instruments which render it essential to provide means for adjustment. All notes being true on this Besson cornet, they can be fingered to the greatest advantage for smoothness and rapidity. (7) Rudall, Carte & Co.’s cornet (fig. 4), with strictly conical bore (Klussmann’s patent) throughout the open tube and additional lengths from the mouthpiece to the bell, gives a perfect intonation and is at the same time easy to blow. There are no crooks to this cornet when constructed in B♭, but it may be instantaneously transposed into the key of A major by means of an undetachable slide guided by a piston rod.
CORNETO TARQUINIA (anc. Tarquinii), a town of Italy, in the province of Rome, 62 m. N.W. by rail from the town of Rome, 490 ft. above sea-level. Pop. (1901) 5273. Corneto probably arose after the ancient town had been destroyed by the Saracens. In the 10th century it began to acquire importance, and for some time was an independent commune. It is picturesquely situated, and commands a fine view. It possesses medieval fortifications, and no less than twenty-five towers are still standing in various parts of the town, which thus has a remarkably medieval appearance. The castle on the N. contains the Romanesque church of S. Maria in Castello, begun in 1121, with a fine portal of 1143, a ciborium of 1168 and a pulpit of 1209, both in “cosmatesque” work: the pavement in marble mosaic also is fine. There are several other Romanesque and Gothic churches in the town more or less restored. The oldest parts of the Palazzo Comunale date from about 1000. The Gothic Palazzo Vitelleschi (1439) contains remarkably rich windows. The municipal museum (which is to be transferred to this palace) and the Palazzo Bruschi, contain fine collections of Etruscan antiquities from the tombs of Tarquinii. Four miles to the S.W. is the Porto Clementino (perhaps the ancient Graviscae, the port of Tarquinii), with government saltworks, in which convicts are employed.
See L. Dasti, Notizie storiche archeologiche di Tarquinia e Corneto (Rome, 1878); for the cemeteries, Notizie degli Scavi, 1906, 1907.
CORNICE (Fr. corniche, Ital. cornice), in architecture, the projection at the top of a wall, which is provided to throw off the rain water from the roof, beyond the face of the building. As employed in classic architecture it forms the upper part of the entablature of an order, and is there subdivided into bed mould, corona and cymatium. The term is also generally applied to any moulding projection which crowns the feature to which it is attached; thus doors and windows, internally as well as externally, have each their cornice, and the same applies to pieces of furniture (see also ).
CORNIFICIUS, the author of a work on rhetorical figures, and perhaps of a general treatise (ars, ) on the art of rhetoric (Quintilian, Instit., iii. 1. 21, ix. 3. 89). He has been identified with the author of the four books of Rhetorica dedicated to a certain Q. Herennius and generally known under the title of Auctor ad Herennium. The chief argument in favour of this identity is the fact that many passages quoted by Quintilian from Cornificius are reproduced in the Rhetorica. Jerome, Priscian and others attributed the work to Cicero (whose De inventione was called Rhetorica prima, the Auctor ad Herennium, Rhetorica secunda), while the claims of L. Aelius Stilo, M. Antonius Gnipho, and Ateius Praetextatus to the authorship have been supported by modern scholars. But it seems improbable that the question of authorship will ever be satisfactorily settled. Internal indications point to the date of compositions as 86–82, the period of Marian domination in Rome. The unknown author, as may be inferred from the treatise itself, did not write to make money, but to oblige his relative and friend Herennius, for whose instruction he promises to supply other works on grammar, military matters and political administration. He | WIKI |
Ph.D. Theses (Mathematics) http://hdl.handle.net/1957/15739 2016-06-28T18:38:03Z 2016-06-28T18:38:03Z New Families of pseudo-Anosov Homeomorphisms with Vanishing Sah-Arnoux-Fathi Invariant Do, Hieu Trung http://hdl.handle.net/1957/59294 2016-06-22T21:05:24Z 2016-05-27T00:00:00Z New Families of pseudo-Anosov Homeomorphisms with Vanishing Sah-Arnoux-Fathi Invariant Do, Hieu Trung Translation surfaces can be viewed as polygons with parallel and equal sides identified. An affine homeomorphism φ from a translation surface to itself is called pseudo-Anosov when its derivative is a constant matrix in SL₂(R) whose trace is larger than 2 in absolute value. In this setting, the eigendirections of this matrix defines the stable and unstable flow on the translation surface. Taking a transversal to the stable flows, the first return map of the flow induces an interval exchange transformation T. The Sah-Arnoux-Fathi invariant of φ is the sum of the wedge product between the lengths of the subintervals of T and their translations. This wedge product does not depend on the choice of transversal. We apply Veech’s construction of pseudo-Anosov homeomorphisms to produce infinite families of pseudo-Anosov maps in the stratum H(2, 2) with vanishing Sah-Arnoux-Fathi invariant, as well as sporadic examples in other strata. Graduation date: 2016 2016-05-27T00:00:00Z Compatible Discretizations for Maxwell's Equations with General Constitutive Laws McGregor, D. A. (Duncan A. O.) http://hdl.handle.net/1957/59160 2016-06-14T21:20:04Z 2016-05-26T00:00:00Z Compatible Discretizations for Maxwell's Equations with General Constitutive Laws McGregor, D. A. (Duncan A. O.) In this thesis we construct compatible discretizations of Maxwell's equations. We use the term compatible to describe numerical methods for Maxwell's equations which obey many properties of vector Calculus in a discrete setting. Compatible discretizations preserve the exterior Calculus ensuring that the divergence of the curl and the curl of a gradient are zero in a discrete setting. This compatibility of discretizations with the continuum Maxwell's equations guarantees that the numerical solutions are physically meaningful. We focus on the construction of a class of discretizations called Mimetic Finite Differences (MFD). The MFD method is a generalization of both staggered finite differences and mixed finite elements. We construct a parameterized family of MFD methods with equivalent formal order of accuracy. For time-dependent problems, we exploit this non-uniqueness by finding parameters which are optimal with respect to a certain criteria, for example, minimizing dispersion error. Dispersion error is a numerical artifact in which individual frequencies in a wave propagate at incorrect speeds; dominating the error in wave problems over long time propagation. The novelty of this work is the construction of an MFD discretization for Maxwell's equations which reduces dispersion error for transient wave propagation in materials that are modeled by a general class of linear constitutive laws. We provide theoretical analysis of these new discretizations including an analysis of stability and discrete divergence. We also provide numerical demonstrations to illustrate the theory. In addition to applications in the time domain we consider equilibrium Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) generators. MHD generators extract power directly from a plasma by passing it through a strong magnetic field. Used as a topping cycle for traditional steam turbine generator, MHD offers a theoretical thermal efficiency of 60% compared to 40% of traditional systems. However, this technology has high life cycle costs due to equipment failure. One source of failure is arcing: the formation of high density currents which damage the generator. In this work we develop, analyze, and simulate a model of these generators. We use these simulations to show the viability of detecting electrical arcs by measurements of their magnetic fields outside of the generator. Graduation date: 2016 2016-05-26T00:00:00Z Hybrid Multiscale Methods with Applications to Semiconductors, Porous Media, and Materials Science Costa, Timothy B. http://hdl.handle.net/1957/59138 2016-06-13T20:57:28Z 2016-05-31T00:00:00Z Hybrid Multiscale Methods with Applications to Semiconductors, Porous Media, and Materials Science Costa, Timothy B. In this work we consider two multiscale applications with tremendous computational complexity at the lower scale. First, we examine a model for charge transport in semicon- ductor structures with heterojunction interfaces. Due to the complex physical phenomena at the interface, the model at the design scale is unable to adequately capture the behavior of the structure in the interface region. Simultaneously it is computationally intractable to simulate the full heterostructure on the scale required near the interface. Second, we con- sider the problem of the simulation of fluid flow in a dynamically evolving porous medium. The evolution of the medium strongly couples the porescale flow solutions and the macro scale model, requiring a novel approach to communicate the porescale evolution to the macroscale without resorting to the intractable simulation of the fluid flow problem di- rectly on the porescale geometry. We formulate novel methods for these two applications in the multiscale framework. For the semiconductor problem we present iterative sub- structuring domain decomposition methods that decouple the interface computation from the macroscale model. For the fluid flow problem we develop a reduced order three-scale fluid flow model based on a spatial decomposition of the porescale geometry and the offline approximation of a stochastic process describing macroscale permeability paramaterized by the volume fraction of the evolved geometry. Graduation date: 2016 2016-05-31T00:00:00Z Some Results in Single-Scattering Tomography Sherson, Brian http://hdl.handle.net/1957/58015 2016-01-06T21:33:05Z 2015-12-10T00:00:00Z Some Results in Single-Scattering Tomography Sherson, Brian Single-scattering tomography describes a model of photon transfer through a object in which photons are assumed to scatter at most once. The Broken Ray transform arises from this model, and was first investigated by Lucia Florescu, Vadim A. Markel, and John C. Schotland, [2], in 2010, followed by an inversion, [1], in the case of fixed initial and terminal directions. Later, in 2013, Katsevich and Krylov, [6], investigated settings where terminal rays were permitted to vary, either heading towards or away from a focal point, providing inversion formulas in two- and three-detector settings. In this thesis, we will explore these transforms, give them distributional meaning, and analyze how these transforms propagate singularities. This requires analysis of the relationships between a function and its antiderivative obtained from integration over a ray. This thesis also introduces the Polar Broken Ray transform, in which the source position is fixed, initial direction varies, and the scattering angle is held constant. We will discover that the Polar Broken Ray transform is injective on spaces of functions supported in an annulus that is bounded away from the origin, and also derive distributional meaning to the Polar Broken Ray transform, and derive a relationship between a wavefront set of a function and that of its Polar Broken Ray transform. Provided in the appendix are implementations of numerical inversions of the Broken Ray transform with fixed initial and terminal directions, as well as the Polar Broken Ray transform. Graduation date: 2016 2015-12-10T00:00:00Z | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Talk:Federico Mena
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Federico Mena Quintero (born in Mexico, July 29, 1976) is a free software programmer. Among his main contributions is the foundation of the GNOME project together with Miguel de Icaza in the year of 1997. He writes free software for SUSE, on the infrastructure for the GNOME Project, on the openSUSE distribution of GNU/Linux, and on the SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop product, and works on the GNOME Performance Project, and works on GTK+ and worked on the openSUSE Board and now only maintains librsvg, a small library to render SVG files.
Career
Mena Quintero met Miguel de Icaza while studying at the Faculty of Sciences of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, where he also worked at the Institute of Nuclear Sciences of the university. He began by temporarily coordinating the development of the Gimp program. Once the Gnome project was founded (and while he was developing the Gnome Canvas program ), he was invited to collaborate in the laboratories of the Red Hat company, where he perfected Midnight Commander , a file manager.
After leaving the American company was hired to develop the Evolution calendar, one of the main products of Ximian, the company formed by Miguel de Icaza and Nat Friedman. After the sale of Ximian, he became part of Novell, where he collaborates in perfecting the tools of the Gnome project.
He currently lives in the city of Xalapa, Veracruz , with Oralia Silva, his wife. His other interests include traditional woodworking, cooking, vegetable gardening, piano playing, and architecture/urbanism.
Autobiography by Federico Mena Quintero, September 2003 (via translate.google.com)
Congreso Nacional de Software Libre de Chile: Autobiografía de Federico Mena
http://conasol.utalca.cl/biografias/federico.html
When I was in high school, in the afternoons I would start programming instead of doing homework at school. At that time I was very interested in computer graphics. I used a 386 PC with DOS and Turbo C. Manipulating images was a problem because of the limitations of a 16-bit operating system and compiler --- most of the images are larger than 64 KB, and it was difficult to handle large data in that environment My friend Max de Mendizabal recommended me to use the GNU compiler, as well as an operating system called Linux, because both worked in 32 bits and then it would be possible to access very large data sets without doing anything special. I was interested in the idea of the compiler, but not so much to change the operating system.
It was then when I entered the Faculty of Sciences of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). That's where I had my first contact with Unix systems. The laboratories of the Computer Science career had a lot of X terminals connected to a server running Solaris. I had always wanted to learn to use Unix, so I started reading about the system.
When I had access to the Internet from the school, I was able to download the GNU C compiler for my home computer, in the DJGPP version for DOS. I installed it and re-wrote my small image manipulation programs to use a 32-bit memory space, and that's how they simplified a lot. The nice thing about this is that they could also be compiled without changes in the Unix machines of the Faculty. Working in Unix was much more pleasant than in DOS, so it made me want to get a Unix for my house.
In the School I met Miguel de Icaza and other Linux miscreants, who convinced me to install Linux in my house. I got a small borrowed hard drive and I put a version of Slackware. A year later I realized the big mistake that this had been and installed Red Hat Linux.
I had told Miguel that I had plans to write a program for image editing. My idea was to make it big, like Adobe Photoshop, with plug-ins and sophisticated tools. However, at that time I had no idea how to organize a project of such size, so I never wrote anything useful. Miguel told me about the General Image Manipulation Program (GIMP), which was a new project at that time, and he recommended that I review it. So I did and I started to see how the plug-ins were made. At that time the GIMP used Motif for its graphical interface, because the GTK+ library did not exist yet. As we did not have a Motif license to recompile the GIMP, we downloaded a pre-compiled version. The original GIMP authors had the good idea to write the core of the program using Motif, but it was not necessary to have a license from it to recompile the plug-ins. In this way one could write new filters freely.
The first thing I did was subscribe to the GIMP mailing list and re-write my swirl distortion filter to work as a plug-in. I sent it to the mailing list. The next day, I got a wonderful answer that made me want to continue with the project: the GIMP authors had loved my Whirl filter, and they asked me to write more --- it was the first filter written by a person who was not of the original authors. I re-wrote the rest of my filters to work as plug-ins and that's how the project started to grow. I could not contribute to the core of the program because I did not have a Motif license, so I dedicated myself to helping other people to write plug-ins on their own. So I met a lot of hackers interested in computer graphics, and I also learned how to work on a large project with many participants. Before getting involved with free software, I had a hard time reading source code written by other people. When I studied GIMP, I learned to read other people's code and to see how other people would solve problems differently than I would have done. Just as different writers use different styles for their descriptions, programmers use their preferred techniques. Free software taught me that there are many ways of doing things.
I had read the GNU Project Manifesto and other important documents and I agreed with what they said. Richard Stallman came to Mexico a few times to give lectures, and meeting him in person was quite an experience. It was wonderful to see that a great programmer was interested in the projects of oneself, because these would help the cause of free software.
A couple of years later, the original authors of the GIMP disappeared from the face of the earth, or rather they got a real job in a company. Since they no longer had time to maintain the project, they passed me the courier and I was in charge of the GIMP for just under a year. The development was accelerated because I tried to do it similar to the Linux kernel. I dedicated myself to review the patches that people sent to the mailing list and to install the useful patches; I also took care to release new versions frequently so that people could try them. By then the GIMP had been rewritten on GTK +, so everyone could recompile the core of the program without having Motif.
The original GIMP authors demonstrated that if it was possible to write free software for end users --- the GIMP is not a system tool like the C compiler or a text editor, but it is a program for graphic designers, artists and people who make web pages.
As a separate project, Miguel and Elliot Lee had discussed writing a series of libraries with useful tools for general-purpose applications: functions for saving a program's configuration, printing functions, and file manipulation. Hence, nothing came out but good ideas. The intention was for Unix programs to share functionality, instead of each re-implementing things like their own configuration system.
Some time later, Miguel went to visit a friend at the Microsoft campus in Redmond. He returned very encouraged to know the way in which Microsoft developed software on a large scale, based on a system of components.
The GIMP plug-in system was based on a "procedural database", PDB, or database of functions. There was a list of functions registered in a database, and any part of the program, even the plug-ins, could call those functions to modify images. When writing a new plug-in, one would register its functions in the database, and these in turn could be accessed from any part of the program. To make a system of components, we wanted to do something similar to the GIMP PDB, but with operating contexts for the functions so that it was like a small object-oriented system. We made some designs on the blackboard and later someone told us, "This looks like CORBA, why do not you use it?" The project ended there, because we had no idea what they were talking about.
The KDE project was beginning to become known. Miguel installed it and saw that it was a wonderful thing: a complete and consistent graphical interface for Linux. Later we learned that KDE depended on the Qt library, which was not free software. Therefore, Linux distributions could not redistribute it. Seeing that it would be impossible to change the Qt license, the GNOME project started, with the idea of writing a graphical environment and a component model based entirely on free software.
The GTK + library was no longer exclusive to GIMP and other people had written graphic applications using it on their own. The first versions of GNOME were some small libraries of utilities, taken from the code of the file manager Midnight Commander, and some utilities so that using GTK + was easier. We created a CVS deposit and mailing lists for the programmers. From the beginning we included libraries to use GTK + from Guile, a Scheme interpreter, and from Objective-C --- we wanted people to be able to use their favorite programming language instead of forcing them to use only C. An example of this is that the first version of the program to configure the screen saver was written in C++, the program of network utilities was written in Scheme, the program to manage print queues was written in Objective-C, and the client of "talk" was written in C.
GNOME started to grow very quickly, and for version 0.13 it was necessary to break it into pieces. Originally everything was distributed together: programming libraries, utilities and the final programs. After version 0.13 these parts distributed separately. Over time we learned to coordinate the versions of the libraries with those of the programs, so that people would not have to "chase" the latest versions all the time. We started using the Debian bug database, Debbugs, and some time later we used Bugzilla.
The first experiments for a component model were with Mico, a terribly large and slow implementation of CORBA. Elliot Lee then devoted himself to writing ORBit, an implementation of CORBA in C that was very small and fast. When it was ready, it began to be used little by little in the rest of GNOME, starting with the control panel. At first we did not have standardized programming interfaces for the components; later Bonobo emerged as the foundation of the GNOME components.
Red Hat offered me a job and after several months of paperwork and bureaucracy to obtain a visa for the USA, I went to work there in the summer of 1998. I worked in Red Hat Advanced Development Labs, where I finished writing the GNOME-Canvas and the Gnome-Calendar that Miguel, Arturo Espinoza and I had started writing in Mexico. Then I had to work a lot in the Midnight Commander to make the GNOME file manager stable and robust. Working on the Midnight Commander made me learn a lot of things about user interfaces --- I had to study how the Windows Explorer worked to see how they made their user interface feel so well polished.
My visa to be in the USA was a training visa, then it had a maximum duration of 18 months. After finishing my period in Red Hat, I returned to Mexico and then I went to Boston to work in Helix Code, then Ximian, and now Novell Ximian Services.
In Ximian I started working on the Evolution calendar, based on GNOME-Calendar. The architecture of Evolution is very different from the original program, so we had to re-write large pieces. Working with people who are exclusively dedicated to designing user interfaces was very interesting; previously the presentation of the programs had always been designed ad-hoc and that does not always work well. After Evolution I worked for a while in Ximian Desktop, fixing bugs in the GNOME programs and doing tasks to integrate them in our distribution.
I also worked with Michael Meeks on OpenOffice.org, which was very different from GNOME. OO.o has a philosophy and history completely different from what I was used to: it is a very old program with an extensive history. By reading the code you can see the old, ghastly and cobwebbed parts, and also the new parts that are written in a cleaner style and closer to what we are used to. Working on a project of this magnitude can be overwhelming, but it gives you a different perspective. Now that OO.o has been released as free software, the community has been cleaning the code and making it better integrated with the rest of GNOME.
I am currently working on the GTK + library and the rest of the desktop. My job is to take the tasks in GTK + that the main developers do not have time to perform. Right now I'm working on the new file selector for GTK +. I should be ready in a few weeks, and after that I will work on integrating Bonobo with the new menu system in GTK +.
<IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 23:23, 8 April 2018 (UTC) | WIKI |
carpetball
Noun
* 1) A game, similar to pool and played with pool balls, played in a long, high-walled table. Each player gets five balls to arrange however they want at their end of the table, and they take turns trying to knock each other's balls into troughs at each end of the table. The player who knocks down all five of the other player's balls first is the winner.
* 2) A heavy ceramic or stone ball that was rolled along the floor in some games. | WIKI |
Jim Williams (rugby union)
Jim Williams (born 8 December 1968) is a former international rugby union player and coach. He was most recently assistant coach to the Australian national rugby union team. Williams was head coach of the Greater Sydney Rams in the National Rugby Championship during 2015, succeeding Brian Melrose
Early life
Born in Young, New South Wales, Williams played rugby league as a boy. He began rugby union after joining the army at age 17. He played for Young RFC, then moved to Brisbane where he played for Wests Bulldogs.
West Hartlepool, England
Williams moved to England in 1994 and played one season with West Hartlepool.
Australian rugby
On returning to Australia, Williams played Sydney club rugby while remaining on the fringes of the NSW Waratahs team. It wasn't until he changed to the back row that he was able to find enough form to be picked up by Eddie Jones at the ACT Brumbies in 1998. It was his form playing for the Brumbies that led to his selection for the Australian squad for the 1999 Rugby World Cup.
Munster & Ireland
After missing Wallabies selection in 2001, Williams accepted a two-year deal with Munster, and soon captained the Irish club. He played 30 Heineken Cup matches for Munster, and scored 15 points. Williams played until 2005 when he was appointed assistant coach.
Wallabies assistant coach
He continued in coaching roles at Munster until 2008 when new Wallabies coach Robbie Deans offered him the Assistant Coach role. At the start of Australia's international rugby season in June 2008 Williams took up his new role alongside fellow assistant Michael Foley. Williams left the Wallabies in 2011. | WIKI |
Greenland Treaty
Preamble
HIS MAJESTY THE KING OF THE BELGIANS,
HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN OF DENMARK,
THE PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY,
THE PRESIDENT OF THE HELLENIC REPUBLIC,
THE PRESIDENT OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC,
THE PRESIDENT OF IRELAND,
THE PRESIDENT OF THE ITALIAN REPUBLIC,
HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE GRAND DUKE OF LUXEMBOURG,
HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN OF THE NETHERLANDS,
HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND,
Having regard to Article 96 of the Treaty establishing the European Coal and Steel Community,
Having regard to Article 236 of the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community,
Having regard to Article 204 of the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community,
Whereas the Government of the Kingdom of Denmark has submitted a proposal to the Council for the purpose of revising the Treaties establishing the European Communities so that they cease to apply to Greenland and introducing new arrangements governing relations between the Communities and Greenland;
Whereas, in view of the special features of Greenland, this proposal should be accepted by arrangements being introduced which permit close and lasting links between the Community and Greenland to be maintained and mutual interests, notably the development needs of Greenland, to be taken into account;
Whereas the arrangements applicable to overseas countries and territories set out in Part Four of the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community provide an appropriate framework for these relations, although additional specific provisions are needed to cater for Greenland,
HAVE DECIDED to determine by common agreement new arrangements applicable to Greenland and have, to this end, designated as their Plenipotentiaries:
HIS MAJESTY THE KING OF THE BELGIANS:
Leo TINDEMANS,
Minister for External Relations of the Kingdom of Belgium
HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN OF DENMARK:
Uffe ELLEMAN-JENSEN,
Minister for Foreign Affairs of Denmark
Gunnar RIBERHOLDT,
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Permanent Representative of Denmark
THE PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY:
Hans-Dietrich GENSCHER,
Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Federal Republic of Germany
THE PRESIDENT OF THE HELLENIC REPUBLIC:
Theodoros PANGALOS,
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs of the Hellenic Republic
THE PRESIDENT OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC:
Roland DUMAS,
Minister for European Affairs of the French Republic
THE PRESIDENT OF IRELAND:
Peter BARRY,
Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ireland
THE PRESIDENT OF THE ITALIAN REPUBLIC:
Giulio ANDREOTTI,
Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Italian Republic
HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE GRAND DUKE OF LUXEMBOURG:
Cclette FLESCH,
Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Government of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN OF THE NETHERLANDS:
W. F. van EEKELEN,
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands
H. J. Ch. RUTTEN,
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Permanent Representative of the Netherlands
HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND:
The Right Honourable Sir Geoffrey HOWE, QC, MP,
Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs,
WHO, having exchanged their full powers, found in good and due form, HAVE AGREED as follows:
Article 1
The following subparagraph shall be added to point (a) of the second paragraph of Article 79 of the Treaty establishing the European Coal and Steel Community:
* 'This Treaty shall not apply to Greenland.'
Article 2
Denmark shall be added to the Member States specified in the first sentence of the first paragraph of Article 131 of the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community.
Article 3
1. The following Article 136a shall be added to Part Four of the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community:
* 'Article 136a
* The provisions of Articles 131 to 136 shall apply to Greenland, subject to the specific provisions for Greenland set out in the Protocol on special arrangements for Greenland, annexed to this Treaty.'
2. The Protocol on special arrangements for Greenland attached to this Treaty shall be annexed to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community. Protocol 4 on Greenland, annexed to the Act of Accession of 22 January 1972, is hereby repealed.
Article 4
Greenland shall be added to the list in Annex IV to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community.
Article 5
The following subparagraph shall be added to point (a) of the third paragraph of Article 198 of the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community:
* 'This Treaty shall not apply to Greenland.'
Article 6
1. This Treaty shall be ratified by the High Contracting Parties in accordance with their respective constitutional requirements. The instruments of ratification shall be deposited with the Government of the Italian Republic.
2. This Treaty shall enter into force on 1 January 1985. If all the instruments of ratification have not been deposited by that date, this Treaty shall enter into force on the first day of the month following the deposit of the instrument of ratification by the last Signatory State to take this step.
Article 7
This Treaty, drawn up in a single original in the Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Irish, and Italian languages, all eight texts being equally authentic, shall be deposited in the archives of the Government of the Italian Republic, which shall transmit a certified copy to each of the Governments of the other Signatory States.
In witness whereof, the undersigned Plenipotentiaries have affixed their signatures below this Treaty.
Done at Brussels on the thirteenth day of March in the year one thousand nine hundred and eighty-four.
Article 1
1. The treatment on import into the Community of products subject to the common organization of the market in fishery products, originating in Greenland, shall, while complying with the mechanisms of the common market organization, involve exemption A from customs duties and charges having equivalent effect and the absence of quantitative restrictions or measures having equivalent effect if the possibilities for access to Greenland fishing zones granted to the Community pursuant to an agreement between the Community and the authority responsible for Greenland are satisfactory to the Community.
2. All measures relating to the import arrangements for such products, including those relating to the adoption of such measures, shall be adopted in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 43 of the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community.
Article 2
The Commission shall make proposals to the Council, which shall act by a qualified majority, for the transitional measures which it considers necessary, by reason of the entry into force of the new arrangements, with regard to the maintenance of rights acquired by natural or legal persons during the period when Greenland was part of the Community and the regularization of the situation with regard to financial assistance granted by the Community to Greenland during that period.
Article 3
The following text shall be added to Annex I to the Council Decision of 16 December 1980 on the association of the overseas countries and territories with the European Economic Community:
* '6. Distinct community of the Kingdom of Denmark: - Greenland.' | WIKI |
German supermarket chain uses fingerprint ID for payment
March 13, 2005
The future of grocery shopping has changed in the Palatinate region of Germany. Last November, the Edeka supermarket chain offered in one of its Rülzheim stores fingerprint identification as method of payment. Customers can have their fingerprint put on file and begin using the system as an alternative to cash or card. Customers then place their finger on the scanner to complete a purchase.
The supermarket owner Roland Fitterer claims the system shaves 40 seconds off checkout time and plans to introduce it into his other 5 stores.
Internet and biometrics services provider, it-Werke, is the technology company behind the effort. The supermarket is their third client to adopt what it-Werke calls its digiPROOF technology. There was sufficient interest among store customers that 100 registered to use the system. The chances are one in 220 million that two people have the same fingerprint. | WIKI |
Louis Powell
Louis St Vincent Powell (13 November 1902 – 6 June 1995) played first-class cricket for Somerset in 10 matches between 1927 and 1938. He was an all-round sportsman who also once played rugby for Bath Rugby Club. He was born at Kingstown, St Vincent and died at Bath, Somerset.
Powell was a right-handed lower-order batsman and a right-arm fast bowler. He was a prominent member of Bath Cricket Club, and eight of his 10 first-class matches were played at Bath. His debut in 1927, however, was at Taunton and the three Lancashire wickets he took in that game amounted to more than half his first-class career total. In his Obituary in Wisden Cricketers' Almanack in 1996, Powell's batting in this match was also discussed: "He was... forced to face Ted McDonald in full cry when he went out to bat (at) No 10...: the senior pro Tom Young noticed his pads were not good enough, loaned him his and Powell made 22." Powell played a couple of matches in 1927 and then one in 1928, but reappeared more regularly in matches at Bath from 1934 to 1938. His first match on his return was his most successful: still batting at No 10, he made 52 against Hampshire sharing a ninth wicket stand of 97 (Wisden says 101) with Jack White.
Powell also played rugby union for Bath and for Somerset. A ubiquitous figure in Bath sport, Louis Powell trophies are still competed for at Bath Cricket Club and Bath Golf Club at Sham Castle, and he was the first to broadcast cricket commentary on a hospital radio system at the Royal United Hospital in Bath, covering cricket from the Recreation Ground alongside Bill Andrews.
In 1935, Powell married Nora Pratten from Midsomer Norton, Somerset, daughter of Frank Pratten who founded Prattens, manufacturer of prefabricated classrooms and other buildings. | WIKI |
Pizza Inn Arrives in Saraland, Alabama - Business - Press Releases | NBC News
SARALAND, Ala., April 5, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Pizza Inn, Inc. (Nasdaq:PZZI), an international pizza chain recognized for serving a variety of fresh, popular traditional and specialty pizzas, is now available in Saraland, Ala. A new Pizza Inn delivery/carryout location opened at 617 Celeste Road, and marks the fourth location for multi-unit franchise owner Flash Market Convenience stores. As part of a large travel center, the Saraland Pizza Inn is offering customers delivery and carryout service from a full menu, including large-sized pizzas made with fresh dough that can feed the whole family. Pizza Inn allows us to offer more than the personal pan pizza people think of at a local convenience store, said Keith Brown, of Flash Market. Whether you need something delivered quickly, you want to pick up dinner on the way home or you're traveling through town on the busy Interstate, we are presenting a delicious experience in our travel center with Pizza Inn's fresh ingredients and great prices. With the Saraland opening, Flash Market now operates Pizza Inn locations in Tennessee, Arkansas and Alabama, and the company plans to open additional sites in the coming months. Flash Market stores also feature Subway, Quiznos, Baskin Robbins and Dairy Queen franchises in their convenience stores and travel plazas. This is a tremendous opportunity to introduce Pizza Inn to new customers in Saraland as well as busy travelers who want exceptional food, said Charlie Morrison, CEO of Pizza Inn. Flash Market has a long history of success with high profile franchise brands and we are excited to be part of that success. Customers can place orders at the Saraland location by calling 251-675-1002. About Pizza Inn: Headquartered in the Dallas suburb of The Colony, TX, Pizza Inn, Inc., is an international pizza chain featuring traditional and specialty pizzas, as well as freshly made pastas, sandwiches, and desserts. Founded in 1958, publicly traded Pizza Inn (Nasdaq:PZZI) franchises approximately 300 restaurants and directly owns and operates five restaurants. For more information, please visit www.pizzainn.com . Pizza Inn is seeking single- and multi-unit franchisees to help grow the company's network of restaurants in the region. More information on franchise opportunities with Pizza Inn is available at www.pizzainn.com or by contacting Dino Chavez, Director of Franchise Development, at (800) 284-3466. The Pizza Inn logo is available at http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/prs/?pkgid=4933 Copyright 2012, GlobeNewswire, Inc. All Rights Reserved Discussion comments Most active discussions Show discussion Microsoft named Satya Nadella on Tuesday as its new chief executive officer. Nadella, who joined the software company 22 years ago, replaces Steve Ballmer. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Can osteoradionecrosis be cured?
Can osteoradionecrosis be cured?
Previous treatment options of osteoradionecrosis ORN of the jaw is usually treated with conservative or surgical management. Conservative therapies include frequent saline irrigation and antibiotic medications during infectious periods. Another conservative approach is hyperbaric oxygen treatment (HBOT).
Is osteoradionecrosis reversible?
Osteoradionecrosis (ORN) is a severe, generally irreversible complication of radiotherapy due to failure of healing.
Is osteoradionecrosis fatal?
Osteoradionecrosis (ORN) of the skull is a rare but fatal complication of radiation therapy for the treatment of head and neck malignancies.
What does radiation do to the jaw?
Radiotherapy or surgery to the head and neck area can cause jaw stiffness or lockjaw. Doctors call this trismus. You may have been given mouth exercises to do to help prevent this. After radiotherapy to the head and neck, the blood supply to the jawbone may not be as good as before.
Can you get dentures after radiation?
Dentures should be made or relined about six months after treatment to allow for changes in your mouth. There should be no pressure areas which could result in irritation to your mouth. Taste changes during the first six months following radiation therapy are common.
Can osteonecrosis of the jaw be fatal?
Even if a negative impact on Quality of Life has been described and demonstrated, ONJ is usually described as an event with mild or moderate sereneness. However, as a form of osteomyelitis with potential severe complications, ONJ can rarely be life-threatening.
What are the signs and symptoms of osteoradionecrosis?
Symptoms
• pain.
• swelling.
• a sore, or ulcer, in the mouth or on the jaw.
• difficulty opening the jaw, or trismus.
• an abnormal opening, or fistula, between the jaw and the surface of the body.
• less feeling in the mouth or jaw, or even a complete loss of sensation in the area.
• infection.
What is osteoradionecrosis and why is it so difficult to treat?
Osteoradionecrosis (ORN) is an unusual complication from radiation therapy to the head and neck that unfortunately results in bone death. Radiation therapy is used to kill cancer cells, but the treatment also harms healthy cells at the same time.
Can teeth be extracted after radiotherapy?
A conservative approach is advised in regard to extraction of teeth after radiation. [41] Extraction should only be considered after careful evaluation. Extremely mobile periodontally compromised teeth can be safely removed with minimal risk of developing ORN.
Can teeth fall out from radiation?
Chemotherapy and radiation therapy may cause changes in the lining of the mouth and the salivary glands, which make saliva. This can upset the healthy balance of bacteria. These changes may lead to mouth sores, infections, and tooth decay.
Can you have implants after radiotherapy?
If you are having radiotherapy after surgery, it might change how the reconstruction looks. Your doctor might advise you not to have implant reconstruction if you are having radiotherapy afterwards. But you can have a temporary implant during radiotherapy and a second reconstruction operation after the radiotherapy.
What happens to the jaw after radiation treatment for cancer?
Damage to jaw after radiation treatment, what can be done. In some cases, involment of these tissues by the primary cancer can also contribute to the scarring after treatment. Since scar tissue is inelastic and has less blood supply, it can lead to contractures and difficulty in opening the mouth.
How common is jaw necrosis after radiation for oral cancer?
Jaw Necrosis Common after Radiation for Oral Cancer. PHOENIX — Osteoradionecrosis of the jaw (ORNJ) occurred more than twice as often as reported in the literature, according to a population-based study of patients treated with radiation for oral cancer.
What happens to tissue and bone loss from radiation therapy?
This can kill bone tissue and lead to bone fractures or infection. Radiation can also kill tissue in the mouth. Ulcers may form, grow, and cause pain, loss of feeling, or infection. Preventive care can make tissue and bone loss less severe. The following may help prevent and treat tissue and bone loss:
What causes stiffening of the jaw after cancer treatment?
Stiffness may be caused by: 1 Oral surgery. 2 Late effects of radiation therapy. An overgrowth of fibrous tissue ( fibrosis) in the skin, mucous membranes, muscle, and joints of the jaw may occur after radiation therapy has ended. 3 Stress caused by the cancer and its treatment. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Adele posted photos from her Christmas party and she looks amazing
Adele posted two photos on Instagram from her Christmas party on Monday night.She shared two black and white images of herself looking incredibly glamorous after recently joking about her apparent weight loss.Many fans commented on how amazing she looked.Adele has faced criticism for her size in the past, infamously from Karl Lagerfeld who called her "a little too fat" in 2012.However, the singer previously insisted she would never lose weight due to pressure from anyone else.Visit Insider&aposs homepage for more. Adele posted two photos on Instagram from her Christmas party, and fans can&apost get over how amazing she looks.The singer, who doesn&apost share much on the social network (her last post before that is from October 24), posted two black and white snaps of herself — one with the Grinch and one with Father Christmas.
We both tried to ruin Christmas but then both our hearts grew! Thank you for coming to my party and making us feel like kids Grinch 💚 Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays everyone x A post shared by Adele (@adele) on Dec 23, 2019 at 11:32am PSTDec 23, 2019 at 11:32am PST
"We both tried to ruin Christmas but then both our hearts grew!" she wrote. "Thank you for coming to my party and making us feel like kids Grinch. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays everyone x."Looking incredibly glamorous in a long silky dress with ruched sleeves, wearing dark lipstick, and with her hair in retro waves, Adele wowed her fans, many of whom commented on her slimmer figure."You look incredible diva," commented UK "RuPaul&aposs Drag Race" star Cheryl Hole."Oh wowww," added British DJ Naughty Boy.And US "RuPaul" star Detox wrote: "STUNNNNN."
Adele, 31, split from her husband Simon Konecki in April 2019 after three years of marriage, and appears to have lost a significant amount of weight since then.In October, many of her fans noticed her smaller physique for the first time after she posted photos from Drake&aposs birthday party.
I used to cry but now I sweat 😂 #gingermckenna Happy birthday to one of the kindest and funniest people I’ve met @champagnepapi 🌹 A post shared by Adele (@adele) on Oct 24, 2019 at 12:58pm PDTOct 24, 2019 at 12:58pm PDT
Adele has always maintained she would never be pressured into losing weight by anyone else, telling People (reported by Marie Claire) in 2012: "Even when I was signing a contract, most of the industry knew if anyone ever dared say: &aposLose weight&apos to me, they wouldn&apost be working with me."However Adele has famously faced scrutiny for her size before — her comments above were in response to the late fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld calling her "a little too fat."She is not the only singer to have faced scrutiny for their size — Ed Sheeran recently admitted he&aposd lost 56 pounds after internet trolls called him "chunky" and "fat," as Insider&aposs Claudia Willen reported. Read more:James Van Der Beek posted dramatic body transformation pictures showing how dancing has changed his physiqueA slimmed-down Adele joked about her workouts after being photographed looking glamorous at Drake&aposs birthday partyEd Sheeran says he lost 56 pounds after trolls called him &aposchunky&apos and made him insecure about his weight
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Richard Stanley (director)
Richard Stanley is a South African filmmaker, known for his work in the horror genre. He began his career making short films and music videos, and subsequently directed the feature films Hardware (1990) and Dust Devil (1992), both of which are considered cult classics. He was the original director of The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996), but was fired early into principal photography due to creative differences, an episode recounted in the 2014 documentary Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau. In 2019, he returned to feature films after more than 20 years, directing the H. P. Lovecraft adaptation Color Out of Space.
Early career (1983–1987)
Stanley's first foray into film making began in high school where he joined the Young Filmmaker's Workshop. Here he created his first film, Rites of Passage. Shot on super-8 stock, the 10-minute short film draws comparisons between modern man and primitive man. The short eventually won Stanley the IAC International Student Film Trophy film award in 1984.
Stanley followed his first success with the ambitious 45-minute 8 mm short Incidents in an Expanding Universe. Set in a future dystopia, the film laid the groundwork for Stanley's cyberpunk feature debut Hardware. It won the IAC Gold Seal Award and was eventually made available on the Severin DVD release of Hardware.
In the mid-1980s, Stanley began work on two more shorts. In a Season of Soft Rains was another futuristic journey, but a majority of the footage has been lost. Dust Devil was his first work on 16 mm. Inspired by a series of unsolved murders in Namibia, this short was unfinished but footage can be viewed on the Subversive Cinema DVD release of the feature Dust Devil.
Music videos (1987–1990)
Following the move to London, England, Stanley began working in music videos in 1987. He directed videos for bands including Fields of the Nephilim, Pop Will Eat Itself, and Renegade Soundwave.
In the late 1980s Stanley traveled to Afghanistan to document the Soviet–Afghan War. Stanley and his crew witnessed the Soviet Army's withdrawal and the country's slide into the civil war that would bring the Taliban to power. The resulting documentary, Voice of the Moon, is a 30-minute look at the daily lives of the Afghan people trying to survive. Stanley was present at the siege of Jalalabad, and the events surrounding his escape from the country, along with his wounded camera man, Immo Horn, later formed the basis of the screenplay Addicted to Danger, by Sebastian Junger. The documentary is available on the Subversive Cinema DVD release of the feature Dust Devil.
Mainstream breakthrough (1990–1996)
Stanley made his feature film directing debut with the post-apocalyptic science fiction film Hardware in 1990. The film included cameos by musicians Iggy Pop, Carl McCoy and Lemmy. Shot for approximately £960,000, it was eventually picked up by the Weinstein brothers and released theatrically in the United States through their early Millimeter Films division.
Stanley returned to his South African roots with the supernatural horror film Dust Devil in 1992. He intended it to be his first film, having written the screenplay for it when he was 16 years old. The full director's cut was officially released on DVD by Subversive Cinema in September 2006.
In 1994, Stanley directed a 50-minute length video for Marillion's concept album, Brave, which has since been released on DVD. He would later disown the result, claiming the material was re-edited to cover the overall running time without his consent.
The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996)
Stanley's next project was the third major movie version of the H. G. Wells novel The Island of Doctor Moreau for New Line Cinema in 1996. An ambitious project attempting to stay true to the source material, the film's production was fraught with problems from the start, with Stanley being undercut by his belligerent lead actors, suspicious studio and a sudden burst of bad weather; he was fired and replaced by John Frankenheimer a week after shooting began. The details of Stanley's involvement in the film, which ultimately veered far from his original vision, are captured in the 2014 documentary Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau.
Indie film writing and documentaries (1996–2019)
Stanley completed The Secret Glory – an examination of SS officer Otto Rahn's search for the Holy Grail – in 2001 and The White Darkness – a look at the voodoo practices in Haiti – in 2002. Following several festival screenings, both documentaries appeared in the Dust Devil DVD box-set, released by Subversive Cinema in 2006.
Stanley's cinematic efforts include a number of short films. Children of the Kingdom appeared in the short-film collection Europe – 99euro-films 2 in 2003. The science fiction story The Sea of Perdition premiered in October 2006 at the Festival de Cine de Sitges, and has since been made available online and on the 2009 Severin DVD release of Hardware. The werewolf short Black Tulips premiered online in September 2008.
Stanley was a contributing writer-director to the 2011 omnibus The Theatre Bizarre, with an adaptation of the short story "Mother of Toads" by Clark Ashton Smith.
In addition to directing, Stanley has continued working as a screenwriter. He co-wrote the script for Nacho Cerdà's feature debut The Abandoned (2006) and delivered the screenplay for Cerdà's upcoming comic book adaptation I Am Legion (2012). In addition, Stanley was a script collaborator on the Italian horror-thriller Imago Mortis (2009). Stanley also co-wrote an unmade film adaptation of J. G. Ballard's High Rise with director Vincenzo Natali.
Stanley launched the interactive website Terra Umbra – Empire of Shadows in October 2009, an ongoing inquiry into the invisible world and the hidden history of southern and central Europe. He also released the e-book Shadow of the Grail – Magic and Mystery at Montsegur in December 2010.
In early 2012, it was announced that Stanley would collaborate on the anthology film The Profane Exhibit. Stanley's contribution will be the short Coltan, which is described as "an unflinching look into darkest Africa."
Return to mainstream (2018–present)
In December 2018, it was announced Stanley was returning to film with an adaptation of The Colour Out of Space with Nicolas Cage set to star. The film, Color Out of Space, was released in 2020 and became a critical success with Stanley being praised for his return.
In a Q&A session upon the release of the film, Stanley revealed it was the first in a trilogy of H.P. Lovecraft adaptations, and that he was currently writing an adaptation of The Dunwich Horror.
Abuse allegation
In March 2021, screenwriter Scarlett Amaris, who previously collaborated with Stanley on several projects, alleged in a blog post that she had been in an abusive relationship with him. Subsequently SpectreVision, which produced Color Out of Space, announced it would no longer work with Stanley and that all future revenue from the film would be donated to anti-domestic violence charities.
On 25 October 2021, entertainment news outlet Deadline reported Stanley has filed criminal complaints for libel and harassment in response to the accusation.
Documentary film
Interviewee
* Jodorowsky's Dune (2013)
* Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau (2014)
* 78/52 The Hitchcock Shower Scene (2017)
Interviews
* Unfilmable's 2010 interview with Stanley
* Richard Stanley & co-directors talk The Theatre Bizarre
* Not Coming to a Theater Near You interview with Stanley
* The Quietus interview
* Sci-Fi Bulletin interview
* Hardware, Dust Devil and Vacation interview
* "Return to The Island of Dr. Moreau" | WIKI |
Quaid -e-azam is the man that is behind the independence of Pakistan. He was born on 25 December, 1876. His father name was Jinnahbhai Poonja and he was a famous merchant. He started studying at the age 6 in Madrasatul-Islam. He was indifferent with his studies .He likes more to play outdoor games. His parents always told him to focus on studies. In 1887, Jinnah moved to Bombay city for the sake of better education with her aunt. So,he started studying in Gokal Das Tej primary school in Bombay.
After 6 months her left school in Bombay and moved back to his parent. After coming back to Karachi his name was strucked off from school due to short attendance so he joined sindh Madrassa. Quaid -e-azam was not an easy child to control. He spends his free time by reading book of poetry. After going to London he started studying law in Lincoln’s Inn. After qualified as a barrister in England Jinnah moved to India. Now he started making his name in India. He was one of finest lawyers in India. After serving half century for justice he left the occupation of lawyer.
Jinnah in All India Muslim League:
Quaid -e-azam was very interested in politics. He started his career with Indian National Congress in 1906.In 11913 he joined All India Muslim League. After joining new party Jinnah started arranging meetings with higher level people of party. He started working in political activities by attending parties discussion groups etc. he has given a strong speech at twenty sixth session of league that was held in Patna in 1938 at that time there were two types of people one who believed that Hindu and muslims can still work together and others has already understand it that they cannot live together.
He asserted that Muslims should have separate homeland. Hindu and Muslims have different religions, different culture so they cannot live together more..A resolution is passed in Lahore on March 23 that creates the mindset of people of two nations. On august 23, we got a separate homeland to live in the form of Pakistan. Quaid -e-azam was died on 11 September, 1948 near Karachi. Tuberculosis was the cause of the death.
1.Youngest Indian to pass Law examination:
In 1896, he became the first youngest Indian to pass law examination.He was a famous sand most successful lawyer of his time. He served half century as lawyer to his country. Jinah was the only barrister in Bombay. He has won many famous cases in court for example: Raja of Nanpara case, Bibi Khaver Sultan case etc made him popular in India. Jinnah was extremely intelligent his arguments in courts make the opposition quiet. After some time he said good bye to the passion of lawyer and joined politics.
2.First marriage only lasted for few weeks:
Parents arranged the fisrt marriage of Quaid -e-azam.As the traditions of that time the bride and groom have to accept the terms of family. he was sixteen years old at that time.. He married to a fourteen year old girl named Emibai. The marriage ceremony took place at February 1892.Jinah has taken time to adjust with his new bride. As he was sailed from India his new bride died.
3.Jinnah’s second marriage with Ruttie:
Quaid -e-azam married to Ruttie after sometime .She was from a Parsi family so she first converted into Islam. After some time their only child Dina was born in London. Due to Jinnah political activities he had no time for Ruttie and family. After seeing this Ruttie and Jinnah started living separately. Ruttie moved to London for some time for better environment. After coming alone to Bombay Ruttie fall ill and died on 20, February, 1929. Due to Ruttie death Jinnah was extremely sad and broken. Ruttie love for Jinnah was never ending.
4.A career in theater
In London Quaid -e-azam visited the theater many times. He was very fan of Shakespearean actors. Jinnah dream was to play the role of Romeo in theater. When he got a job in theater he wrote a letter to inform his father. His father was very against the acting career. He wrote a letter to Jinnah and taught him “does not be a traitor to the family”. This line influenced him to change his decision for career.
5.First Governor General of Pakistan:
After the separation of Hindus and Muslims two states come to existence one as India and other as Pakistan. The governors in both countries are Quaid -e-azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah in Pakistan and Chakravarti Rajagopalachari in India. After Jinnah there were three more governors of Pakistan that are following.
- Sir Khawaja Nazimuddin (1876-1948)
- Sir Ghulam Muhammad(1895-1956)
- Iskander Mirza (1899-1969)
6.Jinnah was a poetry lover:
In leisure time Quaid -e-azam loves to read poetry. He reads Shakespeare and other poets of that time. Jinnah read books coming back to home. Quaid -e-azam was interesed in reading books.
7.Never wore the same tie again:
Quaid -e-azam was a very handsome man and he has never worn the same tie again. He was very famous among his family and friends for his good dressing sense. Even in his last days ,formal dressing is insisted by him.
8.Taken 1 Rs salary per month:
There was a time Quaid -e-azam was the most expensive and most successful lawyers of India. He charged 1500 per case . He has fixed his salary to 1 rupee per month as a governor general of Pakistan. The reason behind this is was not to burden financial condition of state.
9.Jinnah cap has its own significance:
Jinnah always wore a cap during All India Muslim League sessions in Lucknow. This signifies the dream of Allama Muhammad Iqbal of separate homeland for Muslims. This cap is still famous till now.
10.Has a road named in turkey:
In the capital of Turkey, Ankara there is a road named after Quaid e azam. It is called as a “Cinnah Caddesi”.In turkey we write Cinnah as the spelling of Jinnah.
Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah is a real inspiration for all youngsters.He is the founder of Pakistan .Due to him, Pakistani people can live in seperate homeland.
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Bennett Park (Detroit)
Bennett Park was a ballpark in Detroit. Located at Michigan and Trumbull Avenues, it was home to the Detroit Tigers and was named after Charlie Bennett, a former player whose career ended after a train accident in 1894.
The Tigers began play at Bennett Park in the minor Western League with a 17–2 win over the Columbus Senators on April 28, 1896. That league was renamed the American League in 1900, and the AL declared itself a major league starting in 1901.
History
The ballpark sat 5,000 when it opened in 1896 and was gradually expanded to 14,000 by the time it was closed after the 1911 season. When the American League became a major league in 1901 the ballpark seated 8,500, the smallest park in the majors. Private parties built "Wildcat" bleachers on the rooftops of houses behind the left field fence, to the chagrin of Tiger ownership, since people paid to watch games from those bleachers but the Tigers did not get revenue.
The park was noted for its dangerous playing surface, with cobblestones beneath the dirt and sometimes protruding over the dirt.
This small ballpark enjoyed some big success, as the Tigers and their young sensation Ty Cobb won three consecutive pennants during 1907–1909. However, their success ran out in the post-season on each occasion, when they lost to stronger National League teams in the World Series. This ballpark was hallowed ground to fans of the Chicago Cubs, as it was on this site in both 1907 and 1908 that the Cubs clinched their first two World Series championships (and their last one for over a century, until 2016).
Between the 1911 and 1912 seasons, the Tigers acquired the rest of the block, demolished both the wildcat bleachers and Bennett Park, and built Navin Field on the same site, though the new stadium was shifted by 90°, with home plate where the left field corner had formerly been.
First night game
Bennett Park was home to the first nighttime baseball game in Detroit. On September 24, 1896, the Tigers played their last game of their first season at Bennett Park, an exhibition doubleheader against the Cincinnati Reds. Tigers owner George Arthur Vanderbeck had workers string lights above the stadium for the nighttime game. A crowd of 1200 attended the experiment, which was described by a local newspaper as "an amusing and financial success".
Nighttime baseball did not return to Detroit until June 15, 1948, when the first game under the lights was played at Briggs Stadium. | WIKI |
One-game playoff
A one-game playoff, sometimes known as a pennant playoff, tiebreaker game or knockout game, is a tiebreaker in certain sports—usually but not always professional—to determine which of two teams, tied in the final standings, will qualify for a post-season tournament. Such a playoff is either a single game or a short series of games (such as best-2-of-3).
This is distinguished from the more general usage of the term "playoff", which refers to the post-season tournament itself.
Major League Baseball
One-game playoffs were used in Major League Baseball (MLB) through the 2021 season. When two or more MLB teams were tied for a division championship or the wild card playoff berth (1995–2011, or starting in 2012, the second only) at the end of the regular season, a one-game playoff was used to determine the winner.
If a tie were (from 1995 to 2011) a two-way tie for a division championship and both tied teams' have records higher than those records of the second-place teams in the other divisions, or (from 2012) between the two division non-champions with the untied best record, no one-game playoff was played. In this scenario, the winner of the season series between the two teams wins the tiebreaker for purposes of playoff seeding. Through the 2008 season, home-field advantage for one-game playoffs was determined by a coin flip, but effective from, home advantage was based on a set of performance criteria, with the first tiebreaker being head-to-head record.
For statistical purposes, one-game playoffs were considered part of the regular season. In a 162-game regular season, a one-game playoff was often referred to as “game 163”. The result of the playoff was included in the regular season standings and individual player statistics were included along with the statistics for the rest of the season. One significant playoff-like deviation from normal regular season games in force was that six-man umpire crews were used (as opposed to the four-man crews of the regular season). Also, television broadcasting rights for all were negotiated by MLB – from 2012 to 2021, the network owning the rights to the Wild Card Game for a particular league has also had the rights to any tiebreaker(s) that might occur in that league.
MLB scheduling practices stipulated a break of at least one day between the scheduled end of the regular season and the start of the postseason. The schedule was designed to maximize the probability that tiebreakers could take place on the day after the scheduled end of the regular season with no alterations to the postseason schedule needing to be made as a result. Nevertheless, the schedule could have been disrupted if rain-outs or other such events disrupted the schedule near the end of the season or on the day set aside for tiebreakers, and the tie-breaking procedure and scheduling would have become more complicated if three or more teams had tied. That would have required a series of one-game playoffs, taking more than one day. A series of one-game playoffs would have also been necessary if teams had tied for their division title also tied for the second wild card – in such a case, the division title would have been settled first, with the loser of that game then contesting a tiebreaker for the last wild card berth. There have been several occasions where such scenarios were possible as late as the last game of the season, but it never happened. To provide some additional flexibility in case of make-up games and/or complicated playoff scenarios, an additional break of one day was always scheduled between the wild card game and the start of the Division Series in each league.
Starting in 2012, with the Wild Card game between the top two teams who did not win their division, if two teams tie for a division title and both are in the playoffs, a one-game playoff was held because it would determine which team advances to the Division Series, and the loser would play in the wild card game only if its regular-season record since it was among the league's two best records for non-division-winners. When two teams tied for the top two wild card positions, an extra game was not held – performance-based criteria were used in that case to determine the home team for the Wild Card Game.
Finally, although tiebreaker games counted in the regular season standings and ultimately reflected in the team’s final records, they did not count for the purposes of determining subsequent postseason qualification, seeding, and home-field advantage. For example, if two teams had tied for their division title and also tied with the runner-up of another division for the wild card, the loser of the division tiebreaker would have still hosted the team tied for the wild card (whether in another tiebreaker for the second wild card or in the Wild Card Game itself) based on performance-based criteria, even though in that scenario though they would have technically lost one more regular season game and therefore be a half game behind in the standings. However, if a team in such a scenario had lost a divisional tiebreaker and then won a tiebreaker for the second wild card, it would have actually finished a half game behind the division winner and a half game ahead of third place in the wild card standings.
Avoiding any confusion with the term "Playoffs" as the often used but unofficial name of MLB's post-season tournament, the term "Tiebreaker" was MLB's preferred term for a one-game playoff.
Beginning with the 2022 season, MLB eliminated tiebreakers while expanding the postseason to six teams per league.
History
Through the 2013 MLB season, there have been 14 occasions where a tiebreaker was needed in a league, division, or wild card race. Of these tiebreakers, ten have been one-game playoffs and the other four were best-of-three playoffs. Prior to the advent of divisional play in 1969, the National League broke ties for its league championship with a best-of-three-games playoff – incidentally, all four of these series were ultimately won by the team that won the first game. The American League has always used one-game playoffs.
Prior to the advent of the wild card playoff system in 1994, all five pennant playoffs in the National League had involved the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers (who won the coin toss for home field advantage all five times, yet lost every year except 1959), and both American League playoffs had involved the Boston Red Sox (who hosted both and lost both).
The 2018 season was the first to see two one-game playoffs, both for division titles (the NL Central and NL West) – the first time divisional one-game playoffs were needed at all since the MLB postseason expanded to ten teams. Both were in the National League and meant that the Game 163 winners won the division and advanced to the LDS, while the losers met each other in the Wild Card Game. Under the pre-2012 format, only the NL West tiebreaker would have been played since the NL Central runner-up would have been assured the Wild Card. It was the first time that the loser of a tiebreaker game still qualified for the postseason.
No playoff needed
Since the advent of the wild card in 1995, there have been three occasions on which a tiebreaker was not played as the two teams that were tied for a division lead and the wild card. In 2001, the Houston Astros and St. Louis Cardinals tied for first in the National League Central with records of 93–69. In 2005, the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox each finished 95–67 in the American League East. In 2006, the San Diego Padres and Los Angeles Dodgers finished tied with records of 88–74 in the National League West. The team with the better head-to-head record (the 2001 Astros, 2005 Yankees, and 2006 Padres) was declared the division champion, thus receiving a better seed in the postseason. The other team was seeded as the wild card.
Since 2012, when the Wild Card Game was introduced, if two teams are tied for the first Wild Card spot, no tie-breaking game was played. Rather, both teams simply played each other in the Wild Card Game, with the team winning the regular season series hosting the Wild Card Game. This has occurred in 2012 (Baltimore Orioles and Texas Rangers were both 93–69; Texas hosted the game due to winning the season series), 2014 (Pittsburgh Pirates and San Francisco Giants were both 88–74; Pittsburgh hosted due to winning the season series), 2016 (Baltimore Orioles and Toronto Blue Jays were both 89–73; Toronto hosted due to winning the season series; also San Francisco Giants and New York Mets were both 85–77; New York hosted due to winning the season series), and 2021 (New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox were both 92–70; Boston hosted due to winning the season series). Previously, these matchups would have served as tiebreaker games.
Make-up games
On some occasions a previously postponed game may be made up at the end of the season to settle entry into the playoffs. Although such a game is technically a mere regular-season game, it can have the effect and feel of a playoff.
On September 23, 1908, Johnny Evers of the Chicago Cubs capitalized on a base-running mistake by young Fred Merkle of the New York Giants to invalidate a game-ending winning run. As thousands of fans were on the field and darkness was approaching, the game did not immediately resume. As it turned out, the Cubs and Giants ended the season in a tie for the pennant, and the postponed game was replaced by a new game played on October 8, 1908, at the Polo Grounds. The Cubs prevailed 4–2, and advanced to the 1908 World Series.
In 2008, the Chicago White Sox ended the season $1/2$ game behind the Minnesota Twins for the American League Central division title. The fractional difference was due to the September 13 game between the White Sox and the Detroit Tigers, which had been rained out and not yet rescheduled. To determine whether, if the game had not been rained out, there would have been a tie between the Twins and White Sox, the White Sox and Tigers played the make-up game at the end of the season on September 29. The White Sox won, resulting in a tie that necessitated playing a one-game playoff in Chicago, which the White Sox won 1–0. Make-up games were also played after the season's end in 1973 and 1981.
Between 1901 and 1938, during a time when games were more often delayed by darkness and not always made up, there have been at least nine occasions on which making up postponed games might have resulted in a different pennant outcome, but the games were not made up. Even today, make-up games that cannot be played before the scheduled end of the regular season are only played if there is a possibility their results could affect postseason qualification.
National Football League
The National Football League (NFL) now has an elaborate formula for breaking ties in the qualification for its playoffs, and in the highly unlikely event that two teams are tied in all enumerated statistical criteria, the rules stipulate that a coin toss settles the tie, meaning one game playoffs are no longer possible.
However, before the merger of the NFL and the American Football League (AFL) in, it was possible to have a playoff game if two teams tied for a division title. The NFL had nine of these playoffs occur between 1941 and 1965, and the AFL, whose records were fully integrated with the NFL's upon merger, had two such playoffs (1963, 1968). The All-America Football Conference (AAFC), which merged with the NFL after the season, also held a playoff tiebreaker game in 1948, but unlike the AFL's playoff games, the AAFC's records are not recognized by the older league.
The Chicago Bears and the Portsmouth Spartans of the NFL tied for first place at the end of the season, and as both their games ended in ties, they held an extra game to determine the champion. Unlike subsequent post-season playoffs, this game was considered part of the regular season, as per baseball tie-breaking playoff games described above.
The great interest generated by the 1932 playoff game led the NFL to split into two divisions in, and began playing a single post-season NFL Championship game. If two teams in a single division tied for first place, the rules also provided for a one-game tie-breaking playoff to determine which team would advance to the league championship game.
The NFL did have at least one tiebreaker prior to this, one that came into play for determining the 1921 title; if two teams tied each other in the standings and played twice, each winning one, then the winner of the second game won the title. This was of no use in 1932 because the Bears and Spartans had tied each other in their two matchups that year, and the NFL abandoned it.
This was the practice from 1933 through ; unlike the 1932 contest, these tiebreakers were not part of the regular season's standings.
The league's last one-game playoff occurred in 1965; in, when it split into four divisions, it was deemed unfeasible to continue the traditional one game playoffs since the World Championship Game against the AFL was scheduled for a specific day at a neutral site. Since then the NFL has used a set of tiebreaking rules to break ties.
The AFL did not immediately follow suit since it was still a two division league, therefore there was room in the schedule to accommodate a divisional tiebreaker. The last tiebreaker game in professional football was played in the 1968, when the Oakland Raiders defeated the Kansas City Chiefs to win the West and set up a rematch of the famous Heidi Game against the New York Jets. The Jets, who had won the East outright, defeated the Raiders and went on to stun the heavily favored NFL champion Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl III.
Besides simply dismissing the Jets' win as a "fluke" NFL loyalists, smarting from the shock defeat to the Jets, complained that the Jets had benefited from an "unfair" advantage since they were the only playoff team in professional football with a bye in the Divisional round. Under pressure from NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle (whom the AFL had recognized as the overall chief executive of pro football when the merger was first agreed in 1966), the AFL agreed to adopt tiebreakers until its final season before the merger, and also to grant division runners-up a playoff berth, so as to ensure the NFL and AFL champions would play an equal number of games. Ultimately, there were no ties in the 1969 AFL season for first or second place, and the AFL champion Chiefs (who were AFL West runners-up) nevertheless defeated the Minnesota Vikings to win Super Bowl IV.
Today in the NFL, division winners and playoff qualifiers are technically determined by winning percentage, not by number of wins.
Prior to, ties did not count for the purposes of this calculation. So, for example, if one team finished 11–3 and another 10–2–2, there was no tiebreaker, as the team with two ties would have been deemed the outright division winners. This made tie games, a fairly common occurrence in football before overtime was introduced in, somewhat more valuable to teams compared to the half-win they are considered today.
Today, two ties are of exactly equal strength to a win for the purpose of breaking ties since, unlike many other North American leagues, the current NFL tiebreaking criteria do not prioritize one win over two ties (or vice versa) in any way. However, since the introduction of overtime beginning with the 1974 regular season this has been essentially an academic point since no team has ever tied more than once in a season during the overtime era.
Both the NFL and AFL had provisions prior to their merger to allow for two weeks of one-game playoffs if three or four teams tied for a division title. Despite the relatively high probability of such a tie happening in a 12 or 14-game schedule compared to a longer season, this scenario never took place prior to the abolition of one-game playoffs.
The closest a three-way tie for a division came to happening was in when the Detroit Lions, San Francisco 49ers, and Baltimore Colts all entered the final week of the season with identical 7–4 records. With none of those three teams playing each other in the last week, a three-way tie seemed likely until the Colts lost, leaving the Lions and 49ers to contest the playoff between themselves; the Lions went on to win the NFL championship, their last as of 2021. A somewhat similar situation occurred in 1950, when there was a tie in both divisions, requiring two playoffs.
While there are no one-game playoffs in the NFL today, current scheduling practices (which include exclusively intradivisional matchups at the end of the season), combined with the NFL's short schedule, make it possible that the last week of the regular season will include a winner-take-all game between two teams, which has the effect and feel of a one-game playoff. Typically, such games will be scheduled for prime time under the NFL's flexible scheduling policy (provided their result does not carry potential playoff implications for other teams; the NFL's current scheduling rules dictate that games with mutual playoff implications in the final week of the season must start at the same time).
For example, the New York Giants and Dallas Cowboys entered the final week of the 2011 NFL season tied at 8–7 for first place in the NFC East. The teams, scheduled to play in Dallas, were both out of contention for a wild card berth, meaning the winner of the game would win the division, while the loser would miss the playoffs altogether. The Giants defeated the Cowboys and went on to win the Super Bowl.
NFL tiebreaker playoffs
* Home teams in bold
AFL tiebreaker playoffs
* Home team in bold
AAFC one-game playoff
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Canadian Football League
Like in the NFL, one-game tiebreaking playoffs were a regular feature in the early years of the provincial competitions that were eventually consolidated into today's Canadian Football League in 1958. They were abandoned in the mid-1930s as Canadian football evolved from consisting of provincial leagues to two regional conferences (the Interprovincial Rugby Football Union and Western Interprovincial Football Union). Previously, the regional Eastern and Western champions that played in the Grey Cup were determined by playoffs between the winners of each region's leagues. These regional playoffs were sufficiently popular (and the teams were so dependent on gate receipts in the then-short season available to play football in Canada) that the regional conferences implemented a format that ensured playoffs were contested every season as opposed to only those where ties needed to be broken.
The current tiebreaking criteria are substantially different in the CFL compared to the NFL, although like the NFL it culminates in a coin toss in the highly unlikely event all specified performance-based criteria cannot break a tie at the end of the regular season. Also unlike the NFL (which determines its standings strictly by winning percentage only), the CFL and its antecedent competitions have always awarded "points" in the standings in the same manner as is done in ice hockey (which is by far Canada's most popular sport) as well as other codes of football especially rugby from which the gridiron codes evolved. Teams receive two points for a win and one for a tie. Starting in 2000, the CFL also experimented with awarding a point for an overtime loss as is typically done in hockey today, but dropped the "OTL" point after only three seasons. A tie has therefore always effectively counted as a "half-win" in the standings in Canadian football, with the caveat that in all tie-breakers in force since the end of tiebreaking playoffs, the first tiebreaker (other than for determining a crossover team) has always been number of wins (same as in hockey) whereas, as mentioned earlier, number of wins compared to ties has never been a tiebreaking criterium in the NFL.
National Basketball Association
In its early years, the National Basketball Association held tie-breaker games at the end of the season, if necessary. The first two games (a three team playoff) were played during the 1947–48 season, the league's second year in existence, when it was still known as the Basketball Association of America. The second of these, however, was only used to determine the playoff seeding for the Chicago Stags and Baltimore Bullets. In fact, five of the eight one-game playoffs in NBA history were used for seeding purposes, and both teams advanced to the playoffs despite the outcome.
The American Basketball Association, which formed in 1967, did not hold a tie-breaker game in its first season, when the Kentucky Colonels and New Jersey Americans (later known as the New York Nets, New Jersey Nets, and currently as the Brooklyn Nets) tied for fourth place in the Eastern Division with a record of 36–42. A game was scheduled between the two teams in New Jersey, but the Americans' facility was booked and the replacement site picked by the team was in such poor condition that they were forced to forfeit the game by the league office. The Colonels were given the playoff spot despite going just 4–7 against the Americans during the regular season. The next time two teams finished tied for the final playoff spot in a division, the ABA did hold a tie-breaker game. The ABA would later merge with the NBA, with four teams from the ABA joining the NBA: the Denver Nuggets, Indiana Pacers, New York Nets and San Antonio Spurs.
NBA one game playoffs
Home team in bold.
ABA one game playoffs
Home team in bold.
The New Jersey Americans (now the Brooklyn Nets of the NBA) forfeited the 1968 playoff game to the Kentucky Colonels when the Commack Arena on Long Island, where the game was scheduled to be played, was deemed unsuitable due to a wet floor from a leaky ice hockey surface.
National Hockey League
Though the National Hockey League, currently the only major professional ice hockey league in North America, has never actually held a one-game playoff in its century long existence, its current playoff qualification rules explicitly allow for the possibility. Under current rules, a tie between two teams for a conference's final playoff berth (this being the second wild card seed of a conference under the current format) can only be broken by the following tie-breakers:
* 1) The greater number of regulation wins only (used since the 2019–20 NHL season, reflected by the RW statistic).
* 2) The greater number of regulation and overtime wins, excluding shootouts (used since the 2010–11 NHL season, reflected by the ROW statistic).
* 3) The greater number of total wins, including shootouts.
* 4) The greater number of points earned in games between the tied clubs. head-to-head results,
* 5) If two clubs are tied, and have not played an equal number of home games against each other, the points earned and available in the first game played in the city of the club that had the greater number of home games in games between the two are not included.
* 6) If more than two clubs are tied, the higher percentage of available points earned in games among those clubs, and not including any "odd" games, are used to determine the standing. The "odd" games are identical to those mentioned in the previous paragraph, that is, the first game in the city of the club that has had more home games in games between each club in the tie. Note that, because of this procedure, if two teams in the multi team tie (also applicable in a two team tie) have only played once against each other, the points earned in that game are not included.
* 7) The greater differential between goals for and goals against during the entire regular season.
* 8) The greater number of goals for (used since the 2019–20 NHL season, reflected by the GF statistic).
* 9) If two clubs are still tied on all six tiebreakers listed above, a one-game playoff is played under Stanley Cup playoff rules.
Prior to the 2005 introduction of the shootout in the NHL, ROW was simply referred to as "wins" for tiebreaker purposes. The right to host such a game would be determined by a random draw.
Like in MLB, such a game in the NHL is considered a regular season game for statistical purposes except that the points earned do not count for playoff seeding purposes – in other words, the winner would enter the playoffs as the second wild card even if the two points they earned nominally caused them to otherwise tie or overtake other qualifying teams in total points, and the loser would be eliminated even if they lost in overtime and the single point they earned nominally allowed them to do the same in that manner. The other main difference from an ordinary regular season game is that playoff overtime rules (that is, 5-on-5, unlimited 20-minute overtime periods with no shootout until one team scores) would be used if necessary.
A one-game playoff is not held simply to determine playoff seeding and/or draft lottery position for non-playoff teams; league rules in these cases mandate a more exhaustive set of tiebreakers culminating in a random drawing to determine playoff seeding and/or final regular season standing. The more exhaustive set of tiebreakers is also used in the extremely unlikely event of three or more teams in a conference tied in points, RW, ROW, all wins, head-to-head results, overall goal differential, and overall goals scored. In this case, the more exhaustive criteria would be used to determine the club(s) which would qualify (in case of two available berths) or not qualify (in case of one available berth) without playing a one-game playoff, which would then be held between the two remaining teams if and only if they were also tied between each other in the criteria listed above, (e.g., intra-divisional and intra-conference record). It is therefore impossible for there to be two or more one-game playoffs in a conference in a particular season.
Recent scenarios
In its modern era, the NHL has provisionally scheduled a one-game playoff near the end of the regular season on two occasions. Neither such playoff proved to be necessary.
In 2000, the Buffalo Sabres and Montreal Canadiens entered the final weekend of the regular season with the possibility of being tied for the final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference and deadlocked on all relevant tiebreakers (wins, head-to-head results, and overall goal differential). The league announced that, if necessary, a tiebreaker game would be played the day after the regular season, but the Canadiens' loss in their final game, in regulation, rendered the point moot.
Likewise, in 2018, if the Florida Panthers had won their last two games via shootout and the Philadelphia Flyers lost their last game by exactly two goals, the teams would have been equal in all tiebreaker criteria, and they would have contested a play-in game for the second wild card in the Eastern Conference. This was avoided when the Flyers won their final game of the regular season and clinched the last playoff berth in the conference, eliminating Florida from playoff contention.
World Hockey Association
The NHL's most significant rival in its modern era, the World Hockey Association, actually held a one-game playoff. The playoff was hastily added at the end of the inaugural regular season after two teams, the Alberta Oilers (now Edmonton Oilers) and the Minnesota Fighting Saints tied for points, wins and head-to-head record, these being the only tie-breakers stipulated in WHA rules. The Fighting Saints defeated the Oilers in the game, which was played in Calgary. The ad hoc nature of the game was controversial. Had the NHL tiebreakers been in effect, the Oilers would have qualified for the playoffs since they had superior goal differential — critics argued that the real reason the league ordered the playoff was that they wanted to give the Fighting Saints an extra chance to qualify on account of the fact that they were playing in a large, brand new arena whereas the Oilers were playing in a small and antiquated facility.
As a footnote, the Fighting Saints went on to play the Winnipeg Jets, who defeated them four games to one. This would turn out to be the only hockey playoff series between any two professional teams representing these two relatively nearby geographical cross-border locales until the 2018 Stanley Cup playoffs. The 1972–73 season remains the only time a tiebreaking game has been played in a major North American hockey league. The WHA would later merge with the NHL, with four WHA franchises switching leagues: the Oilers, the Hartford Whalers (now the Carolina Hurricanes), the Quebec Nordiques (now the Colorado Avalanche), and the Jets (now the Arizona Coyotes and unrelated except in name and league affiliation to the current Winnipeg franchise).
Western Canada Hockey League
The Edmonton Eskimos and Regina Capitals ended the 1921-22 season of the Western Canada Hockey League with identical records of 14–9–1 with the sole tie being between the two teams. To decide first place, it was agreed to replay the tie game. Edmonton won the rematch 11–2 to place first. Subsequently, the Capitals defeated the Calgary Tigers 2–1 (1–0, 1–1) in a two-game totals-goals series to determine second place. The Capitals then went on to beat first place Edmonton 3–2 (1–1, 2–1) in the league's first championship series. Regina then advanced to play the Pacific Coast Hockey Association champion Vancouver Millionaires in the Stanley Cup playoffs for the right to play in the 1922 Stanley Cup Finals.
Ivy League basketball
In recent decades in U.S. college basketball, both men's and women's, most conferences have held tournaments to determine a winner who is awarded an automatic berth in the NCAA's postseason tournament. The Ivy League, however, was the last holdout in NCAA Division I—through the 2015–16 season, it continued to award its automatic NCAA tournament berth to the team with the best regular-season record in conference play. In case of a tie at the top of the standings, rules called for a one-game playoff, with the winner claiming the conference's automatic bid. If more than two teams were tied, a series of one-game playoffs was held. The Ivy League held its first postseason tournaments for both men and women at the end of the 2016–17 season, with the top four teams in the conference standings participating at a predetermined site.
In men's basketball, nine seasons ended in such a playoff, with the last being the 2014–15 season in which Harvard and Yale finished tied. The only time more than two teams finished tied atop the regular season standings was in the 2001–02 season, when Yale beat Princeton in the first one-game playoff, before losing to Penn. The last three-way playoff in women's basketball was in the 2007–08 season, in which Cornell, Dartmouth, and Harvard all finished at 11–3 in league play. It was determined that Dartmouth would play Harvard in the first playoff game, with the winner facing Cornell. Dartmouth won the first playoff game, with Cornell winning the playoff final.
Curling
Tie-breaker games are the traditional method of resolving meaningful ties in round robin-style curling tournaments. This is a fairly common occurrence as such round robins rarely involve more than twelve games per team. However, unlike most other sports it is common for curling teams to play two or even (more rarely) three games in a day and tournaments are typically played in a single venue. Therefore, scheduling even multi-team tie-breakers is relatively easy to arrange in a typical bonspiel compared to many other league-based competitions.
Canadian championship curling
Canadian championship curling tournaments, of which the premier bonspiels are the Brier (for men) and the Tournament of Hearts (for women) use tie-breaker games when teams tie between qualifying and non-qualifying positions in the round robin standings. While the tie-breaker has always been a one-game playoff in cases where two teams have been tied, when the Brier was first held in the 1920s (long before the introduction of automatic playoffs) the tie-breaker would consist of an additional mini-round robin if more than two teams tied for the title. Later, as the Brier field became fixed as consisting of teams representing every province plus Northern Ontario, the tie-breaker evolved to consist of "semi-final" and "final" stages in cases of ties involving three or more teams. The last tie-breaker games for a Brier title before the introduction of automatic playoffs took place in 1971 when three teams tied for first place.
Prior to the introduction of automatic playoffs, tie-breaker games were only used to when needed to determine the champion. Since the introduction of automatic playoffs, tie-breaker games have only been used where qualification for the next stage of the tournament is at stake. Otherwise, the teams' best last stone draw records are compared to determine playoff seeding and final pool or tournament ranking. Since the introduction of pool play in 2018, one-game playoffs occur if teams are tied between fourth and fifth place in the pool stage (which determines qualification for the Championship Pool) and again if teams are tied between fourth and fifth place in the Championship Pool (which determines qualification for the playoffs). Unlike other pool stage games, tie-breaker results are not carried over by the winning team(s) to the Championship Pool.
Since the introduction of pool play, if the quotient of number of teams tied for multiple qualifying berths divided by the number of qualifying berths available is less than two, then the teams' last stone draw records are used to determine which team(s) advance(s) without having to play (a) tie-breaker game(s). For example, in case of a three-way tie for third, fourth and fifth then last stone draw records determine which team finishes third, leaving the remaining two teams to play a tie-breaker. On the other hand, teams cannot be eliminated solely on account of last stone draw records and as many tiebreakers as necessary will be played to determine which team(s) advance(s). In case of any tie-breaker involving three or more teams, last stone draw records are used to determine seeding which in turn determine (except in case of any sort of four-way tie) which team(s) receive(s) (a) bye(s).
Due to the relative frequency of tie-breakers, they are incorporated into the tournament schedule and played on the morning of the first day of the playoffs (typically a Saturday in the presently-used schedule). In case of any two-round tie-breaker, the final tie-breaker will be played at the same time as the "1 vs 2" game in the afternoon.
Use in the Philippines
In the Philippines, the one-game playoff is also called a "knockout game". In all instances, all games are held in mostly neutral venues, since the home-and-away system is not used in most leagues or competitions.
Philippine Basketball Association
As opposed to the usage in North America, in which one-game playoffs are held to determine a champion, in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA), one-game playoffs are held when teams are tied in a last qualifying seed in the team standings. An extra game will be played to determine which team would be eliminated and which team will advance.
With the restructuring of the playoffs starting at the 2005–06 season, one game playoffs are also held which do not merit automatic elimination. When two teams are tied on the last qualifying seed for a stage (such as the No. 2 seed for the last semifinal berth), a classification game will be played to determine which team will clinch the higher seed. If the two teams are not tied on the last qualifying seed (such as the No. 1 seed where both teams are in the semifinals already), the points difference between the tied teams will be used to determine which team clinches the higher seed. Consequently, one-game playoffs that don't eliminate the loser are called "knockdown games."
Playoffs such as those after the 2004 restructuring are common due to the low number of games played in the regular conference or group stage (historically 14–18 games, but since the 2014–15 season, there are 12). In fact, each conference was able to feature at least one playoff game, until the 2007–08 PBA Philippine Cup where even though there were tied teams, the team's positions are not critical so they were resolved on the point differential among the tied teams' games. Only the playoffs for the last playoffs berth are included in the table below, where one team is eliminated from contention.
Previously, the PBA also had one-game playoffs to determine the Finals participant. This happened when the semifinals is a round robin format, and where there are two or more teams tied for the second seed, or if a team won a certain number of semifinal games, but did not finish in the top two berths. Each season had at least one such game. In the 1993 PBA Governors' Cup, there were two such games: to break the deadlock for the second seed, in which the winner faced the team with the best semifinals record.
College basketball
Starting at the reformation of the playoff structure of the UAAP basketball tournament in 1993 (actually first used in 1994 since UST swept the playoffs and were named automatic champions in 1993), where the top 4 teams qualify for the semifinals, with the top 2 teams clinching the twice-to-beat advantage, i.e., unilateral double elimination, a playoff will be held if two teams were tied for the fourth and last semifinal berth. The NCAA used this format starting in 1997.
When three or more teams are tied, all three teams undergo a series of one-game playoffs to determine the top seed and which team is eliminated.
Both leagues have used tiebreaker playoffs such as these in their previous tournament formats. The UAAP had used one league table for most of its history, with a playoff being made if two or more teams were tied for second (before 1993, the top two teams qualify to the Finals, with the #1 seed possessing the twice-to-beat advantage). The NCAA used a split season format, with winners of either half of the season playing in the Finals; if two teams were tied for the "pennant", a playoff will be held.
Men's playoff results include: In 2017, there were three teams tied for No. 4 in the NCAA, leading to two rounds of playoffs for No. 4. In 2015, three teams were tied for No. 3, and two rounds of playoffs were held: the first round for the No. 4 seed (loser is eliminated), and the second round for the No. 3 seed (loser is No. 4 seed).
Ties may also broken when two teams are tied for third, second and first seeds, although the competing teams still qualify for the playoffs when they lose; a playoff game for the No. 2 seed serves as a de facto game 1 of a best-of-three series. The UAAP had depreciated for playoffs for the Nos. 1 and 3 seeds.
The UAAP has also used this format for the volleyball tournaments.
Association football
A one-game playoff is at least theoretically possible in association football league competitions, where two teams competing for a significant prize are tied in all tie-breaking criteria. Most association football leagues only consider points, then goal difference and then goals scored when determining final standing. A few leagues also consider such criteria as head-to-head records, but this is not the norm. One-game playoffs are typically held in a neutral venue, often a national stadium especially for playoffs involving teams with large fanbases. The games are not counted in the regular season tables. Historically, a drawn one-game playoff would often result in a replay a few days later, although there have been occasions (such as in Scotland in 1891) where a draw resulted in the participants being declared joint champions. Today, most league competitions will use extra time and/or a penalty shootout to settle drawn one-game playoffs if needed.
For example, the Premier League announced that there would be a one-game playoff for third place between Arsenal and Chelsea if the two teams had finished exactly level at the end of the 2012–13 season. This would have been necessary because third place conferred automatic qualification for the group stage of the 2013–14 UEFA Champions League, whereas fourth place only led to a place in the final qualifying round of that competition. Before tiebreak rules such as goal difference were utilised, the Scottish league championships in 1891 and 1905 were determined by one game playoffs.
Until the 2004–05 season, the Italian Serie A had a one-game playoff called Spareggio, to determine the league champion if teams were tied in points at the end of the season, and also for the relegation. As of the 2022-23 season, Serie A has recovered the one-game playoff to decide the champion and relegation, and the one-game is without extra time, it goes straight to a penalty shoot-out.
Another example of a one-game playoff in association football would be a 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifying football match between Algeria and Egypt.
Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup
When the 2011 Premier Development League qualifiers in a region could not be settled by the four-stage qualifier of points, then wins, then goal difference, and goals scored, for the final position, the two teams, Kitsap Pumas and Portland Timbers U23's, agreed to discard the traditional lottery draw for the final slot and replace it with the result of their next scheduled game in the league also a one-game playoff to determine the final slot in the U. S. Open Cup. If the game ended in a tie, penalty kicks would be used to determine the U. S. Open Cup qualifier, but not for PDL standings. | WIKI |
Martin Richards (computer scientist)
Martin Richards (born 21 July 1940) is a British computer scientist known for his development of the BCPL programming language which is both part of early research into portable software, and the ancestor of the B programming language invented by Ken Thompson in early versions of Unix and which Dennis Ritchie in turn used as the basis of his widely used C programming language.
Education
Richards studied mathematics as an undergraduate student at the University of Cambridge and took the Cambridge Diploma in Computer Science. His PhD was on programming language design and implementation. He was a senior lecturer at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory until his retirement in 2007.
Research
In addition to BCPL, Richards' work includes the development of the TRIPOS portable operating system.
He was awarded the IEEE Computer Society's Computer Pioneer Award in 2003 for "pioneering system software portability through the programming language BCPL".
Richards is a fellow of St John's College at the University of Cambridge. | WIKI |
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Dr (medical advice). Weiner explains that the very best means to anticipate exactly how much weight you can reasonably lose with basic dietary and workout changes "is by computing 10 percent of your overall body weight."For instance, if you're beginning weight is 150 pounds, you can expect to shed regarding 15 pounds in the beginning via diet and also workout alone.
Dr. Weiner claims you can consume higher quantities of these foods without worrying about unfavorable effects on your health. Irritated because you've been on your diet plan for three months and you've just lost, like, eight extra pounds? Before you freak out as well as attempt some brand-new trend diet regimen, think concerning whether your goal is simply to lose as much weight as possible right this second, or to slim down healthfully over time, so you can maintain the weight off permanently.
You may have the ability to locate the same content in another layout, or you might have the ability to discover more info, at their internet website. "We have a tendency to look at weight-loss in the short-term, when it's in fact a lasting trouble," says Dr. Weiner. "There will be specific ups and also downs daily, much like there are in the securities market. resistance training." Rather than taking a short-term POV on weight reduction, think about taking a look at just how your weight has actually transformed over the last a number of years and also how you wish to feel numerous years from now, also.
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"If you ate an extra pound of them every day, you would certainly still drop weight since it would alter your other consuming habits," he explains, referring to the truth that if you filled on veggies, you would reduce your hunger for other less healthy foods. Keep in mind the info regarding high quality and amount of calories above? The very same applies to exercise, states Dr (many calories).
Never undervalue the power of maintaining your body moving frequently throughout the day. "Extremely sedentary way of livings make it harder to lose weight," says Dr. Weiner. "If you awaken every early morning and afterwards rest at a workdesk for job, after that come residence and also rest on the couch to enjoy TV, [weight-loss] won't happen." There was a time when consuming regular, little sections of food throughout the day was promoted as a means to reduce weight, but scientific research is beginning to show that the whole idea behind periodic fasting may lead to better results.
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Weiner concurs, claiming that getting the correct amount of calories in a short duration of time followed by a longer duration of time where you get little to no calories can be a lot more beneficial to your health than consuming all day (also if it's little, healthy and balanced dishes or snacks).
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A perhaps concealed reason that you're struggling to slim down: You get on a medication that can create weight gain as an adverse effects. This consists of diabetes medications, antidepressants, and steroid drugs, among others. Dr. Weiner recommends speaking to your physician concerning your drugs; occasionally they can be changed to make weight loss a lot more feasible.
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Clearly, there are a lots of reasons you could be battling to slim down, even if you are diet programs as well as exercising more. If you feel you're handling any one of the issues over, it deserves speaking to your medical professional, a therapist, or a dietitian to get assist so you can reach a weight you really feel comfy and healthy at.
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This does not imply that you are not losing fat - weight loss problem. Body weight tends to vary by a couple of pounds.
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This is specifically usual if you recently began exercising., not simply weight. It is a good idea to utilize something other than the scale to determine your progress.
Unless your weight has actually been stuck at the very same point for greater than 12 weeks, you possibly don't require to fret regarding anything (thyroid problem). A fat burning plateau might be clarified by muscle gain, undigested food, as well as variations in body water. If the scale does not budge, you might still be shedding fat.
Researches show that maintaining track of your food consumption aids with weight loss. At the same time, there is a potential disadvantage to food tracking, specifically when it's used for the purpose of weight loss.
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Make sure to eat lots of protein-rich foods. Lots of people that have difficulty slimming down are just consuming a lot of calories. You might believe that this does not put on you, but keep in mind that researches consistently show that people often tend to underestimate their calorie intake by a significant quantity (,, ).
Right here are some practical resources: Make use of a calorie calculator to figure out the number of calories to eat. This is a list of five totally free internet sites and also apps that can help you maintain track of your calorie and also nutrient intake. Tracking is additionally essential if you're trying to reach a specific nutrient objective, such as getting 30% of your calories from protein.
It is typically not necessary to count calories and weigh whatever for the rest of your life. Instead, try these methods for a couple of days every few months to obtain a feel for just how much you're eating. whole foods. If your weight reduction appears to have actually come to a standstill, it's feasible you might be consuming as well many calories.
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Strength training is a reliable method to lose fat. It prevents the loss of muscular tissue mass frequently related to weight reduction and helps preserve lasting fat loss. Binge consuming entails rapidly consuming huge quantities of food, usually far more than your body demands. This can be a significant trouble for many individuals attempting to reduce weight.
Grownups as well as children with bad sleep have a 55% and 89% higher danger, specifically, for creating weight problems (). It might likewise prevent weight loss progress.
On the other hand, a more current trial in 2018 located little difference in the results of a nutrient-dense, reduced fat diet regimen versus a nutrient-dense, reduced carb diet (). Locating a lasting meal strategy that you can take pleasure in long-term is essential. Reduced carbohydrate diets have several positives past simply weight reduction (digestive symptoms).
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That being claimed, researches on alcohol as well as weight reveal blended results. Modest alcohol consumption appears to be fine, while heavy drinking is connected to weight gain ().
Consume gradually and chew thoroughly. Attempt to be mindful of the colors, scents, tastes, and also textures. When you begin to really feel full, consume some water and stop consuming. Constantly consume mindfully when trying to shed weight. Mindless eating is just one of the primary reasons people experience difficulties to slimming down.
Maybe it's time to relax. Weight management is typically a slow procedure. Many individuals shed persistence prior to reaching their objective. Although it is commonly feasible to reduce weight fast in the beginning, few people can proceed to slim down at a rate of greater than 12 extra pounds each week. weight loss surgery.
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Attempting to exceed that may not deserve the effort or practical, and also might even have potentially negative results on your wellness. Individuals's assumptions are sometimes unrealistic when it pertains to weight loss. Bear in mind that slimming down requires time and not everyone will certainly resemble a health and fitness version - medical advice.
In the end, changing your weight as well as your lifestyle calls for persistence, commitment, determination, and also durability. resistance training.
I'll be the very first to tell you that I've been there. For most of my young grown-up life, I weighed in just under the standard for my age as well as elevation.
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Over the very first couple of months, I saw a pair pounds go down off, however in the last 4 months I've seen following to absolutely nothing. Not seeing those numbers gradually decrease regardless of feeling like I had actually been compromising my favored foods as well as spare time to log hrs at the fitness center, was most definitely preventing.
What was the factor of placing in hours of effort several times a week if I had nothing to show for it? I recognize I'm not alone in the never-ending cycle of tough work, lack of outcomes and also frustration and frustration. To obtain to the bottom of it, I got in touch with Bonnie Taub-Dix, RDN, designer of as well as author of "Review it Before You Eat It Taking You from Label to Table," about errors people make that impede weight-loss development.
What's even more, as a lady, it can make your duration irregular, which can affect your hormonal agents and lead to weight gain. And also at the end of the day, the battle of the binge is a hard one to win.
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Unfortunately, the only thing they'll make slim is your wallet. This holds true even if they were when discussed on Dr. Oz you recognize that's an enjoyment show, right? Any type of prescription-free supplements available for sale that are not unsafe or unlawful are likely to have a little or minimal result on your weight.
There are likewise prescription totally free "carbohydrate blockers" out there, that are meant to quit the body from absorbing carbs we eat. The effects tend to be fairly little however, even in studies moneyed by the business marketing the products. It's most definitely extra efficient to not consume the carbohydrates in the very first area (it's likewise free).
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However, these drugs have the potential negative effects of sleep problems, heart palpitations, frustration, and raised high blood pressure. It is therefore important to be kept an eye on carefully, a minimum of in the very first few months of therapy, to make certain that high blood pressure and heart rate aren't increasing as well much. Additionally note that these medicines are regulated compounds, calling for a special prescription.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the outbreak of the new coronavirus spreading quickly across China a global health emergency — a rare designation the agency gives disease threats that pose an international risk. The decision Thursday came as the number of people diagnosed with the 2019-nCoV virus has skyrocketed to more than 8,200, surpassing the SARS case toll. There are also now people in at least 18 other countries with the virus. “Over the past few weeks we have witnessed the emergence of a previously unknown pathogen which has escalated into an unprecedented outbreak,” WHO director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said. Just a week ago, the agency determined the formal “public health emergency of international concern,” or PHEIC, declaration, was premature. .@WHO is working closely with all countries to control the new #coronavirus outbreak. Person-to-person transmission has been seen in at least 3 countries outside #China – Japan , Vietnam & Germany - and the cooperation and info-sharing has been very good. But since then, the situation has changed dramatically. According to the WHO, there are now 98 cases outside of China in 18 countries, including eight instances of human-to-human transmission in four countries. The vast majority of these have been linked to China’s Hubei province, where the outbreak originated. “Although these numbers are still relatively small ... we must all act together now to limit further spread,” Dr. Tedros said, framing the declaration as a precautionary measure. He also flagged the WHO’s concern with the potential damage the virus could do in countries with weaker health systems, calling on the international community to help. A PHEIC — pronounced “fake” — is defined as “an extraordinary event which is determined to constitute a public health risk to other States through the international spread of disease and to potentially require a coordinated international response.” In reality, it’s a political tool the WHO can use to draw attention to a serious disease that has caught the world off guard and put people’s health in danger. It’s meant to engage the global community in a coordinated outbreak response, galvanize resources, and stop the disease from spreading further across borders. Before Thursday, the WHO had only declared a public health emergency five times since the 2007 enactment of the International Health Regulations, which govern global health emergency responses. Several global health experts have been calling since last week for the agency to reconsider its decision about the novel coronavirus. “It’s long overdue, and it should have happened Monday,” Devi Sridhar, professor and chair of Global Public Health at the University of Edinburgh, told Vox. “This is an international emergency,” said Tom Frieden, the former director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “A PHEIC allows [the WHO] to further lean into the role of global leadership for governments and the private sector.” The outbreak was first reported to the WHO by Chinese officials a month ago, on December 31. The leading hypothesis was that the virus emerged in Wuhan, a city of 11 million in Hubei province, spreading directly from animals to humans in a market there. Scientists are still trying to suss out the origins of the outbreak, but the virus has since spread beyond Wuhan — and to 18 other countries. Sridhar pointed out that one of the reasons the WHO pauses before triggering a PHEIC is because of the economic fallout international attention on a disease threat can bring. According to Reuters, the global economic losses from the 2003 SARS outbreak totaled $40 billion, and the world’s gross domestic product “suffered a 0.1% hit due to the outbreak.” But in the past week, countries have already sealed their borders to China, issued travel advisories, and started repatriating citizens. Australia took the extraordinary measure of sending returning citizens from Wuhan, the center of China’s outbreak, to a remote island 1,200 miles off the coast of the mainland. Meanwhile, numerous airlines — including British Airways — announced they would suspend travel to the country. “Right now we need some guidance,” Sridhar added. “Everyone has been waiting for the WHO. The world is moving on with or without the WHO.” In a press briefing Thursday, Dr. Tedros said the international community should help countries with weaker health systems prepare for outbreaks, that countries should work to combat the spread of false information and rumors, and share data and knowledge about the virus, among other recommendations. “This is the time for science, not rumors,” Dr Tedros said. “This is the time for solidarity, not stigma.” The agency didn’t call for any travel or trade restrictions, such as border closures, visa refusals, or quarantining people who are in good condition. Dr. Tedros also applauded China’s efforts. “We would have seen many more cases outside of China by now,” he said. “In many ways, China is setting a new standard for outbreak response.” Just because the emergence of the new coronavirus is now officially a global health emergency doesn’t mean it’ll become a pandemic. It’s important to note the outbreak is still heavily centered on mainland China. Of the 8,235 confirmed cases, 8,124 have been found in mainland China, with more than half of those in Hubei province. There’s also still much that’s unclear about 2019-nCoV, including how lethal it is. In humans, coronaviruses can lead to symptoms that range from the common cold to severe pneumonia and death in the case of SARS and MERS. It’s not yet known where 2019-nCoV falls on that spectrum, and it’ll be weeks before researchers have a clearer picture. But we do know that in addition to the 171 deaths the virus has caused, there have been many reports of people with very mild symptoms. There’s also evidence of asymptomatic cases. It’s possible that as we learn more, 2019-nCoV will look more like the common cold than like SARS. That’s because infectious diseases typically look more severe when they’re first discovered, since the people showing up in hospitals tend to be the sickest. Once more of these mild or asymptomatic cases are discovered, this virus could wind up looking a lot less scary. (For more on that, see this Vox explainer.) “We live [with] and tolerate a whole lot of respiratory viruses,” said Jennifer Nuzzo, senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, “some of which are even more transmissible than the estimates people have come out with for this one — but they don’t make the headlines.” If the new coronavirus winds up looking less severe, she added, “We may be moving away from containing the virus as a goal to one of minimizing its spread.” | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
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# ScriptLaunchUtils is obsolete now. To launch a script IExecutionEnvironment should be used. IExecutionEnvironment can be obtained by adapting calling IEnviroment.getAdapter(IExecutionEnvironment.class).One should create a deployment object using IExecutionEnvironment.createDeployment(), then deploy scripts using IDeplyment.add() and run one using IExecutionEnvironment.exec(). After execution IDeployment.dispose() should be called.
# ScriptLaunchUtils is obsolete now. To launch a script IExecutionEnvironment should be used. IExecutionEnvironment can be obtained by adapting calling IEnviroment.getAdapter(IExecutionEnvironment.class).One should create a deployment object using IExecutionEnvironment.createDeployment(), then deploy scripts using IDeplyment.add() and run one using IExecutionEnvironment.exec(). After execution IDeployment.dispose() should be called.
# To select file or folder on filesystem IEnvironmentUI.selectFile() and IEnvironmentUI.selectFolder should be used instead of DirectoryDialog and FileDialog. IEnvironmentUI can be obtained by calling IEnvironment.getAdapter(IEnvironementUI.class).
# To select file or folder on filesystem IEnvironmentUI.selectFile() and IEnvironmentUI.selectFolder should be used instead of DirectoryDialog and FileDialog. IEnvironmentUI can be obtained by calling IEnvironment.getAdapter(IEnvironementUI.class).
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==Examples==
==Example 1. Adding external library in /opt2 to buildpath.==
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# Extend org.eclipse.dltk.core.environmentProvider extension point and provide IEnvionmentProvider, IEnvironment and IFileHandle implementations
# Extend org.eclipse.dltk.core.environmentProvider extension point and provide IEnvionmentProvider, IEnvironment and IFileHandle implementations
# Provide adapter from user environment class to IExecutionEnvironment and write own implementation of IExecutionEnvironement
# Provide adapter from user environment class to IExecutionEnvironment and write own implementation of IExecutionEnvironement
# Provide adapter from user environment class to IEnvironmentUI and write own implementation of IEnvironementUI.
# Provide adapter from user environment class to IEnvironmentUI and write own implementation of IEnvironementUI.
Revision as of 07:40, 14 April 2008
Overview
In order to realize unified support of local and remote projects in DLTK we've added one major term - "environment". Environment provide an interface to access some machine's file system and allow unified execution of scripts, debuggers, etc.
Migration
Next is the short list of changes one should perform to support new environments api.
1. In former DLTK IPath object could contain workspace relative path or path in local file system. Since, we have added environments IPath can be full path including environment in addition to previous two cases. So, if path in concrete environment was device:/path then full path will be environment_id/device:/path. One can check if the IPath object contain full path, convert it to local or extract environment object by using EnvironmentPathUtils helper class.
2. External model elements (ExternalProjectFragment, ExternalScriptFolder and _ExternalSourceModule) is using IEnvironment and IFileHandle from org.eclipse.dltk.environment package to access file system. Constructors of this objects use full paths.
3. Instances of BuildpathEntry referencing external locations (external libraries and archives) should be created using full path. One can obtain full path by calling EnvironmentPathUtils.getFullPath(IEnvironment, IPath).
4. LibraryLocation class now using full paths too.
5. All occurrences of File class should be changed to IFileHandle. Usage of File should be avoided, cause it cannot be used to access remote machine. API of IFileHandle is similar to File's and have the same meaning. There are two options how IFileHandle reference can be obtained:
1. If environment is known then IEnvironment.getFile(IPath) method should be used
2. If full path is known, then EnvironmentPathUtils.getFile(IPath) method should be used.
6. All occurences of IResource.getLocation() returns null for remote resources and should be changed to new Path(IResource.getLocationURI().getPath()).
7. ScriptLaunchUtils is obsolete now. To launch a script IExecutionEnvironment should be used. IExecutionEnvironment can be obtained by adapting calling IEnviroment.getAdapter(IExecutionEnvironment.class).One should create a deployment object using IExecutionEnvironment.createDeployment(), then deploy scripts using IDeplyment.add() and run one using IExecutionEnvironment.exec(). After execution IDeployment.dispose() should be called.
8. To select file or folder on filesystem IEnvironmentUI.selectFile() and IEnvironmentUI.selectFolder should be used instead of DirectoryDialog and FileDialog. IEnvironmentUI can be obtained by calling IEnvironment.getAdapter(IEnvironementUI.class).
Examples
Adding external library in /opt2 to buildpath.
IEnvironment env = ...
IBuildpathEntry[] originalCP = proj.getRawBuildpath();
IBuildpathEntry[] newCP = new IBuildpathEntry[originalCP.length + 1];
System.arraycopy(originalCP, 0, newCP, 0, originalCP.length);
IPath libPath = EnvironmentPathUtils.getFullPath(env, new Path("/opt2"));
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Get Smart, Again!
Get Smart, Again! is a 1989 American made-for-television comedy film based on the 1965–1970 NBC/CBS sitcom Get Smart! starring Don Adams and Barbara Feldon reprising their characters of Maxwell Smart and Agent 99. It originally aired February 26, 1989 on ABC (the network that rejected the original pilot for Get Smart!).
Synopsis
Maxwell Smart, acting as a protocol officer since CONTROL was disbanded in the early 1970s, is reactivated as a counterintelligence agent by Commander Drury, of the United States Intelligence Agency. KAOS, long considered defunct, has been revitalized by a corporate takeover. Its first scheme involves turning a forgotten American scientist and using his weather control machine to extort US$250 billion from the United States Government.
Drury, convinced that only Smart has the expertise to combat KAOS, gives him carte blanche to reactivate former CONTROL agents to assist him in his task. Along with Drury's bumbling aide, Beamish, Smart recruits Larrabee, who, believing that he was under orders from Richard Nixon to stay at his post until relieved, has been living in his office in the now-abandoned CONTROL headquarters tending his office plants, Agent 13, Hymie the Robot (now employed as a crash test dummy) and ultimately, his wife, 99, to find the security leak that allowed the scientist to defect, locate the weather machine and disarm it. They are opposed by a KAOS mole (John de Lancie) within the USIA, who is able to predict Max's every move with the aid of stolen copies of 99's unpublished memoirs.
The visible head of the KAOS scheme is revealed to be Max's old nemesis, Siegfried, but he is merely the agent of a higher executive whom even he has never met. This new leader is finally revealed as Nicholas Demente, 99's publisher, who intends not only to extort the money but also to create weather that will keep people eternally indoors and interfere with television reception, forcing millions of Americans to entertain themselves by buying Demente's books and publications. Max, 99, and Beamish infiltrate KAOS with the aide of Siegfried's twin brother Doctor Helmut Schmelding. After defeating Demente's henchmen with medieval weaponry, the CONTROL agents kill Demente with his own weather machine. Max and 99 celebrate by causing it to snow.
Legacy
The relative success of the film prompted the development of a short-lived (only seven episodes) 1995 weekly series on Fox, also titled Get Smart, with Don Adams and Barbara Feldon reprising their characters, alongside Andy Dick and Elaine Hendrix in the main roles. However, this sequel lacked the spirit of the original series. It was a ratings failure and had to be canceled by Fox halfway through the first season.
The film was dedicated to the memory of Edward Platt (died in 1974), cited in the end credits as Ed Platt, "The Chief".
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The film has been released twice on DVD. | WIKI |
Abstract
In Fourier spectrometers using the classical Michelson setup, conventionally a plane mirror travels with constant speed to generate an optical pathlength alteration. Recently, different types of Michelson interferometers have been developed that use one or more rotating retroreflectors for pathlength variation. They all exhibit a sinusoidal dependence of the pathlength on time. This paper discusses the effects of the nonlinear mirror motion on the interferogram and the calculated spectrum. The requirements necessary for the acquisition system are deduced, and distortions due to nonideal analog electronics are calculated quantitatively. The investigations concentrate on the influence of a nonconstant electronic transfer function and differences in the delay times of the measurement channel and the reference channel, which generates the sampling pulses. The results are applied to the laboratory model of a Michelson interferometer with rotating reflector (spectral resolution ≈ 0.5 cm<sup>-1</sup>). It is proved by measuring the instrumental line shape function (ILS) that there can be compensations for the effects mentioned above, with a residual error of less then 1% in comparison to the results for the ideal ILS.
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Gloria Hope
Gloria Hope (born Olive Frances, November 9, 1901 – October 29, 1976) was an American silent film actress.
Life and career
She was born as Olive Frances in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1901. Following her education at a Newark, New Jersey, school, she entered upon her career as a screen player and played successively with Ince, Triangle, Artcraft, Ince Paramount, Paralta, Universal and Goldwyn. Naughty, Naughty, The Gay Lord Quex, Burglar by Proxy, The Hushed Hour, The Great Love, and Outcasts of Poker Flat were a few of the many screen plays she appeared in. In 1920, Who's Who on the Screen reported that Hope was 5 ft high, weighed 106 lb and had a light complexion, auburn hair and blue eyes.
She was signed in 1917 and starred in about 30 films before her retirement in 1926 at age 25 to have children.
She starred with William Garwood in films such as The Guilty Man in 1918, and with Mary Pickford and Lloyd Hughes in Tess of the Storm Country in 1922.
She married Lloyd Hughes on June 30, 1921, and they had children Donald and Isabel. On October 11, 1927, she married Joe Bishow, but the marriage was annulled in 1928.
Hope died in Pasadena, California. She is interred at Glendale's Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, near Hughes.
1920s
* Sandy (1926) .... Judith Moore
* That Devil Quemado (1925) .... Joanna Thatcher
* Tess of the Storm Country (1922) .... Teola Graves
* Trouble (1922) .... Mrs. Lee, the Plumber's Wife
* The Grim Comedian (1921) .... Dorothy
* Courage (1921) .... Eve Hamish
* Colorado (1921) .... Kitty Doyle
* Prairie Trails (1920) .... Alice Endicott
* The Texan (1920) .... Alice Marcum
* Seeds of Vengeance (1920) .... Mary Reddin
* The Desperate Hero (1920) .... Mabel Darrow
* The Third Woman (1920) .... Marcelle Riley
1910s
* Too Much Johnson (1919) .... Leonora Faddish
* The Gay Lord Quex (1919) .... Muriel Eden
* Rider of the Law (1919) .... Betty
* Burglar by Proxy (1919) .... Dorothy Mason
* The Outcasts of Poker Flat (1919) .... Ruth Watson/Sophy, the girl
* Bill Apperson's Boy (1919) .... Martha Yarton
* The Hushed Hour (1919) .... Annie Vierge
* The Heart of Rachael (1918) .... Magsie Clay
* The Law of the North (1918) .... Virginie de Montcalm
* The Great Love (1918) .... Jessie Lovewell
* $5,000 Reward (1918) .... Margaret Hammersley
* Free and Equal (1918) .... Margaret Lowell
* Naughty, Naughty! (1918) .... Judith Holmes
* The Guilty Man (1918) .... Claudine Flambon
* Time Locks and Diamonds (1917) .... Marjory Farrel | WIKI |
MID AMERICA BANCORPORATION, INC., and Irwin L. Jacobs, Plaintiffs, v. BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF the FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM, Defendant.
Civ. No. 4-80-546.
United States District Court, D. Minnesota, Fourth Division.
Dec. 18, 1980.
Thomas J. Sexton, Winthrop, Weinstine & Sexton, St. Paul, Minn., for plaintiff Mid America Bancorporation, Inc.
Melvin I. Orenstein, J. Kevin Costley, and Steven J. Johnson, Lindquist & Vennum, Minneapolis, Minn., for plaintiff Irwin L. Jacobs.
Thomas K. Berg, U. S. Atty., Minneapolis, Minn., and Neal D. Peterson, Gen. Counsel, Herbert A. Biern, Senior Counsel, and Neal D. Peterson, Asst. Gen. Counsel, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Washington, D. C., for defendant.
MacLAUGHLIN, District Judge.
This matter is before the Court on a motion by plaintiffs Mid America Bancorporation (“Mid America”) and Irwin L. Jacobs (“Jacobs”) to enjoin administrative proceedings commenced by defendant Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (“Board”). The hearing on the motion for preliminary injunction was consolidated with the trial on the merits pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 65(a)(2). The Board has moved to dismiss plaintiffs’ motion for lack of subject matter jurisdiction, for failure to state a claim, or, in the alternative, for summary judgment.
STATEMENT OF THE CASE
Mid America is a multibank holding company organized and doing business under the laws of the State of Minnesota. Its principal place of business is in Minneapolis. Mid America owns virtually all the voting shares of seven banks located in the Minneapolis banking market. It is registered as a bank holding company under 12 U.S.C. § 1844(a), and is subject to the Board’s examination and supervisory authority over bank holding companies, 12 U.S.C. §§ 1844(c) and 1818(b)(3).
Plaintiff Jacobs is a director of Mid America and currently owns approximately 87 percent of its outstanding common stock. He began acquiring Mid America stock in September, 1978, when he purchased 36 percent of the outstanding Mid America stock through a tender offer. In October of 1979, Jacobs entered into an option contract with four major shareholders of Mid America stock. These four shareholders were members of the Richards family, and they controlled approximately 54 percent of the total stock then outstanding. The option contract provided that the Richards family had entered into an agreement with Mid America whereby Mid America would redeem their stock, and that if the redemption were to be blocked by regulatory action, then Jacobs would have the option to purchase their stock for the same price. The purchase price of the stock was set at $16 per share, for a total of $7,500,000.
On November 21,1979, Mid America filed a notice of the redemption with the Board pursuant to Regulation Y, 12 C.F.R. § 225.-6. After an analysis of the proposal, the Board advised Mid America that the proposed increase in Mid America’s indebtedness was excessive, would unduly burden the earnings and capital of Mid America’s subsidiary banks, and would constitute an unsafe and unsound condition. The Board informed Mid America that it would initiate cease and desist proceedings under 12 U.S.C. § 1818(b) to block the transaction if Mid America proceeded with its plan. Rather than abandoning the redemption and directly purchasing the stock as provided in the option contract, Jacobs continued to pursue possibilities for completing a redemption by attempting to determine what level of debt would be acceptable to the Board. Between November of 1979 and March of 1980, the Board staff and representatives of Mid America and Jacobs discussed amendments to the redemption proposal to make it acceptable to the Board from the standpoint of the safety and soundness of the bank holding company and its subsidiary banks.
On February 6, February 21, and March 12, 1980, Mid America and Jacobs forwarded to the Board amendments to Mid America’s Regulation Y notice regarding the proposed redemption of its shares. The amendments contained a debt repayment schedule showing a 10 year amortization of the redemption debt and eight written commitments by Mid America and Jacobs. The amendments stated that the personal commitments of Jacobs were made “to ensure the ability of [Mid America] to serve as a source of financial strength for its subsidiary banks subsequent to the Redemption . . .. ” Exhibit C — 2 to Complaint, at 3. The commitments by Mid America and Jacobs were as follows:
(a) Jacobs agreed to purchase $1.5 million of new common stock of Mid America with the proceeds of the stock sale to be used to reduce immediately Mid America’s bank borrowings associated with the stock redemption from $7.5 million to $6 million.
(b) Jacobs agreed to convert a $1.5 million Mid America note held by Jacobs Bag Company, a company owned and controlled by Jacobs, to Mid America common stock.
(c) Jacobs agreed to guarantee to Mid America that it would receive not less than $1 million by December 31, 1981, from the sale of certain foreclosed property held by Mid America, the after-tax proceeds of which Mid America would use to retire a portion of the $6 million debt that it incurred as a result of the stock redemption transaction.
(d) In the event that Mid America was unable to pay the $6 million in debt in accordance with a 10-year payment schedule submitted as part of the Regulation Y notice, Jacobs agreed to loan Mid America up to an aggregate amount of $3 million as needed, the proceeds of which would be used to service the $6 million loan should Mid America fail to meet its obligation in accordance with the 10-year payment schedule. Should any advance for this purpose remain outstanding more than two years, Jacobs then agreed to accept new common stock of Mid America for an aggregate purchase price equal to the outstanding advances.
(e) Mid America agreed not to declare or pay any corporate dividends unless its parent company debt to equity ratio was less than .3:1.
(f) Until the $6 million of debt was paid in full, Mid America agreed that it would not cause any dividends to be paid from its subsidiary banks that would cause their respective capital accounts to fall below 8 per cent of assets.
(g) Subject to regulatory approval, Mid America agreed to purchase and Jacobs agreed to sell, at book value, the $35 million Valley National Bank of North Mankato, Minnesota, owned by Jacobs.
(h) Mid America agreed not to require its subsidiary banks to pay management or other fees that are not reasonable in relation to the services rendered by Mid America.
See Exhibits C-2, C-3 and C-5 to Complaint. The amendments also included a provision that the commitments of Mid America and Jacobs would terminate upon the earliest of (1) Mid America achieving a debt to equity ratio of 30 percent; (2) payment in full of the debt Mid America incurred to effect the redemption (including all accrued interest); or (3) consent by the Board.
The Board initially disapproved the amended proposal. After more correspondence, and in reliance upon the commitments made by Mid America and Jacobs, the Board decided not to prohibit the proposed stock redemption transaction. In a letter dated April 10, 1980, the Board restated the commitments and made its approval contingent upon fulfillment of the commitments. It stated:
With respect to the personal committments [sic] of Mr. Jacobs, the Board of Governors expects Mr. Jacobs to maintain his financial affairs in a manner sufficient to permit the complete fulfillment of all personal committments made to the Board of Governors in connection with this transaction. Any failure by Mr. Jacobs to fulfill his committments to the extent required will be viewed by the Board of Governors as a disregard for the safety and soundness of the Holding Company and as a basis for formal supervisory action under the Financial Institutions Supervisory Act of 1966, as amended. Likewise, any deviation from the committments made by the Holding Company with regard to the affairs of its subsidiary banks or its own corporate practices may result in the initiation of formal supervisory action.
Exhibit H to Affidavit of Mathisen, at 3. The Board’s letter approving the redemption transaction did not mention the termination provision.
Mid America consummated the stock redemption on April 15, 1980. As a result of the stock redemption, Jacobs’ percentage of ownership of Mid America’s outstanding voting stock increased from 36 percent to 87 percent. Within a short time, Jacobs announced that he intended to terminate his investment in Mid America. On May 2, 1980, Jacobs met with his personal staff and stated that he intended to either sell his Mid America stock or sell the subsidiary banks and liquidate Mid America. He cited rising interest rates and the high carrying costs of debt financed acquisitions as the reason for his decision. Jacobs announced his decision to the presidents of the subsidiary banks on May 23, 1980, and offered these presidents a period of time to propose offers to purchase.
By the end of July, 1980, Mid America had executed sales agreements for the sale of the stock of the seven subsidiary banks. Jacobs had also executed an agreement for the sale of Valley National Bank, the bank he had committed to transfer to Mid America under the stock redemption agreement. Mid America also filed a liquidation plan pursuant to section 337 of the Internal Revenue Code. Under the plan of liquidation, all of Mid America’s debt, including the debt incurred in the stock redemption, would be paid from the $23 million it would realize from the sale of its subsidiary banks. The balance would be distributed to Mid America’s shareholders.
After the execution of the purchase agreements, each individual purchaser filed an application under the Change in Bank Control Act, 12 U.S.C. § 1817(j), with the appropriate federal bank regulatory agency. These applications were reviewed by the federal banking agencies to determine whether the proposed purchasers satisfied the financial qualifications established for bank ownership. Of the seven applicants, six have received approvals and one has received a disapproval.
Upon learning of Jacobs’ plan to liquidate Mid America, the Board commenced an investigation to determine whether formal action should be taken to block the liquidation. On October 20, 1980, the Board took three formal administrative actions. First, it began administrative proceedings to determine whether a cease and desist order should issue by sending a Notice of Charges to Mid America and Jacobs. See 12 U.S.C. § 1818(bXl). The Notice of Charges to Mid America and Jacobs set a hearing date of December 9, 1980. The Board’s second action was to issue a Notice of Assessment of a Civil Money Penalty pursuant to 12 U.S.C. § 1847(b). This notice was included in the same document as the Notice of Charges. Subsequently, a hearing on the Notice of Assessment was ordered consolidated with the hearing on the Notice of Charges. The third action taken by the Board was the issuance of a Temporary Order to cease and desist pursuant to 12 U.S.C. § 1818(c). This action blocked the liquidation of Mid America or the sale of Valley National Bank pending the outcome of the hearing on the cease and desist proceedings.
On October 31, 1980, plaintiffs filed this action to enjoin all three of the Board’s actions.
DISCUSSION
This case involves three major issues of administrative procedure. First, the extent of a district court’s jurisdiction to enjoin administrative procedures must be determined. The second inquiry focuses on whether the Board exceeded its statutory authority by commencing its administrative action. The third issue is whether the Board’s Temporary Order to cease and desist should be enjoined under the circumstances of this case.
Because these issues require analysis of the administrative procedures through which the Board regulates bank holding companies, the pertinent sections of the banking laws need to be summarized. The two relevant acts are the Bank Holding Company Act (“BHC Act”), 12 U.S.C. § 1841 et seq., and the Financial Institutions Supervisory Act (“FIS Act”), 12 U.S.C. § 1818.
The BHC Act grants the Board authority to assess a civil money penalty against “[a]ny company which willfully violates any provision of this chapter, or any regulation or order issued by the Board pursuant thereto.” 12 U.S.C. § 1847(a). The penalty may not exceed $1,000 for each day that the violation continues. The company must “be afforded an opportunity for agency hearing, upon request made within ten days after issuance of the notice of assessment” and the findings of the hearing must be “on the record pursuant to section 554 of Title 5,” (part of the Administrative Procedure Act). 12 U.S.C. § 1847(b)(3). Under section 1848, judicial review of the final agency order is vested in the United States courts of appeals.
The FIS Act provides the Board with authority to commence cease and desist proceedings. Section 1818(b)(1) states:
If, in the opinion of the appropriate Federal banking agency, any insured bank ... is engaging or has engaged, or the agency has reasonable cause to believe that the bank ... is about to engage, in an unsafe or unsound practice in conducting the business of such bank, or is violating or has violated, or the agency has reasonable cause to believe that the bank ... is about to violate, a law, rule, or regulation, or any condition imposed in writing by the agency in connection with the granting of any application or other request by the bank or any written agreement entered into with the agency, [the agency may begin administrative proceedings by issuing a notice of charges.]
This section also requires that the notice of charges fix a time for a hearing to determine whether a cease and desist order should issue. Judicial review of such orders is placed exclusively in the United States courts of appeals. 12 U.S.C. § 1818(h)(2). In addition, Congress withdrew from the district courts the jurisdiction to enjoin or otherwise review administrative proceedings under section 1818. Section 1818(i)(l) provides:
[Ejxcept as otherwise provided in this section no court shall have jurisdiction to affect by injunction or otherwise the issuance or enforcement of any notice or order under this section, or to review, modify, suspend, terminate, or set aside any such notice or order.
Pending the outcome of the hearing in the cease and desist proceedings, the Board may issue a temporary order to cease and desist. Section 1818(c) provides that when a federal banking agency determines that the violations or practices specified in the notice of charges
is likely to cause insolvency or substantial dissipation of assets or earnings of the bank, or is likely to seriously weaken the condition of the bank or otherwise seriously prejudice the interests of its depositors prior to the completion of the proceedings . .. the agency may issue a temporary order requiring the bank ... to cease and desist from any such violation or practice and to take affirmative action to prevent such insolvency, dissipation, condition, or prejudice pending completion of such proceedings.
12 U.S.C. § 1818(c)(1). However, the bank may apply to a United States district court for an injunction “setting aside, limiting, or suspending the enforcement, operation, or effectiveness of such order pending the completion of the administrative proceedings ... .” 12 U.S.C. § 1818(c)(2). Each of these provisions is made applicable to bank holding companies by section 1818(bX3).
These provisions evidence a carefully woven administrative scheme. The Board is authorized to investigate a wide variety of banking conduct — violations of laws, rules, written agreements with the Board, and unsafe or unsound practices. The breadth of this authority plus the provisions restricting and deferring judicial review indicate that Congress had great respect for the expertise and judgment of the Board. Therefore, district courts should not disrupt activities of the Board without clear justification.
A. Jurisdiction to Enjoin Agency Action
The threshold issue of this motion deals with the jurisdiction of this Court to enjoin the three types of agency action involved here. Because of variations in the relevant statutes, each of the three administrative actions taken by the Board must be considered separately.
There is no doubt about this Court’s authority to enjoin a temporary order issued under section 1818(c)(1). Section 1818(c)(2) expressly grants district courts the power to do so. Whether the Court should enjoin the Temporary Order issued in this case will be discussed in detail later.
The Court’s jurisdiction to enjoin the Board’s hearing on the Notice of Charges is not as clear. It is well established that Congress possesses broad power to establish the jurisdictional limits of lower federal courts. Lockerty v. Phillips, 319 U.S. 182, 187, 63 S.Ct. 1019, 1022, 87 L.Ed. 1339 (1943); see generally P. Bator, P. Mishkin, D. Shapiro, & H. Wechsler, Hart and Wechslers’s The Federal Courts and the Federal Court System, 309-75 (2d ed. 1973). The withdrawal of jurisdiction in § 1818(i) clearly limits this Court’s authority to enjoin Board proceedings. The language cannot be read literally, however. It must yield to an interpretation that permits a district court to enjoin Board actions that clearly exceed its statutory authority. The Supreme Court’s interpretation of section 10(b)(3) of the Selective Service Act, 50 U.S.C. § 460(b)(3), is instructive here. Similarly to section 1818(i) of the FIS Act, section 10(b)(3) limits pre-induction judicial review of decisions by Selective Service Local Boards. In Oestereich v. Selective Service System Board No. 11, 393 U.S. 233, 89 S.Ct. 414, 21 L.Ed.2d 402 (1968) and in Breen v. Selective Service Local Board No. 16, 396 U.S. 460, 90 S.Ct. 661, 24 L.Ed.2d 653 (1970), the Supreme Court held that section 10(b)(3) did not prohibit pre-induction judicial review of a selective service board’s classification when the petitioner was clearly statutorily entitled to an exemption or a deferment from service. In contrast, the Court held in Clark v. Gabriel, 393 U.S. 256, 89 S.Ct. 424, 21 L.Ed.2d 418 (1968), Boyd v. Clark, 287 F.Supp. 561 (S.D.N.Y.1968), aff’d per curiam, 393 U.S. 316, 89 S.Ct. 553, 21 L.Ed.2d 511 (1969), and in Fein v. Selective Service System Local Board No. 7, 405 U.S. 365, 92 S.Ct. 1062, 31 L.Ed.2d 298 (1972), that no pre-induction judicial review is available when a selective service board uses its discretion and judgment in classifying an inductee. To test the correctness or legality of the selective service board’s decision, the inductee must use the post-induction judicial review procedures.
The distinction drawn in these cases has been applied to section 1818(i) by the Fifth Circuit. In Manges v. Camp, 474 F.2d 97 (5th Cir. 1973), the Comptroller of the Currency had prohibited the owner of the controlling interest in a national bank, Mr. Manges, from participating in the affairs of the bank. The Comptroller predicated his authority for the action on section 1818(g)(1), which provides for suspension of a bank officer or director from office when such person is indicted for a felony involving dishonesty or breach of trust. There is no judicial review of suspensions under section 1818(g). Mr. Manges had been convicted of a felony involving dishonesty five years before he purchased stock in the bank. In upholding a district court’s injunction of the Comptroller’s action, the Fifth Circuit stated:
There is, however, a very strong court created exception to withdrawal statutes. This exception comes into play when there has been a clear departure from statutory authority, and thereby exposes the offending agency to review of administrative action otherwise made unreviewable by statute.
474 F.2d at 99 (emphasis added). The court held that section 1818(g)(1) applies only to present felony charges, and that by suspending Manges for a past conviction, the Comptroller clearly exceeded his statutory authority.
Groos National Bank v. Comptroller of the Currency, 573 F.2d 889 (5th Cir. 1978) involves the same bank and bank owner as Manges v. Camp. After the decision in Manges v. Camp, the Comptroller began cease and desist proceedings to block the bank from making high-risk loans to certain individuals, one of whom was Manges himself. The proceedings were settled by a written agreement. One of the terms was that the bank would not make loans to or extend credit to Manges. Several years later Manges drew several checks on an account in a different bank and cashed the checks at Groos National Bank. When the checks bounced, the bank held them for a few days until they could be paid. The Comptroller viewed this short term extension of credit as a violation of the written agreement and commenced cease and desist proceedings by issuing a notice of charges. Manges attempted to enjoin the administrative proceedings by filing suit in a district court. He argued that the written agreement was invalid, and therefore the Comptroller was acting in excess of his statutory authority. The Fifth Circuit ruled that the district court had no jurisdiction in this case. It stated,
Section 1818 as a whole provides a detailed framework for regulatory enforcement and for orderly review of the various stages of enforcement; and section 1818(i) in particular evinces a clear intention that this regulatory process is not to be disturbed by untimely judicial intervention, at least where there is no “clear departure from statutory authority.” Cf. Manges v. Camp, supra at 99. We note that the bank was free to argue the invalidity of the 1973 agreement in the course of the regulatory proceedings
573 F.2d at 895.
In the instant case, then, the issue of jurisdiction to enjoin the Board’s cease and desist proceedings will be answered by determining whether institution of the administrative proceeding by the Board is a “clear departure” from its statutory authority.
Section 1818(i) does not limit the Court’s jurisdiction to enjoin the hearing on the Notice of Assessment of Civil Money Penalty because the withdrawal of jurisdiction applies only to the FIS Act. The BHC Act contains no express withdrawal of jurisdiction provision such as section 1818(i). However, it does provide that any party aggrieved by an order of the Board under the BHC Act may obtain judicial review in a United States court of appeals. By conferring on the courts of appeals jurisdiction to review orders of the Board issued under the BHC Act, Congress precluded review of such orders by district courts. Whitney National Bank in Jefferson Parish v. Bank of New Orleans and Trust Co., 379 U.S. 411, 420-22, 85 S.Ct. 551, 557-58, 13 L.Ed.2d 386 (1965); Memphis Trust Co. v. Board of Governors, 584 F.2d 921, 925 (6th Cir. 1978); Investment Company Institute v. Board of Governors, 551 F.2d 1270, 1278-80 (D.C.Cir. 1977). In addition, the doctrine of exhaustion of administrative remedies operates to bar premature judicial review of administrative agency action. Under this doctrine, courts withhold judicial relief to persons aggrieved by an agency’s action until all avenues of potential relief from the agency itself have been exhausted. E. g., McKart v. United States, 395 U.S. 185, 193, 89 S.Ct. 1657, 1662, 23 L.Ed.2d 194 (1969); Myers v. Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp., 303 U.S. 41, 50-51, 58 S.Ct. 459, 463, 82 L.Ed.2d 638 (1938). See generally 3 K.Davis, Administrative Law Treatise § 20.01 et seq. (1958 ed., 1970 and 1976 Supps.). However, the doctrine of exhaustion of administrative remedies also contains exceptions. For instance, the aggrieved party need not exhaust administrative remedies where the allegation is that the agency’s procedures exceed constitutional bounds, Allen v. Grand Central Aircraft Co., 347 U.S. 535, 74 S.Ct. 745, 98 L.Ed. 933 (1974), or where the agency has exceeded its statutory powers, Skinner and Eddy Corp. v. United States, 249 U.S. 557, 39 S.Ct. 375, 63 L.Ed. 772 (1919).
Thus, in the instant case the issue of the Court’s jurisdiction to enjoin the Board’s hearing on the Notice of Assessment of a Civil Money Penalty is much the same as jurisdiction to enjoin the Board’s hearing on the Notice of Charges. The determination rests on whether the Board has statutory authority to assess a civil money penalty on plaintiffs.
B. Statutory Authority of The Federal Reserve Board
1. The Cease and Desist Proceedings
When construing a statute that invests broad regulatory powers in an administrative agency, great deference must be given to the officers or agency charged with administration of the statute. Board of Governors v. First Lincolnwood Corp., 439 U.S. 234, 251, 99 S.Ct. 505, 514, 58 L.Ed.2d 484 (1978); Udall v. Tallman, 380 U.S. 1, 16, 85 S.Ct. 792, 801, 13 L.Ed.2d 616 (1965); Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. v. Sumner Financial Corp., 451 F.2d 898, 902 (5th Cir. 1972). “[T]he construction of a statute by those charged with its execution should be followed unless there are compelling indications that it is wrong.” Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. F. C. C., 395 U.S. 367, 381, 89 S.Ct. 1794, 1801, 23 L.Ed.2d 371 (1969). The 1974 extension of the Board’s cease and desist authority to include bank holding companies was based on recommendations made to Congress by the Board. 59th Annual Report of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System 199 (1972); 60th Annual Report of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System 236 (1973). Because the Board was intimately involved in the enactment of the statute upon which it predicates authority to bring the cease and desist proceedings against plaintiffs, and because of the Board’s great expertise and experience in regulating banking practices, its interpretation of the statutes involved in this matter is entitled to great weight.
The Board derives its authority to institute cease and desist proceedings against bank holding companies from sections 1818(b)(1) and (3) of the FIS Act. The Board has the power to investigate “unsafe or unsound practices,” and violations of a law, rule, regulation or conditions imposed in agreements in writing by the Board. This power extends to past, present, or threatened future violations. The Board’s remedial powers are also broad. If a violation is established at the hearing, the Board may issue an order that “require[s] the bank ... to cease and desist from the [violation or practice], and, further, to take affirmative action to correct the conditions resulting from any such violation or practice.” 12 U.S.C. § 1818(b)(1).
If the Board is of the good faith opinion that a bank holding company is or has engaged, or is about to engage, in one of the practices or violations specified in section 1818(b)(1), it has the authority to issue a notice of charges. The Board’s Notice of Charges to Mid America and Jacobs focuses on the written amendments to the November 21, 1979, Regulation Y notice submitted by Mid America and Jacobs to the Board. These amendments are the eight written commitments of Mid America and Jacobs to take certain actions if the redemption plan were approved by the Board. The Notice of Charges alleges that plaintiffs violated Regulation Y by including false and misleading information, and by misleading the Board through the omission of other information. It also alleges that plaintiffs are about to fail to fulfill the written commitments they undertook to obtain approval of the Regulation Y application. These allegations fall within the scope of the Board’s authority under sections 1818(b)(1) and (3). Thus, there has been no clear departure from statutory authority, and this Court lacks jurisdiction to enjoin the Board’s cease and desist proceedings.
2. The Assessment of the Civil Money Penalty
Section 1847 grants the Board power to fine any company that “willfully violates any provision of this chapter [i. e., the BHC Act], or any regulation or order issued by the Board pursuant thereto.” The Board’s asserted basis for the assessment of the civil penalty against Mid America is a violation of Regulation Y, 12 C.F.R. § 225.6, which was promulgated pursuant to the BHC Act. The Board’s Notice of Assessment alleges that Mid America violated Regulation Y by: (1) failing to state completely and truthfully the purpose of the redemption of stock as required by 12 C.F.R. § 225.6(a)(1); (2) filing a false and misleading schedule of repayment in violation of 12 C.F.R. § 225.-6(a)(6); and (3) misleading the Board by omitting to inform the Board of material information relevant to the redemption.
It is undisputed that Mid America is a bank holding company, that Jacobs is a director of Mid America, and that both are subject to the requirements of the BHC Act. The Notice of Assessments sets forth allegations of fact which, if established on the record at the hearing requested by plaintiffs, would establish a violation of Regulation Y by Mid America and Jacobs. On the basis of these facts, the Board’s issuance of the Notice of Assessment of a Civil Money Penalty was within the Board’s authority under the BHC Act. Accordingly, plaintiffs must exhaust their remedies available in the administrative proceedings.
C. The Temporary Order to Cease and Desist
As stated earlier, this Court holds a specific grant of jurisdiction to enjoin a temporary order to cease and desist issued by a federal banking agency. 12 U.S.C. § 1818(c)(2). Although this statute provides little guidance to a district court faced with a decision of whether to enjoin a temporary order, it is amenable to a two-fold inquiry. First, the Court must determine whether the temporary order falls within the statutory authority of subsection (c)(1). This subsection requires that the violation or practice which induced the temporary order be one that “is likely to cause [1] insolvency or [2] substantial dissipation of assets or earnings of the bank, or [3] is likely to seriously weaken the condition of the bank or [4] otherwise seriously prejudice the interests of its depositors prior to the completion of the [cease and desist] proceedings.” 12 U.S.C. § 1818(c)(1). The second part of the inquiry requires an exercise of the Court’s discretion. The legislative history of this section states:
In ruling upon any such application, the district courts will, of course, be guided by the traditional tests employed in actions for temporary or preliminary relief from administrative agency action when the public interest is involved.
S.Rep. 1482, 89th Cong., 2d Sess., [1966] U.S.Code Cong. & Ad.News 3532, 3542. The traditional tests for determining whether to grant preliminary relief from agency action are:
The movant [Mid America] must show a substantial likelihood of success on the merits, and that irreparable harm would flow from the denial of an injunction. In addition, the trial judge must consider the inconvenience that an injunction would cause the opposing party [the Board], and must weigh the public interest as well.
Quaker Action Group v. Hickel, 421 F.2d 1111, 1116 (D.C.Cir.1969); See McGuire Shaft and Tunnel Corp. v. Local Union No. 1791, U. M. W., 475 F.2d 1209, 1216 (TECA), cert. denied, 412 U.S. 958, 93 S.Ct. 3008, 37 L.Ed.2d 1009 (1973).
Plaintiffs strenuously contend that the Board lacks statutory authority to issue a temporary order in this case. They argue that Mid America’s sales of the subsidiary banks were arm’s length transactions, that it will receive a fair price for the assets, and therefore no dissipation of the assets will occur. This argument ignores the purpose of the Board’s Temporary Order. If Mid America were to consummate the sales pri- or to the hearing on charges in the cease and desist proceedings, then Mid America could be liquidated prior to the Board’s decision on the merits. This would effectively moot the proceedings by neutralizing nearly all of the remedies the Board might seek to impose if a violation or unsafe or unsound practice is established. The Board’s authority to issue temporary orders to prevent actions which threaten to seriously weaken the condition of a bank or bank holding company certainly includes the power to prevent the liquidation of Mid America prior to the hearing on the merits in the cease and desist proceedings.
Turning to the traditional tests for issuance of preliminary injunctive relief, it is the conclusion of this Court that the motion for injunctive relief must be denied. After a careful consideration of the four factors, the balance scales distinctly favor the Board. The potential harm to plaintiffs caused by the temporary order, that the pending sales of the subsidiary banks will not be consummated, is not irreparable. Jacobs will still hold control of a financially sound holding company and there is no evidence that the subsidiary banks will be weakened if they are not sold. After granting due deference to the experience and expertise of the Board and to its role of regulating the banking industry to protect the investments of the public, it cannot be said that either plaintiffs’ chances of success on the merits or the public interest factor cuts in favor of plaintiffs. Finally, granting an injunction would seriously inconvenience the Board because the injunction would destroy the status quo and effectively eliminate most of the remedies the Board might seek to pursue after the decision on the merits.
Accordingly,
IT IS ORDERED THAT:
(1) The portion of plaintiffs’ motion directed at enjoining the Board’s hearing on the Notice of Charges issued pursuant to 12 U.S.C. § 1818(b)(1) be, and hereby is, dismissed for lack of subject matter jurisdiction.
(2) The portion of plaintiffs’ motion directed at enjoining the Board’s hearing on the Notice of Assessment of Civil Money Penalty issued pursuant to 12 U.S.C. § 1847 be, and hereby is, dismissed for failure to exhaust administrative remedies.
(3) The portion of plaintiffs’ motion directed at enjoining the Board’s Temporary Order to cease and desist pursuant to 12 U.S.C. § 1818(c) be, and hereby is, denied.
(4) The defendant’s cross-motion for summary judgment affirming the issuance of the Temporary Order to cease and desist be, and hereby is, granted.
LET JUDGMENT BE ENTERED ACCORDINGLY.
. Section 225.6 of Regulation Y prohibits the purchase by a bank holding company of 10 percent or more of its outstanding voting shares without giving at least 45 days advance notice to the appropriate Federal Reserve Bank. The notice must include, among other things, the purposes of the proposed redemption, the number of shares to be redeemed, the number of shares outstanding, the consideration to be paid, the date for the proposed redemption, the names of the persons whose shares are to be redeemed, a description of the terms of any debt incurred to effect the redemption, a repayment schedule for the debt and, if the redemption is related to a change in control of the bank holding company, a copy of all agreements relating to that change in control. 12 C.F.R. § 225.6.
. The redemption alternative presents certain long term investment advantages in the transfer of ownership of a bank holding company. These advantages include significant future tax savings since the holding company can repay its acquisition debt with “tax free” dividends from its subsidiary banks whereas dividends to the shareholder (Jacobs) would be subject to tax. See, 26 C.F.R. § 1.1501-14(a)(1) (1977). See also, Board of Governors v. First Lincolnwood Corp., 439 U.S. 234, 238 n. 4, 99 S.Ct. 505, 508 n. 4, 58 L.Ed.2d 484 (1978). In addition, the interest expense incurred by the holding company on its debt can be used as a deduction against the income of the subsidiary banks through the filing of consolidated tax returns. See 26 U.S.C. § 163, 26 U.S.C. § 1501-04.
. For national banks, the appropriate agency is the Comptroller of the Currency; for state banks that are not members of the Federal Reserve System, the appropriate agency is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; for state banks that are members of the Federal Reserve System, the appropriate agency is the Board of Governors. 12 U.S.C. § 1813(q). In this case, it is undisputed that all of Mid America’s subsidiary banks are either national banks or state nonmember banks.
. Plaintiffs deny that Jacobs formed the intention to sell the subsidiary banks prior to the time when the redemption was carried out. However, for purposes of this motion, they argue that even if Jacobs did conceal from the Board an intention to liquidate Mid America, that this omission is immaterial. Whether there was an omission of this information and, if so, whether it was material or in violation of Regulation Y is a decision that should be made by the Board at the administrative hearing, not by this Court. By filing the Notice of Charges initiating the cease and desist proceedings, the Board has averred that plaintiffs concealed relevant information from the Board and that the information was material. The propriety of the filing of these charges is not subject to judicial review. Federal Trade Commission v. Standard Oil of California, 449 U.S. 232, 101 S.Ct. 488, 66 L.Ed.2d 416 (1980).
. Plaintiffs have maintained that the real issue in this matter is whether the Board has statutory authority to prevent the liquidation of a bank holding company. This argument misconstrues the distinction between activities over which the Board has been granted the power to regulate and activities the Board may control to remedy a violation or an unsafe or unsound practice. If, at the hearing, the Board were to determine that plaintiffs have violated Regulation Y or their written commitments to the Board, then the Board may choose to remedy the violation by preventing the liquidation of Mid America. This would be but one of many conceivable remedies available to the Board. It is not the province of this Court to decide whether such a remedy would be appropriate in this case. This decision must be made by a court of appeals, and then only after development of a record at the administrative hearing, and only if the Board chooses to impose such a remedy.
. The term “bank” in section 1818(c) must be read as encompassing bank holding companies also. The 1974 amendment of the FIS Act extended the application of section 1818(c) to include bank holding companies also. 12 U.S.C. § 1818(b)(3). Thus, under section 1818(c)(1), the Board has power to issue a temporary order to prevent a threatened weakening of a bank holding company pending the outcome of a cease and desist proceeding against that bank holding company.
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3 Steps Simple User Registration With Email Verification In PHP MYSQL
Welcome to a tutorial on how to create a user registration form with email verification, using PHP and MySQL. So you have decided to open up your website for user registration?
A simplified user registration system consists of the following basic components:
• A database to store registered users.
• A PHP library to deal with the registration process.
• An HTML registration form and the confirmation page itself.
Let us walk through the exact details on how to do all of these in this guide – Read on!
TABLE OF CONTENTS
USER REGISTRATION WITH EMAIL VERIFICATION
All right, let us now get into the steps of creating a simple user registration system with email verification.
PAR 1) USERS DATABASE TABLE
1-users.sql
CREATE TABLE `users` (
`user_id` bigint(20) NOT NULL,
`user_email` varchar(255) NOT NULL,
`user_password` varchar(255) NOT NULL,
`user_activate` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8mb4;
ALTER TABLE `users`
ADD PRIMARY KEY (`user_id`),
ADD UNIQUE KEY `user_email` (`user_email`);
ALTER TABLE `users` MODIFY `user_id` bigint(20) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT;
Field Description
user_id Primary key, auto-increment.
user_email The user’s email address. Unique field to prevent multiple registrations.
user_password The password.
user_activate Used to hold the “activation key”. If this field is null, then the account is already activated.
Just a simple table with 4 fields, feel free to add more of your own as required – Name, address, etc…
P.S. If you have an existing user table, it will probably make sense to just add a user_activate field.
PART 2) PHP USER LIBRARY
2-lib-user.php
<?php
class Users {
// (A) CONSTRUCTOR - CONNECT DATABASE
private $pdo = null;
private $stmt = null;
public $error = null;
function __construct () {
$this->pdo = new PDO(
"mysql:host=".DB_HOST.";dbname=".DB_NAME.";charset=".DB_CHARSET,
DB_USER, DB_PASSWORD, [
PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE => PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION,
PDO::ATTR_DEFAULT_FETCH_MODE => PDO::FETCH_ASSOC
]);
}
// (B) DESTRUCTOR - CLOSE CONNECTION
function __destruct () {
if ($this->stmt !== null) { $this->stmt = null; }
if ($this->pdo !== null) { $this->pdo = null; }
}
// (C) HELPER - RUN SQL QUERY
function query ($sql, $data=null) : void {
$this->stmt = $this->pdo->prepare($sql);
$this->stmt->execute($data);
}
// (D) GET USER BY ID OR EMAIL
function get ($id) {
$this->query(
sprintf("SELECT * FROM `users` WHERE `user_%s`=?", is_numeric($id)?"id":"email"),
[$id]
);
return $this->stmt->fetch();
}
// (E) REGISTER NEW USER
function register ($email, $pass) {
// (E1) CHECK IF USER REGISTERED
// @TODO - WHAT TO DO IF THERE IS AN EXISTING ACTIVATION?
// ALLOW USER TO GENERATE NEW TOKEN & EMAIL AFTER SOME TIME?
// MANUAL CONTACT ADMIN?
$check = $this->get($email);
if (is_array($check)) {
$this->error = isset($check["user_activate"])
? "$email already has a pending activation."
: "$email is already registered." ;
return false;
}
// (E2) INSERT INTO DATABASE
$token = md5(date("YmdHis") . $email);
$this->query(
"INSERT INTO `users` (`user_email`, `user_password`, `user_activate`) VALUES (?,?,?)",
[$email, password_hash($pass, PASSWORD_DEFAULT), $token]
);
$this->lastID = $this->pdo->lastInsertId();
// (E3) SEND CONFIRMATION EMAIL
// @TODO - CHANGE TO YOUR OWN MESSAGE + URL!
$subject = "Confirm your email";
$msg = sprintf(
"Visit this <a href='http://localhost/3b-confirm.php?i=%u&h=%s'>link</a> to complete your registration.",
$this->lastID, $token
);
$head = implode("\r\n", ["MIME-Version: 1.0", "Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8"]);
if (@mail($email, $subject, $msg, $head)) { return true; }
else {
$this->error = "Error sending out email";
return false;
}
}
// (F) VERIFY REGISTRATION
function verify ($id, $hash) {
// (F1) GET + CHECK THE USER
$user = $this->get($id);
if ($user === false) {
$this->error = "User not found.";
return false;
}
if (!isset($user["user_activate"])) {
$this->error = "Account already activated.";
return false;
}
if ($user["user_activate"] != $hash) {
$this->error = "Invalid token.";
return false;
}
// (F2) ACTIVATE ACCOUNT IF OK
$this->query(
"UPDATE `users` SET `user_activate`=NULL WHERE `user_id`=?",
[$id]
);
// (F3) SEND WELCOME MESSAGE IF YOU WANT
// mail ($user["user_email"], "WELCOME!", "Welcome message here.");
return true;
}
}
// (G) DATABASE SETTINGS - CHANGE TO YOUR OWN!
define("DB_HOST", "localhost");
define("DB_NAME", "test");
define("DB_CHARSET", "utf8mb4");
define("DB_USER", "root");
define("DB_PASSWORD", "");
// (H) NEW USER OBJECT
$USR = new Users();
Holy cow. That is a lot of code, but keep calm and look closely.
• (A, B, H) When $USR = new Users() is created, the constructor will connect to the database. The destructor closes the connection.
• (C) query() Helper function to run an SQL query.
• (D, E, F) There are only 3 functions for user registration!
• get() Get user by ID or email.
• register() Step 1 of the registration process. Generates a random “activation key”, then sends the activation link to the user email.
• verify() Step 2 of the registration process. After the user clicks on the link in the email, we verify the “activation key” and complete the registration process.
• (G) Database settings. Remember to change to your own.
PART 3) HTML PAGES
3A) REGISTRATION FORM
3a-register.php
<!-- (A) REGISTRATION FORM -->
<form method="post">
<input type="email" name="email" placeholder="Email" required>
<input type="password" name="pass" placeholder="Password" required>
<input type="password" name="cpass" placeholder="Confirm Password" required>
<input type="submit" value="Register!">
</form>
<?php
// (B) PROCESS SUBMITTED REGISTRATION FORM
if (isset($_POST["email"])) {
require "2-lib-user.php";
echo "<div class='note'>";
echo $USR->register($_POST["email"], $_POST["pass"], $_POST["cpass"])
? "Check your email and click on the activation link"
: $USR->error ;
echo "</div>";
}
?>
This page is pretty self-explanatory. The user fills in the registration form, we use register() to process and send out the activation link.
STEP 3B) CONFIRMATION PAGE
3b-confirm.php
<div class="note"><?php
require "2-lib-user.php";
echo $USR->verify($_GET["i"], $_GET["h"])
? "Thank you! Account has been activated."
: $USR->error ;
?></div>
Once again, this page is self-explanatory. The user accesses the activation link and lands on this page – We verify the activation key and complete the process.
DOWNLOAD & NOTES
Here is the download link to the example code, so you don’t have to copy-paste everything.
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EXAMPLE CODE DOWNLOAD
Click here for the source code on GitHub gist, just click on “download zip” or do a git clone. I have released it under the MIT license, so feel free to build on top of it or use it in your own project.
EXTRA BITS & LINKS
That’s it for this tutorial. Here are a few small extras and links that may help with your project.
BAREBONES START
Before the angry ugly troll things start to spit acid, this is but a barebones example. Some work still needs to be done before it is worthy of a production system.
• A proper login page (links below).
• An option to resend the confirmation email should the first one fails.
• Maybe an auto-timeout mechanism, so users can request another confirmation after some time.
LINKS & REFERENCES
THE END
Thank you for reading, and we have come to the end of this guide. I hope that it has helped you with your project, and if you want to share anything with this guide, please feel free to comment below. Good luck and happy coding!
26 thoughts on “3 Steps Simple User Registration With Email Verification In PHP MYSQL”
1. is it possible with PHPMailer in php? I don’t have access to the php.ini to put my smpt server, could you show me how to change the code for phpmailer?
2. Thanks so much. But i encounter a little problem, a confirmation email has been sent after registration but there’s no link to click and verify pls help
1. Nothing to do with the script, it’s the spam filter. It is also common for most shared hosting to have a low reputation (marked as a possible email spambot).
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Python Makefile
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tlsfuzzer
Fuzzer and test suite for TLS (v1.0, v1.1, v1.2) implementations. Early alpha version - thus no API stability guarantees.
Dependencies
You'll need:
• Python 2.6 or later or Python 3.2 or later
• tlslite-ng 0.7.0-alpha3 or later (note that tlslite will not work and they conflict with eachother)
• ecdsa python module (dependency of tlslite-ng, should get installed automatically with it)
Optionally, to make some calculations faster, you may want to install the following libraries (see tlslite-ng README for details):
• m2crypto
• pycrypto
• gmp
To get pip (if your python installation doesn't already have it) download get-pip.py and run:
python get-pip.py
Then install tlslite-ng:
pip install --pre tlslite-ng
(Use --upgrade if you did install it before)
Download the tlsfuzzer:
git clone https://github.com/tomato42/tlsfuzzer.git
Usage
After all dependencies are installed, make sure:
• you're in the directory of the project (after git clone just cd tlsfuzzer)
• the server you want to test is running on the same computer (localhost)
• the server is listening on port 4433
• and the server will answer with data to HTTP queries (answer with valid HTTP responses is optional)
Then you can just run one of the tests in scripts directory, as such:
PYTHONPATH=. python scripts/test-invalid-compression-methods.py
If test has additional requirements, it will output them to console. No errors printed means that all expecations were met (so for tests with bad data the server rejected our messages).
Server under test configuration
In general, the server under test requires just a RSA certificate, you can create it using the following OpenSSL command:
openssl req -x509 -newkey rsa -keyout localhost.key -out localhost.crt -subj \
/CN=localhost -nodes -batch
OpenSSL
To test OpenSSL, it's sufficient to pass an extra -www option to a typical s_server command line:
openssl s_server -key localhost.key -cert localhost.crt -www
GnuTLS
To test GnuTLS server, you need to tell it to behave as an HTTP server and additionally, to not ask for client certificates:
gnutls-serv --http -p 4433 --x509keyfile localhost.key --x509certfile \
localhost.crt --disable-client-cert
NSS
To test the Mozilla NSS library server, you first need to create a database with server certificate:
mkdir nssdb
certutil -N -d sql:nssdb --empty-password
openssl pkcs12 -export -passout pass: -out localhost.p12 -inkey localhost.key \
-in localhost.crt -name localhost
pk12util -i localhost.p12 -d sql:nssdb -W ''
Finally, start the server with support for TLSv1.0 and later protocols, DHE ciphers and with the above certificate:
selfserv -d sql:./nssdb -p 4433 -V tls1.0: -H 1 -n localhost | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
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Talk:Deaths in August 2021
First lady
Thailand being a monarchy, the spouse of the Prime Mibnister cannot be called "first lady". This characterisation is redundant in monarchies.—<IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 16:11, 14 August 2021 (UTC)
* A prime minister is a governmental position and not part of any monarchy, and as such can indeed have a "first lady" in situ. Please clarify your objection based on what I just said. Ref (chew) (do) 17:38, 14 August 2021 (UTC)
* User:Refsworldlee What I meant was that usually in monarchies there is no talk of a first lady, because there is a queen. And, now come to think of it, wives of prime ministers aren't called first ladies even in republics because that is usually the president's wife. Prime ministers' wives are rarely called first ladies. --<IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 16:15, 15 August 2021 (UTC)
* Taking the monarchy aspect out of it altogether makes more sense. And it seems that the majority of governmental structures in the world only afford the title "first lady" to a presidential spouse, not a prime ministerial one. (There is also no mention whatsoever of the term "first lady" in the article relating to Boonruen Choonhavan.) Following this rationale, the reference made to "first lady" in the list of deaths has been removed. If any other editors have a contrary view, please air it here before making an edit to the entry at Deaths in 2021. Thanks. Ref (chew) (do) 17:11, 15 August 2021 (UTC)
* Another editor has more accurately described it in her subject line, without reference to "first lady". Ref (chew) (do) 17:36, 15 August 2021 (UTC)
Sean Lock
There is still uncertainty over his death date. The Guardian explicitly states 16th August here, while some other sources go for 18th, the date it was announced. Ghmyrtle (talk) 07:16, 19 August 2021 (UTC)
* Guardian is a very RS, that’ll do me. WWGB (talk) 08:52, 19 August 2021 (UTC)
* So why is he still listed under the 18th? Ref (chew) (do) 12:39, 19 August 2021 (UTC)
* The Times and The Telegraph put it at August 18, not sure which is correct. ‑‑Volteer1 (talk) 12:54, 19 August 2021 (UTC)
I hadn’t seen the Guardian cite until now. For me they’re the go to cite for English DODs. I think now it is the 16th and all other 18th cites were utilizing the day he was announced as passing as the DOD. Rusted AutoParts 13:11, 19 August 2021 (UTC)
* not saying you're wrong, but why's that? I don't know enough about them to know why The Guardian may be more reliable for death dates than The Times/The Telegraph. ‑‑Volteer1 (talk) 15:30, 19 August 2021 (UTC)
* Theyre generally considered the best citation. When it comes to reporting deaths they do two versions: the news report than an obituary. And within the obituary we can normally garner any missing details, like DOD if it wasn’t previously disclosed. For the most part no sources indicated Locks DOD aside from Telegraph, which put in 18th. But given Guardian is putting it was the 16th, it indicates that’s the DOD. Rusted AutoParts 15:49, 19 August 2021 (UTC)
* It's a little thing called "making assumptions". Just as some Wikipedia editors do that when inserting/moving/removing information in these pages, so do newspaper editors, especially when announcements received by them are vague. I know it's a time of grief, but I wish those issuing announcements of decease would just be up front with the details they know about a death, including days or dates of death. By the way, as a Brit, I can vouch for the good standing and first class fact-checking done by The Guardian. Ref (chew) (do) 16:54, 19 August 2021 (UTC)
* I think most UK editors would see The Times, The Daily Telegraph and The Grauniad as being equally reliable. But the first two have a paywall and so are less accessible. Martinevans123 (talk) 08:48, 20 August 2021 (UTC)
* Re "who cares" - probably those editors still discussing it at Talk:Sean Lock? Classic case of tail wagging the dog? I thought this list was meant to follow the articles. Martinevans123 (talk) 10:37, 20 August 2021 (UTC)
Heard via Talk:Sean Lock this page goes with 16th. FYI most RSs currently go with 18th per the table below: Regards Spy-cicle💥 Talk? 14:37, 20 August 2021 (UTC)
* But note further developments at Talk:Sean Lock. Thanks. Martinevans123 (talk) 18:48, 20 August 2021 (UTC)
* In respect of comments above - Number one: Nice table that. Number two: We avoid hidden messages like the plague, and certainly anecdotal ones such as the source comparison one I removed. Number three: There is no tail and no dog for one to wag the other. What makes anyone think that one particular project (Sean Lock) has "bragging rights" over another (Deaths in 2021)? The consensus here is the consensus here. Ref (chew) (do) 20:26, 20 August 2021 (UTC)
* The date was fixed here before there was any consensus over there. I was more concerned about consistency than "bragging rights" - isn't this article in some way "dependent" on all the source articles? I don't see why notes should be regarded as the plague. Martinevans123 (talk) 21:17, 21 August 2021 (UTC)
* By the end of the month, our massive list of the deceased makes for slow page-loading times, especially when you look at just how much inflated text is present in the edit coding. Sticking in unnecessary hidden messages just makes that problem worse. It's exactly why we use simple cite here too. Ref (chew) (do) 23:29, 21 August 2021 (UTC)
* If it's that long, maybe the monthly article should be spilt. But 12 extra words are going to slow up the page load?? I see. In that case I won't add a template to note that the current source does not support a cause of "lung cancer". Martinevans123 (talk) 12:02, 22 August 2021 (UTC)
* On the contrary, I am inclined to agree with you on the CoD variation, and I think you should add it. The template would not be anecdotal or frivolous, so it's a valid inclusion in my book. And as for "12 extra words", that's your contribution. With open season on adding willy-nilly hidden messages, expect others to inflate edit code to ridiculous degrees. Thanks. Ref (chew) (do) 23:14, 22 August 2021 (UTC)
* I hadn't realised it was "willy-nilly open season" quite yet. And I certainly wouldn't want to delay the page loading. "Lung cancer" seems to be factually correct. So it's a case of "seebs" on my part, I'm afraid. Martinevans123 (talk) 08:57, 23 August 2021 (UTC)
Don Everly
Just wondering if Don Everly will be deleted after 30 days since he does not have his own article? <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 06:34, 22 August 2021 (UTC)
* Phil Everly remains listed, so Don should too. WWGB (talk) 06:52, 22 August 2021 (UTC)
* Shared articles containing substantial bio on the deceased qualify to stay, always have done (that would be date/place of birth, something about their personal/professional life and death details). A redirect to a shared bio differs greatly from a redirect to a scant mention in an article about a related entity or subject. Ref (chew) (do) 07:03, 22 August 2021 (UTC)
* I ask because in 2017 when country singer Troy Gentry, one half of the very successful duo Montgomery Gentry was killed, he was unceremoniously removed from here after 30 days because he didn't have his own article. Even though always part of the duo, he was quite famous in the industry. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 06:03, 23 August 2021 (UTC)
* Entry restored at Deaths in September 2017 - thanks for pointing that error out. If you see any others, post them here. Ref (chew) (do) 10:45, 23 August 2021 (UTC)
* As an aside, Gentry also slaughtered a captive bear, but you don't need to be a nice person to appear on these lists. WWGB (talk) 11:45, 23 August 2021 (UTC)
Ted Dexter national team
This is true, but he was also their captain for 30 appearances. Should this be mentioned?
* national team (captain)
Darcourse (talk) 05:13, 28 August 2021 (UTC)
* That's not something that is usually included. Although notable, it's more a statistic than a strong notability. Perhaps others feel differently. Ref (chew) (do) 05:37, 28 August 2021 (UTC)
* I don't recall that we have ever reported team captaincies in these lists. He is notable (WP:NCRICKET) on account of being a player, rather than a captain. WWGB (talk) 05:40, 28 August 2021 (UTC)
Euphemize Geronimo's death or leave it undetermined?
Folengo seems to think Geronimo was put out of his misery, despite the government who ordered his killing not releasing a cause of death to the woman from whom he was violently abducted (she alleges torture). Everybody on that talk page and a good chunk of the wider outragosphere agrees sugarcoating this is bullshit. I find it difficult and disgusting to liken this manner of death to suicide, on so many levels. What say you all? InedibleHulk (talk) 21:26, 3 September 2021 (UTC)
For the benefit of those unfairly paywalled overseas, I transcribe the following under fair use provision:
That was his best friend, but I am still InedibleHulk (talk) 21:40, 3 September 2021 (UTC)
* Well, I've never been a fan of including animals here, but I go with the consensus nonetheless. So you'll understand if I say I don't care much - the whole animal destruction thing is couched in over-emotive language and primed to create arguments such as the one ongoing. Ref (chew) (do) 22:09, 3 September 2021 (UTC)
* Stripping aside overemotion, though, the basic argument remains that euthanasia has a meaning which doesn't logically fit this death. And even if we consider it to be a manner of death that doesn't need a cause, like suicide, we need consensus, like we needed for suicide. Any "care" in that regard? InedibleHulk (talk) 22:41, 3 September 2021 (UTC)
* I was happy with lethal injection (similar to capital punishment) but that is unclear at present. Let's wait till the government announces the COD. WWGB (talk) 05:09, 4 September 2021 (UTC)
* I care about consensus, of course I do. The modern penchant for elevating animal kinds to the same levels of consciousness as homo sapiens is a different matter, but we don't want to get into that here, do we? Let's wait for an official word to describe the CoD, as suggested above. Ref (chew) (do) 06:13, 4 September 2021 (UTC)
* We report facts here, so let's wait on the reported COD, should there be any announced. It would be insensitive to speculate on this morally hot-button issue. Wylie pedia @ 17:26, 4 September 2021 (UTC)
Ed Asner
This is getting on my nerves so I’m opening (what shouldn’t be necessary) a discussion to write in stone what three credits should be listed with him so we never have to see the entry edited over this again. I have contended since the get go that his career was broader than just playing one character on two different series and that placing one of the shows in would reflect his time in that role. But this has been repeatedly been swapped out. I contend it should be Mary Tyler Moore (due to the longer time spent on it), Up (highlights voice acting) and Elf or JFK (highlights film career). Since his individual Emmy wins aren’t listed and it’s just a generalized “7-Time Emmy winner” line due to his high amount of wins, I don’t think it should be factored in given they also highlight wins for shows not listed. This again shouldn’t be necessary but I’m pretty done with editors like or coming out of the woodwork every several months or year to chide me and uncivilly call me a dictator over this, so input please. Rusted AutoParts 18:01, 13 September 2021 (UTC)
* Nope. For me, his most memorable and high-profile starring role was as Lou Grant, so that should stay in as far as I'm concerned. His JFK role was not nearly as memorable or important. Pretty quick, something semi-permanent needs to be formulated under rule of three, but most of all the bickering needs to stop and the edit summaries kept clear of expletives. Ref (chew) (do) 21:35, 13 September 2021 (UTC)
* It wouldn’t be so annoying if Ted specifically said why they were making the switch from the get go as opposed to just changing it without a given reason. I’m not committed to JFK because it’s what I tossed in when Elf was apparently such an appalling selection. It’s hard to nail down what’s most relevant and important to the person given as that can change by who you ask. Some might push for Freakazoid, or Elf, or Roots, etc. My core point is Asner has more to him than just Lou Grant so taking two slots of the max 3 to highlight this I just don’t agree with. If others disagree here so be it I just wanted to more broadly reflect his long career Rusted AutoParts 21:53, 13 September 2021 (UTC)
* But his Mary Tyler Moore contribution was less notable overall. Longevity doesn't enter into it - he was just a supporting player on that show and not in the spotlight like he was for Lou Grant. You seem to create problems by repeatedly linking MTM and Lou Grant where they shouldn't be linked in the context of his career. Ref (chew) (do) 04:01, 14 September 2021 (UTC)
* Okay, then Lou Grant could be there. Ted has been the one reinserting it. I suggested keeping MTM instead due to tenure of time but he was the main in the titular LG show. Plus, as I had thought beforehand having just LG highlights his time in that role overall too as we are listing his character name. Rusted AutoParts 04:22, 14 September 2021 (UTC)
Options:
* Ed Asner, 91, American actor (The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Lou Grant, Up) 3
* Ed Asner, 91, American actor (The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Elf, Up)
* Ed Asner, 91, American actor (Lou Grant, other title, Up)
* These pages are about notability, not breadth or variety of career. For me (and, I suspect, many others) Asner was most notable for MTM and LG. I might argue that he was next notable for his roles in Roots and Rich Man, Poor Man as he won Emmies for each role, but I understand that his performance in Up was critially acclaimed. As for JFK, it's not even mentioned in Asner's Wikipedia article.
* We are going to continue having these disagreements until we can agree on criteria for the three films/books/songs etc that are to be reported for creative individuals. Hope springs eternal. WWGB (talk) 04:39, 14 September 2021 (UTC)
* Given the options above, I would !vote for MTM, LG and Up. WWGB (talk) 04:43, 14 September 2021 (UTC)
* See, I never remember him from Roots or Rich Man, Poor Man. Though never a formal vote, I too would go for Option 1. This is not through taking any one side or the other, just the logical choices according to my own perceptions. Ref (chew) (do) 05:06, 14 September 2021 (UTC)
* I have repeatedly changed Asner's credits to reflect option 1 for the same reasons outlined here - those are his most notable roles, and the fact that he was 'Lou Grant' in two different television series does not make a difference (in my opinion) - again, they are two separate shows, they are two separate genres and those two roles were his most notable and most high-profile. Given that, I also agree with comments here that the Ro3 are not so much a variety of one's career but one's most notable roles. But, what I find absolutely appalling is when I twice edited his entry to reflect this, and included reasons, I am met with Rusted telling me to 'Fing stop." Absolutely inappropriate behavior. No one editor should feel they are at all superior and Rusted mentioning the fact that I do not post often is meaningless. I visit daily but do not post daily. My contributions here, whether I post five times a day, or twice a year, doesn't matter. Rusted went so far as to leave a personal message on my page referring to what he called my "obnoxious obsession." We're all here to contribute in a meaningful way. No one editor should feel that they, and they alone, get to decide which acting credits are appropriate as has happened several times. Five seperate editors attempted to change Asner's credits since his death but every time Rusted reverted their attempts. The consensus here, so far, appears to be that MTM, Lou Grant, and Up are the most appropriate credits to list, in that order. That is what I and other editors have tried, but we were met with Rusted's refusal to accept and instead, we were labeled "obnoxious." You're right, I do not post often, but perhaps I will. My words of advice - turn down the rhetoric, listen to other people, and be civil. (TedR23 (talk) 14:25, 14 September 2021 (UTC))
* You don't explain why you make your switches unless pressed about it so it comes off as random switching which is frustrating. Richard Herd, Joe Ruby. You explain why you switch Asner's credits then I explain why I don't agree but then you quietly switch them again anyway. I highlight your gaps in edits because for the most part swapping out titles seems like the only thing you do on the site. If I see an explanation of why it's happening I won't be so inclined to revert the change. Rusted AutoParts 15:49, 14 September 2021 (UTC)
All it takes is a good rationale in an edit summary to quell reversions. Or anything in an edit summary. I currently have issues with one particular editor who changes things for no apparent reason and provides no edit summary entries for them at all. I hope this particular issue is resolved though. Ref (chew) (do) 19:28, 14 September 2021 (UTC)
MOS inquiry
, explain why a totally illogical piped link on the Carol Harris entry is “MOS around here.” The normal use of piped links is to shorten an entry, but avoid surprise, (see WP:RICKROLL) so given that there are 10 zillion halls of fame, doesn’t it make sense to note which one? Please point me to the relevant guideline you use. Montanabw (talk) 01:08, 12 October 2021 (UTC)
* We need to distinguish the nationality from their Hall of Fame induction, you must not have seen the other entries on this very page with that exact format when inserting this selective change. Carol Harris’s nationality is not “American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame”. These entries need to be as concise as possible, so any means to keep the entry short as possible is utilized. These are practices adopted by the frequent editors of these pages. Rusted AutoParts 01:13, 12 October 2021 (UTC)
* Her entry is concise, but if nationality is always included ( and I can see how saying “American, AQHA Hall of Fame equestrian,” instead? There’s multiple equestrian halls of fame, so using the acronym would avoid the WP:RICKROLL problem. Montanabw (talk) 03:35, 12 October 2021 (UTC)
* There's no reason to alter the current status quo, the reader isn't being misled or hoodwinked, they can simply click to see which HOF they're in, hoover over even to see where the link goes. Typing out the full name of the HOF adds needless space and abbreviating the initials of the HOF itself is something I don't know about. I suggest getting hold of other frequent death article editors for their input because that would be a change that would need to be applied to other entries. Rusted AutoParts 03:38, 12 October 2021 (UTC)
* You folks seriously need to look at WP:LOCALCONSENSUS, and consider how bitey you are to well-meaning newcomers to your “neighborhood”. (I’ve been on WP for 15 years, never edited here before…and man, you guys definitely don’t welcome well-meaning outsiders) Compared to the style used for other places where brevity is valued, such as disambiguation pages (where I have edited for most of my 15 years, and where they have clear guidelines), you DO have a different style and your “that’s the way we do it around here” attitude is quite uncivil. I have insufficient motivation to crusade for a rules change here, particularly where comments about changes are already answered with a sarcastic “good luck”, but if you’ve got a house style, you could at least write it up in more detail, because you obviously get a lot of drivebys. And seriously, adding one or two words to a hall of fame link isn’t going to break the wiki. Montanabw (talk) 04:20, 12 October 2021 (UTC)
* I’m sorry how are my comments bitey? Rusted AutoParts 14:42, 12 October 2021 (UTC)
* Not “my” singly, it’s at least three individuals, who appear to be regulars. Read the edit summaries for the Harris entry by all users, some linked here. Should be obvious. Montanabw (talk) 15:22, 12 October 2021 (UTC)
* I don’t find that very fair, from what I’m seeing the editor was edit warring over the format despite being informed of why they were reverted and being asked to discuss it. Rusted AutoParts 16:41, 12 October 2021 (UTC)
* Well, there was something of a discussion, though I do agree that discussion via edit summary tends to not end well. That said, this house style is a little different from other areas of Wikipedia, and your level of fierceness in defending it reminds me of WP:MEDRS—but they deal with life and death information whereas you are only dealing with… Death. You were not the individual who initially bit, but I found it rather stunning how quickly your crew was to race off to ANI and demand an “off with her head” over what is your project’s somewhat non-standard use of piped links and a reasonable difference of opinion over commas. (Also, your remarks about brevity fail when several sports figures seem to have half the teams they’ve ever played for listed in their entries, making it run into at least two lines of text. Seriously — one extra word explaining which Hall of Fame someone was in really isn’t going to break the wiki.) What upped the ante was the canvassing to form a tag team on a completely different page, and while it was in the gray area of improper canvassing, (though they should not have stated their own opinion per WP:canvass) one of the people involved just archived that discussion (and not earlier ones) in a manner that suggests they hoped to evade scrutiny. I’m rather disappointed. I think this discussion probably has gone on as long as it needs to, and I don’t see a consensus forming as far as a need for a little more civility. But I hope you take the situation to heart and consider that people of goodwill can get frustrated if they are bodyslammed for a good faith attempt to be involved. Montanabw (talk) 19:08, 12 October 2021 (UTC) | WIKI |
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If you're on an iOS 14+ device and have Firefox 28.2 or higher, you can set Firefox as your default browser. By making Firefox your default, any links you click on in other apps will automatically open in Firefox, a browser that respects your privacy. Even if you have lots of links open, Firefox's easy-to-manage tabs makes browsing a breeze.
Set Firefox as default browser (requires iOS 14)
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Why muscles grow
Doing bodybuilding, some notice sufficient gain of muscle bulk, and others, despite the exhausting exercises and the proteinaceous diet, can't build the muscle in any way. Dry tissue of muscles consists of protein for 80%, and structure of muscle fibers - of several types of protein and enzymes. And depending on their content in tissues of the person growth of muscles is carried out.
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User:SaucyJimmy
Another WP:FAKEARTICLE. No evidence the person actually existed. It's the only Google hit for either full name in quotes, and the first Google hit for either full name. Editor also makes fictional comments in articles about real people, living or dead. User page was previously deleted as a future fakearticle. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 17:09, 21 October 2014 (UTC)
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How to treat cystitis.
Women often suffer from inflammation of the bladder.So-called cystitis can occur at any age in different circumstances.In order to then not have to worry about how to cure cystitis, you must know that it can provoke.It usually appears after hypothermia pelvis.We are told from childhood: "You can not sit on the cold!".And yet it is impossible.After twenty minutes of sitting in the cold plate or stone will be guaranteed cystitis.In addition, it can cause prolonged sitting position.Those who suffer from constipation, and often suffer from inflammation of the urogenital system, wondering how to treat cystitis.Urologic diseases can occur when using a large number of acute and overcooked food.If you are a fan of exotic cuisine, drink plenty of fluids even after eating.Provoke cystitis may also gynecological, urological and venereal diseases, if they were not completely cured.It is therefore not engage in self, trust the doctor.Otherwise, then have to reap the fruits of their initiative.In order to not have to wonder how to treat cystitis, take sexual health.The woman should wipe right, and more likely to change pads and tampons during the critical days.In general, the causes can be many.
Cystitis is acute or chronic.The acute form usually occurs after exposure to any adverse factors and is manifested by inflammation of the bladder mucosa.If such a cystitis properly treated, can be obtained instead chronic.It is not so pronounced over, but the long-term.
addition, cystitis can be caused by enterococci or streptococci.In this case, it is considered infectious.And if the cause was bladder irritation chemicals, drugs, or foreign bodies, we are talking about non-infectious cystitis.
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Brynjulf Skaugen Sr.
Brynjulf Skaugen Sr. (11 June 1918 – 14 August 2002) was a Norwegian business executive.
He was born 11 June 1918, the son of Isak Martinius Skaugen, He took his examen artium, which qualified him for admission to university studies. He became a sailor and then took an examination as an average adjuster.
He worked for his father's company, I. M. Skaugen. He became a partner in 1952 together with his brothers, Sigurd (who died in 1975) and Morits. The brothers later gained control of the family company. For about twenty years from 1969 they also co-owned Royal Caribbean Cruise Line. In 1990, the I. M. Skaugen firm was taken over by Morits Skaugen Jr., and a new branch named B. Skaugen was taken over by Brynjulf Skaugen Jr. The heirs of Brynjulf Skaugen Sr., were Brynjulf Jr; Severin, Marius, and Anette Skaugen, who inherited 746.5 million kroner.
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Hemodynamic and sympathetic nerve responses to painful stimuli in normotensive and borderline hypertensive subjects
Hans P. Schobel, Matthias Ringkamp, Annja Behrmann, Clemens Forster, Roland E. Schmieder, Hermann O. Handwerker
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Abstract
Observations in animals and humans show that pain sensitivity might be lower (and pain tolerance higher) in hypertensive as compared to normotensive subjects. One hypothesis, derived from experimental studies, assumes that enhanced activation of baroreceptors leads to an enhanced central inhibition. A central hypothesis assumes changes in the central (endogenous) control of the nociceptive system. To investigate these two hypotheses we quantitatively assessed the minute-by-minute changes in mean arterial pressure (MAP), central venous pressure (CVP) heart rate (HR), muscle sympathetic nerve activity (MSNA), and individual pain ratings during noxious mechanostimulation in 10 normotensive (NT) and 13 borderline hypertensive (BH) subjects. Linear regression analysis indicated a close negative correlation for the overall data between resting levels of MAP and pain ratings (r = -0.57, P < 0.0001). The BH group exhibited a lower pain sensitivity compared to the NT group (P < 0.001). The extent of baroreceptor activation during the application of pain was not different between the two groups (P = NS) as assessed by almost identical increases in MAP (+8 ± 1 vs. +9 ± 1 mmHg NT vs. BH group), CVP (+0.7 ± 0.1 vs. +0.5 ± 0.1 mmHg), HR (+2 ± 1 vs. +2 ± 1 beats/min), and MSNA (+5 ± 1 vs, +4 ± 1 bursts/min). The NT subjects exhibited significant correlations between the pain ratings and the increases in MAP (r = +0.52; P < 0.05) and MSNA (r = +0.49; P < 0.05) whereas the BH subjects did not show such a relationship. Thus, the increased pain tolerance in human hypertension cannot be explained by hemodynamically mediated differences in the activation of baroreceptors or by an altered baroreflex sensitivity during the application of pain. We conclude, that the reduced pain sensitivity in hypertensive humans is more likely related to central changes.
Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)117-124
Number of pages8
JournalPain
Volume66
Issue number2-3
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 1996
Externally publishedYes
Keywords
• Baroreflex
• Blood pressure
• Borderline hypertension
• Normotension
• Pain
• Sympathetic activity
ASJC Scopus subject areas
• Neurology
• Clinical Neurology
• Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
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New Zealand National Party leader, Don Brash, resigns
November 23, 2006
New Zealand National Party leader, Dr. Don Brash has resigned as the leader of opposition. Dr Brash made the announcement at press conference held in parliament, stating that ongoing media speculation about his leadership was damaging the party's reputation. Brash will officially step down on Monday, where the party will vote for a new leader and deputy-leader.
"For some weeks now I've been giving consideration to the right time and the right way to announce this decision. I've held off because I've been keen to have two untidy matters dealt with before my departure," Dr Brash said.
The decision came after a Goods and Service Tax error in last year's election made by the party, "Although this had nothing to do with me personally it was a source of embarrassment and I was very keen indeed to get the matter resolved before my resignation." And recent news of Brash's emails making their way into "outsiders' hands" was also a factor in his decision to leave. The emails were the subject of a book published by Nicky Hager, which is expected to be released to the public tomorrow morning. Dr Brash said: "The announcement of Mr Hager's book almost caused me to defer my resignation as leader. I deeply resent the lies and distortions which seem to have been included in his book and I intend to vigorously contest those allegations." Dr. Brash denied media questioning regarding Nicky Hager's book's influence on his decision to resign from leadership.
It seems that John Key will be the next leader, with a recent Auckland poll showing Key only 1.4 points behind Brash. Nicky Hager has claimed the information in his book may be damaging to John Key as well. Brash's decision came with the Nationals ahead in the poll. Dr. Brash mentioned that he would remain in politics for the National Party if the new leader would provide him with a senior position following the Monday when he steps down from the post. The decision has left the party in crisis, set for their fifth leader in 9 years. Prime Minister Helen Clark said the National Party are having an identity crisis and is unstable.
Dr Brash regrets that he will not be able to lead National into the next election which will take place in 2008.
Michael Cullen, deputy Prime Minister, said: "Brash's resignation was inevitable. This continued instability in the National Party is a sign of a party still nowhere near ready to govern. Dr Brash's resignation was inevitable. But it solves little. By all accounts Mr Key, the likely successor, was deeply involved in all the events that have eventually led to Dr Brash's downfall."
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DISASSEMBLING CODE IDA PRO AND SOFTICE PDF
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The result is stored in the destination operand location. BCDs are rarely used in programming nowadays; therefore, I won’t consider this topic further. However, there are also bit registers. Compare this byte to the binary representation of C3. I do not feel angry about that occasion anymore, although a feeling of resentment still remains.
These registers are also called the coprocessor stack. In this case, only the 4 least significant bits store digits and the 4 most significant bits must contain zeros.
Structure of the Portable Executable Module. Unfortunately, the regular patterns related to the codes of the registers in the pop and push commands are limited to this rule. Read from the DRn debug register.
Also described are the basics of Assembly language programming MASM and the system and format of commands for the Softtice microprocessor. Exception bits are stored in the status register. This copies double words from source operand second operand and inserts them into the destination operand first operand at the locations selected with the zoftice operand third operand. Thus, the self-evident identity is true: The regular pattern just discovered is not a random one.
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For example, the first 16 bits of the eax register are designated as ax. Investigating the Memory Consider a simple program written in the C programming language Listing 1.
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Recall that when representing a bit variable, the 4 least significant bytes must be located at an address smaller than the most significant bytes. The least significant word designates the X coordinate, and the most significant word designates the Y coordinate. FCSH Invert the sign: Hopefully, you will easily derive the required algorithms on your own. This issue will be covered later in this chapter. Introduction to Disassembling 31 iret Interrupt return.
Packed compare for greater than. Because contemporary Intel processors are oriented toward operations over bit numbers, the best approach for the moment is to orient them toward variables of the same dimensions. Using bit registers is more efficient than using bit registers.
This selects the bit in the bit string specified by src at the bit position specified by dest, stores the bit value in cf, and complements the bit value in the bit string.
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Clear the direction flag.
As relates to the address, it looks strange at first. The contents of st 0 are interpreted as an angle in radians. The main principle here is exceedingly simple: Recall the previously described fragment. A specific feature of this program is that it creates its own console, no matter whether it was started from a console or otherwise.
These commands cyclically shift all bits of the source oper and to the left or right, including the carry flag, into rotation. For the moment, consider the codes of bit working registers: For example, to convert the number looi. In addition, it is necessary to bear Chapter 1: This instruction stores packed.
Memory dump displayed by the program presented in Listing 1. Definitions of these data types can be found, for example, in the windows. Introduction to Disassembling 39 fcmovc dest, src Move conventional data. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
You may wonder if you should even try to lose weight in midlife. Shouldn’t you just accept weight gain during menopause as part of life? The answer is “No!” While accepting and loving your body is important, achieving and maintaining a healthy weight as you are reaching menopause is not about how you look. Excess weight in later life holds a variety of dangers to your health and well-being.18 Losing excess weight, and especially belly fat, may significantly decrease your risk of a variety of health issues, including19,20:
Now that the whole sober curious moment is making not drinking trendy, it’s easier to find alcohol-free options. Less alcohol not only means you’re drinking fewer calories, it can also mean fewer late-night bowls of ramen or plates of double cheeseburgers on the way home from happy hour. Today, it’s also easier to maintain a social life when you’re not overdrinking, since there’s the new perception that you’re not saying no to a beer or five; you’re part of a “movement.”
While quality zzz’s can become ever-elusive as you age from busy schedules, back pain, or menopausal symptoms like hot flashes or insomnia, getting enough sleep is an essential component to weight loss. A good night’s sleep actually burns calories! Plus, studies have shown a strong link between lack of sleep and over-eating the following day. This is because the hormones ghrelin and leptin are thrown out of whack when you don’t get enough sleep, leaving you feeling more hungry but less satiated at every meal, which leads to overeating.
Pay attention to what you are eating. Read labels and ensure your foods are organic, nutrient-dense, and anti-inflammatory. Avoid eating in front of the TV, while standing up, and when busy with other tasks. Keep a regular eating schedule. If you are craving something, check-in with yourself to see if you are truly hungry or just thirsty, stressed, or bored.
Another great idea it to get into a group fitness strength training class. This is a less intimidating way to get started and in most gyms you will find people of all ages and abilities attending; just ask the instructor if it is the right level for you. Strength training at home is another possibility. By joining GHU TV you are spending a minimal amount and getting the personal training of experts like Chris Freytag and others who will do the workout with you providing the expertise needed to do it correctly! Just pick up a pair of dumbbells, bring them home and get started. Keep in mind that if you are afraid to pick up the weights you can even use your own bodyweight to build strength through moves like push-ups, lunges and squats. Strength training for as little as 20 minutes two to three times a week can build enough muscle to increase your resting metabolic rate (RMR) over time.
While quality zzz’s can become ever-elusive as you age from busy schedules, back pain, or menopausal symptoms like hot flashes or insomnia, getting enough sleep is an essential component to weight loss. A good night’s sleep actually burns calories! Plus, studies have shown a strong link between lack of sleep and over-eating the following day. This is because the hormones ghrelin and leptin are thrown out of whack when you don’t get enough sleep, leaving you feeling more hungry but less satiated at every meal, which leads to overeating.
Another great idea it to get into a group fitness strength training class. This is a less intimidating way to get started and in most gyms you will find people of all ages and abilities attending; just ask the instructor if it is the right level for you. Strength training at home is another possibility. By joining GHU TV you are spending a minimal amount and getting the personal training of experts like Chris Freytag and others who will do the workout with you providing the expertise needed to do it correctly! Just pick up a pair of dumbbells, bring them home and get started. Keep in mind that if you are afraid to pick up the weights you can even use your own bodyweight to build strength through moves like push-ups, lunges and squats. Strength training for as little as 20 minutes two to three times a week can build enough muscle to increase your resting metabolic rate (RMR) over time.
Focusing on being healthy means getting about 30 minutes of moderate exercise every day. This level of exercise can keep your heart healthy and work on things like lowering your cholesterol and/or blood pressure. This is a great place to start if you're getting into exercise after a long break. There's no reason you can't start here and progress to more intense goals as you build strength and endurance.
Non-starchy vegetables, particularly greens, are rich in nutrients, minerals, antioxidants, and fiber, and quite low in calories. They can nourish your body while helping you lose weight. Greens and veggies are low in calories, yet thanks to all the fiber, they can keep you full and satisfied longer. They may also prevent sugar spikes and sugar cravings, lowering your risk of reaching for unhealthy snacks or sugary desserts. If you are looking for an easy way to get 14 veggies in one serving, my Organic Greens powder is a simple solution.
While quality zzz’s can become ever-elusive as you age from busy schedules, back pain, or menopausal symptoms like hot flashes or insomnia, getting enough sleep is an essential component to weight loss. A good night’s sleep actually burns calories! Plus, studies have shown a strong link between lack of sleep and over-eating the following day. This is because the hormones ghrelin and leptin are thrown out of whack when you don’t get enough sleep, leaving you feeling more hungry but less satiated at every meal, which leads to overeating.
There appears to be a connection between estrogen and body weight regulation. With lower estrogen levels, lab animals tend to eat more and be less physically active. Levels that are too high or too low appear to lead to fat storage. And, lower estrogen levels may also slow down your metabolic rate (the speed at your body converts stored energy into working energy).
This is for your health, not your looks. Excess weight can increase the risk of inflammation, pain, and disease. As you get healthier, you will have more energy for your family, friends, and activities you love. You may be approaching midlife, however, the best is yet to come! If you follow these simple dietary, lifestyle, and mindfulness strategies, you can lose weight in midlife and face your future in your best shape yet.
Are you a woman over 40 and noticing it’s getting harder to lose weight? Got some extra stubborn fluff and puff around the middle? Maybe you’re finding that the diets you did in your 20’s or 30’s don’t work as fast as they used to or don’t even work at all! If you’re already well past 40, chances are you’ve found it’s harder to lose weight. And, those inches around your waistline won’t budge.
When you’re under-rested, your appetite-regulating hormones get short-circuited, so your appetite goes into overdrive, but the hormones that tell you you’re full don’t kick in promptly. Studies also suggest that when you’re sleep-deprived, it alters the way you think about food, so you have stronger cravings for sweets and other less healthful eats.
To jumpstart your weight loss, the biggest focus should be to develop habits that will help you build or maintain your muscle mass. "The most effective way that women over 40 can boost their metabolism is by building muscle through weight-lifting and resistance training," says Dr. Peterson (more on that to come). But nutrition and sleep habits also play a role here.
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Integration of solid oxide fuel cell and internal combustion engine for maritime applications
Harsh Sapra*, Jelle Stam, Jeroen Reurings, Lindert van Biert, Wim van Sluijs, Peter de Vos, Klaas Visser, Aravind Purushothaman Vellayani, Hans Hopman
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Abstract
The current literature on solid oxide fuel cell and internal combustion engine (SOFC-ICE) integration is focused on the application of advanced combustion technologies operating as bottoming cycles to generate a small load share. This integration approach can pose challenges for ships such as restricted dynamic capabilities and large space and weight requirements. Furthermore, the potential of SOFC-ICE integration for marine power generation has not been explored. Consequently, the current work proposes a novel approach of SOFC-ICE integration for maritime applications, which allows for high-efficiency power generation while the SOFC anode-off gas (AOG) is blended with natural gas (NG) and combusted in a marine spark-ignited (SI) engine for combined power generation. The objective of this paper is to investigate the potential of the proposed SOFC-ICE integration approach with respect to system efficiency, emissions, load sharing, space and weight considerations and load response. In this work, a verified zero-dimensional (0-D) SOFC model, engine experiments and a validated AOG-NG mean value engine model is used. The study found that the SOFC-ICE integration, with a 67–33 power split at 750 kWe power output, yielded the highest efficiency improvement of 8.3% over a conventional marine natural gas engine. Simulation results showed that promising improvements in efficiency of 5.2%, UHC and NOx reductions of about 30% and CO2 reductions of about 12% can be achieved from a 33–67 SOFC-ICE power split with comparatively much smaller increments in size and weight of 1.7 times. Furthermore, the study concluded that in the proposed SOFC-ICE system for maritime applications, a power split that favours the ICE would significantly improve the dynamic capabilities of the combined system and that the possible sudden and large load changes can be met by the ICE.
Original languageEnglish
Article number115854
Number of pages22
JournalApplied Energy
Volume281
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2021
Keywords
• Combined cycle
• Dynamic load response
• Experiments
• Maritime
• Modelling and simulations
• SOFC-ICE integration
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A Quick Guide To Choosing Replacement Car Parts
If your car breaks down or is involved in a crash and requires repairs, you will need to replace some of the parts with new ones to fix it up. But when you take it to the dealership or local mechanic, how much do you actually know about the type of part that is being fitted?
There is a big difference between genuine and aftermarket car parts, but the average driver may have no idea exactly what they are buying or which they should choose. We thought we’d help you out a little bit if this sounds like you, so read on for our quick guide to choosing replacement parts for your car.
What is the difference between OEM and aftermarket parts?
OEM or genuine parts are those that are made by your vehicle’s official manufacturer and are made specifically to fit your particular make and model of car. They will fit and perform in the same way as the parts that your car rolled off the factory line with, and will have had to pass the same safety tests.
Aftermarket parts are simply any part that is made by another manufacturer, and these can range from cheaply made parts designed to be sold cheaply, or high-performance parts that have been specifically engineered to perform differently to the originals they replace.
Typically any proper modifications are made by car enthusiasts, but for the average driver, we are simply comparing like for like replacement parts.
Safety
We spoke to VW Motor Parts, who told us “when people try to cut corners by buying cheap replacement parts to save money, the one thing they rarely think about is whether or not they might be putting their lives in danger, as well as the lives of others.
For certain parts you really can’t afford to take shortcuts, for example, the police are constantly on the lookout for counterfeit airbags which are extremely dangerous as they would fail to deploy safely in a crash. Unless you are going to your official dealership, you may not be aware of whether your parts are genuine or not.”
Reliability
When cheap parts are manufactured using inferior materials, although they will initially cost you less money, they are more likely to break and need replacing more often, which could end up costing you more in the long run than simply using the official part in the first place.
Aftermarket parts are also often designed to fit several different makes and models of car, and so may not work in quite the same way as the original part. This could end up causing further problems down the line.
Value for money
Whether genuine or aftermarket parts are better value for money will depend on your circumstances and the age of your car, but in most cases if your car is new then you ought to maintain it with genuine parts, as not only will these perform better, but they will help to retain the value of your vehicle.
In some cases where your car is extremely old and you are not too sure how much longer it will last you, seek the advice of a reputable car mechanic to see whether you would be better off maintaining it in the short term with good quality aftermarket parts until you are ready to upgrade your vehicle itself. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
On Two Techniques of Combining Branching and Treewidth
Fedor V. Fomin 1 Serge Gaspers 2 Saket Saurabh 1 Alexey A. Stepanov 1
2 ALGCO - Algorithmes, Graphes et Combinatoire
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Abstract : Branch & Reduce and dynamic programming on graphs of bounded treewidth are among the most common and powerful techniques used in the design of moderately exponential time exact algorithms for NP hard problems. In this paper we discuss the efficiency of simple algorithms based on combinations of these techniques. The idea behind these algorithms is very natural: If a parameter like the treewidth of a graph is small, algorithms based on dynamic programming perform well. On the other side, if the treewidth is large, then there must be vertices of high degree in the graph, which is good for branching algorithms. We give several examples of possible combinations of branching and programming which provide the fastest known algorithms for a number of NP hard problems. All our algorithms require non-trivial balancing of these two techniques. In the first approach the algorithm either performs fast branching, or if there is an obstacle for fast branching, this obstacle is used for the construction of a path decomposition of small width for the original graph. Using this approach we give the fastest known algorithms for Minimum Maximal Matching and for counting all 3-colorings of a graph. In the second approach the branching occurs until the algorithm reaches a subproblem with a small number of edges (and here the right choice of the size of subproblems is crucial) and then dynamic programming is applied on these subproblems of small width. We exemplify this approach by giving the fastest known algorithm to count all minimum weighted dominating sets of a graph. We also discuss how similar techniques can be used to design faster parameterized algorithms.
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Fedor V. Fomin, Serge Gaspers, Saket Saurabh, Alexey A. Stepanov. On Two Techniques of Combining Branching and Treewidth. Algorithmica, Springer Verlag, 2009, 54 (2), pp.181-207. 〈http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00453-007-9133-3〉. 〈10.1007/s00453-007-9133-3〉. 〈lirmm-00399668〉
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YAWA2 Updater
Introducing YAWA2 Updater, or Yet Another WinApp2.ini Updater.
Yes, yet another another WinApp2.ini Updater program for the winapp2.ini file that CCleaner©.
Unlike some other programs that do the same thing that this program does, this program gives you the option to check for WinApp2.ini file updates automatically at user logon. It will check and apply the update for you silently with no user interaction. Plus, it has WinApp2.ini file trimming functionality (custom written by me) built into the program so that the resulting winapp2.ini file is custom built for your system’s software configuration.
It has custom entries section so that you can save rules that you have written yourself and will be applied to the winapp2.ini file when it’s written to disk.
The thing about this app is that you can set it up to check for INI updates at user logon (It’s completely UAC Friendly, no UAC prompts!). It will check for updates by reading in the version number of the current WinApp2.ini file that you have and compare it against the remote INI file’s version number. How does it do that? Simple, it only downloads the first 100 bytes of the remote INI file so as to save you and the server bandwidth. If, and only if, the two versions don’t match, it downloads the full remote INI file and applies it to the system.
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YAWA2 Updater, or Yet Another WinApp2.ini Updater, is now a fully open source project under the GPLv3 license. You can download the source code for the program and modify as you see fit as long as you contribute the changes back to the project. The project can be found at BitBucket.org. If you contribute any changes to the code and submit the patches to the “changes” branch, I will be glad to commit them to the master source tree. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Find (Python) File in which object is defined
Every so often I have an object defined in some Python code and I want to work out in which file that object was defined.
Generally this can be done by a bit of grepping but if the object name in question is pretty generic this can be less than productive and it turns out there is a nice ready made way provided for us in the Python Standard Library.
So as an example currently I’m working with Pyro4 and I’m curious to know, for instance, where a particular constant, VERSION, is defined.
>>> import Pyro4
>>> print Pyro4.constants.VERSION
4.8
Well the ‘inspect’ module from the Python standard library allows you do just that, specifically the ‘getfile’ method – http://docs.python.org/library/inspect.html#inspect.getfile
>>> inspect.getfile(Pyro4.constants)
'C:\\Python27\\lib\\site-packages\\pyro4-4.8-py2.7.egg\\Pyro4\\constants.pyc'
As we can now see the VERSION object derives from the constants.pyc at the path given. In this case the definition is actually in the middle of an egg, pyro4-4.8-py2.7.egg, which means direct access to the underlying source code is not as straightforward as if it were implemented in plain old python scripts.
Nevertheless we can still make use of another inspect module function, the ‘getsource’ method (http://docs.python.org/library/inspect.html#inspect.getsource) to get some more information about the object we’re interested in as follows:
>>> inspect.getsource(Pyro4.constants)
'"""\nDefinitions of various hard coded constants.
Pyro - Python Remote Objects. Copyright by Irmen de Jong.
irmen@razorvine.net - http://www.razorvine.net/projects/Pyro"""
# Pyro version\nVERSION = "4.8"
# standard object name for the Daemon object
DAEMON_NAME = "Pyro.Daemon"
# standard name for the Name server itself
NAMESERVER_NAME = "Pyro.NameServer"
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کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
411232 679243 2016 11 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
The LiDAR compass: Extremely lightweight heading estimation with axis maps
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
قطب نماهای LIDAR: برآورد سرفصل بسیار سبک با نقشه های محور
کلمات کلیدی
عنوان برآورد؛ لیدار؛ قطب نما؛ بومی سازی
موضوعات مرتبط
مهندسی و علوم پایه مهندسی کامپیوتر هوش مصنوعی
چکیده انگلیسی
• A two-dimensional heading estimation algorithm called the LiDAR compass is developed.
• LiDAR measurements are associated with the orientations of flat surfaces.
• In many environments, the growth of heading errors is bounded.
• The LiDAR compass is lightweight because it uses mostly linear operations on scalars.
• When paired with odometry, a good initial estimate for graph-based SLAM is generated.
This paper introduces the LiDAR compass, a bounded and extremely lightweight heading estimation technique that combines a two-dimensional laser scanner and axis maps, which represent the orientations of flat surfaces in the environment. Although suitable for a variety of indoor and outdoor environments, the LiDAR compass is especially useful for embedded and real-time applications requiring low computational overhead. For example, when combined with a sensor that can measure translation (e.g., wheel encoders) the LiDAR compass can be used to yield accurate, lightweight, and very easily implementable localization that requires no prior mapping phase. The utility of using the LiDAR compass as part of a localization algorithm was tested on a widely-available open-source data set, an indoor environment, and a larger-scale outdoor environment. In all cases, it was shown that the growth in heading error was bounded, which significantly reduced the position error to less than 1% of the distance travelled.
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Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Robotics and Autonomous Systems - Volume 82, August 2016, Pages 35–45
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New Dreams Ltd.
New Dreams Ltd. is the third studio album by American electronic musician Vektroid under the alias Laserdisc Visions released on July 1, 2011. The album is an early example of the genre vaporwave.
Release
The album was released through the independent label Beer on the Rug and Vektroid's own label PrismCorp. The album has good reviews and is one of Vektroid's more popular releases. A digital reissue of the album in 2012 included six bonus tracks, but removed the reverberated Japanese commercials that played for the length of the original release, leaving only the original and sample-based compositions. | WIKI |
In the Beginning There Was Rhythm
In the Beginning There Was Rhythm may refer to:
* In the Beginning There Was Rhythm (album), 2002 compilation album by various artists
* "In the Beginning There Was Rhythm / Where There's a Will...", 1980 split-single by The Pop Group and The Slits | WIKI |
Talk:Waka (canoe)
Pronunciation
I have added the IPA pronunciation of waka in Māori. Yes, it does rhyme with the NZ English pron. of 'rocker'. No, it does not rhyme with 'parker'. No, it is not pronounced wah-kah. The pronunciation in NZ English is very similar to the correct Māori pronunciation, except that the English pronunciation ends with a schwa instead of -a. Kahuroa 19:40, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
* The correct pronunciation is Faka, Since maori are obsessed with putting h after all w's and pronuncing it 'f'.<IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 03:24, 19 April 2010 (UTC)
* No, they also have plain w. kwami (talk) 04:39, 19 April 2010 (UTC)
* Yes, it's a plain 'w'. And there is an allophonic pronunciation of 'a' between 'w' and 'k' as 'o' as in rock. As I said above. Kahuroa (talk) 06:20, 19 April 2010 (UTC)
Waka ama
Talk: Waka Ama The idea that waka ama was practiced in ancient times by Maori is patently false history mongering and I would request that such inferences be deleted. It debases Maori history with falsehoods that can do no good from the perspective of cultural integrity no matter how wishful such correspondents may be. Ofcourse some verifiable literature may still surface in the future - 'never say never' - however I suggest all sources need to be thorougly vetted and their authors also questioned before 'publishing'. Also the word 'ama' does not exist as a singular word in any Maori dictionary.(ssossoss) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ssossoss (talk • contribs) 01:23, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
* I have no particular knowledge of this subject. I have been modifying some of your edits to try to keep the article from becoming too polemical. Thank you for the references you have provided.
* I am still concerned by the sentence beginning "A handful of kiwi business entrepreneurs..." which I tagged with [neutrality disputed]. You have provided a source which supports the previous sentence; ie that the sport of waka ama racing was introduced into NZ in the 1990s. It doesn't support the language such as "hoodwinking" you have used. You have not shown that there is deliberate deception. Please reword that sentence in a more neutral fashion, or remove it.- gadfium 01:47, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
* Just added a second source, dating to Cook's voyages in the 1700s, for Māori outrigger canoes. And just for the record, it's also not true as stated above that "the word 'ama' does not exist as a singular word in any Maori dictionary." Williams dictionary (7th ed), for instance has this entry on page 8: ::Ama (i) n, 1. Outrigger on the windward side of a canoe. Hei roto koe, hei te ama o to taua waka. (N. 20). And this is from the Ngata online dictionary: Amatiatia: Ko ētahi o nga waka o mua i kitea e te Pākehā, he amatiatia. Outrigger canoe: Some of the early canoes seen by Pakeha were outriggers. That was found by doing a Maori to English search for amatiatia. Kahuroa (talk) 06:40, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
I have some knowledge of this subject, having researched the early modes of Maori transport. I assure you there were no outrigger water sports as such but there were waka hoehoe and similar single hulled canoe. For transport of goods to market double hulled canoes were put together, but these could be quickly converted into single hulled canoes for the rivers. Ancient Maori did have waka which were basically 2 canoe hulls strapped together, such as the ones which greeted Tasman in Golden Bay, 1642. Any referece to 'ama' would have been done by Cook and other explorers who had first visited the mid-Pacific and would have seen true waka ama craft and perhaps used the 'waka ama' term incorrectly to describe the Maori craft. They were not 'waka ama'. It is correct that those craft were first introduced into NZ in the early 1980s and for verification ask Parekura Horomia who I interviewed - he was one of the first people to crew the boats on the East Coast. I would not recognise the terms with ama in dictionaries, a poor source, as they are not specific with the origins, so one shouldnt assume they are referring to ancient Maori craft. I am amazed that the Ngata Dictionary has an entry with waka ama all of a sudden (?) and would question who is behind that entry. It seems to be a case of manufacturing a source (if you can call that entry one)to backup a false premis. —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 04:28, 3 May 2011 (UTC)
* My superpowers don't extend to inserting information into online dictionaries - I don't have a printed version of Ngata handy, but I am sure it contains the reference mentioned above, and it way predates Wikipedia, so no one is manufacturing sources here. And Cook and the early explorers can hardly have influenced Wiremu Maihi Te Rangikaheke when he included the word ama in his story of Maui which he wrote for Governor Grey in the 1840s. If 'kuru' - the word for the breadfruit tree found only in the tropics - survived into 19th century Te Arawa chants it shouldn't surprise us that in the 18th century - just a few hundred years after Maori arrived here - technologies like waka ama were still just clinging on and were lost along with a whole heap of stuff as the culture adapted to the influx of Europeans. BTW the Williams usually gives its sources Kahuroa (talk) 23:40, 3 May 2011 (UTC)
Again I can only reiterate what is known. Early explorers may have mistaken the Maori waka for those from the Mid-Pacific. There are no records of 'waka ama' in any text, or in any reliable whakapapa published. Peter Buck, Apirana Ngata ...the list goes on do not record or refer to waka ama. It is a fanciful notion to suggest they were used in early NZ. After the 1950s mention did creep into the general vocabulary, and there are smudged lines between what is Maori and what is of Pasifika origin. It would be more correct to say that Maori ancestors in the mid-Pacific used the craft in lagoon settings, and that there was a 700yr gap until Maori today have taken it up again, a bit of an intermission. As passionate as you may be on this subject please remember all of Cooks diary entries were rewrites from people in England. But good luck in the ongoing promotion of a mid-Pacific sport, it does not need a fabricated Maori history to serve as a means for enthusing Maori to get out for a bit of exercise, as it has been layered with tikanga Maori and is a fun activity. everyone likes a bit of a paddle and if waka ama was not recently introduced to our shoress as a sport then dragon boating would have filled that niche. The old time Maori did race waka taua, now that would be worth backing as of indigenous origin - I ask that you please do not degrade our waka histories with your fabrications. —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 22:04, 4 May 2011 (UTC)
* Just to clarify, my edits are about the canoe as a physical object as reported in the earliest sources - and I'm not at all interested in promoting the sport. Nor have I ever claimed to have seenany reference to it as a sport, rather than as a type of canoe, in early sources. I have provided verifiable sources; I have never tried to "degrade our waka histories" at all. I dispute your claim that there are no records of waka ama in any text, the fact is there are such references, and the survival of ama and the related terms like kiato into the Māori language as recorded by early sources is also beyond dispute. Kahuroa (talk) 10:14, 5 May 2011 (UTC)
Museum displays as sources
I've just taken out two references to "Museum displays" apparently intended as sources. They don't qualify as reliable sources because they are not "published" and hence not verifiable. They can change at any time and are open to individual interpretation. If the museums concerned, or someone else, had published an account in a verifiable source about the displays etc, that would be different, but personal observation constitutes original research IMHO. Kahuroa (talk) 20:57, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
Anyone can read a book ,anyone can visit a museum.A book is an interpretation, a museum display is the real McCoy.From memory the Waka tiwai has been on display somewhere in TA since it was fished out of the lake many years ago.It is a taonga that is not going to be sold!The entry above represents very strange and limited thinking in terms of what is verifiable! —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 08:50, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
* That's the way it works around here. Published verifiable sources are required. Kahuroa (talk) 09:52, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
* Then its about time some clear thinking individual challeged that-it is clearly a nonsense rule in the 21st century! —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 04:59, 21 December 2010 (UTC)
* Feel free to discuss your proposed changes at Wikipedia talk:Verifiability. Kahuroa (talk) 06:33, 21 December 2010 (UTC)
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Waka ama archaeological evidence
Just added a reference to archaeological finds of Maori waka aka outrigger floats. This disproves the assertions above that early European explorers mistook double canoes for outrigger canoes and adds to the linguistic and observational evidence that Maori did indeed use proper outrigger canoes. Piwaiwaka (talk) 11:08, 26 July 2014 (UTC)
Importance of E Pacific culture to Maori
It is well established the Maori originally came from the East pacific about 1280. Recently there have been some finds that narrow down the location. The evidence -a shell chisel ,pearl lure, burial traditions, linguistics and DNA points to the Society Island. Old Maori traditions often mention Raiatea or nearby Huahine island as the origin. Science is coming closer to supporting these origins. James Cook mentioned that these islands had a tradition of mid sized voyaging canoes -which he saw on shore at Raiatea. He mentions that the islanders took voyages of up to 30 days on these vessels-far more than was needed for local travel where many islands could be reached in 1-2 days. Recently a 600 year old waka was found in NW Nelson that has decoration and construction detail that are very "un Maori".The timber however is Matai from New Zealand .The caulking in the waka is dated to about 1400. Matai is a hard durable wood that could last 30 years without difficulty possibly taking the waka back to 1350ish.The turtle design is not one ever seen before on a waka. It is a common pacific motif but turtles are found in NZ waters. The construction details suggest the stern section of a catamaran roughly 50feet long. Claudia — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 09:17, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
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Domestic policy of Vladimir Putin
The domestic policy of Vladimir Putin concerns the internal Russian policies of Vladimir Putin during his tenure as President of Russia, as well as the effects of Putinism and the Putin legislative program within Russia. He previously served as president from 2000 to 2008, and has held the position since 2012.
Background
Putin's domestic policies, especially early in his first presidency, were aimed at creating a strict "vertical of power". On 13 May 2000, he issued a decree dividing the 89 federal subjects of Russia between 7 federal districts overseen by representatives named by himself to facilitate federal administration. Putin also pursued a policy of enlargement of federal subjects: their number was reduced from 89 in 2000 to the present 83 after the autonomous okrugs of Russia were merged with their parent subjects.
According to Stephen White, Russia under the presidency of Putin made it clear that it had no intention of establishing a "second edition" of the American or British political system, but rather a system that was closer to Russia's own traditions and circumstances. Putin's administration has often been described as a "sovereign democracy". First proposed by Vladislav Surkov in February 2006, the term quickly gained currency within Russia and arguably unified various political elites around it. According to its proponents, the government's actions and policies ought above all to enjoy popular support within Russia itself and not be determined from outside the country.
In July 2000, according to a law proposed by him and approved by the Federal Assembly of Russia, Putin gained the right to dismiss heads of the federal subjects. In 2004, the direct election of governors by popular vote was ended. This was seen by Putin as a necessary move to stop separatist tendencies and get rid of those governors who were connected with organised crime. The measure proved to be temporary: in 2012, as proposed by Putin's successor Dmitry Medvedev, the direct election of governors was re-introduced. Along with the return of elected governors, Medvedev's reforms also simplified the registration of political parties and reduced the number of signatures required by non-parliamentary parties and independent candidates to participate in elections, thus reverting or further loosening the restrictions imposed by previous Putin-endorsed legislation. Notably, the tough electoral legislation has been among the government actions effected under Putin's presidency that have been criticised by many independent Russian media outlets and Western commentators as anti-democratic.
During his first term in office, Putin moved to curb the political ambitions of some of the Yeltsin-era oligarchs, resulting in the exile or imprisonment of such people as Boris Berezovsky, Vladimir Gusinsky, Mikhail Khodorkovsky; other oligarchs soon joined Putin's camp.
Putin presided over an intensified fight with organised crime and terrorism that resulted in two times lower murder rates by 2011, as well as significant reduction in the numbers of terrorist acts by the late 2000s.
Putin succeeded in codifying land law and tax law and promulgated new codes on labour, administrative, criminal, commercial and civil procedural law. Under Medvedev's presidency, Putin's government implemented some key reforms in the area of state security, the Russian police reform and the Russian military reform.
Economic, industrial, and energy policies
Under the first Putin administration the economy made real gains of an average 7% per year (2000: 10%, 2001: 5.1%, 2002: 4.7%, 2003: 7.3%, 2004: 7.2%, 2005: 6.4%, 2006: 8.2%, 2007: 8.5%), making it the 7th largest economy in the world in purchasing power. Russia's nominal Gross Domestic Product (GDP) increased 6-fold, climbing from 22nd to 10th largest in the world. In 2007, Russia's GDP exceeded that of Russian SFSR in 1990, meaning it has overcome the devastating consequences of the 1998 financial crisis and preceding recession in the 1990s.
During Putin's first term of eight years in office, industry grew by 76%, investments increased by 125%, and agricultural production and construction increased as well. Real incomes more than doubled and the average monthly salary increased sevenfold from $80 to $640. From 2000 to 2006 the volume of consumer credit increased 45 times and the middle class grew from 8 million to 55 million. The number of people living below the poverty line decreased from 30% in 2000 to 14% in 2008.
In 2001, Putin, who has advocated liberal economic policies, introduced a flat tax rate of 13%; the corporate rate of tax was also reduced from 35 percent to 24 percent; Small businesses also get better treatment. The old system with high tax rates has been replaced by a new system where companies can choose either a 6-percent tax on gross revenue or a 15-percent tax on profits. The overall tax burden is lower in Russia than in most European countries.
A central concept in Putin's economic thinking was the creation of so-called National champions, vertically integrated companies in strategic sectors that are expected not only to seek profit, but also to "advance the interests of the nation". Examples of such companies include Gazprom, Rosneft and United Aircraft Corporation.
Before the Putin era, in 1998, over 60% of industrial turnover in Russia was based on barter and various monetary surrogates. The use of such alternatives to money has now fallen out of favour, boosting economic productivity significantly. Besides raising wages and consumption, Putin's government has received broad praise also for eliminating this problem.
Some oil revenue went to the stabilization fund established in 2004. The fund accumulated oil revenue, allowing Russia to repay all of the Soviet Union's debts by 2005. In early 2008, it was split into the Reserve Fund (designed to protect Russia from possible global financial shocks) and the National Welfare Fund, whose revenues will be used for a pension reform.
Inflation remained a problem however, as between 1999 and 2007 it was kept at the forecast ceiling only twice, and in 2007 the inflation exceeded that of 2006, continuing an upward trend at the beginning of 2008. The Russian economy is still commodity-driven despite its growth. Payments from the fuel and energy sector in the form of customs duties and taxes accounted for nearly half of the federal budget's revenues. The large majority of Russia's exports are made up of raw materials and fertilizers, although exports as a whole accounted for only 8.7% of the GDP in 2007, compared to 20% in 2000.
In December 2011, after 15 years of negotiations, Russia finally joined the World Trade Organization. The accession to WTO was expected to be ratified by Russian Parliament in the spring of 2012.
To boost the market share of locally produced vehicles and support the Russia's automotive industry, the government under Putin implemented several protectionist measures and launched programs to attract foreign producers into the country. In late 2005, the government enacted legislation to create special economic zones (SEZ) with the aim of encouraging investments by foreign automotive companies. The benefits of operating in the special economic zones include tax allowances, abolishment of asset and land taxes and protection against changes in the tax regime. Some regions also provide extensive support for large investors (over $100 million.) These include Saint Petersburg/Leningrad Oblast, Kaluga Oblast and Kaliningrad Oblast. Under Putin as president and Premier, most of the world's largest automotive companies opened plants in Russia, including Ford Motor Company, Toyota, General Motors, Nissan, Hyundai Motor, Suzuki, Magna International, Scania and MAN SE.
In 2005, Putin initiated an industry consolidation programme to bring the main aircraft producing companies under a single umbrella organization, the United Aircraft Corporation (UAC). The aim was optimize production lines and minimise losses. The programme was divided in three parts: reorganization and crisis management (2007–2010), evolution of existing projects (2010–2015) and further progress within the newly created structure (2015–2025).
The UAC, one of the so-called national champions and comparable to EADS in Europe, enjoyed considerable financial support from the Russian government, and injected money to the companies it had acquired to improve their financial standing. The deliveries of civilian aircraft increased to 6 in 2005, and in 2009 the industry delivered 15 civilian aircraft, worth 12.5 billion roubles, mostly to domestic customers. Since then Russia has successfully tested the fifth generation jet fighter, Sukhoi Su-57, and started the commercial production of the regional airliner Sukhoi Superjet 100, as well as started developing a number of other major projects.
In a similar fashion, Putin created the United Shipbuilding Corporation in 2007, which led to the recovery of shipbuilding in Russia. Since 2006, much effort was put into consolidation and development of the Rosatom Nuclear Energy State Corporation, which led to the renewed construction of nuclear power plants in Russia as well as a vast activity of Rosatom abroad, buying huge shares in world's leading uranium production companies and building nuclear power plants in many countries, including Iran, China, Vietnam and Belarus. In 2007, the Russian Nanotechnology Corporation was established, aimed to boost the science and technology and high-tech industry in Russia.
In the decade following 2000, energy in Russia helped transform the country, especially oil and gas energy. This transformation promoted Russia's well-being and international influence, and the country was frequently described in the media as an energy superpower. Putin oversaw growing taxation of oil and gas exports which helped finance the budget, while the oil industry of Russia, production, and exports all significantly grew.
Putin sought to increase Russia's share of the European energy market by building submerged gas pipelines bypassing Ukraine and the New Europe (the countries which were often seen as non-reliable transit partners by Russia, especially following Russia-Ukraine gas disputes of the late 2000s (decade)). The pipeline projects backed by Putin include the Blue Stream from Russia to Turkey (build on the Black Sea bed), Nord Stream 1 from Russia to Germany (the longest sub-sea pipeline in the world, built through the Baltic Sea) and the planned South Stream from Russia to the Balkans and Italy (via the Black Sea). Russia also undermined the rival pipeline project Nabucco by buying the Turkmen gas and redirecting it into Russian pipelines.
On the other hand, Russia diversified its export markets by building the Trans-Siberian oil pipeline to the markets of China, Japan and Korea, as well as the Sakhalin–Khabarovsk–Vladivostok gas pipeline in the Russian Far East. Russia has built LNG plant on Sakhalin and is building another one in Primorye, aiming to increase the overseas gas exports. Meanwhile, in the Gulf of Finland Russia has built a major Ust-Luga port connected to the Baltic Pipeline System-II, which allowed the export of oil without transit through the ports of the Baltic states. The share of processed oil slowly grows with major oil refineries being built in Tatarstan and other regions of Russia.
Putin also presided over resuming the construction of major hydropower plants, such as the Bureya Dam and the Boguchany Dam, as well as the restoration of the nuclear industry of Russia, with some 1 trillion rubles ($42.7 billion) allocated from the federal budget to nuclear power and industry development before 2015. A large number of nuclear power stations and units are currently being constructed by the state corporation Rosatom in Russia and abroad.
Governmental and NGOS
In 2012, The Russian foreign agent law was passed ''' requires anyone who receives "support" from outside Russia or is under "influence" from outside Russia to register and declare themselves as "foreign agents". Once registered, they are subject to additional audits and are obliged to mark all their publications with a 24-word disclaimer saying that they are being distributed by a "foreign agent". The phrase "foreign agent" (иностранный агент) in Russian has strong associations with Cold War-era espionage.
In Early 2013, Putin submitted a bill that would ban Russian Cabinet members and other senior officials from having foreign bank accounts and owning foreign stock. On April 25, 2013, The State Duma passed the bill banning government officials from holding overseas bank accounts and foreign-issued equities. The bill was backed by 443 deputies.
On May 7, 2013, President Putin signed the new law (“Law 79-FZ”) forbidding government officials from holding overseas bank accounts.
Natalism
Putin's government uses Natalist policies by offering rewards and promoting larger families.
In August 2022, Russia revived the Soviet-era Mother Heroine award for women with 10 children.
Arctic policy
Putin has sought to increase Russian military and economic presence in the Arctic. In August 2007, a Russian expedition named Arktika 2007, led by Artur Chilingarov, planted a Russian flag on the seabed below the North Pole to underline Russia's 2001 claim submission. In June 2008 General Vladimir Shamanov announced that Russia would increase the operational radius of its Northern Fleet submarines. and in July 2011, Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov announced plans for two brigades to be stationed in the Arctic.
A construction program of floating nuclear power plants will provide power to Russian Arctic coastal cities and gas rigs. A 21,500-ton barge with twin 35-megawatt reactors, the Akademik Lomonosov, will go into operation in 2012. The Prirazlomnoye field, an offshore oilfield in the Pechora Sea that will include up to 40 wells, is currently under construction and drilling is expected to start in early 2012. It will have the world's first ice-resistant oil platform and will also be the first offshore Arctic platform.
In August 2011 Rosneft, a Russian government-operated oil company, signed a deal with ExxonMobil to receive oil assets in exchange for the joint development of Russian Arctic resources by both companies. The agreement includes a $3.2 billion hydrocarbon exploration of the Kara and Black seas, as well as joint development of ice-resistant drilling platforms and other Arctic technologies. "The scale of the investment is very large. It's scary to utter such huge figures" said Putin on signing the deal.
Environmental policy
In 2004, President Putin signed the Kyoto Protocol treaty designed to reduce greenhouse gases. However, Russia did not face mandatory cuts because the Kyoto Protocol limits emissions to a percentage increase or decrease from 1990 levels and Russia's greenhouse-gas emissions fell well below the 1990 baseline due to a drop in economic output after the breakup of the Soviet Union.
Putin personally supervises and/or promotes a number of protection programmes for rare and endangered animals in Russia:
* The Amur tiger Programme
* The white whale Programme
* The polar bear Programme
* The snow leopard Programme
Religions policy
Orthodox Christianity, Islam, Buddhism and Judaism, defined by law as Russia's traditional religions and a part of Russia's "historical heritage" enjoyed limited state support in the Putin era. The vast construction and restoration of churches, started in 1990s, continued under Putin, and the state allowed the teaching of religion in schools (parents are provided with a choice for their children to learn the basics of one of the traditional religions or secular ethics). His approach to religious policy has been characterised as one of support for religious freedoms, but also the attempt to unify different religions under the authority of the state. In 2012, Putin was honored in Bethlehem and a street was named after him.
Putin regularly attends the most important services of the Russian Orthodox Church on the main Orthodox Christian holidays. He established a good relationship with Patriarchs of the Russian Church, the late Alexy II of Moscow and the current Kirill of Moscow. As President, he took an active personal part in promoting the Act of Canonical Communion with the Moscow Patriarchate, signed 17 May 2007 that restored relations between the Moscow-based Russian Orthodox Church and the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia after the 80-year schism.
Putin and United Russia enjoy high electoral support in the national republics of Russia, in particular in the Muslim-majority republics of Povolzhye and the North Caucasus.
Under Putin, the Hasidic FJCR became increasingly influential within the Jewish community, partly due to the influence of Federation-supporting businessmen mediated through their alliances with Putin, notably Lev Leviev and Roman Abramovich. According to the JTA, Putin is popular amongst the Russian Jewish community, who see him as a force for stability. Russia's chief rabbi, Berel Lazar, said Putin "paid great attention to the needs of our community and related to us with a deep respect."
One of the 2020 amendments to the Constitution of Russia has a Constitutional references to God.
Military development
The resumption of long-distance flights of Russia's strategic bombers was followed by the announcement by Russian Defense Minister Anatoliy Serdyukov during his meeting with Putin on 5 December 2007, that 11 ships, including the aircraft carrier Kuznetsov, would take part in the first major navy sortie into the Mediterranean since Soviet times. The sortie was to be backed up by 47 aircraft, including strategic bombers.
While from the early 2000s (decade) Russia started pumping more money into its military and defence industry, it was only in 2008 that the full-scale Russian military reform began, aimed to modernize Russian Armed Forces and made them significantly more effective. The reform was largely carried by Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov during Medvedev's presidency, under supervision of both Putin, as the Head of Government, and Medvedev, as the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Armed Forces.
Key elements of the reform included reducing the armed forces to a strength of one million; reducing the number of officers; centralising officer training from 65 military schools into 10 'systemic' military training centres; creating a professional NCO corps; reducing the size of the central command; introducing more civilian logistics and auxiliary staff; elimination of cadre-strength formations; reorganising the reserves; reorganising the army into a brigade system; reorganising air forces into an air base system instead of regiments.
The number of Russia's military districts was reduced to just 4. The term of draft service was reduced from two years to one, which put an end to the old harassment traditions in the army, since all conscripts became very close by draft age. The gradual transition to the majority professional army by the late 2010s was announced, and a large programme of supplying the Armed Forces with new military equipment and ships was started.
In spite of Putin's call for major investments in strategic nuclear weapons, these will fall well below the New START limits due to the retirement of aging systems.
Constitutional reforms
On 20 January 2020, President Vladimir Putin submitted the draft amendments to the State Duma, expecting 14 articles to be changed in total:
* the Russian constitution will supersede international law;
* the State Duma will have the right to approve a Prime Minister's candidacy (currently it only gives consent to the appointment), and it will also be able to approve candidates for Deputy Prime Minister and Federal Minister; the President will not be able to refuse their appointment, but in some cases will be able to remove them from office;
* the eligibility term requiring competing candidates for high-profile offices (President, Ministers, judges, heads of regions) to have no foreign citizenship or permit of residence in foreign countries, or have it at the time of their work in the office or, at any time before running for the President;
* the minimal residency requirement for presidential candidates will be raised from 10 years to 25;
* the Federation Council will be able to propose to the President to dismiss Federal judges; in some cases, the Federation Council, on the proposal of the President, will have the right to remove judges of the Constitutional and Supreme courts;
* heads of law enforcement agencies must be appointed by the President in consultation with the Federation Council;
* the minimum wage cannot be lower than the subsistence minimum;
* regular indexation of pensions;
* consolidation of the status and role of the State Council (at present it is only an advisory body and is not prescribed in the Constitution);
* granting the Constitutional Court the ability to check the constitutionality of laws adopted by the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation at the request of the President before they are signed by the President;
* removal of the term "in a row" (подряд) from the article regulating presidential term limits, discounting previous and current terms before the amendment entered into force;
* defining marriage as a relationship between one man and one woman;
* enshrine the status of the Russian language in the country's constitution. | WIKI |
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RV 192 (BUDDENBROOKS) his senses felt misty with the scent from countless bouquets and wreaths—and with another odour that came wafted now and then on a current of air, and smelled strange, yet somehow familiar.
He stood beside the bier and looked at the motionless white figure stretched out there severe and solemn, amid white satin. This was not Grandmamma. There was her Sunday cap with the white silk ribbons, and her red-brown hair beneath it. But the pinched nose was not hers, nor the drawn lips, nor the sharp chin, nor the yellow, translucent hands, whose coldness and stiffness one could see. This was a wax-doll—to dress it up and lay it out like that seemed rather horrible. He looked across to the landscape-room, as though the real Grandmamma might appear there the next minute. But she did not come: she was dead. Death had turned her for ever into this wax figure that kept its lids and lips so forbiddingly closed.
He stood resting on his left leg, the right knee bent, balancing lightly on the toe, and clutched his sailor knot with one hand, the other hanging down. He held his head on one side, the curly light-brown locks swaying over the temples, and looked with his gold-brown, blue-encircled eyes in brooding repugnance upon the face of the dead. His breath came long and shuddering, for he kept expecting that strange, puzzling odour which all the scent of the flowers sometimes failed to disguise. When the odour came, and he perceived it, he drew his brows still more together, his lip trembled, and the long sigh which he gave was so like a tearless sob that Frau Permaneder bent over and kissed him and took him away.
And after the Senator and his wife, and Frau Permaneder and Erica, had received for long hours the condolences of the entire town, Elisabeth Buddenbrook, born Kröger, was consigned to earth. The out-of-town families, from Hamburg and Frankfort, came to the funeral and, for the last time, received hospitality in Meng Street. And the hosts of the sympathizers filled the hall and the landscape-room, the corridor
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Nutramigen vs Alimentum
Nutramigen vs Alimentum
For parents of children with food allergies, especially colitis, and gastrointestinal disorders, the dilemma between Nutramigen and Alimentum can be a migraine. We often call such babies medically fragile.
Choosing either Nutramigen or Alimentum can be a minefield of confusion, especially when considering the claims made by their manufacturers. However, both of them are hypoallergenic formulas. Keep reading to learn more about these formulas and their benefits.
Hypoallergenic Formula
Hypoallergenic baby formulas are designed to help babies with food allergies and sensitivities. They are usually made from milk that has been extensively processed to remove all traces of the protein responsible for allergic reactions. They’re designed for babies who can’t tolerate regular milk-based formulas.
So basically, they contain less protein than regular formulas. They also don’t contain any common allergens that may cause reactions in some babies, including dairy products and eggs.
Basically, many parents choose hypoallergenic formulas because they’re concerned about their child developing an allergy at a later age. However, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), there’s no crucial evidence that these formulas prevent allergies or asthma later in life. They may only be useful if a baby has already developed an allergy to cow’s milk or soy proteins.
Viable examples of hypoallergenic formulas are Nutramigen and Alimentum. Below we discuss them in detail.
What is Nutramigen?
Nutramigen is a hypoallergenic formula specially designed to meet the nutritional needs of babies with trouble tolerating milk protein. It is made from cow’s milk that has been broken down into its basic components — proteins, fats, and carbohydrates.
The proteins in the formula are broken into smaller pieces that are easier for your baby to digest. Similarly, the fats are broken down into smaller particles for easy digestion into your baby’s digestive system.
The carbohydrate content of Nutramigen formula has been reduced so that it does not cause gas or bloating in your baby’s stomach, making it viable for babies with gastro problems.
Who can use the Nutramigen Infant Formula?
Nutramigen Infant Formula is a complete nutritional product for infants with documented hypersensitivity to milk or a documented milk protein intolerance.
It is also indicated for infants at risk of developing cataracts or retinopathy of prematurity and should be used under medical supervision.
What are the benefits of the Nutramigen Infant Formula?
Nutramigen has lactose-free high-quality protein, making it easier to digest than other formulas. It contains lutein, an important nutrient in breast milk that helps support normal eye health in premature babies.
Similarly, Nutramigen provides added vitamins and minerals that help support normal growth and development. Below are other admirable benefits;
• Nutramigen helps reduce allergic reactions caused by cow’s milk protein
• It helps maintain your baby’s immune system during times of increased vulnerability (e.g., colds and flu)
• It helps provide adequate nutrition for babies with mild to moderate cow’s milk protein allergies.
• Contains DHA and ARA, which promote brain & eye development.
What is Alimentum?
Alimentum is a hypoallergenic, protein hydrolysate-based formula for infants with mild to moderate cow’s milk protein allergy and lactose intolerance. It is specially designed for babies sensitive to cow’s milk protein, who may also have some degree of lactose malabsorption (insensitivity).
It contains a blend of amino acids that closely resemble proteins found in human breast milk. The amino acids are highly digestible – even for babies with digestive problems. And a good thing, Alimentum has no added sugar or starch, making it suitable for infants with lactose intolerance.
What Are Benefits of Alimentum
As indicated above, Alimentum is a proprietary formula with the right amount of protein, fat, vitamins, and minerals to help meet the nutritional needs of infants with moderate allergic conditions. It has many benefits, as follows;
• It is lactose and gluten-free.
• It is hypoallergenic, which means it does not contain any proteins that may cause allergic reactions in children.
• It has a high content of essential fatty acids, which protect the brain development of infants and young children.
• Finally, it contains probiotics which help fight against infections and improve digestion in babies who suffer from diarrhea or vomiting, often due to food allergies or lactose intolerance.
How Nutramigen and Alimentum Compare
Nutramigen and Alimentum are two popular hypoallergenic formulas for babies with sensitive tummies. Both are cow’s milk protein-free; that is why they’re fed to babies with cow’s milk protein intolerance.
The formulas are typically similar in many ways: they have similar ingredients, prebiotics, and probiotics. Yet, they have some noticeable differences. Here is how the two formulas compare.
Nutramigen vs Alimentum: Ingredients
The main ingredient in Nutramigen is casein hydrolysate, a form of casein (a type of protein) that has been broken down into smaller pieces, so it doesn’t trigger an allergic reaction. Alimentum uses whey protein hydrolysate instead—another form of casein that has been broken down into smaller pieces.
Both formulas contain vitamins, minerals, fats, and carbohydrates. The only difference between the two formulas is their source of protein hydrolysates.
Allergies
Nutramigen and Alimentum are hypoallergenic, which means they’re made from proteins that aren’t likely to cause an allergic reaction in infants.
However, it’s still possible for your child to react to switching to either formula, so you should always observe him closely while taking them. If you notice any signs of an allergic reaction — such as hives or vomiting — call your doctor immediately.
Nutrition
Nutramigen and Alimentum provide complete nutrition for babies who can’t tolerate other types of formula. However, if your baby has a severe allergy to soy or dairy products, Nutramigen may not work for him since it contains both ingredients in its formula base.
Nutramigen vs Alimentum; Which Is Better?
You should talk to your doctor or dietician about these two types of hypoallergenic formulas before deciding which one may be best for your child. You should also consider how severe your child’s allergies are when making this decision.
Bottom Line
When deciding which of these two formulas will work best for your baby, you must do your due diligence and research. You should not automatically assume that just because one costs more than the other; is better for your baby.
Ultimately, both of these formulas have their benefits and are generally safe for your baby’s consumption. Each has a different idea about what constitutes the ideal infant formula, so we recommend talking to your doctor before deciding whether to go with Nutramigen or Alimentum. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
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The result of the debate was Speedy Delete nn-bio. — xaosflux Talk 23:57, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
Mohi
Vanity; nonnotable. --Aponar Kestrel (talk) 23:22, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
* Speedy delete per nom. M1ss1ontomars2k4 23:24, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
* Delete - the article is either tongue-in-cheek or it's nonsense. - Richardcavell 23:26, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
* Speedy per nom. Keppa 23:26, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
* Comment – oh, right, vanity is A7. Missed that. --Aponar Kestrel (talk) 23:29, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
* Speedy delete per nom. Aplomado talk 23:33, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
* Speedy delete and tagged per A7. TheProject 23:56, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
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AskDefine | Define artery
Dictionary Definition
artery
Noun
1 a blood vessel that carries blood from the heart to the body [syn: arteria, arterial blood vessel]
2 a major thoroughfare that bears important traffic
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
Etymology
From artaire (French: artère).
Noun
1. The efferent vessels from the heart. Arteries convey blood away from the heart regardless of oxygenation status, see pulmonary artery.
2. A major transit corridor.
Translations
efferent vassels from the heart
Extensive Definition
Arteries are blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart (as opposed to veins, blood vessels carrying blood toward the heart). All arteries, with the exception of the pulmonary and umbilical arteries, carry oxygenated blood.
The circulatory system is extremely important for sustaining life. Its proper functioning is responsible for the delivery of oxygen and nutrients to all cells, as well as the removal of carbon dioxide and waste products, maintenance of optimum pH, and the mobility of the elements, proteins and cells of the immune system. In developed countries, the two leading causes of death, myocardial infarction and stroke each may directly result from an arterial system that has been slowly and progressively compromised by years of deterioration. (See atherosclerosis).
Description
The arterial system is the higher-pressure portion of the circulatory system. Arterial pressure varies between the peak pressure during heart contraction, called the systolic pressure, and the minimum, or diastolic pressure between contractions, when the heart rests between cycles. This pressure variation within the artery produces the pulse which is observable in any artery, and reflects heart activity.
Anatomy
The anatomy of arteries can be separated into gross anatomy, at the macroscopic level, and microscopic anatomy, which must be studied with the aid of a microscope.
Gross anatomy
The arterial system of the human body is divided into systemic arteries, carrying blood from the heart to the whole body, and pulmonary arteries, carrying blood from the heart to the lungs.
Systemic arteries
Systemic arteries are the arteries of the systemic circulation, which is the portion of the cardiovascular system which carries oxygenated blood away from the heart, to the body, and returns deoxygenated blood back to the heart.
Pulmonary arteries
Pulmonary arteries are the arteries of the pulmonary circulation, which is the portion of the cardiovascular system which carries deoxygenated blood away from the heart, to the lungs, and returns oxygenated blood back to the heart.
Microanatomy
The outermost layer is known as the tunica externa formerly known as "tunica adventitia" and is composed of connective tissue. Inside this layer is the tunica media, or media, which is made up of smooth muscle cells and elastic tissue. The innermost layer, which is in direct contact with the flow of blood is the tunica intima, commonly called the intima. This layer is made up of mainly endothelial cells. The hollow internal cavity in which the blood flows is called the lumen.
Types of arteries
Pulmonary arteries
The pulmonary arteries carry deoxygenated blood that has just returned from the body to the lungs, where carbon dioxide is exchanged for oxygen.
Systemic arteries
Systemic arteries can be subdivided into two types; muscular and elastic; according to the relative compositions of elastic and muscle tissue in their tunica media as well as their size and the makeup of the internal and external elastic lamina. The larger arteries >1cm diameter are generally elastic and the smaller ones 0.1-10mm tend to be muscular. Systemic arteries deliver blood to the arterioles, and then to the capillaries, where nutrients and gasses are exchanged.
The Aorta
The aorta is the root systemic artery. It receives blood directly from the left ventricle of the heart via the aortic valve. As the aorta branches, and these arteries branch in turn, they become successively smaller in diameter, down to the arteriole. The arterioles supply capillaries which in turn empty into venules.
Arterioles
Arterioles, the smallest of the true arteries, help regulate blood pressure by the variable contraction of the smooth muscle of their walls, and deliver blood to the capillaries.
Arterioles and blood pressure
Arterioles have the greatest collective influence on both local blood flow and on overall blood pressure. They are the primary "adjustable nozzles" in the blood system, across which the greatest pressure drop occurs. The combination of heart output (cardiac output) and systemic vascular resistance, which refers to the collective resistance of all of the body's arterioles, are the principal determinants of arterial blood pressure at any given moment.
Capillaries
The capillaries are where all of the important exchanges happen in the circulatory system. The capillaries are a single thick cell to aid fast and easy diffusion of gases, sugars and other nutrients to surrounding tissues.
Functions of capillaries
To withstand and adapt to the pressures within, arteries are surrounded by varying thicknesses of smooth muscle which have extensive elastic and inelastic connective tissues.
The pulse pressure, i.e. Systolic vs. Diastolic difference, is determined primarily by the amount of blood ejected by each heart beat, stroke volume, versus the volume and elasticity of the major arteries.
Over time, elevated arterial blood sugar (see Diabetes Mellitus), lipoprotein cholesterol, and pressure, smoking, and other factors are all involved in damaging both the endothelium and walls of the arteries, resulting in atherosclerosis or Diabetes Mellitus.
History
Among the ancient Greeks, the arteries were considered to be "air holders" that were responsible for the transport of air to the tissues and were connected to the trachea. This was as a result of the arteries of the dead being found to be empty.
In medieval times, it was recognized that arteries carried a fluid, called "spiritual blood" or "vital spirits", considered to be different from the contents of the veins. This theory went back to Galen. In the late medieval period, the trachea, and ligaments were also called "arteries".
William Harvey described and popularized the modern concept of the circulatory system and the roles of arteries and veins in the 17th century.
Alexis Carrel at the beginning of 20th century first described the technique for vascular suturing and anastomosis and successfully performed many organ transplantations in animals; he thus actually opened the way to modern vascular surgery that was before limited to vessels permanent ligatation.
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What Is the Best Non-Surgical Treatment to Remove Sun Damaged Skin
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Temple Bruer Preceptory
Temple Bruer Preceptory is a historic building in the civil parish of Temple Bruer with Temple High Grange, North Kesteven, Lincolnshire, England. It is one of the few Knights Templar sites left in England where any ruins remain standing. Its name comes from its Templar ownership and its position in the middle of the Lincoln Heath, bruyère (heather) from the French language current at the time. It was founded in the period 1150 to 1160 and the order was dissolved in 1312. The site is located between the A15 and A607 roads, 2.5 mi north from Cranwell. The site has been excavated twice, firstly by the Rev Dr. G. Oliver, the rector of Scopwick in 1832–3, and in 1908 by Sir William St John Hope.
Foundation and history
The preceptory of Temple Bruer was founded late in the reign of Henry II (1154–89), This date is based on the grant of a market by Henry II to William of Ashby de la Launde, who was admitted soon afterwards into the fraternity of the preceptory, He increased the original endowment before his death. Other benefactors were Maud de Cauz, John d'Eyncourt, Robert of Everingham, William de Vescy, Gilbert of Ghent. The house seems to have been of considerable size and importance; the brethren were allowed to crenellate the great gate in 1306 Following the suppression of the order of Knights Templar in France, Edward II followed in 1308 by sending John de Cormel, the sheriff of Lincolnshire, with 12 knights and their forces to arrest the Templars at Temple Bruer. These included William de More, the Preceptor and Grand Master of the order in England. For a time they were held in the Clasketgate in Lincoln before being sent to the Tower of London. The order was totally suppressed by Pope Clement V in 1312, with the instruction that the Templar properties were to be transferred to the Knights Hospitallers. It took until the 1330s for the Hospitallers to recover the estates from the English King.
Following the death of Sir John Babington in 1534, Sir Giles Russell was made commander at Temple Bruer. His letters show that he did not reside at Temple Bruer; but finding that the house was in a ruinous condition he made some effort to get it repaired and put it in a better condition. In 1539 Russell was made turcopolier, of the Order and being at the time in Malta, he probably saw little of his commandery before its dissolution in 1541.
The lands of the preceptory
The original endowment included lands in Ashby de la Launde, with the parish church and pasturage for sheep; lands and church at Rowston, Heckington, Burton, and were granted by benefactors of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. In 1338 the revenue of the house was £177 7s. 7d., including the churches of Ashby and Rowston, the free chapel of Bruere, with lands at Bruere, Rowston, Wellingore, Ashby de la Launde, Brauncewell, and North Kirkby; the expenses were £84 0s. 2d. The clear value of the house at the dissolution was £16 19s. 10¾d., including the bailiwick of South Witham and the farm of half the rectory and the grange of Holme in Heckington, with perquisites of a court.
Maurice Beresford and John Hurst listed Bruer as a Deserted Medieval Village in their definitive work. This lay to the south in a dry valley. An aerial photograph suggests that it was a walled enclosure with a gatehouse.
Remaining site
The ruin consists of the intact square south tower of the temple church, one of two added to the original structure during the Templars' tenure, north and south of the chancel or presbytery. The Preceptory Tower is currently in the care of Heritage Lincolnshire The farmhouse which stands to the south of the tower was built in the 1840s for Charles Chaplin of Blankney Hall. It is likely that it was designed by the architect William Adams Nicholson, who acted as estate architect for Charles Chaplin.
1833 excavations
In 1833 Rev. Dr. Oliver was allowed to excavate the site by Charles Chaplin of Blankney Hall, who had recently acquired the Temple Bruer estates. Dr Oliver remarks: The present proprietor, Charles Chaplin Esq. of Blankney, has evinced a laudable anxiety to preserve the present Tower from ruin, by the introduction of a new roof, and by securing the cracks and fissures in the walls. Dr Oliver's account of his excavations paints a lurid account of the discoveries and would appear to be supporting a justification for the charges which were brought against the Lincolnshire Knights Templars who were brought to trail first in Lincoln in November 1309 and later in London in 1310. Subsequent excavation in 1908 showed that Dr Oliver's excavation had misinterpreted the features of the Preceptory and it is possible that Dr Oliver may have encountered skeletons from a Charnel house in his excavations. It was also shown that part of the passage system described by Oliver was a crypt and the horrible cavern, the stones of which had assumed the colour of brick was a medieval oven structure''
1908 excavations
In 1908 William St John Hope, together with Col. Reeve of Leadenham Hall, and with the permission of Lord Londesborough, the owner, undertook extensive excavations on the site. Hope was a leading medieval archaeologist of the period and Assistant Secretary of the Society of Antiquaries.
Hope appears to have identified part of the precinct wall to the west of the church as that which was authorised by the 1306 licence to crenellate, which referred to a certain part and strong gate and which was noted in the 1338 Extent as a curtilagio. He also discovered a number of slight structures the south wall of the precinct, which were probably the henhouse and stables mentioned in the Extent. A larger building lay to the south of the church. This was 36m long and 11.5m wide, and was probably a barn. Hope was able to distinguish four phases of the development of the Preceptory. The first phase was the church with a round nave, about 15m in diameter, with a ring of eight columns, which distinguished a central area from an outer aisle. To the east was a rectangular presbytery of two bays measuring about 8m by 4m, with an apse at the east end. Below this lay a crypt, which may be the feature shown in the bottom left-hand corner of Samuel Buck 1726 engraving of the Preceptory. No clear indication was found of the fenestration except at the east end of the apse; and there was no clear point of access to the nave, though this may have lain on the north side where outside several rock cut graves into the local limestone, were recorded. This first phase appears to equate with the initial foundation of the Preceptory in the mid-12th century.
The second phase dates from the later 12th century. A porch was constructed at the west end. The apse was removed and the presbytery extended two further bays to the east. This was followed by a third phase when towers were added to either side of the extended presbytery. A similar arrangement was adopted at the nearby Aslackby Preceptory. The northern tower survived as foundations, while the southern tower remains to its full height. Access to the ground floor of the tower is from the north and would formerly communicated into the presbytery. To the east of the door are the remains of a double piscina which would have served the high altar. Above the door is a corbel that supported the rib vault of the presbytery roof; while to the right is the triple-shafted respond of the south side of the chancel arch. The ground floor room of the tower is a rib-vaulted chamber with windows in three sides. This room has an impressive blind arcade on its west and south sides, with a stone bench beneath. This bench has had incorporated a double sedilia and piscina. There is a further chamber above, reached by a spiral staircase. The fourth or final phase of building was the addition, revealed as foundations on the south side, of a chapel. The roof line of this chapel can be clearly seen on the west face of the standing tower. The photographs published by Hope show that ruinous elements of the upper parts of the tower were extensively repaired at a later date.
Other Templar preceptories in Lincolnshire
* Aslackby Preceptory, Kesteven
* Eagle, Kesteven
* Temple Bruer Preceptory
* Witham Preceptory, Kesteven
* Willoughton Preceptory, Lindsey
Templar 'camera' and granges in Lincolnshire
* Bottesford, Lindsey . Cell of Willougton
* Temple Belwood, Belton, North Lincolnshire
* Grantham Angel and Royal
* Gainsborough, Lincolnshire
* Great Limber, Lindsey
* Horkstow, Lindsey Cell of Willoughton.
* Mere, Branston and Mere. Probably a grange of Willoughton. | WIKI |
Norm
NEN-EN-IEC 60601-2-47:2015 en
Medische elektrische toestellen - Deel 2-47: Bijzondere eisen voor de veiligheid en essentiële gebruikseigenschappen van elektrocardiografische systemen
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Commissie Medische elektrische toestellen
Gepubliceerd op 01-06-2015
Taal Engels
NEN-EN-IEC 60601-2-47 applies to the BASIC SAFETY and ESSENTIAL PERFORMANCE of AMBULATORY ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHIC SYSTEMS, hereafter referred to as ME SYSTEMS If a clause or subclause is specifically intended to be applicable to ME EQUIPMENT only, or to ME SYSTEMS only, the title and content of that clause or subclause will say so. If that is not the case, the clause or subclause applies both to ME EQUIPMENT and to ME SYSTEMS, as relevant. HAZARDS inherent in the intended physiological function of ME EQUIPMENT or ME SYSTEMS within the scope of this standard are not covered by specific requirements in this standard except in 7.2.13 and 8.4.1 of the general standard. Within the scope of this standard are systems of the following types: a) systems that provide continuous recording and continuous analysis of the ECG allowing full re-analysis giving essentially similar results. The systems may first record and store the ECG and analyse it later on a separate unit, or record and analyse the ECG simultaneously. The type of storage media used is irrelevant with regard to this standard; b) systems that provide continuous analysis and only partial or limited recording not allowing a full re-analysis of the ECG. The safety aspects of this standard apply to all types of systems falling in one of the abovementioned categories. If the AMBULATORY ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHIC SYSTEM offers automatic ECG analysis, minimal performance requirements for measurement and analysis functions apply. MEDICAL ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT covered by IEC 60601-2-25 and IEC 60601-2-27 are excluded from the scope of this standard. This standard does not apply to systems that do not continuously record and analyse the ECG (for example, ‘intermittent event recorders’).
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List of schools in Greater Moncton
List of schools, colleges and universities in Greater Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada.
Universities
* Université de Moncton - The largest French language university in Canada outside of Quebec. Enrollment is in the vicinity of 6200 students. U de M is a comprehensive university with a wide variety of undergraduate and post graduate degree programs including a School of Law.
* Crandall University - A private Christian liberal arts and science institution, affiliated with the Convention of Atlantic Baptist Churches. Enrollment is less than 1000 students. Degrees are available in arts, science, education, business and religious studies.
* University of New Brunswick - UNB Moncton consists of a small health sciences campus located next to the Moncton Hospital. Degree courses are available in Nursing and Medical X-ray Technology. UNB's main campus is located in Fredericton, with another large campus in Saint John.
Community colleges
* New Brunswick Community College - Moncton - (English), The largest campus in the NBCC system with an enrollment of about 4000. Specializes in training for the trades and technology.
* CCNB-Dieppe - (French), mandated to provide training in the trades and technology in the French language. Enrollment of about 2500.
Private colleges
* Eastern College - Formerly known as CompuCollege, it is a nationally recognized educational institution celebrating over 20 years in Atlantic Canada, with five campuses in Fredericton, Saint John, Moncton, Halifax, and St. John’s (Eastern Academy).
Offering programs in health care, business, information technology, interior decorating, criminology, public relations, child and youth care, office administration, travel and tourism, health and wellness, massage therapy, makeup artistry, and more.
* Moncton Flight College - One of Canada's oldest and most prestigious flight schools, is also the largest flight school in Canada.
* McKenzie College - A Visual Arts institution, specializing in graphic design, digital media and animation.
* Oulton College - A variety of business, paramedical and paralegal programs.
Private elementary schools
* Kingswood Academy Montessori School & Early Learning Centre/ Kingswood Academy - (English)(French), Offers private Montessori education for levels K to Grade Eight, as well as Day Care, After School Care, and Summer Camps.
* Rhema Christian School - Private Christian school. Offers the lowest tuition costs of any private school in the region. With small classrooms and individual attention. Available K-12.
Schools in the area
* École Amirault - Dieppe (K-2)
* École Saint-Therèse - Dieppe (K-2)
* École Champlain - Moncton (K-8)
* École Le Sommet - Moncton (K-8)
* École Saint-Henri - Moncton (K-5)
* École Le Mascaret - Moncton (6-8)
* École Sainte-Bernadette - Moncton (K-5)
* École Abbey-Landry - Memramcook (K-8)
* École Anna-Malenfant - Dieppe (3-5)
* École Carrefour de l'Acadie - Dieppe (6-8)
* École Le Marais - Dieppe (3-5)
* École Antonine-Maillet - Dieppe (6-8)
* École Mathieu-Martin - Dieppe (9-12)
* École L'Odyssée - Moncton (9-12)
* Uplands School - Moncton (K-3)
* Forest Glen School - Moncton (K-4)
* Arnold H. MacLeod School - Moncton (K-4)
* Salem Elementary School - Sackville (K-4)
* Salisbury Elementary School - Salisbury (K-4)
* Claude D. Taylor School - Riverview (K-5)
* Frank L. Bowser School - Riverview (K-5)
* Gunningsville School - Riverview (K-5)
* West Riverview School - Riverview (K-5)
* Hillsborough Elementary School - Hillsborough (K-5)
* Mountain View School - Irishtown (K-5)
* Lower Coverdale School - Lower Coverdale (K-5)
* Northrop Frye School - Moncton (K-8)
* Lou MacNarin School - Dieppe (K-8)
* Dorchester Consolidated School - Dorchester (K-8)
* Havelock School - Havelock (K-8)
* Port Elgin Regional School - Strait Shores (K-8)
* Riverside Consolidated School - Riverside-Albert (K-8)
* Shediac Cape School - Shediac (K-8)
* Magnetic Hill School - Lutes Mountain (K-8)
* Beaverbrook School - Moncton (K-8)
* Bessborough School - Moncton (K-8)
* Birchmount School - Moncton (K-8)
* Edith Cavell School - Moncton (K-8)
* Evergreen Park School - Moncton (K-8)
* Hillcrest School - Moncton (K-8)
* Queen Elizabeth School - Moncton (K-8)
* Lewisville Middle School - Moncton (5-8)
* Sunny Brae Middle School - Moncton (5-8)
* Riverview Middle School - Riverview (6-8)
* Marshview Middle School - Sackville (5-8)
* Petitcodiac Regional School - Three Rivers (K-12)
* Caledonia Regional High School - Hillsborough (6-12)
* Salisbury Middle School - Salisbury (5-8)
* JMA Armstrong High School - Salisbury (9-12)
* Harrison Trimble High School - Moncton (9-12)
* Bernice MacNaughton High School - Moncton (9-12)
* Moncton High School - Moncton (9-12)
* Riverview High School - Riverview (9-12)
* Tantramar Regional High School - Sackville (9-12)
* École Acadieville - Acadieville (K-8)
* École Dr-Marguerit-Michaud - Bouctouche (K-8)
* École Donat-Robichaud - Cap-Pelé (K-8)
* École Blanche-Bourgeois - Cocagne (K-8)
* École Père-Edgar-T.-LeBlanc - Grand-Barachois (K-8)
* École Grande-Digue - Grande-Digue (K-8)
* École Notre-Dame - Notre-Dame (K-8)
* École Soleil Levant - Richibucto (K-8)
* École W.-F. Boisvert - Nouvelle-Arcadie (K-6)
* École Camille-Vautour - Champdoré (K-8)
* École Marée Montante - Saint-Louis-de-Kent (K-8)
* École Saint-Paul - Saint-Paul (K-8)
* École Calixte-F.-Savoie - Sainte-Anne-de-Kent (K-8)
* École Mont-Carmel - Sainte-Marie-de-Kent (K-8)
* École Mgr-François-Bourgeois - Shediac (K-8)
* École Régionale de Baie Sainte-Anne - Baie-Sainte-Anne (K-12)
* École Clement-Cormier - Bouctouche (9-12)
* École Carrefour Beausoleil - Miramichi (K-12)
* École Secondaire Assomption - Nouvelle-Arcadie (7-12)
* École Mgr Marcel-François-Richard - Saint-Louis-de-Kent (9-12)
* École Louis-J.-Robichaud - Shediac (9-12) | WIKI |
Türksat (satellite)
Türksat is the name of a series of Turkish communications satellites operated or projected by the state-owned Türksat A.Ş.
Satellite telecommunication is provided by the Gölbaşı Ground Station in Ankara, Turkey.
Türksat 1A
Türksat 1A was the first attempt of the project and launched by Ariane 4 from Centre Spatial Guyanais in Kourou, French Guiana on 24 January 1994. Due to the failure of the launcher, the satellite exploded in the atmosphere before reaching its orbit.
Türksat 1B
After the loss of Turksat 1A, Türksat 1B was successfully located at 42°E orbit on 11 August 1994. After the orbital tests, Turksat 1B was put into service on 10 October 1994. Turksat 1B has three different coverage areas, Turkey, Central Europe and Central Asia. The satellite carries 16 transponders, 10 of 36 MHz, 6 of 72 MHz operating in Ku-band (11–14 GHz). There are 4 transponder switching capability between Turkey and Central Europe, and 3 between Turkey and Central Asia. Turksat 1B provides TV and radio broadcasting, data and telephone transmissions. On the other hand, TES (Telephony Earth Station) Project and Internet Broadcasting Systems (including 40 southeast rural area IBS) are also transmitting from Türksat 1B.
Türksat 1C
After the Turksat 1A launch failure, Aérospatiale Company started building a new satellite under the insurance terms of the Turkey system contract. Modifying the contract with Aérospatiale, Türksat 1C coverage area was enlarged by two big zones different from Turksat 1B coverage areas. Turksat 1C was designed for covering Turkey on west spot and Europe on east spot so as to serve simultaneously between Turkey and Europe with Turkey and Central Asia and to provide direct connection between Europe and Central Asia. Turksat 1C was successfully launched at 31.3°E position on 10 July 1996. Completing the orbital tests, this satellite shifted from longitude 31.3°E to 42°E. After this process which took 17 days, the broadcast traffic of the Turksat 1B was transferred to Turksat 1C. Finally when these processes finished Turksat 1B was shifted with similar orbital manoeuvres to 31.3°E position. On 16 July 2008, all traffic on Turksat 1C was transferred to Turksat 3A. After this date Turksat 1C was shifted at 31.3°E. It is being used in inclined orbit.
Türksat 2A
Turksat Satellite Systems continued progress regarding the need of new satellites having multiple channels, larger coverage, and backup capability like the other satellite operator satellites in the international market. To serve with a larger coverage area for resident customers and to compete with the other satellite operators in the literal sense, the new satellite would be located at the same position with Turksat 1C. Türk Telekom set up a joint venture company with Aérospatiale (merged by Alcatel Space, then Thales Alenia Space), called EurasiaSat, which would be in charge of purchasing a new-generation satellite named Turksat 2A (also known as Eurasiasat 1). Turksat 2A started commercial service on 1 February 2001, with the same 42°E location as Turksat 1C.
Turksat 2A satellite carries a payload of 34 high-powered transponders consisting of 22 - 33 MHz fixed-beam transponders and 12 36 - MHz transponders with two steerable beams.
Turksat 2A BSS Band fixed-beam transponders have two coverage zones like Turksat 1C:
* 1) West Zone covers the British Isles in the west, Scandinavian countries in the north, North Africa in the south, and Caspian Sea in the east.
* 2) East Zone covers the Balkan Peninsula in the west, Russian Federation in the north, Pakistan in the south, and China national boundary in the east.
Inside of the footprint such as south Asia and Republic of South Africa can be accessed over the Turksat 2A FSS Band steerable-beam transponders.
On 18 September 2014, all traffic on Turksat 2A was transferred to Turksat 4A. However, Turksat 2A will broadcast a few TV channels until its end of mission in 2016.
Türksat 3A
Turksat 3A satellite will enable Turksat to offer telecommunication services as well as direct TV broadcasting services through a broader area than its existing satellites covering Turkey, Europe, Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia. With the help of its switchable transponders, Turksat 3A will act as a bridge between Europe and Asia. Türksat 3A's Turkey coverage has been specially designed to provide very efficient gain for broadband applications like VSAT services giving customers low-cost, up-link systems.
Based on Thales Alenia Space Spacebus 4000B2, Turksat 3A is fitted with 24 Ku-band transponders and offers beginning of life power of about 8 kW. Positioned at 42°E, Turksat 3A will weight 3060 kg at launch and will replace Turksat 1C satellite.
Turksat 3A was launched by Arianespace atop an Ariane 5ECA launch vehicle, along with the British Skynet 5C satellite, in a dual-payload launch on 12 June 2008 at 22:05:02 UTC, from ELA-3 at the Centre Spatial Guyanais.
Türksat 4A
Turksat 4A was successfully launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 23:09 UTC on 14 February 2014. After three months of orbital and subsystem tests, Turksat 4A was successfully transferred from its temporary orbit at 50°E to a position at 42°E. The satellite started broadcasting on 15 July 2014.
With Turksat 4A, Turksat AS offers telecommunication and direct TV broadcasting services throughout Turkey, as well as in Europe, Central Asia, the Middle East and Africa. Turksat 4A provides Ku-band high-power direct TV broadcasting channels and both C- and Ka-band communications channels.
Türksat 4B
Turksat 4B was successfully launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 20:40 UTC on 16 October 2015. | WIKI |
Cantabrian
Cantabrian or Cantabrians may refer to:
* People and things related to the modern Spanish autonomous community and historical region of Cantabria
* Cantabrian people, modern inhabitants of Cantabria
* Basques, as they were sometimes referred during Modern Age
* Cantabrian Mountains, mountain range in Northern Spain
* Cantabrian Sea, southern end of the Bay of Biscay
* Cantabrian language, also known as montañés, a Romance language variety belonging to Asturleonese, spoken in northern Spain
* Cantabri, the ancient Celtic inhabitants of Cantabria
* Cantabrian Wars, war during the Roman conquest of the ancient Cantabria and Asturias
* Cantabrian circle, a military tactic employed by ancient Cantabri horse archers
* People from the region of Canterbury, New Zealand | WIKI |
Iowa Lake (Minnesota)
Iowa Lake is a 30-acre lake in Cook County, Minnesota which is a tributary to the Poplar River. It has a maximum depth of 13 feet and is clear down to 7 feet. Water access is provided by a portage trail leading to its northeast shore. The lake is fed primarily by a stream on its northwest shore, with secondary intake coming from a pond of less than 100 feet to the north and an intermittent stream located to the south of the portage trail. Its outlet, on the south, empties into Corny Lake through a wetland area. A 1972 survey by Minnesota's DNR indicated the presence of a beaver lodge on the south outlet, and multiple beaver dams along the course of the creek have converted patches of the marsh into open water. A 1971 survey by the fisheries department indicated the lake was home to populations of northern pike, white sucker, and yellow perch. | WIKI |
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Donald P. Dulchinos, Union College, 1978. Author. Neurosphere: The Convergence of Evolution, Group Mind, and the Internet; Pioneer of Inner Space: The Life of Fitzhugh Ludlow, Hasheesh Eater; and Forbidden Sacraments: The Survival of Shamanism in Western Civilization. | WIKI |
Ouches
* Ouches may be the plural of ouch.
Ouches is a commune in the Loire department in central France. | WIKI |
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SUBJECT INDEX A13 Page Ohio, Military Construction Authorization Act, 1984 757 Oklahoma: Kaw Tribe, lands in trust 1121 National Trails System Act Amendments of 1983 42 Old Post Office Building, Washington, D.C., designation 3 Olympics, Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1984 614 Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981, amendments.... 700, 1235, 1374, 1418 Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1982, amendments 734, 802 Omnibus Education Reconciliation Act of 1981, amendments 711, 1419 Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1982, amendments 73 Oregon: Burns Paiute Tribe, lands in trust 185 Grand Ronde Restoration Act 1064 Lane County, land conveyance 864 National Trails System Act Amendments of 1983 42 Organic Act of Guam, amendments 1460 Panama: Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act 384 Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1984 614 Patents and Trademarks, Federal Anti- Tampering Act 831 Pay. See Wages Payment-in-Kind Tax Treatment Act of 1983 7 Pennsylvania: Edwin D. Eshleman Post Office Building, designation 834 James E. Van Zandt Veterans' Administration Medical Center, designation 1324 Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation Act of 1972, amendments 910 Pesticides, scientific advisory panel on, provisions for 1379 Phillip Burton Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Calif., designation 491 Poland, rates of duty 1572 Pollution, acid rain control policies 1059 Pork, Dairy and Tobacco Adjustment Act of 1983 1128 Potato Research and Promotion Act, amendments 1117 Potomac Heritage National Scenic Trail 43 Poultry, Dairy and Tobacco Adjustment Act of 1983 1128 Page Pribilof Islands, Fur Seal Act Amendments of 1983 835 Prisoners: Federal Supplemental Compensation Amendments of 1983 857 Social Security Amendments of 1983 65 Proclamations: Educational, scientific, and cultural materials, temporary import duty reductions 1548 Exclusive economic zone, U.S 1557 Korean Airlines flight, death of American citizens 1613 Lebanon, death of American and French diplomatic personnel in Beirut 1581, 1641 Motorcycles, tariff-rate quota modification 1574 Poland, rates of duty 1572 Special Observances— Afghanistan Day 1561 Designation 41 Alaska Statehood Day, designation authorization 212 American Business Women's Day 1626 Designation authorization 290 American Heart Month 1546 American Indian Day 1573 Anti-Defamation League Day, designation 987 Asian/Pacific American Heritage Week 1562 Baltic Freedom Day 1592 Designation authorization 208 Bicentennial of Air and Space Flight 1537 Bicentennial Year of the Birth of Simon Bolivar 1597 Cancer Control Month 1568 Captive Nations Week 1591 Carrier Alert Week, designation authorization 1319 Child Health Day 1608 Citizenship Day and Constitution Week 1612 Columbus Day 1615 Crime Victims Week 1569 FBI Day 1605 Father's Day 1591 Federal Credit Union Week, designation authorization 402 Fire Prevention Week 1613 Flag Day and National Flag Week 1584 Florence Crittenton Mission Week, designation 988 General Pulaski Memorial Day 1616 Green County, Mo., 150th anniversary 1538 Helsinki Human Rights Day 1604 Designation authorization 294 Jewish Heritage Week 1580 Designation authorization 64 NOTE: Page references are to beginning pages of each law, excepting acts being amended or repealed, which cite to pages where they actually appear.
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2011 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team
The 2011 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team represented the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in the 2011 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Cornhuskers were coached by Bo Pelini and played their home games at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln, Nebraska. This season was Nebraska's first in the Big Ten Conference in the Legends Division as they moved from the Big 12 Conference to the Big Ten following the conclusion of the 2010 season. They finished the season 9–4, 5–3 in Big Ten play to finish in third place in the Legends Division. They were invited to the Capital One Bowl where they were defeated by South Carolina 30–13.
Before the season
The 2011 football season marks Nebraska's entrance into the Big Ten Conference.
Chattanooga
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This game was Nebraska's first football game as a representative of the Big Ten, and the first meeting between the Cornhuskers and the FCS Chattanooga Mocs, who are members of the Southern Conference. The Mocs finished 2010 with a 6–5 record (5–3 in conference for a three-way tie for 3rd place), including a 24–62 defeat at the hands of #3 Auburn on November 6, 2010.
Fresno State
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Nebraska opened a series with another new foe never before met on the field, for a second consecutive week, when the Fresno State Bulldogs arrived in Lincoln. Fresno State finished the 2010 season under 14th–year Head Coach Pat Hill with an 8–5 record (5–3 in the Western Athletic Conference for 4th place), including a 17–40 postseason loss to the 2010 Northern Illinois Huskies football team Huskies in the 2010 Humanitarian Bowl.
Washington
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When Nebraska met Washington in their September 18, 2010 non-conference match, the Cornhuskers won 56–21 in Seattle, tying the most points ever scored by a non–conference opponent in Husky Stadium, and igniting Heisman Trophy talk around Nebraska's redshirt freshman QB Taylor Martinez. However, a mid-season ankle injury to Martinez coincided with a downturn in Nebraska's fortunes late in the season, as the Cornhuskers finished the season by losing two of the last three games, including letting a 17–3 advantage over Oklahoma in the 2010 Big 12 Championship Game fade into a 20–23 defeat. After the loss, Nebraska was selected for a rematch with Washington in the 2010 Holiday Bowl, where an uninspired Cornhusker squad bowed to the effort and determination of the underdog Huskies and their senior QB, Jake Locker. The 7–19 postseason loss left Nebraska with three losses in the final four games of the season. This closing chapter matched a mark not seen since 2007, the final season of former Cornhusker Head Coach Bill Callahan. The 2011 meeting of these teams, this time in Lincoln, was the third time Washington and Nebraska played in just under a year. The all-time series now has a one-game edge for Nebraska with a 5–4–1 record between the two teams.
Wyoming
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Wyoming Head Coach Dave Christensen led the 2009 Cowboys to a 7–6 (4–4 Mountain West Conference) finish in his first season, including a 35–28 defeat of Fresno State in the 2009 New Mexico Bowl. However, the Cowboys slid to a disappointing 2010 final record of 3–9 (1–7), which included a 28–20 win over Southern Utah of the FCS. Nebraska is undefeated in all five previous meetings of these teams, with a combined scoring total of 203–69. The series dates back to 1934, but this will be the first time the squads meet at War Memorial Stadium in Laramie.
Wisconsin
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Nebraska opened Big Ten conference play for the first time, with a road game at Wisconsin. The Cornhuskers met a team that finished 2010 in a three-way tie for the Big Ten title and an 11–2 (7–1) record, which included a 19–21 loss to #3 TCU in the 2011 Rose Bowl. Following Wisconsin's 48—17 win, the series between the two schools is tied at 3–3.
Ohio State
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This game was the third all-time meeting between Nebraska and Ohio State, and the first since 1956. The game also marked the Buckeyes' first appearance in Lincoln. In two previous three contests, Ohio State had outscored Nebraska a combined 62–27. Nebraska trailed at halftime 20–6, and would ultimately fall behind by a score of 27–6 midway through the third quarter. Nebraska's ultimate comeback began with a LaVonte David strip and fumble recovery of Ohio State quarterback Braxton Miller. On the next play Taylor Martinez ran past the Ohio State defense for an 18-yard touchdown, the first of four unanswered touchdowns. On the subsequent Ohio State series, Miller twisted his ankle causing him to leave the game. He did not return. He was replaced by Joe Bauserman who went 1–10 passing including a costly interception. The Nebraska offense out-gained Ohio State in the second half by a total of 250 to 45 yards. With the win, Nebraska secured its first ever victory over Ohio State and as a member of the Big Ten Conference. The win also marked the largest come from behind win in school history after trailing 27–6 midway through the third quarter.
Minnesota
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Nebraska renewed an old rivalry against the Golden Gophers, as the Cornhuskers played at TCF Bank Stadium for the first time for Minnesota's 2011 homecoming game. The last meeting was a 1990 non-conference game. First-year Minnesota Head Coach Jerry Kill has taken over the squad following a 3–9 (2–6) finish in 2010. With Nebraska's 41–14 win in this contest Minnesota still holds a 29–21–2 edge in the all-time series.
Michigan State
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Nebraska met Michigan State for the first time since the Spartans were defeated 3–17 by Nebraska in the 2003 Alamo Bowl. Of special significance, that was the first Nebraska football victory under Head Coach Bo Pelini, as he served a one-game stint as interim Head Coach following the late-season dismissal of Frank Solich in 2003. The victory added to Nebraska's undefeated record against the Spartans, moving the streak to 6–0.
Northwestern
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Following an important Legends division win against Michigan State the previous week, Nebraska dropped a stunning 28–25 decision to Pat Fitzgerald's Northwestern Wildcats. The 2011 match up between the Huskers and Wildcats marked the first contest between the two schools since the Nebraska's 66–17 victory in the 2000 Alamo Bowl. Despite the loss, Nebraska still holds a 3–2 lead in the all-time series.
Penn State
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The game against Penn State was surrounded by the circumstances presented in the Penn State sex abuse scandal. Allegations against the former Penn State assistant coach emerged nationally in the week leading up the game. In the wake of the scandal, Penn State head coach Joe Paterno was fired the Wednesday of game week. Penn State's contest against Nebraska marked the first Nittany Lion's game not coached by Paterno in 46 years. Before the kickoff, players from both sides met at mid–field for a prayer led by Nebraska assistant football coach Ron Brown. In the game, Nebraska led 10–0 at halftime and then extended their lead to 17–0 after taking advantage of a Matt McGloin fumble in the third quarter. Penn State rallied and had a chance to win after scoring two touchdowns and narrowing the deficit to 17–14. However, Nebraska's defense came up with two key fourth down stops to secure the victory. The game was marked with much emotion with a blue-out at Beaver Stadium in support of the alleged victims of Sandusky's crimes.
Michigan
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Big Ten all-conference first team
As selected by the media and coaches:
* RB – Rex Burkhead
* LB – Lavonte David
* CB – Alfonzo Dennard
* PK – Brett Maher
* P – Brett Maher
Big Ten position awards
* Tatum-Woodson Defensive Back of the Year: Alfonzo Dennard CB
* Butkus-Fitzgerald Linebacker of the Year: Lavonte David LB
* Bakken-Andersen Kicker of the Year: Brett Maher K/P
* Eddleman-Fields Punter of the Year: Brett Maher K/P
* Big Ten Sportsmanship Award: Jared Crick DT
* Big Ten Freshman of the Year: Ameer Abdullah RB/KR/PR | WIKI |
Pregnancy Complications
Oligohydramnios During Pregnancy
A silent condition that your practitioner will be able to detect, oligohydramnios can usually be controlled.
What it is: Oligohydramnios is a condition in which there is not enough amniotic fluid surrounding and cushioning the baby. It usually develops in the latter part of the third trimester.
How common is it? Four to eight percent of pregnant women are diagnosed with oligohydramnios during their pregnancy, but among overdue women (those two weeks past their due dates), the number rises to 12 percent.
Who is most at risk? Women with a post-term pregnancy are most at risk, as are those who have premature rupture of membranes.
What are the symptoms? The primary symptoms of oligohydramnios, which aren't obvious to the pregnant women herself, include a decreased amount of amniotic fluid detected via ultrasound and a uterus that measures small for gestational age. There might also be a noticeable decrease of fetal activity and a decreased fetal heart rate in some cases.
Should you be concerned? Probably not, since most women diagnosed with oligohydramnios will have a completely normal pregnancy. There is a slight risk of umbilical cord constriction if there's too little fluid for your baby to float around in. Rarely the condition can point to some problems such as the development of club foot in the baby, problems with the baby's kidneys or urinary tract, or poor fetal growth. Or it could simply be the result of a fluid leak or puncture in the amniotic sac.
What you can do: Regular checkups will allow your practitioner to measure your abdomen and make sure there is enough amniotic fluid for your baby to develop properly. If there's a concern, your practitioner may recommend you get an ultrasound to measure the volume of fluid in the amniotic sac.
If you're diagnosed with oligohydramnios, you'll need to get a lot of rest and drink plenty of water. Your practitioner may also recommend an amnioinfusion — a transfusion of a special fluid into the amniotic sac to replace lost or low levels of amniotic fluid, and he or she will continue to closely monitor the amount of amniotic fluid. If oligohydramnios endangers the well-being of your baby, an early delivery may be necessary.
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Talk:Jelly Roll (singer)
Contested deletion
This article should not be speedily deleted for lack of asserted importance because... he has collaboroated with many big artists and has released albums that have been on the billboard charts. --Kcwalker93 (talk) 23:47, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
Contested deletion
This article should not be speedily deleted for lack of asserted importance because... Haystak & Jellyroll's album Strictly Business made it to 16 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart http://www.billboard.com/artist/303355/haystak/chart?f=324, and 67 on the Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop chart. http://www.billboard.com/artist/303355/haystak/chart?f=333 --Kcwalker93 (talk) 23:58, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
Name
So, is he billed as JellyRoll or Jelly Roll ? Both versions are used in this article, but there needs to be a consistent approach to naming (as per WP:NCP). Thanks,
Derek R Bullamore (talk) 14:18, 29 May 2018 (UTC)
* There are both variations of billing on the covers of his albums and in credits. Both options are equally true and have the right to use. However, West Coast hip hop producer and singer David Drew also uses both versions [of JellyRoll] as his stage name (see Category:Albums produced by JellyRoll). In order to avoid confusion, I propose to rename the article (move page) to JellyRoll (rapper) (or Jelly Roll (rapper)). Dat Gee (talk) from Wikipedia (since September 2016) 07:07, 19 April 2019 (UTC)
* Most media citations and social media show preference for Jelly Roll rather than JellyRoll. Like his YouTube channel. And his Facebook channel. Many of his albums clearly say Jelly Roll as two words. Which format should we adopt? werldwayd (talk) 07:53, 22 February 2021 (UTC) werldwayd (talk) 03:40, 23 February 2021 (UTC)
Jason DeFord is billed as Jelly Roll. ISoldier92 (talk) 03:48, 18 May 2022 (UTC)
More information
Why is there not more information about Jelly Roll? Where he grew up? How many siblings or does he have siblings? How did he get his start? Has he not wanted to be interviewed? I mean this is Wikipedia. You haven't made it unless you've been interviewed and properly informed on Wikipedia. Right?! <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 02:51, 14 January 2022 (UTC)
Requested move 16 May 2022
The result of the move request was: Moved to Jelly Roll (singer). There is a broad consensus that this article should be moved somewhere, but no consensus on how to best avoid confusion with Jelly Roll Morton. Jelly Roll (singer) was the second choice of multiple people who otherwise sponsored wildly different suggestions, and also most succinctly distinguishes the subject from Morton. Thus "(singer)" will be provisionally used. (closed by non-admin page mover) — Ceso femmuin mbolgaig mbung, mellohi! (投稿) 18:41, 23 June 2022 (UTC)
Jelly Roll (rapper) → Jelly Roll (musician) – He records in genres other than rap/hip-hop. The AllMusic bio also lists country, one of his songs is #1 on the Mainstream Rock charts, and this source describes "Son of a Sinner" as a country song. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 15:28, 16 May 2022 (UTC) — Relisting. —usernamekiran (talk) 05:35, 26 May 2022 (UTC)
* Support. I've just listened to Son of a Sinner and it is unquestionably not rap. The current (rapper) tag is inaccurate. 162 etc. (talk) 16:41, 16 May 2022 (UTC)
* Oppose as proposed; the suggested title is ambiguous. Jelly Roll Morton is also often referred to simply as "Jelly Roll" and is another historically important musician (jazz/ragtime) with a substantial number of page views. I don't often refer to long-term significance, but that seems to be a consideration here. (|Jelly_Roll_Morton pageview data) Dekimasu よ! 07:09, 17 May 2022 (UTC)
* If only there were a last name, like say, "Morton", to make the difference between the two clearer... Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 15:03, 17 May 2022 (UTC)
* Sarcasm aside, exactly; there is no problem with the title of the Jelly Roll Morton article, because it is naturally disambiguated. That does not make the proposed title here any less ambiguous. Likewise we do not move MJ (South Korean singer) to MJ (singer) even though what it conflicts with (Michael Jackson) is not at the title "MJ". Dekimasu よ! 15:43, 17 May 2022 (UTC)
* I don't really see it. We're not going to move Cher because Cher Lloyd exists; same idea here. Can you show evidence in reliable sources that Jelly Roll Morton is known mononymously as Jelly Roll? 162 etc. (talk) 20:59, 18 May 2022 (UTC)
* He's called "Jelly Roll" throughout the running text of his short biography by Langston Hughes, which starts off with "Ferdinand Joseph Morton, later called Jelly Roll" (much like a Wikipedia article would). He's also called either "Jelly Roll" or "Jelly" throughout the running text of the most famous biography of his life, Alan Lomax's Mister Jelly Roll. He's "Jelly Roll" in Jazz Transatlantic. Going to articles, I only looked at the first page of results, but he's "Jelly Roll" everywhere but the title in "The King of the Underworld: The Invention of Jelly Roll Morton" (Missouri Review, 2012), and I'm sure there are a lot of other academic articles along those lines, considering his prominence. By the way, I have no problem with Jelly Roll (singer) for this article. Dekimasu よ! 06:48, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
* We're not going to move Cher because Cher Lloyd exists; same idea here. No we're not. Because Cher is much, much more notable than Cher Lloyd. Surely you don't think this bloke is more notable than Jelly Roll Morton? -- Necrothesp (talk) 13:35, 31 May 2022 (UTC)
* I don't, of course; my comment was based more around the idea that the rapper turned singer is known mononymously, whereas Jelly Roll Morton is usually known by his full name. I suppose that Jelly Roll (musician, born 1986) is an option, certainly better than the current (rapper). 162 etc. (talk) 16:42, 31 May 2022 (UTC)
* That would certainly be acceptable. -- Necrothesp (talk) 09:10, 1 June 2022 (UTC)
Can we agree that the term Vocalist should be a better description of Jason DeFord Aka Jelly Roll? ISoldier92 (talk) 03:46, 18 May 2022 (UTC)
* "Vocalist" is not typically used, per WP:SINGERDAB. 162 etc. (talk) 16:37, 18 May 2022 (UTC)
I don't know if this is anything, but I asked Jelly Roll about this today (not a joke -- starts at 1:56). He prefers "Singer-Songwriter", which isn't typically used per WP:SINGERDAB, but maybe lends credence to "Musician": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gg-KVwSzzic&t=117 Captiveofthesun (talk) 20:09, 18 May 2022 (UTC)
* Support Jelly Roll (singer-songwriter). While this disambiguator is not so common, it's occasionally used, as in Sally Taylor (singer-songwriter), Jim Sullivan (singer-songwriter), Richard Swift (singer-songwriter) and Naomi (singer-songwriter). In all those cases, dab pages Sally Taylor (disambiguation), Jim Sullivan (disambiguation), Richard Swift (disambiguation) and Naomi (disambiguation) also contain at least one namesake that could be plausibly called "musician". I can also support Jelly Roll (singer) as a second choice. No such user (talk) 12:09, 27 May 2022 (UTC)
* I'll note that I've bold moved the Sally Taylor and Naomi articles. As for Sullivan and Swift, I agree that "musician" could be seen as ambiguous. 162 etc. (talk) 23:53, 1 June 2022 (UTC)
* Support per nom.--Ortizesp (talk) 19:24, 27 May 2022 (UTC)
* Support – The "(musician)" label seems to most accurately describe his output. In my opinion, a hatnote should most likely be sufficient to disambiguate from Jelly Roll Morton. ModernDayTrilobite (talk • contribs) 03:27, 28 May 2022 (UTC)
* Oppose. Jelly Roll Morton is a much better known musician. -- Necrothesp (talk) 13:32, 31 May 2022 (UTC)
* Support. As for the comparison to Jelly Roll Morton, compare page views here: https://pageviews.wmcloud.org/?project=en.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&redirects=0&range=latest-20&pages=Jelly_Roll_(rapper)|Jelly_Roll_Morton
* Jelly Roll's page receives much more page views than the article for Morton, signifying that on average, if one is looking for a page on a musician named "Jelly Roll", they are likely seeking this page as it is. Yeehaw45 (talk) 21:38, 4 June 2022 (UTC)
* We usually do not depend on what has been popular over a very short time period in order to determine primary topics. I gave a |Jelly_Roll_Morton more complete picture in my comment above, which shows that views for this artist have exceeded those of Jelly Roll Morton for less than a year. Long-term significance is one of the criteria for determining a primary topic, and by that criterion this artist is not the primary topic. Dekimasu よ! 13:40, 5 June 2022 (UTC)
* There's also the fact that Jelly Roll Morton has "Morton" in his name. Hat notes should be sufficient. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 18:04, 5 June 2022 (UTC)
* This was answered above. The location of that article does not change the fact that the title requested here is ambiguous. Jelly Roll (musician) is a partially disambiguated page name and under our guidelines, "In individual cases consensus may determine that a parenthetically disambiguated title that is still ambiguous has a primary topic, but the threshold for identifying a primary topic for such titles is higher than for a title without parenthetical disambiguation" (WP:INCOMPDAB, WP:PDAB). For articles on people, all previous moves listed at WP:PDAB where the ambiguity of the proposed title was mentioned in the move discussion had page view ratios of at least 50:1, and that is without considering the historical significance of the competing figure in this case. The issue can be solved by using Jelly Roll (singer) or Jelly Roll (musician, born 1986), both of which are unambiguous. Dekimasu よ! 01:35, 7 June 2022 (UTC)
* As the nominator, I support "singer". Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 18:27, 8 June 2022 (UTC)
Support. The hat note should be sufficient to disambiguate him from Jelly Roll Morton. The helper5667 (talk) 04:09, 19 June 2022 (UTC) The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
Content
This article needs a serious update. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 02:45, 3 April 2023 (UTC)
Awards wrong
Awards are for Lainey Wilson not Jelly Roll. 2605:A601:A9E6:FF00:FDD0:C197:8E1D:6C2C (talk) 20:25, 11 November 2023 (UTC)
Requested move 12 November 2023
The result of the move request was: not moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) -- Maddy from Celeste (WAVEDASH) 18:42, 28 November 2023 (UTC)
Jelly Roll (singer) → Jelly Roll – Though this article recently experienced a rather sharp increase in page views, even before then (specifically 9 November 2023 when the subject of this article won the CMT award), the |Jelly_Roll_Morton|Jelly_Roll_(poetry_collection) article had an average more than 10x more page views than the subjects with a capital "R" combined. With that being said, per WP:PRIMARYTOPIC and WP:DIFFCAPS, I believe it is time to give this move request some consideration. Steel1943 (talk) 19:10, 12 November 2023 (UTC) — Relisting. - 🔥𝑰𝒍𝒍𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑭𝒍𝒂𝒎𝒆 (𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒌)🔥 03:08, 20 November 2023 (UTC)
* Oppose. Nothing has changed since the RM above. Jelly Roll Morton is still much more notable and Jelly roll still exists. -- Necrothesp (talk) 14:05, 14 November 2023 (UTC)
* ...And Jelly roll is a disambiguation page, meaning there is no primary topic for this lower case form. I'm failing to see why that is relevant here. Steel1943 (talk) 22:28, 26 November 2023 (UTC)
* Oppose per WP:PT2 per Necrothesp. Hameltion (talk | contribs) 15:18, 14 November 2023 (UTC)
* WP:PT2 doesn't apply to what stated since they are comparing three subjects without considering WP:DIFFCAPS, so it is unclear why you cited it. Steel1943 (talk) 23:24, 14 November 2023 (UTC)
* Jelly Roll Morton is still much more notable: As Dekimasu argues above, Jelly Roll Morton is likely primary by long-term significance for the capitalized version. Hameltion (talk | contribs) 01:56, 15 November 2023 (UTC)
* Jelly Roll Morton has a last name though. The names are not an exact match. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 20:05, 25 November 2023 (UTC)
* Support per WP:PRIMARYTOPIC and WP:DIFFCAPS. This is the only subject with the exact name Jelly Roll, capital J, Capital R. Jelly Roll Morton is not an exact name-match and a hatnote can suffice there. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 17:44, 18 November 2023 (UTC)
* Support This is one of those times I do not wish to agree but must support. Morton is an important Jelly Roll, but self–disambiguates with his last name. The only current capital J-R combo is this singer. Hatnotes would be a requirement though, to Morton and to Jelly roll.-- ☾Loriendrew☽ ☏(ring-ring) 23:30, 18 November 2023 (UTC)
* Oppose per the previous discussion, including how I noted that major reliable sources refer to the other Jelly Roll as Jelly Roll. (Again, that does not mean there is any problem with the current natural disambiguation for Jelly Roll Morton, but it indicates that there are other significant claims to the search term/title/redirect "Jelly Roll".) Dekimasu よ! 05:47, 20 November 2023 (UTC)
* If only Jelly Roll Morton had a last name, like say, I dunno, "Morton"... Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 14:55, 20 November 2023 (UTC)
* Sarcasm aside (again), I already replied to this comment 1.5 years ago to explain that reliable sources often refer to him as Jelly Roll. Dekimasu よ! 10:28, 27 November 2023 (UTC)
* Oppose per WP:PT2 as already noted by Hameltion, and per Dekimasu's comments above. ╠╣uw [ talk ] 16:22, 20 November 2023 (UTC)
* Oppose This could be distinguished from cases of WP:PTM because it's certainly possible people will refer to "Jelly Roll Morton" as just "Jelly Roll", making it a potential primary topic even if the article is not titled that. It doesn't particularly aid in navigation either. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 16:08, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
* Some anecdotal WP:OR: I have never heard Morton referenced as anything other than full three–word name or subsequently as just Morton, almost as if radio hosts/presenters followed the WP:SURNAME policy on their broadcasts.-- ☾Loriendrew☽ ☏(ring-ring) 00:21, 25 November 2023 (UTC)
* Agree. If any of the opposers can prove that Jelly Roll Morton is ever referred to without his last name, that'd be great. So far it's all anecdotal. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 20:05, 25 November 2023 (UTC)
* Well, ever is an easy bar to clear. He's often any of "Jelly", "Jelly Roll" and "Morton" throughout Alan Lomax's biography Mister Jelly Roll. Hameltion (talk | contribs) 22:12, 25 November 2023 (UTC)
* I had already noted this source in reply to TenPoundHammer in the last discussion, when I presented four reliable sources (not anecdotes) showing how the subject of this article is referred to as "Jelly Roll" in running text and often in titles. However, I still received exactly the same "if only Jelly Roll Morton had a last name" this time around, so I'm not sure what the bar is. Dekimasu よ! 10:28, 27 November 2023 (UTC)
* Support - As per WP:PRIMARYTOPIC, I fail to see how Jelly Roll Morton is more notable when people search Jelly Roll online. Hansen Sebastian Talk 08:19, 28 November 2023 (UTC)
Jelly Roll's awards
Not sure if someone vandalized the page or not, but almost all of the award nominations shown for Jelly Roll are actually Lainey Wilson's. The only ones actually belonging to Jelly Roll are the last half-dozen or so. Others are for songs like "Things a Man Oughta Know" and "Wait in the Truck," which Jelly Roll had nothing to do with. This needs to be cleaned up. 2601:18C:4080:3E90:4426:BF9C:DDA0:2B05 (talk) 08:22, 24 November 2023 (UTC)
* ✅ That was horrendous. Believe it was a good faith attempt by some who copied Wilson's table over, added things but did not remove others. Thank you for pointing it out.-- ☾Loriendrew☽ ☏(ring-ring) 00:13, 25 November 2023 (UTC)
Criminal History
I'm trying to understand why the fact that hes been convicted of several felonies and sent to prison multiple times as an adult keeps getting deleted. I'm using the Davidson(Nashville) county clerk as the source. his name date of birth location all matches. I'm leaving out his misdemeanor charges only including what hes been CONVICTED of as an adult. I'm not including any of his convictions as a minor or any arrests that didn't result in a conviction. BurnCDXX (talk) 01:30, 3 May 2024 (UTC)
* Read WP:OR and BLPPRIMARY Llacb47 (talk) 22:10, 4 May 2024 (UTC) | WIKI |
Florida State upsets No. 5 Florida
Florida State upsets No. 5 Florida Florida came into its Monday game with Florida State averaging a national-best 99.5 points. The Seminoles then forced the Gators in a below-average offensive performance. Terance Mann scored a game-high 25 points and Florida State dominated the boards as the Seminoles upset No. 5 Florida 83-66 in Gainesville, Fla. Mann, a junior guard, made 11 of 17 shots from the field as Florida State (7-0) led for most of the game. He also grabbed eight rebounds. Phil Cofer added a double-double of 10 points and 12 rebounds for the Seminoles, who pulled away in the second half. They kept dominating on the boards and made a few runs that the Gators couldn’t answer. “I thought Florida brought the best out of us,” Florida State coach Leonard Hamilton said, according to the Tallahassee Democrat. Florida (5-2) simply could not stop Florida State on the boards, especially on the offensive end. The Seminoles finished with a 23-11 edge in offensive boards and scored 24 second-chance points. Overall, Florida State held a 51-34 advantage in rebounds and controlled the glass throughout the game. The Seminoles also played solid defense, a big reason that the Gators struggled on offense. Florida State was the better team on offense, scoring 42 in the first half and 41 in the second half while always finding a way to get points at the right time. “They threw the first three or four punches and continued throwing most of them and connecting on most of them until the final buzzer,” Florida coach Mike White said. “Very disappointing effort. I thought they were tougher than us — for 40 minutes.” CJ Walker, a sophomore guard, added 17 points for Florida State. Both teams struggled shooting from the floor but the Seminoles made 20 of 24 (83 percent) from the free-throw line, which helped their cause. The Gators were 18 of 25 (72 percent) at the line. Florida never found its way offensively, especially on 3-point shots as Florida State rarely allowed open looks. Florida made only 6 of 25 3-point attempts, a big reason the Gators had trouble rallying. The Gators made only 36.2 percent of their field-goal attempts overall to 38.9 percent for the Seminoles. Junior guard Jalen Hudson paced Florida with 16 points and was not happy that his team has lost two in a row. The Gators dropped their previous game to No. 1 Duke 87-84 on Nov. 26. “Two losses in a row is unacceptable,” Hudson said. “And the way we played tonight is unacceptable. We’ve got to get back to work.” The Seminoles jumped out to an early 10-1 lead before the Gators responded and made the game close. Florida took a 35-34 lead late in the half before senior forward Cofer helped Florida State bounce back. Cofer made a jumper and finished an 8-0 run on a dunk with 17 seconds left that gave the Seminoles a 42-35 halftime lead. Florida State used another eight-point run with help from Walker (six) and Mann (two) for a 56-44 lead early in the second half and were never in trouble again. NOTES: The No. 5 rating that Florida received in the Associated Press poll on Monday is the first time the Gators have been in the nation’s top five since the end of the 2013-14 season. ... The Gators scored more than 100 points in four of their first six games before struggling on offense in this one. ... This was the 69th meeting between the two schools, and Florida State won its fourth in a row, the first time the Seminoles ever have done that. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
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2023-2024 / MICR0721-1
Bacteriology
Duration
20h Th, 10h Pr
Number of credits
Bachelor in biology3 crédits
Lecturer
François Beaufay
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Schedule
Schedule online
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
General properties of prokaryotes, essential structures of the bacterial cell and major difference between Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria.
Accessory structures of the bacterial cell and their role: flagellum, pilus and fimbriae, bacterial capsule and other external layers, plasmids.
The bacterial cell wall; structure, function and biosynthesis of peptidoglycan.
Bacterial growth and metabolism. Cellular division in prokaryotes. The growth curve. Energy sources and biosynthesis of essential metabolites. Diauxic growth. Environmental factors relevant to bacterial growth and adaptation.
The control of bacterial growth, methods and applications.
Antibacterial agents. Antibiotic resistance, implications and mechanisms (genetics and biochemistry of resistance). Difference between commensal, opportunistic and pathogenic bacteria, the mechanisms underlying bacterial infections and pathogenicity.
Bacteria and environment: importance and contribution of bacteria to geochemical cycles, nitrogen-fixing species, examples of bacterial phytopathogens, Agrobacterium tumefaciens and GMOs, extremophiles.
Introduction to bacterial genetics and practical applications (microbial biotechnologies).
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
This course aims at consolidating the student's knowledge of biology and diversity of prokaryotes, as well as their importance in the environment, the agro-food industry, human health and microbial biotechnologies.
The student will also acquire detailed knowledge of the molecular aspects related to the structure and function of essential and accessory structures of the bacterial cell, the diversity of metabolism, and the interaction of bacteria with other biological entities (plants, human beings).
Considering the importance of bacteria in various fields of scientific research, the methods underlying their study and their manipulation in the laboratory will be described during both the lectures (metabolism and its control, environmental factors and molecular adaptations, cultivation in the laboratory and the control of bacterial growth, antibacterial agents, genetic engineering) and the practical sessions, during which the student will have the opportunity to consolidate his/her knowledge of these aspects.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Course "Introduction à la Microbiologie" (MICR0719). Basic knowledge of general and cellular biology and of chemical biology.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lectures ex cathedra (20 hours). Remote teaching could be implemented in relation to the evolution of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic or other necessities.
The practical sessions (10 hours) will be organized in the laboratories of the Institute of Botany (B22). Students (groups of 2) will carry out various experiments each illustrating a specific aspect of the course, also allowing a better understanding of and acquaintance with the basic methodologies specific to bacteriology (aseptic manipulation, ecc.).
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Blended learning
Additional information:
See "Planned learning activities and teaching methods" for details.
Recommended or required readings
Mandatory readings: the slides used during the lectures (as well as other relevant material, including e. g. podcasts) will be available on the University e-learning platform.
Recommended readings: the following textbooks, available at the University libraries, could be used as an additional support for the study of the course. Chapters corresponding to the different parts of the course will be clearly indicated in the provided slides.
• Brock Biologie des micro-organismes, Madigan & Martinko, Pearson (ISBN, 9782744058400) ;
• Microbiologie, Prescott, Willey, Sherwood, Woolverton ; De Boeck Supérieur (ISBN, 9782807308022).
Exam(s) in session
Any session
- In-person
written exam ( multiple-choice questionnaire, open-ended questions )
- Remote
oral exam
Additional information:
Written exam in January and September, combining both multiple choice questions and open questions (depending on the evolution of the COVID-19 epidemiological situation, this exam could be converted to a remote oral examination).
The students will provide a laboratory report at the end of the practical sessions, whose evaluation will contribute 20% of the final rating.
Work placement(s)
None.
Organisational remarks and main changes to the course
The presence at the practical sessions is MANDATORY.
Students are required to wear a laboratory coat and other personal protection equipment (PPE) during the practical sessions. Access to the laboratory will be refused to incompliant student.
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Silymarin
Silymarin is extracted from milk thistle (Silybum marianum), a plant rich in the flavonolignans silychristin, silydianin, silybin A, silybin B, isosilybin A and isosilybin B, which are collectively known as the silymarin complex.
This safe, natural compound has a long history as a traditional therapy for liver and kidney conditions.35,36 It has been used in Western medical practice for more than a quarter of a century as the treatment of choice for the serious kidney injury resulting from severe mushroom poisoning, owing to its potent antioxidant and nephron-protective effects.37 In fact, we’ve known since 1979 that kidney injury by mushroom poisoning in animals pre-treated with silymarin can be almost entirely prevented.38 These effects make it a natural choice for protection against drug-induced kidney damage, since so many drugs can act like poisons, exerting extreme oxidant stress on kidney tissue.
Mushroom poisons (mycotoxins) are among the most deadly natural toxins known. Their kidney toxicity is surpassed only by some of the most aggressive chemotherapy agents. Physicians have therefore looked to silymarin as a potential “renoprotective” agent for patients undergoing chemotherapy.
Silymarin is also protective against several classes of nephrotoxic drugs, in particular cisplatin and Adriamycin®, two of the most potent chemotherapeutic drugs—but also two of the most damaging to the kidney owing to oxidative damage and severe inflammation.39-41 Researchers around the world have found that silymarin and its components reduce and often entirely prevent the kidney damage caused by these drugs.42-45
Silymarin’s ability to protect against the oxidative stress produced by potent drugs suggests that it may be useful in protecting against more subtle, chronic injury by free radicals, particularly those generated by chronic blood glucose elevations. German researchers, for instance, have found that silymarin could entirely prevent injury to renal cells incubated with elevated glucose concentrations while blocking production of oxidative stress markers.46
Silymarin’s protective power also extends to ischemia/reperfusion injury (restoration of blood supply following restriction of blood flow). Turkish researchers demonstrated that they could completely prevent visible and functional damage to kidney structures exposed to this kind of injury by pre-treating animals with silymarin.47,48 Studies such as these have huge implications for the general population, because they suggest that by maintaining optimal antioxidant function through supplementation, we may be able to prevent much (if not most) of the chronic oxidative damage to which our kidneys are exposed daily.
Resveratrol
Resveratrol
The considerable advance in our understanding of the cyclical relationships between oxidative stress, endothelial dysfunction, inflammation, atherosclerosis, and chronic kidney disease points to resveratrol as an intervention in the chain of events that ultimately lead to renal failure.49
Italian researchers are among the leaders in resveratrol research, and early in this century one group published remarkable research demonstrating the impact of resveratrol on preserving kidney structure and function in rats exposed to ischemia/reperfusion injury.50,51
Japanese and Indian urologists followed that up in 2005 and 2006 with reports detailing the mechanisms by which resveratrol combats oxidative damage following reperfusion, markedly reducing kidney dysfunction.52-56 Overwhelming bacterial infections (sepsis) are a common cause of kidney failure in the intensive care unit and following surgery or trauma. Turkish physiologists demonstrated that resveratrol can reduce or prevent both kidney and lung injury in septic rats.57
Resveratrol’s unmatched antioxidant and anti-inflammatory potential has been tapped in studies of its ability to prevent drug-induced kidney damage as well. Nephrotoxicity in rats exposed to the antibiotic gentamicin was significantly reduced and more rapid healing of injured kidney tissue was attained using resveratrol, with dramatic reduction in markers of oxidant injury.58 A team of toxicologists in Brazil demonstrated its kidney protective power against cisplatin, the powerful chemotherapy agent responsible for so much drug-induced kidney damage.59 Finally, Indian pharmacologists were successful in protecting animal kidneys from damage caused by another common chemotherapy and immune suppressant drug cyclosporine A by pre-treating the animals with resveratrol.56
Since diabetes is the leading cause of kidney disease—and because the damage it inflicts is largely mediated by free radical production resulting from destructive alteration of proteins by glucose (glycation)—researchers have explored resveratrol as a preventive in diabetic kidney damage. Promising work has come from Indian pharmacologists, who’ve shown that they could significantly attenuate kidney damage in rats with experimentally induced diabetes—even 4 weeks after the diabetes was induced!60
In the researchers’ own words, “The present study reinforces the important role of oxidative stress in diabetic kidney disease and points towards the possible antioxidative mechanism being responsible for the renoprotective action of resveratrol.”
Resveratrol’s unmatched antioxidant and anti-inflammatory potential has been tapped in studies of its ability to prevent drug-induced kidney damage as well.
Lipoic Acid
Like resveratrol, lipoic acid is a powerful antioxidant with few known side effects.76 Lipoic acid has been successfully employed in the laboratory to block the oxidative damage caused by ischemia/reperfusion injury, thereby opening the door to another effective treatment for this common cause of acute kidney failure.77 For example, in 2008 researchers showed that they could reverse all adverse effects on renal function and lab abnormalities produced following experimental ischemia/reperfusion injury in animals.78
Lipoic acid has been comprehensively studied worldwide for its power to prevent or mitigate drug-induced kidney damage. We know that lipoic acid is an effective kidney-protective agent against damage inflicted by Adriamycin®,79,80 the immunosuppressive drug cyclosporine A,76,81,82 and even against acute toxic doses of the pain reliever acetaminophen.83 In studies of protection against cyclosporine toxicity, lipoic acid also helped to normalize blood lipid abnormalities.82
Lipoic Acid
Nephrologists at Georgetown University are examining lipoic acid in the context of diabetic kidney disease. Their results show it can improve renal function in diabetes by lowering sugar levels.84
They have also recently demonstrated that lipoic acid lowers protein loss in urine and improves kidney structure and function in diabetic laboratory animals by reducing oxidative stress.84
In yet another compelling study, Korean researchers recently showed that they could improve kidney patients’ responses to the vasodilator (blood vessel relaxer) nitric oxide (NO) by supplementing them with lipoic acid.85 Loss of endothelial responsiveness to NO is a cause of vascular disease in diabetics, and a chemical called asymmetric dimethylarginine (ADMA) is a sensitive marker and predictor of cardiovascular outcome in patients with end-stage renal disease. Fifty patients on hemodialysis were treated with lipoic acid 600 mg per day for 12 weeks. Levels of the marker ADMA remained unchanged in the control group, but fell significantly in the lipoic acid group, suggesting that lipoic acid may reduce the risk of cardiovascular complications in this group of patients.
Risks to Kidney Health
Given the toxic, high-pressure conditions involved in renal function and the delicacy of the kidney’s structural components, it comes as no surprise that an array of near-constant internal and external insults may take a severe toll on the glomeruli and other parts of the kidney. Their incremental damage and destruction leads to the progressive decline in renal function seen in aging humans.
These internal and external insults include:
• Hypertension. Over time, chronic high blood pressure inflicts damage to the endothelial cells lining the kidney’s blood vessels, including those within the glomeruli. The result is a familiar cascade of events that leads to the thickening of blood vessel walls and reduction in blood flow seen in atherosclerosis. Reduced blood flow is in turn directly translated into lower GFR. Pressure damage to the glomeruli also diminishes their filtration capacity, permitting large protein molecules such as albumin to pass into urine instead of remaining in circulation. (This is why urine albumin levels are used to detect kidney disease.)
• Elevated serum glucose. Diabetes is now the leading cause of CKD.61 Experts predict even greater increases in CKD if rates of diabetes incidence continue to rise steeply.62 It should be noted, however, that high blood sugar poses a threat to kidney health even in non-diabetic individuals. Chronic exposure to glucose degrades and destroys kidney cells through the formation of advanced glycation end products (AGEs)—molecules generated through the pathologic binding of glucose to proteins in the body. AGEs cause primary structural proteins in the cells to cross-link and become non-functional, increasing oxidative stress, inflammation, and directly damaging kidney tissue.63-66 It has been established that even early-stage insulin resistance is associated with CKD.67
• Excess fatty tissue. Body fat contributes to the development of CKD through production of inflammatory cytokines specific to adipose (fatty) tissue called adipokines. Along with AGEs and oxidative stress, adipokines exacerbate the inflammation commonly found in people with CKD.67 For this reason, metabolic syndrome—co-occurring insulin resistance, hypertension, and abdominal obesity—represents a perfect storm for the development of CKD. A 2007 study found that metabolic syndrome occurs in 30.5% of individuals with stage 4 or stage 5 chronic kidney disease.68 Metabolic syndrome increases the risk of chronic kidney disease, even before diabetes manifests.69
• Protein over-consumption. Ingesting an excessive amount of protein, particularly meat, may tax the kidneys to the point of distress. The extraordinary increase in individuals adhering misguidedly to high-protein diets in order to lose weight has had the unintended consequence of boosting rates of kidney damage and disease. Meat consumption also results in high AGE production and the consequent inflammatory injury to kidney tissue.69 A prudent approach to dietary protein is thus encouraged by most experts, particularly in people who already have some degree of CKD.
• Drugs. The nephrotoxic side effects of many commonly used medications comprise another significant causative factor in CKD. Chief among the mechanisms by which drugs cause kidney damage are oxidative stress and adverse alterations in cellular energy management. So-called “analgesic nephropathy” involves destruction of the active regions of the kidney by overuse of pain relievers, usually used in combinations of two or more, including the common over-the-counter medication acetaminophen (Tylenol®) as well as non-steroidal anti-inflammatory medications (NSAIDs) including high-dose aspirin, and ibuprofen (Advil®, Motrin®).70-73 Chemotherapy agents have also been shown to significantly impair renal function.74,75 Please note that acetaminophen inflicts kidney damage via a different mechanism than pain relieving drugs like ibuprofen.
Overcoming CKD-Induced Fatigue
L-carnitine, an amino acid-derived nutrient crucial to cellular energy management, can play a vital role in kidney disease prevention and management.86,87 Carnitine deficiency is itself a known causative factor in the development of kidney disease. Conversely, patients with kidney disease frequently develop carnitine deficiency, especially those on dialysis. Carnitine therapy is known to lead to improvements in many kidney-disease-associated complications including cardiovascular disease, anemia, decreased exercise tolerance, weakness, and fatigue.87
As noted earlier, CKD sufferers are at very high risk for developing cardiovascular complications, including heart attacks and heart failure. This is thought to be in part related to massive oxidative stress induced by kidney disease, and partly to inadequate energy management in cardiac tissues induced by carnitine deficiency.88 The frequent result of these interrelated factors is a massive deterioration in energy, exercise tolerance, quality of life—and perhaps even longevity.89
As early as 1998 scientists in Kentucky discovered that supplementation with L-carnitine could improve patient-reported general health, vitality, and physical function in people on dialysis.90 In 2001, research by clinicians at Los Angeles Medical Center showed that L-carnitine, given intravenously to dialysis patients, could reduce fatigue and preserve exercise capacity.91 A literature review by nephrologists at Vanderbilt University in 2003 indicated that L-carnitine supplementation should be used to improve red blood cell count in dialysis patients whose anemia doesn’t respond to therapy with the hormone erythropoietin.92 Finally, more data from Italy demonstrate that L-carnitine supplements can help suppress levels of the inflammatory marker C-reactive protein, potentially reducing cardiovascular risk in dialysis patients.93 | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Space Shuttle Discovery lands safely in California
August 9, 2005 The US Space Shuttle Orbiter Discovery has returned to Earth safely, landing at Edwards Air Force Base, California, touching down on runway 22 at 8:11:22 am EDT (1211 GMT), and rolling to a stop.
Commander Eileen Collins and the rest of her crew on Discovery are going through check-out procedures to secure the vehicle and assure safety. A convoy of specially-designed vehicles have parked near Discovery, ready to assist in debarkation of the astronauts from on-board the shuttle, and other initial post-flight processing of the orbiter.
The astronauts on board Discovery (Orbital Vehicle 103 (OV-103)) are expected to disembark at approximately 9 am EDT.
A press conference has been scheduled for 8:30 am CDT, including Dr. Michael Griffin, NASA Administrator, among others. NASA-TV will be providing live coverage, among others. | WIKI |
User:Theinyou
= Freedom of Expression in Information Technology =
In order to promote and protect human rights, Universal Declaration of Human Rights was brought into the realm of international law in 1948. Along with many articles of human right, the article 19 states “Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.″ Since expression can be done through speech, writings, media such as art, music and videos, and demonstrations, freedom of expression simply refers as the right to express one's perspective through any form of media through radio, televisions, and internet.
Is every expression protected?
It is human desire in nature to express its own ideas, experiences and expressions. However there is a debate that human-beings really deserve the freedom of expression, or the governments should control it, or it is the public who should control and practice it. Though freedom of expression protects the hold and express opinions in general, there are some limitations which are not protected by law. Expressions with defamation, fraud, obscene,incitements can cause false images resulting public order, health and moral problems. Expressions using fraud and sedition can cause troubles for national security. Thus those types of expressions which can give false information to nation and public are not protected by law.
Internet
Throughout the evolution of communication concepts and technologies from cave paintings to telegraph, radio, telephone, television, internet came in handy for the purpose of global exchange of information such as news, innovations, and beliefs and so on. Especially after the development of web 2.0, in which information is very dynamic and can be updated easily, the rate of flow of exchange of information to public becomes very fast and the power of internet becomes massive. Most importantly since internet is very powerful and censorship is weak, anyone on earth can spread any information, whether right or wrong, successfully and very quickly.
Contents and Responsibilities
In order to explain about freedom of expression on internet, contents on internet and responsibilities resulted based on contents cannot be neglected. The very first factor about contents on internet is how much reliable the information is provided in it. Followed by from where the information or source flows, and to which audience the information is delivering for. Based on the three factors, it can be decided which contents are appropriate or not, which contents fall into the limitations of article 19, and which contents are just under the freedom of expression. Examples of contents which are not appropriate or which can damage to others
* 1) Pornographic or adult materials or crime scenes are not appropriate for children.
* 2) Frauds and defamation to brands, people or organizations can create suspicions and loss of trust.
* 3) Leaking classified information can cause serious damage to national security.
Based on the providing contents, the consequences will be either good or bad. Hence it is really important to acknowledge the moral responsibility and social responsibility which are already embedded in the contents. If something goes wrong because of some contents on internet, the question of "who will be responsible?" can't be neglected.
Regulations and Tools
Therefore to emphasize, to promote and protect such responsibilities, it is very essential to put regulations on the contents on internet. However depends on different governments, the practice of internet censorship is different. Diversity of users, business, and governments create challenges on the impact of how internet is managed. This is why how the Internet is governed is a critical one.
For example before the current government was elected on 2011 in Myanmar, under the military rule accesses to YouTube, some news agencies, Facebook were banned from time to time depending on the political situations happening at that time, and most of the pornographic sites were and are still banned. At that time, since amount of internet users compared to nowadays was relatively very small, and businesses were ran mostly local, such internet regulation was not a huge obstacle to the public.
To effectively apply such regulations, there are several tools which can be used from individual to nationwide. They are called content-control softwares and a range of home use to nation wide can be controlled.
=Case Study= The following case is a good example to discover freedom of expression was violated and also misused within the same country.
Incidents in Myanmar
After the uprising in 1988, Myanmar was ruled under military government. The government used closed door policy in which freedom of expression was the most difficult thing to be practiced inside the country. After a long period of suffering, in September 2011, public demonstrated a protest to the government. The event got bigger as the government opened fired in public. Since that time, public started giving pressure to practice freedom of expression, and in fact they started practicing. Local journals or newspapers were filled with the images and news about the protest. Later spread through Facebook, and internationally hosted local news agencies to international news agencies such as BBC, CNN and so on. As soon as the news got spreading, government violated freedom of expression by arresting the journalists, blocking ISPs and filtering websites and blogs which expressed about the incident. However because of the international pressure, new election was held within a few months, a new government was reformed and its violation to freedom of expression was ended. It was until July 2014, a riot between two religious groups was occurred in Mandalay city in Myanmar. Before that there were religious clashes happened in bordering cities between Bangladesh and Myanmar; however, the case in Mandalay was started all because of the misinformation from a social blog on internet. Without any reliable information of what actually happened, the blog stated as rape case from a religious group to different religious person. It went all viral on Facebook and other news agencies. Due to the previous clashes between two religious groups, hatred was involved and the city was torn apart within an evening. Later on martial law was ordered and it took almost a week to calm down the crowds from both sides. After that investigations were conducted and found out that the actual event was totally different from the information provided by that blog. At this time, social websites, news agencies, or the blog itself didn't even take any responsibility. Overtime the event was forgotten, but the current government didn't even try to violate the freedom of expression again dealing with that case.
=Conclusion= It is a very honorable thing to practice freedom of expression as a human right. Especially in this IT age, with a proper use of freedom of expression, we can create brighter future from information we use and we are fed. However, since practice of freedom of expression in a wrong way using the IT can also result unnecessary chaos much quicker, it will be very difficult to decide in which way such technologies will be governed. Hence the responsibilities of practice of freedom of expression with the help of IT will grow stronger and more debatable topic in the future.
=References= | WIKI |
Rachid Housni
Rachid Housni (رشيد حسني; born 2 May 1990) is a Moroccan footballer who plays as a midfielder.
Club
* Wydad Casablanca
* Botola:
* Winner: 2014-2015
Club career
Born in France, Moroccan national Housni played for a number of French clubs in his early career. His first club was Lormont, before joining Trélissac, where he spent 3 years, amassing 29 appearances and 4 goals. A spell at Stade Bordelais and a return to Lormont followed, before he secured a move to Moroccan side Chabab Rif Al Hoceima.
On 12 January 2015, Housni was signed by Wydad Casablanca on a four-and-a-half-year deal.
International career
Housni made his international debut for Morocco on 22 October 2016; scoring in their 4-0 thrashing of Libya in the 2016 African Nations Championship qualification.
International goals
* Scores and results list Morocco's goal tally first. | WIKI |
Miranda Lambert And Dierks Bentley Show Country Roots « KMLE Country @ 1079
One of many country performers at this year's 55th Annual GRAMMY Awards, Miranda Lambert and Dierks Bentley joined forces for an emotional duet. Lambert, dressed in a glistening sequined dress, began her performance alone. Singing her hit Over You co-written by herself and husband Blake Shelton about the loss of his brother, Lambert made the song her own on the GRAMMY stage. (Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images) Dierks Bentley, clad in jeans, a white t-shirt and brown leather jacket, took the stage in a fog of smoke to sing the second verse of the song. Complete with pedal steel, strings and guitar the duo traded verses. Bentley and Lambert then shared the stage for Bentley's poignant track Home. Nominated for Best Country Solo Performance, Bentley lost to Carrie Underwood for Blown Away. -Annie Reuter, Radio.com Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out / Change ) You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out / Change ) You are commenting using your Google+ account. ( Log Out / Change ) Connecting to %s Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email. Listen Live | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Game Creek (Teton County, Wyoming)
Game Creek is a stream in Teton County, Wyoming. It is also the name of a 2019 listing on the National Register of Historic Places.
The National Register listing is for an archeological site that was investigated in 2001 and subsequently. The site was investigated given plans for highway construction in the area. An extensive report was published in 2017.
Teton County Parks and Recreation reports on grooming of cross-country ski trails in the Game Creek area and other areas.
A grizzly bear was reported in Game Creek in 2017. | WIKI |
Cesar Corrales
Cesar Corrales (born September 26, 1996) is a Mexican-Canadian ballet dancer and actor. He starred as "Young Billy" in the Chicago and Toronto productions of Billy Elliot the Musical and has been a principal dancer with English National Ballet. He is now a principal dancer with The Royal Ballet.
Early life and education
Born in Mexico City, Mexico, and raised in Canada, Corrales received his initial training from his parents, Jesus Corrales, a former principal with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet and Les Grands Ballets Canadiens and Taina Morales, a fellow Royal Winnipeg Ballet dancer and formerly a soloist for Cuban National Ballet. At the age of 4 he appeared in the Royal Winnipeg's production of Madama Butterfly. Soon afterwards he appeared in the Jennifer Lopez movie, Shall We Dance?. In 2008 he won first place in Coupe Quebec gymnastics competition. That same year he joined National Ballet of Canada's school and trained there until he was cast in the starring role of the Chicago premiere of Billy Elliot the musical. He performed alongside the Tony-award nominated actress Emily Skinner, who played his dance teacher. After the Chicago production closed at the end of 2010, he starred in the show's 2011 Toronto premiere. After leaving Billy Elliot he returned to training in ballet.
Ballet career
Corrales competed in and won the Prix de Lausanne in 2013 which offered a significant scholarship from the Oak Foundation. Rather than accepting this prize, he followed his mother to Europe and continued training with her while she was guest teaching at the Norwegian Ballet. He joined American Ballet Theatre Studio Company in 2014. While dancing with the company he won the Grand Prix Award and Artistry Award at the Youth America Grand Prix. He joined English National Ballet in 2015, where he won the company's Emerging Dancer Award in 2016. In 2017 he became a principal dancer at the ENB and also won the National Dance Award for Outstanding Male Performance for Le Corsaire. The following year he was declared one of Dance Magazine's "25 to Watch". His repertory with English National Ballet included Ali in Le Corsaire, Drosselymeyer's Nephew in The Nutcracker, Mercutio in Rudolf Nureyev's Romeo and Juliet, Albrecht in Giselle, Franz in Coppélia, and leading roles in Fantastic Beings, Le Jeune homme et la mort and In the middle, somewhat elevated. He also created the role of Hilarion in the premiere of Akram Khan's Giselle.
In 2018, he joined The Royal Ballet as a first soloist. He made his debut as Romeo in Kenneth MacMillan's Romeo and Juliet alongside Francesca Hayward in May 2019. In May 2021, he was promoted to principal dancer. | WIKI |
Talk:Abyan campaign
Ecograf, mixing numbers once again
User Ecograf continues to mix numbers of losses detailed in the Article Sources, he uses numbers cited in R.S from Pro-Hadi Officials as something Reliable and Official. Its the second time he do this in this tipe of articles. He takes a Biased POV claim from a RS as RS. Worst of all he dont report them he uses it outright as a Reliable Source. Even worse he sums and deduct numbers from different actors of the same source. Falling in Original Research.Mr.User200 (talk) 18:45, 27 May 2015 (UTC)
* I already told you in the edit summaries and at your talk page. Your combined total was incorrect. You wrote 64 killed per pro-Hadi sources. The two sources indeed talk about 35 dead and 29 dead respectively, however, the first figure (35) is for dead on BOTH sides, not just for the Houthis. As for the second figure (29) it is claimed by officials...at no point is it stated they are pro-Hadi officials. You can not simply assume they are pro-Hadi officials because that would indeed be OR. And accusing me of having a bias POV and conducting OR is not in line with wiki policy on assuming good faith from other editors and on wiki policy on civility. Since you mixed up a combined death toll (35) and a Houthi death toll (29) and said it was only Houthi dead I could have said you yourself conducted a biased OR edit but I did not, instead I assumed you made a legitimate mistake and did not attack you. As for my personal reliability as an editor, that you attacked and I found offensive, you can ask dozens of editors that I worked with over the years just how much reliable I am. EkoGraf (talk) 11:56, 28 May 2015 (UTC) | WIKI |
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* CICADA. 739 CICEKO. Uitbits. etc. — The life of an adult cicada is noisy and sliort. These are. indeed, the noisiest insects in the woild. Darwin heard them while on the Bcatjlc, when it was anchored a quarter of a mile from shore. Only the males give the note. "Happy," said the tireek poet Xeuarchus, ""the cicadas' lives, for they have voiceless wives." As no special auditory organs have been detected, it lias been suggested that cicadas are capable of feeling rhythmical vibrations only. The sound- making organs which the males possess fully developed, and the females only partly, are pecu- liar to the cicadas. They consist of enlarge- ments of the metathoracic epimera, in the forn> of an opercular covering beneath which there is a very comjjlicated apparatus. The sound is made by the ra])id vibration of one of the mem- branes called the timbal. The other two mem- branes probably are set in vibration in- the first, and. in connection with the oiicrcula. the three stigmata and the wliule skeleton of the insect, in- tensify the sound. The females are provided with powerful ovipositors. The eggs are de- posited in the twigs of trees or shrubs or in the stems of herbs. The young hatch out in a few weeks, dro]) to the ground, and begin there a long subterranean existence. They feed on the sap from the roots of trees. The larva; may pene- trate as deep as twenty feet below the surface of the ground, where it is dillicult to make out their life-history. The manner of transformation from the larva to the pupa we do not know. The pupa is incased in a hard shell and when about ready to emerge from the grovind may construct a chimney of earth several inches in height, but whether this is a purposeful act or not we do not know. When the pupa crawls out of the ground it fastens itself to sonic firm object, such as a wooden fence or a tree-trunk, the skin splits along the dorsal line of the thorax, and through this the adult winged insect emerges. The pupal skin when dried still retains the shape of the pupa, and may be found attached to the sup- port several days after the adult has flown away. In the United States the two commonest forms are the dogday harvest-fly {Cicada tibicens) and the periodical cicada or l."} to 17 year locust (Cicada septendecim) . The har'est-fly is the black-and-green one that appears every year in mid-unnucr. and gives out its prolonged, shrill, and to many persons nerve-racking, cry from tree-tops during the heated hours of the day; this fonn matures in two years, but since there are two difi'erent broods, one appears every year. The Periodical Cicada. — This species requires from l.S to 17 years for development, according, mainly, to the temperature of the locality in which it breeds. Heat hastens its development, hence the l.'5-year forms oc<ur in the South, but in each locality there are always some individu- als that come out a year or two ahead of the main brood and others that lag a few years be- hind. This form has the greatest longevity of any known insect. The time of its periodicity has been made out by noting its appearance in certain localities for a considerable number of years, twenty-two Ijroods having thus been de- termined. Several of these broods, which are dimorphic, nuiy coexist in the same locality. Hence larvae of difl'erent ages, of several genera- tions, may be founil in the grovind at one and the same time and they will appear as adults in dif- ferent years. The sound made by these insects is peculiar, very loud, and closely resembles the huiniiiing of a resonant telegraph pole when its wires are vibrating in a strong breeze. Consult: Woodworth, "Synopsis Xorth .Ameri- can Cicadida'," in Psyche, Vol. X. (Cambridge, Mass^, 1888). For the "seventeen-year locust' see '"The Periodical Cicada," an illustrated mono- graph of 148 pages, by C. L. Marlatl. liulle- tin J.'i of (he i'liilcd litates Department of Agri- etilltire ( Washingtrni, 1898). See Locust. CICADA-KILLER. See Sand-Wasp. CIC'ATRIZA'TION (from Fr. cicatrisation, from ci((ilrif:rr, to scarify, from Lat. cicatrix, a scar). The process of healing or skinning over of an ulcer or broken surface in the skin or in a mucous membrane, by which a fibrous mate- rial, of a dense, resisting character, is substituted for the lost tissues. The new tissue, in such a ease, is called the cicatrix, and consists of fibrous connective tissue, with a tendency to contract, a lack of elasticity, and a white, shining appear- ance. Tile glands and other sjiecial structures of the original tissue are wanting in the cicatri.x. See INFLAMMATION; Ulcer. CICCIONE, clic-eho'na, Andrea. An Italian sculptor and architect, born in Naples in the first part of the Fifteenth Century. He modeled the line tombs for King Ladislas (141,t) and for Ca- raceiolo in the Church of San Giovanni at Carbonara. He was also the architect of the cloister of Santo Severino, the church and monastery of Jlontc Oliveto, and several other palaces and churches. CICELY, sis'e-ll (corruption of seseli, from OF., Lat. scsclifi. from Gk. aiirtKi, seseli, cicely) {Mi/rrhis) . A genus of lunbelliferous plants, nearly allied to chervil. One species, sweet cic- ely (M^rrltis odorata). is common in the central and southern parts of Europe, and in similar cli- mates in Asia, but in Great Britain it appears to have been introduced. It is soiiietiiues called myrrh in Scotland. It is a branching perennial, two feet high or upward, with large triply pin- nate leaves and pinnatifid leaflets, somewhat downy beneath ; the whole plant is powerfully fragrant, the .smell resembling that of anise. The seeds, roots, and young leaves are used in Ger- many and other countries in soups, etc. The plant was formerly much in use as a medicinal aromatic. In the United States, sweet cicely is the name given to the species of Osmorrhizii, a genus closely related to ilj'rrhis. CI'CER. See Ciiick-Pea. CICERO, :Marcus Tullius ( 106-4.3 n.c.) . The greatest orator of Rome, and one of the most illustrious of her statesmen and men of letters. He was born at Arpinum .lanuary 3. ii.c. lOU. lie belonged to an ancient family, of the eques- trian order, and was possessed of considerable influence in his native disirict. His father, him- self a man of culture, and desirous that his son should acquire an eminent position in the State, removed him at an early age to Rome, where, under the direction of the orator Crassus, he was instructed in the language and literature of Greece, and in all the other branches of a liberal (dncalion. In his sixteenth year lie assumed the tofid ririlis. or manly toga, and was intro- duced to the jiublic life cif a Roman citizen. He now acquired a knowledge of law, and underwent | WIKI |
User:Oopla
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Intro
Oopla is a graduate of Georgetown University, majoring in international relations.
Oopla also has 2 advanced degrees and is to be considered a yuppie.
Oopla enjoys learning about buildings and transportation. Especially landmarks, skyscrapers and subway systems.
Oopla loves Harry Potter, Marvel comics, Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, German-style board games, tennis, soccer, foreign languages and music.
Oopla can play the trumpet and piano
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I love sports and support the following teams:
MLB
* Florida Marlins
NBA
* Miami Heat
NCAA Basketball
* Georgetown Hoyas
NCAA Football
* Miami Hurricanes
English Premier League
* Liverpool F.C.
La Liga
* Valencia C.F.
Ligue 1
* Auxerre F.C.
NF:
* Miami Dolphins
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• First one: 6 fixed bits (0b110110) then 4 bits encoding the Unicode plan (minus one: 1-16 become 0-15) then 6 first bits from inside the plan - note that the plan number is splitted between the two last bits of the first byte and the two first bits of the second byte
• Second one: 6 fixed bits (0b110111) then 10 last bits from inside the plan
Non-private astral planes 0x10000-0xEFFFF are encoded in UTF-16: [\uD800-\uDAFF\uDB00-\uDB7F][\uDC00-\uDFFF]
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Lalmohan Sen
Lalmohan Sen (লালমোহন সেন) was an Indian revolutionary who took part in the Chittagong Armoury Raid. He was imprisoned for 16 years. Shortly after his release, he was murdered in the Noakhali riots.
Early life
Sen was born in the island of Sandwip, off the coast of Chittagong, in the district of Noakhali, in a Bengali Hindu Kayastha family some time around 1909. During his childhood he attended a normal school in the mainland, in the town of Chittagong. After school he took up medicine in his higher studies.
Career
While in the college, Sen was drawn into the revolutionary activities of the Indian Republican Army, led by Surya Sen. Once he broke the safe of his uncle to raise funds for the revolutionary cause. Sen played an active part during the Chittagong Armoury Raid. He sabotaged the transport in Chittagong before the raid. He was sentenced to life imprisonment for his involvement in the incident and deported to the Andaman. After spending sixteen years in the Andaman Cellular Jail and other jails, he was finally released on parole from Dhaka jail in 1946.
Death
According to Sandip Bandyopadhyay, Sen was drawn towards communism during his imprisonment and subsequently joined the Communist Party of India after his release. In August, 1946, he went back to his native place in the island of Sandwip. Later in the middle of October, when the Hindus were being massacred in mainland Noakhali, the marauding mobs began attacking the Hindus in Sandwip as well. Sen died, when he went to resist the Muslim mob from killing the Hindus. | WIKI |
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2014 or 2015
Pre-print(?) here dates to 2014, not 2015 (journal publication). --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 05:58, 12 August 2020 (UTC) | WIKI |
Alcohol Use Disorder Compared In Two Treatments: CBT And IPT
Treating alcohol use is commonly used with methods associated with CBT and IPT treatment options. CBT (Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy) is a common form of treatment used for alcohol abuse patients. This helps them identify personal behaviors that lead to the abuse. IPT (Interpersonal Therapy) deals with roles people (relationships and emotions) play in the development of substance abuse. One may be more effective than the other but it often depends of the needs of the patient in need. Each provides specific understanding of why the substance abuse is occurring and what can be done to stop it.
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy is used to help people from relapsing back into their old behaviors. This form of therapy explores actions and behaviors that lead to a person using alcohol. They develop methods that help them use healthier options when they need to do something about a problem that is bothering them. There are special skills applied to the problem itself to help the patient develop stronger elements of self-control. Patients would learn how to identify situations that could put them at risk of abusing the substance and how to exercise self-control. A variety of methods including medicine, counseling and therapy may be used together during CBT.
Interpersonal Therapy focuses on what people do in relationship to a person dealing with an addiction. The patient may be dealing with pressures from their boss at work, their spouse or children, or business partnerships with friends. This therapy is a short-term solution compared to CBT. It focuses on grief that has yet to be resolved, transitional roles and disputes that occurred in the past. This form of therapy tries to repair and improve relationships the patient is in. The patient learns healthier ways to cope with problems through enhanced communication options.
When comparing one over the other in reference to alcohol use you would think both options are necessary. There are different reasons why a person would abuse alcohol. One option may be better for someone that likes people but wants to improve their relationships because they know alcohol is affecting it in a negative manner. The other option may be best for long term drinkers trying to make a change in their lives for the better with self-control. CBT requires a good amount of discipline while IPT takes a closer look at how to avoid self-destruction.
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Dakkhinasakha
' (ဒက္ခိဏသာခါ, พระทักษิณสาขา, lit. 'southern branch'; also spelt dakkhinasakha') is a style of the Buddha in Burmese art. The style is known as Phra Bua Khem (พระบัวเข็ม; lit. 'lotus needle Buddha') in neighbouring Thailand, where it has gained a cult following. The iconography is typified by the Buddha in the Maravijaya attitude, wearing an inverted lotus 'cap' and nine needle heads, including one on the forehead, and a pair on the shoulders, elbows, knees, and ankles or soles.
According to the Burmese historian Than Tun, the iconography emerged in Burma (now Myanmar) during the last quarter of the 18th century, from Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). During the Konbaung dynasty, a festival was held in honour of this image of the Buddha. In Myanmar, the Dakkhiṇasākhā image of the Buddha is traditionally consecrated and venerated with the help of Buddhist monks to avert the predicted calamities. The style was subsequently introduced to Thailand during the reign of Mongkut by a Mon monk. In modern-day Thailand, it is commonly conflated with the image of Shin Upagutta.
The name itself literally means 'southern branch' in Pali. According to the Mahāvaṃsa, the southern branch of the sacred fig tree (or 'bo tree') was brought to the Anuradhapura Kingdom by the monk Mahinda, a son of Ashoka, to propagate Buddhism on the island. All sacred fig trees on Sri Lanka are believed to be descendants of the 'southern branch' of that tree, and images of the Buddha were carved using the fig wood. One such tree was transported to the Pagan Kingdom via Thaton by Anawratha.
Notable images
Shwekyimyin Pagoda houses a Dakkhiṇasākhā image of the Buddha venerated by the royal family during the Konbaung dynasty. | WIKI |
Here's How Rivals Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley Are Diverging
Rivals Goldman Sachs ( GS ) and Morgan Stanley ( MS ) on Tuesday reported third-quarter earnings that beat analyst forecasts. But while shares of Morgan Stanley glided higher on sturdier results across the board, Goldman tripped, with some analysts parsing the quality of the numbers beyond the headline figures.
The results from the two banks follow weakness in the kind of trading that Goldman Sachs has built its reputation on, whereas Morgan Stanley's more conservative, stable wealth management business has gained strength. That business has put up higher returns as it draws in high-net-worth clients.
"This business is very strong, and Goldman doesn't have this kind of business," Edward Jones analyst James Shanahan said.
Wealth management helps to insulate Morgan Stanley from the whims of the market, and could help the bank deliver firmer earnings than Goldman further out, he said.
Shares close up 0.4% at 49.12 on the stock market today , still within buy range of a 48.59 entry of a cup-with-handle base , putting Morgan Stanley's market cap at $90 billion, while Goldman fell 2.6% to 236.09, with its market cap now at $91 billion. Earlier this year, Morgan Stanley briefly topped Goldman in valuation.
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Nomura analyst Steven Chubak also said in a research note that much of the strength in Goldman's results came from "lower-quality" areas that are more volatile and more capital-intensive, such as fixed-income and investing and lending, where revenue jumped 35%.
But without the jump in investing and lending and a lower tax rate, he said, earnings per share, which rose 3% to $5.02, wouldn't have beaten estimates by nearly as much. Analysts expected $4.31, according to Zacks Investment Research.
The bank's equities and investment management divisions produced results that he characterized as somewhat disappointing. And Chubak said that despite Goldman's strength in lining up mergers and acquisitions during the quarter, lower backlogs in its investment banking division "raise questions on the near-term sustainability of IB momentum."
Still, Goldman's top and bottom line both unexpectedly rose. Revenue increased 2% to $8.326 billion, beating forecasts for a decline to $7.638 billion.
Goldman's investment banking revenue rose 17% to $1.8 billion. Equity revenue fell 7% to $1.67 billion. Investment management revenue rose 3% to $1.53 billion.
Fixed income revenue for Goldman sank 26% to $1.45 billion. That compared to Morgan Stanley's 20% drop to $1.2 billion. Morgan, like others, cited a mix of lower volatility and muted activity during the quarter.
But investors on Tuesday looked upon Morgan Stanley more favorably, and the bank continued its streak of solid trading results. Revenue in the bank's trading business fell 8% - but that was better than any other large bank during the quarter.
Trading from JPMorgan ( JPM ), Citigroup ( C ) and Bank of America ( BAC ) has been weaker this year, after Brexit and the surprise election President Trump upended markets last year.
Morgan Stanley's fixed-income desk beat Goldman's in both this year's first and second quarters. That outperformance occurred despite Morgan's moves away from trading and toward wealth management in the years since the financial crisis.
Morgan's results in Q3 proved to be solid elsewhere. Investment banking revenue grew to $1.3 billion from $1.1 billion. Wealth management revenue grew to $4.2 billion from $3.9 billion. Sales and trading net revenue fell to $2.9 billion from $3.2 billion a year ago, with equity revenue flat at $1.9 billion.
Earnings per share jumped 15% to 93 cents, beating views for 81 cents, while revenue picked up by 3% to $9.917 billion, topping estimates for $8.95 billion.
"Our third quarter results reflected the stability our Wealth Management, Investment Banking and Investment Management businesses bring when our Sales and Trading business faces a subdued environment," said Chairman and CEO James Gorman in a statement. "Our balanced business model and the consistent performance of our franchise enabled us to deliver solid returns for our shareholders."
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